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In Pursuit of Precision
On the Surgical Frontier,
Computers Open
New Paths

Dean’s Corner
Join the Dean’s Partners
By now you have read or heard
about our goal to become a top 10
medical school by 2010. I am
pleased to report our current ranking
is 16th. To reach the top tier will
demand a concerted effort from all
of us: faculty, students, and most
importantly, you, our alumni.
Initially we need added financial
resources. Almost one year ago, I
offered alumni an opportunity for
membership in an elite group called
the Dean’s Partners. I again extend
that invitation.
Dean’s Partners reinforce the
financial backbone of the School of
Medicine and its programs. Your
membership in this group helps the
school:
• sustain nationally recognized
programs in teaching, research, and
community service.
• improve technology and create
a scholarly environment that attracts
and retains the brightest faculty and
students.
• offer scholarship opportunities to
the best and brightest students. When
the best and brightest follow our footsteps,
we ensure a strong future for the
profession we love so dearly.
Dean’s Partners are asked to contribute
$1,000 annually for three years.
Enclosed is a return envelope and a
gift card with several payment options,
including smaller quarterly payments
if that is the best plan for you at this
time. Thank you for considering
membership as a Dean’s Partner.
Dear Colleagues:
Your University of Alabama School of Medicine continues its steady climb in the medical school
rankings, moving up another notch toward its goal of “Top 10 in 2010.” In the latest National
Institutes of Health rankings of research funding, the UASOM moved from #17 to #16 overall, and
nine departments were individually ranked in the top 10: anesthesiology (#9), family medicine (#9),
neurobiology (#9), surgery (#8), physical medicine and rehabilitation (#8), pediatrics (#7), medicine
(#4), obstetrics and gynecology (#2), and microbiology (#1).
As you can see from the latest news and in this issue of the Alabama Medical Alumni Bulletin, the
UASOM is at the forefront of health-care education and research:
• U.S. News and World Report ranked the UASOM 14th in women’s health, 11th in internal medicine,
and fourth in AIDS research and treatment among medical schools nationwide.
• On Match Day, the graduating class of 2002 was ranked as one of the best in the nation, and was
one of the best ever for the UASOM.
• The UASOM continues to lead the way in awards and groundbreaking research, recently gaining
international recognition for its research into AIDS, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, and bronchial pulmonary
dysplasia among premature infants.
The importance of supporting the UASOM is obvious. Private support is critical, not just for the
quality and reputation of the education that alumni have received, but also for the tremendous
advances UASOM continues to make in every field of medicine.
I hope you will join our Dean’s Partners, a prestigious group of donors whose financial gifts propel
our academic program to new heights of learning. Join the alumni association and the Caduceus Club
to support fellowships, scholarships, and excellence in education. Contribute to the construction of
Biomedical I and the crucial renovations and additions to Volker Hall. Your support will enable the
UASOM to continue to grow, expand, and constantly improve itself and its contributions to medical
science and the community.
To find out more about the Dean’s Partners and building projects, please feel free to call the
Development Office at (205) 934-4469. And Elaine Chambless, at (205) 934-4463, will be happy to
discuss the alumni association and the Caduceus Club.
My best to you.
Sincerely,
William B. Deal, M.D.
Vice President for Medicine and Dean
On the Cover: With the powerful cameras of the C-Arm Navigator, surgeons can watch their work in realtime
with unprecedented precision. Photo by Brandon Robbins.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
T. Riley Lumpkin, M.D., ’58 - Tuscaloosa
President-Elect
Betty W. Vaughn, M.D., ’63 - Decatur
Secretary/Treasurer
Alan R. Dimick, M.D., ’58 - Birmingham
Past President
J. Max Austin, Jr., M.D., ’67 - Birmingham
The Caduceus Club President
E. Lamar Thomas, M.D., ’63, Birmingham
District Vice Presidents
William R. Staggers, M.D., ’89 - Fairhope
Karen M. Landers, M.D., ’77 - Tuscumbia
J. Noble Anderson, M.D., ’89 - Montgomery
Neil E. Christopher, M.D., ’58 - Guntersville
Helen R. Thrasher, M.D., ’63 - Birmingham
Jarvis D. Ryals, M.D., ’65 - Pueblo, CO
Katherine R. Cooper, M.D., ’90 - Alexander City
Michael G. Poist, M.D., ’87 - Tuscaloosa
James S. Woodard, M.D., ’85 - Columbus, MS
House Staff Representative
Allen N. Gustin, Jr., M.D. - Birmingham
Senior Class President
Darren Malone - Birmingham
Vice President and Dean
William B. Deal, M.D. - Birmingham
Executive Secretary
Elaine Chambless - Birmingham
Administrative Secretary
Donna F. Thompson
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Table of Contents • Fall 2002 Issue
News Briefs ........................................................................................................................ 2
School News, Faculty News, Research & Clinical News
Cover Story: In Pursuit of Precision ................................................................ 6
On the Surgical Frontier, Computers Open New Paths
Celebrating the CCC ................................................................................................ 10
Cancer Center Marks 30 Years
The Gift of Knowledge ........................................................................................... 10
Students Honor Donors and Their Families
Louis’s Letters ................................................................................................................11
Pasteur’s Search for an Anthrax Vaccine
Reaching Rural Populations..................................................................................12
An Innovative Program Sends Forth Its First Graduates
A Handful of Memories ...........................................................................................13
George Hand’s Retirement: A Reason to Reminisce
Physicians’ Forum .......................................................................................................14
Health Care and HIPAA
Alumni Profile: T. Riley Lumpkin, M.D. ......................................................16
Defining the Field in Family Practice
Faculty Profile: Conway Huang, M.D. ..........................................................17
Counseling Patients to Come In from the Sun
The Campaign for UAB ........................................................................................... 18
Letter from John Lankford • Volker Hall Renovations • Profile of Jack Naftel
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS ....................................................................... 22
2002 Annual Alumni Weekend • Class Notes • Donor List
From the Archives ...................................................................................................... 36
Champ Lyons, M.D.
CME Calendar .................................................................................................. Back Cover
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NEWS
BRIEFS
by Roger Shuler and Shane Ivey
Garrison Named UAB President
UAB alumna and former faculty member
Carol Garrison, Ph.D., acting president of the
University of Louisville, has been named president
of UAB.
Garrison, UAB’s sixth president, will succeed
UAB interim president Malcolm Portera,
who is chancellor of the three-campus system.
Portera was asked by the board to serve temporarily
as president following the June 1
departure of W. Ann Reynolds, Ph.D.
“Dr. Garrison is, by every measure, a perfect
fit for UAB,” says trustee John Russell
Thomas, who chaired the search committee.
“She is an innovator, a collaborator, and a
visionary administrator.”
In nominating Garrison for the position,
Portera cited highlights of her background that
bear an “uncanny” similarity to the goals and
mission of UAB. “At the University of Louisville,
Carol Garrison has been a leader in garnering
significantly increased private and public support,
attracting and retaining top-quality faculty,
and building the university’s research portfolio,
particularly in the health sciences, while promoting
interdisciplinary research.”
Named interim president at the University
of Louisville in June, Garrison had served as
chief academic officer and chief operating
officer of that institution since 1997. In that
capacity, she has had oversight for a growing
medical center and helped create an undergraduate
research initiative and expand the
honors program.
With more than 20,000 students and 5,200
employees, the University of Louisville
includes schools of medicine, dentistry, and
law, as well as arts and sciences, business, engineering,
education, and other disciplines. The
institution recently completed a $350-million
capital campaign.
Garrison, a native of Montclair, New Jersey,
earned her bachelor’s degree at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She
received her master’s degree from the School
of Nursing at UAB in 1976 and earned a
pediatric nurse practitioner certificate from
the school in 1978. From 1976 to 1978, she
was an assistant professor in nursing. In 1982,
she earned a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the
University North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
where she was an assistant professor.
Garrison joined the faculty at the
University of South Carolina in 1982. She
was named professor and chair of epidemiology
and biostatistics in 1992, and in 1994 she
became associate provost and dean of the
graduate school. In 1997 Garrison became
provost at the University of Louisville.
“UAB’s history of growth and accomplishment
is remarkable,” Garrison says. “That
record has been achieved through an entrepreneurial,
‘roll up your sleeves and get it done’
attitude that I find exciting and enticing. I am
honored and eager to lead this great university.”
UASOM Ranked 16th in NIH Funding
The University of Alabama School of
Medicine climbed from 17th to 16th in
National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding
for 2001.
As of May 15, 2002, nine departments of
the UASOM were ranked in the top 10 in
NIH funding:
• Anesthesiology—9th
• Family Medicine—9th
• Neurobiology—9th
• Surgery—8th
• Physical Medicine—8th
• Pediatrics—7th
• Medicine—4th
• Ob/Gyn—2nd
• Microbiology—1st
Other UAB disciplines that appeared in the
NIH rankings were pharmacology (71st for
2001), psychiatry (61st), public health (48th),
physiology (43rd), anatomy (39th), radiology
(33rd), genetics (32nd), ophthalmology
(29th), pathology (22nd), pediatrics (16th),
and veterinary sciences (14th).
UASOM Listed among
Best Graduate Schools
The UASOM is again listed among the
nation’s best, according to the 2003 U.S. News
and World Report ranking of graduate schools.
The UASOM ranked 28th in the research
category and 30th in the primary care category.
Three UASOM medical specialties also were
ranked by the magazine: AIDS (4th), internal
medicine (11th), and women’s health (14th).
UAB Recognized among Best Hospitals
Nine programs from UAB are ranked in
this year’s U.S. News and World Report’s
annual “America’s Best Hospitals” issue.
The magazine selects 50 programs in 17
medical specialties. UAB’s is the only
Alabama hospital included in the listing.
The rheumatology program was ranked
6th, up from 8th place in 2001; the cancer
program moved up to the 17th rank; and
the program in kidney disease advanced to
15th. The heart program (cardiology and
cardiac surgery) ranked 24th.
The gynecology program was ranked
40th, and its program in hormonal disorders
again ranked 27th. In the treatment
of respiratory disorders, UAB’s program
ranked 22nd, up from the number 42 slot
last year. The hospital’s rehabilitation program
was ranked 19th, and its otolaryngology
program (ear, nose, and throat) ranked
50th.
The 2002 rankings mark the 11th consecutive
time the rheumatology program
has been ranked. Cardiology has been
ranked for the past seven years and gynecology
for four years.
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News Briefs
UAB Hospital Cited
for Nursing Excellence
UAB Hospital joined an elite group of hospitals
across the nation when it was recently
recognized as a “center for excellence in nursing.”
It is the first and only hospital in
Alabama to earn Magnet recognition, a designation
awarded by the American Nurses
Association to fewer than 50 of the nation’s
5,500 hospitals.
As one of only eight Magnet hospitals in
the southeastern United States, UAB joins
Mayo-Rochester Hospitals in Rochester,
Minnesota; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles; the Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital in New Brunswick, New
Jersey; and other renowned academic medical
centers nationwide.
The American Nurses Association’s
Credentialing Center (ANCC) confers
this prestigious award on organized nursing
services that exceed professional standards
in nursing practice, leadership education,
and research.
“Today’s professional nurse must be adept at
many disciplines,” says Mary Nash, R.N.,
Ph.D., executive director of UAB Hospital.
“Nurses must master increasingly complex
medical technology and stay abreast of a rapidly
growing body of medical information. They
are entrusted with caring for patients with
complex disease processes, educating patients
about their conditions, and providing emotional
support to patients and family members.
“Magnet recognition is the ‘gold standard’
of our profession. It is an achievement that
reflects the competence and dedication of the
entire UAB nursing staff.”
Geriatrics Receives Added Emphaisis
The UASOM is answering the challenge
of treating an aging population by starting
with those who are still young in their
medical careers.
The UASOM is one of 40 medical schools
integrating geriatric medical education into its
four-year core curriculum. “Our activities
involve programs for students in all four years
of medical school,” says geriatrician Richard
Sims, M.D. “The objective is to encourage
appreciation of elderly patients among medical
students, which will allow them to provide
comprehensive, compassionate care for older
adults when they reach the practicing world.”
The program will include electives on
death and dying and palliative care.
Pathology Opens High-Tech Facility
The Department of Pathology recently
opened the UAB Pathology Suite, which houses
a conference room, a demonstration room,
staff and resident offices, the morgue, and three
evaluation rooms. The product of an eight-year
effort by the Department of Pathology and
UAB hospital administration, the suite will
serve as an advanced medical and teaching facility.
One of the evaluation rooms is separately
ventilated, pressurized, and equipped with a
decontamination unit for safe evaluations of
cases of suspected contagion or contamination,
and the multimedia-ready conference room will
house an extensive library of past cases.
UAB Center for Low Vision Rehabilitation
Opens
The UAB Center for Low Vision
Rehabilitation has opened in the Callahan
Eye Foundation Hospital. A joint venture
between the Department of Ophthalmology
and the School of Optometry, the center
offers evaluations and rehabilitation training
for low vision patients. Patients receive ophthalmological
and optometric examinations;
then in-house occupational therapists are
available to train patients in the effective use
of vision aids and household appliances and
to conduct home inspections to teach patients
how to make their living environments safer
and more accessible.
Construction Begins
on Biomedical Research Building
On April 29, 2002, UAB broke ground for
the Richard C. and Annette N. Shelby
Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building
(also known as “Biomed I”). The building will
house autoimmunity and immunobiology
research, the Brain Initiative, and biomedical
engineering and bone matrix research.
The Richard C. and Annette N. Shelby
Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building
was funded in part by the State of Alabama,
the City of Birmingham, and Jefferson
County, and it is expected to attract $100
million annually in new research funding. It is
scheduled to be completed in 2004.
Dismukes Steps Down
as Internal Medicine Residency Director
William E. Dismukes, M.D., director of
internal medicine residency training for 22
years, is stepping down. He will remain chief
of the Division of Infectious Diseases and vice
chair of the Department of Medicine.
Gustavo R. Huedebert, M.D., is the new
director of the Internal Medicine Residency
Training Program.
AIDS Researchers Find Missing Link
Scientists at UAB and the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute (HHMI) have discovered a
chimpanzee with simian immunodeficiency
virus (SIVcpz) infection in the wild in Africa.
Working with an international team of scientists,
including acclaimed primatologist
Jane Goodall, investigators identified a
healthy, SIVcpz-infected adult male chimpanzee
in Gombe National Park in Tanzania.
“The finding is of particular importance
because it opens a window into the biology of
SIVcpz in its natural host and environment,”
says Beatrice Hahn, M.D., professor of medicine
and microbiology at UAB and lead
author of the study.
Scientists have long recognized that SIVcpzinfected
captive chimpanzees do not show
signs of clinical illness, unlike humans infected
with the closely related counterpart, HIV-
1. “Finding a naturally infected chimpanzee in
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Gombe will allow us to explore the natural history
and behavior of SIVcpz in its natural host
and, in turn, to begin to unravel how and why
SIVcpz made the jump to humans,” says
Hahn. Details of the study were published in
the January 18 issue of Science.
Pittman Receives Cystic Fibrosis Award
James A. Pittman, Jr., M.D., distinguished
professor of medicine at UAB, has been awarded
the Karlin Henze Memorial Award presented
by the Gregory Fleming James Cystic
Fibrosis (CF) Research Center at UAB. The
award was created in honor of Karlin Henze, a
research assistant at the center until her death
from cystic fibrosis in February 1999.
Eric Sorscher, M.D., professor of medicine
and director of the CF Research Center, says
Pittman has long been a stalwart supporter of
cystic fibrosis research. “In his former role as
dean of the school of medicine at UAB, Dr.
Pittman was instrumental in the creation of
UAB’s CF Research Center, which was the
first of its kind in the country,” says Sorscher.
“He remains a splendid supporter and friend
of the Center and of CF research in general,
through his deep ties with national CF
research leadership.”
Seeking Insight on
Arthritis in African Americans
A study under way at UAB aims to establish
a national registry of African Americans
with early rheumatoid arthritis. UAB will
receive $4.6 million over the next three years
from the National Institutes of Health to
identify and register at least 600 African
Americans with the disease.
“Until now, studies investigating the cause
and development of the disease have not
included a fair representation of African
Americans,” says Larry Moreland, M.D., professor
of medicine in the Division of
Immunology and Rheumatology at UAB.
“The registry will play a vital role in our
understanding of how the disease develops
and progresses in African Americans.”
Researchers suspect that the disease may be
fundamentally different in blacks than in
whites. “We have data to suggest that there are
differences between African Americans with
rheumatoid arthritis and whites with the disease,
but this has not been proven in clinical
trials,” Moreland says. “The registry will provide
a basis for further study.”
Premed Student
Named Goldwater Scholar
UAB junior Ajay Kamireddi of Huntsville
has been selected as a Barry M. Goldwater
Scholar for the academic year 2002-2003. He is
the first UAB student to receive the scholarship.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and
Excellence in Education Program, established
by Congress in 1986, was created to honor
the late U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater of
Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of the program
is to help provide a continuing source of highly
qualified scientists, mathematicians, and
engineers by awarding scholarships to undergraduate
students who intend to pursue
careers in these fields.
Goldwater Scholars are selected on the
basis of academic merit. Recent Goldwater
Scholars have been awarded 44 Rhodes
Scholarships, 39 Marshall Awards, and
numerous other distinguished fellowships.
Kamireddi will receive a $7,500 scholarship.
He is one of 309 students selected from
a field of 1,155 sophomores and juniors nominated
from colleges and universities nationwide.
He is one of five Alabamians awarded
scholarships this year.
Kamireddi is pursuing a dual major in
biology and philosophy, with plans to
become a professor of medicine and a gene
therapy researcher.
Vision Scientist Receives Scholar Award
Shu-Zhen Wang, Ph.D., of the Depart-ment
of Ophthalmology, has received the Dolly
Green Scholar Award from Research to Prevent
Blindness. The $70,000 award supports outstanding
young scientists who are conducting
unusually promising research into the causes,
treatment, and prevention of blinding diseases.
UASOM Alum
Named Top Young Innovator
Stephen Brossette, M.D., Ph.D., was
named one of the world’s 100 Top Young
Innovators by MIT’s Technology Review,
which lists young innovators whose work
has a profound impact on high-technology
industries such as biotechnology, computing,
energy, medicine, nanotechnology, and
transportation.
Brossette is founder and president of
MedMined, Inc., and creator of Data
Mining Surveillance Service, which uses
artificial intelligence and data mining technology
to track patterns of infection and
antibiotic resistance in health-care facilities
and in the community. Several leading hospitals
have contracted with MedMined for
the service, including Northwestern
Memorial Hospital in Chicago and
Children’s Health System in Birmingham.
Developing a New
Weapon against Skin Lesions
UAB scientists are closing in on answers to
whether celecoxib, now in wide use to treat
arthritis pain and inflammation, can “cross
over” to benefit people with a common precancerous
skin condition.
Craig Elmets, M.D., chair of the
Department of Dermatology, heads a national
trial of celecoxib to treat actinic keratosis, a
condition characterized by dry, scaly patches
of skin. Celecoxib already is FDA-approved
for precancerous colon polyps and is being
studied for use in other conditions, including
Barrett’s esophagus and bladder cancer.
“Evidence is piling up to say that specific
parts of the inflammatory process may play a
role in triggering some cancers,” Elmets says.
“Celecoxib is called a ‘COX-2 inhibitor’
because it blocks a specific enzyme called
COX-2 that is induced by inflamed tissue and
produced by pre-cancerous tissues.”
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News Briefs
Cardiologist Receives
International Honors
Navin Nanda, M.D., professor of medicine
and director of UAB’s Heart Station/
Echocardiography Laboratories, was honored
with a Special Millennium Award from the
Association of Physicians of India during its
recent 57th annual meeting in Chennai,
India. The award cited Nanda not only for his
pioneering contributions in the field of cardiology,
but also for having introduced them to
India over the past two decades.
In addition, Nanda recently was honored
with the Government of India’s Lifetime
Achievement Award. India’s Minister of Health
and Family Welfare presented the citation on
February 8 during the inauguration of the
Sixth World Congress of Echocardiography
and Vascular Ultrasound in New Delhi.
Nanda also recently received the Society
of Cardiology’s “Special Award and
Honor,” which recognizes him as an outstanding
and distinguished echocardiography
teacher and pioneer.
Gentle Venting Boosts Premature Lungs
UAB’s gentle ventilator practices for tiny
premature babies have helped establish its
neonatal unit as one of the best in the country,
particularly in terms of its low incidence
of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).
BPD is a chronic lung disease that can occur
in newborn babies when the lungs become
injured. It is especially common among babies
born prematurely with underdeveloped and
immature lungs and is one of the most common
adverse outcomes of prematurity.
Now other top centers in the country will
attempt to mimic UAB’s ventilator and intensive
care practices as part of a three-year study
to reduce the incidence of BPD nationwide. A
total of 17 highly acclaimed neonatal research
centers will participate in the study.
Infants of very low birth weight (3.3 pounds
or less) account for 1 percent of all U.S. births, or
about 40,000 births per year. Waldemar Carlo,
M.D., lead investigator of the UAB portion of
the study and director of the UAB Regional
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (RNICU), says
lung injury occurs in 60 percent of babies who
are born weighing less than about 3.5 pounds.
Low birth weight typically occurs when
babies are born about two months prematurely
or when there are multiple births involved.
He says about 10 percent of all births in the
country are premature births.
Helping Stop the Spread of TB
UAB researchers have created a systematic
method that health professionals can use to help
halt the spread of tuberculosis (TB), according
to a paper published in the February 27 issue of
the Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA). The method identifies individuals
most likely to develop TB infection from contact
with, or exposure to, a contagious person,
allowing health workers to maximize resources
for testing, treating, and controlling TB.
The researchers have named six variables
that identify those most at risk for contracting
TB infection following exposure.
“Local health departments perform what is
called a contact investigation, in an effort to find
all those who might have been in close contact
with an individual diagnosed with TB,” says
William C. Bailey, M.D., director of UAB’s
Lung Health Center and principal investigator of
the study. “For the first time, our research gives
health workers a model to follow so that they can
devote their shrinking financial and staffing
resources to those most likely to be infected.”
Grant Supports Blindness Research
The Department of Ophthalmology at UAB
has received a continuation grant of $110,000
from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) to
support research into the causes, treatment,
and prevention of blinding diseases.
“This continued funding of the UAB
Department of Ophthalmology by Research
to Prevent Blindness underscores the importance
of vision research and the quality of the
work being done here at UAB,” says Lanning
B. Kline, M.D., professor and department
chair. “UAB researchers are making major
strides in improving our understanding of
devastating eye diseases such as macular
degeneration and glaucoma, as well as finding
innovative ways to restore sight to patients
who have lost vision due to severe eye trauma.”
Additional research at UAB supported by
RPB includes studies of amblyopia, retinal
surgery techniques, retinal detachment following
macular surgery, and ocular trauma
caused by pressurized bottles and by paintball
war games. UAB researchers are also studying
the risk factors associated with automobile
crashes involving older drivers.
Study Examines
Genetic Factors in Pain Disorder
A new study under way at UAB seeks to
determine if the sisters of women with
fibromyalgia are at greater risk for developing a
heightened sensitivity to pain and, if so, if one
or more genes are associated with this increased
risk. This is the first study examining sex-related
genetic factors associated with fibromyalgia,
a disorder characterized by chronic muscle pain
and unusually high pain sensitivity.
“There is evidence that many women with
fibromyalgia may have a genetically influenced,
impaired ability to inhibit pain,” says
Laurence Bradley, Ph.D., professor of medicine
in the Division of Clinical Immunology
and Rheumatology at UAB. “There is also
evidence that the disorder occurs more frequently
among sisters compared to brothers
of patients with fibromyalgia. If true, this
points to a sex-related, genetic predisposition
to the development of the disorder.”
UASOM Student
Joins Medical Student JAMA
Fifth-year M.D./Ph.D. student Kayvon
Modjarrad has been appointed associate editor
of Medical Student JAMA (MSJAMA),
the student section of the Journal of the
American Medical Association. Modjarrad is
the first UASOM student to join the MSJA-
MA editorial board.
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Cover Story
In Pursuit of
PRECISION
On the Surgical Frontier, Computers Open New Paths
By Sandra Bearden
J
orge Alonso, M.D., grew up
wanting to go to the moon. He
didn’t become an astronaut,
but he is a pioneer in another way.
As an orthopedic surgeon, he’s
exploring new vistas in CAMI, or
computer-assisted, minimally invasive
surgery—techniques that
promise to make contemporary
surgery safer, less traumatic, and
more successful than it was in the
20th century.
“We’re doing things here (at UAB)
that no one else in the United States
is doing,” says Alonso, a hearty, gregarious
man with a graying Prince
Valiant haircut and a touch of Spain
in his voice. “But the computer technology
we’re using is just a start.
There will be a ripple effect, like
stones thrown in the water.”
