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DI V IS I O N O F INS T I T U T I O N A L A D VA N C E M E N TR O S A L I N D F R A N K L I N U N I V E R S I T Y O F M E DI C I N E A N D S C I E N C E
3333 GREEN BAY ROADNORTH CHICAGO, IL 60064
www.rosalindfranklin.edu
CONVERGENCECONVERGENCE
We are Grateful for your Support Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is pleased to share its Annual Report 2014, which celebrates a very productive year in a decade of effort and achievement under the powerful and forward-thinking models of interprofessional education and practice.
The stories that follow represent the drive and dedication of our university leaders, faculty, students and alumni who, generation after generation, uphold and strengthen the RFUMS legacy of excellence, innovation and service. Today, as never before, our university relies on the collective dynamism and generosity of its community as it faces a convergence of complex challenges at home and abroad.
Our ability to meet those challenges, including growing our programs in response to the pressing healthcare needs of our nation, is made possible by the unflagging support of our donors.
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CONVERGENCE: A Message from the President ............................................................................................... 3
INSTITUTIONAL HEALTHBALDWIN INTERPROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE: Promoting collaborative learning .............................. 5
A NAME FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND: A legacy proudly invoked ........................................ 6
ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES: Developing a highly skilled workforce........................................... 8
STRONGER RESEARCH: Collaborating across disciplines under Alliance for Health Sciences ......... 10
REGIONAL HEALTHREAL LIFE: Interprofessional Community Clinic offers students early clinical exposure ....................... 13
PATH TO EXCELLENCE: RFUMS students reach out to local, underserved high school....................... 16
NATIONAL HEALTHFRANKLIN FELLOWS: A community committed to interprofessional service and leadership ............ 19
GLOBAL HEALTHIT TAKES A VILLAGE: Helping refugees in Uganda through RFUMS global health initiatives .............23
DEVELOPING DOCTORS: Ibukunoluwa Araoye, CMS ’17, reflects on a choice he and other international students must make .......................................................................................................................... 25
YEAR OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: Science mastered by university’s namesake continues to help researchers push boundaries ................................................................................................................................. 27
BOARD OF TRUSTEES .......................................................................................................................................... 28
FINANCIALS ............................................................................................................................................................. 29
CONTRIBUTORS .....................................................................................................................................................30
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ADMINISTRATION
K. Michael WelchPresident and Chief Executive Officer
Wendy RheaultProvost
Roberta LaneExecutive Vice President for Finance and Administration,Chief Financial Officer
James CarlsonDean, College of Health Professions Joseph X. DiMarioDean, School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Rebecca DurkinVice President for Student Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion
Tina M. EricksonVice President for Institutional Advancement
Timothy HansenVice President for Faculty Affairs
Ronald KaplanExecutive Vice President for Research
Patrick KnottVice President for Strategic Enrollment Gloria MeredithDean, College of Pharmacy Bret MobergCompliance Counsel
Nancy ParsleyDean, Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine
Judith StoeckerVice President for Academic Affairs John TomkowiakDean, Chicago Medical SchoolExecutive Vice President for Clinical Affairs
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
We humans measure our lives through the passage of time. A good year is marked by growth, accomplishment and learning. An extraordinary year, or fruitful span of years, holds a remarkable confluence of opportunities created, partnerships strengthened, and challenges faced and overcome. CONVERGENCE
From the prefix con-, meaning together, and the verb verge, meaning to turn toward, convergence is a coming together to form a new whole. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is guided by its mission, compelled by its values and strengthened by its diverse community in the fulfillment of its goal: the interprofessional education of future healthcare professionals who will work together to improve patient care.
Such a period fuels our resolve, carries us through starker times and drives us onward in pursuit of excellence.
The past decade has been such a period, one of growth and transformation and achievement. We have anticipated change, responded with exciting, well-laid plans and worked to meet institutional and national challenges including shifts in national health policy, persistent issues of patient safety, rising costs, income disparities and globalization. Perhaps most importantly, we early on embraced the international movements toward interprofessional education, team-based health care and evidence-based practice. All of these forces are converging, creating unstoppable energy, calling us to act, to see the future and move toward it.
The pages of our 2013-2014 Year in Review are filled with our institution’s response to that call. In the stories told here, you will be greeted by confidence, courage and optimism. You will experience the determination and unselfishness of our faculty, students, alumni and community partners. You will encounter great minds, noble minds: our namesake, Rosalind Franklin, PhD, whose research will continue to enlighten new generations of scientific explorers and improve the health of new generations of men, women and children; DeWitt C. Baldwin, MD, the father of collaborative, interdisciplinary learning and team practice, who is now seeing the fruition of his life’s work; and lesser known heroes, those institutional leaders on whose shoulders we stand, and faculty and students like those who implemented and run our Interprofessional Community Clinic and travel around the world to help care for the most underserved.
We have much to be proud of over the past decade: the addition of new programs, including our College of Pharmacy, which graduates its first class in 2015; expansion of enrollment; capital investments, including new, student-centered facilities and state-of-the-art learning spaces; a successful Centennial Scholarship Campaign; and sounder financial footing.
We continue to invest in the future of our students by building innovative structures, like the Centennial Learning Center and the Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education, that will help us navigate the evolving future of health care. We continue to expand our innovative model of education and provide more training and leadership opportunities for our faculty and students. Step-by-step we are bringing to reality our Alliance for Health Sciences with DePaul University. We continue to seek the generous support of our donors for initiatives, like the Franklin Fellowship, that challenge our students to grow, to advocate for change and to meet the pressing healthcare needs of our nation.
The passion and commitment involved in these efforts are deeply embedded in our institutional DNA that, in time, will be transmitted to new generations of students, faculty and leadership. Together, over time, we come nearer to success in our aims – and that success, as Dr. Franklin reminds us, is eminently worth attaining.
K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCPPresident and CEO
Gail L. WardenChair, Board of Trustees
RFUMS President and CEO K. Michael Welch addresses guests during the May 29 unveiling of the bronze likeness of Rosalind Franklin, PhD.
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INTERPROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE PROMOTES COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
The university is committed to the education and training of health professionals who can work, communicate and lead as members of clinical healthcare teams to build a safer, more responsive, more effective system of patient care.
In dedicating the DeWitt C. Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education on May 15, 2014, the university underscored its strategic investment in reshaping medical and health science education through collaborative learning.
DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr., the institute’s namesake, a pioneer of interprofessional learning and practice and now Scholar in Residence at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, was lauded as “the soul, conscience and courage” of graduate medical education by Timothy Brigham, MDiv, PhD, ACGME senior vice president. Brigham credited Baldwin with leading innovations that improved education and safety in residency programs, the institutions that house them and the clinical practice of medicine.
“It was Dr. Baldwin who said, ‘Look. See. If you do it together, you do it better than if you do it by yourself,’” Brigham said.
RFUMS President and CEO K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCP, praised Baldwin for his tenacity in teaching that “health and health care improve when we practitioners, each with our own knowledge, perspective and skills, work together in mutual respect, shared responsibility and decision-making and, above all, open communication.
“It’s our desire that the Baldwin Institute and the academics and practitioners, present and future, who contribute to its growth and success, emerge as leaders in interprofessional education and practice to improve the health and well-being of our nation and the world,” Welch said.
Located in a newly renovated wing of the Health Sciences Building, the institute is tasked with identifying, developing, managing and evaluating interprofessional educational activities at RFUMS. An initial priority was a redesign of required first-year interprofessional coursework, first offered in 2004. Foundations of Interprofessional Practice now includes training in basic TeamSTEPPS – team strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety, an initiative developed by federal healthcare organizations. The institute is also working to expand interprofessional education into portions of clinical rotations
while forging creative logistical solutions.
“It’s about expanding access so that our students in clinical rotations can take advantage of interprofessional interactions that naturally exist in a clinical setting,” said Douglas Reifler, MD, vice president and director of the institute and associate dean for CMS student affairs.
Top right, DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr., MD. Bottom left, RFUMS President and CEO K. Michael Welch and Dr. Baldwin at the May 15 dedication of the DeWitt C. Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education. Bottom right, Timothy Brigham, MDiv, PhD, senior vice president, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
INSTITUTIONALHEALTH
THE FULFILLMENT OF OUR MISSION DEPENDS ON THE CAREFUL TENDING AND ASSESSMENT OF OUR OWN COLLECTIVE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. ARE WE LIVING OUR CORE VALUES? ARE WE ACHIEVING OUR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES? ABOVE ALL, ARE WE HARNESSING THE POWER OF COLLABORATION AND LEADING THE INTERPROFESSIONAL FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE?
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A NAME FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND
The name Rosalind Franklin holds powerful connotations of perseverance, mastery, discovery. It is a name imbued with meaning by the extraordinary life and work of the woman, scientist and scholar whose legacy the university proudly invokes.
The university’s announcement in 2004 of its intent to change its name to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, in honor of the British scientist who helped pioneer the field of DNA research, commenced a period of unprecedented strategic growth.
It was a bold stroke – taking on the identity of a then largely unknown chemist and crystallographer who died at the age of 37, three years before researchers in her field won the Nobel Prize. Reporting on the Jan. 27 announcement, the Chicago Tribune noted that university officials remarked that taking the name of a “talented outsider who never got the credit to which she was entitled,” was an apt metaphor for the independent university.
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Under one iteration, students, wherever they are, may be asked to identify interprofessional interactions through assigned exercises, independent learning and written reflection.
The Baldwin Institute is engaging faculty across the university in interprofessional projects and research initiatives; 20 faculty and students produced more than a dozen papers, posters and presentations for “All Together Better Health,” the seventh international conference on interprofessional practice and education held in Pittsburgh in June. Institute staff also presented at the Chicago Simulation Consortium 12th Annual Conference, held in August.
“It’s important that the institute not only be a place where interprofessional things happen,” Reifler said. “The purpose of the institute is to catalyze and engage faculty from all areas of our university. That’s critical. There’s no way the university can be leading interprofessional education the way we intend to without engaging faculty and students broadly.”
The institute promotes conversations concerning ongoing substantive changes in the way health care is delivered in the United States – from siloed specialties to interprofessional teams that share responsibility for patient care.
“People are definitely taking interprofessionalism in health care seriously,” Reifler said. “There’s widespread recognition that patient safety and the quality of the care they receive are closely linked to good-working teams. It’s an ongoing conversation that we need to promote.”
RFUMS President and CEO K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCP, praised Franklin – widely considered one of the most 100 influential scientists of all time – for a discovery that led to the single most important advance of modern biology.
As Franklin’s seminal work in DNA, viruses, carbon and coal continues to earn widespread recognition, so the first medical institution in the United States to recognize a female scientist through an honorary namesake continues to build a reputation as a distinctive health sciences university dedicated to the highest standards of academic excellence and research.
On May 29, 2014, the university community, joined by Martin Franklin and Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky, nephew and niece of the scientist, gathered to mark a decade of progress under the name RFUMS and to unveil a bronze statue of its namesake.
Franklin Jekowsky told the gathering that from early childhood her aunt “asked for the proof behind the assertion” but expressed faith in the world, “a faith that rests in the future and fate of our successors.”
“We thank the university community for recognizing Rosalind Franklin’s life in discovery and her excellence in all its forms,” Franklin Jekowsky said.
The larger-than-life bronze partial figure mounted on a granite base, which stands in the center of University Circle Drive, depicts Franklin in a lab coat, a cluster of crystals at her back – a nod to her mastery of the technique X-ray crystallography, which formed the basis of her work. She looks into the distance, holding out her Photo 51 as if to present it to the world.
“It is our intention that the sculpture that we unveil today will remind all who enter her namesake university that a life lived in discovery is a worthy and attainable goal and one that reverberates beyond the veil of our own mortality,” Welch said. “Today and every day, we dedicate this university to her life and we honor her legacy.”
Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky and Martin Franklin, niece and nephew of Rosalind Franklin, PhD, unveiled the bronze likeness in honor of the university’s namesake. Bottom center: Rosalind Franklin in the Cabane des Evettes on a mountain holiday, circa 1950/51.
“OUR AUNT WOULD BE PLEASED THAT HER LEGACY INCLUDES THIS UNIVERSITY...IN HONORING HER, YOU HONOR IDEALS THAT CAN LEAD EACH GENERATION TO GREATNESS.”
- MARTIN FRANKLIN
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ALLIANCE EXPANDS, ENRICHES LEARNING The university strives to model the collaboration it prizes as the surest path to the growth and development of faculty and students. Its alliance with DePaul University is an investment that will produce highly qualified, culturally diverse medical and health science professionals prepared to master the challenges the future inevitably brings.
The Alliance for Health Sciences between Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and DePaul University, now entering its third year, continues to drive collaboration and new approaches aimed at improving the education and development of the nation’s healthcare workforce.
“The alliance not only puts the student first, it also puts the future patient first,” said RFUMS Provost Wendy Rheault, PT, PhD. “It’s helping us identify qualified students with the aptitude and the desire to pursue the health professions. Together, in a collaborative inter-institutional educational model, we are providing education and experiences critical to both career success and the health and safety of patients.”
Highly motivated DePaul students may enter early admission pathways to six highly competitive RFUMS master’s and doctoral programs: medicine, podiatric medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, pathologists’ assistant studies and physician assistant studies. Under the 3+ program, the first year of graduate school counts toward a bachelor of science from DePaul, thereby shortening the total length of education by one year.
At RFUMS, they will learn and work in interprofessional teams tasked with solving real-world clinical cases.
“It’s our mission to provide a high-quality and up-to-date education to our students,” said Patrick Knott, PhD, PA-C, vice president for strategic enrollment management and RFUMS professor. “DePaul is helping us do that by offering a wider range of courses to our students through collaboration with their colleges of science and health, communication, law, and business.”
An increasing number of courses are shared between RFUMS and DePaul graduate-level programs. Collaboration in the areas of nursing, health informatics, health communication and health business administration translate to increased choices for students at both universities and are helping to build new competencies and skills.
College of Health Professions student Allison McCorkle recently completed Health and Family Communication, an elective provided by the DePaul Master of Arts in Health Communications program.
“The material was really interesting,” said McCorkle, who will earn a Master of Science in health administration from RFUMS in December. “Families and support networks are key to the success of medical treatment and decision-making. It’s important to understand the dynamics of family interaction.”
RFUMS has also opened some of its online courses to DePaul students. This year it has offered classes and a Certificate in Health Administration to DePaul’s Master’s Entry to Nursing Practice students, boosting their expertise and competence in that area of study, said Diane Bridges, PhD, MSN, RN, RFUMS assistant professor and director of the Healthcare Administration program.
“We realize the content of each of our programs will benefit students who can graduate with extra competencies,” Bridges said. “Health administration is about applying knowledge for positive outcomes for patients and the delivery of health care. The additional courses both universities can offer under the alliance make our students more skilled and marketable.”
Bridges, who is also working with DePaul’s MBA in Health Sector Management, MA in Health Communications, MS in Informatics and BS in Health Sciences programs, said DePaul students appear to like the flexibility of a hybrid program, which offers off-campus, online advantages to help meet time, work and family needs.
