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We are Grateful for your Support Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is pleased to share its Annual Report 2014, which celebrates a very productive year in a decade of effort and achievement under the powerful and forward-thinking models of interprofessional education and practice.

The stories that follow represent the drive and dedication of our university leaders, faculty, students and alumni who, generation after generation, uphold and strengthen the RFUMS legacy of excellence, innovation and service. Today, as never before, our university relies on the collective dynamism and generosity of its community as it faces a convergence of complex challenges at home and abroad.

Our ability to meet those challenges, including growing our programs in response to the pressing healthcare needs of our nation, is made possible by the unflagging support of our donors.

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CONVERGENCE: A Message from the President ............................................................................................... 3

INSTITUTIONAL HEALTHBALDWIN INTERPROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE: Promoting collaborative learning .............................. 5

A NAME FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND: A legacy proudly invoked ........................................ 6

ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES: Developing a highly skilled workforce........................................... 8

STRONGER RESEARCH: Collaborating across disciplines under Alliance for Health Sciences ......... 10

REGIONAL HEALTHREAL LIFE: Interprofessional Community Clinic offers students early clinical exposure ....................... 13

PATH TO EXCELLENCE: RFUMS students reach out to local, underserved high school....................... 16

NATIONAL HEALTHFRANKLIN FELLOWS: A community committed to interprofessional service and leadership ............ 19

GLOBAL HEALTHIT TAKES A VILLAGE: Helping refugees in Uganda through RFUMS global health initiatives .............23

DEVELOPING DOCTORS: Ibukunoluwa Araoye, CMS ’17, reflects on a choice he and other international students must make .......................................................................................................................... 25

YEAR OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: Science mastered by university’s namesake continues to help researchers push boundaries ................................................................................................................................. 27

BOARD OF TRUSTEES .......................................................................................................................................... 28

FINANCIALS ............................................................................................................................................................. 29

CONTRIBUTORS .....................................................................................................................................................30

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ADMINISTRATION

K. Michael WelchPresident and Chief Executive Officer

Wendy RheaultProvost

Roberta LaneExecutive Vice President for Finance and Administration,Chief Financial Officer

James CarlsonDean, College of Health Professions Joseph X. DiMarioDean, School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Rebecca DurkinVice President for Student Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion

Tina M. EricksonVice President for Institutional Advancement

Timothy HansenVice President for Faculty Affairs

Ronald KaplanExecutive Vice President for Research

Patrick KnottVice President for Strategic Enrollment Gloria MeredithDean, College of Pharmacy Bret MobergCompliance Counsel

Nancy ParsleyDean, Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine

Judith StoeckerVice President for Academic Affairs John TomkowiakDean, Chicago Medical SchoolExecutive Vice President for Clinical Affairs

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

We humans measure our lives through the passage of time. A good year is marked by growth, accomplishment and learning. An extraordinary year, or fruitful span of years, holds a remarkable confluence of opportunities created, partnerships strengthened, and challenges faced and overcome. CONVERGENCE

From the prefix con-, meaning together, and the verb verge, meaning to turn toward, convergence is a coming together to form a new whole. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is guided by its mission, compelled by its values and strengthened by its diverse community in the fulfillment of its goal: the interprofessional education of future healthcare professionals who will work together to improve patient care.

Such a period fuels our resolve, carries us through starker times and drives us onward in pursuit of excellence.

The past decade has been such a period, one of growth and transformation and achievement. We have anticipated change, responded with exciting, well-laid plans and worked to meet institutional and national challenges including shifts in national health policy, persistent issues of patient safety, rising costs, income disparities and globalization. Perhaps most importantly, we early on embraced the international movements toward interprofessional education, team-based health care and evidence-based practice. All of these forces are converging, creating unstoppable energy, calling us to act, to see the future and move toward it.

The pages of our 2013-2014 Year in Review are filled with our institution’s response to that call. In the stories told here, you will be greeted by confidence, courage and optimism. You will experience the determination and unselfishness of our faculty, students, alumni and community partners. You will encounter great minds, noble minds: our namesake, Rosalind Franklin, PhD, whose research will continue to enlighten new generations of scientific explorers and improve the health of new generations of men, women and children; DeWitt C. Baldwin, MD, the father of collaborative, interdisciplinary learning and team practice, who is now seeing the fruition of his life’s work; and lesser known heroes, those institutional leaders on whose shoulders we stand, and faculty and students like those who implemented and run our Interprofessional Community Clinic and travel around the world to help care for the most underserved.

We have much to be proud of over the past decade: the addition of new programs, including our College of Pharmacy, which graduates its first class in 2015; expansion of enrollment; capital investments, including new, student-centered facilities and state-of-the-art learning spaces; a successful Centennial Scholarship Campaign; and sounder financial footing.

We continue to invest in the future of our students by building innovative structures, like the Centennial Learning Center and the Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education, that will help us navigate the evolving future of health care. We continue to expand our innovative model of education and provide more training and leadership opportunities for our faculty and students. Step-by-step we are bringing to reality our Alliance for Health Sciences with DePaul University. We continue to seek the generous support of our donors for initiatives, like the Franklin Fellowship, that challenge our students to grow, to advocate for change and to meet the pressing healthcare needs of our nation.

The passion and commitment involved in these efforts are deeply embedded in our institutional DNA that, in time, will be transmitted to new generations of students, faculty and leadership. Together, over time, we come nearer to success in our aims – and that success, as Dr. Franklin reminds us, is eminently worth attaining.

K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCPPresident and CEO

Gail L. WardenChair, Board of Trustees

RFUMS President and CEO K. Michael Welch addresses guests during the May 29 unveiling of the bronze likeness of Rosalind Franklin, PhD.

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INTERPROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE PROMOTES COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

The university is committed to the education and training of health professionals who can work, communicate and lead as members of clinical healthcare teams to build a safer, more responsive, more effective system of patient care.

In dedicating the DeWitt C. Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education on May 15, 2014, the university underscored its strategic investment in reshaping medical and health science education through collaborative learning.

DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr., the institute’s namesake, a pioneer of interprofessional learning and practice and now Scholar in Residence at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, was lauded as “the soul, conscience and courage” of graduate medical education by Timothy Brigham, MDiv, PhD, ACGME senior vice president. Brigham credited Baldwin with leading innovations that improved education and safety in residency programs, the institutions that house them and the clinical practice of medicine.

“It was Dr. Baldwin who said, ‘Look. See. If you do it together, you do it better than if you do it by yourself,’” Brigham said.

RFUMS President and CEO K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCP, praised Baldwin for his tenacity in teaching that “health and health care improve when we practitioners, each with our own knowledge, perspective and skills, work together in mutual respect, shared responsibility and decision-making and, above all, open communication.

“It’s our desire that the Baldwin Institute and the academics and practitioners, present and future, who contribute to its growth and success, emerge as leaders in interprofessional education and practice to improve the health and well-being of our nation and the world,” Welch said.

Located in a newly renovated wing of the Health Sciences Building, the institute is tasked with identifying, developing, managing and evaluating interprofessional educational activities at RFUMS. An initial priority was a redesign of required first-year interprofessional coursework, first offered in 2004. Foundations of Interprofessional Practice now includes training in basic TeamSTEPPS – team strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety, an initiative developed by federal healthcare organizations. The institute is also working to expand interprofessional education into portions of clinical rotations

while forging creative logistical solutions.

“It’s about expanding access so that our students in clinical rotations can take advantage of interprofessional interactions that naturally exist in a clinical setting,” said Douglas Reifler, MD, vice president and director of the institute and associate dean for CMS student affairs.

Top right, DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr., MD. Bottom left, RFUMS President and CEO K. Michael Welch and Dr. Baldwin at the May 15 dedication of the DeWitt C. Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education. Bottom right, Timothy Brigham, MDiv, PhD, senior vice president, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

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THE FULFILLMENT OF OUR MISSION DEPENDS ON THE CAREFUL TENDING AND ASSESSMENT OF OUR OWN COLLECTIVE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. ARE WE LIVING OUR CORE VALUES? ARE WE ACHIEVING OUR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES? ABOVE ALL, ARE WE HARNESSING THE POWER OF COLLABORATION AND LEADING THE INTERPROFESSIONAL FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE?

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A NAME FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND

The name Rosalind Franklin holds powerful connotations of perseverance, mastery, discovery. It is a name imbued with meaning by the extraordinary life and work of the woman, scientist and scholar whose legacy the university proudly invokes.

The university’s announcement in 2004 of its intent to change its name to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, in honor of the British scientist who helped pioneer the field of DNA research, commenced a period of unprecedented strategic growth.

It was a bold stroke – taking on the identity of a then largely unknown chemist and crystallographer who died at the age of 37, three years before researchers in her field won the Nobel Prize. Reporting on the Jan. 27 announcement, the Chicago Tribune noted that university officials remarked that taking the name of a “talented outsider who never got the credit to which she was entitled,” was an apt metaphor for the independent university.

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Under one iteration, students, wherever they are, may be asked to identify interprofessional interactions through assigned exercises, independent learning and written reflection.

The Baldwin Institute is engaging faculty across the university in interprofessional projects and research initiatives; 20 faculty and students produced more than a dozen papers, posters and presentations for “All Together Better Health,” the seventh international conference on interprofessional practice and education held in Pittsburgh in June. Institute staff also presented at the Chicago Simulation Consortium 12th Annual Conference, held in August.

“It’s important that the institute not only be a place where interprofessional things happen,” Reifler said. “The purpose of the institute is to catalyze and engage faculty from all areas of our university. That’s critical. There’s no way the university can be leading interprofessional education the way we intend to without engaging faculty and students broadly.”

The institute promotes conversations concerning ongoing substantive changes in the way health care is delivered in the United States – from siloed specialties to interprofessional teams that share responsibility for patient care.

“People are definitely taking interprofessionalism in health care seriously,” Reifler said. “There’s widespread recognition that patient safety and the quality of the care they receive are closely linked to good-working teams. It’s an ongoing conversation that we need to promote.”

RFUMS President and CEO K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCP, praised Franklin – widely considered one of the most 100 influential scientists of all time – for a discovery that led to the single most important advance of modern biology.

As Franklin’s seminal work in DNA, viruses, carbon and coal continues to earn widespread recognition, so the first medical institution in the United States to recognize a female scientist through an honorary namesake continues to build a reputation as a distinctive health sciences university dedicated to the highest standards of academic excellence and research.

On May 29, 2014, the university community, joined by Martin Franklin and Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky, nephew and niece of the scientist, gathered to mark a decade of progress under the name RFUMS and to unveil a bronze statue of its namesake.

Franklin Jekowsky told the gathering that from early childhood her aunt “asked for the proof behind the assertion” but expressed faith in the world, “a faith that rests in the future and fate of our successors.”

“We thank the university community for recognizing Rosalind Franklin’s life in discovery and her excellence in all its forms,” Franklin Jekowsky said.

The larger-than-life bronze partial figure mounted on a granite base, which stands in the center of University Circle Drive, depicts Franklin in a lab coat, a cluster of crystals at her back – a nod to her mastery of the technique X-ray crystallography, which formed the basis of her work. She looks into the distance, holding out her Photo 51 as if to present it to the world.

“It is our intention that the sculpture that we unveil today will remind all who enter her namesake university that a life lived in discovery is a worthy and attainable goal and one that reverberates beyond the veil of our own mortality,” Welch said. “Today and every day, we dedicate this university to her life and we honor her legacy.”

Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky and Martin Franklin, niece and nephew of Rosalind Franklin, PhD, unveiled the bronze likeness in honor of the university’s namesake. Bottom center: Rosalind Franklin in the Cabane des Evettes on a mountain holiday, circa 1950/51.

“OUR AUNT WOULD BE PLEASED THAT HER LEGACY INCLUDES THIS UNIVERSITY...IN HONORING HER, YOU HONOR IDEALS THAT CAN LEAD EACH GENERATION TO GREATNESS.”

- MARTIN FRANKLIN

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ALLIANCE EXPANDS, ENRICHES LEARNING The university strives to model the collaboration it prizes as the surest path to the growth and development of faculty and students. Its alliance with DePaul University is an investment that will produce highly qualified, culturally diverse medical and health science professionals prepared to master the challenges the future inevitably brings.

The Alliance for Health Sciences between Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and DePaul University, now entering its third year, continues to drive collaboration and new approaches aimed at improving the education and development of the nation’s healthcare workforce.

“The alliance not only puts the student first, it also puts the future patient first,” said RFUMS Provost Wendy Rheault, PT, PhD. “It’s helping us identify qualified students with the aptitude and the desire to pursue the health professions. Together, in a collaborative inter-institutional educational model, we are providing education and experiences critical to both career success and the health and safety of patients.”

Highly motivated DePaul students may enter early admission pathways to six highly competitive RFUMS master’s and doctoral programs: medicine, podiatric medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, pathologists’ assistant studies and physician assistant studies. Under the 3+ program, the first year of graduate school counts toward a bachelor of science from DePaul, thereby shortening the total length of education by one year.

