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Gulshan Harjee 82M 85MR received the 2012 Jack Raines Humanitarian Award from the Medical Association of Georgia. She has conducted health fairs for the uninsured for the past seven years and established scholarship programs for high school and college students. She is president of First Medical Care in Decatur, Ga.
Thomas Pearson 82M 88MR was appointed executive director of the Emory Transplant Center. He is surgical director of the kidney and pancreas transplant program at Emory Healthcare and the Livingston Professor of Surgery in the medical school.
Mark Furman 83C 87M 12B was named a consultant at the Spencer Stuart executive search firm in Boston.
1990s
Scott Swygert 92M was named chief quality officer and chief medical information officer for Lakeland Regional Health Systems in Lakeland, Fla.
BORN: Oliver Thomas Guertsen on April 24, 2012, to Leslie Choy-Hee 91Ox 93C 97M 01MR and her husband, Kevin. She is an obstetric hospitalist at Wellstar Cobb Hospital.
2000s
MARRIED: Janet Witte 01M 02PH to John Hopkins in February 2011. She is a psychiatrist in private practice and conducts depression research at Massachusetts General Hospital.
BORN: Wesley Donald to Clay Chappell 04M 11FM and Tresa Chappell 98Ox 00C 04M on Nov. 9, 2012. He is an interventional cardiologist in Athens, Ga., and she is a pediatrician.
Kelly Healy 00C 05M 06MR 10MR was named an assistant professor of urology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
BORN: Rani Paige to Padmashree Chaudhury Woodham 01C 05M 09MR and her husband, Daron, on Oct. 23, 2012. Woodham recently joined Mercer University and the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, Ga., as the director of maternal-fetal medicine.
Shveta Shah 02C 07B 07M and Dinesh Shah 00C 07G 07M have returned to Atlanta, and both are at the Gwinnett Clinic in Johns Creek, Ga. Shveta is an internist, and Dinesh is a neurologist. The couple has two young children.
Lauren Hall 03C 08M 11MR is a Global Health Corps pediatrician in Swaziland with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Residency Notes
Naureen Adam (anesthesiology) has joined the Atlanta office of Interventional Spine & Pain Management.
Jennifer Cranny (radiology) was named the on-site medical director at East Cooper Medical Center in Mount Pleasant, S.C.
Paul Fedalen (surgery-cardiovascular) recently joined Bayhealth Cardiovascular Surgical Associates in Dover, Del.
Susan Jones (internal medicine) has joined the Memorial Medical Group, the largest physician group in southwest Louisiana.
Kerry Ressler (psychiatry) was elected to the Institute of Medicine. He is on the medical faculty at Emory.
Richard Weil (pediatrics) was reappointed to the Georgia Composite Medical Board by Gov. Nathan Deal. He is chief of pediatrics at Piedmont Hospital.
Nanette Wenger (cardiology) was named a master of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. She is on the medical faculty at Emory.
Deaths
1940s
Herbert Arnold 43C 45M 49MR, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Nov. 27, 2012. He was 90. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Nell, three children, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
1950s
Duncan Farris 49C 51M 55MR, of Gainesville, Ga., on Oct. 7, 2012. He practiced obstetrics and gynecology for 23 years in Waycross, Ga. He is survived by his wife, Rachel, three children, five grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.
Ted Staton 50C 53M 57MR, of Decatur, Ga., on Sept. 17, 2012. He was a urological surgeon.
Davis Boling 49C 54M 56MR, of Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 5, 2012, of cancer. He met his wife of 57 years, Marjorie, at Emory, where she served as the administrative assistant to the dean of the medical school. They moved to Tampa, where he was an orthopaedic surgeon for 40 years. In addition to his wife, he is also survived by five children and 12 grandchildren.
Prentis Huff 49Ox 50C 52G 55M 60MR, of Atlanta, on July 1, 2012. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, two daughters, and five grandchildren.
Lawrence Brannon 53C 56M 57MR, of Atlanta, on Nov. 22, 2012. He practiced psychiatry for 45 years and specialized in alcohol and drug addiction. He is survived by five children, 15 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
Earle Toler 52C 56M, of East Point, Ga., on Aug. 4, 2012. He is survived by his wife, Jackie, and two children.