NAVIGATING
ORTHOPEDIC WATERS
Alonso first contributed to this
“ripple” effect when he and his team
developed a minimally invasive
orthopedic lab here at UAB. He uses
military terms to describe this early
technique: “We had a camera, like
those used for satellites, and we
could place a little antenna on the
fractured bone or pelvis—like a city
to be bombed. Using a CT (computerized
tomography) scanner, we
would take pictures of the bone, put
them in the computer, and register
the information in the computer so
we could guide the instruments
where we wanted to go. But we had
problems. We weren’t using real
time, so sometimes there was a
change in the reduction of the fracture
between the CT scan and the
patient’s arrival in the operating
room. We needed techniques that
would keep us from ‘bombing’ the
wrong target.”
The result is the SurgiGATE® C-
Arm Navigator—a computer-assisted,
image guided system that surgeons
can operate on a real-time
basis, developed by the Swiss company
Medivision. With the C-Arm’s
virtual fluoroscopy system, surgeons
attach a tracking device to the target
area. Image intensifiers on the C-
Arm then acquire up to five views of
the patient’s anatomy. Images are
automatically downloaded into the
workstation, and the camera is able
to follow the instruments as surgeons
do their work.
UAB is currently the only institution
in the United States that has a
SurgiGATE C-Arm Navigator.
(Alonso says a medical center in
New Jersey will soon add one.)
One barrier to more extensive use is
its cost—about $500,000 for the
entire system. Alonso believes that,
as is the case for most technology,
the price will drop as more and more
hospitals adopt the systems.
Steve Theiss, M.D., Alonso’s
partner, uses both CT-based navigation
equipment and the C-Arm.
“Preoperatively, he gets a look at the
patient through the CT Navigator
and plans the surgery. When he gets
into surgery, he uses the C-Arm
Navigator to register exactly where
he’s going to do the surgery,”
Alonso says. James Stannard, M.D.,
and David Volgas, M.D., also perform
surgery using the two computerized
systems.
Future orthopedic surgery will
employ such technology as robotics,
3-D visualization, new materials
replacing titanium screws, and C-
Arm Navigation in a suitcase,
according to Alonso. Already, C-
Arm aided surgery, with its small
incisions and pinpoint precision, is
offering promise to high-risk
patients. “I used the C-Arm to do
surgery on a 79-year-old man. We
got him walking. Before, he might
never have been able to get out of
bed again,” Alonso says.
There’s a side benefit for surgeons
as well—less x-ray time. Exposure to
high levels of radiation has been an
occupational hazard for orthopedic
surgeons in the past. “My father was
an orthopedic surgeon. He had two
fingers amputated because of cancer
in the fingertips,” Alonso says.
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Steve Theiss, James Stannard, Danny Tunmire, Jr., and Jorge Alonso (from left) solve surgical challenges with new technologies.
SCOPING THE
SURGICAL FIELD
Orthopedics is not the only field
in which CAMI techniques play an
increasingly important role. “Essentially
all specialties are using it,” says
Ronald Clements, M.D., assistant
professor of general surgery, who
directs the recently formed Alabama
Institute for Minimally Invasive
Surgery (AIMS). (See “New Institute
Will Support Training, Research” on
page 9.) “ENT surgeons are doing
endoscopic sinus surgery, plastic surgeons
are performing endoscopic
brow lifts, oncologists are doing
laparoscopic spleens, general surgeons
are doing gallbladders and hernias.”
This trend has gathered momentum
in the past few years, impelled
by the development of smaller, specialized
versions of the endoscope, the
laparoscope, and other devices. The
decrease in the invasiveness of some
surgery enables many patients to leave
hospitals much sooner, with fewer
complications. Most patients return to
work, school, or other normal duties
much more quickly than they would
following traditional surgery.
Clements himself brought the
laparoscopic form of Roux-en-Y
gastric bypass surgery to UAB
about one year ago. Roux-en-Y
surgery can help a dangerously
obese patient lose weight by surgically
creating a very small stomach
pouch and separating it from the
rest of the stomach. The limited
capacity of this mini-stomach
creates a drastic reduction in
hunger—and weight.
In laparoscopic Roux-en-Y surgery,
the laparoscope examines interior
structures of the abdomen and
pelvis, projecting images to the surgeon
via small, high-resolution video
cameras. “Because you’re watching a
monitor, you have to use the same
skills you need for traditional surgery
with a lack of depth perception,”
Clements says. “It’s like driving with
one eye closed. You have to use the
stripes in the middle to guide you;
you develop compensating mechanisms.”
Because the surgery requires
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only small incisions, patients have
fewer complications and recover
faster. Clements has performed
about 150 such operations at UAB.
Selwyn Vickers, M.D., chief of
gastrointestinal surgery, points out
that the use of laparoscopes has been
around for half a century. “But only
in the past 20 years has the laparoscope
become a means of therapy,”
he says. “The basic rule for minimally
invasive surgery is that if the incision
is a major part of the morbidity
of a procedure, you can improve
things by getting rid of the incision
and proceeding with what you need
to do on the inside.
“For example, the morbidity from
gallbladder surgery was never in
removing the gallbladder from the
liver. The pain resulted from the big
cut patients received in the process
of removal. So in this area, laparoscopic
surgery is the norm. I would
say surgeons now remove 85 or 90
percent of gallbladders this way.
Laparoscopic procedures give
patients opportunities to return to
normal levels of function faster.”
Vickers foresees using 5-mm
laparoscopes, harmonic scalpels, and
perhaps UAB’s robotic da Vinci
Surgical System in future surgery for
diseases such as acute pancreatitis
and pancreatic cancer. “I think that
at some point, more than 50 percent
of surgeries performed in the
abdomen will be done in a minimally
invasive way,” he says.
ROBOTIC HANDS
FOR THE HEART
Although Vickers and other GI
surgeons at UAB haven’t yet used the
da Vinci system, several heart surgeons
have. In using the system, a
surgeon sits at a console, viewing a
3-D image of the patient’s body and
operating a lever to control three
robotic arms. One arm is an endoscope,
which relays high-resolution
images. The other two instrument
arms mimic the dexterity of the
human wrist. According to the manufacturer,
Intuitive Surgical, Inc., the
full range of instruments attached to
the arms performs such functions as
clamping, suturing, and tissue
manipulation. The arms are inserted
through small holes in the chest wall,
making large incisions unnecessary.
“The da Vinci system is intuitive in
that your hand movements directly
translate into appropriate movements
of the instrument arms. It’s different
from laparoscopy, where when you
move to the left, your instrument
goes to the right,” says David
McGiffin, M.D., professor of cardiovascular
and thoracic surgery.
McGiffin and colleagues James
Kirklin, M.D., and Albert Pacifico,
M.D., thus far have used the da Vinci
system only for take-downs of the left
internal mammary artery. However,
McGiffin says that a few medical centers
are now using it for endoscopic
valve surgery as well as correction of
some congenital heart defects.
“In addition to smaller incisions,
the other minimally invasive direction
in cardiac surgery is avoiding use of the
heart-lung machine,” McGiffin adds.
“We do a lot of coronary surgery today
without the heart-lung machine, using
special stabilizing instruments to hold
the coronary artery still while we join
the grafts on.”
MAPPING OUT
BRAIN SURGERY
While minimally invasive heart
surgery is still comparatively new,
Barton Guthrie, M.D., associate
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professor of neurological surgery,
says that neurosurgery is probably
the most mature field for CAMI
techniques. “We’ve been doing minimally
invasive neurosurgery for more
than a decade,” Guthrie says. “I was
involved in developing what is called
a computer-assisted cranio-navigation
system when I was at the Mayo Clinic
back in the late 1980s. We brought it
Minimal invasion: New technology makes surgery safer and more effective in a wide range of fields.
here and got it FDA-approved.”
The technology, marketed by
Radionics, a subsidiary of Tyco
Health Care, is used at Children’s
Hospital. UAB neurosurgeons use
similar technology—the Stealth-
Station ® Treatment Guidance
System by Medtronics.
Guthrie explains that CT scans or
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
images are loaded into a computer,
which “reconstructs” the patient. “In
the operating room we have a little
robotic light-sensing device, and its
position in space can be detected by
cameras around the room,” Guthrie
says. “We touch a number of spots
on the patient’s head and locate these
same spots on the images in the
computer. The computer’s registers
put the two together. With this data,
we can plan the surgery on the computer
before we actually operate.
Once we have the plan, then we use
the little device to map out the surgery
and duplicate the planned surgery
on the patient.”
Guthrie says he has submitted an
application for government funding
of a five-year project involving the
use of robotics in minimally invasive
neurosurgery. Among the areas
the project would explore is how
new technology can help UAB specialists
provide remote assistance to
physicians outside the Birmingham
area. “Minimally invasive surgery i
s a growing field. It’s really exploding,”
he says.
EXTRA HELP FOR ENT
ENT is another area in which this
approach to surgery is expanding.
Michael Sillers, M.D., associate professor
of otolaryngology, performs
endoscopic transnasal surgery for
Going to work with the C-Arm Navigator. This monitor shows views
of a pelvic fracture. The green line represents the drill; the dotted
yellow line is the path the drill is to take; and the yellow and green
circles (lower right) are the target—when they line up, the drill locks
on and is ready to proceed.

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chronic sinusitis, tumors, and spinal fluid leaks. Sillers began
using computer-based surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis in 1996.
Since then, computer-assisted techniques have expanded to
other areas, including surgery for skull-based tumors.
In an article written for the winter 2002 issue of UAB Insight,
Sillers explains that the complex anatomy of the anterior skull base
makes tumors difficult to remove. A computerized surgical navigation
system helps correlate images seen endoscopically with preoperative
CT scans. With improved technical precision, the surgeon can remove
tumors more completely and treat larger skull tumors.
“Although this hasn’t been proven statistically, I believe computer-assisted
surgery has increased safety by reinforcing surgical
landmarks and reduced overall complications for patients. It’s
also increased the surgeon’s ability to do a complete job of tumor
removal, or removal of disease in chronic sinusitis or nasal
polyps,” Sillers says. “More applications in nasal, skull base, and
ear surgery lie ahead.”
PLASTIC SURGERY ON THE NONCUTTING EDGE
Jorge de la Torre, M.D., gives credit to plastic surgery department
director Luiz Vasconez, M.D., for initiating endoscopic
approaches to plastic surgery at UAB.
“Plastic surgery was one of the last specialties to take advantage
of these techniques because of where in the body we work,”
says de la Torre, assistant professor of plastic surgery. “Surgeons
working in the abdomen have a nice cavity where they can look
in and see what they’re doing. We had to customize endoscopic
needs for plastic surgery, developing some ancillary equipment
to dilate and suspend tissue so we can create a cavity in which we
can see and work.”
De la Torre says he is now using endoscopes for a variety of
procedures, including forehead lifts and breast augmentations.
He also uses endoscopic techniques to harvest tissue in the
abdomen for reconstructive surgery.
“The use of the endoscope not only allows us to make smaller
incisions, but it also enables us to magnify the structures we’re
looking at. In many cases, we can visualize these structures better
than we could with a large incision,” de la Torre says.
“There’s more precise control, and less bruising and swelling
afterward. With endoscopic surgery, we also avoid some undesirable
side effects of large incisions, such as scar location and
impact on hair growth.”
De la Torre believes the trend will accelerate. He and other surgeons
using CAMI techniques are excited about the potential of
the new AIMS center for training residents and practicing surgeons,
and for developing new equipment and techniques.
As orthopedic surgeon Jorge Alonso says, “This approach to
surgery is like surfing. You have to get in the wave early to stay on
top. We got in the wave very early. And we can stay on top.”
New Institute Will Support Training, Research
Although numerous UAB surgeons
have used computer-assisted, minimally
invasive techniques and equipment
for several years, they’ve done
so independently or within surgical
departments. The newly established
Alabama Institute for Minimally
Invasive Surgery (AIMS) will soon
change that situation. AIMS has two
major goals: to provide training
opportunities spanning every specialty
in surgery, and to support research
and innovation in new areas of minimally
invasive surgery.
“This is a comprehensive effort,
spurred on by the vision of Dr. Kirby
Bland, chair of the Department of
Surgery,” says Ronald Clements,
M.D., AIMS director. “Our first objective
is to have a comprehensive training
program for the surgical residents,
so when they leave here, they can
perform minimally invasive surgery
safely and effectively. Another goal is
to conduct continuing education programs
for practicing surgeons who
haven’t received training in current
procedures.”
In addition to clinical training,
AIMS will have a conference facility
and telecommunications center in
Volker Hall. “The telecommunications
center will connect University
Hospital, the Kirklin Clinic, Children’s
Hospital, and sites anywhere else in
the world,” Clements says. “For
instance, if I’m conducting a teaching
conference on laparoscopic gastric
bypass surgery, surgeons in the
conference room can see the live
operation, and we can talk back and
forth as the surgery is performed.”
Clements is one of three surgeons
in the Department of Surgery
who have received postresidency
training in laparoscopic surgery.
The others are Gregg Shore, M.D.,
and Mary Hawn, M.D. Hawn, assistant
professor of surgery, is AIMS
codirector for training.
“The residents will have simulation
training initially,” Hawn says.
“They’ll practice suturing in a box
where they’ll use a reflective mirror
that re-creates the two dimensional
feeling you have when doing
laparoscopy. You’re doing a threedimensional
operation with a twodimensional
image, so you must
work on other ways to determine
depth perception and tissue
strength. We’re also looking at
using a virtual reality trainer. But
these are still in the early stages of
development, and it will mostly be a
research tool to see if we can correlate
performance on the trainer
with resident performance.”
Clements has recruited AIMS
representatives from every surgical
specialty. One team member,
Sharmila Makhija, M.D., assistant
professor of gynecologic oncology,
says that while laparoscopy has
been a longtime practice in removal
of ovaries, it’s still a new technique
for surgical staging, which requires
sampling lymph nodes. “Minimally
invasive surgery is pretty new to our
field, but we look forward to being
part of the team,” she says.
Clements and Hawn envision
AIMS as a launching pad, both
for basic research that applies to
clinical situations, and for testing
new techniques and equipment.
“Manufacturers want surgeons to
try out new software and equipment,”
Clements says. “We expect
to be part of that research effort.”
The objective of AIMS will be to
expand surgical skills—not alter them.
“If our technology fails, you have to
have a backup or convert to the traditional
open operation,” Clements
says. “You have to have a safety net.”
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CELEBRATING THE CCC
Cancer Center Marks 30 Years By Ella Robinson
In 1971, cancer was a word many people would not say aloud, recalls
Albert F. LoBuglio, director of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
(CCC) and the Evalina B. Spencer Professor of Oncology. But that was the
year the University of Alabama at Birmingham received its first grant to
launch a major cancer program, paving the way for the UAB Cancer Center
to become one of the first comprehensive cancer centers in the country.
Now, 30 years later, monoclonal antibodies, human genomics, cancer
prevention, and computer-assisted diagnostic tools are a part of
everyday life for many doctors and patients at the
UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
LoBuglio recalls that the people of Alabama
became poignantly aware of the need for cancer
care in the late 1960s, when Governor Lurleen
Wallace had to travel out of state for treatment.
“After her death, schoolchildren collected
nickels in memory of their beloved governor,”
he said. Eventually, Alabamians, adults
and children, contributed $5 million to the
construction of the Wallace Tumor Institute—
the heart of the CCC.
“With support from the National Cancer Institute,
UAB leaders laid the groundwork for a cancer center that
would become an international leader. Over the years, we’ve
recruited some of the best cancer scientists from around the world,” says
LoBuglio. The center is one of the few in the country that addresses both
research and patient care.
The CCC has figured prominently in the development of many diagnostic
tools and novel treatments. Additionally, it has developed community
outreach programs, educating the community and assisting local
physicians in developing treatment plans.
During the 1980s, the center launched a telephone information service
to provide referrals and counseling for both patients and health-care
professionals. A research facility for biohazardous experiments was constructed,
and new programs in nutrition, molecular genetics, and pharmacology
were started. In 1986 UAB was named the third best medical
facility in the United States by The Best in Medicine, which emphasized
the quality of UAB’s cancer diagnosis and treatment programs.
Progress continued in the 1990s, which saw the opening of a nine-bed
bone marrow transplant unit, the construction a three-story addition to the
Lurleen Wallace Tumor Institute, and a cervical cancer research laboratory.
LoBuglio points out that the faculty and staff, many of whom have been
with the center from its beginning, are an amazingly committed group of
individuals. “Their work has paid off,” he says.
Support for the CCC from both private and
public funds has been outstanding. In 1999 and
2000, the center was awarded multimillion-dollar
Specialized Program of Research Excellence
(SPORE) grants to study ovarian cancer
and breast cancer, becoming the only
institution in the nation with both of these
women’s cancer grants. “In the coming years,
we will aggressively seek to obtain more of
these multimillion-dollar grants,” says
LoBuglio. The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade has
also provided substantial funding.
In the fall of 2001, UAB opened the Hugh Kaul
Human Genetics Building, which houses several CCC
research groups. In January 2002, the I-459 Cancer Center
Physicians Clinic, an outpatient facility convenient for patients in
suburbs south of Birmingham, opened. The center continues to
expand with several construction projects under way, including an
administrative office building called North Tower, scheduled for completion
in 2004.
“Hopefully, 30 years from now, we’ll look back and consider cancer to
be an interesting historical problem that has largely been eradicated,” says
LoBuglio. Looking at the center’s remarkable progress during these past 30
years, it’s easy to understand his optimism. Meanwhile, the CCC will continue
to provide groundbreaking research and compassionate patient care.
THE GIFT OF
KNOWLEDGE
Students Honor Donors
and Their Families
By Tara Hulen
Those benevolent souls who will their bodies
to scientific study are the first patients that medical
students encounter and provide the students
with their first lessons in medicine. To show their
appreciation and respect, first-year medical students
at the School of Medicine memorialize the
donors each year in a service attended by students,
faculty, and families of the donors. The
service, which has been held for the past four
years, took place in February.
“This is a way for students to express their
appreciation to donors and their families, and
it also gives the families a chance for closure,”
says Michael Casey, Ph.D., associate professor
of anatomy and director of the Anatomical
Donor Program.
Students study the donors’ bodies in their firstyear
gross anatomy class. “The anatomy class
accomplishes so many things,” Casey says. “It is
not all about memorizing muscles and bones.
Many medical students have never seen a dead
body before then, and they go through a lot of
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emotional reactions.” As they work intensively
with the donor bodies, Casey says, students begin
to view them as patients, as people whom they can
identify with and care about.
The Total Willed Body Donor program
receives about 100 bodies a year for study at the
medical school. Some donors have ties to the
medical community or UAB, such as a man
from Texas who was so appreciative of the care
he received here that he willed his body to the
school. One woman who attended the service
has had three family members will their bodies
to the medical school.
Families who may have had reservations
about the choice their loved ones made often

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LOUIS’S LETTERS
ON DISPLAY:
Pasteur’s Search for an Anthrax Vaccine
By Roger Shuler
Michael Flannery finds it difficult to overstate Louis Pasteur’s contributions
to modern medicine. “Pasteur developed the germ theory of medicine,
which led to our modern understanding of infectious diseases,” says
Flannery, associate director for historical collections at UAB. “He was a
chemist, not a physician, and he was very adept at methodology. Through
his investigations in fermentation, he developed the pasteurization process
in milk. And he later engaged in studies of anthrax and swine fever.”
When last fall’s terrorist attacks included anthrax-tainted mail, the
world received another reminder of Pasteur’s contributions to science.
Now, 17 letters on display at UAB’s Reynolds Historical Library provide
insight into Pasteur’s efforts to develop the vaccine for anthrax.
The letters are part of a lengthy correspondence between Pasteur, credited
with developing the first vaccine for anthrax, and his disciple Louis
Thuillier. The microbe responsible for the disease had been isolated in
1876; Pasteur announced the first successful anthrax vaccinations in
experimental animals in 1881, and he dispatched Thuillier to Germany
and Austria-Hungary for the next two years to further the research effort.
Meanwhile, anthrax was decimating livestock herds throughout Europe.
“Anthrax is most common in animals, and Pasteur’s first experiments
began with silkworms,” Flannery says. “Silkworms were a major French
industry at the time, and it was threatened by anthrax infections. Pasteur
used the microscope and his experience with fermentation to establish procedures
for dealing with these infections. Later he worked with cholera and
rabies. He opened a new window into the workings of infectious diseases.”
The Pasteur-Thuillier letters were in the collection of Lawrence
Reynolds, M.D., an Alabama native who donated his extensive library of
rare medical writings to the University of Alabama School of Medicine in
1958. In addition, the library holds a copy of Correspondence of Pasteur
and Thuillier, Concerning Anthrax and Swine Fever Vaccinations, published
in 1968 by the University of Alabama Press.
In the time period covered by the letters, Thuillier conducted a series
of vaccinations against anthrax in sheep and cattle in Germany and
Austria-Hungary. It is believed that Pasteur intended to conduct the vaccinations
himself but was constrained by other responsibilities. He relied
on Thuillier as a surrogate, prompting a steady stream of letters that
detailed the successes, failures, and obstacles encountered in the project.
“The letters are clearly a correspondence between a senior scientist and
a younger, developing colleague,” Flannery says. “Thuillier is at a distance,
and he’s asking for advice. Pasteur often says, ‘If this doesn’t work, try this.’
The letters are professional exchanges between a mentor and a protégé.”
Pasteur’s discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs is
one of the most important in medical history. His work, supported by
the later studies of German Robert Koch, became the foundation for the
science of microbiology and a cornerstone of modern medicine.
“The general notions of disease were very unclear until Pasteur, along
with Koch, began to flesh them out,” Flannery says. “It was believed that
diseases were carried by strange vapors or bad air. In fact, the term malaria
means, literally, ‘bad air.’ Scientists, at the time, did not know that many
of these diseases were actually caused by germs. When these microorganisms
became known, it was thought that they grew from spontaneous generation.
Pasteur’s work demolished that notion and went on to show that
specific microorganisms were responsible for specific diseases.”
David Green and Manisha Sharma (president,
class of 2005) join classmates in recognizing
the generosity of donors and their families.
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change their minds after attending the memorial
service. “When they hear the heartfelt
comments of the students, it drives home how
vital these donors are for medical students’
education,” says Casey.
Heinz Dueffer, a first-year student who
helped organize this year’s service, says that families
are comforted by the respect the students
express for their loved ones. “The approach is,
these are our first patients, and we need to take
very good care of them,” he says. “The family
members are thankful and impressed with how
grateful we are for what their loved ones did.”
Several members of the Class of 2005 are
musicians, so this year’s service included performances
by a pianist, a singer, and a cello
player in the class. Students lit a candle for each
of the donors as their names were read. Some
students read tributes to the donors.
“Knowledge of the human body is essential
in the undertaking of our lives as physicians,”
said Dave Williams. “However, the other gift
they gave to us—the example of unselfish giving
to our fellow mankind—may be even
more important, both in our future practices
and in our everyday lives.”
Another student, Suman Annambhotla,
said, “All my life I have been taught the idea of
selfless love and giving, but there is no gift
more selfless than this.”

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Reaching Rural Populations
An Innovative Program Sends Forth Its First Graduates
By Cheryl Sloan Wray
rural and medical constituency groups, the
CCHS adopted a plan to generate more interest
in rural medicine among students. “We created
the Rural Health Scholars Program to
interest rural high-school students in medical
careers, and the Rural Medical Scholars
Program to help them gain admission to medical
school,” Jackson says. The RMSP was officially
established in 1996.
The RMSP is directed by John Wheat,
M.D., professor of community medicine and
internal medicine, and is open to college seniors
and graduate students who plan to go to
medical school and practice in rural areas.
According to Wheat, only 10 students are chosen
each year to participate in the program,
making it highly selective. Admission to the
program is based on high academic achievement,
character, and leadership qualities.
Wheat says that the program actually
involves three different stages of education. For
precollege students, the Rural Health Scholars
Program conducts outreach activities at high
schools—offering summer coursework good
for college credit—as well as community-wide
events to inform students about the program.
The next stage takes place at the college level.
The third stage takes place during medical
school, as students participate in rural, family,
and community medicine clinical electives.
According to Wheat, the program will eventually
include options and support for graduates
at the residency and fellowship levels.
A FLEDGLING
CLASS IS READY TO FLY
The program’s first class graduated in May 2001
and included Angela Clifton, Anne Davis, Kevin
“Medical care can affect every facet of life in
a rural community. Local medical care is key to
the overall health of a community because people
often have no access to transportation.”
—Drake Lavender, M.D.
Drake Lavender was in the first graduating
class of the RMSP.
Growing up in the rural community of
Eutaw, Alabama, Drake Lavender held one
professional person in particularly high
regard—his family doctor. That doctor,
Rucker Staggers, provided much-needed care
to the underserved rural area and, in turn,
became a great inspiration to Lavender. “Dr.
Staggers treated my asthma and gave me my
weekly allergy shots,” Lavender remembers.
“He was and is my inspiration to do rural
family medicine.”
Lavender is just one of eight students in the
first graduating class of the Rural Medical
Scholars Program (RMSP). Operated in conjunction
with the University of Alabama’s College of
Community Health Sciences (CCHS), the program
is designed to educate and encourage students
who want to return to rural areas and provide
care for the underserved.
According to Lavender, the program has
helped make his dream of practicing rural
medicine come true.