At RFUMS, they will learn and work in interprofessional teams tasked with solving real-world clinical cases.

“It’s our mission to provide a high-quality and up-to-date education to our students,” said Patrick Knott, PhD, PA-C, vice president for strategic enrollment management and RFUMS professor. “DePaul is helping us do that by offering a wider range of courses to our students through collaboration with their colleges of science and health, communication, law, and business.”

An increasing number of courses are shared between RFUMS and DePaul graduate-level programs. Collaboration in the areas of nursing, health informatics, health communication and health business administration translate to increased choices for students at both universities and are helping to build new competencies and skills.

College of Health Professions student Allison McCorkle recently completed Health and Family Communication, an elective provided by the DePaul Master of Arts in Health Communications program.

“The material was really interesting,” said McCorkle, who will earn a Master of Science in health administration from RFUMS in December. “Families and support networks are key to the success of medical treatment and decision-making. It’s important to understand the dynamics of family interaction.”

RFUMS has also opened some of its online courses to DePaul students. This year it has offered classes and a Certificate in Health Administration to DePaul’s Master’s Entry to Nursing Practice students, boosting their expertise and competence in that area of study, said Diane Bridges, PhD, MSN, RN, RFUMS assistant professor and director of the Healthcare Administration program.

“We realize the content of each of our programs will benefit students who can graduate with extra competencies,” Bridges said. “Health administration is about applying knowledge for positive outcomes for patients and the delivery of health care. The additional courses both universities can offer under the alliance make our students more skilled and marketable.”

Bridges, who is also working with DePaul’s MBA in Health Sector Management, MA in Health Communications, MS in Informatics and BS in Health Sciences programs, said DePaul students appear to like the flexibility of a hybrid program, which offers off-campus, online advantages to help meet time, work and family needs.

“We have more diverse students coming into our program from DePaul,” Bridges said. “They’re sharing everything about themselves and their cultures. Our respective faculty members have brainstormed and worked together to develop content-specific needs. Sharing our knowledge and expertise has certainly been worthwhile. The scholarship that has developed through our collaboration is priceless.”

RFUMS has also worked with DePaul in mentoring students and offering summer research opportunities. Knott teaches Introduction to the Health Professions at DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus, where he helps students explore their options for different healthcare careers and counsels them on how to be competitive applicants to the programs they choose.

“The mission of Rosalind Franklin is, in part, to give young, talented scientists the best opportunity for success,” Knott said. “If that’s the ideal, it doesn’t make sense to wait for those students to show up on our doorstep. We have to go out and find them. We want to help cultivate those undergraduates and help prepare them to succeed in a challenging graduate school environment.”

Top: Allison McCorkle, a student in the College of Health Professions. Bottom, left to right: Patrick Knott, PhD, PA-C, vice president of strategic enrollment management and RFUMS professor and Diane Bridges, PhD, MSN, RN, RFUMS assistant professor and director of the Healthcare Administration program. Faculty from RFUMS and DePaul gathered at DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus for the second annual research retreat to identify potential collaborations under the alliance’s pilot grant program.

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STRONGER RESEARCH

New paths of scientific inquiry have opened under the Alliance for Health Sciences, which promotes the sharing of knowledge, technology and research funding under a joint pilot grant program. When alliances are made, energy flows, relationships are built, possibilities are envisioned. Openness is key.

Collaborations between investigators at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and DePaul University are driving exciting, high-tech research aimed at improving health in the United States and across the world.

Among the 11 studies funded under the RFUMS/DePaul Alliance for Health Sciences Pilot Grant program is one that will help therapists make informed, data-driven choices about the use of motion-based games in the rehabilitation of patients with brain injuries.

“DePaul has the expertise in computer game design and concept and we have the clinical research expertise on movement and balance,” said Fang “Amanda” Lin, DSc, MMed, BEng, assistant professor of the department of podiatric surgery and biomechanics at Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine and director of the college’s Human Performance Lab.

“It’s been great to tap into each other’s knowledge,” Lin said. “That’s why the alliance is so powerful.”

Formed in 2012, the alliance helps expand and enrich programs at both universities through defined curricular pathways, academic programs that address emerging needs, faculty research collaborations and enhanced student research opportunities.

Lin and Stephanie C.S. Wu, DPM, MSc, associate dean of research, professor, department of podiatric surgery and biomechanics, and director of Scholl College’s Center for Lower Extremity Ambulatory Research, met Cynthia Putnam, PhD, assistant professor at DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media, at a 2013 alliance research retreat.

In discussions, the scientists, who if not for the retreat may have never met, realized they could work together to expand the study.

“Up to this point, it’s been a qualitative study for a recommendation system that clinicians can use to select games based on their patients’ abilities and therapeutic goals,” said Putnam, who has published and presented on the development of evidence-based gaming tools to help therapists. “Many such systems are based on subjective opinion. There’s a lot more credibility if you can back up use of a game with objective measures.”

Lin and Wu are leading the collection of objective measures for the study, including assessments and measurements on balance, postural stability, gait and physical activity level.

“The objective measures will allow quantitative association of gaming tools with rehabilitation measurements and ultimately lead to focused, target-specific therapy,” said Wu. “Each year, an estimated 1.7 million Americans sustain a brain injury. Knowing that our work can ultimately help improve care for these patients is extremely rewarding.”

Another area of potential collaborative research aims to bring telemedicine to Haiti, spurred additional collaboration between Scholl College at RFUMS and the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul.

The remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of digital technology could help cluster medical expertise, both clinical and academic, said Robert Joseph, DPM, PhD, SCPM chairman and assistant professor for the department of podiatric medicine and radiology.

Under the proposal, RFUMS and DePaul would partner with several Haitian hospitals and medical schools.

“Working together, we can help improve access to information,” Joseph said. “The alliance helps catalyze initiatives like this by fostering collaboration, communication and innovation.”

Olayele Adelakun, PhD, associate professor in DePaul’s School of Computing, has made two trips to Haiti to explore setting up digital infrastructure and support. He is working to build a partnership with the country’s primary networking company. Cloud computing is the goal.

“It’s exciting to help develop a solution that combines technology and medicine,” Adelakun said. “We can take what we learn from Haiti and apply it in other parts of the world.”

Joseph marvels at the synergy that has developed around the idea that RFUMS and DePaul can join forces to help a country in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, Lin, Wu and Putnam hope to keep working as a team.

“Our collaboration, ultimately, is going to make our research much stronger,” Putnam said.

Top: Fang “Amanda” Lin, DSc, MMed, BEng, left, and Stephanie C.S. Wu, DPM, MSc, both faculty members in the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine, are collaborating with DePaul researchers under the Alliance for Health Sciences. Bottom, left to right: Olayele Adelakun, PhD, associate professor in DePaul’s School of Computing and Digital Media. Robert Joseph, DPM, PhD, chairman of the department of podiatric medicine and radiology.

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REAL LIFE

The student-run Interprofessional Community Clinic embodies the university’s ethic of interprofessional learning, teaching and service through leadership. Students who staff the clinic, and the faculty who supervise them, provide quality, dignified care for the most vulnerable people in the Lake County region. It’s a lesson they will carry throughout their lives.

Patient encounters are pure gold for future clinicians, who spend the first year or two of their graduate education trudging through didactics while anxiously awaiting the opportunity to apply their knowledge in real healthcare settings. At Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, an increasing number of first- and second-year students are attending the lecture circuit by day and diving into patient care by night at the Interprofessional Community Clinic.

“It’s by far the most helpful training I’ve received,” said Thuy Vi Le, CMS ’16. “Actually seeing patients, following a visit, working with an attending, is the best possible experience – real life – where we get to apply the things we’ve learned.”

Initiated by four Chicago Medical School students in 2013 and operated as part of the Rosalind Franklin University Health System, the student-run, faculty-supervised clinic provides priceless patient interaction, interprofessional training and, for underserved patients, free, high-quality care.

Lecia Apantaku, MD, FACS, assistant dean and associate professor of surgery for CMS, and one of seven faculty advisors for the ICC, said it can be difficult for health science students to understand how the basic sciences relate to patient care.

“Seeing patients early on in their education helps them understand the relevancy of what they’re learning,” Apantaku said. “It’s important for students to see, learn and practice.”

Running the clinic has provided many opportunities for leadership. While Le took on administrative duties, Sarah Hershman, CMS ’16, an ICC founder, led the development of a women’s health curriculum. Working under the guidance of Charisse Hudson-Quigley, MD, an obstetrician/gynecologist on the faculty of both the medical school and the College of Health Professions,

Hershman developed training for breast and pelvic exams, testing for sexually transmitted infections, contraceptive counseling and endometrial biopsies.

Left: Ashley Makulowich, who is pursuing a PhD in clinical psychology, helps staff the student-run Interprofessional Community Clinic. Center: Lecia Apantaku, MD, FACS, assistant dean for faculty talent recognition and enhancement, and Douglas Reifler, MD, associate dean for student affairs at Chicago Medical School, pictured with Brittany Hunter, CMS ’17, help oversee the efforts of volunteer student practitioners.

STUDENT, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERS ARE WORKING CLOSE TO HOME AND THROUGHOUT THE CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN REGIONS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION AND CAREERS. EACH AND EVERY ENCOUNTER WITH OUR COMMUNITY SHOWS US WHO WE ARE, AND STRENGTHENS OUR COMMITMENT.

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“We’re trying to be responsive to the needs of the community,” Hershman said.

In addition to gynecological care, ICC, which sees many patients with chronic conditions including diabetes and hypertension, also offers primary and podiatric care, physical therapy and behavioral health, in addition to an eye clinic and dispensary.

Each ICC patient is seen by a team that includes students in multiple disciplines. The team completes a history on each patient, then discusses it with either a fourth-year medical student, licensed pharmacist and/or a nurse practitioner. A differential diagnosis is discussed with an attending physician, and the patient is seen again for a physical exam. The group then formulates a cost-effective treatment plan.

The early clinical experience is an advantage for students facing increasingly competitive healthcare and medical residencies, according to Jim Zimmerman, RFUHS vice president, who said the clinic is also a setting where interprofessionalism, a top strategic initiative of the university, is practiced.

“Students in the clinic are learning respect for different professions,” Zimmerman said.

“We try to create clinical encounters where we allow the expertise of different professions to emerge,” Hershman said. “A lot of schools are struggling with how to create interprofessional experiences that don’t feel forced. Our clinic doesn’t feel forced.”

“ICC is a positive experience for patients and volunteers,” Le said. “But it’s a constant organizational challenge. We’re always looking at how to use our resources more efficiently.”

“We see ourselves as being incubators for new ideas in medicine,” Hershman said. “We have time. It’s low pressure. We have to be very creative about experimenting with new models so that we can influence the future of health care. None of us really knows what kind of environment we will be practicing in 10, 20, 30 years from now. But what’s going to happen in the future is going to come out of collaborations like the ICC.”

Center: Student clinicians, from left: Garret Strand, SCPM ’17; Brittany Hunter, CMS ’17; and Israel Labao, CMS ’17, discuss treatment options for a patient. At right: Sarah Hershman, CMS ’16, a co-founder of the clinic. Student clinicians, from left, Israel Labao, CMS ’17; Haley Spaulding, COP ’16; and Garret Strand, SCPM ’17, confer with Douglas Reifler, MD.

But at the Interprofessional Community Clinic, every patient is screened for mental illness and may receive therapeutic counseling during their visit. They may also choose to attend psychoeducational support groups on topics including anxiety, aging, and mood and health, organized by Ashley Makulowich, who expects to earn a PhD in clinical psychology in 2017.

Makulowich consults for interprofessional teams of student practitioners at the clinic, treating four patients a week, including a woman who suffers from trichotillomania, an impulse control disorder that manifests in hair-pulling. She also treats patients for anxiety, depression, and physical and emotional abuse.

“We’ve worked hard to develop an interprofessional environment at the ICC, where patients can feel comfortable seeking and receiving mental health care,” Makulowich said. “This is particularly important in low-income communities where mental illness can be so stigmatized. It’s a trust issue. It’s about helping patients understand you can really help them.”

Students who staff and run the clinic learn things that can’t be taught in a classroom.

“We get patients who are living in shelters and don’t have enough money to feed their children,” Makulowich said. “That’s incredibly stressful and depressing and can trigger or exacerbate other psychological problems. In therapy, we often must address those things first before we can deal with anything deeper.”

ICC patients also benefit from the services of a volunteer social worker, who helps connect them to local resources.

“About 30 percent of family medicine is dealing with psychological problems,” said Lecia Apantaku, MD, FACS, Chicago Medical School assistant dean and a faculty advisor for the ICC. “It’s great to have a consultant on the spot. A person may come to see us for their blood pressure, but we determine part of it is stress. Virtually all ICC patients are under some stress. If we work on the stress, they may not need as much blood pressure medicine.”

