Touch of Class
We enjoy hearing from all of our alumni/ae, particularly the earliest members of the CSPH family. in addition, we are especially happy to congratulate members of the 50th Anniversary class of 1948.
1948
Dr. Ross E. Gutman, M.P.H., of Delmar, New York has authored three volumes of “40 Pithy Truths, A Self-Analysis Test,” which offers tips on overcoming set ways and arousing rethinking to make the most of one’s life.
1951
Robert E. toomey, LL.D., M.S., president, toomey Consulting Services, inc., Greenville, South Carolina, fondly remembers his days at 600 West 168th. His most recent book of collected papers, published in 1996, is entitled “Governance and Management in Healthcare”.
1953
Miguel A. Arrieta, M.S., has retired and now calls Rio Grande, Puerto Rico home. He sends best wishes and warmest regards to all his classmates and would love to hear from his former classmates.
1955
David C. Kreger, M.S., has retired after almost 42 years in the health administration field. He continues to enjoy music, art, swimming and travel to Florida.
Jean Pakter, M.D., M.P.H., continues as a physician, lecturer and consultant on maternal and child health at CSPH’s Center for Population and Family Health.
1958
John Chappell, M.S., sends best regards from his home in Walnut Creek, California.
1962
Raymond Lerner, M.P.H., although retired, is widely traveled, enjoys his grandchildren, woodworking, cabinetry, swimming, biking, reading and gourmet cooking. A true renaissance man! Thanks for keeping in touch.
1963
Karl Nelson, M.S., has been appointed Vice President/Chief Operating officer for Wartburg Lutheran Services. The announcement was made by Ronald B. Stuckey ‘68, CEO of Wartburg Lutheran Services. Karl’s extensive career has included hospital administration, private consulting, marketing within the health care community and faculty positions with CSPH.
Joseph Scotto, M.S., has retired from the United States Public Health Service with the rank of Captain. We extend our best wishes for many years of R & R.
1965
Parvathi Padmanabhan Easwaran, M.S., writes from Deemed University in Coimbatore, india sending best wishes to CSPH on its 75th Anniversary year.
1966
Ann Hudis, M.P.H., and her husband, Mac, recently moved from Westchester County, New York, to Cranbury, New Jersey. She is in phone contact with CSPH often and would be happy to hear from her former classmates.
1968
Dorothy Lane, M.P.H., is currently Professor of Preventive Medicine and director of the General Preventive Medicine and Public Health residency program at the School of Medicine at SUNY Stonybrook. She is also President of the association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.
1969
Jay Bikofsky, M.S., was elected to the Board of Trustees of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences in Boston. He is managing director of New York’s J & H Marsh & McLennan, inc., the world’s leading risk and insurance services firm.
1970
Louis Parker, M.S., is enjoying retirement. He was President and CEO at St. John’s Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, New York.
1972
Michael Barnett, M.S. continues to specialize in health care law including insurance, claims and risk management. His firm has been reorganized under the name Barnett, Ehrenfeld, Edelstein and Gross, P.C., in New York City.
Anne B. Pierson, M.P.H., has just celebrated eight years as company physician for Sonalysts in Waterford, Connecticut. Previously, she spent ten years with the New York Telephone Company in their medical department.
George Strohl, M.S. president of Community General Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, recently was awarded the CEO Award of Excellence from the College of Osteopathic Healthcare Executives (COHE) at the AOHA/COHE/ AODME convention in McLean, Virginia. The award recognizes significant professional contributions and service to the college. He has served as Community General’s president for the past 18 years.
1973
Nancy Riseman Wadler, M.S., recently was awarded the juris doctorate from Hofstra University School of Law. Our congratulations to her.
1974
Nancy Bryant, M.P.H., and her husband, former CSPH Dean Jack Bryant. M.D., have returned to Karachi where Jack has accepted a one-year position with the Department of Community Health Sciences of the Aga Kahn University. Nancy is spending this time focusing on the role of nursing in Islamic countries and spending time on academic studies and some near-country travel.
Anne Burdick, Dr.P.H., currently heads the Jacksonville Memorial Hospital Dermatology Clinic and is an associate professor of Dermatology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. She is also medical director of the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) program.
Joan Marie Conway, Ph.D., is serving a two-year detail with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She is acting as technical expert to the FAO in the establishment of an expert panel, in the preparation of a literature review, and in the facilitation of the meeting of the expert panel later this year. The purpose of this work will be to revise the 25-year-old vitamin and mineral requirements for the FAO/WHO of the UN.
1976
Audrey R. Gotsch, Dr.P.H., has been voted president-elect of APHA. We are delighted to offer our best wishes and very proud of her accomplishments [see related article].