THE RMSP TAKES ROOT
According to Linda Jackson, Rural Programs
Communications Specialist for the RMSP, the
program originated in the Alabama Legislature’s
Rural Health Task Force Report of 1989, which
motivated the CCHS to make a full review of
its rural health programs. Working with various
Accepted students are enrolled at the
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in the year
prior to entry into medical school. They take a
course each semester related to rural health or
the practice of primary care in rural areas; students
also participate in special seminars, community
service projects, and field trips.
Summer courses are available to each student,
including day-to-day work in a physician’s
office, “shadowing” a doctor to learn what his
or her practice is really like. Peer support
groups and mentoring are important parts of
the program. These courses count toward the
bachelor’s degree for undergraduates; graduate
students in the program earn a master’s degree in
rural health before entering medical school.
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Ellis, Tom Holt, Drake Lavender, Stephanie
Morgan, Elizabeth Smith, and Paul Tabereaux.
Stephanie Morgan says that her experiences
in the Rural Medical Scholars
Program were invaluable. A native of tiny
Cedar Bluff, Alabama (population 2,000),
Morgan knew at a young age that she wanted
to enter the medical field; she didn’t
know, though, that her interest would
evolve into primary care in rural areas. After
receiving information about the program
and talking with Wheat, her interest soon
turned to rural medicine. “Everything
seemed to just fall into place,” she remembers.
“I now plan on going back home to
work at our county hospital.”

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According to Morgan, one of the greatest
benefits of the program is its support system.
She says that many students from rural areas
feel out of place in the large university environment.
They wonder if others will know what it
feels like to be from a small town. “I developed
a great group of colleagues and friends in the
program,” she says. “I found other people with
similar backgrounds and interests.” Also vital
were the mentoring relationships developed in
the program. “It really helps to have mentors
who are in primary care and who work especially
in rural areas,” she says.
QUALITY CARE
AND COMMUNITY PRIDE
The need for quality medical care in rural
areas is as vital now as when the program was
first conceived, says Linda Jackson. “Rural
health needs in Alabama have grown to crisis
proportions while rural education, economics,
and social conditions have been depressed.”
Thanks to the RMSP, many rural areas now
have qualified medical practitioners with a
true love of rural communities. “The communities
where our graduates live and practice
feel blessed by their presence,” she adds.
Graduate Drake Lavender believes the program
will have a lasting impact on medical care
throughout the state of Alabama. Having
grown up in a small community, he knows
from personal experience the importance of
rural practitioners. “Medical care can affect
every facet of life in a rural community,” he
says. “Local medical care is key to the overall
health of a community, because people often
have no access to transportation. Economically,
a doctor in town can mean a great influx of
money and jobs into the community, both
directly—through doctor’s offices, pharmacies,
and hospitals—and indirectly, through companies
that will only enter the area if adequate
medical care is available. Socially, some studies
have shown that having adequate medical care
increases the residents’ pride in a community.”
Taking their knowledge to rural areas, graduates
of the program will help to create a
much-needed service and build a new sense of
community pride. That, says everyone
involved, is at the heart of the Rural Medical
Scholars Program.
A Handful
of Memories
George Hand’s
Retirement: A
Reason to Reminisce
By Roger Shuler
At a skit night a few years ago,
UASOM students created a character
called “Minutia George.” They even
wrote a song about him. Out in the audience,
George S. Hand, Jr., Ph.D., knew
immediately whom the students were
referring to, and he could not help but
join in the laughter.
After all, the skit was a sign that Hand
had done his job well. For most of his
career at the UASOM, Hand taught the first-year course in medical histology. “It’s the
study of the human body at the microscopic level,” he says. “Medical students have to
learn the normal microstructure of the body before they can understand pathology.
Medical histology complements the gross anatomy course: In gross anatomy, you dissect
with the hands; in medical histology, you dissect with the eyes.” Hand has taught every
student at the UASOM since 1974.
Hand grew up in Perryville, Missouri, but he looks back fondly on his career
in Birmingham. “I’ve gone to national meetings and had people poke fun at my
now-Southern accent,” he says. “But when people look at your name badge and
see ‘University of Alabama School of Medicine,’ you get instant respect. No one
pokes fun at that.”
Hand retired last September, after 32 years at the UASOM. He helped form the
UASOM Committee on Admissions in 1979, and he served as associate director of
admissions in from 1985 to 1988, director of admissions from 1988 to 1996, and assistant
dean from 1996 until his retirement in 2001. He continues to serve as an admissions
consultant, and he still teaches a medical cell and tissue biology course.
“It’s a joy to work with medical students,” Hand says. “I’ve worked with some of the
finest and brightest young men and women in the country, and it’s a joy to be an instrument
in their learning.”
The George Hand Scholarship Fund
To honor the contributions of George S. Hand, Jr., Ph.D., alumni of UASOM
and friends and colleagues have have created an endowed scholarship to
encourage and assist medical students from rural, underrepresented areas.
The scholarship will award about $500 to one student per year, to be applied
to the student’s tuition and fees. The first scholarship is expected to be
offered in 2002. To contribute to the fund, or for more information, contact
John Lankford at (205) 975-7341.
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Physicians’ Forum By
Roger Shuler
The regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) affect virtually
every aspect of the health-care industry, from billing and accounting practices to research. Every
provider is required to comply with rules concerning privacy and security to protect the confidentiality
of patient information. Among other regulations, HIPAA provides guidelines for the use of computers
and PDAs, mandates the adoption of standardized file formats and electronic data interchange
(EDI) code sets, and defines which information can be shared for marketing purposes.
Failure to implement these requirements can lead to penalties including civil fines, criminal fines
and penalties, and government investigation.
How will HIPAA regulations affect practicing physicians? The Alabama
Medical Alumni Bulletin asked two UASOM alums. Noble Anderson, M.D.
(1989), is an otolaryngologist in private practice in Montgomery,
Alabama. Eric Neilson, M.D. (1975), is Morgan professor of medicine
and chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University.
MAB: Will it take a substantial amount of time and/or resources for you, your practice, or
your institution to comply with HIPAA?
Noble Anderson, M.D.
Anderson: I do think that it will take a substantial amount of time and resources in my practice to
comply with the regulations. Like any new federal regulation, it will place stress on the office personnel,
requiring more documentation and work than is already done. It will require an appointment of a
compliance officer—or “information security officer”—to oversee the necessary documentation. Also,
there apparently will be standardized electronic claims regulations; these may, in theory, increase efficiency,
but I am concerned that most practices will not be able to invest a lot of money in the required
computer hardware or software. We all are continuing to see decreasing reimbursement and increasing
practice costs.
Neilson: There are many good things about HIPAA that are intended to enhance health-care privacy
in an electronic age where so much can be easily misused. Academic medical centers are an important
environment to provide leadership in this effort. But it is, of course, additional work, and nobody
likes to bear the costs of unfunded congressional mandates. It will be virtually impossible for small practices
to comply with HIPAA (to assign a compliance officer, implement new technology, change their
procedures, and so on) unless they can join or form consortia to handle these issues. Either way, it is a
new expense.
Eric Neilson, M.D.
MAB: Will complying with this law change the way you practice your specialty?
Anderson: It will be a burden for practices to assign a compliance officer and change procedures, and
the technological requirements will be an additional expense, especially for smaller businesses. I think
it will, in effect, change the way my practice is run. But I do not believe it will change the way I practice
medicine.
Neilson: The first regulations from HIPAA focus on those who are entitled to have access to patient
information (doctors, payers, and health-care organizations) and how they will communicate electronical-
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ly. These regulations will, for example, force
everyone to use the same format when transmitting
patient claims information. This is a very
positive step, but it will require billing offices,
vendors, and payers to change a lot of computer
code. Physicians and hospitals that are not
computer savvy will be in trouble. Also, this
means that most billing codes will be standardized
to a common table. In the beginning, there
are likely to be many claim denials and growth
in accounts receivable. All of these changes will
have to be paid for by organizations that are
already experiencing shrinking margins.
Later HIPAA regulations will focus on security
and privacy. These, too, will make some significant
changes in how information is shared. I
am optimistic that these changes will serve some
good. After all, the electronic era we are now in
makes it too easy to inadvertently cross the lines
of privacy. Most of the public have no idea who
can see medical information, and I think they
would be shocked at what can be found out,
retrieved, and stored forever. Some new rules
and public dialogue are in order.
MAB: Do you think it’s time for legislation
such as this to be passed, or do you see it
as too much government intervention?
Neilson: Global privacy control is a good
issue for government to tackle. The devil, of
course, is in the details.
MAB: Do you think the patient-privacy
portion of HIPAA will hinder treatment
by making it difficult for health professionals
to access records and to communicate
openly with colleagues?
“I think the overall intentions are good, but . . . this
will add more bureaucracy to an already strained
health-care system and result in further intrusion into
how we run our practices.”
—Noble Anderson, M.D.
Neilson: The rules as currently written will
hamper direct communication related to acute
patient care. Either patients will have to sign
waivers, or the rules will have to be relaxed to
accomodate certain kinds of patient care transactions.
It won’t be too difficult for big organizations
to adapt once the rules are known—it
is easy to code data for privacy if you want to—
but the process will be a killer for the single or
small-group practitioner.
Anderson: At the present time, I do not
think that the planned regulations will change
the way we communicate with other physicians
regarding care of the patient. It seems
that there have been some revisions planned
that should allow reasonable communication
with other physicians. Apparently, you will
not be in violation if you use the patients’
information with their prior consent—a
Form 506—and if it deals with payment,
treatment, or business operations of the practice.
I do not think that it will interfere with
the medical care of patients.
MAB: How will physicians be affected by
the requirements that they ensure that
contractors (and their subcontractors) sign
confidentiality clauses in their contracts?
Anderson: Physicians will have to use additional
safeguards and contracts with their business
contractors to ensure their patients’ privacy;
for example, with non-employee transcriptionists,
janitorial services, etc. There are
apparently some standard contracts that we can
use as guidelines for these issues.
Nielson: This doesn’t bother me. I think signing
confidentiality clauses is a good idea.
Physicians, however, cannot ensure that contractors
abide by HIPAA—they’re not a police force.
MAB: What portions of HIPAA do you
see as being positive? What, if anything,
do you think will prove problematic?
Anderson: I see little positive in the details of
HIPAA. I think the overall intentions are good,
but, as with many government initiatives
regarding health care, this will add more
bureaucracy to an already strained health-care
system and result in further intrusion into how
we run our practices.
“Most of the public have no idea who can see
medical information, and I think they would be
shocked at what can be found out, retrieved, and
stored forever.”
—Eric Nielson, M.D.
Neilson: Ironically, all health-care practitioners
want their own records to be very private,
and increased privacy is the upside of HIPAA’s
regulations. Of course, HIPAA is a bona fide
distraction from the normal work product of
health-care academics—that of producing new
knowledge. But by forcing us, for a time, to
focus on how we will safely transmit and store
this knowledge, the new regulations will help
the medical profession preserve its social contract
with society. This is good.
We need to guard against being too angry
about this sea change. I see this already in colleagues
who talk about devising systems that
are so private that those who really need information
will have to work too hard to get it. We
have angry people talking about putting elaborate
paper shredders on garbage cans in patient
rooms and hospital hallways, or preventing
nurses and doctors from talking on phones at
nurses’ stations because a third-party health
professional might be within earshot.
If maturity and thoughtfulness prevail, we
will be fine.
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Alumni Profile
T. Riley Lumpkin, M.D. Defining the Field in Family Practice
By Roger Shuler
M
any students might find
it hard to imagine the
setting of T. Riley Lumpkin’s
first exposure to medicine.
Lumpkin, 76, grew up in
Tuskegee, Alabama, during the
Great Depression. At age 12,
he got an up-close look at the
work of Tom Lamar, the town
doctor. “He made rounds in a
buggy, at a time when house
calls were very common,”
Lumpkin says. “He would take
some of the kids with him, and
I was fortunate to ride with
him at times.
“Dr. Lamar saw everything—high
blood pressure,
patients with cuts and injuries
from working in the fields, all
of the regular things you see as
a physician.”
Lumpkin went on to become
a physician himself, graduating
from the Medical College of
Alabama in 1958. He worked
in private practices in Tuskegee
and Enterprise before moving
to Tuscaloosa in 1974 to join
the faculty at the UASOM’s
College of Community Health
Sciences. He retired in 1991
and now serves as president of
the University of Alabama
School of Medicine Alumni
Association.
Some of the lessons taught
by Lamar remained with
Lumpkin through the years. “I
guess the biggest thing I
learned from him—the thing I
tried to follow in my practice—is
that you have to have
medicine with you,” Lumpkin
says. “In those days, transportation
was slow—the town
streets weren’t even paved—so
he carried medicine with him.”
Lumpkin completed his
undergraduate work at the
University of Alabama in
Tuscaloosa and set his sights
on medical school. But at first,
his plans didn’t work out. “I’d
always wanted to be a physician,
but I had a great time
when I first got to the university,”
he says. “I enjoyed my
first year or two without
studying too much.” His first
application to the College of
Medicine was rejected, and he
trained as a nurse in the U.S.
Army and then sold surgical
equipment, traveling through
several states. “A guy I met in
Maryland told me, ‘You
should go to medical school,’ ”
Lumpkin recalls. “So I applied
again and got in the second
time. And I wound up making
pretty good grades.”
Family practice proved to be
a natural focus for Lumpkin’s
career. “I just wanted to take
care of people, and that’s what
you do in family medicine,” he
says. “At the time, it was called
general practice, and I think
many people thought you
went into that because you
weren’t smart enough to go
into a specialty. But over the
years, the American Academy
of Family Physicians has developed
into a national organization,
and the medical profession
began to recognize the
value of family practice.”
William Willard, M.D.,
founder of the College of
Community Health Sciences,
recognized Lumpkin’s own
contribution to the field of
family medicine and recruited
“I just wanted to take care of people,
and that’s what you do in family
medicine.”
him to Tuscaloosa in 1974. “I
didn’t know anything about
the academic part of it, and I
told Dr. Willard I really was
not a good teacher. But he said
he needed physicians to be role
models for family practice, and
he recruited several of us to get
the program started.”
Family practice changed
dramatically during Lumpkin’s
career. “When I first went into
it, you spent one year as an
intern to become a general
practitioner. Now you have a
three-year residency for family
practice, and the training has
improved greatly. I think that
has helped family practice
grow to become a very respected
specialty within medicine.”
Since those early horse-andbuggy
days riding with Dr.
Lamar, Lumpkin has become a
very respected part of this specialty
himself.
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Faculty Profile
Conway Huang, M.D.
Counseling Patients to Come In from the Sun
By Ella Robinson
A
sunny day and an open tennis court
were primary concerns for Conway
Huang, M.D., when he was growing up in
Mobile, Alabama. “I have played tennis since I
was 11 years old,” says Huang, assistant professor
and director of dermatologic and cutaneous
laser surgery at UAB and team dermatologist
for UAB athletics. “I played in high
school and college, and I still like to play
whenever possible.”
However, Huang now has a different view of
sunny days. “Because of my knowledge of dermatology,
I am much more likely to protect myself
from the sun with sunscreen and protective clothing
than when I was younger,” he says.
After receiving his M.D. degree from the
University of Missouri in 1992, Huang served
an internship at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital. He went on to Henry Ford Hospital
in Detroit, where he completed his residency
in dermatology in 1996. Before coming to
UAB, Huang completed a fellowship in Mohs
micrographic surgery at the University of Iowa,
where he also served as staff dermatologist at Van
Buren County Hospital, the University of Iowa
Hospital and Clinics’ Clinical Outreach
Department, and the Veterans Administration
Medical Centers in Iowa City, Des Moines,
and Knoxville, Iowa. He also served as a volunteer
dermatologist at the Iowa City Free
Medical Clinic.
When it came time to choose a specialty,
Huang knew that he wanted to do some type of
surgery. “As a medical student doing a dermatology
rotation, I encountered Mohs surgery and
knew that was what I was going to do. In Mohs
surgery, a single physician acts as the dermatologist,
anesthesiologist, surgical oncologist, dermatopathologist,
and reconstructive surgeon,” he
says. “This integrated care concept was very
attractive to me. I knew that it had to work
because it made such good sense and because
published, five-year cure rates for nonmelanoma
skin cancer treated by Mohs surgery are the highest
for any available treatment.”
Although people have become increasingly
aware of the harmful effect of the sun’s rays on
their skin, many still do not protect themselves
properly, Huang notes. “Since I primarily deal
with problems caused by excessive sun exposure,
I spend a lot of time counseling patients
to alter their exposure and sun protection
habits,” says Huang. “The number of skin cancers
is rising faster than any other cancer, and
“Because of my knowledge of dermatology, I am much
more likely to protect myself from the sun with sunscreen
and protective clothing than when I was younger.”
the sooner lesions are detected and treated, the
better the chance of a successful outcome.”
To dramatically prove his point, Huang
says, “This year my practice will probably do
more than 800 Mohs surgeries, 350 cutaneous
laser surgeries, 200 dermatological surgery
procedures, and 100 cosmetic dermatology
procedures.”
In addition to Mohs surgery, Huang does
sclerotherapy for varicose veins and telangiectasia,
collagen and other filler substance
injections for tissue augmentation and
rhytides, chemical peels for the treatment of
photodamage, botox injections for wrinkles,
and laser treatment of photodamage, vascular
lesions, pigmented lesions and tattoos, and
excess hair. “Most of the conditions in dermatology
that I deal with are curable,” says
Huang.
Along with a busy schedule of surgery and
patient consultations, this high-energy doctor
finds time to direct the surgical education of
UAB’s dermatology residents and give medical
student lectures. He speaks at local and national
meetings and also participates in various clinical
research projects, including studies to improve
treatment techniques and others that evaluate
the effectiveness of medications.
He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha,
board certified in dermatology, and serves as
a diplomat of the National Board of Medical
Examiners and the American Board of
Dermatology. Huang’s accomplishments
have been recognized with numerous honors
and awards.
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The Campaign for UAB
Letter from John Lankford
The progress never stops here at the School
of Medicine, and the building projects currently
under way are concrete evidence of this.
Addressing the needs of our faculty, students,
and friends in the new century, the UASOM
has undertaken an extensive building program
designed to serve those who come to us for
both education and health care.
One of these projects is the renovation and
expansion of Volker Hall. Renovation of the
existing facility will upgrade outdated lecture
halls and bring the latest educational technology
to faculty and students. The construction of
a new six-story academic tower—which will
house classrooms, faculty offices, computer
labs, and student services—will greatly expand
the facility. Such improvements will further the
UASOM’s mission as a premier site for medical
education and residency training.
We also recently broke ground on Biomedical
Research Building I, the Richard C. and Annette
N. Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Building, named for Senator and Mrs. Shelby.
This 12-story, 340,000 square-foot building will
house three research programs—Autoimmunity
and Immunobiology, the Brain Initiative, and
Biomedical Engineering and Bone Matrix
Research—and it represents tremendous growth
for UAB and the UASOM. Construction will be
completed in 2004.
Another important construction project is
Biomedical Research Building II. This new
interdisciplinary research building greatly
enhances our already-significant biomedical
research strengths and provides the additional
space required for the UASOM to achieve its
goal of being ranked in the top ten medical
schools in National Institutes of Health funding
by 2010. The School of Medicine is also
building a new office tower that will include
offices for Department of Medicine divisions
(Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine),
Surgery (Urologic and Plastic), Orthopedics,
Neurosurgery (with neuro-oncology included),
and a dean’s floor that will house the school’s
administrative offices. All of these buildings are
now under construction, and all are in need of
support from private donors.
We are currently in the midst of the second
year of our annual giving campaign, which is
focused on “The Importance of You.” In
choosing this theme, not only do we acknowledge
the importance of your financial and public
support of the UASOM and its projects, but
we also acknowledge the contributions of our
graduates—and their outstanding reputations
as physicians—to the school’s growing reputation.
The annual giving campaign supports
three of our most vital areas of need: student
scholarships, technological enhancements, and
curriculum development.
The Campaign for UAB is closer than ever to
reaching its goal, with more than $300 million
raised from private, corporate, and foundation
support as of July 1, 2002. However, we still
have $40 million to raise toward our goal in the
School of Medicine. I’d like to take this opportunity
to personally thank each of you who has
generously given of your time and financial
resources so that the School of Medicine can
continue to work for excellence in health care,
research, and education. If you would like information
concerning any of the projects currently
under way at the University of Alabama School
of Medicine, or if you want to know how you,
too, can support the school and its work, please
contact me at (205) 975-7341.
Contact Information:
The University of Alabama
School of Medicine
Office of Medical
Development
1801 Building
1801 14th Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama
35294-0023
(205) 934-4469
Fax: (205) 975-7305
John C. Lankford
Senior Director of
Development
Mark D. Belcher
Director of Development
Natalie D. Hausman-Weiss
Director of Development,
Gene Therapy Center
Rebecca J. Lark
Director of Development,
Department of Medicine
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Stay Connected to Medical Development by Visiting Our Web Site at
[http://www.uab.edu/uasom/development]
Keep in touch with progress at the School of Medicine by visiting our Web site, where you'll find interesting links to news about
development, the annual fund, building projects, ways to give, updates on the Campaign for UAB, and staff information. It’s
just one more way for you to stay connected with your University of Alabama School of Medicine.
UASOM CAMPAIGN PROGRESS
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Volker Hall
School of Medicine Donors
VOLKER HALL RENOVATIONS AND
EXPANSION
Construction on Volker Hall has begun, and the new addition is
starting to take shape—the elevator shaft has been constructed
and the floors are being framed. If you’re in the area, drive down
University Boulevard and take a look. Something new is happening
every day!
The development office is confident that the Volker Hall renovations
will have a positive impact on the UASOM, boosting the
school’s ability to recruit and train the best students and faculty
in their fields and give them the facilities they need to succeed.
Fund-raising is also in full swing. The development office has
received more than $70,000 in gifts, and alumni and friends have
pledged over $1,300,000 in future support.
The renovation and expansion of Volker Hall is a $40 million
project, of which the UASOM hopes to raise $10 million from private
support. For more information, contact John Lankford at
(205) 975-7341, or go to [http://www.uab.edu/uasom/index.html]
and click on “Volker Construction News.”
Steven Cecil Chandler
Michael Chi-Ming Chang, M.D.
Dr. Lestrita Terrill Chappell
Neil E. Christopher, Jr., M.D.
Karen H. Clark, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Clark
P. Ruth Cline, M.D.
Martin Cogen, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Ray Cornutt, Jr.
Kenneth R. Courington, M.D.
Dr. Frank Thomas Crockett
Mrs. Gisele Darcy Crowe
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Henry Dahlene II
Larkin Jeffrey Daniels, M.D.
Barry Darden, M.D.
Jabon Ramon Dawson, M.D.
Dr. Steven L. Demetropoulos
Dermatopathology Consultants
Pamela Hughes Deschner, M.D.
Michael F. Devenny, M.D.
Mr. Steven P. Disch
Dr. David Loyd Doering
Thomas Watson Downes III, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Bert A. Duncan
David Edmonds, M.D.
Dr. James Harlan Erwin
Joseph A. Farquhar, M.D.
Judith K. Favor, M.D.
Dr. Susan Lamarsh Field
Mrs. Susan N. Finney
Isadore Keith Fleisher, M.D.
Andra Rixse Frost, M.D.
Linda Tribble Frye, M.D.
James H. Gentry, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Regina P. Gilliland
Daryl Keith Granger, M.D.
Joyce Greathouse, M.D.
Dr. Warren H. Holley
Dr. Michael Benjamin Honan
Dr. Wayne G. Hutchens
Dr. Kevin Lee Jackson
Dr. James A. Jeffery
Dr. Bobby Nelson Johnson
Carol Mitchell Johnson, M.D.
William M. Jordan III, M.D.
Beverly Angelle Joseph, M.D.
Joseph J. Kaplan, M.D.
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Eli Kimerling
Ms. Lucille Klein
Stephen H. Koopmeiners, M.D.
Dr. Andrew S. Lamb
Benjamin Alan Lampert, M.D.
Dr. & Mrs. Brian Jay Larson
Jeffery D. Larson, M.D.
Tony A. Layton, M.D.
Dr. Mark Hayden Lequire
Thomas N. Lewis, M.D.
Peter E. Loeb, M.D.
Suzanne Lee Lowry, M.D.
Eugene A. Mangieri, M.D.
Dr. Jay P. Mashburn
P. Caudill Miller, M.D.
Montgomery Internists PC
Michael A. Moore, M.D.
Charles Michael Morris, M.D.
Jack Naftel, Jr., M.D.
Denise Joseph Nakos, M.D.
Kelly R. Nelson, M.D.
William C. Oliver, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Sheela K. Parrish
Daniel Frank Pauly, M.D., Ph.D.
Rebecca Rainer Pauly, M.D.
Joseph A. Peters, M.D.
Teri Lynne Pettersen, M.D.
William David Smith, M.D.
Dr. Nickie M. Spears
Sharon Ann Spencer, M.D.
John C. Spivak , M.D.
Gerald E. Stack, M.D.
Dr. S. Harbour Stephens
Linda Johnson Stone, M.D.
Perry L. Swann, M.D.
Jasmine Pugh Taylor, M.D.
Norman L. Taylor, M.D.