A RECENT NATIONAL STUDY SHOWED THAT OVERBURDENED HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS DON’T ASK THEIR PATIENTS ABOUT STRESS, WHICH HAS BEEN CLOSELY LINKED TO POOR HEALTH.

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PATH TO EXCELLENCE

The university is committed to building a diverse learning community and future healthcare workforce through outreach and service to underserved high school and college students eager to realize their potential. Numerous interprofessional efforts to guide and prepare students from underrepresented backgrounds for graduate medical and health science education are supported by faculty, students and staff.

How can someone follow a path they can’t see? The question troubled Julie Witkowski, CMS ’16, a first-generation college graduate who has almost always known where she was going and how she would get there.

“I’ve wanted to pursue science my whole life,” said Witkowski, a volunteer tutor and mentor for students at North Chicago Community High School, where she saw a need and came up with a plan.

“I was meeting a lot of motivated students, some with a budding interest in health care, who had no idea what to do with their interest,” Witkowski said.

Working in partnership with the university’s community relations team within the Division of Institutional Advancement, Witkowski designed a pre-health, interactive curriculum for the new Future Healthcare Professionals Club. FHPC members learn about the human body and different healthcare professions under the guidance of RFUMS students of medicine, podiatric medicine, pharmacy, biomedical sciences, physical therapy, physician assistant, pathologists’ assistant and postdoctoral studies.

“We’re a health sciences university filled with motivated students who love to mentor younger students – and we’re only a few miles away from one of the most underserved high schools in the state,” Witkowski said. “It’s a no-brainer that we should be there to mentor them and guide them, especially if they have an interest in the health sciences.”

Students from the club will help populate a new NCCHS academy, the Healthcare Careers Academy Pathway, said Jeff Hollenstein, lead teacher for the program – another partnership between RFUMS and the high school, which is undertaking bold new measures to increase a college-readiness rate that has dipped to 9 percent.

“RFUMS is helping to give our students more purpose and more focus,” Hollenstein said. “Our students say things like ‘I want to be a doctor,’ or ‘I want to be a lawyer,’ but they don’t know how to get there. They’re not getting the correct messages. They’re not being guided in the right direction.”

Center: RFUMS provided visiting students from the Future Healthcare Professionals Club a demonstration in the gross anatomy lab. Bottom right: Club members, who visited RFUMS on April 11, pictured with RFUMS student mentors and North Chicago Mayor Leon Rockingham.

Educators on the academy planning team and FHPC members participated in an April 11 field trip to RFUMS, which included a tour, demonstration in the gross anatomy lab, session on germs and infection in the College of Pharmacy skills lab and a student Q&A panel. Throughout club sessions, RFUMS students communicate a clear and compelling picture of their lives – how they study, engage in activities and handle pressure.

“You could see it,” Hollenstein said. “Kids starting to realize that a graduate degree is attainable, that the medical students they’re talking to and interacting with have gone through the same struggles they’ve experienced at NCCHS. They’re not super-humans, but people who have advanced through the stages of their lives and attained the goals they’ve pursued.”

Witkowski said one FHPC student reported that her club experience made her feel “empowered” in her biology class. Another, who sat mute during the first FHPC session, soon became the “go to” leader of the group.

“As he gained more knowledge, he became more confident,” Witkowski said.

But RFUMS students gain knowledge too, including what they learn from interacting with young people of different races and socioeconomic levels.

“It is also valuable to practice teaching in both academic and clinical settings,” said Christine Lopez, MEd, RFUMS executive director of community relations and stewardship. “Teaching is an important part of medicine. Medical and healthcare professionals play a vital role in educating their patients/clients on their respective medical condition, as well as preventative medicine.”

Lopez said she watched students blossom during club sessions in which Witkowski reviewed medical concepts, encouraged educated guesses and self-expression, then shifted to application through hands-on activities.

“Listening to the lub-dub of the heart, talking about those sounds, the sound of the heart’s valves, brings something alive in the students,” Lopez said. “This is material they can relate to, that can help them understand how amazing their physiology really is, and just how intelligent they really are in their assessments.”

Witkowski said she was thrilled when students collectively aced the 160-slide PowerPoint quiz she popped during their final club meeting. Each student was rewarded with a new, donated stethoscope, the iconic symbol of the trusted healthcare practitioner.

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FRANKLIN FELLOWS

The Franklin Fellowship, generously funded by a gift in 2012 from Martin and Julie Franklin on behalf of the Franklin family, serves to develop acommunity of students committed to interprofessional service, leadership and educational excellence. Twelve students from across the university received scholarships and took on the added rigors of the fellowship in its inaugural year, working to improve health and expand opportunity for those in need.

The Franklin Fellowship presented an opportunity for William Alegria, COP ’16, to explore and understand how healthcare providers can learn about and use cultural differences to enhance patient care.

“It’s something I’ve had a passion for ever since I moved away from Miami,” said Alegria, who was born and raised in the city that, according to the U.S. Census, includes a population that is 70 percent Hispanic or Latino. Alegria designed and offered a workshop aimed at helping RFUMS students acknowledge differences and learn to ask patients the right questions. The activity will be adapted for inclusion in the first-year Foundations of Interprofessional Practice course.

“ROSALIND FRANKLIN WAS A PIONEER, A MINORITY, AT A TIME WHEN FEW WOMEN EARNED PhDS. FOR SO MANY YEARS SHE WAS NOT CREDITED FOR HER WORK. SHE WAS SOMEONE WHO HAD SO MUCH TO OFFER BUT WAS STILL UNDERVALUED.”

WILLIAM ALEGRIA, COP ’16

“A lot of healthcare professionals don’t listen,” Alegria said. “They fit their patients into a box.”

Providers should not assume, Alegria said, that because people speak a common language or share a skin color that they also share the same cultural or socioeconomic characteristics. “That’s stereotyping and destructive,” he said.

Working at a busy retail pharmacy during a College of Pharmacy rotation, Alegria gained the confidence of patients who shared home remedies, alternative therapies, and attitudes and ideas about their health conditions.

“If you can get to know the person you’re treating, you can ask questions that make sense, that can get to the root of the problem,” Alegria said. “It’s about building that relationship with the patient.”

NATIONALHEALTH

Center: Martin Franklin visits with Franklin Fellows, including MD/PhD candidate Olsi Gjyshi, left, and Sarah Hershman, CMS ’16, right. Bottom: Rosalind Franklin, PhD, with colleagues in Lyons, France, 1949. Franklin Fellows, clockwise from left: Olsi Gjyshi, Kristina Doytcheva, Ashley Makulowich, William Alegria, Rebecca Burmeister, Natalie Dale, Josu Zubizaretta, Victoria Hoch, Julie Witkowski, Thuy Vi Le, Nicole Woitowich, Sarah Hershman.

WE ARE DEVOTED TO THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS CALLED TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF OUR NATION’S PEOPLE, AND ALSO TO LEAD, INNOVATE AND DISCOVER. THESE EXCEPTIONAL INDIVIDUALS JOIN AN UNBROKEN CHAIN OF THOSE WHO, IN GRATITUDE, EXTEND THEIR HAND TO A NEW GENERATION.

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2014 FRANKLIN FELLOWS AND THEIR PROJECTS

Nicole Woitowich, MS, SGPS ’16, was once told that she would never get into graduate school. Better to settle for a career in teaching high school biology rather than set her sights for medical research, she was told by a college advisor.

“I was pretty devastated,” said Woitowich, a crystallographer, who went on to earn a master of science from Northeastern Illinois University, where she was befriended by a tough but encouraging female biology professor.

“If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be here,” said Woitowich, who is researching the regulation of mammalian reproduction by novel enzymes in both the department of physiology and biophysics and department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Chicago Medical School.

Under the Franklin Fellowship, Woitowich developed a mentorship program for female undergraduate students. Women in Scientific Discovery or Medicine, WISDOM, brings female graduate students in a variety of disciplines, from all five RFUMS colleges, to interact with and support Lake Forest College students interested in pursuing graduate education in science, technology, math, engineering and healthcare fields.

“I’m really passionate about STEM outreach (science, technology, engineering and math) and trying to increase participation by women and minorities,” said Woitowich, whose ambitions are fostered at RFUMS by Janice Urban, PhD, professor and chair, physiology and biophysics, and Marc Glucksman, PhD, professor and chair, biochemistry and molecular biology.

“I say it all the time,” Woitowich said. “I am a product of mentorship. I literally would not be here if I didn’t have mentors in my life.”

“THE FELLOWS HAVE FORMED A TIGHT-KNIT GROUP. WE’VE GROWN CLOSE, HELPING EACH OTHER WITH OUR PROJECTS. IT’S GREAT TO BE PART OF A GROUP WHERE WE’RE ALL REALLY DRIVEN.”

NICOLE WOITOWICH, SGPS ’16

A native of Albania who hopes to become an oncologist and combat cancer-inducing viruses, Olsi Gjyshi, MD/PhD candidate 2017, recalls the two patients who refused the HPV or human papilloma virus vaccine he offered during volunteer duty at the student-run Interprofessional Community Clinic.

“It was their choice,” Gjyshi said, disappointment lingering in his voice. “My goal is to educate, to teach, about what’s available, about the possible benefits and risks. There are possible side effects, as with any vaccine, but the risk of developing cervical cancer far outweighs them.”

Gjyshi devoted his fellowship to educating communities about the seven viruses that cause cancer which, in addition to HPV, include: hepatitis C, hepatitis B, Epstein-Barr, Merkel cell, human T-cell lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma.

William Alegria, COP ’16 Designed and offered a workshop on the impact of culture on patient care and students’ role in overcoming cultural barriers.

Rebecca Burmeister, SCPM ’16 Designed and offered comprehensive diabetes management class at the Interprofessional Community Clinic.

Natalie Dale, CMS ’16 Organized interprofessional Waukegan Women’s Health Fair; assessed outcomes.

Kristina Doytcheva, CMS ’17 Organized and offered monthly health screenings and education to area homeless population.

Olsi Gjyshi, MD/PhD candidate, 2017 Educated communities on cancer-causing viruses and offered free HPV vaccine.

Sarah Hershman, CMS ’16Established basic women’s reproductive health services at ICC.

Victoria Hoch, CMS ’17Worked to improve respiratory health in Lake County through multi-pronged effort.

Thuy Vi Le, CMS ’16 Designed and initiated healthy cooking/nutrition/lifestyle classes for area youth.

Ashley Makulowich, PhD candidate, 2017 Designed and organized psychoeducational support groups for ICC patients.

Julie Witkowski, CMS ’16 Designed and offered Future Healthcare Professionals Club and tutoring and mentoring for students at local high school.

Nicole C. Woitowich, MS, PhD candidate, 2016 Designed and offered mentorship program promoting entry of more women into STEM and healthcare professions.

Josu Zubizarreta, PT ’16 Organized and offered health screening events to local Latino community.

Franklin Fellow scholarship recipients are committed to interprofessional service and collaboration on projects benefiting the health of those in need.

“THE FRANKLIN FAMILY IS HONORED TO INVEST IN THE EDUCATION OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS,” SAID MARTIN FRANKLIN, ROSALIND FRANKLIN’S NEPHEW. “OUR AUNT WOULD BE PLEASED THAT, IN HER NAME, SCIENCE, HEALING AND LEARNING COME TOGETHER IN SUPPORT OF GOOD HEALTH.”

“The topic of virus-induced cancers is not only fascinating, it’s important,” said Gjyshi, who is pursuing his PhD under the guidance of Bala Chandran, PhD, professor and chair in the department of microbiology and immunology.

In addition to his work in the clinic, Gjyshi, who cites a virus-induced cancer rate between 12 and 20 percent worldwide, visited a women’s health fair and delivered a lecture to a group of very inquisitive high school students. He also collaborated with a drug company and the Centers for Disease Control in offering free vaccines to underserved children.

“I find research fascinating,” said Gjyshi, who has studied how Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpes virus hijacks molecular mechanisms to infect cells and cause cancer. “But I’m a very patient-oriented person. I like being there for patients who need the support.”

“WE WANT TO SOLVE ALL THESE HEALTHCARE PROBLEMS, BUT HEALTH CARE CAN’T BE SEPARATED FROM ANYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENS IN OUR LIVES.”

REBECCA BURMEISTER, SCPM ’16

Rebecca Burmeister, SCPM ’16, is on a mission to help patients prevent complications of diabetes which, if poorly managed, can result in blindness, amputation and death.

The future podiatric physician, whose father developed a foot ulcer while she was in college, designed a series of diabetes education classes and teaching materials that are simple to understand and easy to follow, in both English and Spanish.

“We’re tailoring the message, using appropriate health literacy and education levels, and we’re telling them the most important things, of like a million important things, so that they can start taking those first healthy steps,” Burmeister said. “There’s a great need in this community.”

