V e r m o n t vol 49, issue 2 2012 University of vermont College of mediCine the work and play of Russell Tracy, Ph.D. A l s o f e A t u R e d doctors Without Borders Records the Pulse at 50

History in the making The Medical Ira Allen Society has a long history, beginning with the Century Club, initiated by medical alumni in the late 1950s. For more than three decades the College of Medicine has recognized hundreds of donors each year. These benefactors have been the mainstay of philanthropy, and their gifts have greatly impacted students, faculty, and research. Just as UVM founder Ira Allen shaped UVMs earliest legacies, todays Medical Ira Allen Society members continue to mold the

vol 49, Issue 2 2012 2 3 From the Dean college News A new chair, a new department, and three new Deans Office appointments. Plus kudos for St. Marys, an advanced microscope, and more. 27 28 12 hall A Presidents corner class Notes 31 40 42 Development News Obituaries reunion 12 29 12 Idea Man Russell Tracy, Ph.D., followed his own special path to build a distinguished research and administrative career. In the process, he has helped foster the work of many others. By Sarah Zobel 20 20

v E r M O N t There was one moment during this summers Medical Reunion when the powerful effect of our Colleges existence really hit home. During the Celebration of Achievements, on the first night of reunion, Carleton Haines, M.D.43 stood to receive his A. Bradley Soule Award from the Medical Alumni Association. Here was a physician who had graduated nearly seven decades earlier, who had spent his life ever since in service to medicine and his community, and whose family members had deep

College News Bernstein Named OBGYN Chair and Womens Health Care Service Leader Ira Bernstein, M.D.83, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and senior associate dean for research at the College, and a specialist in maternal fetal medicine at Fletcher Allen, has been named the John Van Sicklen Maeck Chair of the UVM Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and physician leader of the Womens Health Care Service at Fletcher Allen. Bernstein, whose three

COLLEGE NEWS Three Key Appointments in Deans Office Christa Zehle, M.D.99 Charles Irvin, Ph.D. Tiffany Delaney, M.A.Ed. This summer, three new appointments in the Office of the Dean have focused on better serving students, faculty, and staff at the institution. Dean Rick Morin and Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education William B. Jeffries, Ph.D., announced the appointment of christa Zehle, M.D.99, associate professor of pediatrics and pediatric hospitalist at Fletcher Allen Health Care

Notables Mann honored for research Achievements Recognized as one of the worlds most foremost authorities on blood coagulation, Kenneth Mann, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry, was recently presented with the Kenneth Mann, Ph.D. 2012 Hemostasis Thrombosis Research Society Lifetime Achievement Award. A 1967 Ph.D. alumnus of the university of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Mann was also presented with the Distinguished Alumni Award this summer at the Colleges Medical Alumni Reunion. UvM Alumni

COLLEGE NEWS Research Milestones colletti and ImprovecareNow team Publish IBD Study A new study by a national quality improvement and research network demonstrates that a collaboration by physicians led to marked improvement in the outcomes of patients with inflammatory bowel disease Richard Colletti, M.D. IBD, without introducing new drugs in treatment. Published online in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the study was conducted by ImproveCareNow, a national quali

AScO Presentation Focuses on Family history Clinical trial findings presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology ASCO annual meeting attended by roughly 30,000 cancer specialists from around the world often impact the current standards Marie Wood, M.D. of care for cancer patients. Research presented by Marie Wood, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Familial Cancer Program at the Vermont Cancer Center, was highlighted at this years meeting. Wood is lead author of a study

COLLEGE NEWS Two Grants, Two Scientific Careers Biomedical research at UVM is a continuum, with new researchers joining the faculty ranks each year, and more seasoned scientists overseeing larger projects as their careers deepen. Examples of this process are two faculty members, one a veteran of more than 30 years in the lab, another who just joined the faculty last year. S T U D E N T N O T E S Eric Kalivoda 13 was selected one of 70 students from 27 medical schools across the country to pa

3 Questions for Ramin Ahmadi, M.D., M.P.H. Chair of Medical Education and Research at Danbury Hospital Western Connecticut Health Network and Associate Professor of Medicine at the UVM College of Medicine. Dr. Ahmadi practices at Danbury Hospital and, in his role as chair of medical education, oversees the clinical education of UVM medical students on rotation in Connecticut. Since 1999 he has worked on health and human rights projects in East Timor, Nicaragua, Uganda, Guyana, Sri Lanka, and

COLLEGE NEWS Commencement 2012 At this years Commencement in Ira Allen Chapel, 113 students 63 women and 50 men in the College of Medicines Class of 2012 strode across the stage to receive their medical degrees. A large part of the Colleges Class of 2012 19 students are pursuing pediatrics as a specialty 17 students have gone into internal medicine 14 into family medicine and 11 are in emergency medicine residencies. The remaining 52 students are training in a wide range of other specialtie