“We have more diverse students coming into our program from DePaul,” Bridges said. “They’re sharing everything about themselves and their cultures. Our respective faculty members have brainstormed and worked together to develop content-specific needs. Sharing our knowledge and expertise has certainly been worthwhile. The scholarship that has developed through our collaboration is priceless.”
RFUMS has also worked with DePaul in mentoring students and offering summer research opportunities. Knott teaches Introduction to the Health Professions at DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus, where he helps students explore their options for different healthcare careers and counsels them on how to be competitive applicants to the programs they choose.
“The mission of Rosalind Franklin is, in part, to give young, talented scientists the best opportunity for success,” Knott said. “If that’s the ideal, it doesn’t make sense to wait for those students to show up on our doorstep. We have to go out and find them. We want to help cultivate those undergraduates and help prepare them to succeed in a challenging graduate school environment.”
Top: Allison McCorkle, a student in the College of Health Professions. Bottom, left to right: Patrick Knott, PhD, PA-C, vice president of strategic enrollment management and RFUMS professor and Diane Bridges, PhD, MSN, RN, RFUMS assistant professor and director of the Healthcare Administration program. Faculty from RFUMS and DePaul gathered at DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus for the second annual research retreat to identify potential collaborations under the alliance’s pilot grant program.
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STRONGER RESEARCH
New paths of scientific inquiry have opened under the Alliance for Health Sciences, which promotes the sharing of knowledge, technology and research funding under a joint pilot grant program. When alliances are made, energy flows, relationships are built, possibilities are envisioned. Openness is key.
Collaborations between investigators at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and DePaul University are driving exciting, high-tech research aimed at improving health in the United States and across the world.
Among the 11 studies funded under the RFUMS/DePaul Alliance for Health Sciences Pilot Grant program is one that will help therapists make informed, data-driven choices about the use of motion-based games in the rehabilitation of patients with brain injuries.
“DePaul has the expertise in computer game design and concept and we have the clinical research expertise on movement and balance,” said Fang “Amanda” Lin, DSc, MMed, BEng, assistant professor of the department of podiatric surgery and biomechanics at Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine and director of the college’s Human Performance Lab.
“It’s been great to tap into each other’s knowledge,” Lin said. “That’s why the alliance is so powerful.”
Formed in 2012, the alliance helps expand and enrich programs at both universities through defined curricular pathways, academic programs that address emerging needs, faculty research collaborations and enhanced student research opportunities.
Lin and Stephanie C.S. Wu, DPM, MSc, associate dean of research, professor, department of podiatric surgery and biomechanics, and director of Scholl College’s Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research, met Cynthia Putnam, PhD, assistant professor at DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media, at a 2013 alliance research retreat.
In discussions, the scientists, who if not for the retreat may have never met, realized they could work together to expand the study.
“Up to this point, it’s been a qualitative study for a recommendation system that clinicians can use to select games based on their patients’ abilities and therapeutic goals,” said Putnam, who has published and presented on the development of evidence-based gaming tools to help therapists. “Many such systems are based on subjective opinion. There’s a lot more credibility if you can back up use of a game with objective measures.”
Lin and Wu are leading the collection of objective measures for the study, including assessments and measurements on balance, postural stability, gait and physical activity level.
“The objective measures will allow quantitative association of gaming tools with rehabilitation measurements and ultimately lead to focused, target-specific therapy,” said Wu. “Each year, an estimated 1.7 million Americans sustain a brain injury. Knowing that our work can ultimately help improve care for these patients is extremely rewarding.”
Another area of potential collaborative research aims to bring telemedicine to Haiti, spurred additional collaboration between Scholl College at RFUMS and the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul.
The remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of digital technology could help cluster medical expertise, both clinical and academic, said Robert Joseph, DPM, PhD, SCPM chairman and assistant professor for the department of podiatric medicine and radiology.
Under the proposal, RFUMS and DePaul would partner with several Haitian hospitals and medical schools.
“Working together, we can help improve access to information,” Joseph said. “The alliance helps catalyze initiatives like this by fostering collaboration, communication and innovation.”
Olayele Adelakun, PhD, associate professor in DePaul’s School of Computing, has made two trips to Haiti to explore setting up digital infrastructure and support. He is working to build a partnership with the country’s primary networking company. Cloud computing is the goal.
“It’s exciting to help develop a solution that combines technology and medicine,” Adelakun said. “We can take what we learn from Haiti and apply it in other parts of the world.”
Joseph marvels at the synergy that has developed around the idea that RFUMS and DePaul can join forces to help a country in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, Lin, Wu and Putnam hope to keep working as a team.
“Our collaboration, ultimately, is going to make our research much stronger,” Putnam said.
Top: Fang “Amanda” Lin, DSc, MMed, BEng, left, and Stephanie C.S. Wu, DPM, MSc, both faculty members in the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, are collaborating with DePaul researchers under the Alliance for Health Sciences. Bottom, left to right: Olayele Adelakun, PhD, associate professor in DePaul’s School of Computing and Digital Media. Robert Joseph, DPM, PhD, chairman of the department of podiatric medicine and radiology.
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REAL LIFE
The student-run Interprofessional Community Clinic embodies the university’s ethic of interprofessional learning, teaching and service through leadership. Students who staff the clinic, and the faculty who supervise them, provide quality, dignified care for the most vulnerable people in the Lake County region. It’s a lesson they will carry throughout their lives.
Patient encounters are pure gold for future clinicians, who spend the first year or two of their graduate education trudging through didactics while anxiously awaiting the opportunity to apply their knowledge in real healthcare settings. At Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, an increasing number of first- and second-year students are attending the lecture circuit by day and diving into patient care by night at the Interprofessional Community Clinic.
“It’s by far the most helpful training I’ve received,” said Thuy Vi Le, CMS ’16. “Actually seeing patients, following a visit, working with an attending, is the best possible experience – real life – where we get to apply the things we’ve learned.”
Initiated by four Chicago Medical School students in 2013 and operated as part of the Rosalind Franklin University Health System, the student-run, faculty-supervised clinic provides priceless patient interaction, interprofessional training and, for underserved patients, free, high-quality care.
Lecia Apantaku, MD, FACS, assistant dean and associate professor of surgery for CMS, and one of seven faculty advisors for the ICC, said it can be difficult for health science students to understand how the basic sciences relate to patient care.
“Seeing patients early on in their education helps them understand the relevancy of what they’re learning,” Apantaku said. “It’s important for students to see, learn and practice.”
Running the clinic has provided many opportunities for leadership. While Le took on administrative duties, Sarah Hershman, CMS ’16, an ICC founder, led the development of a women’s health curriculum. Working under the guidance of Charisse Hudson-Quigley, MD, an obstetrician/gynecologist on the faculty of both the medical school and the College of Health Professions,
Hershman developed training for breast and pelvic exams, testing for sexually transmitted infections, contraceptive counseling and endometrial biopsies.
Left: Ashley Makulowich, who is pursuing a PhD in clinical psychology, helps staff the student-run Interprofessional Community Clinic. Center: Lecia Apantaku, MD, FACS, assistant dean for faculty talent recognition and enhancement, and Douglas Reifler, MD, associate dean for student affairs at Chicago Medical School, pictured with Brittany Hunter, CMS ’17, help oversee the efforts of volunteer student practitioners.
STUDENT, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERS ARE WORKING CLOSE TO HOME AND THROUGHOUT THE CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN REGIONS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION AND CAREERS. EACH AND EVERY ENCOUNTER WITH OUR COMMUNITY SHOWS US WHO WE ARE, AND STRENGTHENS OUR COMMITMENT.
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“We’re trying to be responsive to the needs of the community,” Hershman said.
In addition to gynecological care, ICC, which sees many patients with chronic conditions including diabetes and hypertension, also offers primary and podiatric care, physical therapy and behavioral health, in addition to an eye clinic and dispensary.
Each ICC patient is seen by a team that includes students in multiple disciplines. The team completes a history on each patient, then discusses it with either a fourth-year medical student, licensed pharmacist and/or a nurse practitioner. A differential diagnosis is discussed with an attending physician, and the patient is seen again for a physical exam. The group then formulates a cost-effective treatment plan.
The early clinical experience is an advantage for students facing increasingly competitive healthcare and medical residencies, according to Jim Zimmerman, RFUHS vice president, who said the clinic is also a setting where interprofessionalism, a top strategic initiative of the university, is practiced.
“Students in the clinic are learning respect for different professions,” Zimmerman said.
“We try to create clinical encounters where we allow the expertise of different professions to emerge,” Hershman said. “A lot of schools are struggling with how to create interprofessional experiences that don’t feel forced. Our clinic doesn’t feel forced.”
“ICC is a positive experience for patients and volunteers,” Le said. “But it’s a constant organizational challenge. We’re always looking at how to use our resources more efficiently.”
“We see ourselves as being incubators for new ideas in medicine,” Hershman said. “We have time. It’s low pressure. We have to be very creative about experimenting with new models so that we can influence the future of health care. None of us really knows what kind of environment we will be practicing in 10, 20, 30 years from now. But what’s going to happen in the future is going to come out of collaborations like the ICC.”
Center: Student clinicians, from left: Garret Strand, SCPM ’17; Brittany Hunter, CMS ’17; and Israel Labao, CMS ’17, discuss treatment options for a patient. At right: Sarah Hershman, CMS ’16, a co-founder of the clinic. Student clinicians, from left, Israel Labao, CMS ’17; Haley Spaulding, COP ’16; and Garret Strand, SCPM ’17, confer with Douglas Reifler, MD.
But at the Interprofessional Community Clinic, every patient is screened for mental illness and may receive therapeutic counseling during their visit. They may also choose to attend psychoeducational support groups on topics including anxiety, aging, and mood and health, organized by Ashley Makulowich, who expects to earn a PhD in clinical psychology in 2017.
Makulowich consults for interprofessional teams of student practitioners at the clinic, treating four patients a week, including a woman who suffers from trichotillomania, an impulse control disorder that manifests in hair-pulling. She also treats patients for anxiety, depression, and physical and emotional abuse.
“We’ve worked hard to develop an interprofessional environment at the ICC, where patients can feel comfortable seeking and receiving mental health care,” Makulowich said. “This is particularly important in low-income communities where mental illness can be so stigmatized. It’s a trust issue. It’s about helping patients understand you can really help them.”
Students who staff and run the clinic learn things that can’t be taught in a classroom.
“We get patients who are living in shelters and don’t have enough money to feed their children,” Makulowich said. “That’s incredibly stressful and depressing and can trigger or exacerbate other psychological problems. In therapy, we often must address those things first before we can deal with anything deeper.”
ICC patients also benefit from the services of a volunteer social worker, who helps connect them to local resources.
“About 30 percent of family medicine is dealing with psychological problems,” said Lecia Apantaku, MD, FACS, Chicago Medical School assistant dean and a faculty advisor for the ICC. “It’s great to have a consultant on the spot. A person may come to see us for their blood pressure, but we determine part of it is stress. Virtually all ICC patients are under some stress. If we work on the stress, they may not need as much blood pressure medicine.”
A RECENT NATIONAL STUDY SHOWED THAT OVERBURDENED HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS DON’T ASK THEIR PATIENTS ABOUT STRESS, WHICH HAS BEEN CLOSELY LINKED TO POOR HEALTH.
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PATH TO EXCELLENCE
The university is committed to building a diverse learning community and future healthcare workforce through outreach and service to underserved high school and college students eager to realize their potential. Numerous interprofessional efforts to guide and prepare students from underrepresented backgrounds for graduate medical and health science education are supported by faculty, students and staff.
How can someone follow a path they can’t see? The question troubled Julie Witkowski, CMS ’16, a first-generation college graduate who has almost always known where she was going and how she would get there.
“I’ve wanted to pursue science my whole life,” said Witkowski, a volunteer tutor and mentor for students at North Chicago Community High School, where she saw a need and came up with a plan.
“I was meeting a lot of motivated students, some with a budding interest in health care, who had no idea what to do with their interest,” Witkowski said.
Working in partnership with the university’s community relations team within the Division of Institutional Advancement, Witkowski designed a pre-health, interactive curriculum for the new Future Healthcare Professionals Club. FHPC members learn about the human body and different healthcare professions under the guidance of RFUMS students of medicine, podiatric medicine, pharmacy, biomedical sciences, physical therapy, physician assistant, pathologists’ assistant and postdoctoral studies.
“We’re a health sciences university filled with motivated students who love to mentor younger students – and we’re only a few miles away from one of the most underserved high schools in the state,” Witkowski said. “It’s a no-brainer that we should be there to mentor them and guide them, especially if they have an interest in the health sciences.”
Students from the club will help populate a new NCCHS academy, the Healthcare Careers Academy Pathway, said Jeff Hollenstein, lead teacher for the program – another partnership between RFUMS and the high school, which is undertaking bold new measures to increase a college-readiness rate that has dipped to 9 percent.
“RFUMS is helping to give our students more purpose and more focus,” Hollenstein said. “Our students say things like ‘I want to be a doctor,’ or ‘I want to be a lawyer,’ but they don’t know how to get there. They’re not getting the correct messages. They’re not being guided in the right direction.”
Center: RFUMS provided visiting students from the Future Healthcare Professionals Club a demonstration in the gross anatomy lab. Bottom right: Club members, who visited RFUMS on April 11, pictured with RFUMS student mentors and North Chicago Mayor Leon Rockingham.
Educators on the academy planning team and FHPC members participated in an April 11 field trip to RFUMS, which included a tour, demonstration in the gross anatomy lab, session on germs and infection in the College of Pharmacy skills lab and a student Q&A panel. Throughout club sessions, RFUMS students communicate a clear and compelling picture of their lives – how they study, engage in activities and handle pressure.
“You could see it,” Hollenstein said. “Kids starting to realize that a graduate degree is attainable, that the medical students they’re talking to and interacting with have gone through the same struggles they’ve experienced at NCCHS. They’re not super-humans, but people who have advanced through the stages of their lives and attained the goals they’ve pursued.”
Witkowski said one FHPC student reported that her club experience made her feel “empowered” in her biology class. Another, who sat mute during the first FHPC session, soon became the “go to” leader of the group.
“As he gained more knowledge, he became more confident,” Witkowski said.
But RFUMS students gain knowledge too, including what they learn from interacting with young people of different races and socioeconomic levels.
“It is also valuable to practice teaching in both academic and clinical settings,” said Christine Lopez, MEd, RFUMS executive director of community relations and stewardship. “Teaching is an important part of medicine. Medical and healthcare professionals play a vital role in educating their patients/clients on their respective medical condition, as well as preventative medicine.”
Lopez said she watched students blossom during club sessions in which Witkowski reviewed medical concepts, encouraged educated guesses and self-expression, then shifted to application through hands-on activities.
“Listening to the lub-dub of the heart, talking about those sounds, the sound of the heart’s valves, brings something alive in the students,” Lopez said. “This is material they can relate to, that can help them understand how amazing their physiology really is, and just how intelligent they really are in their assessments.”
Witkowski said she was thrilled when students collectively aced the 160-slide PowerPoint quiz she popped during their final club meeting. Each student was rewarded with a new, donated stethoscope, the iconic symbol of the trusted healthcare practitioner.