Burmeister worked through the student-run Interprofessional Community Clinic to accomplish her project, which includes the offering of incentives. Eligible patients who attend diabetes management classes receive at-home glucose testing supplies and prescription medications paid for through proceeds of the university’s annual Dance for Diabetes, said Burmeister, who chaired the event in 2014.

Every clinic patient with a diagnosis of diabetes is individually counseled on first steps, including how to keep blood sugar in a healthy range and why it’s important; how to check blood sugar; what to do if glucose levels are too low or too high.

Diabetes, Burmeister said, responds well to a highly interprofessional approach, practiced at the clinic and promoted through education and training at RFUMS.

“We have to put more focus on health education and prevention,” said Burmeister, who recalls patients who lived with an average blood sugar level of 300 for months before seeking treatment.

Franklin Fellow Julie Witkowski, CMS ’16, discusses her service project.

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IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Wherever they serve, RFUMS alumni, students and faculty use their knowledge and training to collaborate, to teach and learn, and to heal with compassion. Our community is at work around the world, caring for humanity and sharing the fulfillment of a life lived in discovery.

Chicago Medical School students Sevgi Sipahi and Natasha Thomas arrived in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2011, and though their month-long service trip quickly came to an end, they resolved to help the suffering refugees they left behind.

“It’s not just one trauma they suffer; it’s a lifetime of trauma that starts from birth – disease, death, abductions, war, rape used as a weapon of war,” said Dr. Sipahi, now a first-year resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, IL.

The students met hundreds of traumatized people from East African countries including Burundi, Rwanda and Sudan at the nonprofit Hope of Children and Women Victims of Violence in Ndejje, Uganda. Thomas recalls a woman who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo until armed rebels raided her village. Her husband was murdered in front of her, the woman said, and she was sexually assaulted by multiple attackers. When Thomas and Sipahi met her, she was withdrawn, sick from the effects of treatment for HIV and struggling to care for her children, including a new baby.

“Her HIV meds were free, but she couldn’t afford food,” said Dr. Thomas, a first-year resident in emergency medicine at Stroger Hospital of Cook County in Chicago.

The second-year medical students, who initially traveled to Uganda as part of the student-led International Health Interest Group, promised to return to HOCW. In the years leading up to the fulfillment of that promise, the university developed student, faculty and institutional support guided by Inis Jane Bardella, MD, FAFP, executive director of the RFUMS Office of Global Health Initiatives, which operates within the Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education.

“One of our goals is that student experiences occur in the context of an established organization with a continual presence on the ground and with appropriate responsibility and accountability,” Bardella said.

“It was wonderful, as a student, to have the opportunity to create a partnership,” Thomas said. “The big thing in international health is medical tourism. People visit a clinic, volunteer for a couple of weeks, then leave. But Dr. Bardella stressed the need to create something that will stand, and she gave us the tools to do it.”

“We believe in HOCW and we want to see it grow,” Sipahi said. “We want to provide what they want and ideally what they need.”

GLOBALHEALTH

Kevin Rynn, PharmD, College of Pharmacy associate dean for clinical affairs, accompanied RFUMS students on a trip to Ndejje, Uganda. Bottom right: Rita Huynh, COP ’15, at Zanta Clinic. Kenneth Kessler, PhD, director of clinical counseling, and a new friend in Ndejje, Uganda. Photos courtesy Rita Huynh, Kenneth Kessler.

ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE STRIVES TO EXEMPLIFY THE SPIRIT OF SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT AND DRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE POSSESSED BY DR. ROSALIND FRANKLIN WHO, DURING HER SHORT LIFE, MADE DISCOVERIES THAT CONTINUE TO IMPROVE LIVES AROUND THE GLOBE.

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Aided by Bardella and the department of psychology in the College of Health Professions, the students developed a plan and wrote a curriculum to train peer counselors in Narrative Exposure Therapy as a treatment for refugees struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Sipahi and Thomas returned as M4s to Ndejje in April 2014, with two other medical students, a doctoral psychology student and Kenneth Kessler, PhD, director of clinical counseling. The team offered intensive NET training to lay counselors, carefully screened refugees who learned fast and asked smart questions.

“NET is a very natural tool for this culture,” Kessler said. “It’s about storytelling. Telling is a coping mechanism. The goal is to get the memories to cool down, so they’re not as painful as they were.”

The team worked to overcome barriers to behavioral therapy including shame, mistrust and a lack of understanding of the western concept of confidentiality. They also learned, from their trainees, what would and wouldn’t work, Kessler said, and made many modifications to their plan as a result.

More than 30 students and faculty have traveled to Ndejje since 2011, including Kevin Rynn, PharmD, College of Pharmacy associate dean for clinical affairs, who accompanied two COP students. Their plane landed in Kampala on a June night in 2013.

“We drove off into the darkness, off-road, up a hill, then finally, knocked at a gate,” Rynn recalled.

The pharmacy team was soon making daily treks to the nearby, government-run Zanta Clinic, down a dirt road lined with huts and sometimes clogged by cattle, as children ran out to greet them. Like other RFUMS faculty and students, they worked within their stateside scope of practice, participating in vaccination clinics, performing lab test screenings for HIV and malaria, and dispensing treatments while learning about challenges related to supply chain issues, including frequent vehicle breakdowns and impassable roads.

“Getting a perspective on another country, another system, makes you more culturally aware, more flexible in your thinking and your work,” Rynn said. “There’s often more than one way to do things. That mindset is helpful, particularly as more pharmacy students travel to Ndejje.”

The university’s global health initiatives also create new avenues for research and funding, re-energize faculty, and inspire empathy and compassion.

Kessler, who marveled at small children lugging five-gallon containers of water and who for lack of a ball kicked a battered avocado in the street, said he arrived back home with a different view of his life and the lives of his patients.

“We worked with people who are resilient, but who have few material resources,” he said. “I came away with a vast appreciation of the things we have as a culture and as a country in comparison. But not all things here are great and not all things there are bad.”

Both Rynn and Kessler will measure outcomes of their interprofessional efforts in Uganda. Rynn, who toured Makerere University in Kampala, is working to collaborate with faculty in its College of Pharmacy in the areas of research and teaching. Kessler uses Skype to work with the counselors he helped train at HOCW.

“It’s not primarily about us and the place we’re going to,” Bardella said. “It’s about how can we build multi-partner relationships, because no one of us can address all the needs. RFUMS, Zanta Clinic and Makerere together can devise a better strategy to meet pharmacy supply chain needs.”

Bardella continues to work to develop partnerships, including in Mexico and Haiti, that can be sustained over decades, that go beyond providing services to help emerging nations build their own capacity to serve and solve pressing health challenges.

“We’re riding this huge wave in global health that has swelled and stayed there,” Bardella said. “Our theory is that this will improve not just awareness, but cultural understanding, which is the first step in producing health professionals who are more effective, who will practice in a way that will truly improve health outcomes wherever they serve.”

DEVELOPING DOCTORS

RFUMS is striving, through its global health initiatives, to help developing nations hold on to their best and brightest through strategies that build what highly motivated students need to flourish. While that effort awaits realization, health professionals of African, Latino and Asian diasporas contribute substantially to the development of their home countries.

Ibukunoluwa Araoye, CMS ’17, spent his first year of medical school immersed in lectures and labs, gross anatomy, histology and other courses that lay the foundational knowledge for the future he envisions as a neurosurgeon.

“IT’S ABOUT GOING BACK A FEW STEPS, LOOKING AT WHERE THE PEOPLE WE’RE TRYING TO HELP COME FROM AND WHAT’S GOING ON IN THEIR LIVES AS A MEANS TO IMPROVING THEIR TOTAL HEALTH.”

NATASHA THOMAS, MD ‘14

“TEAMWORK IS EVERYTHING. IT’S AMAZING HOW PEOPLE FROM OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE WORLD CAN WORK SO WELL TOGETHER.”

SEVGI SIPAHI, MD ‘14

“YOU REALIZE THINGS ARE A LOT MORE FRAGILE THAN YOU MIGHT OTHERWISE THINK.”

KENNETH KESSLER, PhD

Center: College of Pharmacy students Rita Huynh, left, and Alyssa Wenzel, right, with children in Ndejje, Uganda. Bottom, from left: Natasha Thomas, MD ‘14, with young friends in Ndejje. Kevin Rynn, PharmD, treating a patient at Zanta Clinic. Ibukunoluwa Araoye, CMS ‘17, holds a photo of his family taken in their native Nigeria. He appears at far right. Photos courtesy of Rita Huynh, Sevgi Sipahi, Ibukunoluwa Araoye.

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But mastery of the basic sciences and his conviction that the brain “can do anything” cannot help Araoye (pronounced ah-RAH-oh-yay) make up his mind, nor answer what could be the defining question of his life: Will he return to his homeland to practice?

Home is Nigeria, the largest economy and most populous country in Africa at 174 million, where malaria, meningitis, hepatitis and a host of other infectious diseases cut short average life expectancy to 52 years.

A recipient of the Dr. Scholl Foundation Scholarship, through the RFUMS Centennial Scholarship Campaign, Araoye is both hopeful and realistic about his future. He wants to practice in the U.S. first, he said, to understand how a health system should work, before returning home, where his father, an agricultural engineer, has a history of activism.

“He never said directly to us that we should have a really intense love for our country,” Araoye said. “A passion for the country is genetic.”

But passion can fade. Araoye, who has several uncles who practice medicine in the U.S., England and Canada, said he has sometimes been mocked for “wanting to go back to help” a country where a nascent healthcare infrastructure often lacks things like gloves and needles, and where the poor die of preventable diseases and treatable wounds.

Challenges in Nigeria – corruption, lack of infrastructure, and extremist attacks including the murder of healthcare and foreign aid workers – have been widely reported.

“I can’t see the future, but in this moment I would love to go back to Nigeria to help,” said Araoye, whose three siblings have pursued higher education abroad and remain abroad. “I could help change how health care is delivered, talk to the government about establishing a healthcare system, try to standardize how physicians are trained and licensed, and teach them what it takes to open hospitals and clinics.”

Araoye sees tremendous possibilities in Nigeria, but also forces beyond the control of any one mind or development strategy.

“You try to imagine a system that works, where things are good,” Araoye said. “But your mind falters. It can’t fathom the connection between today and this future state. You’re fighting cynicism.”

Other medical students, other doctors who have stayed, “wanted to go back,” Araoye muses.

“Maybe I am a different kind of person,” he said. “Lots of people are having this dream: how to help their countries.”

The science mastered by Rosalind Franklin, PhD, and celebrated throughout 2014 during the International Year of Crystallography, is helping a team of top researchers at Franklin’s namesake university visualize and understand how protein structures function at the atomic level.

Protein crystallography is helping to push the boundaries of disease prevention and treatment. The science is used in combination with mass spectrometry, electron paramagnetic resonance and other biochemical approaches to understand the structure-based mechanisms of proteins essential to both normal and pathological states.

“We’re one of the few places in the country specifically examining the structural biology of membrane proteins,” said Ronald Kaplan, PhD, executive vice president for research. “If we know these structures, we can design very specific drugs to interact with those molecules. We need more efficacious drugs that have fewer side effects.”

The university has made a significant reinvestment in research facilities and personnel over the past decade, recruiting top structural biologists who have been awarded highly competitive NIH grants to fund their research on membrane proteins of high-biological significance.

The work of Jun-yong Choe, PhD, the primary investigator in a study that solved the crystal structure of a glucose/H+ symporter and its mechanism for action, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Such glucose transporters – in humans, known as GLUT – play an important role in diseases, including cancer and diabetes.

Thirty percent of all proteins are membrane proteins, which account for 70 percent of all targets for drug therapies.

“The work is high-risk, high-reward,” Kaplan said. “It’s a driving passion to understand, at the molecular and atomic levels, how a membrane transporter functions and how derived information would be used for pharmacological interventions.”

The structures are notoriously difficult to solve. Choe worked for several years to delineate the transporter.

“It can take 50,000 hours to succeed and it doesn’t always succeed,” Kaplan said. “But our researchers are succeeding.”

Investigators in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology also include Min Lu, PhD, who received NIH funding on his first-ever grant proposal to the agency. His study of multidrug and toxic compound extrusion transporters is aimed at understanding why patients develop resistance to medications. Kyoung Joon Oh, PhD, is researching proteins related to apoptosis or controlled cell death. Adrian Gross, PhD, is examining potassium channels, which may play a role in healthy vascular function and the secretion of hormones.

Researchers in the department are also delving into other vital areas. Kaplan is studying citrate transporters, which may play a key role in obesity. David Mueller, PhD, is looking at the F1FO ATPase, an essential energy-conserving enzyme in humans. Marc Glucksman, PhD, department chair and director of the Midwest Proteome Center at RFUMS, is investigating neural processing enzymes. Carl Correll, PhD, is looking at RNA-protein complexes essential to ribosome biogenesis.