Nina L. J. Terry, M.D.
Julian Murphree Thomas, M.D.
Dr. Martin Lee Thomley
Dr. and Mrs. J. Keith Thompson
William Alexander Thompson III, M.D.
UA Health Services Foundation
Robert Edward Varner, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Teresa Lynn Venz-Williamson
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Andrew Wallace, Jr.
Glenn P. Ward, M.D.
Dr. Michael L. Waters
Dr. Jimmie P. Watkins
Dr. Douglas John Wester, Jr.
Dr. Lauren K. Willis
James Spivey Woodard, M.D.
Erich W. Wouters, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Allen L. Yeilding
Dr. Frederick L. Yerby
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ALABAMA MEDICAL
Volker Hall School of Medicine Donors
Since this issue of the Medical Alumni Bulletin went to press, a number of new
supporters have generously contributed to the renovation of Volker Hall and
the growth of the UASOM. We are proud to recognize them with this up-to-the-minute
list of donors, and to offer them our thanks on behalf of the UASOM and
the Alabama Medical Alumni Bulletin.
Dr. and Mrs. Jorge Antonio Alsip
AOL Time Warner Foundation
Robert Fred Beckman, M.D.
Mr. Mark D. Belcher
Anne Blake, M.D.
Dr. Sheridyn Browning Breedlove
Kathryn Clipson Brock, M.D.
Stephen Willard Brooks, M.D.
Christopher S. Brown, Ph.D.
Lee C. Carter, M.D.
Janet Johnson Cash, M.D.
Dr. Pamela Blanks Cavanaugh
Steven Cecil Chandler
Michael Chi-Ming Chang, M.D.
Dr. Lestrita Terrill Chappell
Neil E. Christopher, Jr., M.D.
Karen H. Clark, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Clark
P. Ruth Cline, M.D.
Martin S. Cogen, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Ray Cornutt, Jr.
Kenneth R. Courington, M.D.
Dr. Frank Thomas Crockett
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Crowe
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Henry Dahlene II
Larkin Jeffrey Daniels, M.D.
Barry Darden, M.D.
Jabon Ramon Dawson, M.D.
Dr. Steven L. Demetropoulos
Dermatopathology Consultants
Pamela Hughes Deschner, M.D.
Michael F. Devenny, M.D.
Mr. Steven P. Disch
Dr. David Loyd Doering
Thomas Watson Downes III, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Bert A. Duncan
David Edmonds, M.D.
Dr. James Harlan Erwin
Vilma Caridad Fabre, M.D.
Joseph A. Farquhar, M.D.
Judith K. Favor, M.D.
Dr. Susan Lamarsh Field
Mrs. Susan N. Finney
Isadore Keith Fleisher, M.D.
Andra Rixse Frost, M.D.
Linda Tribble Frye, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Lonnie W. Funderburg
James H. Gentry, Jr., M.D.
Daryl Keith Granger, M.D.
Joyce Greathouse, M.D.
Cathy Lynn Gresham, M.D.
Susan Merrill Griffith, M.D.
David B. Hall, M.D.
R. Bruce Hall, M.D.
D. Alan Hammond, M.D.
Lewis Hamner Hamner III, M.D.
Dr. Pamela C. Harris
Dr. Boyd Jerome Harrison
A. Stacey Headley, M.D.
Dr. Mary Jean Herden
Kenneth Holcombe, M.D.
Dr. Warren H. Holley
Dr. Michael Benjamin Honan
Dr. Wayne G. Hutchens
Dr. Kevin Lee Jackson
Dr. James A. Jeffery
Dr. Bobby Nelson Johnson
Carol Mitchell Johnson, M.D.
William M. Jordan III, M.D.
Beverly Angelle Joseph, M.D.
Joseph J. Kaplan, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Eli Kimerling
Ms. Lucille Klein
Stephen H. Koopmeiners, M.D.
Dr. Andrew S. Lamb
Benjamin Alan Lampert, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Brian Jay Larson
Jeffery D. Larson, M.D.
Tony A. Layton, M.D.
Dr. Mark Hayden Lequire
Thomas N. Lewis, M.D.
Peter E. Loeb, M.D.
Suzanne Lee Lowry, M.D.
Eugene A. Mangieri, M.D.
Dr. Jay P. Mashburn
P. Caudill Miller, M.D.
Montgomery Internists PC
Michael A. Moore, M.D.
Charles Michael Morris, M.D.
Jack Naftel, Jr., M.D.
Denise Joseph Nakos, M.D.
Kelly R. Nelson, M.D.
William C. Oliver, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Sheela K. Parrish
Daniel Frank Pauly, M.D., Ph.D.
Rebecca Rainer Pauly, M.D.
Joseph A. Peters, M.D.
Teri Lynne Pettersen, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Loyd Cameron Pimperl
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Rawlinson
David Michael Reardon, M.D.
Marsha J. Rhodes, M.D.
Dr. Eustace David Riley IV
Walesia Lynn Robinson-Cates, M.D.
C. Cayce Rumsey III, M.D.
Hubert Douglas Sammons, M.D.
Dr. John Frederick Schmidt
Miriam Y. Schwartz, M.D.
Thomas Herbert Simpson, Jr., D.M.D.
William David Smith, M.D.
Dr. Nickie M. Spears
Sharon Ann Spencer, M.D.
John C. Spivak, M.D.
Gerald E. Stack, M.D.
Dr. S. Harbour Stephens
Linda Johnson Stone, M.D.
Perry L. Swann, M.D.
Jasmine Pugh Taylor, M.D.
Norman L. Taylor, M.D.
Nina L. J. Terry, M.D.
Julian Murphree Thomas, M.D.
Dr. Martin Lee Thomley
Dr. and Mrs. J. Keith Thompson
William Alexander Thompson III, M.D.
UA Health Services Foundation
Pam D. Varner, M.D.
Robert Edward Varner, Jr., M.D.
Dr. Teresa Lynn Venz-Williamson
Peter Daniel Waite, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Andrew Wallace, Jr.
Glenn P. Ward, M.D.
Dr. Michael L. Waters
Dr. Jimmie P. Watkins
Dr. Douglas John Wester, Jr.
Dr. Lauren K. Willis
James Spivey Woodard, M.D.
Erich W. Wouters, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Allen L. Yeilding
Dr. Frederick L. Yerby

The Campaign for UAB
Jack Naftel, M.D.
Working to Improve Children’s Mental Health Care
By Russ WillCutt
A
lthough he didn’t begin medical school
until he was almost 30, Jack Naftel has
devoted his entire career to improving the lives
of children.
A native of Montgomery, Naftel earned a
bachelor’s degree in psychology from the
University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and
worked for several years as a youth counselor
and social worker. He enjoyed the work but
soon found himself wanting more knowledge.
“I was becoming more curious about
the hard science involved in human behavior,
rather than just the
social science,” he says.
That’s when he applied
to medical school.
Already a husband and
father of two, Naftel felt
considerably older than
many of his classmates
when he entered the
UASOM. Because he was
reluctant to uproot his
family at the time, he considers
himself fortunate to
have had access to highquality
education in his
home state. “Everything I
had heard about the
School of Medicine made me want to stay in
Alabama,” he says. “I felt very lucky and
happy to go there.”
After medical school, Naftel chose to build
on what he already knew and did his residency
in psychiatry at the University of North
Carolina hospitals in Chapel Hill. He continued
on with a two-year fellowship in child and
adolescent psychiatry at North Carolina and,
after graduation, had a part-time private practice
in Chapel Hill for nearly ten years.
During his years in private practice, Naftel
remained associated with academic medicine
as director of the child outpatient clinic at
UNC’s Dorothea Dix Hospital and as director
of UNC’s child and adolescent psychiatry residency
program. In 2000, he left his private
“I’m a simple guy. I
enjoy my family, and
I enjoy my job. I get
to do a lot of teaching,
and I get to try
to develop programs
that help the children
of North Carolina.
It’s very satisfying.”
practice to become director of UNC’s
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Naftel says he finds his work extremely
rewarding. “Child psychiatry is one of the
areas of medicine that allows you to really
have a significant impact,” he says. “A physician
has the chance to develop a positive and
helpful patient/doctor relationship.” Like
other fields, however, child and adolescent
psychiatry have felt the impact of managed
care in recent years. “More and more insurance
companies want psychopharmacological
interventions, and physicians
are being pushed
into providing less comprehensive
care,” he
explains. Even so, Naftel
says, it’s an exciting field;
with a growing awareness
of the need for child psychiatry,
the field’s research
base is “just starting to
blossom.”
Because of that growing
public awareness,
child psychiatrists today
are struggling with how
to meet the mental
health demands of the
U.S. population. “There’s a huge need for
child psychiatrists,” says Naftel. “Because of
this, one of the things I’ve been focusing on is
providing education—teaching residents and
colleagues, but also teaching psychologists,
pediatricians, social workers, teachers, and
others who have regular contact with children.
If we can better disseminate the information
we have, it might have a real impact on the
ability of those professionals to look after children’s
mental health.”
In addition to his many professional
responsibilities in Chapel Hill, Naftel serves
on the UASOM Dean’s Advisory Council. “I
am very appreciative of the education I
received in medical school and want to help
the school in any way that I can,” he says.
“Going into medicine has enabled me to have
a wonderful career. It has made a huge difference
in my life, and I hope that others who
attend the UASOM will continue to have the
same opportunities.”
When he’s not working, Naftel enjoys
spending time with his family, walking,
exercising, reading, and occasional travel.
“I’m a simple guy,” he says. “I enjoy my family,
and I enjoy my job. I get to do a lot of
teaching, and I get to try to develop programs
that help the children of North
Carolina. It’s very satisfying.”
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Many Medical Returns:
29th Annual Alumni Weekend
The 29th Annual Medical Alumni Weekend, February 15-16, 2002, featured the traditional
activities: the Reynolds Historical Lecture, the Alumni Association Board of
Directors’ meeting, the Scientific Program, annual luncheon and Association meeting, the
Constance and James A. Pittman Lecture, and twelve class-reunion dinners.
REYNOLDS LECTURE
The 23rd annual Reynolds
Historical Lecture on Friday
evening featured Gail Cassell,
Ph.D., speaking on “Development
of Antimicrobial Agents in the Era
of New and Reemerging Infectious
Diseases and Increasing Antibiotic
Resistance.” The lecture was presented
in the Historical Library’s
Ireland Room, located in Lister
Hill Library. It was followed by a
reception at the Woodward House,
sponsored by the Reynolds Library
and The Caduceus Club.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
President T. Riley Lumpkin,
M.D., welcomed everyone to the
Scientific Program on Saturday
morning at the Marriott Hotel,
then turned the program over to
Camilo R. Gomez, M.D., professor
and director of the Comprehensive
Stroke Center. He moderated the
program, “A Review of Frequent
Neurological Problems,” which was
provided by the Department of
Neurology. The faculty also included
Robert Knowlton, M.D., assistant
professor, Epilepsy Center;
Robert D. Slaughter, M.D., assistant
professor and director of
Neurology Outpatient Services;
Paul R. Atchison, M.D., associate
professor and director, Movement
Disorders Center; and Edward Y.
Zamrini, M.D., assistant professor,
Alzheimer’s Disease Center.
ANNUAL LUNCHEON
President Lumpkin presided
over the annual luncheon, also held
at the Marriott. The traditional
awards were presented as follows:
2002 DISTINGUISHED
ALUMNUS
In recognition of outstanding contributions
in the field of medicine
and demonstration of the highest
principles of the medical profession.
Edward E. Partridge, M.D.
Edward E. Partridge, M.D., is
director of the Division of Gynecologic
Oncology and vice chairman
of the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at the
UASOM. He is a native of
Demopolis, Alabama, and graduated
from UASOM in 1973. He
completed a residency in OB/GYN,
and a fellowship in gynecologic
oncology, at UAB in 1979. He
was in private practice, specializing
in gynecologic oncology until
1990, when he was recruited back
to the university as director of the
Division of Gynecologic Oncology.
At UAB, Partridge served as interim
chair of the Department of
OB/GYN from October 1993 to
September 1995, and as the first
medical director of the Health
Services Foundation from 1995 to
1996. He is a senior scientist in the
Comprehensive Cancer Center
(CCC) and the Center for the
Aging. He has served as Associate
director for prevention and control
in the CCC since 1994, and in this
capacity he has led the development
of a large research effort to reduce
cancer-related mortality in the
Southern African American population.
He currently serves as principal
investigator on projects funded by
the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), totaling $3.2 million in
annual direct funding. These include
the Deep South Network for Cancer
Control, Specialized Program of
Research Excellence (SPORE) in
Ovarian Cancer, and the Morehouse
School of Medicine (MSM)/UAB-
CCC Partnership. He was named
the Margaret Cameron Spain Chair
in Obstetrics and Gynecology in
1999. He has had over 90 articles
published and serves on the editorial
board of Gynecologic Oncology and
the Journal of Surgical Oncology. He
leads a Division of Gynecologic
Oncology recognized as one of the
top three in the country.
Partridge’s honors have included
the President’s Excellence in
Teaching Award and the
Association of Professors in
Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO)
Excellence in Teaching Award. He
has been named in The Best Doctors
in America, and in the 1997 Good
Housekeeping 401 Best Doctors for
Women. He received the 2000
UABCCC Distinguished Faculty
Award. In 1996 he received the St.
George’s Medal from the American
Cancer Society, a national award
for volunteerism.
He continues to serve the community
in a number of capacities.
He has been president of the
Alabama Society of Clinical
Oncology, the Alabama Chapter
of the College of Surgeons, the
Alabama Division of the
American Cancer Society, and the
Jefferson County Medical Society.
At the national level, he has served
as chairman of the Commission
on Cancer of the American
College of Surgeons; he is the only
gynecologist to ever serve in this
capacity. He is currently on the
National Board of Directors for
the American Cancer Society and
the Board of Directors for the
Mid-South Division of the
Above: R. Bob Mullins, Jr., received the 2002 Garber Galbraith Medical-
Political Science Award. Top: Dean Emeritus James A. Pittman, Jr.
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American Cancer Society, where
he chairs the Cancer Control
Committee. He has provided
active state leadership for the
implementation of the Alabama
Breast and Cervical Cancer Early
Detection Program (BCCEDP)
and was a co-founder of both the
Alabama Clinical Congress and the
Alabama Partnership for Cancer
Control in the Underserved.
Partridge continues an active clinical
practice in gynecologic cancer.
He and his wife, Barbara, have five
children and two grandchildren.
2002 GARBER GALBRAITH
MEDICAL–POLITICAL
SERVICE AWARD
For outstanding service to the
medical profession.
R. Bob Mullins, Jr., M.D.
R. Bob Mullins, Jr., M.D.,
graduated from the University of
Alabama School of Medicine in
1968. Following a rotating internship
at Lloyd Noland Hospital in
Fairfield, Alabama, he served two
years in the U.S. Army at Ft. Polk,
Louisiana. In 1973, Mullins began
his private practice of medicine in
Valley, Alabama.
Mullins’s involvement with
organized medicine began in 1978,
when he volunteered to staff an
Impaired Physicians Committee
for the Medical Association of the
State of Alabama (MASA). He
served on the Executive Committee
until 1988.
In 1989, Mullins served as chair
of MASA’s Ad Hoc Committee on
Rural and Indigent Care and on
both the Manpower and Finance
subcommittees of the Alabama
Legislative Rural Health Task
Force. The Alabama legislature created
the Alabama Family Practice
Rural Health Board in 1990 in
response to the Task Force’s recommendations;
Mullins has served on
its Executive Committee since then,
and he assumed the chairmanship
of that committee in 2002. In
1990, he served on the organizing
committee of the Phy-sician’s
Alabama Opportunity Fair.
In 1989, Mullins assumed the
office of Vice Speaker of the House
of Delegates and College of
Counselors of MASA, and he was
elected to Speaker of the House
from 1995 to 1997. He served as
alternate delegate to the American
Medical Association House of
Delegates from 1990 to 1999 and
as bioethics and classical music delegate
from 2000 to 2001.
Mullins’s community activities
have included Leadership Alabama
Class II, the Board of Directors for
Chambers County/Bradshaw Library,
Board of Trustees for Lanier
Health Services and Chattahoochee
Valley Healthcare Foundation, the
Steering Committee for the Greater
Valley Area Chamber of Commerce’s
Project Leadership, and the Executive
Committee of the National
Physician’s Center for Family
Resources.
Mullins and his wife, Jeannene, have
three children and five grandchildren.
CONSTANCE S. AND
JAMES A. PITTMAN
LECTURE
The Pittman Lecture was a special
event this year, featuring Dean
Emeritus James A. Pittman, Jr.,
speaking about “Tinsley Harrison:
Our Greatest Hero.” Pittman has
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written a new book about
Harrison, and he shared the
results of his research, along with
slides and commentary based on
personal experiences. Many of the
luncheon attendees found themselves
(looking considerably
younger) included in the pictures.
The lecture elicited several confessions
and a few tall tales as well.
Videotapes of the Pittman
Lecture are available from the
Medical Alumni Office for $25.
To obtain one, call the Alumni
Office at (205) 934-4463.
Edward E. Partridge was the 2002 Distinguished Alumnus.
James A. Pittman, Jr., M.D.
James Allen Pittman, Jr., M.D.,
is a 1957 Resident Alumnus. He
served as dean of the University of
Alabama School of Medicine from
1973 to 1992 and holds the record
for longevity in this position. Since
1992 he has served the institution
as distinguished professor.
Pittman was born in Orlando,
Florida, where he received his earlier
education. He earned B.S. degrees
in biology and chemistry from
Davidson College, North Carolina,
in 1948, and his medical degree
from Harvard Medical School in
1952, all with honors (cum laude).
From 1952 until 1954 he did an
internship and residency at
Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston, Massachusetts, after which he
was clinical associate, Endocrin-ology
Branch, National Cancer Institute, at
the National Institutes of Health. In
1956 he was a trainee at Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Studies. He then
became a resident in medicine at the
University of Alabama Medical
Center and was chief resident in medicine
for 1957 and 1958, with the late
Tinsley R. Harrison as chief of service—Pittman
was Harrison’s last chief
resident. In 1960 he was visiting scientist
for three months at the
Laboratoire de Biochimie Generale et
Comparée, Collége de France, Paris.
Pittman was awarded the doctor
of science degree at Davidson
College in 1980, and the doctor of
science degree from the University of
Alabama at Birmingham in 1984.
His professional appointments
date back to 1953, when he was a
teaching fellow in medicine at
Harvard University. He became an
instructor at George Washington
University School of Medicine in
1955 and served concurrently as
attending physician at both the
Endocrine Clinic of Georgetown
University School of Medicine
and the Radioisotope Laboratories
at D.C. General Hospital.
From 1956 to 1973, Pittman’s
appointments included instructor
in medicine; assistant professor, associate
professor, and professor of
medicine; associate professor and
professor of physiology; director,
Division of Endocrinology and
Metabolism; and co-chair, Department
of Medicine, 1969-1971.
He was chief of Nuclear
Medicine Service at the VA and
University Hospitals from 1958
to 1971; consultant, Children’s
Hospital; and assistant chief medical
director for research and education
in medicine at the Veterans
Administration Central Office in
Washington, D.C., from 1971 to
1973. He was also clinical professor
of medicine at Georgetown
University School of Medicine at
Washington.
Pittman’s specialty and subspecialty
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National Board of Medical Examiners, Diplomate,
1953; Internal Medicine, 1959; Endocrinology, 1972;
and Nuclear Medicine, 1972. He is licensed to practice
medicine in Florida as well as Alabama, Massachusetts,
and Canada (Newfoundland). His research interest is in
thyroid physiology and diseases, on which he published
books in 1963 and 1969.
Some of Pittman’s honors and activities include
membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Davidson, 1947;
Alpha Omega Alpha, Harvard, 1951; Master,
American College of Physicians; Alabama Academy of
Honor, 1982; and President, Harvard Medical
Alumni Association, 1986 to 1988. He was a member
of the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare’s “GMENAC,” and the Department of
Health and Human Services Council on Graduate
Medical Education. He held visiting professorships
and lectureships at several medical schools in the
United States and foreign countries. The University of
Alabama Medical Alumni Association named him
Distinguished Alumnus in 1990.
He has edited and co-edited many publications and
abstracts. He was listed in Who’s Who in America and
Who’s Who in The World in 1979.
Pittman is married to Constance Ming Chung Shen
Pittman, M.D., also a professor of medicine at the
UASOM. They have two sons, James Clinton Pittman
and John Merill Pittman.
Saturday Evening Reunions
The reunion classes of 1947, 1952, 1957, 1962,
1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992, and a group
from 1956, gathered on Saturday evening for a reception
at the Birmingham Marriott for all the classes,
sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association. After
visiting for an hour, each class went to a separate dining
room for their class dinner. Special thanks go to alumni
Scotty McCallum, M.D., D.M.D., Frank Waldo,
M.D., Ron Henderson, M.D., Max Austin, M.D., Ron
Orso, M.D., Billy Johnson, M.D., David Williamson,
M.D., Sharmila Makhija, M.D., Josephine Kim, M.D.,
and Bob Adams, M.D., for all their help.
The class reunions are a highlight of the Alumni
Weekend each year. If you have a reunion coming up
in 2003 (if your class ends in a 3 or an 8) and would
like to help, please call Elaine Chambless at the
Alumni Office, (205) 934-4463, and let her know of
your interest.
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
1977 EDWIN G. WALDROP, Birmingham, Alabama
1978 WAYNE H. FINLEY, Birmingham, Alabama
1979 DONALD C. HARRISON, Palo Alto, California
1980 DORIS S. PHILLIPS, Birmingham, Alabama
1981 A. EDWARD MAUMENEE, Baltimore, Maryland
1982 CHARLES A. LeMAISTRE, Houston, Texas
1983 CHARLES A. McCALLUM, Birmingham, Alabama
1984 LLOYD M. NYHUS, Chicago, Illinois
1985 ROBERT B. COPELAND, LaGrange, Georgia
1986 IRA B. PATTON, Oneonta, Alabama
1987 GEORGE D. LUNDBERG, Chicago, Illinois
1988 JOHN W. BENTON, Birmingham, Alabama
1989 SARA C. FINLEY, Birmingham, Alabama
1990 JAMES A. PITTMAN, JR., Birmingham, Alabama
1991 WILLIAM L. ROPER, Atlanta, Georgia
1992 WILLIAM H. COONER, Mobile, Alabama
1993 ERNEST S. TUCKER III, La Jolla, California
1994 JAMES H. GRAHAM, La Jolla, California
1995 ALAN R. DIMICK, Birmingham, Alabama
1996 STEPHEN W. ROWE, Gadsden, Alabama
1997 WALTER GAY PITTMAN, Birmingham, Alabama
1998 KIRBY I. BLAND, Providence, Rhode Island
1999 AUBREY E. TERRY, Russellville, Alabama
2000 PEYTON T. TAYLOR, Charlottesville, Virginia
2001 HENRY G. HERROD III, Memphis, Tennessee
2002 EDWARD E. PARTRIDGE, Birmingham, Alabama
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NOMINATION FORM FOR 2003 MEDICAL ALUMNI AWARDS
The deadline for nominations for the following 2003 Medical Alumni Association Awards is December 1, 2002. The awards will be
made to an alumnus(a) of the University of Alabama School of Medicine during the Alumni Weekend in February 2003.
ELIGIBILITY: Alumni eligible for nomination include former students of the Birmingham Medical College prior to 1915, the Mobile
Medical College prior to 1920, the School of Medicine in Tuscaloosa from 1920 to 1945, the housestaff of the University of Alabama
Hospitals since 1945, the Medical College of Alabama from 1946 to 1969 and the present University of Alabama School of Medicine from
1970.
NOMINATIONS: 1. Nominations must be made by an alumnus or alumna of the University of Alabama School of Medicine.
2. Nominations must be submitted by the nominator with a comprehensive letter and resume about the nominee, giving full particulars
to his or her qualifications and any other supportive documents such as records of contributions to the Alumni Association, the community,
and the medical profession as practitioner, researcher, author, educator, etc.
SELECTION COMMITTEE: Consideration will be given to:
1. The service of the candidate to the Alumni Association.
2. Individuals who have distinguished themselves both locally and nationally.
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD
PURPOSE: “To recognize the individual’s outstanding contribution to the health of all people through basic research, clinical research,
health services administration, health care, or others and demonstration of the high principles of the medical profession.” Travel and local
expenses for the awardee to attend Alumni Weekend will be provided by the Alumni Association.
GARBER GALBRAITH MEDICAL-POLITICAL SERVICE AWARD
“For outstanding service to the medical profession,” to one who has functioned especially well in the medical-political arena.
HETTIE BUTLER TERRY COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
“For outstanding commitment to community service,” to one who has contributed to the advancement of their community through
volunteer efforts, philanthropic endeavor, or both.
Nominations must be received by December 1, 2002, for consideration by the Board of Directors. Use separate forms for nominations
for each award.
TO: Board of Directors Date___________________________
University of Alabama Medical Alumni Association
811 South 20th Street
Birmingham AL 35294-2140
I hereby submit the name of ____________________________________________ Class of _____________________
for nomination for the__________________________________________________________________________Award.