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FRANKLIN FELLOWS
The Franklin Fellowship, generously funded by a gift in 2012 from Martin and Julie Franklin on behalf of the Franklin family, serves to develop acommunity of students committed to interprofessional service, leadership and educational excellence. Twelve students from across the university received scholarships and took on the added rigors of the fellowship in its inaugural year, working to improve health and expand opportunity for those in need.
The Franklin Fellowship presented an opportunity for William Alegria, COP ’16, to explore and understand how healthcare providers can learn about and use cultural differences to enhance patient care.
“It’s something I’ve had a passion for ever since I moved away from Miami,” said Alegria, who was born and raised in the city that, according to the U.S. Census, includes a population that is 70 percent Hispanic or Latino. Alegria designed and offered a workshop aimed at helping RFUMS students acknowledge differences and learn to ask patients the right questions. The activity will be adapted for inclusion in the first-year Foundations of Interprofessional Practice course.
“ROSALIND FRANKLIN WAS A PIONEER, A MINORITY, AT A TIME WHEN FEW WOMEN EARNED PhDS. FOR SO MANY YEARS SHE WAS NOT CREDITED FOR HER WORK. SHE WAS SOMEONE WHO HAD SO MUCH TO OFFER BUT WAS STILL UNDERVALUED.”
WILLIAM ALEGRIA, COP ’16
“A lot of healthcare professionals don’t listen,” Alegria said. “They fit their patients into a box.”
Providers should not assume, Alegria said, that because people speak a common language or share a skin color that they also share the same cultural or socioeconomic characteristics. “That’s stereotyping and destructive,” he said.
Working at a busy retail pharmacy during a College of Pharmacy rotation, Alegria gained the confidence of patients who shared home remedies, alternative therapies, and attitudes and ideas about their health conditions.
“If you can get to know the person you’re treating, you can ask questions that make sense, that can get to the root of the problem,” Alegria said. “It’s about building that relationship with the patient.”
NATIONALHEALTH
Center: Martin Franklin visits with Franklin Fellows, including MD/PhD candidate Olsi Gjyshi, left, and Sarah Hershman, CMS ’16, right. Bottom: Rosalind Franklin, PhD, with colleagues in Lyons, France, 1949. Franklin Fellows, clockwise from left: Olsi Gjyshi, Kristina Doytcheva, Ashley Makulowich, William Alegria, Rebecca Burmeister, Natalie Dale, Josu Zubizaretta, Victoria Hoch, Julie Witkowski, Thuy Vi Le, Nicole Woitowich, Sarah Hershman.
WE ARE DEVOTED TO THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS CALLED TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF OUR NATION’S PEOPLE, AND ALSO TO LEAD, INNOVATE AND DISCOVER. THESE EXCEPTIONAL INDIVIDUALS JOIN AN UNBROKEN CHAIN OF THOSE WHO, IN GRATITUDE, EXTEND THEIR HAND TO A NEW GENERATION.
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2014 FRANKLIN FELLOWS AND THEIR PROJECTS
Nicole Woitowich, MS, SGPS ’16, was once told that she would never get into graduate school. Better to settle for a career in teaching high school biology rather than set her sights for medical research, she was told by a college advisor.
“I was pretty devastated,” said Woitowich, a crystallographer, who went on to earn a master of science from Northeastern Illinois University, where she was befriended by a tough but encouraging female biology professor.
“If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be here,” said Woitowich, who is researching the regulation of mammalian reproduction by novel enzymes in both the department of physiology and biophysics and department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Chicago Medical School.
Under the Franklin Fellowship, Woitowich developed a mentorship program for female undergraduate students. Women in Scientific Discovery or Medicine, WISDOM, brings female graduate students in a variety of disciplines, from all five RFUMS colleges, to interact with and support Lake Forest College students interested in pursuing graduate education in science, technology, math, engineering and healthcare fields.
“I’m really passionate about STEM outreach (science, technology, engineering and math) and trying to increase participation by women and minorities,” said Woitowich, whose ambitions are fostered at RFUMS by Janice Urban, PhD, professor and chair, physiology and biophysics, and Marc Glucksman, PhD, professor and chair, biochemistry and molecular biology.
“I say it all the time,” Woitowich said. “I am a product of mentorship. I literally would not be here if I didn’t have mentors in my life.”
“THE FELLOWS HAVE FORMED A TIGHT-KNIT GROUP. WE’VE GROWN CLOSE, HELPING EACH OTHER WITH OUR PROJECTS. IT’S GREAT TO BE PART OF A GROUP WHERE WE’RE ALL REALLY DRIVEN.”
NICOLE WOITOWICH, SGPS ’16
A native of Albania who hopes to become an oncologist and combat cancer-inducing viruses, Olsi Gjyshi, MD/PhD candidate 2017, recalls the two patients who refused the HPV or human papilloma virus vaccine he offered during volunteer duty at the student-run Interprofessional Community Clinic.
“It was their choice,” Gjyshi said, disappointment lingering in his voice. “My goal is to educate, to teach, about what’s available, about the possible benefits and risks. There are possible side effects, as with any vaccine, but the risk of developing cervical cancer far outweighs them.”
Gjyshi devoted his fellowship to educating communities about the seven viruses that cause cancer which, in addition to HPV, include: hepatitis C, hepatitis B, Epstein-Barr, Merkel cell, human T-cell lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma.
William Alegria, COP ’16 Designed and offered a workshop on the impact of culture on patient care and students’ role in overcoming cultural barriers.
Rebecca Burmeister, SCPM ’16 Designed and offered comprehensive diabetes management class at the Interprofessional Community Clinic.
Natalie Dale, CMS ’16 Organized interprofessional Waukegan Women’s Health Fair; assessed outcomes.
Kristina Doytcheva, CMS ’17 Organized and offered monthly health screenings and education to area homeless population.
Olsi Gjyshi, MD/PhD candidate, 2017 Educated communities on cancer-causing viruses and offered free HPV vaccine.
Sarah Hershman, CMS ’16Established basic women’s reproductive health services at ICC.
Victoria Hoch, CMS ’17Worked to improve respiratory health in Lake County through multi-pronged effort.
Thuy Vi Le, CMS ’16 Designed and initiated healthy cooking/nutrition/lifestyle classes for area youth.
Ashley Makulowich, PhD candidate, 2017 Designed and organized psychoeducational support groups for ICC patients.
Julie Witkowski, CMS ’16 Designed and offered Future Healthcare Professionals Club and tutoring and mentoring for students at local high school.
Nicole C. Woitowich, MS, PhD candidate, 2016 Designed and offered mentorship program promoting entry of more women into STEM and healthcare professions.
Josu Zubizarreta, PT ’16 Organized and offered health screening events to local Latino community.
Franklin Fellow scholarship recipients are committed to interprofessional service and collaboration on projects benefiting the health of those in need.
“THE FRANKLIN FAMILY IS HONORED TO INVEST IN THE EDUCATION OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS,” SAID MARTIN FRANKLIN, ROSALIND FRANKLIN’S NEPHEW. “OUR AUNT WOULD BE PLEASED THAT, IN HER NAME, SCIENCE, HEALING AND LEARNING COME TOGETHER IN SUPPORT OF GOOD HEALTH.”
“The topic of virus-induced cancers is not only fascinating, it’s important,” said Gjyshi, who is pursuing his PhD under the guidance of Bala Chandran, PhD, professor and chair in the department of microbiology and immunology.
In addition to his work in the clinic, Gjyshi, who cites a virus-induced cancer rate between 12 and 20 percent worldwide, visited a women’s health fair and delivered a lecture to a group of very inquisitive high school students. He also collaborated with a drug company and the Centers for Disease Control in offering free vaccines to underserved children.
“I find research fascinating,” said Gjyshi, who has studied how Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpes virus hijacks molecular mechanisms to infect cells and cause cancer. “But I’m a very patient-oriented person. I like being there for patients who need the support.”
“WE WANT TO SOLVE ALL THESE HEALTHCARE PROBLEMS, BUT HEALTH CARE CAN’T BE SEPARATED FROM ANYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENS IN OUR LIVES.”
REBECCA BURMEISTER, SCPM ’16
Rebecca Burmeister, SCPM ’16, is on a mission to help patients prevent complications of diabetes which, if poorly managed, can result in blindness, amputation and death.
The future podiatric physician, whose father developed a foot ulcer while she was in college, designed a series of diabetes education classes and teaching materials that are simple to understand and easy to follow, in both English and Spanish.
“We’re tailoring the message, using appropriate health literacy and education levels, and we’re telling them the most important things, of like a million important things, so that they can start taking those first healthy steps,” Burmeister said. “There’s a great need in this community.”
Burmeister worked through the student-run Interprofessional Community Clinic to accomplish her project, which includes the offering of incentives. Eligible patients who attend diabetes management classes receive at-home glucose testing supplies and prescription medications paid for through proceeds of the university’s annual Dance for Diabetes, said Burmeister, who chaired the event in 2014.
Every clinic patient with a diagnosis of diabetes is individually counseled on first steps, including how to keep blood sugar in a healthy range and why it’s important; how to check blood sugar; what to do if glucose levels are too low or too high.
Diabetes, Burmeister said, responds well to a highly interprofessional approach, practiced at the clinic and promoted through education and training at RFUMS.
“We have to put more focus on health education and prevention,” said Burmeister, who recalls patients who lived with an average blood sugar level of 300 for months before seeking treatment.
Franklin Fellow Julie Witkowski, CMS ’16, discusses her service project.
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE
Wherever they serve, RFUMS alumni, students and faculty use their knowledge and training to collaborate, to teach and learn, and to heal with compassion. Our community is at work around the world, caring for humanity and sharing the fulfillment of a life lived in discovery.
Chicago Medical School students Sevgi Sipahi and Natasha Thomas arrived in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2011, and though their month-long service trip quickly came to an end, they resolved to help the suffering refugees they left behind.
“It’s not just one trauma they suffer; it’s a lifetime of trauma that starts from birth – disease, death, abductions, war, rape used as a weapon of war,” said Dr. Sipahi, now a first-year resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, IL.
The students met hundreds of traumatized people from East African countries including Burundi, Rwanda and Sudan at the nonprofit Hope of Children and Women Victims of Violence in Ndejje, Uganda. Thomas recalls a woman who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo until armed rebels raided her village. Her husband was murdered in front of her, the woman said, and she was sexually assaulted by multiple attackers. When Thomas and Sipahi met her, she was withdrawn, sick from the effects of treatment for HIV and struggling to care for her children, including a new baby.
“Her HIV meds were free, but she couldn’t afford food,” said Dr. Thomas, a first-year resident in emergency medicine at Stroger Hospital of Cook County in Chicago.
The second-year medical students, who initially traveled to Uganda as part of the student-led International Health Interest Group, promised to return to HOCW. In the years leading up to the fulfillment of that promise, the university developed student, faculty and institutional support guided by Inis Jane Bardella, MD, FAFP, executive director of the RFUMS Office of Global Health Initiatives, which operates within the Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education.
“One of our goals is that student experiences occur in the context of an established organization with a continual presence on the ground and with appropriate responsibility and accountability,” Bardella said.
“It was wonderful, as a student, to have the opportunity to create a partnership,” Thomas said. “The big thing in international health is medical tourism. People visit a clinic, volunteer for a couple of weeks, then leave. But Dr. Bardella stressed the need to create something that will stand, and she gave us the tools to do it.”
“We believe in HOCW and we want to see it grow,” Sipahi said. “We want to provide what they want and ideally what they need.”
GLOBALHEALTH
Kevin Rynn, PharmD, College of Pharmacy associate dean for clinical affairs, accompanied RFUMS students on a trip to Ndejje, Uganda. Bottom right: Rita Huynh, COP ’15, at Zanta Clinic. Kenneth Kessler, PhD, director of clinical counseling, and a new friend in Ndejje, Uganda. Photos courtesy Rita Huynh, Kenneth Kessler.
ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE STRIVES TO EXEMPLIFY THE SPIRIT OF SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT AND DRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE POSSESSED BY DR. ROSALIND FRANKLIN WHO, DURING HER SHORT LIFE, MADE DISCOVERIES THAT CONTINUE TO IMPROVE LIVES AROUND THE GLOBE.
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Aided by Bardella and the department of psychology in the College of Health Professions, the students developed a plan and wrote a curriculum to train peer counselors in Narrative Exposure Therapy as a treatment for refugees struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sipahi and Thomas returned as M4s to Ndejje in April 2014, with two other medical students, a doctoral psychology student and Kenneth Kessler, PhD, director of clinical counseling. The team offered intensive NET training to lay counselors, carefully screened refugees who learned fast and asked smart questions.
“NET is a very natural tool for this culture,” Kessler said. “It’s about storytelling. Telling is a coping mechanism. The goal is to get the memories to cool down, so they’re not as painful as they were.”
The team worked to overcome barriers to behavioral therapy including shame, mistrust and a lack of understanding of the western concept of confidentiality. They also learned, from their trainees, what would and wouldn’t work, Kessler said, and made many modifications to their plan as a result.
More than 30 students and faculty have traveled to Ndejje since 2011, including Kevin Rynn, PharmD, College of Pharmacy associate dean for clinical affairs, who accompanied two COP students. Their plane landed in Kampala on a June night in 2013.
“We drove off into the darkness, off-road, up a hill, then finally, knocked at a gate,” Rynn recalled.
The pharmacy team was soon making daily treks to the nearby, government-run Zanta Clinic, down a dirt road lined with huts and sometimes clogged by cattle, as children ran out to greet them. Like other RFUMS faculty and students, they worked within their stateside scope of practice, participating in vaccination clinics, performing lab test screenings for HIV and malaria, and dispensing treatments while learning about challenges related to supply chain issues, including frequent vehicle breakdowns and impassable roads.
“Getting a perspective on another country, another system, makes you more culturally aware, more flexible in your thinking and your work,” Rynn said. “There’s often more than one way to do things. That mindset is helpful, particularly as more pharmacy students travel to Ndejje.”
The university’s global health initiatives also create new avenues for research and funding, re-energize faculty, and inspire empathy and compassion.
Kessler, who marveled at small children lugging five-gallon containers of water and who for lack of a ball kicked a battered avocado in the street, said he arrived back home with a different view of his life and the lives of his patients.
“We worked with people who are resilient, but who have few material resources,” he said. “I came away with a vast appreciation of the things we have as a culture and as a country in comparison. But not all things here are great and not all things there are bad.”
Both Rynn and Kessler will measure outcomes of their interprofessional efforts in Uganda. Rynn, who toured Makerere University in Kampala, is working to collaborate with faculty in its College of Pharmacy in the areas of research and teaching. Kessler uses Skype to work with the counselors he helped train at HOCW.
“It’s not primarily about us and the place we’re going to,” Bardella said. “It’s about how can we build multi-partner relationships, because no one of us can address all the needs. RFUMS, Zanta Clinic and Makerere together can devise a better strategy to meet pharmacy supply chain needs.”
Bardella continues to work to develop partnerships, including in Mexico and Haiti, that can be sustained over decades, that go beyond providing services to help emerging nations build their own capacity to serve and solve pressing health challenges.
“We’re riding this huge wave in global health that has swelled and stayed there,” Bardella said. “Our theory is that this will improve not just awareness, but cultural understanding, which is the first step in producing health professionals who are more effective, who will practice in a way that will truly improve health outcomes wherever they serve.”