“We’ve created a synergy, a team environment in which our scientists can thrive, collaborate and share ideas,” Kaplan said. “We’re giving them the tools to succeed, to advance a key mission of RFUMS – the discovery of knowledge to improve human health.”

Center: Rosalind Franklin, PhD, at microscope. Inset photo: An artistic representation of the atomic model of the neuropeptide processing enzyme, EP24.15, solved by X-ray crystallography. Data presented in this image collected through Argonne National Laboratory–Advanced Photon Source by Nicole Woitowich, a graduate student in the laboratory of Marc Glucksman, PhD, which also includes Henry Symersky, PhD, Keith D. Philibert, MS, and Xiaomeng Shao.

YEAR OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Scientific research underpins RFUMS, where the discovery of new knowledge in the biomedical sciences continues to improve the health of people in the United States and around the world.

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Gail L. WardenChair, Board of Trustees

Marc S. Abel Paula A. Banks-Jones Lawyer L. Burks III John Calamari Elizabeth A. Coulson A. Michael Drachler

Michael C. Foltz Michael J. Hriljac Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky Cheryl Kraff-Cooper David C. Leach Shannon Liu Wilfred J. Lucas

Thomas G. Moore Frank H. Mynard Pamela Scholl Kathleen M. Stone Deborah B. Taylor Alan Weinstein K. Michael WelchPresident & CEO

BOARD OF TRUSTEESRFUMS ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE

Financial Report fiscal year ended June 30, 2014

OPERATING REVENUES TOTAL ALL FUNDS

Net tuition and fees $ 71.5Grants and contracts 17.0Patient care 9.0 Endowment support 2.8Contributions 1.2Other 5.4Total $ 106.9

OPERATING EXPENSES TOTAL ALL FUNDS

Instruction $ 57.1Research 18.4 Patient care 8.9Institutional support 19.4Total $ 103.8

Excess revenues over expenses $ 3.1$ in millions

Excludes nonoperating revenues and expenses, includingrealized and unrealized gains and losses on investments

SPONSORED RESEARCH SUPPORT

REVENUESFISCAL YEAR 2014

EXPENSESFISCAL YEAR 2014

STUDENT ENROLLMENT

Grants and contracts 16%

Patient care 8%Endowment support 3%

Contributions 1%Other 5%

Net tuition and fees 67%

Research 18%

Patient care 8%

Institutional support 19%

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Together, we make Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science a national leader in interprofessional education and a premier environment for the training of tomorrow’s healthcare professionals. Gifts raised through the university’s Annual Fund allow us to continue providing the level of excellence in education and research for which we are known in the healthcare field.

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Together, we achieve.Together, we innovate and grow.Together, we make things possible.

Working together, we can make a tremendous difference as we continue to educate, discover and serve.

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Richard S. Gerber, MD & Laurie A. Kleinman, MD

Philip Gianfortune, DPM

Stuart & Esther Glasser Family Foundation

Arnold L. Gold, MD

Jerome A. Gold, MD

Lynn & David Goldman

Dr. Stuart L. Goldman

Paul D. Granoff, MD

Thomas A. Graziano, DPM, MD

Michael A. Gureasko, MD

Phil & Geri Gutentag

Lawrence F. Handler, MD

Timothy Hansen, PhD

Marcel I. Horowitz, MD

Steven D. Horwitz, MD

Michael J. Hriljac, DPM

William A. Ingram, MD

Iowa Podiatric Medical Society

IPMA

Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Jablonowski

Jewish Foundation of Greensboro

Dr. & Mrs. Phillip S. Kallen

Dr. & Mrs. Joel A. Kaplan

Ronald Kaplan, PhD & Ms. June Mayor

Eugene L. Kellogg, MD

Bob & Judy Kemp

Samuel C. Klagsbrun, MD

Lester Klein, MD*

Stanley M. Kleinman, MD

John M. Kosanovich, MD

Michael P. Krusch, MD

Philip G. Lambruschi, MD

Roberta & Shaun Lane

Donald Y. Lesser, MD

Arthur S. Levine, MD & Linda S. Melada

Wood V. Lewis, MD

Libertyville Sunrise Rotary Charitable Foundation

Paul S. Lieber, MD

Robert W. Lilienstein, MD

Dr. Mykola Lisowsky

Mr. Richard Loesch

Peter J. Lowe, MD

Mr. Wilfred J. Lucas

Joseph M. Maurice, MD

John G. Mayer, MD

Peter J. McDonnell, MD

Michael N. Metry, MD & Ms. Mary Metry

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Meyer

Laurence R. Meyerson, PhD & Ms. Deborah L. Faiman

John M. Miller, DPM

Larry S. Miller, MD

Mr. Frank Mynard

National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation

Kathleen T. Neuhoff, DPM

NorthShore University HealthSystem

Gary Oltmans, PhD & Lori E. Moss, MD

The Orthotic Group

Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Palmer

Nancy L. Parsley, DPM, MHPE

Lawrence M. Pass, MD

George B. Perlstein, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Dennis A. Pessis

Arthur L. Pinchuck, MD

Stephen E. Piwinski, MD

Henry S. Pohl, MD

Michael T. Ragen, MD

Wendy Rheault, PT, PhD

Ronald G. Ritz, MD

Charles C. Roberts, MD

Mrs. Edythe Rock

Mrs. Eugene J. Rogers

Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Rogers

Alan M. Rogin, MD

Dr. Jeffrey L. Rosengarten

Alfred N. Rossi, MD

CENTENNIAL CIRCLE($100,000 and Above)

Dr. Scholl Foundation

State of Illinois

DISCOVERY CIRCLE($50,000 to $99,999)

Grace P. Rose Charitable Foundation Trust

Steans Family Foundation

TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE($10,000 to $49,999)

Abbott Fund

AbbVie Foundation

Accelerated Health Systems

Robert S. Alter, MD

APMA Educational Foundation

Bako Integrated Physician Solutions

Ms. Marjorie Benton

Michael C. Buchbinder, MD

Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan

Estate of Dr. Marion Finkel

Herbert Fisher, MD*

Gorter Family Foundation

John F. Grady, DPM

Grace Elizabeth Groner Scholarship Foundation

Matthew N. Harris, MD

Craig J. Harwin, MD & Debra Strauss Harwin, MD

Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County

Roy G. Kerr Foundation

Spencer Koerner, MD

Cheryl B. Kraff-Cooper, MD

Lake County Community Foundation

Susan A. Mandel, MD & Dr. Howard C. Mandel

Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation

Northwestern Mutual

Estate of Dr. George Osborne

Joel A. Pengson, MD

Melvin Pick, MD*

In Memory of US Navy Retired SKC Robert W. Ply by Ms. Monica Ply for research in heart disease and Parkinson’s disease

Franklin D. Pratt, MD

Estate of Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein

Carey B. Strom, MD

VNA Foundation

Walgreens

Mr. Gail L. Warden

K. Michael Welch, MB, ChB, FRCP

Mrs. Lisa Zenni & Mr. James Zenni, Jr.

Contributors to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014

Martin Franklin, nephew of Rosalind Franklin, PhD, addresses the crowd during the university’s May 29 unveiling of a bronze likeness of the scientist. Inset: Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky, niece of Rosalind Franklin, PhD, and K. Michael Welch, RFUMS president and CEO, visit with Franklin Fellows.

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S. Burton Roth, MD

Elliot Rubinstein, MD

Mervyn A. Sahud, MD

Jeffrey N. Samuelson, MD

Melvin M. Schiff, MD

Ms. Pamela Scholl

Aaron & Margaret Scholnik

Michael Scoppetuolo, MD

Jeffery W. Sherman, MD & Mary Sherman

Demetrios G. Skedros, MD

L. Michael Snyder, MD

Stephen J. Sontag, MD

Victor G. Stiebel, MD

Kathleen M. Stone, DPM

Andrejs V. Strauss, MD

Ms. Margot Surridge

Ms. Deborah Taylor

Herbert Tetenbaum, MD*

Stanley H. Title, MD

Topco Associates, LLC

Dr. Kay Uttech

Walmart Foundation

Eric Walters, PhD

David Warner, MD

Donald L. Wayne, MD

Gerald H. Weiner, MD

Mr. Alan Weinstein

John S. Weitzner, MD

Wintrust Community Banks

Eric P. Wohlrab, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Yessenow

Ann Zmuda, DPM

SCHOLARS’ CLUB ($500 to $999)

Marjorie Ariano, PhD

Orhan Arslan, PhD

Peter J. Axel, MD

Dr. Alan J. & Jennifer K. Axelrod

Sherry Bagno & Donald MacIntyre

Ms. Elizabeth Klein Baker

Theodore M. Bayless, MD

Sheilah A. Bernard, MD

Edward J. Bruno, MD

Cynthia R. Cernak, DPM

William E. Chagares, DPM

Tung W. Cheng, DPM

Stuart B. Cohen, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart L. Cohn

Community Foundation of Henderson County

The Container Store

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Coulson

Joel Curtis, MD

Jorge Del Castillo, MD

Rahul Deshmukh, PhD

Franklin T. Desposito, MD

Louis Di Lillo, MD

Kelly Downey, MD

Martin S. Dubner, MD

Edward E. Evans, MD

Ms. Sue Fahami

Martin Fine, MD

Dr. & Mrs. David H. Forsted

Glen T. Fortier, MD

Toby Frankel, MD

David M. Frankle, MD

Robert A. Fuhrman, MD

Glenda Gallisath, PhD

Sanford H. Gaynor, MD

Henry Gelender, MD

John R. Graham, DPM

Curtis R. Handler, MD

Dr. Richard A. Hawkins

Philip W. Holloway, DPM

Illinois Council of Health System Pharmacists

Annie I. Iriye, MD

Morton Jacobs, MD

Mr. Robert Janetka

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Anita S. Kablinger, MD

Miles Kahan, MD

Sadayo A. Kanaya, MD

Elton Kessel, MD

David Kibrit, DPM

Daniel F. Kiernan, MD

Victor H. Kong, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Lasin

Maurice H. Laszlo, MD

Dr. David C. Leach

Joy A. Leong, MD

Jerome S. Levitan, MD

Sanford M. Levy, MD

Jay I. Lippman, MD

Kent L. Magrini, DPM

Bruce Manion, PhD

Haytham Mansour, DPM

Walter I. Migdal, MD

Bernard G. Miller, MD

Tom & Katy Moore

George R. Nicholis, MD

Patrick J. O’Leary, MD

Dr. Lawrence C. Perlmuter

Kenneth L. Pinsker, MD

Dr. Douglas R. Reifler

Robert B. Richling, MD

Keith A. Robertson, MD

George Rosenthal, MD

Thomas J. Ruane, MD

Richard F. Ruben, MD

William S. Rubenstein, MD

Ms. Susan Rubin

Martin N. Sachman, MD

Alice Sachs, PhD

Alfred B. Salganick, MD

Paul H. Schwarzentraub, DPM

Robert E. Share, MD

Andrew L. Siegel, MD

Jerald Siegel, MD

Louis Silverstein, MD

Joel I. Sorosky, MD

James S. Spitz, MD & Joyce Chams, MD

William Steier, MD

Gerald Strum, MD*

Asher A. Tulsky, MD

Dr. Janice H. Urban-McCrea

Dr. & Mrs. James A. Van Heest

Tina B. Verder, MD & Clifford Feldman, MD

Harry L. Wachen, MD

Leonard R. Wagner, DPM

Paige E. Waterman, MD & Mr. John Waterman

Nathan S. Weiss, MD

David Winkelstein, MD

David H. Woldenberg, MD

Jeffrey Yale, DPM

Adrian Yi, MD

Melvin Young, MD

Jason Zellner, MD

James & Loraine Zimmerman

CENTURY CLUB ($100 to $499)

Anonymous

Malik Y. Abraham, DPM

Lawrence G. Adelsohn, MD

Ms. Donna Agnew

Marvin R. Agran, MD

Terence Albright, DPM

Ms. Rochelle Allen

Gerard & Ruth Ames

Seth M. Anderson, DPM

Sanford M. Archer, MD & Sandra Bouzaglou-Archer, MD

Henry M. Asin, DPM

Assured Software Ltd.

