James
R. Baker Jr., M.D., the Ruth Dow Doan Professor
of Biologic Nanotechnology and chief, Division of Allergy,
has
been invited by the Executive Office of the President of
the United States to serve on the newly formed Nanotechnology
Technical Advisory Group to the President’s Council
of Advisors on Science and Technology. The advisory group,
composed of experts in nanotechnology who represent a range
of disciplines, will provide input and feedback to the President’s
Council as it undertakes a review of the National Nanotechnology
Initiative.
Don B. Clewell, Ph.D., professor of
microbiology and immunology, is the recipient of the 25th
Annual Distinguished Faculty
Lectureship Award in Biomedical Research, the highest honor
bestowed by the Medical School upon a faculty member in
the biomedical sciences. At the award presentation on June
11,
Clewell delivered a lecture on “Bacterial Communication
and the Antibiotic Resistance Problem.”Clewell also
holds an appointment in the U-M School of Dentistry.
Susan Dorr Goold (M.D. 1987, Residency
1992), associate professor of internal medicine and associate
director of
ethics and health policy for the Program in Society and
Medicine, is part of a team recently honored with a Paul
Ellwood Award
from the Foundation for Accountability for designing a
game to help people better understand health insurance
and become
more involved in its design. CHAT (Choosing Health Plans
All Together) presents a full menu of possible health care
options —more than a dozen types of services, each
with varying levels of coverage —that must be chosen
within the limited budget of a typical health insurance
premium. Groups of players decide what to include and what
to eliminate
from their plans. Goold and colleague Marion Danis, M.D.,
of the National Institutes of Health, accepted the award
on May 1 in Washington, D.C.
Lee Green (M.D. 1983), associate professor of family medicine,
was a member of the distinguished committee that recently
compiled and wrote the new national guidelines for elevated
blood pressure and its more serious form, hypertension. Green
was the only family physician and the only Michigan doctor
to serve on both the 10-member executive committee and the
entire national committee, lending his expertise as a primary
care physician as well as a clinical epidemiologist and specialist
in evidence-based medicine. The guidelines, published in
May in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are
designed to help doctors across America give the best-possible
care to people with high blood pressure.
R. Van Harrison, Ph.D., associate professor of medical
education and director, Office of Continuing Medical Education,
received an award for outstanding contributions to research
in continuing medical education from the Society for Academic
CME on April 6. Harrison has performed biennial surveys of
CME activities at medical schools in the U.S. and Canada
since 1984, providing the only national longitudinal tracking
of activities and trends related to CME. The Society for
Academic CME is a member of the Council of Academic Societies
within the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Michael J. Imperiale, Ph.D., professor of microbiology
and immunology, became the interim chair of the Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, effective January 1. Imperiale
has served the Medical School and the University in a number
of administrative capacities throughout the years including,
most recently, chairing his department’s appointments,
promotions and awards committee, serving as interim co-director
of the Center for Gene Therapy, as well as chairing the
Institutional Biosafety Committee. The appointment follows
the retirement
of Michael Savageau, Ph.D., the Nicolas Rashevsky Distinguished
University Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology
and Immunology since 1993.
Helen C. Kales, M.D. (Residency 1998), assistant professor
of psychiatry, was presented with the American Association
for Geriatric Psychiatry’s Junior Investigator award.
She accepted the award at the association’s annual
meeting in Honolulu on March 1. Kales received the honor
for her research paper based upon the study “Effects
of Race and Gender on the Diagnosis of Major Depression in
the Elderly.”The association presents this award
to the best unpublished original research paper submitted
by
a junior investigator. The AAGP is a national association
that is dedicated to promoting the mental health and well-being
of older people and improving the care of those with late-life
mental disorders.
Kenneth L. Langa, M.D., Ph.D. (Residency 1997), assistant
professor of internal medicine, has been awarded the Paul
Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Award
for his study looking at the long-term outcomes of caring
for a disabled spouse. The award was announced in April.
