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BIOLOGY STAFF:Deborah HerholtzIt is a fair guess that virtually every biology major since 1991 has met Deborah (Deb) Herholtz theindefatigable undergraduate programs secretary. It is Deb who finds advisors for students, keeps records,helps students with petitions and other paperwork, and tries to answer questions or send students tothe persons most likely to be able to help. For absent-minded professors, Deb is the indispensible guidewho tries to keep us updated on the ever-changing requirements for various programs, and reminds us ofadvising schedules and various deadlines for grades and student reports. In her spare time, Deb organizesthe graduation reception and helps organize the Senior Honors Day. That is, she does the work and the restof us take as much of the credit as possible.erholtzshe has been with the department longerDeb was born in Syracuse but spentmuch of her life and currently lives inCentral Square. She is one of those hardynatives who has been here for everysnowfall record and commutes throughthe snowbelt to campus. Deb beganworking at Syracuse University some 23years ago in the sociology departmentbefore transferring to the Departmentof Biology almost 20 years ago. In fact,than most of the current faculty, and isthe person we depend on for an historicalperspective on our graduates and theevolution of the curriculum. Deb’s abilityto identify, locate, and contact studentsboth present and in the past is key tocomposing relevant segments of BIO@SU. When we find ourselves feelinghassled and taking matters too seriously,Deb brings us back to earth with cutepictures and stories of her nieces andnephews, her cats, or an occasional funnyitem she has spotted on the Internet. Debis the epitome of the claim that officestaff is what makes an organization or adepartment succeed.32 THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Who, What, When, WherePeter V.N. Bodine B.S. ’80 isa senior director in clinicaldevelopment and medical affairsoperations at the SpecialtyCare Business Unit of Pfizer inCollegeville, Pa., and serves aschief operating office for eightdisease areas. After earning a Ph.D.in biochemistry from TempleUniversity, his career has includeda postdoctoral fellowship at theMayo Clinic, a faculty appointmentat Thomas Jefferson University,and positions in discovery researchand project management at Wyeth.He and his wife, Judith LaLonde,B.S. in chemistry ’82, live insuburban Philadelphia with theirthree middle school-high schoolaged sons.Meg Dooley Ph.D. ’78 (with EliasBalbinder) is an associate professorat the College of Staten Island/CUNY.Garth D. Ehrlich Ph.D. ’87 (withBernie Poiesz and Judi Foster) isexecutive director of the Center forGenomic Sciences and Scientific,Governmental, and RegionalAffairs Liaison Officer at AlleghenySinger Research Institute inPittsburgh. He is also professorof microbiology and immunology,professor of otolaryngology-headand neck surgery, and professorand vice chairman of humangenetics at Drexel UniversityCollege of Medicine.Gretchen Galvin B.S. ’08 receivedan M.S. in medical biology atC.W. Post Campus of Long IslandUniversity. She has been acceptedinto the Class of 2015 at theUniversity of Buffalo School ofDental Medicine.Tom Grove Ph.D. ’76 (with RichardLevy) has sold his company,ProteoGenix, and is now semiretired,doing some consulting, andstarting to expand his activities innon-science areas.Andrew W. Gurman B.S. ’73 is aphysician in Altoona, Pa., witha practice limited to wrist andhand surgery. He is active in theAmerican Medical Association,where he serves as vice speaker ofthe House of Delegates and is amember of the board of trustees.Dr. Gurman and his wife have twogrown daughters.Robin Hemphill B.S. ’87 isthe deputy chief safety officerand director of the Veteran’sAdministration National Center forPatient Safety. She resides in AnnArbor, Mich.William J.M. Hrushesky B.A.’69 recently retired as seniorclinical investigator and directorof research at the WJB DornDepartment of Veteran’s AffairsMedical Center. He continues asresearch professor at the Universityof South Carolina’s School ofMedicine’s Department of Celland Developmental Biology andAnatomy. Dr. Hrushesky’s careerin medicine