Francis M. Baker, DPM

Mrs. Mary H. Balke

Ms. Martha Kelly Bates & Mr. Ben Bates

Lawrence E. Batlan, MD

Henry G. Beecher, MD

Donald J. Behr, MD

Herbert Bengelsdorf, MD*

Randall P. Bergen, DPM

David M. Berger, MD

Marvin Berger, MD

Harry A. Bernstein, MD

Naomi M. Bey, MD

Brooke A. Bisbee, DPM

Edward Blackman & Frances LaPolt

Howard S. Blank, MD

William E. Bloch, MD

Ronald J. Bonaguro, MD

Jeffrey A. Bosworth, MD

Melvin V. Boule, MD

Michael T. Bowersox, MD

Larry S. Brandis, MD

Sydney Brandwein, MD

Jerry D. Brant, DPM

Gary Brecher, MD

Jeffrey S. Brindle, MD

Diane M. Buchbarker, MD

Joel A. Cahan, MD

Mr. Howard Campbell

Mr. Murray Campbell

Paul B. Canale, MD

Jaime H. Cercone, MD

Pei Lin Chang, MD

Mr. Andrew Charter

Audrey Cheung-O’Carroll, MD

Joseph Chiaramonte, MD

Dr. Joseph P. Cleary

CMS Alumni Association

Ralph W. Cobrinik, MD

Daniel S. Cohen, MD & Claudia Capurro, MD

Lawrence Cohen, MD

Terry L. Cohen, MD

Ms. Sandra Colantonio

Ms. Lee Concha

Thomas E. Conte, MD

Paul J. Coogan, MD

James D. Corbiere, DPM

Corning

Dr. Carl C. Correll & Mr. Alan Darling

Dr. Jessica M. Cottreau

Clifford S. Crawford, MD

Matthew T. Crooks, MD

Mr. Kevin Crosby

Maureen L. Crotty, DPM

Brittany Crowhurst, DPM

Jeffrey A. Crowhurst, DPM

Priscilla K. Dale, MD

Alfred J. Damus, MD

Darco International

Philip D. Dean, MD

Dominic DeCristofaro, MD

Michael W. DeGere, DPM

Dr. Joseph X. DiMario & Mrs. Karen B. DiMario

Kristin M. Disori, MD

Morton J. Doblin, MD

Michael E. Dobmeier, MD

Mark D. Dollard, DPM

Nathan Dorman, MD

Drytech International

Richard A. Dube, MD

William W. Dzwierzynski, MD

Richard E. Ehle, DPM

Michael J. Eisner, MD

Allen & Caryl Eliot

EMD Millipore

Douglas M. England, MD

Kenneth B. Epstein, MD

Timothy B. Erickson, MD

Ms. Araceli Esquivel

Frederic M. Ettner, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Steven D. Eyer

Leonard Ezrow, MD

Martin J. Faasse, DPM

Heather A. Fagan, MD

FAPA Fraternal Inc.

Michael B. Farber, MD

Joel A. Feder, DPM

Steve R. Feller, DPM

Timothy J. Felton, DPM

Samuel L. Fenichel, MD

Arthur C. Fenn, MD

Fisher Scientific

Meghan M. Flannery, MD

Ms. Nora Flint

Charles Forster, DPM

Ms. Renee I. Francisco

Mr. Fred Franke

Eugene B. Freid, MD

Abe W. Friedman, MD

Robert S. Friedman, MD

William Frost, PhD & Lise Eliot, PhD

Howard M. Gale, DPM

Dr. Eric P. Gall

Sarah Garber, PhD

Burton Garfinkel, MD*

Dominick Garibaldi, DPM

Ronald Gelles, MD

George B. Geppner, DPM

Herbert J. Gershen, MD

Patricia L. Gilbert, MD

A. K. Gilchrist, DPM

Lawrence E. Ginsberg, MD

Roberta P. Glick, MD

Julie S. Glickstein, MD

Jordan Goetz, MD

Leslie P. Goldberg, MD

Richard I. Goldberg, MD

Stephen J. Goldberg, MD

Mitchell L. Goldflies, MD

Scott E. Goldsmith, MD & Susan W. Goldsmith, MD

Chester W. Gottlieb, MD & Joyce R. Gottlieb

Ms. Crystal E. Grady

Jane E. Graebner, DPM

Samuel M. Gray, MD

Robert H. Green, MD

Sheldon B. Greenberg, MD

Stewart Y. Greenberg, MD

William L. Greenberg, MD

Joel B. Greenman, MD

Brad Greenspan, MD

Sheldon Gross, MD

James I. Grossman, MD

Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Gustafson

Jerry L. Haag, MD

Brian C. Handley, MD

Dr. Scott Hanes

David Harrison, PhD

Marc H. Harwitt, MD

Dr. Roberta J. Henderson

Stanley B. Hersh, MD

Janet C. Hershman, MD

Andrew J. Highum, DPM

David J. Hirsch, MD

Irwin L. Hirsch, MD

Ms. Helen M. Hirschfeld

Miki Hori, DPM

George Housakos, MD*

Mrs. Stella Housakos

Steven M. Howard, MD

Lawrence A. Huels, DPM

Left: John Ruff, DPM ’84, and Jake Ruff, DPM ’14. Right: MaryLou Bareither, PhD, and Daniel Bareither, PhD, SCPM professor and senior associate dean of educational affairs, with John Grady, DPM ’80.

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Michael D. Huels, DPM

Susan Sung O. Hyun, MD

Bartolomeo D. Iaia, MD

IBM

Robert O. Isaacs, MD

Susan M. Israel, MD

Leslie M. Jacobson, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Mel S. Jacoby

Jeffrey A. Jahre, MD

Bruce H. Janson, MD

Beth D. Jarrett, DPM

Ms. Rosalind Franklin Jekowsky

Daniel Jeran, DPM

Jewish Communal Fund

Paul A. Johns, DPM

Milan Jordan, MD

Mr. Medardo Jurado

Bruce I. Kaczander, DPM

Joseph L. Kahn, MD

Shari L. Kaminsky, DPM

Dr. Lawrence & Barbara Kantor

Mark & Cheryl Kaplan

Linda F. Karlsruher, MD

Lawrence I. Karsh, MD & Irit Gordon-Karsh, MD

Gerald J. Karten, MD

Alan S. Katz, MD

Ms. Pinna R. Katz

Gary L. Kaye, MD

Kevin J. Kessler, MD

Charles Khalil, DPM

Joseph E. Kiefer, DPM

Dr. Yoon B. Kim

Phillip Kissel, MD

Walter Kitt, MD

Joel S. Klein, MD

Kenneth L. Klein, MD

David & Beverly Klintworth

Dr. Patrick T. Knott

Jerry L. Kobrin, MD

R. Aida Kosak, DPM

Gloria J. Krason, DPM

Philip B. Krause, MD

Robert F. Kukla, DPM

Harvey S. Kulber, MD

Mr. Jon Kurtin

Fredric R. Kutner, MD

Mortimer J. Lacher, MD

Dr. Henry W. Lahmeyer

Lawrence T. Lai, MD

Jonathan E. Laine, MD

Gary E. Lane, MD

Steven M. Lapidus, MD

Jeffrey M. LaPorte, MD

Norman A. Lasky, MD

Claudia & Barry Latner

Agnes D. Lattimer, MD

David S. Lavitt, MD & Susan G. Strauss, MD

Ms. Diane Lawson

Ms. Gloria Leder

Donald D. Lee, MD

Zvi Lefkovitz, MD

Ms. Karol Lefkowitz

Dr. & Mrs. Charles J. Leidner

Jerrold B. Leikin, MD

Mrs. Joyce E. Lenz

Mr. George Leonard

Robert S. Lesser, MD

Allan B. Levin, MD

Alan M. Levine, MD

Barton S. Levine, MD

Natalie & Jerry Levy

Rosaura Licea, MD

Sheldon A. Lichtblau, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Lichter

David B. Lieb, MD

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Light

Stephen A. Lipschultz, MD

Ms. Erin K. Loaney

Jonat Lok, DPM

Jeffery D. Long, MD

Michele A. Lorand, MD

Georgia D. Lubben, MD

Harry R. Lubell, MD

Mark A. Ludwig, MD

Dr. Abbie L. Lyden

Peter I. Margolis, MD

Eric A. Marks, MD

Robert L. Marks, MD

Robert J. Marselle, MD

Linda Mast, PhD

James W. Mazzuca, DPM

Frederick S. Mechanik, DPM

Jeffrey A. Mechanik, DPM

Joseph E. Mechanik, DPM

Rhonda M. Meier, MD

Alan R. Mensch, MD

Dr. Christopher Meredith

Mettler Toledo

Henry R. Meyer, MD

Mrs. Lisa M. Michener

Mark & Karen Migdal

Ms. Karrie Mikle

Angelo A. Milano, MD

Philip L. Miller, MD

Richard J. Miller, DPM

Steven W. Miller, DPM

William J. Miller, DPM

Spencer C. Misner, DPM

Giles B. Mizock, MD

Lee R. Morisy, MD

Mr. Clinton Morse

Ms. Patricia Mull

Marcia E. Murakami, MD

Daniel A. Muse, MD

Seymour B. Musiker, MD

Ajit V. Nair, MD

Lee M. Neiman, MD

Irwin J. Nelson, MD

Philip S. Newman, DPM

Tuan M. Nguyen, MD

Peter Nierman & Amy Goldberg

Arshia M. Noori, MD

Angela Nuzzarello, MD

Jacqueline K. Okada, MD

Jeffrey P. Olson, MD

Phillip J. Olsson, MD

Frederick H. Opper, MD

Daniel A. Osman, MD

Mr. & Mrs. Dean Osterloh

Stephen S. Ou, MD

David J. Oxman, MD

Rose A. Pace, MD

Frank S. Pancotto, MD

Mrs. Viraj A. Parikh

Sandro B. Parisi, MD

Ms. Carol Parsons

Ms. Aurie A. Pennick

Stephen Perlmutter, DPM

Mr. Michael Perry

Laura J. Pickard, DPM

Walter Pinsker, MD

Susan R. Pitman, MD

Paul F. Pizzella, MD

Marvin Platt, MD

David & Amy Pollack

Todd A. Pollock, MD

Andrew S. Pomerantz, MD

Keith L. Ponitz, MD & Sherilyn A. Sage-Ponitz, MD

Mr. & Mrs. John Popoli

Mr. Edward Porter

Sanford C. Proner, DPM

Gordon L. Pullen, PhD

Christine Z. Pundy, MD

Ramon A. Quesada, MD

Michael R. Quinn, DPM

Stephen M. Raffle, MD

Robert S. Rahimi, MD

Dr. Mohammed A. Rahman

Salvador M. Ramirez, MD

Steven J. Ravich, MD

Robert P. Reichstein, MD

Helena A. Reid, DPM

Mr. & Mrs. Ron Reiff

Forrest P. Resnikoff, MD

Morris Resnikoff, MD

Victor B. Richenstein, MD

Michael H. Ries, MD

Richard B. Ritterman, MD

Michael Robinowitz, MD

Douglas G. Rogers, MD

Howard N. Rose, MD

Jeffrey L. Rosenberg, MD

Mrs. Jolee Rosenkranz & J. Amiel Rosenkranz, PhD

Enrica Rossi, MD

Allen S. Rothman, MD

Jerome A. Roy, MD

Howard A. Rubenstein, MD

Howard B. Rubin, MD

Stuart J. Ruch, DPM

Marvin C. Rulin, MD

Mr. Mark Russell

Dr. Kevin Rynn

Todd M. Sachs, MD

Ronald A. Sage, DPM

Sandra Salloway, ND, RN, MS

Steven F. Sands, MD

Anjum Sayyad, MD

Nelson S. Schafer, MD

David R. Schatz, MD

Harold Z. Scheinman, MD

Myles S. Schiller, MD

David C. Schleichert, DPM

William A. Schlueter, MD

Stephen C. Schmid, DPM & Naomi D. Schmid, DPM

Larry Schneck, MD

Steven P. Schneider, MD

Marc J. Schneiderman, MD

Ms. Ann Schnog

Kenneth R. Schoenig, MD

Steven Schrenzel, MD

Fred J. Schultz, MD

Schwab Charitable Fund

Ira K. Schwartz, MD

Jules L. Schwartz, MD

Lawrence I. Schwartz, MD & Joan Feltman, MD

Andrew E. Segal, MD

Harvey Seigerman, MD

Paul J. Selander, DPM

Ellis J. Seligman, MD

Ms. Kristy L. Shanahan

Sean K. Shannahan, MD

Jeffrey D. Shapiro, MD

Stephen R. Shapiro, MD

Eugene P. Shatkin, MD

Julia E. Shauger, DPM

Dr. Semyon Shulman

Neila Shumaker, MD

Suzanne Siegel, MD

Frederick S. Sierles, MD

William H. Sigalove, MD

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Paul A. Silka, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Charles Sills