The Beeson program offers three-year faculty development
awards to outstanding junior physician faculty committed
to academic careers in aging-related research, teaching and
practice. The program is sponsored by the John A. Hartford
Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, the Alliance for Aging
Research and The Starr Foundation.
Howard Markel (M.D. 1986), Ph.D., George E. Wantz Professor
of the History of Medicine, professor of pediatrics, and
director, Center for the History of Medicine, was recently
elected to the Board of Directors of the National Yiddish
Center. Affiliated with Hampshire College, Amherst College,
and the University of Massachusetts, the National Yiddish
Center is the largest repository of Yiddish culture and
language in the United States and serves as a scholarly
resource,
museum and historical archive on East European Jewish Life.
Markel’s recent book, Quarantine! East European
Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892, was recently
awarded the American Public Health Association’s
2003 Viseltear Prize for the most outstanding contribution
to
the history of public health in America published within
the last five years.
David M. Markovitz, M.D., professor of internal medicine,
and Sofia D. Merajver (M.D. 1987, Residency 1993), Ph.D.,
associate professor of internal medicine and director of
the U-M Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Evaluation Program,
received Burroughs Welcome Fund Clinical Scientist Awards
in Translational Research in March. This is the first time
U-M Medical School faculty have received this award; only
four others were awarded nationally this year. Each award
provides $750,000 over a five-year period to foster the development
and productivity of an established independent physician-scientist
who will strengthen translational research through his or
her own studies, as well as through mentoring of physician-scientist
trainees. Markovitz will focus on new approaches to inhibiting
HIV replication, and Merajver will study the genetic determinants
of aggressive breast cancer phenotypes and how this knowledge
translates to the clinic.
Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine,
of human genetics and of public health, has been awarded
a lifetime honorary appointment as Associate of the National
Academies, recognizing his many services through the National
Research Council. The National Academy of Sciences (established
during the administration of Abraham Lincoln), the National
Research Council (established in 1916), the National Academy
of Engineering (1964) and the Institute of Medicine (1970)
comprise the National Academies, a private, non-profit society
of distinguished scholars dedicated to furthering science
and technology for the general welfare. Members are elected
in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements
in original research, and election to the Academies is considered
one of the highest honors in the fields of science, engineering
and medicine.
Kenneth
J. Pienta, M.D., professor of internal medicine—hematology/oncology
and of urology, and co-director of the U-M Comprehensive
Cancer Center’s Urologic/ Prostate Oncology Research
Program, has been awarded an American Cancer Society Clinical
Research Professorship. Only one other was awarded for
2003 and Pienta’s is the first in Michigan. The Society’s
most prestigious research award, the Research Professorship
is given to outstanding mid-career cancer researchers who
are contributing significantly to a particular discipline
within a field of cancer research, allowing professors
to concentrate on their specific area of scientific investigation
by relieving them of major administrative and/or teaching
responsibilities. Pienta maintains an active clinical practice
devoted exclusively to the treatment of patients with advanced
prostate cancer. His research interests include studying
the role of natural substances in either the promotion
or
prevention of prostate cancer, discovering drug combinations
to treat hormone refractory prostate cancer, and developing
approaches aimed at improving the quality of life of patients
with advanced prostate cancer.
David Pinsky, M.D., professor of internal medicine—cardiology,
joined the U-M Cardiovascular Center as division chief
of cardiology, scientific director, and the J. Griswold
Ruth,
M.D., and Margery Hopkins Ruth Professor of Internal Medicine
on March 1. His research focuses on vascular biology. Pinsky
was previously director of research for the Cardiovascular
Disease Training Program at Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center in New York and associate professor of medicine
at Columbia University.
Victor Roth, M.D., adjunct clinical assistant professor
of emergency medicine, has been named co-editor of the
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Report, a leading
occupational
health journal. Roth, who has been a member of the Report’s
editorial board since August 2002 and who also holds an
appointment in the School of Public Health, is a fellow
in the American
College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Feng Shao, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry,
received one of 16 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awards
for 2003. The award is sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division
of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Recipients,
all advanced students at or near the completion of their
studies in the biological sciences, are selected on the basis
of the quality, originality and significance of their work.
