1940s

Keith Weller (M.D. 1943, Residency 1948) and Robert Tupper (Residency 1962) were inducted into the Grand Rapids Medical Hall of Fame for 2000. They were among 39 U-M alumni/ae in medicine, medical education, nursing and medical business who were nominees. Tupper, an internist with a specialty in gastroenterology who retired in 1999, is known for his work in instituting physician-training programs. For 27 years he was vice president for graduate medical education with Blodgett Hospital and later Spectrum Health, and earlier taught gastroenterology at the University of Michigan. Keith Weller, who in his retirement spent 11 years providing medical care to the homeless through Saint Mary’s Health Services, was chosen for his humanitarianism.

1950s

Victor Bloom (M.D. 1957) is in private practice in Grosse Pointe Park and writes a weekly column for the Grosse Pointe News, as well as articles for the Detroit Medical News (Wayne County Medical Society) and the Academy Forum (a quarterly publication of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis). He can be reached by phone at (313) 882-8640 or by e-mail at vbloom@compuserve.com.

1960s

Robert Tupper (Residency 1962) was inducted into the Grand Rapids Medical Hall of Fame for 2000. See 1940s entry on Keith Weller.

William J. Hall (M.D. 1965), an internist in Rochester, New York, has served as president-elect of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine since last April and will become the organization’s president in March 2001. Hall is professor of medicine and pediatrics and chief of the general medicine/geriatrics unit at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is director of geriatric programs at Strong Partners Health Systems in Rochester.

Hossein Gharib (M.D. 1966) has served as vice president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists since May 2000, when he was chosen for the post at the ninth annual meeting 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 and Metabolism at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. He did his internship at Philadelphia General Hospital and was a resident, endocrine trainee and research fellow at the Mayo Clinic.

Robert Bartlett (M.D. 1963, Residency 1969), professor of general and thoracic surgery who headed the Medical School’s Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, has designed a dinner plate in honor of the School’s 150th anniversary. The plate has as its centerpiece "Old Main," which served as the University’s main hospital for almost 60 years. Other historic hospital and Medical School buildings are featured on the rim of the plate. The plates are available in the U-M Hospital Gift Shop for $70 or can be ordered from Classic Collegiate China at (888) 866-9321 or by mail at 556 Galen Circle, Ann Arbor, MI 48103.

1970s

Steven L. Giannotta (M.D. 1972, Residency 1978) (pictured) has been elected president of the American Board of Neurological Surgeons. Giannotta, professor of neurological surgery at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, has served as a director of the Board for five years and as secretary for one year. He will be joined by fellow alumnus William Chandler (M.D. 1971, Residency 1977) who this year begins a six-year term as a director.

1980s

Douglas S. Paauw (M.D. 1985), associate professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, has been named the first holder of the Rathmann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Patient-Centered Clinical Education. Paauw is an attending physician at the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center. He has received distinguished teaching awards from both the University of Washington and from its School of Medicine. He also has received the Clinician-Teacher Award of Excellence from the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Paul M. Beeson Teaching Award, and has three times been named one of the "Best Doctors in America." Paauw is the editor of the book, Guide to Internal Medicine and Continuing Medical Education editor for Scientific American Medicine.

Lives Lived

Arthur L. Lennox (M.D. 1934) died March 21, 2000, in Naples, Florida, after more than four decades as an obstetrician and gynecologist in the greater Toledo, Ohio, area, including three years in practice with his son, John Lennox, M.D. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and he served on the staff of Toledo Hospital and on the courtesy staffs of St. Luke’s and Flower hospitals in Toledo. Lennox, who was 90, left a bequest to the University to establish the Jennie I. Lennox Endowed Medical Student Loan Fund, honoring his mother who loaned him the money to attend the U-M Medical School.

William Kaufman (M.D. 1938) died on August 24, 2000, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at age 88. For many years he maintained a private practice in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He did clinical research on niacinamide, a form of vitamin B3, and its ability to lessen or eliminate osteoarthritic pain, and was considered a pioneer in vitamin therapy for rheumatism and arthritis. A prolific writer, he was the author of two books on niacinamide as well as many articles dealing with arthritis, nutrition, food allergies and psychosomatic medicine. He was also a playwright and artist. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte, who, with him, established the Dr. William and Charlotte S. Kaufman Endowment Fund for Library Technology at the University of Michigan.

Delbert Pearson (Residency 1955), who established his medical practice in Ypsilanti in 1960, died at age 75 on May 28, 2000, from complications of diabetes. He completed his residency in pediatrics and communicable diseases at University Hospital where he was chief resident from 1955 to 1960, at which time he joined the staff of Beyer Hospital where he remained until his death, serving as chair of the Department of Pediatrics from 1981 to 1985. Especially interested in sports medicine, Pearson served as team physician for the Ann Arbor Public Schools from 1953 to 1965, for the Ypsilanti Public Schools from 1965 to 1986, and for Eastern Michigan University from 1986 to 1998. He was a supervisor/fellow in sports medicine in the U-M Department of Family Practice from 1994 to1998.

Rex Goodnow Wilcox (M.D. 1960), died on June 20, 2000, at age 64.

David Cheris, M.D. (Residency 1963), 66, died in Newton, Massachusetts, on April 21, 2000. Practicing in Syracuse, New York, for 34 years, Cheris was former chairman and director of the Department of Radiology at Community General Hospital and associate professor at Upstate Medical Center of the State University of New York. Cheris was the author of several publications, including Basic Physics: Principles of Diagnostic Radiology, co-authored with Barbara Cheris, his wife of 42 years.

U-M Psychiatrist Raymond Waggoner Dies at 98

Raymond W. Waggoner, (M.D. 1924), Sc.D., a noted University of Michigan psychiatrist, medical administrator and government advisor who was one of the first to see mental illness as both an emotional and physical problem, died of natural causes at Heartland Health Care Center in Ann Arbor on June 27, 2000. He was 98.

Throughout his career, Waggoner worked to modernize treatment of the mentally ill, and to bridge the gap between the Freudian psychosocial model and the discipline of neuroscience, which aims to find biological explanations for psychiatric disorders. "That biopsychosocial model, which he helped pioneer, now forms the basis of our entire medical specialty," according to John Greden, M.D., Ph.D., current chair of the U-M Department of Psychiatry.

Waggoner received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the U-M by the age of 22. After earning his doctorate in neuropsychiatry in 1928 at the University of Pennsylvania, he returned to the University of Michigan in 1929 as a neurologist. Eight years into his 65-year U-M career, he switched to the Department of Psychiatry and soon began a 33-year term as department chair. In those years, 1937 to 1970, he built a nationally renowned clinical and research faculty noted for its eclectic mix of disciplines and for integrating psychotherapy and neuroscience. Under Waggonner’s direction, the Department grew from a small clinical and teaching unit in the 1930s to a major force in psychiatry research, care and education.

Waggoner also had a strong interest in ethics and values, which he saw as combining the human and the humane. Since 1995, the U-M has held an annual lecture on the topic in his name. Gifts may be made to the Raymond W. Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine, care of Philip Margolis, M.D., Waggoner Lectureship Committee Chair, U-M Department of Psychiatry, 900 Wall Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105.