DEVELOPING DOCTORS
RFUMS is striving, through its global health initiatives, to help developing nations hold on to their best and brightest through strategies that build what highly motivated students need to flourish. While that effort awaits realization, health professionals of African, Latino and Asian diasporas contribute substantially to the development of their home countries.
Ibukunoluwa Araoye, CMS ’17, spent his first year of medical school immersed in lectures and labs, gross anatomy, histology and other courses that lay the foundational knowledge for the future he envisions as a neurosurgeon.
“IT’S ABOUT GOING BACK A FEW STEPS, LOOKING AT WHERE THE PEOPLE WE’RE TRYING TO HELP COME FROM AND WHAT’S GOING ON IN THEIR LIVES AS A MEANS TO IMPROVING THEIR TOTAL HEALTH.”
NATASHA THOMAS, MD ‘14
“TEAMWORK IS EVERYTHING. IT’S AMAZING HOW PEOPLE FROM OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE WORLD CAN WORK SO WELL TOGETHER.”
SEVGI SIPAHI, MD ‘14
“YOU REALIZE THINGS ARE A LOT MORE FRAGILE THAN YOU MIGHT OTHERWISE THINK.”
KENNETH KESSLER, PhD
Center: College of Pharmacy students Rita Huynh, left, and Alyssa Wenzel, right, with children in Ndejje, Uganda. Bottom, from left: Natasha Thomas, MD ‘14, with young friends in Ndejje. Kevin Rynn, PharmD, treating a patient at Zanta Clinic. Ibukunoluwa Araoye, CMS ‘17, holds a photo of his family taken in their native Nigeria. He appears at far right. Photos courtesy of Rita Huynh, Sevgi Sipahi, Ibukunoluwa Araoye.
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But mastery of the basic sciences and his conviction that the brain “can do anything” cannot help Araoye (pronounced ah-RAH-oh-yay) make up his mind, nor answer what could be the defining question of his life: Will he return to his homeland to practice?
Home is Nigeria, the largest economy and most populous country in Africa at 174 million, where malaria, meningitis, hepatitis and a host of other infectious diseases cut short average life expectancy to 52 years.
A recipient of the Dr. Scholl Foundation Scholarship, through the RFUMS Centennial Scholarship Campaign, Araoye is both hopeful and realistic about his future. He wants to practice in the U.S. first, he said, to understand how a health system should work, before returning home, where his father, an agricultural engineer, has a history of activism.
“He never said directly to us that we should have a really intense love for our country,” Araoye said. “A passion for the country is genetic.”
But passion can fade. Araoye, who has several uncles who practice medicine in the U.S., England and Canada, said he has sometimes been mocked for “wanting to go back to help” a country where a nascent healthcare infrastructure often lacks things like gloves and needles, and where the poor die of preventable diseases and treatable wounds.
Challenges in Nigeria – corruption, lack of infrastructure, and extremist attacks including the murder of healthcare and foreign aid workers – have been widely reported.
“I can’t see the future, but in this moment I would love to go back to Nigeria to help,” said Araoye, whose three siblings have pursued higher education abroad and remain abroad. “I could help change how health care is delivered, talk to the government about establishing a healthcare system, try to standardize how physicians are trained and licensed, and teach them what it takes to open hospitals and clinics.”
Araoye sees tremendous possibilities in Nigeria, but also forces beyond the control of any one mind or development strategy.
“You try to imagine a system that works, where things are good,” Araoye said. “But your mind falters. It can’t fathom the connection between today and this future state. You’re fighting cynicism.”
Other medical students, other doctors who have stayed, “wanted to go back,” Araoye muses.
“Maybe I am a different kind of person,” he said. “Lots of people are having this dream: how to help their countries.”
The science mastered by Rosalind Franklin, PhD, and celebrated throughout 2014 during the International Year of Crystallography, is helping a team of top researchers at Franklin’s namesake university visualize and understand how protein structures function at the atomic level.
Protein crystallography is helping to push the boundaries of disease prevention and treatment. The science is used in combination with mass spectrometry, electron paramagnetic resonance and other biochemical approaches to understand the structure-based mechanisms of proteins essential to both normal and pathological states.
“We’re one of the few places in the country specifically examining the structural biology of membrane proteins,” said Ronald Kaplan, PhD, executive vice president for research. “If we know these structures, we can design very specific drugs to interact with those molecules. We need more efficacious drugs that have fewer side effects.”
The university has made a significant reinvestment in research facilities and personnel over the past decade, recruiting top structural biologists who have been awarded highly competitive NIH grants to fund their research on membrane proteins of high-biological significance.
The work of Jun-yong Choe, PhD, the primary investigator in a study that solved the crystal structure of a glucose/H+ symporter and its mechanism for action, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Such glucose transporters – in humans, known as GLUT – play an important role in diseases, including cancer and diabetes.
Thirty percent of all proteins are membrane proteins, which account for 70 percent of all targets for drug therapies.
“The work is high-risk, high-reward,” Kaplan said. “It’s a driving passion to understand, at the molecular and atomic levels, how a membrane transporter functions and how derived information would be used for pharmacological interventions.”
The structures are notoriously difficult to solve. Choe worked for several years to delineate the transporter.
“It can take 50,000 hours to succeed and it doesn’t always succeed,” Kaplan said. “But our researchers are succeeding.”
Investigators in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology also include Min Lu, PhD, who received NIH funding on his first-ever grant proposal to the agency. His study of multidrug and toxic compound extrusion transporters is aimed at understanding why patients develop resistance to medications. Kyoung Joon Oh, PhD, is researching proteins related to apoptosis or controlled cell death. Adrian Gross, PhD, is examining potassium channels, which may play a role in healthy vascular function and the secretion of hormones.
Researchers in the department are also delving into other vital areas. Kaplan is studying citrate transporters, which may play a key role in obesity. David Mueller, PhD, is looking at the F1FO ATPase, an essential energy-conserving enzyme in humans. Marc Glucksman, PhD, department chair and director of the Midwest Proteome Center at RFUMS, is investigating neural processing enzymes. Carl Correll, PhD, is looking at RNA-protein complexes essential to ribosome biogenesis.
“We’ve created a synergy, a team environment in which our scientists can thrive, collaborate and share ideas,” Kaplan said. “We’re giving them the tools to succeed, to advance a key mission of RFUMS – the discovery of knowledge to improve human health.”
Center: Rosalind Franklin, PhD, at microscope. Inset photo: An artistic representation of the atomic model of the neuropeptide processing enzyme, EP24.15, solved by X-ray crystallography. Data presented in this image collected through Argonne National Laboratory–Advanced Photon Source by Nicole Woitowich, a graduate student in the laboratory of Marc Glucksman, PhD, which also includes Henry Symersky, PhD, Keith D. Philibert, MS, and Xiaomeng Shao.
YEAR OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
Scientific research underpins RFUMS, where the discovery of new knowledge in the biomedical sciences continues to improve the health of people in the United States and around the world.
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Gail L. WardenChair, Board of Trustees
Marc S. Abel Paula A. Banks-Jones Lawyer L. Burks III John Calamari Elizabeth A. Coulson A. Michael Drachler
Michael C. Foltz Michael J. Hriljac Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky Cheryl Kraff-Cooper David C. Leach Shannon Liu Wilfred J. Lucas
Thomas G. Moore Frank H. Mynard Pamela Scholl Kathleen M. Stone Deborah B. Taylor Alan Weinstein K. Michael WelchPresident & CEO
BOARD OF TRUSTEESRFUMS ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
Financial Report fiscal year ended June 30, 2014
OPERATING REVENUES TOTAL ALL FUNDS
Net tuition and fees $ 71.5Grants and contracts 17.0Patient care 9.0 Endowment support 2.8Contributions 1.2Other 5.4Total $ 106.9
OPERATING EXPENSES TOTAL ALL FUNDS
Instruction $ 57.1Research 18.4 Patient care 8.9Institutional support 19.4Total $ 103.8
Excess revenues over expenses $ 3.1$ in millions
Excludes nonoperating revenues and expenses, includingrealized and unrealized gains and losses on investments
SPONSORED RESEARCH SUPPORT
REVENUESFISCAL YEAR 2014
EXPENSESFISCAL YEAR 2014
STUDENT ENROLLMENT
Grants and contracts 16%
Patient care 8%Endowment support 3%
Contributions 1%Other 5%
Net tuition and fees 67%
Research 18%
Patient care 8%
Institutional support 19%
Instruction 55%
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Richard S. Gerber, MD & Laurie A. Kleinman, MD
Philip Gianfortune, DPM
Stuart & Esther Glasser Family Foundation
Arnold L. Gold, MD
Jerome A. Gold, MD
Lynn & David Goldman
Dr. Stuart L. Goldman
Paul D. Granoff, MD
Thomas A. Graziano, DPM, MD
Michael A. Gureasko, MD
Phil & Geri Gutentag
Lawrence F. Handler, MD
Timothy Hansen, PhD
Marcel I. Horowitz, MD
Steven D. Horwitz, MD
Michael J. Hriljac, DPM
William A. Ingram, MD
Iowa Podiatric Medical Society
IPMA
Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Jablonowski
Jewish Foundation of Greensboro
Dr. & Mrs. Phillip S. Kallen
Dr. & Mrs. Joel A. Kaplan
Ronald Kaplan, PhD & Ms. June Mayor
Eugene L. Kellogg, MD
Bob & Judy Kemp
Samuel C. Klagsbrun, MD
Lester Klein, MD*
Stanley M. Kleinman, MD
John M. Kosanovich, MD
Michael P. Krusch, MD
Philip G. Lambruschi, MD
Roberta & Shaun Lane
Donald Y. Lesser, MD
Arthur S. Levine, MD & Linda S. Melada
Wood V. Lewis, MD
Libertyville Sunrise Rotary Charitable Foundation
Paul S. Lieber, MD
Robert W. Lilienstein, MD
Dr. Mykola Lisowsky
Mr. Richard Loesch
Peter J. Lowe, MD
Mr. Wilfred J. Lucas
Joseph M. Maurice, MD
John G. Mayer, MD
Peter J. McDonnell, MD
Michael N. Metry, MD & Ms. Mary Metry
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Meyer
Laurence R. Meyerson, PhD & Ms. Deborah L. Faiman
John M. Miller, DPM
Larry S. Miller, MD
Mr. Frank Mynard
National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation
Kathleen T. Neuhoff, DPM
NorthShore University HealthSystem
Gary Oltmans, PhD & Lori E. Moss, MD
The Orthotic Group
Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Palmer
Nancy L. Parsley, DPM, MHPE
Lawrence M. Pass, MD
George B. Perlstein, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Dennis A. Pessis
Arthur L. Pinchuck, MD
Stephen E. Piwinski, MD
Henry S. Pohl, MD
Michael T. Ragen, MD
Wendy Rheault, PT, PhD
Ronald G. Ritz, MD
Charles C. Roberts, MD
Mrs. Edythe Rock
Mrs. Eugene J. Rogers
Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Rogers
Alan M. Rogin, MD
Dr. Jeffrey L. Rosengarten
Alfred N. Rossi, MD
CENTENNIAL CIRCLE($100,000 and Above)
Dr. Scholl Foundation
State of Illinois
DISCOVERY CIRCLE($50,000 to $99,999)
Grace P. Rose Charitable Foundation Trust
Steans Family Foundation
TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE($10,000 to $49,999)
Abbott Fund
AbbVie Foundation
Accelerated Health Systems
Robert S. Alter, MD
APMA Educational Foundation
Bako Integrated Physician Solutions
Ms. Marjorie Benton
Michael C. Buchbinder, MD
Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan
Estate of Dr. Marion Finkel
Herbert Fisher, MD*
Gorter Family Foundation
John F. Grady, DPM
Grace Elizabeth Groner Scholarship Foundation
Matthew N. Harris, MD
Craig J. Harwin, MD & Debra Strauss Harwin, MD
Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County
Roy G. Kerr Foundation
Spencer Koerner, MD
Cheryl B. Kraff-Cooper, MD
Lake County Community Foundation
Susan A. Mandel, MD & Dr. Howard C. Mandel
Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation
Northwestern Mutual
Estate of Dr. George Osborne
Joel A. Pengson, MD
Melvin Pick, MD*
In Memory of US Navy Retired SKC Robert W. Ply by Ms. Monica Ply for research in heart disease and Parkinson’s disease
Franklin D. Pratt, MD
Estate of Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein
Carey B. Strom, MD
VNA Foundation
Walgreens
Mr. Gail L. Warden
K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCP
Mrs. Lisa Zenni & Mr. James Zenni, Jr.
Contributors to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014
Martin Franklin, nephew of Rosalind Franklin, PhD, addresses the crowd during the university’s May 29 unveiling of a bronze likeness of the scientist. Inset: Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky, niece of Rosalind Franklin, PhD, and K. Michael Welch, RFUMS president and CEO, visit with Franklin Fellows.