Shao joined the other recipients in a scientific symposium
in May at the Fred Hutchinson South Lake Union campus in
Seattle, Washington.
John G. Weg, M.D., professor emeritus and former division
chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Department
of Internal Medicine, received the award of Master Fellow
from
the American College of Chest Physicians in November 2002.
In 67 years, the award has been given only 18 times by
the college. Weg became a fellow of the college in 1967
and also
served as its president. In addition, he is known for his
role as founder and first chair of the college’s
Critical Care Council and his initiation of the American
College of
Chest Physicians-sponsored fellowships.
—MBR
Robert Bartlett Receives Jacobson Innovation Award
‘To improve the care of the surgical patient’
Robert H. Bartlett (M.D. 1963), professor of surgery, is the recipient of
the 2003 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons. Bartlett
received the prestigious award in honor of his pioneering work in the development
and establishment of the first extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program,
and for developing a world-wide registry to compile information about the procedures,
a registry which has resulted in saving the lives of thousands of infants over
the years.
Bartlett’s work standardized ECMO and eventually led to outcomes in
which many varieties of neonatal lung failure were dramatically reversed from
a 90 percent mortality rate to a 90 percent survival rate. His efforts have
also achieved significant survival rates for adult patients treated for respiratory
distress syndrome.
The Jacobson Innovation Award recognizes living surgeons who have been innovators
of a new development or technique in any field of surgery. Since its establishment
in 1994, it has been awarded to nine surgeons, including Bartlett. The American
College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of surgeons
that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and to
improve the care of the surgical patient. With more than 65,000 members, the
college is the largest organization of surgeons in the world.
Martha Ludwig Elected to National Academy of Sciences
‘Scientific research of the highest quality’
Martha L. Ludwig, Ph.D., professor of biological chemistry and a research
scientist in the U-M Biophysics Research Division, is one of 72 new members
elected April 29 to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. She joins
three other faculty members affiliated with the Medical School’s Department
of Biological Chemistry who are current members of the academy.
Academy members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing
achievements in original scientific research. Members act as official advisors
to the federal government on questions involving science and technology. Election
to membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors a scientist
can receive.
Ludwig uses X-ray crystallography to study the structure and function of enzymes
from living organisms. Many of the enzymes she studies change their shape when
they bind to or interact with other molecules. Identifying the enzyme’s
physical structure and how this structure changes during interaction with other
molecules provides important clues about the enzyme’s function. Ludwig
joined the U-M faculty in 1967.
“Dr. Ludwig is a dedicated scientist who does outstanding work,” says
William L. Smith, Ph.D., the Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry
and department chair. “Her election to the National Academy of Sciences
reinforces our faculty’s reputation for conducting scientific research
of the highest quality and impact.”
New members bring the total number of active academy members to 1,922. Ludwig
is one of five current academy members from the U-M Medical School.
—SFP
Michelle Riba Elected President of the American Psychiatric Association
Third U-M psychiatrist to serve in leadership role
Michelle B. Riba, M.D., clinical professor and associate chair for education
and academic affairs in the Department of Psychiatry, and director of the Psycho-Oncology
Program at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been elected president
of the American Psychiatric Association. Riba will serve as president-elect
through the annual meeting in 2004, and as president through the annual meeting
in 2005. She shares the distinction with two other U-M psychiatrists: Elissa
Benedek (M.D. 1960, Residency 1965), who served as president from 1990-91,
and Raymond Waggoner (M.D. 1924), who was president from 1969-70.
As president-elect, Riba will chair the Joint Reference Committee and serve
as an alternate delegate to the American Medical Association. As president,
she will serve as the chief executive officer of the association, preparing
the agenda for and presiding at all general meetings of the association and
at all meetings of the board of trustees, and carrying out the orders and resolutions
of the board and the membership.
The American Psychiatric Association is the world’s largest psychiatric
organization, representing more than 38,000 psychiatric physicians from the
U.S. and around the world.