Address: Office_____________________________________________________________________________________
Home _____________________________________________________________________________________
Specialty ______________________________________ Type of Practice ______________________________________
Nominated by ___________________________________________ Class of ___________________________________
Address___________________________________________ State ____________ Zip___________________________
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CLASS NOTES
1940 (RESIDENT 1948)
PAUL W. BURLESON was recently inducted as a Fellow in the American
College of Physicians and was awarded the designation F.A.C.P.
1947
LLOYD MILTON NYHUS is profiled in A Century of International
Progress and Tradition in Surgery (Kaden Verlag Heidelberg, publisher), an
illustrated history of the International Society of Surgery, which mentions
the Medical School at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Nyhus
lives in Northfield, Illinois, and specialized in general surgery.
1949
JAMES HERBERT GRAHAM and wife Gloria donated 100,000 projection
slides to create the Dermatopathology Slide Library at Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center. When the library is complete, the slides
will be placed on the Internet and made accessible to medical students and
professionals around the world. Graham lives in Winston Salem, North
Carolina, and is retired from dermatopathology.
1949
IRA LEE MYERS, of Montgomery, Alabama, was an Honoree at the 2001
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame for his service to healthcare. A charter member
of Epidemic Intelligence Service, Myers participated in numerous field
studies from 1950 to 1955. He was elected state health officer in 1963 and
served until 1986. At retirement he was the senior state health officer in the
United States. Myers has been active in retirement with many organizations
including the American Cancer Society, prison ministry, and as chair of the
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame.
1955 & 1960
SARA CREWS FINLEY AND WAYNE HOUSE FINLEY were
Honorees at the 2001 Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame for their contributions
and service to health care in the state of Alabama. Together they started
UAB’s Laboratory of Medical Genetics Training program in the 1960s to train
geneticists, which helped UAB become known as a national leader in healthcare.
For 34 years, the lab has brought unique distinction to UAB for clinical evaluations,
genetic counseling, and unparalleled educational opportunities for students.
J. Claude Bennett, former president of UAB, stated that scientists Sara
and Wayne Finley “have been, and will always remain, an institutional treasure
for UAB.” Wayne and Sara Finley were also awarded the Brother Bryant Prayer
Point Award for groundbreaking genetic research, at the Women’s Committee
Luncheon held at Birmingham Country Club in November 2001.
1958
(RESIDENT)
JAMES A. PITTMAN, JR., was an Honoree at the 2001 Alabama
Healthcare Hall of Fame for his contributions to the field of medicine,
including research and education, which have had an immeasurable impact
on the healthcare of citizens in Alabama. He served as chief resident in UAB’s
Department of Medicine, and was appointed dean of the School of Medicine
in 1973, where he served 19 years. Under his direction, the school earned
national recognition as an institution with superior faculty members and
training facilities. Pittman’s winning personality, integrity, sharp intellect, and
unselfish nature have endeared him to his colleagues and students.
1960
WILSON C. WILHITE, JR., was recently elected delegate to the World
Congress of Anesthesiologists to be held in Paris in April 2004. He has been
honored with life membership in the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists and
in the American Society of Anesthesiologists, where he is a past president
(1994). Wilhite is Professor Emeritus of UCLA School of Medicine and a
resident of Daphne, Alabama.
1961
FLEMON “CARDEN” JOHNSTON, of Birmingham, Alabama, has
been named president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the
nation’s largest pediatric organization, starting in October 2002. He will be
president from October 2003 until October 2004. Johnston is the first
Alabamian to lead the national group of more than 58,000 pediatricians.
“It’s an opportunity to do some shouting for children,” he says. “It’s the best
job in the world. Why doesn’t everybody want this job?” Johnston is an
emergency room pediatrician at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham,
Alabama.
1962
RONALD EARL HENDERSON is seeking research funds for myasthenia
gravis, which can be treated but cannot be cured; he suffers from the disease.
J. Edwin Blaylock, a professor of physiology and biophysics at UASOM, is
working on a cure. To contact the Alabama Chapter of Myasthenia Gravis
Foundation of America, call (205) 868-1210 or go to [homepages.msn.com
/SupportSt/mgalabama/]. Henderson lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where he
is CEO of MediSphere Corp. He is retired from his OB/GYN practice at
Henderson-Walton Women’s Center.
1970
JACK HAROLD HASSON, of Birmingham, Alabama, was sworn in as
the 2002 president of the Jefferson County Medical Society, by Ronald W.
Orso, class of 1972, the outgoing president. Hasson presented Orso with a
plaque and expressed appreciation for his service as president in 2001.
Hasson specializes in pulmonary disease.
1972
R. WINN HENDERSON has just released his 11th book, Share Your
Mission, Volume 2. He is retired and currently lives in Sylva, North Carolina.
He specialized in addiction medicine.
DOUGLAS P. LYLE has published a novel, Devil’s Playground (January
2002), and he is currently working on another book. He writes a column
about forensic medicine, entitled “The Doctor Is In,” which currently
appears in The March of Crime and Sleuthsayer, the newsletters of the
Southern and Southwestern California chapters of Mystery Writers of
America. He also has a Web site for writers, “The Writer’s Medical and
Forensics Lab” [www.dplylemd.com], established November 2001. Lyle is a
cardiologist in Laguna Hills, California.
1975
KENNETH L. FARMER JR., a brigadier general in the U.S. Army, is
the recipient of the Robert Graham Family Physician Executive Award.
He is recognized for his visionary success and expert leadership as a
physician executive and his deep commitment to improving health care
for eight million military service men and women and their families.
Farmer’s awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service
Medical, the Army Commendation Medal, the William J. Moore, Jr.,
Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, and the Meritorious Service
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Medal with three oak leaf clusters. He holds the Expert Field Medical
Badge and has been awarded the Order of Military Medical Merit for
outstanding contributions to military medicine.
1976
JOHN ROSS WHEAT, UASOM professor of community and rural medicine
and internal medicine, and Robert Garner, Ph.D., UA professor emeritus
of chemistry at the University of Alabama, are co-principal investigators
for the Minority Rural Health Pipeline Program (MRHPP). The program is
designed to help minority students qualify for admission to medical school
through the Rural medical Scholars Program (RMSP), through which 48
Rural Medical Scholars have matriculated into the UASOM in the past five
years. (See “Reaching Rural Populations,” page 12.) Eight members of the
first RMSP class graduated from UASOM in May 2001. This year’s session
ran from June 4 through August 10. For more information and to apply for
the program, contact the College of Community Health Science at (205)
348-5892 or e-mail iwallace@cchs.ua.edu.
1977 (RESIDENT)
GARY D. MONHEIT was voted president of the American Academy of
Cosmetic Surgery during the AACS meeting in San Diego. He is board certified
in both Cosmetic Surgery and Dermatology. Monheit is presently an
assistant professor of dermatology at UAB and is the founder of
Dermatology Associates.
1979
LEIGH CHERIE JEFFRIES, of Wilmington, Delaware, is director of
medical information strategies at Synchrogenix. Jeffries has over 20 years of
experience in the field of medicine and supports the growth of the company’s
pharmaceutical marketing, training, and documentation services. Her
specialty is pathology.
1980
WILLIAM THOMAS RAWLINSON, class of 1980, finished his internal
medicine residency at the University of Tennessee in 1983 and has been in
private practice in Memphis, Tennessee since 1984. He presently works at St.
Francis Hospital in Memphis, where he is on the board of the hospital’s IPA.
He and his wife, Amy, have two girls, Anne and Elise.
1981 (RESIDENT)
JORGE L. GONZALEZ is the medical director of Watson Clinic, LLP, a
large multi-specialty group practice in Lakeland, Florida, with approximately
170 physicians. He did a fellowship at UAB in 1984 in cardiology, in
which he specializes.
1982 (RESIDENT)
WILLIAM D. CRUMP, who retired from medical practice in Nashville,
Tennessee, in 1995, has a new publication titled The Christmas Encyclopedia
(McFarland & Company, Inc., October 2001 [www.mcfarlandpub.com]).
Dr. Crump lives in Madison, Tennessee.
1984
VIRGINIA ANN “GINGER” CAMPBELL is joining fellow ’84 graduate
WENDY ARTHUR, M.D., in private practice at Advanced Family
Medicine at Brookwood Medical Plaza. They offer comprehensive family
medicine for everyone ages 5 and up, and a total mind-body approach that
is helpful for those with multiple medical problems. Campbell specializes in
family medicine.
KRISTON JACK KENT, a member of the Florida Board of Medicine,
recently spoke at a conference at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Kent gave two lectures on safety in office-based surgery. The conference was
supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to share specific
advances and improve safety in the office surgery setting. Kent specializes in
facial plastic surgery and lives in Naples, Florida.
1987 (RESIDENT)
CHARLES MELBERN “MEL” WILCOX, JR., has been appointed as the
director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UAB.
Wilcox has served the division as director of clinical research, chief of
endoscopy for University Hospital, and co-director of UAB’s
Pancreaticobiliary Center.
1988
MARTIN LEE THOMLEY joined fellow UASOM alumni MILTON F.
“LUKE” WHITE, JR., (1986), RICHARD M. FEIST (1986), and
John O. Mason III (1990), at the Retina Consultants of Alabama, P.C.,
in September 2001. He specializes in vitreoretinal diseases and surgery.
1991
CHRISTOPHER G. PALMER is a team physician of the U.S. Air Force
Academy and was recently named chief of sports medicine at USAFA. He is
currently a resident of Monument, Colorado and specializes in
orthopedics/sports medicine.
1992
RONALD H. CLEMENTS has joined the Department of Surgery as an
assistant professor in the Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery and director of
the Minimally Invasive Surgery Center at UAB. He is certified by the
American Board of Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of
Surgeons. His primary clinical interest is minimally invasive surgery, and his
current research effort focuses on obesity, fatty liver disease, and glucose
metabolism in obesity.
1996
JEFFREY WAYNE STONE finished his chief residency in anesthesiology
at UAB in June 2000, and a pain management fellowship at Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center in July 2001. He has been in private practice
with Anesthesia Consultants of Dallas, Texas, since July 2001. Stone and
his wife live in Irving, Texas, and were expecting triplets in June 2002.
1999
STEPHEN EDWARD BROSSETTE, of Birmingham, Alabama, founder
and president of MedMined, Inc., has been named one of the world’s 100
Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.
He specializes in pathology.
ENGLISH H. GONZALEZ was elected in October 2001 to serve as the
resident member on the American Academy of Family Practice Board of
Directors. She is a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, and specializes in
family medicine.
ANGELA HELMS REDMOND, of Cullman, Alabama, completed her
residency training in pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science
Center (LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center) in Memphis.
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I N M E M O R I A M
AUBREY BERNARD (A.B.) LEE, 1930 graduate
of the two-year school, died September 21,
2001. He was a resident of Opp, Alabama, and
specialized in general surgery.
SAMUEL MASON DAY, JR., 1935 graduate
of the two-year school, died May 2, 2001. He was
a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, and specialized
in general surgery.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN DRUMMOND, 1935
graduate of the two-year school, died February
28, 2001. He was a resident of Shreveport,
Louisiana, and specialized in internal medicine.
LAURENCE STEPHENSON WOODLEY,
1935 graduate of the two-year school, died May
18, 2001. He was a resident of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, and specialized in otolaryngology.
CAROLINE JANE WILLIAMS, 1939 graduate
of the two-year school, died January 25, 2002.
She was a resident of Savannah, Georgia, and specialized
in internal medicine.
JAMES D. SYNNOTT, 1940 graduate of the twoyear
school, died August 5, 2001. He was a resident
of Houston, Texas, and specialized in family practice.
EMANUEL CHERASKIN, 1942 graduate of
the two-year school, died in August 2001. He was
a resident of Birmingham, Alabama, and specialized
in internal medicine.
STACY LINTON ROLLINS, JR., 1942 graduate
of the two-year school, died July 3, 2001. He
was a resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and
specialized in neurological surgery.
CARL FREDERICK DIETZ, Class of 1946,
died January 7, 2002. He was a resident of Minor,
Alabama, and specialized in family practice.
HERMAN CHARLES PATTERSON, Class of
1955, died August 1, 2001. He was a resident of
Chatom, Alabama, and specialized in family practice.
JAMES STUART MITCHELL, JR., Class of 1956,
died February 2, 2002. He was a resident of Phenix
City, Alabama, and specialized in general medicine.
ALONZA RAYMOND PAPPAS, Class of
1956, died in February 1999. He was a resident
of Mobile, Alabama, and specialized in pediatrics.
JAMES OLIVER WILLIAMS, SR., Class of
1958, died October 22, 2001. He was a resident
of Sylacauga, Alabama, and specialized in
general surgery.
CLARENCE DONALD “DON” WHIGH-
AM, Class of 1958, died Sunday, May 12, 2002,
from a stroke. A resident of Rosman, North
Carolina, Don specialized in general surgery.
WILLIAM R. WALTON, Class of 1960, died
February 8, 2002. A native of Birmingham, Alabama,
and a retired U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War,
Walton moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1960,
where he specialized in anesthesiology.
ANNE BOTTOMS WOUTERS, Class of
1960, died December 15, 2001. She was a resident
of Jasper, Alabama, and specialized in pediatrics.
JOE CLARK ALLEN, Class of 1967, died
February 26, 2002. He was a resident of
Pensacola, Florida, and was retired from nephrology
and internal medicine.
DONALD JARED SILBERMAN, resident 1968,
died April 2001. He was a resident of Birmingham,
Alabama, and specialized in psychiatry.
JAMES NEIL SUSSEX, Professor and Head of
the Division of Child Psychiatry in 1955 and Chair
of the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical
College of Alabama in Birmingham until 1968,
died October 18, 2001. He was a resident of Singer
Island, Florida, and specialized in psychiatry.
RUTHERFORD B. POLHILL, JR., resident
1971, died April 5, 2002. A resident of
Birmingham, Alabama, Polhill was an associate
professor of pediatrics at the UASOM and attending
physician of pediatric emergency medicine,
and medical director of the Telephone Triage
System at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama. He
served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant commander,
earned an MBA from the graduate school of
business at Samford University (graduating at the
top of his class), and held many professional honors,
appointments, and certifications.
JAMES ROBERT GLASSNER, resident 1985,
died December 16, 2001. He was a resident of
Montgomery, Alabama, and specialized in ophthalmology.
DENNIS J. DAVIN, Class of 1992, died April
21, 2002. He was a resident of Portland, Oregon,
and specialized in orthopedic surgery. He was a
board member and officer of the Oregon
Association of Orthopedics, and a member of the
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the
Western Orthopedic Association, and the
American Medical Association. A memorial fund
has been established to assist his family; please
contact the Alumni Association at (205) 934-
4463 for more information.
PHILIP THOMAS WEISBACH, JR., resident
1950, died January 18, 2002. He resided in
Beaumont, Texas, and specialized in ophthalmology.
PHILLIP JUDKINS ENSLEN, Class of 1953,
died April 17, 2002. He was a resident of Monroe,
Georgia, and specialized in general medicine.
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HARTWELL H. WARD, Class of 1953, died
July 9, 2002. Ward helped form the Birmingham
Medical Group headquarters for the Jefferson
Health Foundation. He was a resident of
Birmingham, Alabama, and specialized in internal
medicine.
BUFORD B. SANDERS, Class of 1955, died
June 18, 2002. Sanders was a member of the
American Medical Association, the Alabama
Medical Society, the Jefferson County Medical
Society, the Caduceus Club, and the University of
Alabama Medical Alumni Association. He was a
resident of Birmingham, Alabama, and specialized
in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery.
A L U M B A B E S
1990
DEBRA LOCKHART TETREAULT
and her husband Martin announce the
birth of their second child, Robert Reilly
Tetreault, who joins his sister Hallie, age
four. Debra specializes in pediatrics and
is in private practice in Smithfield,
North Carolina.
1992
CHRISTINE LONG CHOAT and
DENNIS EDWARD CHOAT announce
the birth of their first child, Jack Morgan
Choat, born September 6, 2001. Dennis
specializes in colon and rectal surgery and
Christine specializes in internal medicine.
They live in Peachtree City, Georgia.
1992
WILLIAM FRANK WILLETT III and
his wife Joy announce the birth of their
daughter, Anna Elizabeth Willett, on
October 10, 2001. She joins her bother
James Nathan, who turned 2 on
December 31, 2001. Frank is an associate
pathologist at St. Francis Hospital in
Columbus, Georgia.
1994
CHRIS WOLFF and his wife Greta
announce the birth of their first child,
Oskar Christian Wolff, born April 21,
2001. Chris practices family medicine in
Davidson, North Carolina.
1995
JIM MCGRATH and his wife Lisa
announce the birth of their daughter, Lily
Katherine McGrath, born December 13,
2001. Jim is a resident of Tucker, Georgia,
and specializes in hematology/oncology.

IN APPRECIATION . . .
To the following alumni and friends of the University of Alabama School
of Medicine for their support of the School of Medicine through contributions
to the Medical Alumni Association, the Building Fund, and the
Caduceus Club, from October 1, 2000, to September 20, 2001. The funds
raised through alumni contributions are used to support school, student,
and alumni programs.
One of the major sponsorships of the Medical Alumni Association is the
annual Alumni Weekend, which brings alumni and other physicians together
for continuing education seminars and class reunions. Receptions for
alumni, faculty of the school, and friends are sponsored by the association
during national, regional, and state professional meetings. The association
also sponsors student organizations, travel fellowships, scholarships, student
funds, senior class night, yearbook advertising, and white coats for first-year
students, as well as the MedCareers program, the Medical Student
Enrichment program, and the Argus Society annual awards program.
The Caduceus Club provides fellowships for students to travel for other
medical experiences. It also gives awards to outstanding faculty members
and supports MIST and other programs.
The officers of the Medical Alumni Association and the administration of
the University of Alabama School of Medicine wish to express their appreciation
to those listed for their generous contributions.
An asterisk indicates Caduceus Club membership.
