Illinois Medicine

Ivan Pavkovic, MD, former executive director of the University of Illinois at Chicago Project on Genocide, Psychiatry and Witnessing, died June 20, 2010. He is renowned for his efforts to reform mental health services in Croatia, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegov- ina, protecting patients' rights and addressing the widespread trauma following the Balkan Wars. Pavkovic and project co-founder Stevan Weine, MD, co-au- thored many papers about the mental health ramifications of genocide and war. "Ivan Pavkovic had an ethicist's soul and a pragmatist's mind. He helped countless leaders in Illinois and other countries build systems of health care based both on making a just society as well as a recogni- tion of what is possible," said Joseph Flaherty '68, MD '71, Res '75, dean of the College of Medicine. For more than three decades, Pavkovic worked for the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, serving as regional administrator, associate director and director. He joined the University of Illinois at Chicago faculty in 1976 as a clinical associate professor of psychiatry. A distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Pavkovic received the organization's Bruno Lima Humanitarian Award in 1997 for "the care and understanding of the victims of disasters." "Thanks to Dr. Pavkovic, the organization of mental health care in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the best in the region," said Slobodan Loga, MD, former director of the psychiatry department at the University of Sarajevo and member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Dr. Pavkovic made especially significant and effective contributions to the field of modern mental health care reform." Born in Rakitno, Yugoslavia, Pavkovic earned his medical degree in 1953 from the University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia. After immigrating to the United States in 1960, Pavkovic interned at Columbus Hospital in Chicago and completed his residency at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute. He served as superintendent of Anna State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Anna, Ill., and received the Francis J. Gerty Award for administrative changes in mental health practice in Illinois. '36 '44 Michele D. Raible, MD, PharmD, Res '06, of Birmingham, Mich., died June 21, 2010. She served as a faculty member of the department of pathology at the College of Medicine, Chicago campus, from 2001 to 2009. She was a leader in education—locally and regionally, as an officer in the AAMC Central Group on Education Affairs, as well as nationally in pathology educator professional organizations. While at UIC, she held positions of deputy head for pathology educa- tion, director of the pathology residency training program, director of the hematopathology fellowship and director of the pathology course for medical students. Honored with a Golden Apple teaching award, Raible also co-directed the Best Practices in Pathology Education program. Raible received her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and completed graduate medical education programs in internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology, followed by anatomic and clinical pathology, blood banking/transfusion medicine and hematopathology. She left UIC in 2009 to become associate dean for curriculum at the Oakland University William Beau- mont School of Medicine. A pursuer of lifelong learning, Raible was continuing to work on a Master of Health Professions Education degree at UIC during her recent illness. To honor Raible's contributions, the department of pathology at UIC is establishing a yearly award in her name. Those wishing to contribute should do so through the University of Illinois Foundation Web site at www.uif.uillinois.edu/Gifts/StartGiving.aspx. Albert F. Stein '35, MD '36, of Chicago, died Aug. 12, 2009. He was a legend- ary pediatrician to generations of families along Chicago's North Shore, a devoted and caring husband to his wife, Berna, and the loving father of Deborah Frumkin and Dr. Robert Stein. "He was a rock for generations of families," his son told the Chicago Tribune, which reported that he practiced medicine in the West Rogers Park office of Northshore Pedi- atric Associates for 60 years. Harold K. Kae- merle, MD '44, Res '47, of Laguna Niguel, Calif., died March 20, 2010. Board-certified in general, thoracic and vascular surgery, Kaemerle's medical career spanned five decades. He performed the majority of his surgeries at Little Company of Mary and Torrance Me- morial hospitals in Torrance, Calif. Kaemerle worked his way through the Illinois Institute of Technology and medical school at the University of Illinois and completed residencies at Hines VA Hospital in Chicago and Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. He met his wife, Ruthie, while he was in medical school and she was in nursing school. It was love at first sight, and they were married in 1950. The family moved to Palos Verdes, Calif., in 1962 and resided there until 2000 with their four children. Kaemerle was devoted to his wife, children and grandchildren. '45 County Medical Association. He and his wife, Patricia, were married for 63 years and had 13 children, 37 grand- children and 19 great-grandchildren. Kathryn M. Barry '39, of Mon- roe, Wis., died Aug. 19, 2010. Barry worked and taught as a dietician at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, as well as the University of Chicago and the University of Michi- gan. In 1946, she and her husband, Dr. George R. Barry, moved to Mon- roe, where her volunteer work and public service were a mainstay of the community for 56 years. She served as a local Girl Scout leader, president of the local Girl Scouts Council and a member of the Monroe Parks and Recreation board. Barry was a strong supporter of the arts and community organizations. An avid outdoors- woman, bird watcher and canoeist, Barry's real passion late in life was the restoration of Wisconsin's native prai- ries. A charter member of the nonprofit organization the Prairie Enthusiasts, she was responsible for persuading the city of Monroe to create a native prairie park, subsequently named after Kay and George Barry. Joseph S. Pecora '43, MD '45, of Rochester, N.Y., died Aug. 31, 2008. A cap- tain in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, Pecora practiced internal medicine and cardi- ology at Highland Hospital from 1949 until 1993. He was a clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, director and president of the Genesee Valley American Heart Association, director of Highland Hos- pital and board member of the Thiem Charitable Foundation. He enjoyed tennis, music and gardening. He and his wife, Marion, were married for 62 ALUMNI 38 | WINT ER 2 011

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