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S. Burton Roth, MD
Elliot Rubinstein, MD
Mervyn A. Sahud, MD
Jeffrey N. Samuelson, MD
Melvin M. Schiff, MD
Ms. Pamela Scholl
Aaron & Margaret Scholnik
Michael Scoppetuolo, MD
Jeffery W. Sherman, MD & Mary Sherman
Demetrios G. Skedros, MD
L. Michael Snyder, MD
Stephen J. Sontag, MD
Victor G. Stiebel, MD
Kathleen M. Stone, DPM
Andrejs V. Strauss, MD
Ms. Margot Surridge
Ms. Deborah Taylor
Herbert Tetenbaum, MD*
Stanley H. Title, MD
Topco Associates, LLC
Dr. Kay Uttech
Walmart Foundation
Eric Walters, PhD
David Warner, MD
Donald L. Wayne, MD
Gerald H. Weiner, MD
Mr. Alan Weinstein
John S. Weitzner, MD
Wintrust Community Banks
Eric P. Wohlrab, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Yessenow
Ann Zmuda, DPM
SCHOLARS’ CLUB ($500 to $999)
Marjorie Ariano, PhD
Orhan Arslan, PhD
Peter J. Axel, MD
Dr. Alan J. & Jennifer K. Axelrod
Sherry Bagno & Donald MacIntyre
Ms. Elizabeth Klein Baker
Theodore M. Bayless, MD
Sheilah A. Bernard, MD
Edward J. Bruno, MD
Cynthia R. Cernak, DPM
William E. Chagares, DPM
Tung W. Cheng, DPM
Stuart B. Cohen, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart L. Cohn
Community Foundation of Henderson County
The Container Store
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Coulson
Joel Curtis, MD
Jorge Del Castillo, MD
Rahul Deshmukh, PhD
Franklin T. Desposito, MD
Louis Di Lillo, MD
Kelly Downey, MD
Martin S. Dubner, MD
Edward E. Evans, MD
Ms. Sue Fahami
Martin Fine, MD
Dr. & Mrs. David H. Forsted
Glen T. Fortier, MD
Toby Frankel, MD
David M. Frankle, MD
Robert A. Fuhrman, MD
Glenda Gallisath, PhD
Sanford H. Gaynor, MD
Henry Gelender, MD
John R. Graham, DPM
Curtis R. Handler, MD
Dr. Richard A. Hawkins
Philip W. Holloway, DPM
Illinois Council of Health System Pharmacists
Annie I. Iriye, MD
Morton Jacobs, MD
Mr. Robert Janetka
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Anita S. Kablinger, MD
Miles Kahan, MD
Sadayo A. Kanaya, MD
Elton Kessel, MD
David Kibrit, DPM
Daniel F. Kiernan, MD
Victor H. Kong, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Lasin
Maurice H. Laszlo, MD
Dr. David C. Leach
Joy A. Leong, MD
Jerome S. Levitan, MD
Sanford M. Levy, MD
Jay I. Lippman, MD
Kent L. Magrini, DPM
Bruce Manion, PhD
Haytham Mansour, DPM
Walter I. Migdal, MD
Bernard G. Miller, MD
Tom & Katy Moore
George R. Nicholis, MD
Patrick J. O’Leary, MD
Dr. Lawrence C. Perlmuter
Kenneth L. Pinsker, MD
Dr. Douglas R. Reifler
Robert B. Richling, MD
Keith A. Robertson, MD
George Rosenthal, MD
Thomas J. Ruane, MD
Richard F. Ruben, MD
William S. Rubenstein, MD
Ms. Susan Rubin
Martin N. Sachman, MD
Alice Sachs, PhD
Alfred B. Salganick, MD
Paul H. Schwarzentraub, DPM
Robert E. Share, MD
Andrew L. Siegel, MD
Jerald Siegel, MD
Louis Silverstein, MD
Joel I. Sorosky, MD
James S. Spitz, MD & Joyce Chams, MD
William Steier, MD
Gerald Strum, MD*
Asher A. Tulsky, MD
Dr. Janice H. Urban-McCrea
Dr. & Mrs. James A. Van Heest
Tina B. Verder, MD & Clifford Feldman, MD
Harry L. Wachen, MD
Leonard R. Wagner, DPM
Paige E. Waterman, MD & Mr. John Waterman
Nathan S. Weiss, MD
David Winkelstein, MD
David H. Woldenberg, MD
Jeffrey Yale, DPM
Adrian Yi, MD
Melvin Young, MD
Jason Zellner, MD
James & Loraine Zimmerman
CENTURY CLUB ($100 to $499)
Anonymous
Malik Y. Abraham, DPM
Lawrence G. Adelsohn, MD
Ms. Donna Agnew
Marvin R. Agran, MD
Terence Albright, DPM
Ms. Rochelle Allen
Gerard & Ruth Ames
Seth M. Anderson, DPM
Sanford M. Archer, MD & Sandra Bouzaglou-Archer, MD
Henry M. Asin, DPM
Assured Software Ltd.
Francis M. Baker, DPM
Mrs. Mary H. Balke
Ms. Martha Kelly Bates & Mr. Ben Bates
Lawrence E. Batlan, MD
Henry G. Beecher, MD
Donald J. Behr, MD
Herbert Bengelsdorf, MD*
Randall P. Bergen, DPM
David M. Berger, MD
Marvin Berger, MD
Harry A. Bernstein, MD
Naomi M. Bey, MD
Brooke A. Bisbee, DPM
Edward Blackman & Frances LaPolt
Howard S. Blank, MD
William E. Bloch, MD
Ronald J. Bonaguro, MD
Jeffrey A. Bosworth, MD
Melvin V. Boule, MD
Michael T. Bowersox, MD
Larry S. Brandis, MD
Sydney Brandwein, MD
Jerry D. Brant, DPM
Gary Brecher, MD
Jeffrey S. Brindle, MD
Diane M. Buchbarker, MD
Joel A. Cahan, MD
Mr. Howard Campbell
Mr. Murray Campbell
Paul B. Canale, MD
Jaime H. Cercone, MD
Pei Lin Chang, MD
Mr. Andrew Charter
Audrey Cheung-O’Carroll, MD
Joseph Chiaramonte, MD
Dr. Joseph P. Cleary
CMS Alumni Association
Ralph W. Cobrinik, MD
Daniel S. Cohen, MD & Claudia Capurro, MD
Lawrence Cohen, MD
Terry L. Cohen, MD
Ms. Sandra Colantonio
Ms. Lee Concha
Thomas E. Conte, MD
Paul J. Coogan, MD
James D. Corbiere, DPM
Corning
Dr. Carl C. Correll & Mr. Alan Darling
Dr. Jessica M. Cottreau
Clifford S. Crawford, MD
Matthew T. Crooks, MD
Mr. Kevin Crosby
Maureen L. Crotty, DPM
Brittany Crowhurst, DPM
Jeffrey A. Crowhurst, DPM
Priscilla K. Dale, MD
Alfred J. Damus, MD
Darco International
Philip D. Dean, MD
Dominic DeCristofaro, MD
Michael W. DeGere, DPM
Dr. Joseph X. DiMario & Mrs. Karen B. DiMario
Kristin M. Disori, MD
Morton J. Doblin, MD
Michael E. Dobmeier, MD
Mark D. Dollard, DPM
Nathan Dorman, MD
Drytech International
Richard A. Dube, MD
William W. Dzwierzynski, MD
Richard E. Ehle, DPM
Michael J. Eisner, MD
Allen & Caryl Eliot
EMD Millipore
Douglas M. England, MD
Kenneth B. Epstein, MD
Timothy B. Erickson, MD
Ms. Araceli Esquivel
Frederic M. Ettner, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Steven D. Eyer
Leonard Ezrow, MD
Martin J. Faasse, DPM
Heather A. Fagan, MD
FAPA Fraternal Inc.
Michael B. Farber, MD
Joel A. Feder, DPM
Steve R. Feller, DPM
Timothy J. Felton, DPM
Samuel L. Fenichel, MD
Arthur C. Fenn, MD
Fisher Scientific
Meghan M. Flannery, MD
Ms. Nora Flint
Charles Forster, DPM
Ms. Renee I. Francisco
Mr. Fred Franke
Eugene B. Freid, MD
Abe W. Friedman, MD
Robert S. Friedman, MD
William Frost, PhD & Lise Eliot, PhD
Howard M. Gale, DPM
Dr. Eric P. Gall
Sarah Garber, PhD
Burton Garfinkel, MD*
Dominick Garibaldi, DPM
Ronald Gelles, MD
George B. Geppner, DPM
Herbert J. Gershen, MD
Patricia L. Gilbert, MD
A. K. Gilchrist, DPM
Lawrence E. Ginsberg, MD
Roberta P. Glick, MD
Julie S. Glickstein, MD
Jordan Goetz, MD
Leslie P. Goldberg, MD
Richard I. Goldberg, MD
Stephen J. Goldberg, MD
Mitchell L. Goldflies, MD
Scott E. Goldsmith, MD & Susan W. Goldsmith, MD
Chester W. Gottlieb, MD & Joyce R. Gottlieb
Ms. Crystal E. Grady
Jane E. Graebner, DPM
Samuel M. Gray, MD
Robert H. Green, MD
Sheldon B. Greenberg, MD
Stewart Y. Greenberg, MD
William L. Greenberg, MD
Joel B. Greenman, MD
Brad Greenspan, MD
Sheldon Gross, MD
James I. Grossman, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Gustafson
Jerry L. Haag, MD
Brian C. Handley, MD
Dr. Scott Hanes
David Harrison, PhD
Marc H. Harwitt, MD
Dr. Roberta J. Henderson
Stanley B. Hersh, MD
Janet C. Hershman, MD
Andrew J. Highum, DPM
David J. Hirsch, MD
Irwin L. Hirsch, MD
Ms. Helen M. Hirschfeld
Miki Hori, DPM
George Housakos, MD*
Mrs. Stella Housakos
Steven M. Howard, MD
Lawrence A. Huels, DPM
Left: John Ruff, DPM ’84, and Jake Ruff, DPM ’14. Right: MaryLou Bareither, PhD, and Daniel Bareither, PhD, SCPM professor and senior associate dean of educational affairs, with John Grady, DPM ’80.
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Michael D. Huels, DPM
Susan Sung O. Hyun, MD
Bartolomeo D. Iaia, MD
IBM
Robert O. Isaacs, MD
Susan M. Israel, MD
Leslie M. Jacobson, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Mel S. Jacoby
Jeffrey A. Jahre, MD
Bruce H. Janson, MD
Beth D. Jarrett, DPM
Ms. Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky
Daniel Jeran, DPM
Jewish Communal Fund
Paul A. Johns, DPM
Milan Jordan, MD
Mr. Medardo Jurado
Bruce I. Kaczander, DPM
Joseph L. Kahn, MD
Shari L. Kaminsky, DPM
Dr. Lawrence & Barbara Kantor
Mark & Cheryl Kaplan
Linda F. Karlsruher, MD
Lawrence I. Karsh, MD & Irit Gordon-Karsh, MD
Gerald J. Karten, MD
Alan S. Katz, MD
Ms. Pinna R. Katz
Gary L. Kaye, MD
Kevin J. Kessler, MD
Charles Khalil, DPM
Joseph E. Kiefer, DPM
Dr. Yoon B. Kim
Phillip Kissel, MD
Walter Kitt, MD
Joel S. Klein, MD
Kenneth L. Klein, MD
David & Beverly Klintworth
Dr. Patrick T. Knott
Jerry L. Kobrin, MD
R. Aida Kosak, DPM
Gloria J. Krason, DPM
Philip B. Krause, MD
Robert F. Kukla, DPM
Harvey S. Kulber, MD
Mr. Jon Kurtin
Fredric R. Kutner, MD
Mortimer J. Lacher, MD
Dr. Henry W. Lahmeyer
Lawrence T. Lai, MD
Jonathan E. Laine, MD
Gary E. Lane, MD
Steven M. Lapidus, MD
Jeffrey M. LaPorte, MD
Norman A. Lasky, MD
Claudia & Barry Latner
Agnes D. Lattimer, MD
David S. Lavitt, MD & Susan G. Strauss, MD
Ms. Diane Lawson
Ms. Gloria Leder
Donald D. Lee, MD
Zvi Lefkovitz, MD
Ms. Karol Lefkowitz
Dr. & Mrs. Charles J. Leidner
Jerrold B. Leikin, MD
Mrs. Joyce E. Lenz
Mr. George Leonard
Robert S. Lesser, MD
Allan B. Levin, MD
Alan M. Levine, MD
Barton S. Levine, MD
Natalie & Jerry Levy
Rosaura Licea, MD
Sheldon A. Lichtblau, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Lichter
David B. Lieb, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Light
Stephen A. Lipschultz, MD
Ms. Erin K. Loaney
Jonat Lok, DPM
Jeffery D. Long, MD
Michele A. Lorand, MD
Georgia D. Lubben, MD
Harry R. Lubell, MD
Mark A. Ludwig, MD
Dr. Abbie L. Lyden
Peter I. Margolis, MD
Eric A. Marks, MD
Robert L. Marks, MD
Robert J. Marselle, MD
Linda Mast, PhD
James W. Mazzuca, DPM
Frederick S. Mechanik, DPM
Jeffrey A. Mechanik, DPM
Joseph E. Mechanik, DPM
Rhonda M. Meier, MD
Alan R. Mensch, MD
Dr. Christopher Meredith
Mettler Toledo
Henry R. Meyer, MD
Mrs. Lisa M. Michener
Mark & Karen Migdal
Ms. Karrie Mikle
Angelo A. Milano, MD
Philip L. Miller, MD
Richard J. Miller, DPM
Steven W. Miller, DPM
William J. Miller, DPM
Spencer C. Misner, DPM
Giles B. Mizock, MD
Lee R. Morisy, MD
Mr. Clinton Morse
Ms. Patricia Mull
Marcia E. Murakami, MD
Daniel A. Muse, MD
Seymour B. Musiker, MD
Ajit V. Nair, MD
Lee M. Neiman, MD
Irwin J. Nelson, MD
Philip S. Newman, DPM
Tuan M. Nguyen, MD
Peter Nierman & Amy Goldberg
Arshia M. Noori, MD
Angela Nuzzarello, MD
Jacqueline K. Okada, MD
Jeffrey P. Olson, MD
Phillip J. Olsson, MD
Frederick H. Opper, MD
Daniel A. Osman, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Dean Osterloh
Stephen S. Ou, MD
David J. Oxman, MD
Rose A. Pace, MD
Frank S. Pancotto, MD
Mrs. Viraj A. Parikh
Sandro B. Parisi, MD
Ms. Carol Parsons
Ms. Aurie A. Pennick
Stephen Perlmutter, DPM
Mr. Michael Perry
Laura J. Pickard, DPM
Walter Pinsker, MD
Susan R. Pitman, MD
Paul F. Pizzella, MD
Marvin Platt, MD
David & Amy Pollack
Todd A. Pollock, MD
Andrew S. Pomerantz, MD
Keith L. Ponitz, MD & Sherilyn A. Sage-Ponitz, MD
Mr. & Mrs. John Popoli
Mr. Edward Porter
Sanford C. Proner, DPM
Gordon L. Pullen, PhD
Christine Z. Pundy, MD
Ramon A. Quesada, MD
Michael R. Quinn, DPM
Stephen M. Raffle, MD
Robert S. Rahimi, MD
Dr. Mohammed A. Rahman
Salvador M. Ramirez, MD
Steven J. Ravich, MD
Robert P. Reichstein, MD
Helena A. Reid, DPM
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Reiff
Forrest P. Resnikoff, MD
Morris Resnikoff, MD
Victor B. Richenstein, MD
Michael H. Ries, MD
Richard B. Ritterman, MD
Michael Robinowitz, MD
Douglas G. Rogers, MD
Howard N. Rose, MD
Jeffrey L. Rosenberg, MD
Mrs. Jolee Rosenkranz & J. Amiel Rosenkranz, PhD
Enrica Rossi, MD
Allen S. Rothman, MD
Jerome A. Roy, MD
Howard A. Rubenstein, MD
Howard B. Rubin, MD
Stuart J. Ruch, DPM
Marvin C. Rulin, MD
Mr. Mark Russell
Dr. Kevin Rynn
Todd M. Sachs, MD
Ronald A. Sage, DPM
Sandra Salloway, ND, RN, MS
Steven F. Sands, MD
Anjum Sayyad, MD
Nelson S. Schafer, MD
David R. Schatz, MD
Harold Z. Scheinman, MD
Myles S. Schiller, MD
David C. Schleichert, DPM
William A. Schlueter, MD
Stephen C. Schmid, DPM & Naomi D. Schmid, DPM
Larry Schneck, MD
Steven P. Schneider, MD
Marc J. Schneiderman, MD
Ms. Ann Schnog
Kenneth R. Schoenig, MD
Steven Schrenzel, MD
Fred J. Schultz, MD
Schwab Charitable Fund
Ira K. Schwartz, MD
Jules L. Schwartz, MD
Lawrence I. Schwartz, MD & Joan Feltman, MD
Andrew E. Segal, MD
Harvey Seigerman, MD
Paul J. Selander, DPM
Ellis J. Seligman, MD
Ms. Kristy L. Shanahan
Sean K. Shannahan, MD
Jeffrey D. Shapiro, MD
Stephen R. Shapiro, MD
Eugene P. Shatkin, MD
Julia E. Shauger, DPM
Dr. Semyon Shulman
Neila Shumaker, MD
Suzanne Siegel, MD
Frederick S. Sierles, MD
William H. Sigalove, MD
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Paul A. Silka, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Sills
Lester Silver, MD
Stanley R. Simon, MD
Lewis J. Singer, MD
Stephen M. Skrip, MD
Dr. Michael Slater
Dennis Slochower, MD
Dr. Mary Ellen Smajo, PhD
Dr. & Mrs. Gregg H. Small
Ann & Jacob Snyder
Lawrence F. Sorkin, MD
Israel & Regina Spector
Ms. Kim Spierto
Jerald M. Spivak, MD
Robert I. Steinberg, DPM
Constance A. Stoehr, MD
Lawrence M. Stokar, MD
Ms. Pamela Stolarski
Daniel J. Stone, MD
Michael S. Stotsky, MD
Arthur Strick, MD
Lawrence Strick, MD
David A. Striker, MD
Dr. Margaret A. Stull & Mr. Gregory J. Stull
Dr. Jeffrey G. Suico & Mrs. Carol A. Suico
Allan N. Sutker, MD
Arthur J. Taylor, MD
Ms. Jodi Taylor
Michael B. Thompson, DPM
Ryan S. Thompson, MD
Mrs. Daniele Tonin
Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Topper
Ms. Susan Toth
Dennis L. Turner, DPM
Ms. Kathleen Van Ella & Mr. John Martin
Peter T. Vaselopulos & Athanasia Vaselopulos
N. A. Vasenden, DPM
Dr. Barbara Vertel
Walter Vogel, MD
Jennie Walker, MD
Marjorie & Jewel Walker Family
Ms. Janice Wallace
Susan Walsh, DPM
Amy Wandel-Hartman, MD
John Warren, DPM
Walter G. Warren, DPM
Ms. Susan Weiner
Elliot S. Weisenberg, MD
Charles L. Weisenthal, MD
Bruce Weiss, MD & Ms. Melinda Steffey
Charles J. Weiss, MD
Harold Weiss, MD
Wells Fargo Foundation
Brad R. Wenstrup, DPM
Mrs. Marcia Goren Weser
Dr. Anthony West
Billy Westbrook, DPM
Mr. Steven White
Grant E. Wiig, DPM
Howard Wilk, MD
Lori Wilson, DPM
Richard Wilson, DPM
Samuel G. Wiltchik, MD
Ms. Janeen Winnike
Christopher Winters, DPM
Marina Wolf, PhD
Bernard Wolfberg, MD
Norbert S. Wolloch, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Wong
Justin L. Wong, MD
Patrick Wong, MD
Michael A. Wood, DPM
John M. Wray, DPM
Karen L. Wrubel, DPM & Derick A. Ball, DPM
From left: Nancy Parsley, DPM ‘93, MHPE, dean of the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine and Marc Feder, DPM ’77; Carey Strom, MD ’80, and Spencer Koerner, MD ’62; Laura Pickard, DPM ‘90, Randal B. Meyer, DPM, and Jondelle Jenkins, DPM ‘83.
