1950s

Robert E. Anderson (M.D. 1953, Residency, 1956), a pioneer in the field of sports medicine, has retired from the position he held for 32 years as team physician for the University of Michigan Athletic Department. Anderson’s career at Michigan included 25 bowl games and spanned the tenure of four Michigan football coaches: Chalmers W. “Bump” Elliott, Glenn E. “Bo” Schembechler, Gary Moeller and Lloyd Carr. Anderson became interested in sports medicine while doing his graduate training at Hurley Hospital in Flint, where he helped organize a sports medicine program for high school athletics in Genesee County. His retirement was covered in a feature story on the front page of the sports section of the Ann Arbor News on June 10. Anderson will continue to practice medicine, providing primary care in internal medicine at the U-M Health System’s East Ann Arbor Health Center at 4260 Plymouth Road.

Robert D. Burton (M.D. 1953, M.S. 1959, Residency 1959) was the subject of a long and flattering feature in The Grand Rapids Press on July 15, 1999. The article celebrated his many years of work for a mandatory seat belt law in Michigan, which will become effective April 1 next year in Michigan. Burton, now 71, retired from practice as an otolaryngologist in Grand Rapids in 1993. He is a past member of the board of the U-M Medical Center Alumni Society.

1960s

Daniel T. Anbe (M.D. 1960, Residency 1961), a hospital-based physician in private practice with Cardiology Specialists of Michigan at the McLaren Regional Medical Center in Flint, has been elected to a 3-year term as governor of the Michigan chapter of the American College of Cardiology. He will also serve on the Education Committee of the American College of Cardiology. Anbe completed his residency in internal medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in 1964 after two years’ service with the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He completed his cardiology training at Henry Ford Hospital in 1968, and served as a staff cardiologist there for 12 years and as clinical assistant professor of medicine in the U-M Medical School. He currently is associate professor of medicine on the Flint campus of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Anbe is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the Council on Clinical Cardiology and a fellow of the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention.

N. Thomas O’Keefe (M.D. 1961) earlier this year joined the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center as a comprehensive ophthalmologist.

William J. Hall (M.D. 1965), an internist in Rochester, New York, has been reelected to a second term on the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. Hall is chief of the general medicine/geriatrics unit of the Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is involved in geriatric outreach programs and in the development of preventive strategies for the frail elderly.

Hossein Gharib (M.D. 1966) has been chosen treasurer of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He is professor of medicine at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota, and a consultant in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

1980s

Kenneth Faber (M.D. 1985) has agreed to join the scientific advisory board of Vitro Diagnostics in Littleton, Colorado. Faber is chief of the Department of Reproductive Endocrinology at Colorado Permanente Medical Group in Denver and assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Section of Reproductive Endocrinology, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Faber will provide scientific consultation relevant to the business objectives of Vitro Diagnostics, especially as they relate to the treatment of human infertility.

1990s

Ruben Montelongo Lopez (M.D. 1991) finished his fellowship in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston in June. In July he moved to Harlingen, northwest of Brownsville in the Rio Grande valley, with his wife, Rosie, and children David, 8, and Sara, 5, where he joined Cardiovascular Associates. Lopez completed both his general surgery residency and a fellowship in trauma at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.

Sunghoon Kim (M.D. 1994) has been selected by his colleagues in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, Davis, as surgical resident of the year. He will spend the next two years in research in Galveston, Texas.

Five alumni of the University of Michigan Medical School are contributors to the 1999 centennial edition of The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. They are: Thomas G. Boyce (M.D. 1990) on gastroenteritis; Eugene P. Frenkel (M.D. 1953) on anemias, iron overload and principles of cancer therapy; Jonathan Jay (M.D. 1991), with chapter reviews, Nathaniel F. Pierce (M.D. 1958) on cholera and Robert W. Rebar (M.D. 1972) on hypothalmic-pituitary relationships and pituitary disorders.

Deaths

Michael C. Kozonis (M.D. 1945) on February 16, 1999, at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac, after recently retiring from his position as director of preventative medicine at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac. He was founder of the first coronary care unit in Michigan and had been chief of cardiology at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac and director of the EKG Department. He also was assistant clinical professor at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. He served as a cardiac consultant to the General Motors Corporation. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a life fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a life fellow of the American College of Physicians, a diplomate of the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease, a fellow of the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association, and a member of the board of trustees of the Michigan Heart Association. He was a member of the Phi Chi honorary medical fraternity at the University of Michigan. He was 78.

John C. Shelton (M.D. 1955), who died on March 8, 1998, in Ann Arbor, at the age of 69, was honored by the city of Ypsilanti in June when they named the block of Ferris Street where he practiced for 35 years at 103 Ferris Street the “Dr. John C. Shelton Boulevard.” His son, Craig Shelton, a podiatrist, has his practice in the same building today. At a ceremony on June 26, local community members remembered Shelton’s dedication as a physician and his concern for the community. “When John spoke, I always listened, because he was a man of great wisdom and great humility,” said Richard DeVries, president of Citizens Bank, where Shelton served on the board of directors.

Andrew H. Foster (M.D. 1982) at a hospital in Baltimore on July 16, 1999, of lymphoma.

Foster interned and served a surgical residency at the University of Michigan before serving from 1984-86 as a cardiothoracic clinical associate and staff fellow with the National Institutes of Health. From 1989-92 he served a residency in cardiothoracic surgery at the Medical College of Virginia. From 1991-97 he was an assistant surgery professor at the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore. He then served as an associate professor and director of the School’s transmyocardial and laser program. Last year he became chief of service and associate surgery professor in the George Washington University Medical Center’s cardiothoracic surgery division. Before attending medical school, Foster was a flamenco guitarist with the Jose Greco Spanish Dance Company for two years in the mid-1970s. He was 42.