Stephanie Patrice Acierno, Dallas, TX
John Howard Acker, Knoxville, TN
Christopher Denman Adams, Little Rock, AR
Eric Arthur Adams, Chesapeake, VA
George Wilburn Adams, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Jeffrey Dean Adams, Birmingham, AL
Jennifer Kash Adams, Chesapeake, VA
* Robert Barry Adams, Montgomery, AL
Darshan Chand Aggarwal, Port St. Lucie, FL
Lysle Kennedy Ailstock, Greenville, NC
Robert Beaumont Akenhead, Huntsville, AL
Rush E. Akin, Panama City, FL
* Kenneth William Aldridge, Tuscaloosa, AL
Catherine H. Alexander, Newnan, GA
Bennett Allae Alford, Charlottesville, VA
Charles Aaron Alford, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James Huston Alford, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Lisa Pharis Allardice, La Grange, GA
Robert Ferrell Allen, Dothan, AL
Thomas McWane Allison, Pelham, AL
Steven G. Alsip, Mobile, AL
M. Wade Alverson, Jr., Apopka, FL
* James Noble Anderson, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Lawrence Danforth Anderson, Boise, ID
Mark Monroe Anderson, Montgomery, AL
Wayne Christopher Anderson, Tampa, FL
John Daniel Andress, Mokena, IL
William Walton Andrews, Birmingham, AL
Melvyn Alan Anhalt, Houston, TX
Christopher Michael Arcement, New Orleans, LA
* James Peter Argires, Lancaster, PA
Perry James Argires, Lancaster, PA
* William Mark Armstrong, Dallas, TX
Scott Louis Arnold, Greer, SC
Susan Pearce Arnold, Greer, SC
* John Malone Ashurst, Jr., Montgomery, AL
* Winston McCain Ashurst, Montgomery, AL
Jennifer Singleton Ashworth, Springfield, TN
Carl C. Askren, Fresno, CA
* Robert George Atnip, Hershey, PA
Charles Wadsworth Atwood, Jr., Pittsburgh, PA
Philip August, Jr., Gardendale, AL
* James Maxwell Austin, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Donald Webster Autry, Bessemer, AL
Daniel Mason Avery, Winfield, AL
David Abraham Azar, Childersburg, AL
Kathryne Kospetos Azar, Childersburg, AL
Virgil Thomas Baccus, Cullman, AL
Jimmie Dale Bailey II, Woodbridge, VA
John Doyle Bailey, Moss Point, MS
Julie Anna Baird, Dallas, TX
* Oliver Charles Baker, Birmingham, AL
* Roy Powell Baker, Savannah, GA
Timothy Darrell Baker, Cordova, TN
Robert Lindon Baldwin, Birmingham, AL
Daniel Frederick Balkovetz, Birmingham, AL
James Wayland Ballard, Birmingham, AL
Timothy S. Baltz, Tuscaloosa, AL
Lee Anne Bankaitis, Chapel Hill, NC
Amol Shrikrishna Bapat, Houston, TX
Judson William Barber, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Macdonough Barbour III, Mobile, AL
Mark Luther Barnard, Darlington, SC
Glenn Dickson Barnes, Montgomery, AL
Harry McGwinn Barnes III, Montgomery, AL
William Lawrence Barnwell, Dalton, GA
Valry Ward Barr, Jr., Lancaster, PA
* Brent Barranco, Birmingham, AL
Melissa Lewis Barton, Maplewood, MN
John Burrell Bass, Jr., Mobile, AL
Brian Anthony Bates, Birmingham, AL
Gregory Charles Batson, Birmingham, AL
* Aubrey Thomas Baugh, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Donald Eugene Beach, Moulton, AL
* Joseph Benjamin Beaird, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Jeff Hixon Beard, Daphne, AL
* William Harvey Bearden III, Pelham, AL
Howard Harold Bearman, Birmingham, AL
Edward Stewart Beason, Winston-Salem, NC
Russell Glynn Beaty, Birmingham, AL
Ronald Vance Beck, Smiths, AL
Robert Fred Beckman, Webster Groves, MO
Marie Elaine Beckner, Pittsburgh, PA
Dalton Anthony Bedsole, Birmingham, AL
Glenn David Bedsole, Montgomery, AL
* Samuel Warner Beenken, Birmingham, AL
John Lawrence Bell, Knoxville, TN
Willie Woodrow Bell, Jr., Jacksonville, FL
Robert Joseph Benak, Dothan, AL
Frank Charles Benesh, Trussville, AL
Ann Bennett, Florence, AL
Austen LeGrande Bennett III, Birmingham, AL
J. Claude Bennett, Birmingham, AL
* John William Benton, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Carl Johan Bentzel, Greenville, NC
Edward S. Berretta, Walla Walla, WA
Jeanne Smith Berretta, Walla Walla, WA
Richard L. Berryman, Birmingham, AL
Tarika Bhuta, Morgantown, WV
Charles Edward Bickham, Jr., Bethesda, MD
George Marvin Bilbrey, Jr., Asheville, NC
Retna A. Billano, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Keener Billups, Tupelo, MS
Michael Ashton Binford, Lake Mary, FL
Sarah Lynn Bisch, Baltimore, MD
John Kendall Black, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Matthew Louis Black, Champaign, IL
Sumpter Dudley Blackmon, Camden, AL
Jack Blackwell, Centre, AL
Laurel Claire Blakemore, Ann Arbor, MI
* Kirby Isaac Bland, Birmingham, AL
James Henry Blanton, Birmingham, AL
Jane McClure Blaum, Fairhope, AL
Richard Frederic Bliss, Talladega, AL
Patricia Ann Block, Troy, AL
Marc Evan Bloomston, Birmingham, AL
Michael Francis Blum, Birmingham, AL
John Coley Blythe, Alexander City, AL
William Raymond Blythe, Auburn, AL
Susan Angelle Boackle, Denver, CO
Lynn Amy Boardman, Greenville, SC
Phillip Kelley Bobo, Tuscaloosa, AL
Belin Frederick Bodie, Mobile, AL
Frankie Lavon Bodie, Mobile, AL
Gerhard A. W. Boehm, Mobile, AL
John Wilson Boggess IV, Guntersville, AL
Robert Pearce Bolling, Mobile, AL
Larry Taylor Bolton, Scottsboro, AL
William Richard Bonner, Tucker, GA
Marshall Nolan Boone, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Thomas Stewart Boozer, Montgomery, AL
David Charles Bosshardt, Chickamauga, GA
James Shelby Bowron, Jr., Atlanta, GA
William Collier Box, Sulligent, AL
Sarah Marie Boyce, Birmingham, AL
Allie Cosper Boyd III, Tuscaloosa, AL
* Gwendolyn Louise Boyd, Birmingham, AL
David Lynn Boyer, Killen, AL
James Edward Boyle, Decatur, AL
Brice Herald Brackin, Alabaster, AL
Eugene Headley Bradley, Centre, AL
Robert Hugh Bradley, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Donald Taylor Bragg, Birmingham, AL
William Howard Brakefield, Talladega, AL
* Kenneth Wayne Bramlett, Birmingham, AL
Jack W. Brand, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Oliver Brian Brand, Birmingham, AL
Jeffrey Randall Brant, Kingston, GA
Joseph Kirven Brantley, Jr., Montgomery, AL
David Watterson Branyon, Hickory, NC
William Charles Braswell III, Birmingham, AL
Maury Bert Bray III, Albertville, AL
Howard Lee Brazil, Montgomery, AL
Charles Warren Breaux, Jr., Fruita, CO
Donna Lee Breen, Marksville, LA
Gayne M. Brenneman, Palos Verdes Estates, CA
Charles Boyre Brentnall, Jr., Sylacauga, AL
Michael Eric Brewer, Birmingham, AL
David Michael Brickman, Janesville, WI
R. Russell Bridges III, Washington, DC
Arthur Mead Britton, Montgomery, AL
William Edward Broach III, Danville, VA
Kathryn Clipson Brock, Birmingham, AL
H. Belk Brooks, Columbus, GA
* James Gordon Brooks, Jr., Dallas, TX
Andrew Marion Brown, Gadsden, AL
James Edward Brown IV, Spartanburg, SC
Kimberly Sue Brown, Albany, GA
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In Appreciation
* Richard Evans Brown, Montgomery, AL
Emmett Herschel Broxson, Jr., Dayton, OH
Claude Darnell Brunson, Ridgeland, MS
R. Don Bryan, Alabaster, AL
Robert Maurice Bryan, Birmingham, AL
James Edward Bryant, Birmingham, AL
Paty Bargeron Bryant, Birmingham, AL
William Prince Bryant, Birmingham, AL
Roger Stanford Buck, Gadsden, AL
* Anton Joslyn Bueschen, Birmingham, AL
Louis Edward Buettner, Tuscaloosa, AL
Theodis Buggs, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Cecil H. Bullard, Fresno, CA
Frederick D Burg, Huntsville, AL
James Benjamin Burke, Montgomery, AL
Mark Wayne Burlingame, Lancaster, PA
James Macon Burnett, Birmingham, AL
Mark Wesley Burton, Marion, NC
Jeffrey Wayne Bush, Eufaula, AL
Melvin Lynn Butler, Irving, TX
Max Murphree Bynum, Sonora, CA
Ruth Murray Byram, Dothan, AL
Ben Ralph Byrd, Dothan, AL
David Evan Byrd, New Bern, NC
Thomas King Byrne, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Michael Edward Cadra, Oakdale, CA
Albert Steven Cain, Ogden, UT
Richard Kermit Caldwell, Gadsden, AL
* Tom Oliver Caldwell, Birmingham, AL
Wallace Everette Calhoun Jr., Moss Point, MS
Michael Alston Callahan, Birmingham, AL
John Minge Cameron, Montgomery, AL
David Austin Campbell, Oklahoma City, OK
* Ernest Sheppard Campbell, Jr., Orange Beach, AL
John Emory Campbell, Camp Hill, AL
Lamar McWhorter Campbell, Ashville, AL
Virginia Ann Campbell, Pelham, AL
* Grant B. Cannon, Salt Lake City, UT
Donald Anthony Cantley, Jr., Henderson, KY
Eli Ralph Capouya, San Marino, CA
Rene Cardona-Campos, Rio Piedras, PR
* Waldemar A. Carlo, Birmingham, AL
John Terry Carlson, Tuscaloosa, AL
Robert Henry Carlson III, Birmingham, AL
Lawrence Earl Carlton, Houston, TX
Albert Augustus Carmichael Jr., Fairfield, AL
Laurence Cothran Carmichael, Muscle Shoals, AL
Dalton Remell Carpenter, Warner Robins, GA
James Robert Carpenter, Prattville, AL
Robert Henley Carpenter, Columbus, GA
John Carson Carter, Mountain Brook, AL
John Jefferson Carter, Florence, AL
Lee Carson Carter, Birmingham, AL
O. B. Carter, Jr., Albany, GA
Richard Devore Carter, Birmingham, AL
P. Michael Caruso, Huntsville, AL
John Philip Casarino, New York, NY
Ronald William Case, Lakeland, FL
Janet Johnson Cash, Vestavia Hills, AL
Thomas Gene Cash, Birmingham, AL
Laura Layden Cassidy, Baton Rouge, LA
Walesia Robinson Cates, Glenn Dale, MD
Frank Merriman Cauthen, Athens, AL
Resit Cem Cezayirli, Birmingham,
James George Chambers III, Huntsville, AL
* Elaine O. Chambless, Birmingham, AL
* Adrian Ahas Chandler, Rainbow City, AL
Jerry Wayne Chandler, Birmingham, AL
Michael Alan Chandler, Birmingham, AL
Steven Cecil Chandler, Decatur, AL
Sheng H. Chang, Arcadia, CA
* Gregory Douglas Chapman, Vestavia Hills, AL
Lucy Gravlee Chapman, Birmingham, AL
Robert Willis Chappell, Jr., Brownsboro, AL
Edgar Davidson Charles III, New York, NY
Thomas Harris Chase, Auburn, AL
Doyle E. Chastain, Titusville, FL
Stephen Lackey Chastain, Dothan, AL
Hoyt Abner Childs, Jr., Hampton Cove, AL
Orvis Hugh Chitwood III, Dothan, AL
Tasnee Chonmaitree, Houston, TX
Robert Harold Christenberry, Nashville, TN
* Craig Huron Christopher, Birmingham, AL
* Neil Edward Christopher, Guntersville, AL
Neil Edward Christopher, Jr., Tullahoma, TN
Reid Stuart Christopher, Birmingham, AL
Ann Skinner Chu, Huntsville, AL
Charles Hobart Clark III, Birmingham, AL
Dennis Mark Clark, Birmingham, AL
Eugene Cliff Clark, Albany, GA
Glenn Luther Clark, Marianna, FL
Joseph William Clark, Huntsville, AL
Robert Masters Clark, Columbia, SC
Kerry McCarthy Cleary, Birmingham, AL
James Allen Clemmons, Chipley, FL
Linda Clemmons Clemons, Scottsboro, AL
Benny Ray Cleveland, Boerne, TX
Richard Doss Cleveland, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Robert Smith Cleveland, Dothan, AL
Jeffrey James Clifton, Birmingham, AL
Ruth M. Cline, Athens, GA
Charles Stringfellow Cobbs, Birmingham, AL
Bradley M. (Bo) Cochran, Fort Payne, AL
Gerald Tyrone Cochran, Mentone, AL
Joseph Garber Cocke, Jr., New Smyrna Beach, FL
John Gus Cocoris, Birmingham, AL
Craig Louis Coe, Dothan, AL
Martin Steven Cogen, Birmingham, AL
Jerome Barry Cohen, Port Charlotte, FL
Mark Philip Cohen, Birmingham, AL
Stanley Bruce Cohen, Dallas, TX
Samuel Kline Cohn, Birmingham, AL
Albert Steinhart Coker, Jr., Mobile, AL
Solon Lycurgus Coleman, Judson, TX
Spencer James Coleman, Wetumpka, AL
Stephen Lanier Coleman, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Wheatley Coleman, Mobile, AL
William Hardin Coleman, Sr., Scottsboro, AL
Mark Green Coley, Mobile, AL
Maude Diseker Collier, Birmingham, AL
Harry Goodgame Collins, Jemison, AL
Jeffrey Wayne Collins, Anniston, AL
Mitchell Lynn Collins, Conway, AR
Wyatt Eugene Collins, Sr., Stephenville, TX
David Richard Colvard, Florence, AL
Edward Veston Colvin, Birmingham, AL
N. Cassandra Comer, Birmingham, AL
Charles Fred Conner, Dothan, AL
C. Dobbin Connor, St. Louis, MO
Arthur Emanuel Constantine, Nashville, TN
Vincent Roy Conti, Galveston, TX
Thomas Lanno Cook, Naples, FL
Timothy Alden Cool, Birmingham, AL
George Nelson Cooper, Jr., Alexander City, AL
Katharine Robinson Cooper, Alexander City, AL
* Max Dale Cooper, Birmingham, AL
Michael Glenn Cope, Little Rock, AR
Kenneth Rodney Copeland, Sr., Sheffield, AL
Sage Donald Copeland, Decatur, AL
Sage Kinney Copeland, Decatur, AL
George Andrew Corbett, New Orleans, LA
James Robert Corcoran, Metaire, LA
* David Henry Cornell, Atlanta, GA
Donald Ray Cornutt, Jr., Marietta, GA
* Timothy Alexander Correll, Madison, WI
Hugh Cort III, Birmingham, AL
Howard Brooks Cotten, Birmingham, AL
Clement Patrick Cotter, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Robert Harold Couch, Louisville, KY
Kenneth Reese Courington, Naples, FL
Norton Ethelbert Cowart, Huntsville, AL
Artemus Jennings Cox III, Birmingham, AL
Harold Marcus Cox, Redding, CA
Rabon B. Cox, Jr., Florence, AL
* Daniel Joseph Coyle, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Samuel Ferrell Crabtree, Anniston, AL
L. Gary Craddock, Anniston, AL
John Richard Cranton, Daphne, AL
Willis Vernon Crawford, Troy, AL
Wynne Crawford, Montgomery, AL
Hilda Bernice Craze, Guntersville, AL
* William Dodson Creighton, Brawley, CA
* Marta Ann Crispens, Springfield, IL
Percy Vandorn Crocker, Montrose, AL
Henry Crommelin, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Anne Haney Cross, Clayton, MO
DeWitte Talmadge Cross III, Clayton, MO
M. Richard Cross, Mobile, AL
William Archie Crotwell III, Mobile, AL
Charles Brandon Crow III, Birmingham, AL
Jeffery Ray Cryar, Altamonte Springs, FL
William Gary Cumbie, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Joseph Newton Cunningham, Jr., New York, NY
Kathryn Northcutt Cunningham, Mobile, AL
Denise Troy Curry, Saint Louis, MO
John Dory Curtis, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Jack M. Dabbs, Bessemer, AL
Donald Henry Dahlene II, Montgomery, AL
George Eugene Dailey III, Solana Beach, CA
William N. Dakos, Fort Myers, FL
Paul S. Dale, Macon, GA
Richard Charles Dale, Birmingham, AL
Martin Lester Dalton, Jr., Macon, GA
James Sloan Daniel, Marietta, GA
* Lilia Starr Daniel, Montgomery, AL
Robert R Daniel, Montgomery, AL
James Robert Daniell, Point Clear, AL
Larkin Jeffrey Daniels, Durham, NC
Linda Marie Dansby, Auburn, AL
David D. Darden, Ocoee, TN
James Barrett Darden, Tuscaloosa, AL
Sampson Harris Darden, Jr., Tuscaloosa, AL
Udaya Nath Dash, Bonita Springs, FL
Manuel Preston Daugherty, Jr., Mobile, AL
John Thomas Davidson, Birmingham, AL
Thomas John Davidson III, Gulf Shores, AL
James Edward Davies, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Dennis James Davin, Portland, OR
Anna Lee Davis, Birmingham, AL
James Austin Davis III, Birmingham, AL
James Grady Davis, Birmingham, AL
Jimmy Wayne Davis, Talladega, AL
* Jordan Kent Davis, Boca Raton, FL
Maxie Leroy Davis, Indian Springs, AL
Paul Michael Davis, Jr., Baton Rouge, LA
Bruce Edward Day, Hendersonville, TN
Manuel Trevino De Los Santos, San Antonio, TX
* William Brown Deal, Birmingham, AL
Larry Stephen Dean, Seattle, WA
Alpheus Monroe Deason, Jr., Birmingham, AL
William Chester Deavor, Selma, AL
Gary Alfred Decker, Jacksonville, FL
John Webster Degroote, Hurley, MS
Alan Scott DeJarnette, Key West, FL
Steven Eugene Dekich, Auburn, AL
Oscar David Dellinger III, Atlanta, GA
Maurice Ernest Dennis, Jr., Rainbow City, AL
Robert Campbell Denny, Jr., Guntersville, AL
John Roe Denton, Jr., New Rochelle, NY
Pamela Hughes Deschner, Tuscaloosa, AL
Leisa Watterson DeVenny, Tuscaloosa, AL
Michael Frederick DeVenny, Tuscaloosa, AL
Fred Ferris Diegmann, Fairhope, AL
* Arnold Gillespie Diethelm, Birmingham, AL
Jerry Dean Dillard, Selma, AL
Stephenie Cyd Dillard, Tuscaloosa, AL
* Alan Robert Dimick, Birmingham, AL
Robert Marshall Dimick, Nashville, TN
Bruce Michael DiPlacido, Huntsville, AL
William Herbert Dodson, Birmingham, AL
John Arthur Donovan, South Pasadena, CA
W. Daniel Doty, Pensacola, FL
Thomas Frank Dowling IV, Gadsden, AL
Mary Nabers Doyle, Birmingham, AL
Frank Leonard Dozier, Thomasville, AL
Philip Mathew Dozier, Dothan, AL
* Gregory Paul Driskill, Guntersville, AL
Lisa Gregory Driskill, Guntersville, AL
Lee Burnette DuBois, Vestavia Hills, AL
Thomas Durward DuBose, Jr., Kansas City, KS
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In Appreciation
Christopher Roger Duggar, Altamonte Springs, FL
Julius Ethelbert Dunn, Jr., Wetumpka, AL
Teresa V. K. Durbin, Layton, UT
Charles Louis Dyas, Jr., Daphne, AL
George William Eason, Wilmington, NC
* Thomas L. Eby, Birmingham, AL
Devin E. Eckhoff, Birmingham, AL
David B. Edmonds, Las Vegas, NV
Winlove Pabellan Eduarte, Kingwood, TX
John Lee Edwards, Birmingham, AL
Russell Philip Edwards, San Diego, CA
Thomas Henry Edwards III, Birmingham, AL
* Winston Tacker Edwards, Montgomery, AL
Karl Emerson Egerman, Hollywood, FL
Birgit Alexandra Ehlers-Renzi, Potomac, MD
Susan Horton Eiland, Birmingham, AL
Edward William Ellenbeck, Jr., Poway, CA
John Ralph Ellington, Jr., Lakeland, FL
John Durr Elmore, Birmingham, AL
Laurie Elizabeth Emert, Dallas, TX
Jack Manuel Englert, Huntsville, AL
John Matthews Ennis, Huntsville, AL
Herman Calvin Ensor, Cullman, AL
Larry W. Epperson, Montgomery, AL
* Paul Campbell Erwin, Townsend, TN
Richard Henry Esham, Mobile, AL
Vilma Caridad Fabré, Louisville, KY
Kimberly Morris Fagan, Birmingham, AL
Mari McGoff Fahrner, Webster Groves, MO
* N. Frank Fain, Jr., Indialantic, FL
* William Edwin Fann, Houston, TX
Teekie Wagner Farr, Washington, DC
John Roberts Faucette, Birmingham, AL
Rosemary Haynes Faust, Homewood, AL
Isa Aziz Fawal, Birmingham, AL
John P. K. Featheringill, Birmingham, AL
Charles Frederick Felgner, Florence, AL
William Chinglih Feng, Providence, RI
Emmet F. Ferguson, Jr., Jacksonville, FL
Susan LaMarsh Field, Huntsville, AL
Robert Edward Finch, Springfield, IL
John Albert Fincher, Jr., Bristol, TN
John Lee Finklea, Montgomery, AL
* Randall Wayne Finley, Birmingham, AL
* Sara Crews Finley, Birmingham, AL
* Wayne House Finley, Birmingham, AL
Susan Newsom Finney, Wyoming, OH
Samuel Fischer III, Birmingham, AL
George H. Fisher, Jr., Corpus Christi, TX
James Brent Fisher, Lewiston, ID
Larry Charles Fite, Huntsville, AL
William Oliver Fitzpatrick III, Birmingham, AL
Isadore Keith Fleisher, Birmingham, AL
Charles Tennant Fletcher, Jr., Montgomery, AL
* Joseph Wheeler Flippen III, Florence, AL
Jack Lloyd Flippo, Charlotte, NC
Robert Elliott Flowers, Dothan, AL
Paige Bill Follo, Greensboro, NC
Pink Lowe Folmar, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James Cannon Folsom, Santa Rosa, CA
William Stuart Foshee, Martinez, GA
Glenn Lyon Foster, Loma Linda, CA
Gary Matthew Fowler, Winfield, AL
Lewis Jeffers Fowlkes, Birmingham, AL
* Susan Ray Frederick, Denver, CO
Paul Elliot Free, Anniston, AL
James Hendrick French, Titus, AL
Edgar Shields Frey, Birmingham, AL
Johanna Selikoff Fricke, Las Vegas, NV
Herman Joseph Fritz, Tuscaloosa, AL
Andra Rixse Frost, Birmingham, AL
Linda Tribble Frye, McLean, VA
Scott Russell Fulgham, Pelham, AL
* Lonnie William Funderburg, Birmingham, AL
William Bradley Fuqua, Brewster, MA
Eddie Leon Gaines, Las Cruces, NM
J. Allyson Driggers Gallagh, Guilford, CT
Stanley Joseph Galle, Jr., Denver, CO
Herbert Huey Gannon, Jr., Dothan, AL
Charles Bernard Gantt, Jr., Sanford, NC
David Allen Garcia, Albuquerque, NM
Elizabeth Gordon Garcia, Albuquerque, NM
Martin Anthony Garcia, Jacksonville, FL
Sharon Foster Gardepe, Huntsville, AL
Steiner Darby Garrett, Jr., Mobile, AL
Thomas Allen Gaskin III, Birmingham, AL
George Francis Gates III, Anchorage, AK
William Carey Gates, Jr.., West Point, MS
Andrew Jackson Gay, Jr., Belfast, ME
Madison Waller Gay, Winter Park, FL
David Dunn Gayle, Dothan, AL
Louise Roach Geary-Billingsley, Eclectic, AL
Melinda Anne Gehrs, Denver, CO
Jeffrey R. George, Birmingham, AL
James Daniel Geyer, Tuscaloosa, AL
Larry Mack Gibbs, Birmingham, AL
Carl Anthony Gibson, University Place, WA
Garnett J. Giesler, Jr., La Grange, GA
Frederick Emerson Gilbert, Jr., Newnan, GA
S. Nixon Gillespie, Moulton, AL
Robert R. Gillespy, Jr., Jacksonville, FL
Regina Phillips Gilliland, Birmingham, AL
Wolfram Glaser, Birmingham, AL
* Richard David Glasgow, Birmingham, AL
* Henry Goodwin Glass, Houston, TX
James Russell Gleaves, Meridian, MS
Leslie Earl Glenn, Northport, AL
John Jacob Gleysteen, Birmingham, AL
John Rickey Gober, Vinemont, AL
Ronald Lee Godbold, Jr., Asheville, NC
* William Newton Godfree, Jr., Gadsden, AL
Guillermo Godoy, Tuscaloosa, AL
John Edward Godwin, Bartlett, IL
Ronald Irwin Goldberg, Birmingham, AL
Edward Lawrence Goldblatt, Alabaster, AL
Clarence LaDon Golden, Jackson’s Gap, AL
Warren Dale Goldstein, Colorado Springs, CO
Harrison Malone Goodall, Tuscaloosa, AL
John Mansell Gooding, Panama City, FL
Max Alan Goodson, Birmingham, AL
Monisha Goyal, Cleveland, OH
* James Herbert Graham, Winston-Salem, NC
Daryl Keith Granger, Dothan, AL
Charles P. Grant, Birmingham, AL
Edwin Harris Grant, Carrollton, GA
Larry Wells Grant, Macon, GA
* Edwin Ronald Gray, Hampton Cove, AL
Paul Wesley Gray, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Robert Morris Gray, Sylacauga, AL
Cynthia Joyce Greathouse, Birmingham, AL
Stanley W. Green, Salem, UT
William Rodgers Green, Mobile, AL
Mark Greenberg, Tyler, TX
Thomas Edward Greene, Lansdale, PA
Andrew John Maxwell Gregory, Nashville, TN
Cathy Lynn Gresham, Tuscaloosa, AL
Carol Ann Griffin, Birmingham, AL
Joan Bolin Griffin, Macon, GA
* Warren Leighton Griffin, Jr., Macon, GA
* Robert David Griffith, Tuscaloosa, AL
Larry Dewey Grimes, Gadsden, AL
Christopher Allen Grove, Troy, OH
Scott Alan Grumley, Birmingham, AL
Gilbert Truett Guffin, Gardendale, AL
Dan Mayo Guin, Auburn, AL
Jerry Nolan Gurley, Talladega, AL
Robert David Guyton, New Orleans, LA
Joe Nathan Hackworth, Cincinnati, OH
Hugh H. Haden, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Charles Allen Hagen, Florence, AL
* Roy Thomas Hager, Montgomery, AL
Robert Martin Hagler, Dothan, AL
E. David Haigler, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Carla Zoe Halacker, San Diego, CA
Rhonda Telette Halcomb, Nashville, TN
Bernard Hale, Montgomery, AL
Max Howard Hale, Birmingham, AL
Jeffrey Stuart Hall, Summerville, SC
R. Bruce Hall, Dothan, AL
Robin Tate Hall, Cullman, AL
W. Michael Hall, Cullman, AL
Melanie Hamner Halvorson, Montgomery, AL
* Lon Powell Hamby, Lexington, SC
* Wyndol Span Hamer, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Joseph Lyndon Hamm, Birmingham, AL
Ronald Fredrick Hammett, W. Monroe, LA
