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The class notes below were received between May 2009 and September 2009.
STANLEY WHITTEMORE, MD 1976, recently joined Swedish Physicians in Seattle as the new medical director of its primary care clinic in the Magnolia neighborhood. Prior to joining Swedish Physicians, Whittemore worked at The Langley Clinic, a medical practice he owned in Langley, Wash. He also practiced with Group Health Cooperative for several years before opening a small private practice on Whidbey Island. Swedish Physicians is a network of 12 primary-care clinics located throughout Seattle and East King County, Wash.
EZRIEL EDWARD KORNEL, MD 1978, a principal of Brain & Spine Surgeons of New York in White Plains, N.Y., has been elected to the board of directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He represents AANS members in the Northeast. Kornel is director of the Institute for Neurosciences and a former vice president of the medical staff at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco. A former assistant clinical professor of neurosurgery at Yale University, he now serves on the clinical faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery at Columbia University, is a member of the board of directors of the Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company and is a past president of the New York State Neurosurgical Society.
JUDITH FEINBERG, MD 1979, professor of medicine and associate chair of medicine for faculty development at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is an internationally known researcher in the management of HIV and AIDS, especially in the areas of new drug development for HIV and opportunistic infections associated with AIDS. She has two grandchildren and writes that after a lifetime of living in big cities, she is happily settled in Cincinnati with a lush garden and homegrown tomatoes.
ROBERT G. GILLIO, MD 1980, has changed careers from treating chronic disease to focusing on preventing it. Gillio has created InnerLink, a group focused on health promotion and disease prevention using schools and community centers as venues for health education interventions. In conjunction with Building a Healthier Chicago, his program Student Health Force was recently launched in Chicago and taught urban children of Latino and African American heritage about health, to apply what they learn to their personal wellness plans, and to share what they have learned with others. The program has partnered with the cities of New Orleans and Philadelphia to promote healthier citizens post-Hurricane Katrina and to implement H1N1 response efforts, respectively.
NEAL F. DEVITT, MD 1981, was honored as the first recipient of the Neal Devitt M.D. Award in June by the Northern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program. This award will be given annually to a physician who exemplifies excellence in teaching primary care. Devitt recently completed his 25th year working at La Familia Medical Center, the community health center in Santa Fe.
CATHERINE A. DIMOU, MD 1991, has been selected president-elect of the medical staff at Rush University Medical Center. Dimou is assistant professor of internal medicine at Rush Medical College and medical director of Rush Health Associates, a nonprofit organization whose members include Rush University Medical Center, Rush Oak Park Hospital, and approximately 700 physicians who are on the medical staff of its hospital members.
ANTHONY W. KIM, MD 1998, has accepted a new position at Yale New Haven Medical Center. Kim completed his residency at Rush, where he has since worked as an attending surgeon in the Division of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery.
RAVI R. NEMIVANT, MD 1998, and his wife, Kathleen, recently celebrated the birth of their third child, a boy. Ian Durkin Nemivant was born June 12.
STEPHANIE LAU WONG, MD 2005, has joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rush University Medical Center as a faculty member. Wong completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago. Wong joins the generalist practice of Rush Associates in Women’s Health. Her primary interests are obstetrics, women’s health and gynecologic surgery.
NICOLE E. LOEDING, MD 2006, of San Diego, was recently featured in a segment on the National Public Radio program All Things Considered discussing young doctors’ decisions to enter or avoid primary care practice. Loeding began primary care practice in Minneapolis this fall. Listen to the NPR segment online.
House Staff Alumni Notes
EDWARD HONG, MD, has joined Rush as an assistant professor in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. A graduate of the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago, Hong completed his general surgery residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center in 2006 and his cardiothoracic fellowship at Rush University Medical Center in 2008. He most recently completed a fellowship in minimally invasive lung and esophageal surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
IRENE MONICA MINKOFF, MD, is a hematologist and medical oncologist in Grand Junction, Colo. She practices general hematology and oncology and also divides her time working in Denver and Vail.