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Russell Tracy, Ph.D., stands in the freezer farm of the Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry Research, where millions of blood samples are safely stored. 12 V E R M O N T M E D I C I N E

Russell Tracy, Ph.D., followed his own special path to build a distinguished research and administrative career, and in the process has helped foster the work of many others. by Sarah Zobel photographs by Mario Morgado R ussell Tracy, Ph.D., directs the UVM Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry Research lectures in pathology and biochemistry travels regularly to meet with collaborators on the countless multicenter, multidisciplinary studies in which his lab has a role and routinely writes and

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listens intently, and creating the drawings helps him stay focused on the discussions. But like most people with a mild to moderate attention deficit hyperactivity phenotype, it took a while for Tracy to figure himself out. As an undergraduate at LeMoyne College, a Jesuit school in Syracuse, New York, Tracy was the smart guy in class who never did well on tests. He majored in biology, thinking he should go to medical school, and minored in philosophy and theology. But it was in the latter classe

the Tracy, Ph.D. file tracy Russell Professor, Departments of Pathology and Medicine 1997present Member of the university of Vermont faculty since 1984. Senior Associate Dean for Research Academic Affairs, uVM College of Medicine, 20012009 Interim Associate Dean for Research, uVM College of Medicine, 20002001 Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry, Fletcher Allen Health Care, 19951997 Core Laboratory Director, General Clinical Research Center and Sims Obesity and Nutrition Research Center, uV

Tracy interacts with many members of the Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry Research staff in the course of his day. Here he chats with lab coordinator Elaine Cornell left and research technichian April Perry right. Russ has helped revolutionize thinking about coronary disease, Psaty says, adding that Tracy is a prince who sometimes has trouble saying no to people who need his help. Elaine Cornell, LCBR lab coordinator since 1986, agrees. He has all these brilliant ideas, and I just look at h

stewarding a billion dollars worth of blood At any given time, the Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry Research lCBR has a role in hundreds of projects, serving as gatekeeper for multicenter cohort studies around the world. The grandfather of these is the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes Cardiovascular Health Study, an ongoing study of risk factors for the development of cardiovascular heart disease in people age 65 and older. The LCBR staff is also currently extensively involved in th

Medicine, while continuing to head the LCBR. During his tenure, he helped obtain federal funding to establish the MRI Center for Biomedical Imaging at UVM. He also played an integral role in developing the summer research program for firstyear medical students. He left the deans office only when time constraints forced him to choose between what he found to be two equally satisfying jobs on reflection, he realized that he saw himself as more scientist than administrator. Leaving the administrati

World records Nicholas Wilkie 14 holds a version of the electronic health record for smartphones that he developed for Doctors Without Borders. He is standing in the Colleges Sullivan Classroom, where he heard the lecture by Bruce Leavitt, M.D.81 that inspired the project. 20 V E R M O N T M E D I C I N E

When doctors go beyond borders, they lack the kind of vital assistance gained from detailed patient health records. Uvm medical stUdent nick Wilkie is trying to change that sitUation, one smartphone at a time. by Jenny Blair, M.d. photographs by raj chawla I magine youre a physician with a disasterrelief group. Youve bounced over bad roads to get to a remote cholera clinic, leaving behind Internet and celltower access. As you treat patient after patient, you keep careful medical records. But

After the talk, Wilkie asked Leavitt if electronic medical records on portable devices would have been useful in the field. I said Of course Its the wave of the future, Leavitt says. Theres no question that I think there could be benefits. He agreed to serve as an unofficial advisor to Wilkie. Thus encouraged, Wilkie set out on some Internet research to find the right person to whom he could propose a project. He eventually found his way to Thang Dao, MSFs Switzerlandbased director of informatio

Wilkie demonstrates one of the screens that allows a physician in a remote area to enter patient information with the touch of a finger. MSF also sent Wilkie to the mHealth conference in Washington, D.C., where he met and received advice from other software experts who work with MSF. What Nick is doing is only part of a whole rearchitecting of the way were collecting data in our operations, said Dao. The pilot of Wilkies software will help MSF weigh the feasibility of a largescale switch from W

Five Decades, and Still Ticking Three busy senior medical students decided to complicate their lives a little more in 1962 when they began the continuing tradition of the Pulse yearbook. That heartbeat is going strong after 50 years. by Edward neuert 24 V E R M O N T M E D I C I N E

