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alumni tour the Rector Clinical skills Center at the Hamilton Building.
'80
Paul A. Kearney
was honored last
fall with an endowed chair in his
name at the University of Kentucky
College of Medicine and University
of Kentucky Medical Center.
Funding for the Paul A. Kearney
MD Endowed Chair in Trauma
Surgery came from the Hgg Family
Foundation of Lexington. Kearney
has served as medical director of
the trauma and surgical intensive
care units at the medical center
since 1988, chief of trauma and
critical care since 1992 and program
director for the ACgME surgical
critical care fellowship since 1998.
He has published more than 70
peer-reviewed scientific journal arti-
cles and has made an equal number
of scientific meeting presentations.
'83
Leonard Zon
was inducted into
the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences on Oct. 11. Zon is director
of the stem-cell research program at
Children's Hospital in Boston, the
grousbeck professor in hematology
and oncology at Harvard Medical
School and an investigator at the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
'88
James G. Zangrilli Jr.
has taken a
position with AstraZeneca as asso-
ciate director, clinical research in
the Respiratory and Inflammation
Division. Before joining the
Delaware-based pharmaceutical
company, he served as training
program director for pulmonary
and critical care medicine and
maintained a research program in
asthma at Jefferson.
'89
William V. Harrer III
is chief of
medicine at Seven Rivers Hospital
in Citrus County, Fla., and vice
president of the medical staff at
Citrus Memorial Hospital.
Andrew Sirotnak
won appointment
as president-elect of the medical
staff at The Children's Hospital in
Aurora, Colo., where he has led the
child abuse department since 1996.
He will serve as president from 2010
through 2012. He began a four-year
term on the hospital's board of
directors in 2008.
'91
David Weismiller
has received
a new responsibility in addition
to his family medicine practice
at The Brody School of Medicine
at East Carolina University in
greenville, N.C. associate provost
of the university. He will oversee
the university's accreditations and
assessment processes.
'97
Jennifer Hopp
and her husband of
one year, Brent Mitchell, now live
in Fulton, Md. Their wedding drew
other alumni
Chantel Connolly,
MD'97
;
Albert Peng, MD'97
; and
Kieran Connolly, MD'96
.
'00
David Schmidt
finished his gastro-
enterology fellowship at Lankenau
Hospital in July 2008 and joined a
gI group in Sandy, Utah. His wife,
Heather Scott, '06, is in her third
year of an internal medicine resi-
dency at the University of Utah in
Salt Lake City.
'01
Gregory Freimer
and his wife,
LeAnn, moved to Tyler, Texas, to
be closer to family as they raise
their 1-year daughter, Abigail
grace. He is working as an emer-
gency physician at Trinity Mother
Frances Hospital.
'02
Fiona Pasternack Blanco
and her
husband, James, have a 1-year-old
daughter, Anna. The family lives in
Forest Hills, N.Y.
Sharon Jakus
married David
Waldman on Nov. 29, 2008. They
live in Los Angeles, where she
practices urogynecology at Kaiser
Permanente. She completed
her residency in obstetrics and
gynecology at Cornell and a urogy-
necology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center.
Aradhna Saxena
, who recently
completed her cardiology fellow-
ship at Temple University Hospital,
has joined Abington Medical
Specialists in Abington, Pa., and
took over Dr. Nathan Howe's Mohs
surgery and dermatologic surgery
practice in Fort Washington, Pa.
'05
Margaret Johnson
has joined the
board of directors of the advocacy
group Physicians for Reproductive
Choice and Health. A family physi-
cian, she is a fellow in primary care
research and faculty development at
the University of Pennsylvania. She
is also pursuing a master's degree in
public health. Her research focuses
on reproductive healthcare in the
primary-care setting.
Matthew Keller
will finish his
dermatology residency at Jefferson
University Hospital in June. He and
his wife, Karen, live in Wilmington,
Del., with their two toddlers,
Matthew Jr. and Michael.
Gary Kegel
is in the fourth year
of his orthopaedics residency in
Portland, Ore. He hopes to win a
hand surgery fellowship in 2009.
Interim Dean Michael J. Vergare, MD,
during the luncheon.
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