has also includedtenured professorships at theUniversity of Minnesota andAlbany Medical College. He haspublished more than 761 scientificarticles and holds several patents.He is a founder of MedicalChronotherapeutics, which focuseson optimally timing medicalpreventatives, diagnostics, andtreatments relative to rhythmichuman biologic time structure. Heresides in West Orange, N.J.Michael M. Krinsky, B.A.’70 hasbeen inaugurated as the 173rdpresident of the Connecticut StateMedical Society. Previously he hadserved as president and councilorof the Hartford County MedicalAssociation, the largest countyorganization in Connecticut, andas vice-speaker of the House ofDelegates of the state medicalsociety as well as its vice-president.He is in the private practice ofneurology in Bloomfield andVernon, CT. He founded thepractice in 1979 and remainsclinically active. He received hisMD degree at Columbia UniversityCollege of Physicians andSurgeons in 1974. He has servedas an assistant clinical professorof neurology at the University ofCT School of Medicine and onnumerous hospital and voluntaryagency committees in addition tohis work with the medical society.He founded the neurology andmovement disorders clinic at theHebrew Home and Hospital inWest Hartford, CT, and served asthe medical director and neurologyconsultant at the regionalEaster Seals Center. He and hiswife Marcia are the parents ofthree grown children and threegrandchildren.Jeffrey P. Levine B.S. ’83 is professorand director of Women’s HealthPrograms in the Department ofFamily and Community Medicineat the University of Medicine andDentistry of New Jersey - RobertWood Johnson Medical School.“Dr. Jeff” lives in Hillsborough,N.J., with his wife, four daughters,and a menagerie of adopted pets.Malavi Madireddi Ph.D. ’96 (withDavid Allis) is principal scientist,Discovery Biology-MetabolicDiseases at Bristol Myers Squib,Princeton, N.J.Stuart Marcus Ph.D. ’72 (with EliasBalbinder) is chief medical officerat DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., inWilmington, Mass.Joseph Parise B.S ’92 is theassistant chief of service inradiology at the Tampa FloridaVA Hospital. He and his wifeDominique have four children.Dr. Parise notes that he would loveto hear from some of his fellowalumni from ’90-’94. His e-mailaddress is:jparise@tampabay.rr.comTraycie West Pinkoski B.S. ’88 hasrecently moved to Vicenza, Italy, fora three-year assignment with theU.S. Navy.Shoba Ragunathan M.S. ’93 worksfor Pfizer in Pearl River, N.Y.B. Todd Schaeffer B.S. ’77 is anendoscopic surgeon of the nose,sinuses, neck, and skull base. Dr.Schaeffer serves as assistant clinicalprofessor of otolaryngology atMount Sinai School of Medicineand associate chair of the dept.of otolaryngology at North ShoreUniversity Hospital in Manhasset,N.Y. He recalls fondly bringinghome fruit flies on spring breakto continue his freshman biologyexperiments, and listening toMarvin Druger on reel-to-reeltapes––innovative teaching andperhaps a harbinger of onlinecourses.David Schwartz Ph.D. ’79 is asenior faculty member at HoustonCommunity College SW inHouston, Texas.Rion G. Taylor Ph.D. ’08 (with RoyWelch) has taken a position asassistant professor of biology atMidAmerica Nazarene Universityin Olathe, Kansas.Spiro Tzetzis B.S. ’91 is the newlyappointed medical director for theDepartment of Health Servicesat his alma mater, SyracuseUniversity.Jerry Winkelstein B.S. ’61 is nowretired from a long career inmedicine that included medicalschool at Albert Einstein College ofMedicine, residency in pediatrics,and service as a pediatrician in anEskimo village. He spent much ofhis career on the faculty of JohnsHopkins School of Medicinewith clinical responsibilities incaring for patients with geneticallydetermined deficiencies, andconducting research focusingon the biology, biochemistry,and molecular genetics ofthe complement system. Dr.Winkelstein majored in theold zoology department andacknowledges the influence ofthe faculty, particularly SeymourGelfant, in instilling a love forresearch and laboratory work.PLEASE SEND UPDATES ONYOUR ACTIVITIES TO:hehemphi@syr.edu orErnest HemphillRoom 114Life Sciences Complex107 College PlaceSyracuse NY 13244FALL 201133
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