I was a little hesitant, frankly, because I knew what was going to be involved in doing this, and I already had a lot on my plate, says Michael Grady, M.D.62, as he sits in his Chestnut Hill, Mass., home. The retired pediatrician is recalling the moment in late 1961 when, talking with his two friends and classmates, Sherwin Ritter and Norman Schwartz, the idea suddenly came up they should start a real yearbook for the College of Medicine, and Grady would be their voice of experience. The years

webXtra Class of 1962 members Michael Grady, M.D. at left and Sherwin Ritter, M.D., the two surviving founding coeditors of the first Pulse, look over a selection of issues from across the past five decades in the medical history room of the Dana Medical Library during Reunion 2012. Take a trip down Memory Lane even if theyre someone elses memories by flipping through the inaugural 1962 edition of the Pulse yearbook online. Go to uvm.edumedicinevtmedicine and an influential voice within bot

Presidents Corner Class Notes Development News Obituaries Reunion 12 28 29 31 40 42 HALL A In 1905, when the College of Medicine completed its third home at the corner of Prospect and Pearl streets in Burlington, the main lecture room was named Hall A. For the next 63 years, students such as the members of the Class of 1955 shown above listening to the legendary Prof. Ellsworth Amidon, M.D.32 spent much of their time in the hall. Todays students take in lectures in the Sullivan Classroom or in

university of Vermont College of Medicine Ive been around the UVM campus long enough to have seen many of the regular cycles of academic medical center life the new faces of firstyear medical students each August, for instance, or the sending off of graduates to their residency programs each May. So I shouldnt be surprised to find yet another cycle reaching its end, this time one that involves me. I cant believe that my two years as Medical Alumni Association president have passed so quickly, b

M.D. Class Notes If you have news to share, please contact your class agent or the Development Alumni Relations office at medalumni.relationsuvm.edu or 802 6564014. If your email address has changed, please send it to medalumni.relationsuvm.edu. upcoming events September 20, 2012 Graduate student Research Day uVM Campus October 1, 2012 Reception at American College of surgeons National Conference Chicago, ill. October 6, 2012 Fall Alumni executive Comittee Meeting uVM Campus October 18, 2012 R

1953 R E U N I O N 1 3 Richard N. Fabricius HALL A 17 Fairview Road old Bennington, VT 05201 802 4424224 1954 John E. Mazuzan Jr. 366 south Cove Road Burlington, VT 05401 802 8645039 mazuzanburlingtontelecom.net 55 Class of th Reunion JuNe 2012 1957 M.D. CLASS NOTES 1955 Marshall G. London 102 summit street Burlington, VT 05401 802 8644927 marshall19554susannegmail.com Larry Coletti wrote to say that he was Looking forward to the Reunion of the class of 1957, which he and several membe

Development News Beers Scholarship Fund Grows The late Mark Beers, M.D.82, cared deeply about his patients, about scholarship, and about the school where his medical career began. An internationally recognized geriatrician, Dr. Beers dedicated his career to improving the health care of older people. Mark Beers, M.D.82 He developed the reference for geriatric medication prescription that is now universally known as the Beers Criteria, and coedited the Merck Manual for Geriatrics. At the time of h

maa 2012 Medical Alumni Association Awards a. Bradley soule award Presented to an alumnusa whose loyalty and dedication to the College of Medicine most emulate those qualities as found in its first recipient, A. Bradley soule, M.D.28. distinguished academic achievement award Presented to alumni in recognition of outstanding scientific or academic achievement. service to medicine and community award Presented to alumni who have maintained a high standard of medical service and who have achieved a

A . B R A D L E Y S O U L E AWA R D Carleton R. Haines, M.D.43 emeritus Associate Professor of surgery, uVM Retired surgeon, Fletcher Allen Health Care During his career, Dr. Haines served as director of the Tumor Registry for the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont and as director of Cancer Control for the state of Vermont Department of Health. in honor of his roles as a clinical investigator, teacher, and superb clinician, Haines received the service to Medicine Community Award in 1994. He has

Dan Palant wrote that Barbara and I are very much looking forward to seeing you all in Burlington at our 50th . Dan and Barbara joined many of the members of the 50th reunion class in June. HALL A Neil F. Mara is Retired, splitting time between Naples, Fla., and Groton Long Point, Conn. 1963 R E U N I O N 1 3 45 CLASS OF th Reunion JuNe 2012 1967 Timothy John Terrien 14 Deerfield Road south Burlington, VT 05403 802 8628395 Joseph H. Vargas III 574 us Route 4 east Rutland, VT 05701 802 77