Aaron Stern Pioneered Pediatric Cardiology
Aaron Milton Stern, M.D. (Residency 1951), a pediatric cardiologist and founder
of the University of Michigan Division of Pediatric Cardiology, died on April
23 at his home in Ann Arbor at the age of 82.
As a child, Stern, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, was afflicted with severe
scoliosis and placed in a full-body cast. This experience, says his family,
inspired a profound desire to help children with medical problems, and he went
on to do just that. After receiving an undergraduate degree at U-M and later
completing a pediatric cardiology residency here in 1951, Stern went on to
found the U-M’s Department of Pediatric Cardiology. Over the course of
a long career at Michigan, he mentored generations of pediatric physicians,
and worked closely with cardiac surgeons Herbert Sloan, M.D. (Residency 1949),
Burton Perry (M.D. 1960, Residency 1964) and Joan Sigmann, M.D. (Residency
1958) to pioneer the first heart surgeries for infant children. Stern also
established a dedicated cardiac catheterization laboratory and noninvasive
study unit for children and pioneered statewide outreach clinics in pediatric
cardiology.
Last fall, a conference room/library at U-M C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
was named for Stern in honor of his many contributions to children’s
health.
Stern is survived by Nell Stern, his wife of 47 years; by daughters Julie
Jacobs and Janet Fathy; by a son, Joel Stern; and nine grandchildren. Memorial
gifts may be made to the Dr. Aaron M. Stern Pediatric Cardiology Fund, and
sent to the Office of Medical Development, 301 E. Liberty St., Suite 300, Ann
Arbor, MI 48104-2251.
—WH
Ophthalmic Pathologist
J. Reimer Wolter Dies at 79
J. Reimer Wolter, M.D., Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ophthalmology
and Visual Sciences, died May 30. He was 79.
Wolter was born in Halstenbeck, Germany, and trained as an ophthalmologist
at the University of Hamburg. During the mid-1950s, a research appointment
at U-M led to an invitation to join the faculty here permanently. Wolter and
his wife, Lotte, became U.S. citizens in 1959. In 1964, Wolter became full
professor at Michigan with dual appointments in ophthalmology and pathology.
For three decades, he saw patients, trained residents in eye surgery and oversaw
the eye pathology laboratory and ophthalmology service at the Ann Arbor Veterans
Administration Hospital.
Author or co-author of nearly 350 articles, Wolter was also the first editor
of the Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. During his final
years of research, he was the first person to document how the eyes reacted
to intraocular lens implants. Wolter’s pioneering work continues to provide
a strong foundation for current ophthalmic pathology research.
Wolter was preceded in death by his wife. They are survived by their sons
Klaus Wolter, Jan Wolter and Niels Wolter; and by one daughter, Maria Wolter,
and five grandchildren.
James
R. Baker Jr., M.D., the Ruth Dow Doan Professor
of Biologic Nanotechnology and chief, Division of Allergy,
has
been invited by the Executive Office of the President of
the United States to serve on the newly formed Nanotechnology
Technical Advisory Group to the President’s Council
of Advisors on Science and Technology. The advisory group,
composed of experts in nanotechnology who represent a range
of disciplines, will provide input and feedback to the President’s
Council as it undertakes a review of the National Nanotechnology
Initiative.
Don B. Clewell, Ph.D., professor of
microbiology and immunology, is the recipient of the 25th
Annual Distinguished Faculty
Lectureship Award in Biomedical Research, the highest honor
bestowed by the Medical School upon a faculty member in
the biomedical sciences. At the award presentation on June
11,
Clewell delivered a lecture on “Bacterial Communication
and the Antibiotic Resistance Problem.”Clewell also
holds an appointment in the U-M School of Dentistry.
