24.7 Medicine at Yale: Tuesday, YSM Alumni Garden

Tuesday morning (Eastern Standard Time) finds graduates of the Yale School of Medicine at work in institutions large and small (many of which were launched by the alumni themselves):

David Barry, M.D. ’69, at Triangle Pharmaceuticals in North Carolina–which he founded and heads–talks on the phone with a reporter who is asking about AZT, the first drug for AIDS, which Barry developed and brought to market.…

Aaron Beck, M.D. ’46, discusses recent research on treatment of medication-resistant depression with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania Health System’s Center for Cognitive Therapy, which he established–having founded the very field of cognitive therapy.…

Emil Frei III, M.D. ’48, who engineered one of the early successes in cancer treatment–against childhood leukemia–is in his office at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, writing a book about the heroism of his patients.

J. Michael Gaziano M.D. ’87, is in front of his computer at the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, responding to an e-mail from a Brigham and Women’s Hospital researcher on the huge Physicians’ Health Study II, which he directs.

Richard Gibbs, M.D. ’86, examines a young boy, while his wife, Patricia Gibbs, M.D. ’87, persuades an allergist to donate some time to another needy patient at the San Francisco Free Clinic, which the Gibbses set up in 1993.

Kris Keggi, M.D. ’59, is visiting a hospital in Riga, Latvia, on behalf of the Keggi Orthopaedics Foundation, which he created to further international cooperation in orthopaedics.

Barbara Kinder, M.D. ’71, William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery at Yale, consults with a colleague at the VA Hospital in West Haven, Connecticut. Howard K. Koh, M.D. ’77, commissioner of public health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is on a conference call about the progress of tobacco regulation and policy.

Lewis Landsberg, M.D. ’64, is heading for a meeting of the officers of Northwestern University, where he is dean of the Medical School and vice president for medical affairs.

Mary Lake Polan, Ph.D. ’7o, M.D. ’75, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine, is setting up the Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholars Career Development Center, to increase the number of skilled ob/gyn investigators.

Ruth Potee, M.D. ’99, coming off an 18-hour shift at the Boston Medical Center, is thinking back to her thesis on “Medicine and Motherhood” and wondering how the other 4oo women graduates of the Yale School of Medicine who had children during their medical training managed to do it.

Pedro Rossello, M.D. ’7o, is completing plans for the implementation of a comprehensive health-care reform program, which he initiated in 1993 during his first term as Governor of Puerto Rico.

Gualberto Ruano, Ph.D. ’92, M.D. ’97, is reviewing the overnight output of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals’ powerful population genetic and epidemiological computational algorithms based on gene variation. He founded the company in New Haven’s Science Park to provide “ergonomic drug design”–developing pharmaceuticals that consider the natural genetic variability of patients.

Valerie Stone, M.D. ’84, director of the Hope Center for HIV Care in Rhode Island, is seeking ways to overcome barriers to the treatment of AIDS among special populations.

Donna Brace Ogilvie and Knowles Lawrence ’34 talk
with former Dean Kessler at the dedication of a garden bench
in honor of the late John Ogilvie ’34, a dedicated and
generous supporter of the Yale School of Medicine.

Yale School of Medicine alumni span the country and the world.

Alumni Richard and Patricia Gibbs left their successful family practice to start the San Francisco Free Clinic for patients without health insurance. Photograph: Matt Black.

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