D. Alan Hammond, Memphis, TN
Lewis Herschel Hamner III, Atlanta, GA
Kay M. Hamrick, The Woodlands, TX
Jacqueline Patrice Hancock, Calera, AL
Gregory Andrew Hanissian, Cordova, TN
Karen Zboyovsky Hanna, Savannah, GA
Robert Welch Hannahan, Mobile, AL
Kenneth Moore Hannon, Mobile, AL
Kimberley J. Hansen, Winston-Salem, NC
Joseph Gibson Hardin, Jr., Mobile, AL
* Joanie Hare-Morris, Houston, TX
Rodney Wayne Harney, Decatur, AL
Howard Clayton Harper, Jr., Mobile, AL
Andrew Gaines Harrell, Houston, TX
Glenn Ferguson Harris, Sierra Vista, AZ
Hugh Geister Harris, Springfield, MO
James Burdick Harris, Bossier City, LA
Patricia Kay Harris, Gardendale, AL
Boyde Jerome Harrison, Haleyville, AL
Donald Carey Harrison, Cincinnati, OH
J. R. Hutchinson Harrison, Carrollton, GA
James Max Harrison, Jr., Mobile, AL
William Randall Harrison, Birmingham, AL
John Harsany, Jr., Hemet, CA
Michael Thayer Hartsfield, Pace, FL
James Edwin Hassell, Mobile, AL
Jack Harold Hasson, Birmingham, AL
Clifford Jackson Hataway, Montgomery, AL
Benjamin F. Hatchett, Jr., Florence, AL
Donald Gary Hawkins, Eclectic, AL
William Kirkland Hawley, Birmingham, AL
Van Buren Hayne, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Russell Nesbit Haynes, Birmingham, AL
Sarah Jablecki Hays, Birmingham, AL
Melvin L. Haysman, Savannah, GA
Mark Glenn Haywood, Duluth, GA
Cooper Green Hazelrig, Birmingham, AL
Sanders F. Hearne, Shreveport, LA
Phillip Martin Heidepriem, Montgomery, AL
Sherron Ruth Helms, Richardson, TX
George Philamon Hemstreet IV, Birmingham, AL
Gary Lynn Henderson, Tucson, AZ
R. Winn Henderson, Knoxville, TN
Robert Lee Henderson, Woodbine, MD
John Murdock Herion, Wilmington, NC
Robin Wynne Herion, Wilmington, NC
Vernon L. Hermecz, Fairhope, AL
Joseph Wheeler Herod, Jr., Enterprise, AL
David Phillip Herrick, Montgomery, AL
Forest Stephen Herrington, Huntsville, AL
Chester Cleveland Hicks, Jr., Gadsden, AL
* Julius Norton Hicks, Birmingham, AL
John Allan Higginbotham, Huntsville, AL
Allison B. Hill, Kennesaw, GA
Bruce Shawn Hill, Charlotte, NC
Fontaine Sallis Hill, Jr., Coral Gables, FL
* Samuel Richardson Hill, Jr., Birmingham, AL
William Anderson Hill, Jr., Tuscaloosa, AL
Edward Dowling Hillard, Tuscaloosa, AL
Ronald Wayne Hillyer, Opelika, AL
Patti Schroder Hilyer, Wilsonville, AL
Benjamin Franklin Hinton, Huntsville, AL
Martin Bruce Hirsch, Nashville, TN
William Carroll Hixson, Magnolia Springs, AL
Milton D. Hobbs, Oxford, MS
James Michael Hodges, Hattiesburg, MS
Janice Hill Hodges, Scottsboro, AL
* Cary Gene Hodnett, Chattanooga, TN
* John Baldwin Hodo, Birmingham, AL
Walter Leroy Hogan, Jr., Mobile, AL
William Mitchell Hogan, Knoxville, TN
Frederic Larry Holcomb, Sheffield, AL
William Edgar Holcomb III, Cullman, AL
Derek Keith Holcombe, Alexander City, AL
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In Appreciation
Bruce Fowler Holding, Jr., Pike Road, AL
* Reese Maxwell Holifield, Demopolis, AL
Hilmon Dewitt Holley, Jr., Gadsden, AL
Howard Chambliss Holley, Tuscaloosa, AL
Warren Holcomb Holley, Tuscaloosa, AL
Jasper Cory Hollingsworth, Roseville, CA
Johnstone Pow Hollis, Georgianna, AL
Wilton Russell Holman III, Birmingham, AL
Philip J. Holt, Tucker, GA
Michael Benjamin Honan, Birmingham, AL
Doug G. Hooper, Smithville, TN
Glenn Scoble Hooper, Tampa, FL
Donna R. Sandidge Hopple, Trumansburg, NY
Kevin Martin Hornsby, Slocomb, AL
Jay Stoness Hortenstine, Murrayville, GA
James G. Horton, Desoto, TX
Gary Lee Howard, Birmingham, AL
* Paul Sanford Howard, Hoover, AL
Charles Baxter Howell, Decatur, AL
Julian Parker Howell, Jr., Selma, AL
Mildred Ennis Howell, Birmingham, AL
William Harper Howell, Vestavia, AL
William Jerry Howell, Birmingham, AL
Robert Louis Howland, Jr., Columbus, MS
Rhea Hsu, Rock Hill, SC
Leslie Howell Hubbard, Montevallo, AL
Kathryn Welch Huddleston, Jacksonville, FL
* Peggy Hoffman Huddleston, Brownsboro, AL
* William J. Huddleston, Jr., Brownsboro, AL
Kyle Randall Hudgens, Birmingham, AL
Roger James Hudgins, Atlanta, GA
Gary Wayne Hudson, Huntsville, AL
Henry Collier Hudson, Birmingham, AL
William Forse Huggins II, Birmingham, AL
A. J. Hughes, Auburn, AL
J. Paul Hughes, Tampa, FL
Reginald Douglas Hughes, South Ozone Park, NY
Frederica Wilhelmina Hughey, Summerville, SC
* Joseph Monroe Humphries, Birmingham, AL
Albert Collier Hunt, Decatur, AL
Charles E. Hunter, Jr., Wilmington, NC
* Eric Hunter, Vestavia, AL
James Bernhart Hunter, Nicholasville, KY
William Ward Hurd, Dayton, OH
J. Milton Hutson, New York, NY
Susan Cecelia Hutto, Birmingham, AL
D. Shannon Hwang, Danville, KY
Richard Fangyuan Hwang, Danville, KY
Renee Joy Hyatt, Townsend, TN
Patrick Anthony Hyland, Jasper, AL
James Elmer Hyler, Tarpon Springs, FL
Ramaiah Indudhara, Humboldt, TN
Charles Edgar Ingalls III, Montgomery, AL
George Bullock Inge II, Mobile, AL
Danny Patrick Ingram, Prattville, AL
James Thomas Ingram, Carrollton, GA
Michael Allen Ingram, Panama City, FL
Jerome Gaeton Ippolito, Birmingham, AL
Steven Phillips Irving, High Point, NC
Donald Bruce Irwin, Birmingham, AL
John B. Isbell III, Fort Payne, AL
* Steven Alan Isbell, Fort Payne, AL
James H. Isobe, Birmingham, AL
Robert Willis Israel, Mobile, AL
John Odeh Issis, Birmingham, AL
Daniel F. Jackson III, Dothan, AL
* David Huntsman Jackson, Birmingham, AL
Jerry Walter Jackson, Birmingham, AL
Michael Joseph Jackson, Savannah, GA
Eugene Elias Jacob, Prospect, KY
* Kenneth Aaron Jaffe, Birmingham, AL
Patricia Carol Jaggers, Midlothian, VA
Christy Ellen James, Birmingham, AL
James Quintus Jardine, Mobile, AL
Allan H. Jefferies, Norfolk, VA
L. Thomas Jehle, Jr., Montgomery, AL
M. David Jenkins, Rock Hill, SC
Sheri McClellan Jenkins, Irvine, CA
Todd Ralph Jenkins, Irvine, CA
Lynn Anderson Jetton, Holly Pond, AL
* Nancy Dunlap Johns, Birmingham, AL
Benjamin Hardy Johnson III, Birmingham, AL
Bruce King Johnson, Birmingham, AL
Edwin Hill Johnson, Temple, TX
James Henry Johnson, Jr., Columbia, SC
John Frank Johnson, Mobile, AL
Joseph Wayne Johnson, Andalusia, AL
* Lloyd Johnson, Jr., Florence, AL
Richard Hardin Johnson, Atlanta, GA
Robert James Johnson, Jr., Vestavia, AL
Thomas L. P. Johnson, Birmingham, AL
William Earle Johnson III, Mobile, AL
William Monroe Johnson III, Birmingham, AL
Flemon Carden Johnston, Jr., Birmingham, AL
William Henry Johnston, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* William Joseph Johnston, Jr., River Ridge, LA
Kenneth Lane Jonas, Kalispell, MT
C. Michael Jones, Germantown, TN
Dennis Malcom Jones, Kimberly, AL
Dewey Hobson Jones III, Birmingham, AL
Dewey Hobson Jones IV, Birmingham, AL
Gorman Robinson Jones III, Birmingham, AL
J. Michael Jones, Huntsville, AL
James David Jones II, Melbourne, FL
Joseph Gregory Jones, Lizella, GA
Leonard William Jones III, Tuscaloosa, AL
Moses Collier Jones, Jr., Tuscaloosa, AL
Steven Ernest Jones, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Rodenbough Jones, Concord, NC
* Bertis Benton Jordan, Gulf Breeze, FL
Charles Darwin Jordan, Gadsden, AL
Wiley Hugh Justice, Mobile, AL
Stephen Anthony Kahalley, Mobile, AL
Donald Roy Kahn, Birmingham, AL
Joseph Jay Kaplan, Columbus, GA
Saul J. Kaplan, Fairfax, VA
Bruce Wakefield Karrh, Savannah, GA
Flora Diemi Kayfan, Muscle Shoals, AL
Stephen Daniel Keith Jr., Florence, AL
Ward Andrew Keith, Empire, AL
Christopher Gordon Kelley, Gadsden, AL
Frank Joseph Kelly II, Fort Myers, FL
James Bernard Kelly, Birmingham, AL
Michael Scott Kendrick, Pike Road, AL
* R. Mark Kendrick, Tuscaloosa, AL
Samuel Rexford Kennamer, Beverly Hills, CA
Kathleen Donovan Kennelly, Atlantic Beach, FL
Raleigh Barbee Kent, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Mary Elizabeth Keown, Nashville, TN
William Henry Kessler, Birmingham, AL
Bruce Maurice Key, Birmingham, AL
Timothy Joel Key, Homewood, AL
Tommy Ray Key, Anniston, AL
Sonia Mikhail Kheir, Vienna, VA
Thomas LaFayette Kilgore, Jr., Ridgeland, MS
Cengiz Mehmet Kilic, Atlanta, GA
John Thomas Killian, Birmingham, AL
* Wayne Worden Killion, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Joseph Myoung Ho Kim, Killen, AL
Thomas Ivan King, Gulf Breeze, FL
John Donald Kirby, Mobile, AL
Theo Neal Kirkland, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, AL
Paul M. Kirschenfeld, Sumter, SC
Stephen James Klemawesch, St. Petersburg, FL
Price Mentzel Kloess, Birmingham, AL
Nicholas Alan Knight, Selma, AL
* Hurley Walden Knott, Birmingham, AL
Robert John Knowling, Huntsville, AL
Henry Jacob Koch, Mobile, AL
Warren Elliott Koffler, Mobile, AL
Robert Leonard Kominek, Mobile, AL
John George Kontos, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Stephen Henry Koopmeiners, Cedar Falls, IA
John McElroy Koors, Anniston, AL
Daniel Leonce Koppersmith, Houston, TX
Joseph D. Kovacs, Jr., Gainesville, FL
Alexander Vaughn Kreher, Montgomery, AL
Andrew Clark Kronenberg, Durham, NC
Kari Marie Kubik, Silver Spring, MD
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George Michael Kushner, Louisville, KY
Jack Kushner, Annapolis, MD
Daniel Vincent Kyle, Birmingham, AL
T. Kevin Lackey, Birmingham, AL
David Alan Lairmore, Mobile, AL
Andrew Stephen Lamb, Burlington, NC
David Hinkle Lamb, Lexington, SC
Charles Richard Lambert, Talladega, AL
* Wade Camdon Lamberth, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Benjamin Alan Lampert, Springfield, MO
J. Robert Lancaster, Hampton Cove, AL
R. Douglas Land, Butler, AL
Karen Destin May Landers, Leighton, AL
* Phillip Leonard Laney, Hampton Cove, AL
* Douglas C. Lanier, Jr., Gulfport, MS
William Ivan Lapidus, Birmingham, AL
Lisa Lynn Large, San Jose, CA
Brian Jay Larson, Birmingham, AL
* Charles Adrian Larson, Guntersville, AL
Nancy Holland Larson, Jacksonville, FL
* Robert Ottis Lauderdale, Jr., Leeds, AL
David Edward Law, Bradenton, FL
Thomas Clifford Lawson, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Troy Alan Layton, Hampton Cove, AL
Joel Craig Ledbetter, Signal Mountain, TN
Joseph Merrill Lee, Birmingham, AL
M. Andrew Lee, Brentwood, TN
Rufus Ernest Lee, Jr., Dothan, AL
* William Aull Leitner, Birmingham, AL
David George Lemak, Mobile, AL
* Lawrence John Lemak, Birmingham, AL
William Andrew Lemons, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Milton Alexis Lennicx, Dothan, AL
Evelyn Ann Leonard, Cullman, AL
Mark Hayden LeQuire, Montgomery, AL
Erik Paul Lessmann, Bryson City, NC
Frank Martin Lester, Fairhope, AL
Shirley Sanders Letchman, Springville, AL
Arnold I. Levin, Redmond, WA
Fred Alan Levin, Atlanta, GA
Stuart Jeffrey Levin, Raleigh, NC
Jonathan Lyone Levine, Birmingham, AL
Clifton Thomas P. Lewis, Sarasota, FL
Steven A. Leyland, Inman, SC
Robert Shelton Liebeskind, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Robert D. Lightfoot, Mobile, AL
William Malcolm Lightfoot, Mobile, AL
Annie Earle Lindsey, Pasadena, TX
James Douglas Lindsey, Birmingham, AL
Dice Kyle Lineberry, Trussville, AL
Julius Earl Linn, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James Mitchell Lipstate, Lafayette, LA
Linda Kinman Lipstate, Lafayette, LA
Richard Erwin Litt, Coral Gables, FL
Harry Joseph Littleton, Birmingham, AL
Michael Byrne Littleton, Birmingham, AL
Marcia Jean Litzinger, Salt Lake City, UT
Stanley Keith Lochridge, Birmingham, AL
James Stephen Lock, Auburn, AL
James Alanson Lockwood, Eufaula, AL
Lajuana Smith Logan, Vestavia Hills, AL
Christina Maria Lohmann, New York, NY
Robert Henry Lokey, Anniston, AL
Thomas A. Lombardo, Beaumont, TX
Patrick James Louis, Vestavia Hills, AL
Michael Patrick Lowe, Iowa City, IA
James Radcliff Lowrey, Crystal River, FL
Suzanne Lee Lowry, Atlanta, GA
* Davor Antun Luketic, Birmingham, AL
* Thomas Riley Lumpkin, Tuscaloosa, AL
George David Lundberg, Jr., Los Gatos, CA
Richard Howard Lyerly, Birmingham, AL
Richard Allen Lytle, Birmingham, AL
Richard Allen Lytle, Jr., Saint Louis, MO
James Stephen Maddox, Montgomery, AL
Philip Arthur Maddox, Huntsville, AL
Phillip Madonia, Mobile, AL
Sharmila Kumari Makhija, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Howard Maloy, Wilmington, NC
Eugene Anthony Mangieri, Tuscaloosa, AL

G. William Manifold, Decatur, AL
* Belinda Anne Mantle, Birmingham, AL
John Andrew Mantle, Tuscaloosa, AL
E. Russell March, Jr., Mobile, AL
Charles Gregory Mardis, Birmingham, AL
Robert Burton Mardre, Jr., Opelika, AL
Ellen Lucille Marmer, Vernon, CT
Carl Walter Martens, Monroeville, AL
* Ben Robertson Martin III, Dothan, AL
Danny Joe Martin, Florence, AL
Frederick Watson Martin, Carrollton, GA
Robert Michael Martin, Birmingham, AL
John Ogden Mason III, Hoover, AL
William Alfred Massey III, Birmingham, AL
John Louis Mathews, Birmingham, AL
Robert David Mathews, Sheffield, AL
James Claude Matthews, Jr., Bailey, MS
Richard Michael Mazey, Mobile, AL
Billy Dearl McAnnally, Lineville, AL
John Norville McAtee, Mobile, AL
Michael Leigh McBrearty, Fairhope, AL
* Charles Lee McCain, Decatur, AL
Paul Pressly McCain, Decatur, AL
Daniel Thompson McCall III, Mobile, AL
* Charles Alexander McCallum, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* John Terrell McCarley, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Richmond Charles McClintock, Jr., Dothan, AL
Joel McCloud, Jr., Montgomery, AL
* E. Gaylon McCollough, Gulf Shores, AL
Jasper Otto McCollough, Jr., Winter Haven, FL
Beatrice Files McConnell, Atlanta, GA
Michael Ellis McConnell, Atlanta, GA
Brian Joseph McCool, Morgantown, WV
Ronald Alton McCormack, Tuscaloosa, AL
Patricia Massengill McCoy, Huntsville, AL
Walter Clayton McCoy, Birmingham, AL
Edward Fishburne McCraw, Greenville, AL
Ellann McCrory, Fort Payne, AL
Clarence Eugene McDanal, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Huey Green McDaniel, Mobile, AL
Millie Martha McDaniel, Birmingham, AL
Scott Andrew McDaniel, Birmingham, AL
William Young McDaniel, Theodore, AL
Michael Anderson McEwen, Gadsden, AL
Tracy Lynn McFall, Charleston, SC
William Park McGehee, Opelika, AL
* Eoline Irene McGowan, Birmingham, AL
Norman Floyd McGowin III, Chapman, AL
George Harris McGrady, Birmingham, AL
C. Rush McInnis, Jr., Birmingham, AL
David Russell McKenzie, Auburn, AL
* J. Barry McKernan, Marietta, GA
William Keith McKibbin, Asheville, NC
David Parks McKinley, Sheffield, AL
James Davis McKinney, Cookeville, TN
Thomas Durant McKinnon, Birmingham, AL
Randall Louis McKissack, Fairhope, AL
Jerry Thomas McLane, Birmingham, AL
Leon Durward McLaughlin, Ozark, AL
Max Victor McLaughlin, Orange Beach, AL
* William Davis McLaughlin, Dothan, AL
Barry Kincaid McLean, Birmingham, AL
A. Reeves McLeod, Pensacola, FL
John Martin McMahon, Jr., Daphne, AL
Freddy Glen McMurry, Huntsville, AL
Ryan Scott McNamara, Knoxville, TN
Sarah Dawn McNutt, Birmingham, AL
Frank Leatherbury McPhillips, Mobile, AL
Wilton David McRae, Troy, AL
Norman Ellsworth McSwain, Jr., New Orleans, LA
Leon Victor McVay III, Mobile, AL
Donald Chapman Meadows, Harlingen, TX
James Allen Meadows III, Savannah, GA
Klaus F. Medenbach, Huntsville, AL
Autry Greer Megginson, Mobile, AL
Edward Innis Melton, Jr., Fort Walton Beach, FL
Daniel Michael Merck, Olathe, KS
* Ronald Clifton Merrell, Richmond, VA
Julius Michaelson, Jr., Puyallup, WA
Marc Alan Michelson, Birmingham, AL
In Appreciation
Mark Middlebrooks, Birmingham, AL
Guy Malcolm Middleton, Lancaster, SC
Edward Adams Millar, Libertyville, IL
A. Lamar Miller, Jr., Dothan, AL
George Douglas Miller, Gadsden, AL
John Cleveland Miller, Dothan, AL
John Pitts Miller, Hammond, LA
P. Caudill Miller, Montgomery, AL
S. Jones Miller III, La Grange, GA
Samuel Carter Miller, Sr., Mobile, AL
Samuel Lamar Miller, Montgomery, AL
Thomas Thane Miller, Woodinville, WA
* Patrick Leonard Mills, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Patrick Leonard Mills, Sr., Birmingham, AL
Angela Prater Mintz, Pensacola, FL
Simon Mirelman, Birmingham, AL
* James Stuart Mitchell, Jr., Phenix City, AL
Robert Byrd Mitchell, Huntsville, AL
Otis Dale Mitchum, Geneva, AL
Donald Richard Moeller, Columbus, GA
Gary David Monheit, Houston, TX
Kathy Wingo Monroe, Birmingham, AL
John Richard Montgomery, Huntsville, AL
David Charles Montiel, Montgomery, AL
Thomas Edwin Moody, Birmingham, AL
James Owen Moon, Birmingham, AL
Alan Lee Moore, Auburn, AL
Carol Sturgeon Moore, Holliston, MA
Daniel Lloyd Moore, Montgomery, AL
Ernest Griffin Moore, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Jasper Duncan Moore, Union, MS
Michael Arthur Moore, Birmingham, AL
* Michael Neil Moore, Russellville, AL
Paul Beveridge Moore, Montgomery, AL
Sandra Velia Moore, Plano, TX
Cynthia Marie Moore-Sledge, Birmingham, AL
Teresa Moran, Birmingham, AL
* Richard Bacon Morawetz, Birmingham, AL
John Finch Morehous, Cincinnati, OH
Alice Hardin Morgan, Cullman, AL
* Claud Edward Morgan, Jr., Duluth, GA
John Mabry Morgan, Birmingham, AL
Felix Arthur Morris, Florence, AL
Peter William Morris, Birmingham, AL
Robert Edward Morris, Birmingham, AL
Constantine Demetrios Morros, Birmingham, AL
John Andrew Morrow, Anniston, AL
John Andrew Morrow, Jr., Mobile, AL
Richard Craig Morrow, Blythewood, SC
Billy Ray Mosley, Mobile, AL
James Merrill Motes, Jr., Corpus Christi, TX
Elizabeth Ann Mountcastle, Montgomery, AL
Knut Erich Mueller, Mobile, AL
Kristi Morgan Mulchahey, Marietta, GA
Ross Bob Mullins, Jr., Valley, AL
Dorothy Snoddy Murphy, Murfreesboro, TN
John Larkin Musgrove, Florence, AL
Frederick August Muths, Cleveland, TN
Charles M. Myer III, Cincinnati, OH
Albert Jackson Naftel, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC
Ahmad Nasserian, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Carl Mandel Nechtman, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Jane Newman Nechtman, Birmingham, AL
* Jacob Allen Neighbors, Birmingham, AL
Byron L. Nelson, Centre, AL
David Allen Nesser, Dallas, TX
Joe Lee Nettles, Savannah, GA
Alfred Miles Neumann, Jr., Point Clear, AL
T. Gerald New, Decatur, AL
Leon Bryant Newman, Salisbury, NC
* Lucian Newman III, Gadsden, AL
William Alton Newman III, Columbia, SC
Edward Tyler Nichols, Orange Beach, AL
J. Christopher Nichols, Birmingham, AL
Michele Holloway Nichols, Birmingham, AL
Randall Wayne Nichols, Dothan, AL
Robert Kenneth Nichols, Prattville, AL
* Steven R. Nichols, Birmingham, AL
* Kurt M. Walter Niemann, Columbiana, AL
Stephen Herbert Nightingale, Ellsworth, ME
William Alexander Nixon, Guntersville, AL
Charles William Nolen, Jr., Fayette, AL
Harold Glenn Norman, Jr., Coral Gables, FL
Laura Lucille Norrell, San Francisco, CA
Samuel S. Norvell, Jr., Rockville, MD
Samuel Strudwick Norvell, Florence, AL
William Raymond Nuessle, Huntsville, AL
George Woodward Nunn, Tuscaloosa, AL
Charles Lawton Ogburn, Jr., Macon, GA
Christopher Wingate Old, Shoal Creek, AL
Isabel Barker Oldshue, Tuscaloosa, AL
Ronald Terry Olivet, Tuscaloosa, AL
Gary Wayne Olson, Dalton, GA
Joe Willard O’Neal, Tuscaloosa, AL
V. Delane O’Rear, Nauvoo, AL
* Ronald Wayne Orso, Birmingham, AL
Robert Carl Osburne, Atlanta, GA
Lamar Sutton Osment, Birmingham, AL
Guy Coleman Oswalt, Jr., Mobile, AL
Donald Clyde Overstreet, Selma, AL
John Skelton Owen, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Lolita Crabbe Owens, Huntsville, AL
Loren Cook Owensby, Victoria, TX
* J. Harold Owsley, Hickory, NC
Eddie Nathaniel Pace, Jr., Mobile, AL
Albert Dominick Pacifico, Indian Springs, AL
John Mallory Packard, Jr., Guntersville, AL
Donald Robert Paek, Fort Worth, TX
M. Ray Painter, Jr., Denver, CO
Christopher Graham Palmer, Monument, CO
Jaleh Shariat Panahi, Kingston, NY
Lee Ann Pannell, Trussville, AL
Bernard Lee Parham, Chattanooga, TN
Timothy D. Parish, Vestavia, AL
Kim Michelle Parker, Birmingham, AL
Mervel Vernon Parker, Montgomery, AL
Steven Wallace Parker, Reno, NV
Walter Eugene Parker, Prattville, AL
Paul Franklin Parks, Jr., New Orleans,
Grant Van Siclen Parr, Morristown, NJ
Kathleen Gage Parr, Baltimore, MD
* David O’Neil Parrish, Tierra Verde, FL
Richard K. Parrish II, Miami, FL
Sheela Krishnasami Parrish, Huntsville, AL
Rufus Cornelius Partlow, Jr., Tuscaloosa, AL
Edward Eddins Partridge, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Hitesh Raman Patel, Dallas, TX
William Morrow Patterson, Birmingham, AL
Arthur Frederick Patton, Birmingham, AL
* David Wiley Patton, Birmingham, AL
Francis Moore Patton, Pell City, AL
* Ira Bertling Patton, Oneonta, AL
Robert Cecil Patton, Opelika, AL
Charles Ted Paulk, Dothan, AL
James Flood Paulk, New Brockton, AL
Gillis Lavelle Payne, Jr., Ramer, AL
Kathy Wells Payne, Andalusia, AL
Louis Thomason Payne, Tuscaloosa, AL
Robert Rex Payne, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Jefferson Payne III, Birmingham, AL
William Richard Payne, Cartersville, GA
Jane Pearson, Birmingham, AL
G. Vernon Pegram III, Fort Payne, AL
Thomas Carl Pendleton, Birmingham, AL
Miriam Y. Peri, Cincinnati, OH
Stewart Neal Perlman, Nashville, TN
Brian Alan Perry, Centre, AL
* Glenn Eidson Peters, Birmingham, AL
* Joseph Alan Peters, Counce, TN
* Chris J. Peterson, Birmingham, AL
Gary Lynn Petry, Lilburn, GA
Ralph Burton Pfeiffer III, Jackson, MS
Alpheus M. Phillips, Jr., Macon, GA
Gerry Madison Phillips, Mobile, AL
Harry Ladon Phillips, Columbiana, AL
James Robert Phillips, Gadsden, AL
Steve Eric Phurrough, Laytonsville, MD
James Conlee Pickens, Cantonment, FL
Taylor King Pickett, Niceville, FL
Leonard Faherty Pinkley, Jr., Amory, MS
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In Appreciation
Roger McCoy Pitt, Atlanta, GA
* James Allen Pittman, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Walter Gay Pittman, Mountain Brook, AL
J. Randall Pitts, Birmingham, AL
Joan B. Cain Pizitz, Birmingham, AL
Michelle Miller Plagenhoef, Dothan, AL
Edward John Planz, Jr., Dothan, AL
Peter Pluscht III, Mobile, AL
Michael Gerard Poist, Tuscaloosa, AL
James E. Pollock, Rockville, MD
* Samuel Baker Pollock, Jr., Louisville, KY
Sarah Stephens Polt, Birmingham, AL
Carol Ray Porch, Arab, AL
Ellis Fay Porch, Jr., Arab, AL
C. McGavock Porter, Montgomery, AL
Charles Edward Porter, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Robert Allen Posey, Tuscaloosa, AL
Donna Millar Potts, Townville, SC
Angela Adams Powell, Monroeville, AL
Don Watson Powell, Galveston, TX
James Blackmon Powell II, Asheville, NC
James Orlis Powell, Birmingham, AL