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David Wysong, DPM
Abraham Yale, DPM
Daniel Zacharias, MD
Bruce Zagelbaum, MD
Frank Zappa, DPM
Phyllis Zee, MD
Burton Zeiger, MD
Saul L. Zimmerman, MD
Alexander N. Zinn, MD
Richard W. Zollinger, MD
Charis R. Zuchowski, MS, PA-C
Ira Zucker, MD
Jerome Zwanger, MD
Stephan Zweig, MD
CONTRIBUTOR’S CLUB (Gifts up to $99)
Anonymous
Aetna Foundation
Mr. Matthew Anagnostopoulos
Mrs. Morgan M. Anderson
Dr. Lauren Angelo
Mr. & Mrs. Don Aron
Ms. Melissa T. Ballak
Mindy L. Benton, DPM
Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Berenson
Randy S. Berger-Sweren, MD
Robert N. Block, MD
Steven A. Bluth, MD
David A. Boyce, DPM
Dean C. Brick, MD
Mr. Michael Brodarick
Jacob T. Chachkes, MD
Ms. Kellie Church
Mr. Keith Clark
Stanley G. Cohen, MD
Harry J. Cozen, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Morris Cutler
Linda & Ed Dahl
Ms. Candace Dearmond
Mr. & Mrs. Serge Derrick
Howard I. Diamond, DPM
Harold C. Dorin, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Doughty
Dr. Frederick Drazner
Ms. Becky Edgren
Ms. Jackie Evans-Dupon
Michelle A. Field, MD
William J. Finn, DPM
Harold A. Fogel, MD
Daniel P. Fosmire, MD
Ms. Carol L. Freeman
Ms. Jo E. Friedman
Donna L. Frownfelter, PT, DPT, MA
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Furman
Ms. Amy Gamelli
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Gardner
Mr. Paul E. Gaura
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Gilbert
David G. Goodbee, MD
Mrs. Marcus Goren*
Tammy M. Gracen, DPM
Jason I. Green, MD
Glenn N. Grobe, MD
Ms. Rachel E. Harrington
Mrs. Cynthia R. Higby
Ms. Rae Hirchy
Dr. Neil Horsley
Dr. Christopher J. Japour
Jondelle B. Jenkins, DPM
Robert M. Joseph, DPM & Ms. Courtney Joseph
Ms. Laura Kass
Sabrina R. Kendrick, MD
Ms. Rafeda Khan
Mr. Sanseop Kim
Daniel W. Kirk, DPM
Anna C. Kurban, DPM
Diana E. Lake, MD
Anthony F. LaPorta, MD
Ms. Alice Leff
Allan N. Levine, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Mitchel Levy
Ms. Brandy L. Lockhart
Brett W. Lorber, MD
Jon & Deirdre Makielski
Jerome A. Mann, DPM
Robert H. Marcus, MD
Samuel M. Maryles, MD
Ms. Susie Merriman
Graham T. Mitchell, MD
Michael Mittelmann, MD
Habib Monas (Monahemi), MD
Jon R. Morgan, DPM
Dr. Jeanette L. Morrison
Ms. Traci Motes
Dr. Kenneth E. Neet
Mr. Richard Nelson
Ms. Nancy Nguyen
Ms. Glenna Olumstad
Donald L. Ong, MD
Chin H. Park, MD
Pratibha B. Patel, DPM
Velimir R. Petkov, DPM
Theodore Polizos, DPM
William B. Quinn, DPM
Bernard Z. Reizner, MD
Steven J. Repitor, DPM
Mr. Casimir A. Rincon
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Robbins
Ms. Patti M. Roth
Mark A. Ryerson, DPM
Kevin J. Salvino, DPM
Amol Saxena, DPM
Robert E. Scherzer, MD
Dr. Kristin Schneider
Ellen R. Schwartz, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Leslie J. Schwartzberg
Ms. Gloria Schwarzkopf
Mr. Stephen Shanfield
Ms. Karen Shockley
Dr. Joel S. Shoolin
Alexander M. Shpilman, MD
Alan K. Sichelman, MD & Janet Sichelman
Mr. Barry E. Silverman
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Simons
Stanley Soren, MD
Ms. Judith Southcombe
Ralph S. Sprinkle, DPM
Mr. James A. Sturino
Ms. Michelle Sullivan
Lizbeth A. Taylor, MD
Dyane E. Tower, DPM
Holmes R. Troutman, MD
Ms. Pauline Waggett
Stephen Wagner, MD
Ms. Vera Woldenberg
Mr. Richard Wolff
David Yeager, DPM
Mr. & Mrs. Dan Zazove
Melvin Zonis, MD
COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS (By Class Year)
Class of 1976
Ms. Jackie Evans-Dupon
Class of 1977
Ms. Deirdre Makielski
Class of 1980
Ms. Patti M. Roth
Class of 1984
Ms. Mary Metry
Class of 1988
Ms. Kristy L. Shanahan
Class of 1996
Dr. Patrick T. Knott
Class of 1997
Mrs. Viraj A. Parikh
Class of 2002
Charis R. Zuchowski, MS, PA-C
Class of 2003
Donna L. Frownfelter, PT, DPT, MA
Class of 2004
Ms. Carol L. Freeman
Class of 2007
Ms. Crystal E. Grady
Class of 2009
Ms. Erin K. Loaney
CHICAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL (By Class Year)
Class of 1938
George Osborne, MD*
Class of 1941
Herbert Fisher, MD*
Class of 1943
Bartolomeo D. Iaia, MD
Class of 1944
George Housakos, MD*
Class of 1946
Lester Klein, MD*
Bernard Z. Reizner, MD
Class of 1947
Lawrence E. Batlan, MD
Walter I. Migdal, MD
Herbert Tetenbaum, MD*
Jerome Zwanger, MD
Class of 1948
Daniel A. Osman, MD
Howard Wilk, MD
Class of 1951
Morton J. Doblin, MD
Joseph L. Kahn, MD
Frederick Perl, MD*
Melvin Pick, MD*
Class of 1952
Stuart L. Cohn, MD
Harold C. Dorin, MD
Harold Fein, MD*
Marion Finkel, MD*
Elton Kessel, MD
Walter Kitt, MD
Maurice H. Laszlo, MD
Stephen Wagner, MD
Alexander N. Zinn, MD
Class of 1953
Ernest Arons, MD
Donald J. Behr, MD
Ralph W. Cobrinik, MD
Jerome A. Gold, MD
Sheldon A. Lichtblau, MD
Arthur L. Pinchuck, MD
Marvin C. Rulin, MD
Melvin M. Schiff, MD
Larry Schneck, MD
Eugene P. Shatkin, MD
Lawrence Strick, MD
Gerald H. Weiner, MD
Class of 1954
Agnes D. Lattimer, MD
Richard F. Ruben, MD
Saul L. Zimmerman, MD
Class of 1955
Herbert Bengelsdorf, MD*
Burton T. Blackman, MD
Maurice Fields, MD
Jason I. Green, MD
Sheldon Gross, MD
Phil Gutentag, MD
Mortimer J. Lacher, MD
Robert W. Lilienstein, MD
Andrew E. Segal, MD
David B. Soll, MD
Charles L. Weisenthal, MD
Burton Zeiger, MD
Class of 1956
Alan Bloom, MD
Burton Garfinkel, MD*
Matthew N. Harris, MD
Jerome S. Levitan, MD
George B. Perlstein, MD
Morris Resnikoff, MD
Howard N. Rose, MD
William Steier, MD
Nathan S. Weiss, MD
Melvin Zonis, MD
Class of 1957
Marvin R. Agran, MD
Theodore M. Bayless, MD
Franklin T. Desposito, MD
Eric M. Dreyfuss, MD
Arthur M. Feldstein, MD
Irwin L. Hirsch, MD
Michael Mittelmann, MD
Jerald Siegel, MD
Jerald M. Spivak, MD
Harry L. Wachen, MD
From left: Michael T. Bowersox, MD ‘83, and family; Franklin Pratt, MD ‘81; Marlene Reid, DPM ’89, and Michael Hriljac, DPM ’79.
