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Allied Health SciencesMargaret Lammers Conrad (dental hygiene, ’86), Sautee-Nacoochee, Ga., has been elected president-elect of the Georgia Dental Hygienists’ Association. She attended a National Component Officers Workshop in Chicago Nov. 26-28. Cecelia Brannon (physical therapy, ’00) is earning a master of business administration degree from Auburn University and is director of rehabilitation services at the Longterm Hospital at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Ala. Gretchen Green Blanchard (dental hygiene, ’03) is earning a dental degree from MCG and plans to graduate this spring. She married Patrick G. Blanchard Jr. Aug. 12 in Augusta. [Top] DentistryDr. Roger E. McLendon (’83), Durham, N.C., has been named chief of surgical pathology at Duke Medical Center. The seventh edition of his book, Russell and Rubinstein’s Pathology of Tumors of the Nervous System (A Hodder Arnold Publication), was recently published. A co-author was MCG alumnus Darell D. Bigner, also of Duke. [Top] Graduate StudiesDr. David O. Wood (cell and molecular biology, ’78), Mobile, Ala., has been named professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. He joined the faculty in 1979 and is a Distinguished University Professor of Microbiology and Immunology. He is an internationally renowned researcher on Rickettsial biology and is president of the American Society of Rickettsiology and the Southeastern branch of the American Society for Microbiology. He has received three National Institutes of Health grants, including a prestigious Method to Extend Research in Time Award. [Top] MedicineDr. William Ogden (’65), Asheville, N.C., has received an honorary doctor of public service degree from Presbyterian College. After graduating from MCG, he completed an orthopedic residency at Duke Medical Center. After years of private practice, he joined the staff at Ashville’s Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he trains Duke orthopedic residents during their VA rotation. Dr. Frank Rossiter Jr. (’66), Savannah, Ga., has been named to the Southern Catholic College Board of Trustees. He retired as a colonel in the Georgia Army National Guard in 2000 and retired from medicine in 2003. Dr. John Hardin (’69) has been named chief science officer for the Arthritis Foundation, overseeing its research program and serving as its lead reviewer and spokesperson on scientific issues. Dr. Hardin, a former chair of the MCG Department of Medicine, in 1984 received the foundation’s first Lee Howley Prize with collaborators Drs. Joan Steitz and Michael Lerner for research that uncovered how genetic information is translated into the proteins that make up the cells of the body. They also helped determine the molecular composition of the major lupus autoantigens known as the Sm and U1-RNP particles. Dr. Hardin’s subsequent work showed that lupus patients’ immune systems treat these particles like foreign substances. He is currently studying how factors such as vitamin D regulate the immune system. Dr. Garland K. Gudger (’73), an orthopedic surgeon at The Hughston Clinic in Columbus, Ga., has been inducted into the LaGrange College Athletic Hall of Fame. He played basketball at LaGrange from 1967-69, averaging 12.5 points a game in his final season and scoring 593 points for his career. He is the team physician for Brookstone Academy in Columbus and volunteers frequently for his community and area athletes. Dr. Dan DeLoach (’74) was recently elected chair of the Medical Association of Georgia Board of Directors. He will serve a three-year term. Dan and his wife, Cameron (School of Nursing B.S.N., ’72 and M.S.N., ’77), enjoy coastal life with their three sons in Savannah. Dr. John S. Harvey (’78), Atlanta, has received the 2006 Joseph P. Bailey Jr., M.D. Distinguished Service Award from the Medical Association of Georgia. The award honors distinguished and meritorious service. Dr. Harvey, a surgeon at North Fulton Regional Hospital, is board certified in general surgery and has secondary specialties in colorectal, endocrine, laparoscopic and trauma surgery. He has participated in two medical mission trips to the Amazon. Dr. William B. “Billy” White (’78), Canton, Conn., recently married Nancy Maureen Petry at a garden wedding behind their home. Billy is professor of medicine and head of the Division of Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology in the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center at the University of Connecticut, and his wife is a research professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut with expertise in addictive disorders, including pathological gambling. He writes, “Turns out we met about four years ago in the same corridor of the medical school because she got the ‘big’ office that I was supposed to get. While it caused a brief moment of anger, the result was quite positive!” Dr. S. William Clark III (’79), Waycross, Ga., was inaugurated Sept. 30 as president of the Medical Association of Georgia. Dr. Clark, an ophthalmologist, operates the Clark Eye Clinic in Waycross, treating patients from age 1 to 100. After graduating from MCG, he interned at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va., and completed a residency at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami. He completed a combined fellowship in strabismus, ocuplastics and external disease at Emory Eye Center and is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. He has assistant clinical professorships at MCG and Emory. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue recently appointed him to the Georgia Physician Partnership. He and wife Jill have three daughters. Dr. Fred L. Daniel (’79), Savannah, Ga., has been awarded the 2006 Jack A. Raines Humanitarian Award from the Medical Association of Georgia. The award honors an outstanding humanitarian contribution to mankind and the community beyond the normal practice of medicine. Dr. Daniel has been a member of Ear, Nose and Throat Associates of Savannah since 1984. He is a past president of the Georgia Medical Society and the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. John T. “Ted” Perry (’79), Cartersville, Ga., has been appointed by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to the Georgia Physicians Partnership. He is president and senior associate at Cartersville Surgical Associates, director of Century Bank and chair of the governmental committee for the Bartow Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Medical Association of Georgia, the Georgia Surgical Society, the Atlanta Vascular Society and the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners. Dr. Perry and wife Carlene have three children. Dr. Jack M. Chapman Jr. (’88), Gainesville, Ga., has been named president-elect of the Medical Association of Georgia. Dr. Chapman, an ophthalmologist at Gainesville Eye Associates, is a member of the Hall County Medical Society, Georgia Society of Ophthalmology, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Medical Association and Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce. Dr. John-Paul Jones (’91), Lynchburg, Va., is a member of Central Virginia Family Physicians and medical director for Computer Physician Order Management. He is board-certified in family practice medicine. Dr. Marc-Andre Chimonas (’00), Elmira, N.Y., has joined Arnot Medical Services in Elmira, specializing in occupational medicine. He completed residencies in preventive medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif., and occupational and environmental medicine at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C. Dr. Jonathan Kerrick (’01), Gainesville, Ga., is medical director of the Northeast Georgia Medical Center stroke program and a neurologist with The Longstreet Clinic. He studied violin performance at Florida State University, The Cleveland Institute of Music and Oberlin College. He then earned an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Georgia. After earning his medical degree, he completed an internship and residency at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, N.C. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Payton Barrett (’03), Sacramento, Calif., has joined Sutter Medical Group. She completed her residency at Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency Program in Albany, Ga. Dr. W. John Bull Jr. (Naperville, Ill.), who completed a general surgery residency at MCG, specializes in aesthetic and reconstructive treatment of the face, breast and body at his DuPage Plastic Surgery clinic in Naperville. He recently opened a second office in Aurora, Ill. Dr. Donnis Harrison (Pascagoula, Miss.), who completed an internship and residency at MCG, practices with Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists in Pascagoula. He completed a fellowship in shoulder and elbow surgery at The Carroll Clinic in Dallas and is board-eligible in orthopedic surgery. He is on the medical staffs of Ocean Springs Hospital and Singing River Hospital. Dr. Kelly Scott Hynes, who completed an ophthalmology residency at MCG in 2000, owns 20/20 Vision LLC, an ophthalmology and eyewear boutique, in Columbia, S.C. ObituariesDr. Everett Clark Kuglar (’59), Augusta, died Sept. 28 at age 72. The prominent psychiatrist was noted for helping transform Georgia’s mental health care system in the 1960s, overseeing decentralization of mental health care so patients could be treated closer to home. He advocated for outpatient treatment rather than long-term hospitalization. He also helped establish the Community Mental Health Center, now called Serenity Behavioral Health Systems, in Augusta in 1974. One of the state’s first forensic psychiatrists, he was prominent in the legal community and testified frequently in criminal cases. In 1991, he served as commander of the 382nd Field Hospital in Saudi Arabia at the King Fahd National Guard Hospital during Operation Desert Storm. Dr. Mary Anne Hagler (’75) died Dec. 5 at age 79. After earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, she left MCG her sophomore year to marry and raise five children, then returned years later to fulfill her dream of becoming a physician. At age 54, she graduated, then became the first medical director of Augusta’s St. Joseph Hospice. She later became a partner of Family Medicine Associates in Augusta. After 15 years of service, she retired but continued to volunteer for many years. Survivors include her children, 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Dr. William C. Nijem, who completed a cardiology fellowship at MCG in 1980, died Dec. 1 at age 63. Dr. Nijem performed the first cardiac catheterization in Valdosta, Ga., his lifelong home, and retired from private practice in 2004, transferring to the South Georgia Medical Center Honorary Staff. He was a devoted husband and father who loved woodworking, the outdoors and animals. Survivors include wife Julie Fain Nijem, son William C. Nijem Jr., daughter Summer Nijem and stepdaughters Jourdan Coker and Kaylan Coker. [Top]
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