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class notes News and Updates From Alumni of the University of Illinois College of Medicine longtime distinguished service. He is a well-respected southern California dermatologist. '47 '53 John Raffens- perger '51, MD '53, recently published the book Children's Surgery: A Worldwide History. His work traces the treatment and attitudes toward sick children, injuries and birth defects from ancient times to the 21st century. Raffensperger also has published Two Scottish Tales of Medical Compassion, a brief history of the Edinburgh School of Medicine that illustrates how a study of the humanities and medicine influenced medical practice in Scotland, as well as the novel Diamonds of Death, under the pseudonym Dr. John Luck. Raffensperger served as an intern, resident and attending surgeon at Cook County Hospital. Paul J. Gethner '45, MD '47, has been honored by UCLA's medical school for his '94 Soma Wali, MD '94, FACP, was named governor of the South- ern California Region I Chapter of the American Jean and William Markel, MD '55 Allen Malnak '52, MD '54, Res '56, has published the historical thrill- er novel Hitler's Silver Box. His interest in the Holocaust was sparked by the Nazi extermination of all the men, women and children of his father's Lithuanian family. After completing his medical residency and a liver disease fellowship, Malnak practiced as a board-certified internist. He served as chief of internal medicine at the U.S. Army Hospital at Fort Sill, Okla., and was medical director of several organizations. Malnak also served as a clinical assistant professor at the Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University in Maywood, Ill. He and his wife, Patricia, live in Florida with their whippet, Paige, and parakeet, Kiwi. '55 Milton Kramer '50, MD '54 '54 40 | FALL 2012 Milton Kramer '50, MD '54, has received the 2012 George Tarjan Award from the American Psychiatric Association for his significant contributions to integrating international medical graduate psychiatrists into the mainstream of American psychiatry. '77 William Markel, MD '55, and his wife, Jean, received the Philan- thropic Award from the Broomfield Community Foundation at the annual Heart of Broomfield Awards and Community Foundation Grants Celebration in April 2012. The Heart of Broomfield Awards recognize those who have made significant contributions to the com- munity of Broomfield, Colo. Edmund Messina, MD '77, recently re- leased an independent dramatic feature film called Lily's Mom. The winner of a drama award at the Indie Gathering in Cleveland, the film is the first dramatic feature to spotlight the plight of the migraine sufferer. Messina is a practicing neurologist and medical director of the Michigan Headache Clinic in East Lansing, Mich. '85 Ronald Schouten, MD '85, JD, co- authored Almost a Psychopath: Do I (or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem With Manipu- lation and Lack of Empathy? with James Silver, JD. The book is written for the consumer and draws on sci- entific evidence and the author's own experiences to help identify if someone is almost a psycho- path as well as pro- viding interventions and resources for behavioral change. A former attorney, Schouten left the practice of law to pursue a career in medicine. His work focuses on forensic psychiatry, the application of clinical psychiatry to legal matters. He is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of the law and psychiatry service at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has authored and co-authored more than 60 professional publications on a range of medical and legal topics. College of Physicians, the national organization of internists, at its annual scientific meeting in New Orleans. Wali is a professor of medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles and vice chair of education and internal medicine residency program director at Olive View UCLA Medical Center. After completing her residency training in internal medicine in 1997 at Olive View, where she served as chief resident, Wali completed a two-year fellowship in medical education at UCLA. Board-cer- tified in internal medicine, Wali has been a member of the American College of Physicians since 1998. She has served on the governor's advisory council for the Southern California Region I Chap- ter since 1999 and as chair of associate activities and chair for ACP California meetings. For the past four years, Wali has traveled to Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, Calif., as a California delegate to lobby government officials on health care and primary care issues as part of ACP Leadership Day. She has been invited to lecture at regional, national and international conferences with the American College of Physi- cians and Society of General Internal Medicine. Ronald Schouten, MD '85, JD '95 Randal Dull, MD '95, PhD, joined the Univer- sity of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in anesthesiology as professor and vice head for research, with a primary focus on lung vascular biology and critical care medicine. Previ- ously Dull served as professor, vice chair for research and the presidential endowed chair in anesthesiol- ogy at the University of Utah. It was there that he received a research project grant from the National Health, Lung and Blood Institute to study lung vascular mechano-transduction. He also has served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins, where he received an NIH-K08, a Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award. Dull completed Randal Dull, MD '95, PhD

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