Rhonda Henderson Powell, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Edward Powell, Birmingham, AL
Charles Kent Powers, Jr., Kissimmee, FL
* John Worrell Poynor, Birmingham, AL
Steven DeWayne Presley, Enterprise, AL
Jeffrey Frank Price, Clanton, AL
William F. Price, Spartanburg, SC
Robert Monroe Pritchett, Birmingham, AL
* Wallace Dale Prophet, Dothan, AL
Alicia Ann Prowse, Bronx, NY
Bryan Lee Pruitt, Birmingham, AL
Michael Paul Pruitt, Neptune Beach, FL
Ronald E. Pruitt, Nashville, TN
John Barr Pugh, Atlanta, GA
Martha Elanor Pugh, Houston, TX
Michael Lee Putman, Decatur, AL
William Walter Pyron, Decatur, AL
Robert B. Quattlebaum, Jr., Savannah, GA
Raymond Phillip Quigley, Dallas, TX
Norman Hill Rahn III, Gadsden, AL
Ryan Dru Rainer, Birmingham, AL
* Hector Ramirez, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Michael Jeffrey Ramsey, Dothan, AL
Richard Rosa Randall, Huntsville, AL
* Kathleen Anne Ranney, Frederick, MD
Mary Jane Ravel, Palm Harbor, FL
Gary Michael Ray, Anniston, AL
* Joseph Byron Ray, Mobile, AL
Harry Edward Reagor, Jr., Lodi, CA
* David Michael Reardon, Fort Myers, FL
Alfred Randolph Rector, Birmingham, AL
Srikar Sunki Reddy, Columbia, TN
* V. Sreenath Reddy, Nashville, TN
James Lendon Reeder, Huntsville, AL
Russell Chesley Reeves, Birmingham, AL
Harry Buford Register, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James Lamar Rencher, Fairhope, AL
W. Courtenay Renneker, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Eugene Scott Reynolds, Largo, FL
David Nelson Rhyne, Enterprise, AL
Patrick Norwood Rhyne, Signal Mountain, TN
* Robert Henry Rhyne, Jr., Moulton, AL
Alvin Leonard Rich, Birmingham, AL
Sherrie Anderson Richards, Nashville, TN
Leonard Clarence Rigsby III, Montgomery, AL
Kristen Owen Riley, Birmingham, AL
* Stancel Martin Riley, Jr., Huntsville, AL
John Byron Riser, Birmingham, AL
Gerald Joseph Rizzo, St. Petersburg, FL
Benjamin Wayne Roberts, Birmingham, AL
David Hall Roberts, Talladega, AL
Jeffrey Neal Roberts, Greenville, SC
Rick Michiel Roberts, Huntsville, AL
Gregory C. Robertson, Atherton, CA
Christopher Edward Robinson, Dothan, AL
Oliver Gordon Robinson, Jr., Birmingham, AL
John Crawford Rochester, Knoxville, TN
Hubert Alfredo Rodriguez, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Brian Edward Rogers, Auburn, AL
Michael Xavier Rohan, Panama City, FL
Douglas Lee Rollins, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Virgil Warren Rollins, Dothan, AL
Evelyn Spira Rosemore, Plano, TX
Sanford I. Rosenthal, Savannah, GA
Rachel Hereford Ross, Salisbury, NC
* Robert George Rosser, Columbiana, AL
Philip Anthony Roth, Jr., Huntsville, AL
James Michael Row, San Antonio, TX
Teri P. Rowan, Portland, OR
Melinda Grace Rowe, Savannah, GA
* Stephen William Rowe, Gadsden, AL
Donald H. Rowell, Santa Rosa, CA
Maurice Hulbert Rowell, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Stuart Alan Royal, Birmingham, AL
George Ellis Rudd, Pinson, AL
Steven Michael Rudd, Birmingham, AL
Loring W. Rue III, Birmingham, AL
Claude Cayce Rumsey III, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Charles Walton Rush, Osprey, FL
William Dwain Rush, Lineville, AL
Charles Maynard Rushing, Charleston, SC
Bruce Wayne Russell, Cordova, AL
William Stephen Russell, Opelika, AL
Charles Langdon Rutherford, Jr., Mobile, AL
Jill Arnita Rutherford, Birmingham, AL
Mary Elizabeth Rutherford, Gadsden, AL
Guy Leslie Rutledge III, Mobile, AL
Jarvis DeVaughn Ryals, Pueblo, CO
Thad Franklin Ryals, Birmingham, AL
Pritam Singh Sahni, Mt. Vernon, IL
David Lester Saint, Tallahassee, FL
Salem George Saloom, Brewton, AL
Merle Meyers Salter, Montevallo, AL
Paul Pullen Salter III, Birmingham, AL
Paul Pullen Salter, Jr., Montevallo, AL
Susan Paula Salter, Birmingham, AL
Stephen William Samelson, Montgomery, AL
* F. Calame Sammons, Huntsville, AL
Robert Vester Sanders III, Fort Smith, AR
William McDonald Sanders, Prattville, AL
Jon Emory Sanford, Fayette, AL
Morgan Scott Sarrels, Decatur, AL
Lowell Franklin Satler, Bethesda, MD
Perry Lauren Savage, Birmingham, AL
James Watson Sawyer, Longview, TX
Samuel F. Sawyer, Enterprise, AL
Frank Schefano III, Metarie, LA
Paul Michael Schelkun, Churchville, PA
* Michael James Schlitt, Renton, WA
John Frederick Schmidt, Guilford, CT
Charles David Schroeder, Oak Ridge, TN
David Marshall Schull, Nashville, TN
Katharine Nicrosi Schull, Nashville, TN
Darrell E. Schwertner, St. Simons Island, GA
George Farned Scofield, Birmingham, AL
Paul William Scokel III, Birmingham, AL
Aubrey Dennis Scott, Birmingham, AL
Charlie William Scott, Jr., Indian Springs, AL
John Russell Scott, Spartanburg, SC
* Johnny Washington Scott, Birmingham, AL
Carl Screws, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Nicholas J. Sears, Jr., Tampa, FL
Nathan Segall, Atlanta, GA
John Emanuel Semon, Mobile, AL
Robert Andrew Serio, Huntsville, AL
Sheldon Joel Sevinor, Nahant, MA
Aubrey Lucien Sewell, Winfield, AL
Morris Burton Seymour, Jr., Gurley, AL
David Allen Shachat, Annapolis, MD
Claude Edward Shackelford, Northport, AL
John Ashley Shannon, Decatur, AL
Kenneth Norman Shannon, Rainbow City, AL
Harold Oran Shapiro, Vernon, CT
Charles Eugene Sharp, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Joe Frank Sharp, Alabaster, AL
James Lynford Sharpless, Jr., Baton Rouge, LA
Paul Moses Shashy, Montgomery, AL
L. Thomas Sheffield, Jr., Birmingham, AL
George Michael Shehi, Sr., Gadsden, AL
R. Waid Shelton, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Eliyahu Shemesh, Boca Raton, FL
Debra Goodridge Shepard, Naples, FL
W. Elizabeth Shepard, Palo Alto, CA
Fred Oscar Sherrill, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Joseph Madden Sherrill, Birmingham, AL
* Robert Grady Sherrill, Jr., Indian Springs, AL
Cathy Darlene Shrader, Alexandria, VA
Bernard William Shragge, Ontario Canada,
Alan Myron Siegal, Birmingham, AL
Stuart Louis Siegal, Birmingham, AL
Richard Benjamin Siegel, Birmingham, AL
Martin Tristram Sigler, Dallas, TX
Michael Jay Sillers, Birmingham, AL
Albert Grayson Simmons, Monroeville, AL
Earl Malcolm Simmons, Jr., Montgomery, AL
L. Clark Simpson, Birmingham, AL
Mark Thomas Simpson, Chattanooga, TN
Thomas Herbert Simpson, Jr., Rock Hill, SC
W. Ford Simpson, Jr., Tuscaoosa, AL
William Hayden Simpson, Gadsden, AL
Michael Collidge Sims, Columbus, GA
Larry Oneal Skelton, Tuscaloosa, AL
Mark Edward Skillan, Atlanta, GA
Catherine Avery Skinner, Northport, AL
Gregory E. Skipper, Montgomery, AL
Katherine LaVan Smallwood, Richmond, VA
Anthony Crozat Smith, Winterville, NC
Braxton Franklin Smith, Arab, AL
Bryan Leonard Smith, Venice, FL
Donnie Ray Smith, Northport, AL
* G. Hampton Smith, Jr., Birmingham, AL
George Cicero Smith, Lineville, AL
J. Kevin Smith, Birmingham, AL
James Arthur Smith III, Lynchburg, VA
Jeffrey Kent Smith, Greenville, SC
Mark Glendeaux Smith, Louisville, KY
Nathan Bert Smith II, Birmingham, AL
Philip Scott Smith, Baltimore, MD
Richard Felix Smith, Birmingham, AL
Robert Russell Smith, Brewton, AL
Steven Reed Smith, Huntsville, AL
William David Smith, Montgomery, AL
Wilson Pedrick Smith, Jr., Spartanburg, SC
Henry Elton Smoak III, Indian Rocks Beach, FL
John Warner Snead, Fort Meyers, FL
Howard Carey Snider, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Bradley Michael Snow, Greenville, SC
Karen Guthrie Snow, Gulf Breeze, FL
Merle Kelley Snow, Jr., Vestavia, AL
Richard Maxwell Snow, Tuscaloosa, AL
Arthur Farrish Snyder, Tuscaloosa, AL
Jenny Oakes Sobera, Birmingham, AL
William E. Somerall, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Weily Soong, Hamden, CT
Robert Gordon Sorrell, Birmingham, AL
Pete S. Soteres, Signal Mountain, TN
Gerald Sparks, Jr., Alexander City, AL
Carol Denise Spears, Lexington, KY
* Betty Ruth Speir, Point Clear, AL
Homer Andrew Spencer, Gadsden, AL
Sharon Ann Spencer, Birmingham, AL
John Charles Spivak, Birmingham, AL
Richard J. Spurlin, Opp, AL
Okey James Staats, Childersburg, AL
Gerald E. Stack, Greenwell Springs, LA
Anne Golden Stafford, Birmingham, AL
G. Timothy Stafford III, Alamosa, CO
* Mark Alan Stafford, Birmingham, AL
* Rucker Lewis Staggers, Elberta, AL
* William Rucker Staggers, Fairhope, AL
Sergio Bruno Stagno, Birmingham, AL
Martin Wade Stallings, Kings Mountain, NC
David Kern Stallworth, Birmingham, AL
Deborah Ann Stanford, Birmingham, AL
Lowry Claiborne Stanford, Jr., Brandon, MS
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Michael James Stanford, St. Petersburg, FL
Earl Austin Stanley, San Antonio, TX
James Gilbert Stensby, Winchester, TN
Selden Harbour Stephens, Jr., Mobile, AL
* Johnnie Wayne Stevens, Birmingham, AL
James Patrick Stewart, Anniston, AL
Jeff Lovvorn Stewart, Wedowee, AL
Mark Lindsey Stewart, Missoula, MT
William Petry Stewart, Atlanta, GA
Jeffrey Wayne Stone, Irving, TX
John Everett Stone, Jr., Mobile, AL
Linda Johnson Stone, Birmingham, AL
Timothy Ellis Stone, Birmingham, AL
Timothy Lynn Stone, Birmingham, AL
* William Bratton Stonecypher, Birmingham, AL
Robert Howard Story, Tuskegee, AL
Cary Lee Stowe, Winter Park, FL
Martha Jane Strange, Birmingham, AL
* J. Michael Straughn, Birmingham, AL
* W. Howard Striplin, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Clint Andrew Strong, Ozark, MO
James Larkin Strong, Birmingham, AL
Terrence Lee Stull, Oklahoma City, OK
Mike Stults, Cedar City, UT
Stephen Patrick Suggs, Decatur, AL
William Jay Suggs, Rochester, MN
Edward Allen Sullivan III, Birmingham, AL
James Solomon Sullivan, Dothan, AL
William Larry Sullivan, Huntsville, AL
John Philip Summerford, Tuscaloosa, AL
* Swaid Nofal Swaid, Birmingham, AL
John Luther Swan II, Montgomery, AL
Frederick D. Swartzendruber, Roanoke, VA
Robert Leldon Sweet, Vidor, TX
Rodney Kent Swillie, Birmingham, AL
Carol Gunn Swindle, Birmingham, AL
* Felix Marcus Tankersley, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Robert Ferris Tarpy, Lafayette, LA
Gregg William Taylor, Greensboro, NC
Norman Lindsay Taylor, Montgomery, AL
Peyton Troy Taylor, Jr., Ivy, VA
Robert Elmore Taylor, Durham, NC
William Henry Taylor, Jr., Birmingham, AL
William Riley Taylor, Johnson City, TN
* Dudley Joseph Terrell, Ozark, AL
Joe Frank Terrell, Brewton, AL
Aubrey Eugene Terry, Russellville, AL
Nina L. J. Terry, Sylacauga, AL
William Jefferson Terry, Mobile, AL
* Edward Lamar Thomas, Birmingham, AL
George Emanuel Thomas, Jackson, TN
James Lloyd Thomas, Montrose, AL
* Joseph Paul Thomas, Mobile, AL
Lee Thomas, Tuscaloosa, AL
John Brown Thomison, Jr., Nashville, TN
Rena Melton Thomison, Nashville, TN
* Ira Duke Thompson, Huntsville, AL
Paul Allen Thompson, Apopka, FL
Warren Alan Thompson, Mt. Pleasant, SC
William Alexander Thompson III, Birmingham, AL
James Patrick Thomson, Atlanta, GA
Kimberly Noblin Thomson, Atlanta, GA
Donald Davis Thornbury, Jr., Montgomery, AL
* Helen Raye Thrasher, Birmingham, AL
Stephen Colin Threlkeld, Memphis, TN
* Chauncey Benedict Thuss, Birmingham, AL
Craig Michael Tilghman, Panama City, FL
Aaron McLain Toler, Spartanburg, SC
Kimberly Frazier Toler, Spartanburg, SC
Curtis L. Toliver, Gardendale, AL
* John Carey Tomberlin, Enterprise, AL
Arthur Fulkerson Toole III, Anniston, AL
Julius Dewayne Tooson, Dayton, OH
Terry Jay Toranto, Walnut Creek, CA
* Michael Joseph Torma, Shreveport, LA
* Claudio Erasmo Toro, Birmingham, AL
Dale Edward Trammell, Decatur, AL
* Jack Walden Trigg, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Peter Tsai, Huntington, WV
In Appreciation
Nimrod Holt Tucker III, Jacksonville, FL
Olon Clinton Tucker, Grant, AL
James Richard Tulloss, Mount Gilead, OH
* Albert Julian Tully, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Ramachandra Prasad Tunmala, Minneapolis, MN
* Robert Peter Turk, Dayton, OH
Heather Spidahl Turner, Tuscaloosa, AL
Linda Katherine Tyer, Belfast, ME
Charles Mathison Tyndal, Birmingham, AL
Edward Carraway Tyndal, Columbiana, AL
Arthur John Ulm III, Gainesville, FL
Dolph Thomas Urban, San Jose, CA
* Marshall McLean Urist, Birmingham, AL
Timothy Walter Valk, Boca Raton, FL
Katisha Terrell Vance, Birmingham, AL
Kenneth Luckie Vandervoort, Anniston, AL
John Scott VanLoock, Crozet, VA
Pamela Duncan Varner, Birmingham, AL
Robert Edward Varner, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Luis O. Vasconez, Birmingham, AL
* Betty Walthall Vaughan, Decatur, AL
Tom Brooks Vaughan III, St. Paul, MN
Julie Estin Vaughn, Tuscaloosa, AL
Michael Severson Vaughn, Birmingham, AL
Ross Belv Vaughn, Tuscaloosa, AL
* Charles Frederick Veazey, Guntersville, AL
Dean A. Veren, Birmingham, AL
David Compton Voellinger, New York, NY
* Frederic Quinby Vroom, Tallahassee, FL
Shilpa Vijay Vyas, Chicago, IL
Stewart Douglas Waddell, Birmingham, AL
Barbara Heeter Wade, Pensacola, FL
John Sherer Wade, Fresno, CA
Douglas Allen Wadeson, Satellite Beach, FL
Peter Daniel Waite, Birmingham, AL
* Ken Baker Waites, Birmingham, AL
John Bryan Waits, Tulsa, OK
Matthew Charles Wakefield, Gaithersburg, MD
Frank Bell Waldo, Birmingham, AL
* Edith Z. Waldrop, Birmingham, AL
E. Earl Walker, Florence, AL
James Clinton Walker, Jr., Birmingham, AL
John Hollis Walker, Huntsville, AL
L. G. Walker, Jr., Charlotte, NC
Sara Ritchey Walker, Birmingham, AL
Tom Morrow Walker, Mobile, AL
William Addison Walker, Decatur, AL
John Kenneth Wallace, Dothan, AL
Milton Andrew Wallace, Jr., Mobile, AL
David Guy Walsh, Mobile, AL
Glenn Porter Ward, Decatur, AL
James Keene Ward, Waverly, AL
John Webb Ward, Atlanta, GA
Thomas Hightower Wareing, Phoenix, AZ
William Spurgeon Warr, Phenix City, AL
Claude Morris Warren III, Mobile, AL
Eddie Bernard Warren, Troy, AL
Thomas Larry Warren, Hickory, NC
Israel Washington, Cincinnati, OH
James Morgan Watkins, Campbellsville, KY
* Doris S. Phillips Wayman, Birmingham, AL
George Hiram Weaver, Cordova, AL
Ellen Stammer Weber, Birmingham, AL
Jeffery Clovis Weeks, Helena, AL
Peter Francis Weinheimer, Tuscaloosa, AL
Paul Carlson Weir, Homewood, AL
Joseph Edward Welden, Birmingham, AL
William Vickery Weldon, Birmingham, AL
Buren Earl Wells, Dothan, AL
D. Christopher Wells, Roanoke, VA
* Harold Rudolph Wells, Birmingham, AL
Michael Aubrey Wells, Andalusia, AL
Thomas George Wells, Pike Road, AL
Robert Craig Wesson, Redlands, CA
Douglas John Wester, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Terry Alan Westmoreland, Columbus, MS
George Barry Whatley, Pelham, AL
James Rodman Whatley, Opelika, AL
James Henson Wheeler, Atlanta, GA
John David Wheeler II, Huntsville, AL
Jack Meadow Whetstone, Monroeville, AL
Clarence Donald Whigham, Rosman, NC
Dewey Anderson White, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James Lafayette White, Belden, MS
Jennifer Stott White, Birmingham, AL
Milton Falkner White, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Roy Sidney White, Brent, AL
John Sellers Whitehead, Birmingham, AL
Jeffrey Bray Whitehurst, Leesburg, GA
Richard Marion Whitehurst, Dothan, AL
John Grant Wideman, Vinemont, AL
Donna Ann Wiggins, Mill Valley, CA
Allan Seymour Wilensky, Birmingham, AL
Richard Jerome Wilkerson, Lubbock, TX
C. Dent Williams, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Donald Bryant Williams, Birmingham, AL
John A. Williams, Montgomery, AL
Robert Huntley Williams, Huntsville, AL
Thomas Harris Williams, Jr., Montgomery, AL
William Jackson Williams, Bethany, OK
Angel Yuh Williamson, Pensacola Bch., FL
Nathan Arthur Williamson, Northport, AL
* Barry Lewis Wilson, Montgomery, AL
H. Andrew Wilson, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James Arthur Wilson, Jr., Tampa, FL
Julia Anne Wilson, Indianapolis, IN
* Robert Godfrey Wilson, Shawnee, OK
Robert Kemp Wilson, Jr., Pensacola, FL
John Howard Wilters, Nashville, TN
* Neil Emmett Wimberley, Mobile, AL
Gregory Scott Windham, Cullman, AL
James Lowery Windsor, Pleasant Grove, AL
Charles Shell Wingard, Birmingham, AL
Stanley Blakeley Winslow, Montgomery, AL
James Edwin Wise, Moody, AL
John Melvin Wise, New Orleans, LA
Steven Dwayne Wise, Dothan, AL
* Joel Allen Wissing, Charlotte, NC
Catherine LeNeave Wood, Montgomery, AL
James William Wood, Charleston, SC
Janice Carol Wood, Memphis, TN
James Spivey Woodard, Columbus, MS
Chivers R. Woodruff, Jr., Birmingham, AL
John Benjamin Woods, Dothan, AL
* Jack Wool, Montgomery, AL
Erich Wolfe Wouters, Jasper, AL
David William Wright, Atlanta, GA
* James Gage Wright, Jr., Sylacauga, AL
James Orrall Wright III, Mason City, IA
Patty Walchak Wright, Birmingham, AL
Sally Williams Wright, Atlanta, GA
Erich Tyrone Wyckoff, Beavercreek, OH
Inas Zaki Yacoub, Columbia, SC
Thomas Hubbard Yancey, Daphne, AL
Donald Eugene Yarbrough, Rochester, MN
Michael Douglas Yates, Huntsville, AL
* Charles Franklin Yeager, Mobile, AL
Earl Stephen Yeager, Savannah, GA
Newman Manly Yeilding III, Ardmore, PA
* Robert Lee Yoder, Jr., Florence, AL
Patty Moore Yoffe, Cambridge, MA
Kenneth Crawford Yohn, Eufaula, AL
Roy Godfrey Young, Jr., Apalachicola, FL
Steven Eugene Zachow, Jackson, MS
Nerrin Zaharias, Birmingham, AL
Edward Joseph Zampella, Short Hills, NJ
Robert H. Zax, Louisville, KY
* Herbert Evan Zeiger, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Solomon Glenn Zerden, Savannah, GA
George Luey Zorn, Jr., Birmingham, AL
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From the Archives
By Tim L. Pennycuff
The Alabama Medical Alumni Bulletin often examines current or future activities in the School of Medicine.
But in a new feature, “From the Archives,” we look back at key people and events in the school’s history.
Our cover story focuses on innovative uses of computers in surgery; in “From the Archives,” University Archivist
Tim Pennycuff provides insight on a physician who helped build the road leading to the latest advances in surgery.
Champ Lyons, M.D., served as the first full-time
chair of the UASOM (then the University of Alabama
Medical Center) Department of Surgery. Lyons came to
the Medical Center at a time when the surgery department
had only a few full-time faculty members; he
recruited a high-caliber faculty and staff and worked
with other administrators and departmental chairs to
turn the Medical Center into an outstanding teaching
and research institution.
Lyons grew up in Mobile and graduated from the
University of Alabama in 1927. He received his medical
degree in 1931 from Harvard University and completed
an internship and residency at the Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston. He later served as an associate
surgeon at Massachusetts General until accepting
positions at the Ochsner Clinic, Charity Hospital, and
the Tuoro Infirmary in New Orleans.
Lyons gained national recognition for his use of penicillin
to treat burn wounds after a fire at the Coconut
Grove nightclub in Boston. During World War II, he
led one of two penicillin studies sponsored by the U.S.
Army to determine the drug’s effectiveness against surgical
infections. In later years he also gained recognition
for his work in cardiovascular surgery and in the development
of surgical techniques used on victims of
strokes. He was a fellow of the American College of
Surgeons and a member of numerous professional
organizations, including the American Surgical
Association, Southern Surgical Association, American
Medical Association, and International Cardiovascular
Society.
Lyons became the first person to hold an endowed
chair at the Medical Center in 1964, as the Faye
Fletcher Kerner Chair of Surgery. That same year,
Lyons and Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D., were named distinguished
professors, the first such designations awarded
by the University of Alabama. In 1965, Lyons was
named the Medical Center’s second distinguished faculty
lecturer. He served as chief of surgical services in
University Hospital from 1950 until his death in 1965.
Champ Lyons, M.D. (center left), and his
surgical team perform open-heart surgery
in University Hospital, circa 1961.
The patient is attached to a heart-lung
machine during the surgery.
The surgical team monitors the patient’s condition with special equipment used during openheart
surgery, circa 1961. The machine in the center monitored the oxygen levels in the blood,
while the one visible at bottom right recorded the EKG, blood pressure, and venous pressure to
assist in regulation of the heart-lung machine during the surgical procedure.
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UASOM Annual Fund Launches
“The Importance of You” Campaign
What does the
Annual Fund do for the School?
• provides financial support (academic and
need-based)
• provides funding for classroom and laboratory
technology
• allows us to recruit the best and brightest students
• allows us to recruit and retain highly skilled faculty
You are the key
to the Annual Fund.
Before you add this magazine to your
office collection, take two minutes and
write a check payable to the School of
Medicine Annual Fund and return it
in the attached envelope. Your gift,
“The UASOM owes our success to alumni
like you who dedicate themselves to
attaining excellence in the profession and
practice of medicine.”
regardless of the amount, will make a
difference. All gifts are tax-deductible.
William B. Deal, M.D.
Vice President and Dean
For online gifts, go to [www.uab.edu/supportmedicine].
For more information, contact Lou Herring at (205) 975-6629.
The
IMPORTANCE OF
YOU

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION SCHEDULE
January 27–March 28, 2003
“The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine”; sponsored by
the UAB Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious
Diseases, the Instituto A. Von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana
Cayetano Heredia (IMT), and the IAMAT Foundation; Peru; 125
CME credits.
February 2–April 2, 2004
“The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine”; sponsored by
the UAB Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious
Diseases, the Instituto A. Von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana
Cayetano Heredia (IMT), and the IAMAT Foundation; Peru; 125
CME credits.
February 22–23, 2003
“31st Annual Anesthesiology Review Course”; sponsored by the
UAB Department of Anesthesiology; Wynfrey Hotel,
Birmingham; 10 CME credits.
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