Philip L. Cohen 483 lakewood Drive Winter Park, Fl 32789 407 6280221 plcretaol.com Continuing Medical education 2012 Conference schedule Jeffords Quality Care Symposium september 28 Burlington, Vt. Imaging Seminar september 2830 Stowe, Vt. Breast Cancer Conference october 5 Burlington, Vt. Critical Care Conference october 1720 essex, Vt. Advanced Dermatology october 1821 Burlington, Vt. Northern NE Neurological Society october 2627 North Conway, N.H. Neurology for the NonNeurologist october 26

M.D. CLASS NOTES affairs professional liaison and medical spokesperson for the Medicare program in the southeast and get involved in all sorts of aspects of the Medicare program including participation on national policy panels, medical oversight, quality, patient safety, public health initiatives, etc. Enjoying the relatively more regular hours, new intellectual and management challenges, and frequent travel after almost 30 years of clinical emergency medicine. Would love to hear from other Cl

25 CLASS OF th Reunion JuNe 2012 20 CLASS OF th Reunion JuNe 2012 1987 1992 Louis Polish 11 Vale Drive south Burlington, VT 05403 louis.polishvtmednet.org 1984 Richard C. Shumway 34 Coventry lane Avon, CT 06001 860 6736629 rshumwaystfranciscare.org 1982 Diane Rippa drippa82gmail.com Eric Shapiro is Managing Partner in an orthopaedic surgery group in Boca Raton, Fla. Last child graduating from H.S. will be empty nester next year. If anyone comes to my area, call David Park has been name

Jennifer Woodson writes We are enjoying life in San Diego, Calif. Peter continues to work as an E.D. doc for the Navy. I plan to return to work in the fall because I am the college fund Our oldest graduates from high school in June and the graduation festivities conflict with the UVM reunion, so have a great time catching up. We plan to attend Peters 25th at Dartmouth in September and hope to make it to UVM next time around HALL A 10 CLASS OF th Reunion JuNe 2012 2002 1993 R E U N I O N 1 3

2003 R E U N I O N 1 3 Omar Khan 33 Clearwater Circle shelburne, VT 05482 802 9851131 omar.khanvtmednet.org Scott Goodrich 309 Barben Avenue Watertown, NY 13601 scott.goodrich1yahoo.com 2004 Jillian S. Sullivan jilliangeiderhotmail.com New Class of 2012 class agents Martha Choate, Auna Leatham, Meghan Beucher, and Melissa Marotta. Steven D. Lefebvre fabulous5lefebvrehotmail.com 2009 Rebecca Brakeley rebeccabrakeleygmail.com 2011 Carrie Moats caroline.moatsgmail.com 2005 Julie A. Alosi ju

obituaries Dean H. Edson, M.D.42 Dr. Edson died after a short illness on December 23, 2010, at the home of his daughter in Tolland, Conn. He was 94. Prior to moving to Tolland, he resided in Danbury and Suffield, Conn. Dr. Edson was born in Grafton, N.H., and grew up in West Lebanon. He was a member of the class of 1939 of the University of New Hampshire before receiving his M.D. degree from the College of Medicine in 1942. Dr. Edson served in the U.S. Army in World War II, achieving the rank o

Care in Burlington, Vt. He was born on March 17, 1929, in Howland, Maine, and was raised in Brewer, Maine. He was active in scouting and served in WWII as a civil air patrol spotter. He graduated magna cum laude from University of Maine in 1951, with a degree in engineering physics. He worked for Eastman Kodak and for Pratt Whitney, where he was project engineer in the aircraft nuclear engine lab until 1957, at which time he entered medical studies at UVM. While there, he was awarded the Woodbu

R E U N I O N 2 0 1 2 Back in Action The second weekend in June was a beautiful time to experience Vermont at its finest. Reunion 2012 was an occasion to touch base with old friends and faculty members, while meeting the next generation of physicians from the College of Medicine, and getting a taste of what medical education is like for todays students. Add time for picnics, dinners, and games for the kids, and it added up to a memorable experience for all. 42 webXtra View Highlig

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May 22, 2012, 846 a.m. A very young patient is examined by medical student Jocelyn Hu from the Class of 2014, during her pediatric clerkship at St. Marys Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. photograph by Raj Chawla, UVM Medical Photography

NonProfit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Burlington VT Permit No. 143 Vermont medicine 89 Beaumont Ave. Burlington VT 05405 Reconnect with faculty. Revisit Recall the good times. Renew old friendships. the place where your medical career began. May 31June 2 2013 Attention ClAsses of 1943, 48, 53, 58, 63, 68, 73, 78 83, 88, 93, 98, 03 08 The UVM Medical Alumni Association invites you and your family to plan now to join your classmates for Reunion 2013 May 31June 2, 2013. Come back to Burlington

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