Susan Dorr Goold (M.D. 1987, Residency
1992), associate professor of internal medicine and associate
director of
ethics and health policy for the Program in Society and
Medicine, is part of a team recently honored with a Paul
Ellwood Award
from the Foundation for Accountability for designing a
game to help people better understand health insurance
and become
more involved in its design. CHAT (Choosing Health Plans
All Together) presents a full menu of possible health care
options —more than a dozen types of services, each
with varying levels of coverage —that must be chosen
within the limited budget of a typical health insurance
premium. Groups of players decide what to include and what
to eliminate
from their plans. Goold and colleague Marion Danis, M.D.,
of the National Institutes of Health, accepted the award
on May 1 in Washington, D.C.
Lee Green (M.D. 1983), associate professor of family medicine,
was a member of the distinguished committee that recently
compiled and wrote the new national guidelines for elevated
blood pressure and its more serious form, hypertension. Green
was the only family physician and the only Michigan doctor
to serve on both the 10-member executive committee and the
entire national committee, lending his expertise as a primary
care physician as well as a clinical epidemiologist and specialist
in evidence-based medicine. The guidelines, published in
May in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are
designed to help doctors across America give the best-possible
care to people with high blood pressure.
R. Van Harrison, Ph.D., associate professor of medical
education and director, Office of Continuing Medical Education,
received an award for outstanding contributions to research
in continuing medical education from the Society for Academic
CME on April 6. Harrison has performed biennial surveys of
CME activities at medical schools in the U.S. and Canada
since 1984, providing the only national longitudinal tracking
of activities and trends related to CME. The Society for
Academic CME is a member of the Council of Academic Societies
within the Association of American Medical Colleges. 
Michael J. Imperiale, Ph.D., professor of microbiology
and immunology, became the interim chair of the Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, effective January 1. Imperiale
has served the Medical School and the University in a number
of administrative capacities throughout the years including,
most recently, chairing his department’s appointments,
promotions and awards committee, serving as interim co-director
of the Center for Gene Therapy, as well as chairing the
Institutional Biosafety Committee. The appointment follows
the retirement
of Michael Savageau, Ph.D., the Nicolas Rashevsky Distinguished
University Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology
and Immunology since 1993.
Helen C. Kales, M.D. (Residency 1998), assistant professor
of psychiatry, was presented with the American Association
for Geriatric Psychiatry’s Junior Investigator award.
She accepted the award at the association’s annual
meeting in Honolulu on March 1. Kales received the honor
for her research paper based upon the study “Effects
of Race and Gender on the Diagnosis of Major Depression in
the Elderly.”The association presents this award
to the best unpublished original research paper submitted
by
a junior investigator. The AAGP is a national association
that is dedicated to promoting the mental health and well-being
of older people and improving the care of those with late-life
mental disorders.
Kenneth L. Langa, M.D., Ph.D. (Residency 1997), assistant
professor of internal medicine, has been awarded the Paul
Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Award
for his study looking at the long-term outcomes of caring
for a disabled spouse. The award was announced in April.
The Beeson program offers three-year faculty development
awards to outstanding junior physician faculty committed
to academic careers in aging-related research, teaching and
practice. The program is sponsored by the John A. Hartford
Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, the Alliance for Aging
Research and The Starr Foundation.
Howard Markel (M.D. 1986), Ph.D., George E. Wantz Professor
of the History of Medicine, professor of pediatrics, and
director, Center for the History of Medicine, was recently
elected to the Board of Directors of the National Yiddish
Center. Affiliated with Hampshire College, Amherst College,
and the University of Massachusetts, the National Yiddish
Center is the largest repository of Yiddish culture and
language in the United States and serves as a scholarly
resource,
museum and historical archive on East European Jewish Life.
Markel’s recent book, Quarantine! East European
Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892, was recently
awarded the American Public Health Association’s
2003 Viseltear Prize for the most outstanding contribution
to
the history of public health in America published within
the last five years. 
Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D., professor of internal medicine,
of human genetics and of public health, has been awarded
a lifetime honorary appointment as Associate of the National
Academies, recognizing his many services through the National
Research Council. The National Academy of Sciences (established
during the administration of Abraham Lincoln), the National
Research Council (established in 1916), the National Academy
of Engineering (1964) and the Institute of Medicine (1970)
comprise the National Academies, a private, non-profit society
of distinguished scholars dedicated to furthering science
and technology for the general welfare. Members are elected
in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements
in original research, and election to the Academies is considered
one of the highest honors in the fields of science, engineering
and medicine.