Lester Silver, MD

Stanley R. Simon, MD

Lewis J. Singer, MD

Stephen M. Skrip, MD

Dr. Michael Slater

Dennis Slochower, MD

Dr. Mary Ellen Smajo, PhD

Dr. & Mrs. Gregg H. Small

Ann & Jacob Snyder

Lawrence F. Sorkin, MD

Israel & Regina Spector

Ms. Kim Spierto

Jerald M. Spivak, MD

Robert I. Steinberg, DPM

Constance A. Stoehr, MD

Lawrence M. Stokar, MD

Ms. Pamela Stolarski

Daniel J. Stone, MD

Michael S. Stotsky, MD

Arthur Strick, MD

Lawrence Strick, MD

David A. Striker, MD

Dr. Margaret A. Stull & Mr. Gregory J. Stull

Dr. Jeffrey G. Suico & Mrs. Carol A. Suico

Allan N. Sutker, MD

Arthur J. Taylor, MD

Ms. Jodi Taylor

Michael B. Thompson, DPM

Ryan S. Thompson, MD

Mrs. Daniele Tonin

Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Topper

Ms. Susan Toth

Dennis L. Turner, DPM

Ms. Kathleen Van Ella & Mr. John Martin

Peter T. Vaselopulos & Athanasia Vaselopulos

N. A. Vasenden, DPM

Dr. Barbara Vertel

Walter Vogel, MD

Jennie Walker, MD

Marjorie & Jewel Walker Family

Ms. Janice Wallace

Susan Walsh, DPM

Amy Wandel-Hartman, MD

John Warren, DPM

Walter G. Warren, DPM

Ms. Susan Weiner

Elliot S. Weisenberg, MD

Charles L. Weisenthal, MD

Bruce Weiss, MD & Ms. Melinda Steffey

Charles J. Weiss, MD

Harold Weiss, MD

Wells Fargo Foundation

Brad R. Wenstrup, DPM

Mrs. Marcia Goren Weser

Dr. Anthony West

Billy Westbrook, DPM

Mr. Steven White

Grant E. Wiig, DPM

Howard Wilk, MD

Lori Wilson, DPM

Richard Wilson, DPM

Samuel G. Wiltchik, MD

Ms. Janeen Winnike

Christopher Winters, DPM

Marina Wolf, PhD

Bernard Wolfberg, MD

Norbert S. Wolloch, MD

Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Wong

Justin L. Wong, MD

Patrick Wong, MD

Michael A. Wood, DPM

John M. Wray, DPM

Karen L. Wrubel, DPM & Derick A. Ball, DPM

From left: Nancy Parsley, DPM ‘93, MHPE, dean of the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine and Marc Feder, DPM ’77; Carey Strom, MD ’80, and Spencer Koerner, MD ’62; Laura Pickard, DPM ‘90, Randal B. Meyer, DPM, and Jondelle Jenkins, DPM ‘83.

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David Wysong, DPM

Abraham Yale, DPM

Daniel Zacharias, MD

Bruce Zagelbaum, MD

Frank Zappa, DPM

Phyllis Zee, MD

Burton Zeiger, MD

Saul L. Zimmerman, MD

Alexander N. Zinn, MD

Richard W. Zollinger, MD

Charis R. Zuchowski, MS, PA-C

Ira Zucker, MD

Jerome Zwanger, MD

Stephan Zweig, MD

CONTRIBUTOR’S CLUB (Gifts up to $99)

Anonymous

Aetna Foundation

Mr. Matthew Anagnostopoulos

Mrs. Morgan M. Anderson

Dr. Lauren Angelo

Mr. & Mrs. Don Aron

Ms. Melissa T. Ballak

Mindy L. Benton, DPM

Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Berenson

Randy S. Berger-Sweren, MD

Robert N. Block, MD

Steven A. Bluth, MD

David A. Boyce, DPM

Dean C. Brick, MD

Mr. Michael Brodarick

Jacob T. Chachkes, MD

Ms. Kellie Church

Mr. Keith Clark

Stanley G. Cohen, MD

Harry J. Cozen, MD

Mr. & Mrs. Morris Cutler

Linda & Ed Dahl

Ms. Candace Dearmond

Mr. & Mrs. Serge Derrick

Howard I. Diamond, DPM

Harold C. Dorin, MD

Mr. & Mrs. Jim Doughty

Dr. Frederick Drazner

Ms. Becky Edgren

Ms. Jackie Evans-Dupon

Michelle A. Field, MD

William J. Finn, DPM

Harold A. Fogel, MD

Daniel P. Fosmire, MD

Ms. Carol L. Freeman

Ms. Jo E. Friedman

Donna L. Frownfelter, PT, DPT, MA

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Furman

Ms. Amy Gamelli

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Gardner

Mr. Paul E. Gaura

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Gilbert

David G. Goodbee, MD

Mrs. Marcus Goren*

Tammy M. Gracen, DPM

Jason I. Green, MD

Glenn N. Grobe, MD

Ms. Rachel E. Harrington

Mrs. Cynthia R. Higby

Ms. Rae Hirchy

Dr. Neil Horsley

Dr. Christopher J. Japour

Jondelle B. Jenkins, DPM

Robert M. Joseph, DPM & Ms. Courtney Joseph

Ms. Laura Kass

Sabrina R. Kendrick, MD

Ms. Rafeda Khan

Mr. Sanseop Kim

Daniel W. Kirk, DPM

Anna C. Kurban, DPM

Diana E. Lake, MD

Anthony F. LaPorta, MD

Ms. Alice Leff

Allan N. Levine, MD

Mr. & Mrs. Mitchel Levy

Ms. Brandy L. Lockhart

Brett W. Lorber, MD

Jon & Deirdre Makielski

Jerome A. Mann, DPM

Robert H. Marcus, MD

Samuel M. Maryles, MD

Ms. Susie Merriman

Graham T. Mitchell, MD

Michael Mittelmann, MD

Habib Monas (Monahemi), MD

Jon R. Morgan, DPM

Dr. Jeanette L. Morrison

Ms. Traci Motes

Dr. Kenneth E. Neet

Mr. Richard Nelson

Ms. Nancy Nguyen

Ms. Glenna Olumstad

Donald L. Ong, MD

Chin H. Park, MD

Pratibha B. Patel, DPM

Velimir R. Petkov, DPM

Theodore Polizos, DPM

William B. Quinn, DPM

Bernard Z. Reizner, MD

Steven J. Repitor, DPM

Mr. Casimir A. Rincon

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Robbins

Ms. Patti M. Roth

Mark A. Ryerson, DPM

Kevin J. Salvino, DPM

Amol Saxena, DPM

Robert E. Scherzer, MD

Dr. Kristin Schneider

Ellen R. Schwartz, MD

Mr. & Mrs. Leslie J. Schwartzberg

Ms. Gloria Schwarzkopf

Mr. Stephen Shanfield

Ms. Karen Shockley

Dr. Joel S. Shoolin

Alexander M. Shpilman, MD

Alan K. Sichelman, MD & Janet Sichelman

Mr. Barry E. Silverman

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Simons

Stanley Soren, MD

Ms. Judith Southcombe

Ralph S. Sprinkle, DPM

Mr. James A. Sturino

Ms. Michelle Sullivan

Lizbeth A. Taylor, MD

Dyane E. Tower, DPM

Holmes R. Troutman, MD

Ms. Pauline Waggett

Stephen Wagner, MD

Ms. Vera Woldenberg

Mr. Richard Wolff

David Yeager, DPM

Mr. & Mrs. Dan Zazove

Melvin Zonis, MD

COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS (By Class Year)

Class of 1976

Ms. Jackie Evans-Dupon

Class of 1977

Ms. Deirdre Makielski

Class of 1980

Ms. Patti M. Roth

Class of 1984

Ms. Mary Metry

Class of 1988

Ms. Kristy L. Shanahan

Class of 1996

Dr. Patrick T. Knott

Class of 1997

Mrs. Viraj A. Parikh

Class of 2002

Charis R. Zuchowski, MS, PA-C

Class of 2003

Donna L. Frownfelter, PT, DPT, MA

Class of 2004

Ms. Carol L. Freeman

Class of 2007

Ms. Crystal E. Grady

Class of 2009

Ms. Erin K. Loaney

CHICAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL (By Class Year)

Class of 1938

George Osborne, MD*

Class of 1941

Herbert Fisher, MD*

Class of 1943

Bartolomeo D. Iaia, MD

Class of 1944

George Housakos, MD*

Class of 1946

Lester Klein, MD*

Bernard Z. Reizner, MD

Class of 1947

Lawrence E. Batlan, MD

Walter I. Migdal, MD

Herbert Tetenbaum, MD*

Jerome Zwanger, MD

Class of 1948

Daniel A. Osman, MD

Howard Wilk, MD

Class of 1951

Morton J. Doblin, MD

Joseph L. Kahn, MD

Frederick Perl, MD*

Melvin Pick, MD*

Class of 1952

Stuart L. Cohn, MD

Harold C. Dorin, MD

Harold Fein, MD*

Marion Finkel, MD*

Elton Kessel, MD

Walter Kitt, MD

Maurice H. Laszlo, MD

Stephen Wagner, MD

Alexander N. Zinn, MD

Class of 1953

Ernest Arons, MD

Donald J. Behr, MD

Ralph W. Cobrinik, MD

Jerome A. Gold, MD

Sheldon A. Lichtblau, MD

Arthur L. Pinchuck, MD

Marvin C. Rulin, MD

Melvin M. Schiff, MD

Larry Schneck, MD

Eugene P. Shatkin, MD

Lawrence Strick, MD

Gerald H. Weiner, MD

Class of 1954

Agnes D. Lattimer, MD

Richard F. Ruben, MD

Saul L. Zimmerman, MD

Class of 1955

Herbert Bengelsdorf, MD*

Burton T. Blackman, MD

Maurice Fields, MD

Jason I. Green, MD

Sheldon Gross, MD

Phil Gutentag, MD

Mortimer J. Lacher, MD

Robert W. Lilienstein, MD

Andrew E. Segal, MD

David B. Soll, MD

Charles L. Weisenthal, MD

Burton Zeiger, MD

Class of 1956

Alan Bloom, MD

Burton Garfinkel, MD*

Matthew N. Harris, MD

Jerome S. Levitan, MD

George B. Perlstein, MD

Morris Resnikoff, MD

Howard N. Rose, MD

William Steier, MD

Nathan S. Weiss, MD

Melvin Zonis, MD

Class of 1957

Marvin R. Agran, MD

Theodore M. Bayless, MD

Franklin T. Desposito, MD

Eric M. Dreyfuss, MD

Arthur M. Feldstein, MD

Irwin L. Hirsch, MD

Michael Mittelmann, MD

Jerald Siegel, MD

Jerald M. Spivak, MD

Harry L. Wachen, MD

From left: Michael T. Bowersox, MD ‘83, and family; Franklin Pratt, MD ‘81; Marlene Reid, DPM ’89, and Michael Hriljac, DPM ’79.