Charles Finney 56C 59M 60MR 80B, of Albany, Ga., on Aug. 11, 2012. He was an ophthalmologist before starting a pecan farm. He also owned two radio stations in Albany. He is survived by his wife, Charlie, four children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Bernard Hochberg 59M, of Tampa, Fla., on Oct. 14, 2012. He was 77. He was born in Sokolow, Poland, and at the onset of WWII, his family fled to Russia. They were forcibly relocated to Siberia and then to Uzbekistan. After the war, they reunited with family in France and stayed in Paris for several years before being allowed to immigrate to the United States. They arrived in 1949 aboard the ocean liner Mauretania. Hochberg continued to celebrate his personal holiday, “Mauretania Day,” each year. In 1970 he joined St. Joseph’s Hospital as a urologist. He is survived by his wife, Moira, four sons, and five grandchildren.
William Weatherly 55C 59M 66MR, of Atlanta, on Aug. 5, 2012. He was 79. He was a psychiatrist for more than 40 years before retiring in 2009. He served as a clinical professor at Emory. He is survived by his wife, Jody, and four children.
1960s
Frank Pittman 60M 61MR, of Atlanta, on Nov. 24, 2012, of cancer. He was a psychiatrist in private practice, a clinic assistant professor at Emory, and a consultant at the Clayton County Mental Health Center. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, three children, and seven grandchildren. A prolific writer, Pittman wrote frequently about marriage and family relationships.
Martin Reeves 63M 69MR, of Suwanee, Ga., on June 22, 2012. He was 73. He is survived by his daughter and three grandchildren.
Frank Schuler 68M 73MR, of Newport News, Va., on Oct. 6, 2012. He practiced plastic surgery for more than 40 years. He is survived by his wife, Sandra, four children, and two grandchildren.
1970s
Render Nesmith 68C 73M, of Inglewood, Calif., on Feb. 23, 2012. He was 65.
1980s
Margaret Ann Gangarosa 74C 82M 86MR, of Brookville, Fla., on Oct. 25, 2012, of metastatic renal cancer. She was 59 and had served as a pathologist for 28 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Pullin. She is survived by her parents and three brothers.
Residency Deaths
John Gilligan (ophthalmology) of Alexandria, Va., on April 10, 2012. He was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara, and his oldest son, John, and is survived by four children and six grandchildren.
William Holloway (surgery), of Greenwood, S.C., on Sept. 11, 2012. He was 74. He was a vascular surgeon and opened the first accredited vascular center in South Carolina, the Carolina Vascular Institute at Self Regional Medical Center.
George Long (obstetrics and gynecology), of Atlanta, on Nov. 15, 2012. Long had idolized his father, a doctor who was the grand-nephew of physician Crawford W. Long, and had always said that he knew even as a small boy that he would follow in his father’s footsteps and become a doctor. Seven days after his own father’s funeral service, Long died of a suspected heart attack. He was 56. He is survived by his wife, Debbie, and three children.
Isabel Ochsner (emergency medicine), of New Orleans, on Nov. 6, 2012, of pancreatic cancer. She was 56. She is survived by three sisters.
Mason Robertson (internal medicine), of Augusta, Ga., on July 20, 2012. He moved to Savannah, Ga., in 1958 and practiced there for 25 years. He and his wife, Mary, were active in desegregation efforts in Savannah, participating in lunch counter sit-ins. His medical practice also was desegregated at a time when many were not. In 1987 he received the NAACP Freedom Award. He also helped establish the first sickle cell anemia clinic in Savannah. He retired in 1984 due to the effects of Parkinson’s disease. In 2008, he and his late wife received the W. W. Law Award from the Economic Opportunity Authority of Savannah for their civil rights efforts. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary, and is survived by three children and five grandchildren.
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Warren Sarrell (cardiology) of Anniston, Ala., on Sept. 27, 2012, of bone marrow cancer. He was 87. He was instrumental in establishing the Sarrell Dental Clinic, which now has 14 facilities across Alabama and is the main provider of dental care for children on Medicaid. He is survived by his wife, Lela, six children, and 14 grandchildren.
Stanley Shapiro (surgery-otolaryngology), of Sandy Springs, Ga., on Nov. 18, 2012. He practiced at Wellstar Cobb Hospital and Wellstar Douglas Hospital for 40 years. He is survived by his wife, Alice, and two children.
Faculty Deaths
Hugh Randall 69Ox 71C 75M 79MR, of Crossville, Tenn., on July 1, 2012. He was 63. He joined the Emory gynecology/obstetrics faculty in 1979 and served at Grady. He also served on the faculties of New York University and Lincoln Memorial-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is survived by his wife, Sandra, and two daughters.