Kenneth
J. Pienta, M.D., professor of internal medicine—hematology/oncology
and of urology, and co-director of the U-M Comprehensive
Cancer Center’s Urologic/ Prostate Oncology Research
Program, has been awarded an American Cancer Society Clinical
Research Professorship. Only one other was awarded for
2003 and Pienta’s is the first in Michigan. The Society’s
most prestigious research award, the Research Professorship
is given to outstanding mid-career cancer researchers who
are contributing significantly to a particular discipline
within a field of cancer research, allowing professors
to concentrate on their specific area of scientific investigation
by relieving them of major administrative and/or teaching
responsibilities. Pienta maintains an active clinical practice
devoted exclusively to the treatment of patients with advanced
prostate cancer. His research interests include studying
the role of natural substances in either the promotion
or
prevention of prostate cancer, discovering drug combinations
to treat hormone refractory prostate cancer, and developing
approaches aimed at improving the quality of life of patients
with advanced prostate cancer.
David Pinsky, M.D., professor of internal medicine—cardiology,
joined the U-M Cardiovascular Center as division chief
of cardiology, scientific director, and the J. Griswold
Ruth,
M.D., and Margery Hopkins Ruth Professor of Internal Medicine
on March 1. His research focuses on vascular biology. Pinsky
was previously director of research for the Cardiovascular
Disease Training Program at Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center in New York and associate professor of medicine
at Columbia University.
Victor Roth, M.D., adjunct clinical assistant professor
of emergency medicine, has been named co-editor of the
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Report, a leading
occupational
health journal. Roth, who has been a member of the Report’s
editorial board since August 2002 and who also holds an
appointment in the School of Public Health, is a fellow
in the American
College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Feng Shao, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry,
received one of 16 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awards
for 2003. The award is sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division
of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Recipients,
all advanced students at or near the completion of their
studies in the biological sciences, are selected on the basis
of the quality, originality and significance of their work.
Shao joined the other recipients in a scientific symposium
in May at the Fred Hutchinson South Lake Union campus in
Seattle, Washington.
John G. Weg, M.D., professor emeritus and former division
chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Department
of Internal Medicine, received the award of Master Fellow
from
the American College of Chest Physicians in November 2002.
In 67 years, the award has been given only 18 times by
the college. Weg became a fellow of the college in 1967
and also
served as its president. In addition, he is known for his
role as founder and first chair of the college’s
Critical Care Council and his initiation of the American
College of
Chest Physicians-sponsored fellowships.
Robert H. Bartlett (M.D. 1963), professor of surgery, is the recipient of
the 2003 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons. Bartlett
received the prestigious award in honor of his pioneering work in the development
and establishment of the first extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program,
and for developing a world-wide registry to compile information about the procedures,
a registry which has resulted in saving the lives of thousands of infants over
the years.
Martha L. Ludwig, Ph.D., professor of biological chemistry and a research
scientist in the U-M Biophysics Research Division, is one of 72 new members
elected April 29 to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. She joins
three other faculty members affiliated with the Medical School’s Department
of Biological Chemistry who are current members of the academy.
Michelle B. Riba, M.D., clinical professor and associate chair for education
and academic affairs in the Department of Psychiatry, and director of the Psycho-Oncology
Program at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been elected president
of the American Psychiatric Association. Riba will serve as president-elect
through the annual meeting in 2004, and as president through the annual meeting
in 2005. She shares the distinction with two other U-M psychiatrists: Elissa
Benedek (M.D. 1960, Residency 1965), who served as president from 1990-91,
and Raymond Waggoner (M.D. 1924), who was president from 1969-70. 
Aaron Milton Stern, M.D. (Residency 1951), a pediatric cardiologist and founder
of the University of Michigan Division of Pediatric Cardiology, died on April
23 at his home in Ann Arbor at the age of 82.