1977
Cathey Falvo, M.P.H., a member of the Alumni Executive Board of the CSPH Alumni association, is currently program director of international Public Health at New York Medical College, Graduate School of Health Sciences in Valhalla, New York.
Doris Glick, M.P.H., advises that she is enjoying her current position of vice president for nursing at New York Hospital.
1978
Zafar Ullah Gill, M.P.H., is working with UNFA Bangladesh in Dhaka and sends regards to all on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of CSPH.
1980
Joan A. Camera, M.P.H., is a member of the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council and is affiliated with the NYU College of Dentistry.
David Yip, M.P.H., relocated to Honolulu in 1987 after working a number of years in New York City following CSPH graduation. He is a senior consultant with a leading health care consulting firm, with an expertise in information technology and hospital information system selection and implementation.
1981
Gary Newton, M.P.H., of USAID, sends fond remembrances of his days at the Center for Population and Family Health. He especially is grateful for the excellence of the instruction and mentoring provided by Martin Gorosh, Steve Isaacs and Georgio Solimano. He also credits Dean Allan Rosenfield for his crusading and principled work in the field of international health.
Anita Wilenkin, M.P.H., sends regards to all her classmates from the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, where she is associate director of Ambulatory Care.
1982
Holly Fisher, M.P.H., is with the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and is enjoying her position as Director of Long-Term Care Program Development. Wonder if she ever collaborates with David Harris, M.P.H. ‘65, VNS vice-president of medical affairs?
Nina Jaffe, M.P.H., is an assistant professor at Florida State University School of Social Work. Last year, she and her husband welcomed a son, Ethan Jaffe Hill. Congratulations and best wishes.
1984
Margaret Stewart, M.P.H., has long been living “down under.” She recently wrote of her new move from Wagga Wagga to Sydney, Australia where she is working as an early childhood nurse. G’day mate!
1985
Claudia Scholl Diamond, M.P.H., and her husband have an international consulting business and divide their home life between Winter Park, Colorado and Chula Vista, California.
Shirley Van Zandt, M.P.H., is an instructor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, and a nurse practitioner with Planned Parenthood of Maryland. She is married and the mother of Lucy, age 5 and Edgar, 2.
1987
Susanna Binzen, M.P.H., is working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Reproductive Health in Atlanta and this year did some personal reproducing—a new baby daughter, Holly. Congrats!
Bard Cosman, M.D., M.P.H., and his wife were visited by the stork recently. They welcomed a third son, Gilead. Bard is an assistant clinical professor of surgery at University of California at San Diego. Our best wishes to the growing family!
Patricia Williams, M.P.H., is in her tenth year as program health coordinator at Hollywood District Senior Services Center in Portland, Oregon.
1988
Ruth Reagan Hutchinson, Dr.P.H., was the recipient of the 1997 Governor’s Nursing Merit Award for Nurse Educator (State of New Jersey). She was chosen from a panel of eminent peers. A prestigious distinction and we add our congratulations.
Gay Kang, LL.B., M.P.H., is currently a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, torts Branch, Environmental torts Section. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Hannah Lee, M.S., writes from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania that she and her husband, Eyal Barzel are the parents of Ilana, age 2, and Talia, 8. She sends her best to all her classmates.
Cheryl Merzel, Dr.P.H., is director of evaluation, Healthy Start (NYC), Medical and Health Research association of New York City. She has been involved in local health policy and advocacy efforts for over 15 years and her current position involves an infant mortality prevention program.
1989
Juliette Angel, M.P.H., resides in Middletown, New York, with her husband, Greg Karcnik. They are parents of David, Jacques and Stella.
Jeff Natter, M.P.H., is serving as HIV/AIDS Program coordinator at Seattle-King Co., Department of Public Health, in Seattle. He is responsible for the administration of the Federal Ryan White Title I HIV funding.
Sarina Petrolino-Roche, M.P.H., and her husband David B. Roche, II welcomed a son, David Anthony, born last spring.
1990
Linda Simet Klein, M.P.H., is senior associate and creative director of Creative Education associates, a company that designs and produces patient-education programs for pharmaceutical companies, managed care organizations, and public relations firms. Their innovative programming has won several major awards including two Medical Marketing association international Silver Medals for Patient Education. Linda wants to thank the faculty (especially Steve Rosenberg and Sheila Gorman) for providing the education that has made her success possible.
1992
Yvette DeBois, M.P.H., recently graduated from medical school and is doing an internship in surgery at Rush Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. She subsequently will be completing residency at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio in aerospace medicine. She was recently elected National President of the Aerospace Medicine Student and Resident Organization, the official student/resident affiliate of the Aerospace Medical association.
