Sheri L. Rolf, MD '86, has been selected to play clarinet in the World Civic Orchestra. She will be performing at Alice Tully Hall in NYC on September 25, 2011. Dr. Rolf completed her residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at The Ohio State University in 1986.
Thomas E. Albani, Jr., MD '81, has been named the 2011 Family Physician of the Year Award by the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP). Albani has been practicing family medicine for 27 years and currently works as a solo practitioner in Canfield, Ohio. He is also a volunteer faculty member for the family medicine residency program at St.Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, Ohio, and is an assistant clinical professor at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM), Rootstown, Ohio.
Clotilde Dent Bowen, MD '47, has been recognized by Who’s Who in the World for her achievements in the field of psychiatry and her many firsts. She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Ohio State’s School of Medicine. She went on to become the first black female physician in the U.S. Army and the first black woman to attain the rank of Colonel.
Warren Brown, MD '49, retired from family practice in 2004 and now gives weekly medical lectures on Amateur (Ham) Radio.
Harold Manhart, MD '56, is retired and living in Montrose, Colo., where he has won awards for his sculpture and oil paintings. He recently held a one-man show in New Mexico and is still managing a 300-acre tree farm in Wisconsin.
Charles “Chuck” Magill, MD '59, retired from orthopedics in 2005 but has recently returned to work at Community Clinic of Old Irving Park, a free clinic providing care to underserved patients .
Charles Gooding, MD '61, received the Gold Medal from the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) for his contributions to education, research, clinical care and leadership. He is a former SPR president and was founder, president, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Radiology Outreach Foundation, which delivered educational materials valued at $15 million to developing countries. Gooding is Professor Emeritus of the University of California-San Francisco where he served as chief of Pediatric Radiology for 40 years. He has received the Beclere Medal, the highest honor of The International Society of Radiology, and has received an honorary professorship from the Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala.
Erwin Thal, MD '62, a 2009 Alumni Achievement Award winner, was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and still flies to Columbus for all the home football games.
Jerry Guy, MD '65, a former Ohio State chief resident (1973) and assistant professor (1973-1988), was recipient of Ohio Health Foundation’s inaugural Baldwin Award, which recognizes retired physicians who provided exceptional service to Grant Medical Center.
Lana Nusbaum, MD '67, has been volunteering since her retirement from Mt. Carmel East Hospital anesthesiology at a clinic that delivers health care to the elderly indigent population of Sarasota.
Ken Cole, MD '70, has returned to live and work in Bangkok after a recent one-year visit back to the U.S.
Vicki Whitacre, MD '71, retired from the Muskingum Valley Health Centers in March and now works part time as the medical director of the Zanesville-Muskingum County Health Department.
James Goldfarb, MD '73, Cleveland Clinic’s director of Infertility and In Vitro Fertilization Program and a pioneer in the infertility field, was recently appointed president of the Society of Assisted-Reproductive Technology (SART), the primary organization of professionals dedicated to overseeing the practice of in vitro fertilization in the United States. His infertility program was responsible for many firsts including the first in vitro fertilization birth in Ohio (1983) and the world’s first in vitro fertilization/surrogate birth (1986).
Donald Leopold, MD '73, recently celebrated his 10th year as chair of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Rebecca Jackson, MD '78, professor of Internal Medicine and associate dean for Clinical Research at Ohio State, directs Ohio State’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science, which is one of 51 participants in the first national, disease-neutral, volunteer recruitment registry, ResearchMatch.org. “We are excited to participate in the ResearchMatch initiative,” says Jackson. “ResearchMatch creates a free network to easily, conveniently and securely connect interested volunteers with researchers locally, regionally and nationally.”
More information available at www.ccts.osu.edu or www.ResearchMatch.org.
John Duby, MD '79, was recently named the Ohio AAP Pediatrician of the Year. Division co-director of the Akron Children's Hospital NeuroDevelopemental Department, he has helped expand Ohio’s “Reach Out and Read” literacy program and has directed an early autism diagnosis/treatment program to healthcare providers across the state.
Arlen Stauffer '80, MD, is director of Inpatient Services at Halifax Health-Hospice in Daytona Beach, Fla.
James Allen, MD '84, Pulmonary. Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Ohio State, has been honored with the 2009 Earl N. Metz Distinguished Physician Award. The award acknowledges the accomplishments of esteemed clinicians and teachers in Ohio State’s Department of Internal Medicine.
Sheryl Pfeil, MD '84, has been elected to the National Board of Governors of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society. She has been the AOA councilor for the Gamma Chapter of Ohio for 10 years and is currently an Ohio State associate professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Disease. She is the medical director of the Clinical Skills Education and Assessment Center.
Mark Stypula, MD '84, is currently working for the West Penn Allegheny Health Care System in Pittsburgh and specializing in cardiovascular and pediatric anesthesia.
Cynthia White, MD '84, is president of the Florida Psychiatric Society, the seventh largest district branch of the American Psychiatric Society.
John Renz, MD '87, FACR, has received the Silver Medal Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in lifetime contributions to radiology and the medical community from the Alabama Academy of Radiology, a constituent chapter of the American College of Radiology.
Renz is board certified in Diagnostic Radiology and has been in continuous practice with Radiologists, PC in Mobile, Ala. He is on medical staff at the Mobile Infirmary Medical Center, Infirmary West Medical Center, North Baldwin Infirmary, Infirmary 65, Infirmary Eastern Shore, University of South Alabama and other regional imaging and medical centers and founded the Alabama Academy of Radiology Foundation in 2006.