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Class of 1958
Jacob T. Chachkes, MD
Joel Curtis, MD
Nathan Dorman, MD
Ronald R. Eisner, MD
Jay Epstein, MD
Stanley Epstein, MD
Leonard Ezrow, MD
Marcel I. Horowitz, MD
Robert O. Isaacs, MD
Henry R. Meyer, MD
Giles B. Mizock, MD
Walter Pinsker, MD
Harvey Seigerman, MD
Stanley R. Simon, MD
David H. Woldenberg, MD
Class of 1959
Martin S. Dubner, MD
Toby Frankel, MD
Sanford H. Gaynor, MD
Chester W. Gottlieb, MD
Miles Kahan, MD
Joel A. Kaplan, MD
Donald Y. Lesser, MD
William H. Sigalove, MD
Stanley H. Title, MD
Harold Weiss, MD
Class of 1960
Gary Brecher, MD
Stuart M. Meyer, MD
Irwin J. Nelson, MD
Salvador M. Ramirez, MD
Harold Z. Scheinman, MD
Lester Silver, MD
Gerald Strum, MD*
Class of 1961
Stuart H. Bender, MD
Marvin Berger, MD
Richard I. Goldberg, MD
Stanley M. Kleinman, MD
Fredric R. Kutner, MD
Seymour B. Musiker, MD
Nelson S. Schafer, MD
Ellis J. Seligman, MD
Charles Sills, MD
Stanley Soren, MD
Arthur Strick, MD
Class of 1962
Peter J. Axel, MD
Richard T. Bilinsky, MD
Stanley G. Cohen, MD
Dominic DeCristofaro, MD
James I. Grossman, MD
Samuel C. Klagsbrun, MD
Spencer Koerner, MD
Bernard G. Miller, MD
Lawrence M. Pass, MD
Jerome A. Roy, MD
L. Michael Snyder, MD
Israel Spector, MD
Samuel G. Wiltchik, MD
Class of 1963
David M. Berger, MD
Lawrence Cohen, MD
Ronald Gelles, MD
Herbert J. Gershen, MD
George Rosenthal, MD
S. Burton Roth, MD
Alfred B. Salganick, MD
Jules L. Schwartz, MD
Melvin Young, MD
Class of 1964
Kenneth B. Epstein, MD
Arthur C. Fenn, MD
David Goldman, MD
Paul D. Granoff, MD
Norman A. Lasky, MD
Arthur S. Levine, MD
Jay I. Lippman, MD
Harry R. Lubell, MD
Lee M. Neiman, MD
Marvin Platt, MD
Mervyn A. Sahud, MD
Class of 1965
Stuart B. Cohen, MD
Joel B. Greenman, MD
Gerald J. Karten, MD
Harvey S. Kulber, MD
Arthur J. Lasin, MD
Allan B. Levin, MD
Alan M. Rogin, MD
William S. Rubenstein, MD
David Winkelstein, MD
Class of 1966
Samuel L. Fenichel, MD
Robert A. Fuhrman, MD
Stephen M. Raffle, MD
Class of 1967
Lawrence G. Adelsohn, MD
Arnold L. Gold, MD
Stephen J. Goldberg, MD
Samuel M. Gray, MD
William L. Greenberg, MD
Steven M. Lapidus, MD
Robert L. Marks, MD
Frederick S. Sierles, MD
Class of 1968
Irwin L. Browarsky, MD
Mel S. Jacoby, MD
Allan N. Levine, MD
Sanford M. Levy, MD
Kenneth L. Pinsker, MD
Aaron Scholnik, MD
Class of 1969
Joseph F. DeBlasi, MD
Michael A. Gureasko, MD
Stanley B. Hersh, MD
Alan S. Katz, MD
Elliot Rubinstein, MD
Stephen R. Shapiro, MD
Alan K. Sichelman, MD
Bernard Wolfberg, MD
Jason Zellner, MD
Class of 1970
Harry J. Cozen, MD
David H. Forsted, MD
Leslie P. Goldberg, MD
Jeffrey A. Jahre, MD
Charles J. Leidner, MD
Howard B. Rubin, MD
Charles J. Weiss, MD
Class of 1971
Steven A. Bluth, MD
Clifford S. Crawford, MD
Robert T. Egel, MD
Joan Feltman, MD
Marc H. Harwitt, MD
Alexander Jablonowski, MD
Sadayo A. Kanaya, MD
Anthony F. La Porta, MD
Barton S. Levine, MD
Wood V. Lewis, MD
Andrew S. Pomerantz, MD
Allen S. Rothman, MD
Lawrence I. Schwartz, MD
Class of 1972
David Boyer, MD
Dean C. Brick, MD
Alfred J. Damus, MD
Martin Fine, MD
Jerry L. Haag, MD
Morton Jacobs, MD
Diana E. Lake, MD
George R. Nicholis, MD
Henry S. Pohl, MD
Christine Z. Pundy, MD
Ronald G. Ritz, MD
Stephen J. Sontag, MD
Andrejs V. Strauss, MD
Class of 1973
Melvin V. Boule, MD
Terry L. Cohen, MD
Michael J. Eisner, MD
Douglas M. England, MD
Henry Gelender, MD
Steven D. Horwitz, MD
Leslie M. Jacobson, MD
Craig C. Joseph, MD
Eugene L. Kellogg, MD
Jerry L. Kobrin, MD
David B. Lieb, MD
Alan R. Mensch, MD
Philip L. Miller, MD
Dennis A. Pessis, MD
Michael Robinowitz, MD
David R. Schatz, MD
Myles S. Schiller, MD
Lewis J. Singer, MD
Mary C. Taylor, MD
James A. Van Heest, MD
Class of 1974
Robert N. Block, MD
Larry S. Brandis, MD
Michael E. Dobmeier, MD
Abe W. Friedman, MD
James Gallai, MD
Stuart Glasser, MD
Sheldon B. Greenberg, MD
Gary L. Kaye, MD
Robert H. Marcus, MD
David J. Oxman, MD
Alfred N. Rossi, MD
Lawrence F. Sorkin, MD
Stephan Zweig, MD
Class of 1975
Gerard Ames, MD
Jaime H. Cercone, MD
Jorge Del Castillo, MD
Frederic M. Ettner, MD
David M. Frankle, MD
Mitchell L. Goldflies, MD
Robert H. Green, MD
Philip G. Lambruschi, MD
Stephen M. Lichter, MD
Phillip J. Olsson, MD
Ronald E. Palmer, MD
Frank S. Pancotto, MD
Michael H. Ries, MD
Charles C. Roberts, MD
Martin N. Sachman, MD
Michael S. Stotsky, MD
Allan N. Sutker, MD
John S. Weitzner, MD
Class of 1976
Phillip D. Alward, MD
Richard A. Dube, MD
David C. Epstein, MD, MBA
Curtis R. Handler, MD
Brian C. Handley, MD
Steven M. Howard, MD
Phillip S. Kallen, MD
Mark A. Ludwig, MD
Joel I. Sorosky, MD
Eric P. Wohlrab, MD
Jeffrey Yessenow, MD
Class of 1977
Steven D. Eyer, MD
Brad Greenspan, MD
David J. Hirsch, MD
Stephen A. Lipschultz, MD
Robert P. Reichstein, MD
Robert E. Scherzer, MD
Ira K. Schwartz, MD
Class of 1978
A. Michael Drachler, MD
Roberta P. Glick, MD
Janet C. Hershman, MD
Lawrence I. Karsh, MD
John M. Kosanovich, MD
Peter J. Lowe, MD
Peter I. Margolis, MD
Rose A. Pace, MD
Stephen E. Piwinski, MD
Douglas G. Rogers, MD
Steven Schrenzel, MD
Dennis Slochower, MD
Daniel Zacharias, MD
Richard W. Zollinger, MD
Class of 1979
Russell E. Ching, MD
Jeffrey L. Rosenberg, MD
Michael Scoppetuolo, MD
Class of 1980
William Barrows, MD*
Randy S. Berger-Sweren, MD
Edward J. Bruno, MD
Stewart Y. Greenberg, MD
Jerrold B. Leikin, MD
Lee R. Morisy, MD
Marcia E. Murakami, MD
William A. Schlueter, MD
Fred J. Schultz, MD
Neila Shumaker, MD
Louis Silverstein, MD
Carey B. Strom, MD
Margaret A. Stull, MD
Lizbeth A. Taylor, MD
Walter Vogel, MD
David Warner, MD
Class of 1981
Sheilah A. Bernard, MD
Jeffrey D. Bernstein, MD
Edward Blackman, MD
Jeffrey S. Brindle, MD
Michael C. Buchbinder, MD
Kelly Downey, MD
Craig J. Harwin, MD
Linda F. Karlsruher, MD
Georgia D. Lubben, MD
John G. Mayer, MD
Mark Migdal, MD
Larry S. Miller, MD
Franklin D. Pratt, MD
Steven J. Ravich, MD
Forrest P. Resnikoff, MD
Richard B. Ritterman, MD
Howard A. Rubenstein, MD
From left: Samuel Klagsbrun, MD ’62; Jack Hutter, DPM ’81, and family; Maryam and Robert Rogers, MD ’82.
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Steven F. Sands, MD
Jeffery W. Sherman, MD
Andrew L. Siegel, MD
Lawrence M. Stokar, MD
Norbert S. Wolloch, MD
Ira Zucker, MD
Class of 1982
Norbert M. Becker, MD
Ronald J. Bonaguro, MD
Stephen J. Bundra, MD
Joel A. Cahan, MD
Michael B. Farber, MD
Lawrence E. Ginsberg, MD
Debra Strauss Harwin, MD
Lawrence Kantor, MD
Zvi Lefkovitz, MD
Robert S. Lesser, MD
Michele A. Lorand, MD
Susan A. Mandel, MD
Robert J. Rogers, MD
David L. Schiff, MD
Marc J. Schneiderman, MD
Jeffrey D. Shapiro, MD
Bruce Weiss, MD
Class of 1983
Sanford M. Archer, MD
Jonathan Blatt, MD
Sandra Bouzaglou-Archer, MD
Michael T. Bowersox, MD
Joseph Chiaramonte, MD
Priscilla K. Dale, MD
Philip D. Dean, MD
Glen T. Fortier, MD
Lawrence F. Handler, MD
Annie I. Iriye, MD
Phillip Kissel, MD
Cheryl B. Kraff-Cooper, MD
Peter J. McDonnell, MD
Tuan M. Nguyen, MD
Frederick H. Opper, MD
Steven P. Schneider, MD
Daniel J. Stone, MD
Amy Wandel-Hartman, MD
Donald L. Wayne, MD
Phyllis Zee, MD
Class of 1984
Harry A. Bernstein, MD
Thomas E. Conte, MD
William W. Dzwierzynski, MD
Eugene B. Freid, MD
Susan M. Israel, MD
Bruce H. Janson, MD
Barry Latner, MD
David S. Lavitt, MD
Victor G. Stiebel, MD
Susan G. Strauss, MD
Holmes R. Troutman, MD
Class of 1985
Paul B. Canale, MD
Glenn F. Carlson, MD
Jeffrey M. LaPorte, MD
Susan R. Pitman, MD
Michael T. Ragen, MD
Robert E. Share, MD
Ryan S. Thompson, MD
Asher A. Tulsky, MD
Class of 1986
Timothy B. Erickson, MD
Meghan M. Flannery, MD
Richard S. Gerber, MD
Julie S. Glickstein, MD
Laurie A. Kleinman, MD
Victor H. Kong, MD
Paul S. Lieber, MD
Jeffery D. Long, MD
Michael N. Metry, MD
Angelo A. Milano, MD
Angela Nuzzarello, MD
Thomas J. Ruane, MD
Todd M. Sachs, MD
Gregg H. Small, MD
Class of 1987
Stephen Bigelsen, MD
William E. Bloch, MD
Louis Di Lillo, MD
Emil Dionysian, MD
Daniel P. Fosmire, MD
Robert S. Friedman, MD
Glenn N. Grobe, MD
Mark Kaplan, MD
Kevin J. Kessler, MD
Keith A. Kirby, MD
Joel S. Klein, MD
Philip B. Krause, MD
Jonathan E. Laine, MD
Alan M. Levine, MD
Lori E. Moss, MD
Daniel A. Muse, MD
Victor B. Richenstein, MD
Class of 1988
Robert S. Alter, MD
Naomi M. Bey, MD
James J. Black, MD
Karen Seitzer-Black, MD
Edward E. Evans, MD
Clive K. Fields, MD
Patricia L. Gilbert, MD
Jordan Goetz, MD
Robert J. Marselle, MD
Peter Nierman, MD
Patrick J. O’Leary, MD
Paul A. Silka, MD
Demetrios G. Skedros, MD
Stephen M. Skrip, MD
David A. Striker, MD
Arthur J. Taylor, MD
Bruce Zagelbaum, MD
Class of 1989
Mitra B. Boodram, MD
Joyce Chams, MD
Daniel S. Cohen, MD
Kenneth L. Klein, MD
Donald D. Lee, MD
Eric A. Marks, MD
Keith L. Ponitz, MD
Sherilyn A. Sage-Ponitz, MD
Jeffrey N. Samuelson, MD
James S. Spitz, MD
Peter T. Vaselopulos, MD
Elliot S. Weisenberg, MD
Class of 1990
Paul J. Coogan, MD
Clifford Feldman, MD
Susan Sung O. Hyun, MD
William A. Ingram, MD
Milan Jordan, MD
Sabrina R. Kendrick, MD
Joel A. Pengson, MD
Paul F. Pizzella, MD
Todd A. Pollock, MD
Tina B. Verder, MD
Class of 1991
Claudia Capurro, MD
Barbara E. Ebert, MD
Gary E. Lane, MD
Habib Monas (Monahemi), MD
Sandro B. Parisi, MD
Adrian Yi, MD
Class of 1992
Jeffrey A. Bosworth, MD
Diane M. Buchbarker, MD
James B. Hough, MD
Joy A. Leong, MD
Kenneth R. Schoenig, MD
Ellen R. Schwartz, MD
Jeffrey G. Suico, MD
Class of 1993
Anita S. Kablinger, MD
Rosaura Licea, MD
Joseph M. Maurice, MD
Donald L. Ong, MD
Class of 1994
Michael P. Krusch, MD
Rhonda M. Meier, MD
Enrica Rossi, MD
Suzanne Siegel, MD
Class of 1995
David G. Goodbee, MD
Jeffrey P. Olson, MD
Class of 1996
Audrey Cheung-O’Carroll, MD
Class of 1997
Arshia M. Noori, MD
Sean K. Shannahan, MD
Class of 1998
Michelle A. Field, MD
Keith A. Robertson, MD
Class of 1999
Heather A. Fagan, MD
Samuel M. Maryles, MD
Jennie Walker, MD
Class of 2000
Susan W. Goldsmith, MD
Jacqueline K. Okada, MD
Class of 2001
Henry G. Beecher, MD
Katherine R. Birchard, MD
Scott E. Goldsmith, MD
Class of 2002
Howard S. Blank, MD
Brett W. Lorber, MD
Ramon A. Quesada, MD
Robert B. Richling, MD
Class of 2003
Ajit V. Nair, MD
Paige E. Waterman, MD
Class of 2004
Alexander M. Shpilman, MD
Class of 2005
Matthew T. Crooks, MD
Daniel F. Kiernan, MD
Lawrence T. Lai, MD
Patrick Wong, MD
Class of 2006
Robert S. Rahimi, MD
Class of 2007
Graham T. Mitchell, MD
Stephen S. Ou, MD
Anjum Sayyad, MD
Constance A. Stoehr, MD
Class of 2010
Chin H. Park, MD
Class of 2011
Pei Lin Chang, MD
Justin L. Wong, MD
Class of 2012
Kristin M. Disori, MD
Harold A. Fogel, MD
SCHOOL OF GRADUATE & POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES
(By Class Year)
Class of 1974
Laurence R. Meyerson, PhD
Class of 1982
Gordon L. Pullen, PhD
Class of 1991
Dr. Joon W. Kim
DR. WILLIAM M. SCHOLL COLLEGE OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE
(By Class Year)
Class of 1942
Charles Forster, DPM
Class of 1950
George B. Geppner, DPM
John R. Graham, DPM
Stuart J. Ruch, DPM
Class of 1951
Morton Wittenberg, DPM
Class of 1953
John Warren, DPM
Class of 1954
Paul A. Johns, DPM
Class of 1955
Francis M. Baker, DPM
Class of 1958
A. K. Gilchrist, DPM
Class of 1959
Reno G. Caneva, DPM
Class of 1962
Henry M. Asin, DPM
Jerry D. Brant, DPM
N. A. Vasenden, DPM
Class of 1963
Paul J. Selander, DPM
Class of 1966
Stephen Perlmutter, DPM
Michael B. Thompson, DPM
Jeffrey Yale, DPM
Frank Zappa, DPM
Class of 1967
Joel A. Feder, DPM
Jerome A. Mann, DPM
Jeffrey A. Mechanik, DPM
William J. Miller, DPM
Paul H. Schwarzentraub, DPM
Class of 1970
Howard I. Diamond, DPM
Class of 1973
Randall P. Bergen, DPM
John M. Wray, DPM
Class of 1976
Leonard R. Wagner, DPM
Billy Westbrook, DPM
Grant E. Wiig, DPM
Class of 1977
Marc S. Feder, DPM
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Spencer C. Misner, DPM
Ronald A. Sage, DPM
Class of 1978
Richard E. Ehle, DPM
Kent L. Magrini, DPM
Robert I. Steinberg, DPM
Dennis L. Turner, DPM
Class of 1979
William E. Chagares, DPM
Martin J. Faasse, DPM
Michael J. Hriljac, DPM
Class of 1980
Jerry P. Bonet, DPM
Tung W. Cheng, DPM
Maureen L. Crotty, DPM
Jeffrey A. Crowhurst, DPM
John F. Grady, DPM
Richard Wilson, DPM
Abraham Yale, DPM
Class of 1981
David A. Charnota, DPM
Mark D. Dollard, DPM
David R. Doyle, DPM
Jane E. Graebner, DPM
Bruce I. Kaczander, DPM
David Kibrit, DPM
Richard J. Miller, DPM
Sanford C. Proner, DPM
William B. Quinn, DPM
Class of 1982
Daniel Evans, DPM
Steve R. Feller, DPM
Matthew G. Garoufalis, DPM
Philip Gianfortune, DPM
Thomas A. Graziano, DPM, MD
Philip W. Holloway, DPM
Mark A. Ryerson, DPM
Class of 1983
Jondelle B. Jenkins, DPM
Robert F. Kukla, DPM
Philip S. Newman, DPM
Class of 1984
Malik Y. Abraham, DPM
Derick A. Ball, DPM
Dominick Garibaldi, DPM
Kevin J. Salvino, DPM
Karen L. Wrubel, DPM
Class of 1985
William J. Finn, DPM
Lawrence A. Huels, DPM
Beth D. Jarrett, DPM
Kathleen M. Stone, DPM
Brad R. Wenstrup, DPM
David Wysong, DPM
Class of 1986
James D. Corbiere, DPM
Michael R. Quinn, DPM
Steven J. Repitor, DPM
Class of 1987
Joseph E. Kiefer, DPM
Gloria J. Krason, DPM
James W. Mazzuca, DPM
David C. Schleichert, DPM
Class of 1988
Daniel Jeran, DPM
Amol Saxena, DPM
Ralph S. Sprinkle, DPM
Walter G. Warren, DPM
Lori Wilson, DPM
Class of 1989
Cynthia R. Cernak, DPM
Tammy M. Gracen, DPM
Shari L. Kaminsky, DPM
Theodore Polizos, DPM
Class of 1990
Michael D. Huels, DPM
Laura J. Pickard, DPM
Class of 1991
Mindy L. Benton, DPM
Ann Zmuda, DPM
Class of 1992
Howard M. Gale, DPM
Charles Khalil, DPM
John M. Miller, DPM
Class of 1993
Kathleen T. Neuhoff, DPM
Nancy L. Parsley, DPM, MHPE
Julia E. Shauger, DPM
Class of 1994
David A. Boyce, DPM
Michael A. Wood, DPM
Class of 1995
Joseph E. Mechanik, DPM
Helena A. Reid, DPM
Class of 1996
Timothy J. Felton, DPM
Steven W. Miller, DPM
Christopher Winters, DPM
Class of 1997
Seth M. Anderson, DPM
Andrew J. Highum, DPM
Class of 1998
Miki Hori, DPM
Jonat Lok, DPM
Susan Walsh, DPM
Class of 1999
Brooke A. Bisbee, DPM
Michael W. DeGere, DPM
Frederick S. Mechanik, DPM
Class of 2000
David Yeager, DPM
ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY’S LEGACY SOCIETY
Rosalind Franklin University seeks to recognize those members of our community who have chosen to include the university in their wills or have named the university as a beneficiary of a charitable trust, annuity, estate agreement or life insurance:
Gregory T. Amarantos, DPM
Lawrence Batlan, MD
Arthur M. Bernhang, MD
Estate of Bernard Boodin
Jerry Brant, DPM
Dean C. Brick, MD
Robert M. Caldwell, DPM
Lewis P. Carrozza, DPM
Walter D. Clark, DPM ’76
George F. Dalianis, DPM, ACFAS, ABPS
Jan H. Dauer, MD
Marie Delewsky, DPM
Thomas W. Dickieson, DPM
Ronald R. Eisner, MD
Jay Epstein, MD and Dee Epstein
Marc Feder, DPM
Estate of Dr. Harold Fein
Cynthia Fenberg, DPM
Estate of Marion Finkel, MD
Estate of Margaret Gannon
Matthew Garoufalis, DPM
Jack Gilman, MD
Dr. Ovidio Giovanelli Trust
Dr. Fred & Estelle Goldstein Family Trust
Dr. John and Kathleen Grady
Estate of Alvin Gross
Dr. and Mrs. Donald W. Hugar
Charles Keenan, Jr., DPM
Stanley C. Lowenberg and Anne E. Steinmann Family Trust
Dr. George W. Morningstar Living Trust
Estate of Haim Nagirnir
George M. Osborne, MD
Dr. Morris L. Parker Trust
Estate of Dr. Frederick Perl
Melvin M. Pick, MD
Howard N. Rose, MD
Estate of Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein
Amol and Karen Saxena and Family
Eugene P. Shatkin, MD
James S. Shaw, DPM
Frederick S. Sierles, MD
James H. Simonds, Sr., DPM
Daniel and Mary Ann Soloman Estate
Morton Philip Stanson
Kathleen Stone, DPM
Michael S. Stotsky, MD
Arthur Strick, MD
Edwin E. Swigart, DPM
Michael B. Thompson, DPM
Frank C. Toepp, DPM
Kathleen Toepp Neuhoff, DPM
Dorothy Von Solbrig Income Trust
Naomi and Gerald Weiner
Nathan S. Weiss, MD
Charles H. Wunderlich, DPM
From left: Judith Stoecker, PT, PhD, RFUMS vice president for academic affairs; Ann Butkiewicz, PT ’07; Karla Cortez Duda, PT ’07; Kasha Chrusciel, PT ’07; and Roberta Henderson, PT, PhD, chair and associate professor, department of physical therapy; Matthew Garoufalis, DPM ’82, and Cathie Garoufalis; Amol Saxena, DPM ’88, and family.
