School of Medicine Alumni Class Notes 1970s

Dr. James K. Elsey ('79)
Practices general and vascular surgery in Thomaston, GA., and is a county commissioner. He was recently elected president of the Emory Association of Vascular Surgery (1999-2001) of the Emory University School of Medicine. He was one of 50 state recipients of the Building a Better Georgia Award presented by insurance commissioner John Oxendine.

 

Dr. William L. Early ('78)
Ball Ground, GA., has been selected one of Cherokee county's 30 most influential citizens of the 20th Century - the only practicing physician so honored. Dr. Early is the founding and managing partner of Medical Associates of North Georgia, a large multispecialty clinic he started in 1981. The clinic offers primary care, pediatrics, family medicine, gastroenterology, cardiology, neurology and pulmonary medicine. It has a complete radiology department and gastrointestinal endoscopy lab and is a certified diabetic center. Dr. Early and wife Donna, a 1977 graduate of the MCG School of Nursing, have five children.

 

Dr. L. Michael Prisant ('77)
Dr. Prisant, a Medical College of Georgia cardiologist who specializes in hypertension, has been designated a specialist in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension. Dr. Prisant is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, clinical pharmacology and geriatrics. He is on the editorial board of four professional journals and is the author or co-author of more than 200 abstracts, journal manuscripts, book chapters or monographs. He has more than 40 sponsored research projects.

 

 

Dr. Authur C. Fleischer ('77)
Nashville, Tenn., specializes in ultrasound radiology at Vanderbilt Medical Center and was awarded the William J. Fry Memorial Award from the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine. His son, Branden, is enrolled in Emory University.

(Summer, 2002) is the co-editor of the sixth edition of Sonography in Obstetrics & Gynecology: Principles and Practice (McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2001). Dr. Fleischer's eldest son, Braden, graduated from Emory University in May with a bachelor's degree in computer science. His second son, Jared, will attend Indiana University this fall.

 

Dr. John B. Savage ('77)
Augusta, has created a sculpture of punter Ray Guy. The sculpture will be used for the Ray Guy Award, honoring the country's top collegiate punter. Dr. Savage, an orthopedic surgeon, was commissioned to create the sculpture by the Greater Augusta Sports Council, which sponsors the award.

 

Dr. Ralph E. Gaskins ('76)
Has completed a law degree at Georgia State University and has joined the patent law section of Kilpatrick & Stockton's Atlanta office. His practice centers on medical devices and biotechnology.

 

 

 

Dr. Kimford J. Meador (’76)
Chief of the Medical College of Georgia Section of Behavioral Neurology, has been named Charbonnier Professor of Neurology. He joined the faculty in 1984 after completing his neurology residency at MCG and behavioral neurology fellowship at the University of Florida.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Robert (Buck) Wright ('76)
Dr. Wright has been in private practice of Pediatrics in Stillwater, OK for 23 years. Currently, he's President of the Oklahoma Chapter of the AAP. "Medicaid has been horrible here and our chapter has sued the State Medicaid Agency. This occupies much of my time now. Sue and I are fine. Our son is a freshman at Hendrix College in Arkansas. Our daughter, Erin is graduating from Agnes Scott this spring and will start Medical School of the University of Oklahoma this fall. Seems like yesterday I was a freshman with you guys."

 

Dr. Russell Vaughn Maples ('75)
Greenville, S.C., was selected for fellowship in the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in the year 2000. He edited the May issue of the Journal of South Carolina Medical Association's "Symposium on Allergic Disease."

 

 

 

Dr. Raymond P. Warrell, Jr. ('75)
is chief executive for the biotech firm Genta (Nasdaq: GNTA) in Berkeley Heights, N.J. His work with Genta in prodding cancer cells to commit suicide was featured in the Sept. 18 edition of Forbes Magazine. Dr. Warrell also completed the first half of his career at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as associate physician-in-chief and professor of medicine at Cornell University.

 

Dr. Robert N. Cross, Jr. ('73)
Bob Cross is a radiologist in private practice in Marietta and President of Radiology Atlanta Group. He is Vice-Chairman of Wellstar Health System and past President of the Cobb County Medical Society. He has been a professional musician with the band "Dr. Bob and the East Cobb Snobs," a 60's rock dance band, for 10 years. Older daughter Brandy begins medical school at MCG in the summer of 2003.

 

Dr. Mason P. Thompson ('73)
associate dean for student affairs and admissions at MCG, has been elected vice chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Student Affairs, Southern Region. His term will be followed by terms as chairman-elect and chairman of the Southern Region.

 

Dr. Jeffrey Peden Harris ('72)
A Winchester, VA internist and subspecialist in nephrology, is serving a four-year term as governor of the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine.

 

 

Dr. Randolph R. (Randy) Smith ('70)
Dr. Smith has received the 1999 Jack A. Raines Humanitarian Award from the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Smith, a plastic surgeon in Augusta, is a fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology and the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the Medical Association of Georgia, the Richmond County Medical Society and the Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He has lectured and volunteered his plastic surgery services throughout the world, including Nigeria, El Salvador, and Poland.

 

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