1993
Harry Elias, M.S., received the Ed.D. in Health Education from Teachers College, at Columbia University, last May. He is an adjunct faculty member at John Jay College, in New York City, teaching stress management, and he is starting his own business in health education.
Lauren Goodsmith, M.P.H., recently spent two months in Morocco, providing technical assistance for a documentary on maternal mortality as part of the Phase V Mother and Child Health/Family Planning Project.
1994
Penelope Ashwanden, M.P.H., is working in the Division of Sponsored Research at the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. and, just for fun, (we all need some), she is taking a course in anthropology. She sends her “hello” to all.
Susan Gerber, M.P.H., is chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at The New York and Presbyterian Hospitals, inc. Following her stay here, she plans to pursue a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine.
Nicetas H. Kuo, M.P.H., is director of genetics and gerontology and director of preventive medicine at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
1995
Seyyed Ayatollahi, M.S., is associate professor, founder and head of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and dean, School of Graduate Studies Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. He was admitted to the status of Chartered Statistician, Royal Statistical Society of the United Kingdom. in 1995, he was appointed an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Curt Malloy, a CPFH graduate, contributed to and is featured in a documentary, “The Ten Plagues of Egypt,” aired on the Learning Channel in April.
Robert Wanerman, M.P.H., has joined the health law group at Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin and Kahn in Washington, DC.
1996
Amanda Sue Birnbaum, M.P.H., is in the doctoral program in epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Best wishes as you embark on this venture.
Penny Blazej, M.P.H., works with troubled adolescents in school settings. Her primary focus is teenage pregnancy and high school dropout prevention.
Nancy Blum, M.P.H., manages a collaborative agreement with U.S.A.I.D. to provide unbiased drug information to several developing countries. Her position involves national drug use promotion and building the capacity to develop, disseminate and utilize pharmaceutical information. She is also coordinating the involvement of USP’s international Health Advisory Panel, a group of medical specialists from fourteen countries.
1997
Amy Gordon, M.P.H., is national service director in the loss prevention department of Liberty Mutual insurance in New York City.
Elizabeth Kann, M.D., M.P.H., recently was awarded the Resident with outstanding achievement and strong potential for future contributions to the field of preventive medicine by the American College of Preventive Medicine.
From those childhood roots, Entwistle has nurtured an enviable career in international public health. At age 35, she left a secure position as a health care planner in Canada’s Ministry of Health, embarking on an exciting, life-changing experience as a volunteer in Ghana. “I had a great job with a high salary, was a Big Sister, and was sitting on various boards of community-based agencies, but something was missing,” Entwistle says of the move. “In Ghana, I found a new home, new colleagues, a respect for people of a different culture and insight into my inner self.” After two years in Ghana as the administrator of a health care facility, Entwistle worked with CARE international in Bangladesh, overseeing a multi-project office. She directed everything from road building to training farmers in bio-intensive gardening, fostering business enterprise ventures for women, and launching a women’s health and population project. With a heightened interest in population issues, Entwistle decided to pursue a master’s degree at CSPH, citing it as one of the few schools in the world offering a public health program in population studies and international health. “To be respected in the international health field, it was essential that I have a master’s degree in public health, so it was clear to me what needed to be done,” she remembers, so she joined the Center for Population and Family Health, working as a graduate research assistant to Maria Wawer, M.D. Her faculty advisor was Sally Findley, Ph.D. After graduation, Entwistle returned to Canada and set up shop as a public health care consultant, working on primary health care reform in Canada, in Lithuania as part of a UNDP project, and on a World Bank-sponsored project in Armenia. She is also an associate at the University of toronto’s Centre for Health Promotion, and was one of 25 women to participate in the first Canadian Women’s Trade Mission to World Bank and the inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. “I have never forgotten my commitment to the community—global or local—and since childhood, volunteerism has been part of my life,” Entwistle notes. as part of that ongoing commitment, she returns to her beloved Ghana every year to do a month of volunteer work. in her own country, Entwistle continues her home visits to new mothers that she started when she was a child, visiting an immigrant family from mainland China once a week to help the mother practice English and raise her baby. “In some ways, I feel I have come a long way since I was five, and in other ways, I think I have come full circle,” Entwistle observes, and she thanks CSPH for helping make her dreams come true.
Marilyn R. Entwistle
Canadian Marilyn Entwistle’s first memories as a maternal and child care worker came at the tender age of five. toting a doctor’s bag to new mothers’ homes in her neighborhood, she would knock on their doors and ask if she could take their babies for a carriage ride. “Looking back on it now, I’m surprised they gave their consent,” says the 1993 CSPH graduate.
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