Class of 2002
Arush K. Angirasa, DPM
Class of 2003
Robert M. Joseph, DPM
Class of 2004
Daniel W. Kirk, DPM
Jon R. Morgan, DPM
Class of 2005
Haytham Mansour, DPM
Class of 2006
Pratibha B. Patel, DPM
Velimir R. Petkov, DPM
Class of 2007
Brittany Crowhurst, DPM
Class of 2009
Anna C. Kurban, DPM
Dyane E. Tower, DPM
Class of 2010
Naomi D. Schmid, DPM
Stephen C. Schmid, DPM
Class of 2011
R. Aida Kosak, DPM
2013-2014 Year in Review 4746 Rosalind Franklin Universit y of Medicine and Science | www.rosalindfranklin.edu * deceased
THE DR. WILLIAM J. STICKEL SOCIETY
The Stickel Society helps strengthen the educational, research and patient care programs at Scholl College. The Stickel Society recognizes those who have made an outright or planned gift of $25,000 or more to Scholl College:
Dr. Terence & Janice Albright
Dr. Donald* & Carol Alexander*
Dr. & Mrs. Gregory T. Amarantos
Bako Pathology Services
Bergmann Orthotic Lab, Inc.
Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation
Dr. Philip* & Jane Brachman
Dr. & Mrs. Jerry D. Brant
Dr. Robert M. Caldwell
Dr. Reno & Phyllis Caneva
Dr. Donald K.* & Mrs. Cardy
Dr. Robert R. Carnes*
Dr. R. Scott Carnes
Dr. Lewis P. Carrozza
Dr. Ronald G. Cervetti
Dr. Walter & Gail Clark
Dr. George & Rose Dalianis
Dr. Marie Delewsky
Dr. Thomas & Joyce Dickieson
Dr. Comfort
Mrs. Dorothy Doller*
Dr. Harold & Selma Feder
Dr. Marc & Eileen Feder
Alice K. Feffer*
Dr. & Mrs. Steve R. Feller
Dr. Cynthia A. Fenberg
Mr. Harold* & Mrs. Jean Finley
Dr. John & Marcine Forrette
Drs. Adolph Galinski* & Mary Vlahos
Dr. Matthew G. Garoufalis
Dr. & Mrs.* George B. Geppner
Dr.* & Mrs.* Joseph Giannini
Dr. Fred* & Estelle* Goldstein
Dr. John & Kathy Grady
Dr. & Mrs. James Heddens
Dr. David N. Helfman
Drs. Michael & Susan Hriljac
Dr. Donald & Patricia Hugar
Illinois Podiatric Medical Association
Illinois Podiatric Medical Students’ Association
Dr. Jondelle Jenkins-Milliner
Dr. Charles L. Jones*
Dr. Charles & Ronda Keenan, Jr.
Mrs. Thelma Kurzrock*
Dr. H.A.* & Gertrude* Larsen
Dr. Eugene A. London*
Dr. Donald & Arlene Mahrle
Mrs. Dorothy I. Majarakis*
Dr. Allen R. Martindale
Dr. Fortunee Massuda
Dr.* & Mrs.* Edward H. Mattingly
Dr. Robert & Dianne Mendicino
Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Miklos
Dr. Carol Muehleman
Dr. Kathleen Toepp Neuhoff
Dr. & Mrs. Richard B. Patterson
PICA/PACO
Dr. Gerald* & Sharon Quinlan
Retirement Research Foundation
Robert Ruiz, Esq. & Mrs. Marcy Singer Ruiz, Esq.
Dr. Richard & Carolyn Santee
Dr. Amol & Karen Saxena
Dr. Scholl Foundation
SCPM Alumni Association
Dr. Marvin Shapiro*
Dr. James H. Simonds, Sr.
Dr. Alfreda J. Sluzewski*
Dr. & Mrs. Scott Snyder
Dr. Doug* & Linda* Sowell
Dr. Kathleen M. Stone
Mr.* & Mrs.* W. Clement Stone
Dr. J. Edward Stricker*
Dr. Walter C. Swanson Family Foundation
Dr. Edwin E. Swigart*
Dr. Joseph & Mary Thul
Dr. & Mrs. Frank C. Toepp III
Universal Footcare Products, Inc.
Dr. Helen F. Walters*
Dr. Ray G.* & Mrs. Lois W. Ward*
Washington Square Health Foundation, Inc.
Dr. Lowell Scott & Nancy Weil
Dr. Charles & Wilma Witt
Dr. Morton Wittenberg
Dr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Wunderlich
Dr. & Mrs. Martin Yorath
GIFTS IN KIND
The following individuals and organizations provided generous in-kind support to the university:
Agro-Farma Chobani Yogurt
Dan & Mary Burgett
The Family of Dr. Herbert Fine
Sakenna Haq, DPM
Dr. Gerald Mackey, DDS
Ms. Diane Minarcik
North Shore Gas
Topco Associates
Tryst Gourmet
Barbara Vertel, PhD
ESTATE GIFTS
The university recognizes the following estates for their support:
Estate of Dr. Harold Fein
Estate of Dr. Marion Finkel
Estate of Dr. George Osborne
Estate of Dr. Frederick Perl
Estate of Dr. Melvin Pick
Estate of Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein
MEMORIAL GIFTS
Gifts were made in memory of the following individuals:
Naomi Aarons
Jordan Ackerman, DPM
Howard C. Berger, MD
Zelma Berk
Howard Bers
Meyer & Rosalind Blatt
Leo J. Carlin
Dr. Shi Chang
Pam Cleary
Sidney & Selma Cohen
Elaine Cominsky
John Cozen, MD
Virginia Daniel, PT
Salvatore & Rose F. Di Lillo
Robert Elias
Marc Fahami
Nina S. Fields, PhD
Herbert Fisher, MD
Louis Fisher
Reba Freedman
Burton Garfinkel, MD
Victor & Gloria George
Dr. & Mrs. Goodwin Gilbert
Albert & Edith Ginsberg
Jerome Goldflies, CMS ’45
Sidney B. Gordon, MD
Esther Goren
Marcus Goren
Sheldon Goren
Milton Greenberg, MD ’55
Dr. & Mrs. Morris Greenberg
Kari Gustafson
James Hagerstrom
S. Herbert Handler
George Housakos, MD
Lester Klein, MD
Mrs. Carol Koerner
Eugene S. Krusch
Phyllis Laszlo
Melvyn Leichtling, MD
Esther Levy
Iuda Levy
Joseph Liebross, MD
Dr. Herbert Lipschultz
Joseph A. Marlo, MD
Abraham Mizock, MD
From left: Phyllis and Reno Caneva, DPM ’59; Mildred M. G. Olivier, MD ’88, CMS assistant dean of diversity, with Howard Rose, MD ’56; Jennifer Miklos, DPM ’07, David Miklos, DPM ’10, Robert Miklos, DPM ’80.
Dr. Michael Mull
Ethel Pailet
Herbert Pailet
Ivan & Syd Pinsker
Tara Pullara
Eugene Rogers, MD
Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein
Anna Blanche Russell
Catherine Scholl
Jack Scholl
Dr. Sol Scholnik
John J. Sheinin, MD
Saul Silverman
Joe & Mary Ann Smajo
Linda Southcombe
Doug Sowell, DPM
Gerald Stein, DPM
Herbert Tetenbaum, MD
Milo Turnbo
Naomi Weiner
Zelda Weiner
Ernest Weitz, MD ’55
Isabelle Wohlrab
Jonas Wolfberg
Irving Yale, DPM
HONORARY GIFTS
Gifts were made in honor of the following individuals:
Jennifer Eig Agran
Alan Axelrod, MD
Mariclaire Barrett
Theodore Booden
Dr. Mahabal & Mrs. Lacey Boodram
Hiram Ching
Stanley Epstein, MD
Matthew Harris, MD
Dr. Michael Hriljac
Dr. Samuel Kessler
Edwin Kleinman, MD
Virgie Ve Lillian Pace
Dr. Bradley A. Palmer
Paul Pundy
Ronald Sage, DPM
Alice Segal, PhD
Ms. Margot Surridge
Anthony & Alexis Torre
Daniel & Valerie Wolloch
Jeffrey F. Yale, DPM
CORPORATION, FOUNDATION AND ORGANIZATION GIFTS
The university recognizes the following corporations, foundations and organizations for their generous support of our students, programs and research:
Abbott Fund
AbbVie Foundation
Accelerated Health Systems
Aetna Foundation
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
APMA Educational Foundation
Assured Software Ltd.
AstraZeneca
AYCO Charitable Foundation
B&D Foundation
Bako Integrated Physician Solutions
Baxter International Inc.
Chicago Dental Society Foundation
CMS Alumni Association
Community Foundation of Henderson County
Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan
The Container Store
Corning
CVS Charitable Trust
Darco International
DePaul University
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Drytech International
EMD Millipore
Evanston Community Foundation
FAPA Fraternal Inc.
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
First Bank of Highland Park
Fisher Scientific
Gorter Family Foundation
Grace Elizabeth Groner Scholarship Foundation
Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County
Hospira
IBM
Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists
Iowa Podiatric Medical Society
IPMA
Jewish Communal Fund
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Jewish Foundation of Greensboro
Roy G. Kerr Foundation
Lake County Community Foundation
Libertyville Sunrise Rotary Charitable Foundation
Mettler Toledo
Midwest Podiatry Conference
Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation
National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation
National Philanthropic Trust
New Albertson’s
NorthShore University HealthSystem
Northwestern Mutual
The Orthotic Group
PICA
Powerstep
Grace P. Rose Charitable Foundation Trust
Schwab Charitable Fund
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
State of Illinois
Topco Associates, LLC
VNA Foundation
Walgreens
Walmart Foundation
Washington Square Health Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
Wintrust Community Banks
We are Grateful for your Support Through every decade of its 102-year history, RFUMS has been buoyed by the generosity of those who believe in its mission. We particularly rely on our alumni, who have been molded by faculty members who know that to teach is to lead, and fellow students who understand that together, they can learn more, accomplish more and be more.
We thank you for helping RFUMS continue its mission to educate resilient, remarkable healthcare leaders and practitioners who will most certainly build a better, brighter future.
WHY GIVE BACK TO ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE?
• To show appreciation for the education you, your family or friends have received
• To make a powerful statement of belief in our community
• To ensure the university’s continued commitment to the future of medicine and science
To make a gift online, please visit us at www.rosalindfranklin.edu.For additional giving options, please contact us at 847-578-8340 or [email protected].
Total enrollment, Fall 2013Chicago Medical School — 774College of Pharmacy — 204College of Health Professions — 784Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine — 358School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies — 37
Male to female ratio
Students of ethnic and racial diversityAmerican Indian and Alaskan Native — 5Asian — 511Black — 86Hispanic — 68International — 91Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander — 6Two or More Races — 36White — 1,171
Total applicationsAll degrees awarded 2013-2014Number of alumniBoard and donor designated endowmentsTotal operating revenues
BY THE NUMBERSRFUMS
2,157
45:55
1,974
17,726694
17,818$70.1M
$106.9M
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