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Class of 1958

Jacob T. Chachkes, MD

Joel Curtis, MD

Nathan Dorman, MD

Ronald R. Eisner, MD

Jay Epstein, MD

Stanley Epstein, MD

Leonard Ezrow, MD

Marcel I. Horowitz, MD

Robert O. Isaacs, MD

Henry R. Meyer, MD

Giles B. Mizock, MD

Walter Pinsker, MD

Harvey Seigerman, MD

Stanley R. Simon, MD

David H. Woldenberg, MD

Class of 1959

Martin S. Dubner, MD

Toby Frankel, MD

Sanford H. Gaynor, MD

Chester W. Gottlieb, MD

Miles Kahan, MD

Joel A. Kaplan, MD

Donald Y. Lesser, MD

William H. Sigalove, MD

Stanley H. Title, MD

Harold Weiss, MD

Class of 1960

Gary Brecher, MD

Stuart M. Meyer, MD

Irwin J. Nelson, MD

Salvador M. Ramirez, MD

Harold Z. Scheinman, MD

Lester Silver, MD

Gerald Strum, MD*

Class of 1961

Stuart H. Bender, MD

Marvin Berger, MD

Richard I. Goldberg, MD

Stanley M. Kleinman, MD

Fredric R. Kutner, MD

Seymour B. Musiker, MD

Nelson S. Schafer, MD

Ellis J. Seligman, MD

Charles Sills, MD

Stanley Soren, MD

Arthur Strick, MD

Class of 1962

Peter J. Axel, MD

Richard T. Bilinsky, MD

Stanley G. Cohen, MD

Dominic DeCristofaro, MD

James I. Grossman, MD

Samuel C. Klagsbrun, MD

Spencer Koerner, MD

Bernard G. Miller, MD

Lawrence M. Pass, MD

Jerome A. Roy, MD

L. Michael Snyder, MD

Israel Spector, MD

Samuel G. Wiltchik, MD

Class of 1963

David M. Berger, MD

Lawrence Cohen, MD

Ronald Gelles, MD

Herbert J. Gershen, MD

George Rosenthal, MD

S. Burton Roth, MD

Alfred B. Salganick, MD

Jules L. Schwartz, MD

Melvin Young, MD

Class of 1964

Kenneth B. Epstein, MD

Arthur C. Fenn, MD

David Goldman, MD

Paul D. Granoff, MD

Norman A. Lasky, MD

Arthur S. Levine, MD

Jay I. Lippman, MD

Harry R. Lubell, MD

Lee M. Neiman, MD

Marvin Platt, MD

Mervyn A. Sahud, MD

Class of 1965

Stuart B. Cohen, MD

Joel B. Greenman, MD

Gerald J. Karten, MD

Harvey S. Kulber, MD

Arthur J. Lasin, MD

Allan B. Levin, MD

Alan M. Rogin, MD

William S. Rubenstein, MD

David Winkelstein, MD

Class of 1966

Samuel L. Fenichel, MD

Robert A. Fuhrman, MD

Stephen M. Raffle, MD

Class of 1967

Lawrence G. Adelsohn, MD

Arnold L. Gold, MD

Stephen J. Goldberg, MD

Samuel M. Gray, MD

William L. Greenberg, MD

Steven M. Lapidus, MD

Robert L. Marks, MD

Frederick S. Sierles, MD

Class of 1968

Irwin L. Browarsky, MD

Mel S. Jacoby, MD

Allan N. Levine, MD

Sanford M. Levy, MD

Kenneth L. Pinsker, MD

Aaron Scholnik, MD

Class of 1969

Joseph F. DeBlasi, MD

Michael A. Gureasko, MD

Stanley B. Hersh, MD

Alan S. Katz, MD

Elliot Rubinstein, MD

Stephen R. Shapiro, MD

Alan K. Sichelman, MD

Bernard Wolfberg, MD

Jason Zellner, MD

Class of 1970

Harry J. Cozen, MD

David H. Forsted, MD

Leslie P. Goldberg, MD

Jeffrey A. Jahre, MD

Charles J. Leidner, MD

Howard B. Rubin, MD

Charles J. Weiss, MD

Class of 1971

Steven A. Bluth, MD

Clifford S. Crawford, MD

Robert T. Egel, MD

Joan Feltman, MD

Marc H. Harwitt, MD

Alexander Jablonowski, MD

Sadayo A. Kanaya, MD

Anthony F. La Porta, MD

Barton S. Levine, MD

Wood V. Lewis, MD

Andrew S. Pomerantz, MD

Allen S. Rothman, MD

Lawrence I. Schwartz, MD

Class of 1972

David Boyer, MD

Dean C. Brick, MD

Alfred J. Damus, MD

Martin Fine, MD

Jerry L. Haag, MD

Morton Jacobs, MD

Diana E. Lake, MD

George R. Nicholis, MD

Henry S. Pohl, MD

Christine Z. Pundy, MD

Ronald G. Ritz, MD

Stephen J. Sontag, MD

Andrejs V. Strauss, MD

Class of 1973

Melvin V. Boule, MD

Terry L. Cohen, MD

Michael J. Eisner, MD

Douglas M. England, MD

Henry Gelender, MD

Steven D. Horwitz, MD

Leslie M. Jacobson, MD

Craig C. Joseph, MD

Eugene L. Kellogg, MD

Jerry L. Kobrin, MD

David B. Lieb, MD

Alan R. Mensch, MD

Philip L. Miller, MD

Dennis A. Pessis, MD

Michael Robinowitz, MD

David R. Schatz, MD

Myles S. Schiller, MD

Lewis J. Singer, MD

Mary C. Taylor, MD

James A. Van Heest, MD

Class of 1974

Robert N. Block, MD

Larry S. Brandis, MD

Michael E. Dobmeier, MD

Abe W. Friedman, MD

James Gallai, MD

Stuart Glasser, MD

Sheldon B. Greenberg, MD

Gary L. Kaye, MD

Robert H. Marcus, MD

David J. Oxman, MD

Alfred N. Rossi, MD

Lawrence F. Sorkin, MD

Stephan Zweig, MD

Class of 1975

Gerard Ames, MD

Jaime H. Cercone, MD

Jorge Del Castillo, MD

Frederic M. Ettner, MD

David M. Frankle, MD

Mitchell L. Goldflies, MD

Robert H. Green, MD

Philip G. Lambruschi, MD

Stephen M. Lichter, MD

Phillip J. Olsson, MD

Ronald E. Palmer, MD

Frank S. Pancotto, MD

Michael H. Ries, MD

Charles C. Roberts, MD

Martin N. Sachman, MD

Michael S. Stotsky, MD

Allan N. Sutker, MD

John S. Weitzner, MD

Class of 1976

Phillip D. Alward, MD

Richard A. Dube, MD

David C. Epstein, MD, MBA

Curtis R. Handler, MD

Brian C. Handley, MD

Steven M. Howard, MD

Phillip S. Kallen, MD

Mark A. Ludwig, MD

Joel I. Sorosky, MD

Eric P. Wohlrab, MD

Jeffrey Yessenow, MD

Class of 1977

Steven D. Eyer, MD

Brad Greenspan, MD

David J. Hirsch, MD

Stephen A. Lipschultz, MD

Robert P. Reichstein, MD

Robert E. Scherzer, MD

Ira K. Schwartz, MD

Class of 1978

A. Michael Drachler, MD

Roberta P. Glick, MD

Janet C. Hershman, MD

Lawrence I. Karsh, MD

John M. Kosanovich, MD

Peter J. Lowe, MD

Peter I. Margolis, MD

Rose A. Pace, MD

Stephen E. Piwinski, MD

Douglas G. Rogers, MD

Steven Schrenzel, MD

Dennis Slochower, MD

Daniel Zacharias, MD

Richard W. Zollinger, MD

Class of 1979

Russell E. Ching, MD

Jeffrey L. Rosenberg, MD

Michael Scoppetuolo, MD

Class of 1980

William Barrows, MD*

Randy S. Berger-Sweren, MD

Edward J. Bruno, MD

Stewart Y. Greenberg, MD

Jerrold B. Leikin, MD

Lee R. Morisy, MD

Marcia E. Murakami, MD

William A. Schlueter, MD

Fred J. Schultz, MD

Neila Shumaker, MD

Louis Silverstein, MD

Carey B. Strom, MD

Margaret A. Stull, MD

Lizbeth A. Taylor, MD

Walter Vogel, MD

David Warner, MD

Class of 1981

Sheilah A. Bernard, MD

Jeffrey D. Bernstein, MD

Edward Blackman, MD

Jeffrey S. Brindle, MD

Michael C. Buchbinder, MD

Kelly Downey, MD

Craig J. Harwin, MD

Linda F. Karlsruher, MD

Georgia D. Lubben, MD

John G. Mayer, MD

Mark Migdal, MD

Larry S. Miller, MD

Franklin D. Pratt, MD

Steven J. Ravich, MD

Forrest P. Resnikoff, MD

Richard B. Ritterman, MD

Howard A. Rubenstein, MD

From left: Samuel Klagsbrun, MD ’62; Jack Hutter, DPM ’81, and family; Maryam and Robert Rogers, MD ’82.

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Steven F. Sands, MD

Jeffery W. Sherman, MD

Andrew L. Siegel, MD

Lawrence M. Stokar, MD

Norbert S. Wolloch, MD

Ira Zucker, MD

Class of 1982

Norbert M. Becker, MD

Ronald J. Bonaguro, MD

Stephen J. Bundra, MD

Joel A. Cahan, MD

Michael B. Farber, MD

Lawrence E. Ginsberg, MD

Debra Strauss Harwin, MD

Lawrence Kantor, MD

Zvi Lefkovitz, MD

Robert S. Lesser, MD

Michele A. Lorand, MD

Susan A. Mandel, MD

Robert J. Rogers, MD

David L. Schiff, MD

Marc J. Schneiderman, MD

Jeffrey D. Shapiro, MD

Bruce Weiss, MD

Class of 1983

Sanford M. Archer, MD

Jonathan Blatt, MD

Sandra Bouzaglou-Archer, MD

Michael T. Bowersox, MD

Joseph Chiaramonte, MD

Priscilla K. Dale, MD

Philip D. Dean, MD

Glen T. Fortier, MD

Lawrence F. Handler, MD

Annie I. Iriye, MD

Phillip Kissel, MD

Cheryl B. Kraff-Cooper, MD

Peter J. McDonnell, MD

Tuan M. Nguyen, MD

Frederick H. Opper, MD

Steven P. Schneider, MD

Daniel J. Stone, MD

Amy Wandel-Hartman, MD

Donald L. Wayne, MD

Phyllis Zee, MD

Class of 1984

Harry A. Bernstein, MD

Thomas E. Conte, MD

William W. Dzwierzynski, MD

Eugene B. Freid, MD

Susan M. Israel, MD

Bruce H. Janson, MD

Barry Latner, MD

David S. Lavitt, MD

Victor G. Stiebel, MD

Susan G. Strauss, MD

Holmes R. Troutman, MD

Class of 1985

Paul B. Canale, MD

Glenn F. Carlson, MD

Jeffrey M. LaPorte, MD

Susan R. Pitman, MD

Michael T. Ragen, MD

Robert E. Share, MD

Ryan S. Thompson, MD

Asher A. Tulsky, MD

Class of 1986

Timothy B. Erickson, MD

Meghan M. Flannery, MD

Richard S. Gerber, MD

Julie S. Glickstein, MD

Laurie A. Kleinman, MD

Victor H. Kong, MD

Paul S. Lieber, MD

Jeffery D. Long, MD

Michael N. Metry, MD

Angelo A. Milano, MD

Angela Nuzzarello, MD

Thomas J. Ruane, MD

Todd M. Sachs, MD

Gregg H. Small, MD

Class of 1987

Stephen Bigelsen, MD

William E. Bloch, MD

Louis Di Lillo, MD

Emil Dionysian, MD

Daniel P. Fosmire, MD

Robert S. Friedman, MD

Glenn N. Grobe, MD

Mark Kaplan, MD

Kevin J. Kessler, MD

Keith A. Kirby, MD

Joel S. Klein, MD

Philip B. Krause, MD

Jonathan E. Laine, MD

Alan M. Levine, MD

Lori E. Moss, MD

Daniel A. Muse, MD

Victor B. Richenstein, MD

Class of 1988

Robert S. Alter, MD

Naomi M. Bey, MD

James J. Black, MD

Karen Seitzer-Black, MD

Edward E. Evans, MD

Clive K. Fields, MD

Patricia L. Gilbert, MD

Jordan Goetz, MD

Robert J. Marselle, MD

Peter Nierman, MD

Patrick J. O’Leary, MD

Paul A. Silka, MD

Demetrios G. Skedros, MD

Stephen M. Skrip, MD

David A. Striker, MD

Arthur J. Taylor, MD

Bruce Zagelbaum, MD

Class of 1989

Mitra B. Boodram, MD

Joyce Chams, MD

Daniel S. Cohen, MD

Kenneth L. Klein, MD

Donald D. Lee, MD

Eric A. Marks, MD

Keith L. Ponitz, MD

Sherilyn A. Sage-Ponitz, MD

Jeffrey N. Samuelson, MD

James S. Spitz, MD

Peter T. Vaselopulos, MD

Elliot S. Weisenberg, MD

Class of 1990

Paul J. Coogan, MD

Clifford Feldman, MD

Susan Sung O. Hyun, MD

William A. Ingram, MD

Milan Jordan, MD

Sabrina R. Kendrick, MD

Joel A. Pengson, MD

Paul F. Pizzella, MD

Todd A. Pollock, MD

Tina B. Verder, MD

Class of 1991

Claudia Capurro, MD

Barbara E. Ebert, MD

Gary E. Lane, MD

Habib Monas (Monahemi), MD

Sandro B. Parisi, MD

Adrian Yi, MD

Class of 1992

Jeffrey A. Bosworth, MD

Diane M. Buchbarker, MD

James B. Hough, MD

Joy A. Leong, MD

Kenneth R. Schoenig, MD

Ellen R. Schwartz, MD

Jeffrey G. Suico, MD

Class of 1993

Anita S. Kablinger, MD

Rosaura Licea, MD

Joseph M. Maurice, MD

Donald L. Ong, MD

Class of 1994

Michael P. Krusch, MD

Rhonda M. Meier, MD

Enrica Rossi, MD

Suzanne Siegel, MD

Class of 1995

David G. Goodbee, MD

Jeffrey P. Olson, MD

Class of 1996

Audrey Cheung-O’Carroll, MD

Class of 1997

Arshia M. Noori, MD

Sean K. Shannahan, MD

Class of 1998

Michelle A. Field, MD

Keith A. Robertson, MD

Class of 1999

Heather A. Fagan, MD

Samuel M. Maryles, MD

Jennie Walker, MD

Class of 2000

Susan W. Goldsmith, MD

Jacqueline K. Okada, MD

Class of 2001

Henry G. Beecher, MD

Katherine R. Birchard, MD

Scott E. Goldsmith, MD

Class of 2002

Howard S. Blank, MD

Brett W. Lorber, MD

Ramon A. Quesada, MD

Robert B. Richling, MD

Class of 2003

Ajit V. Nair, MD

Paige E. Waterman, MD

Class of 2004

Alexander M. Shpilman, MD

Class of 2005

Matthew T. Crooks, MD

Daniel F. Kiernan, MD

Lawrence T. Lai, MD

Patrick Wong, MD

Class of 2006

Robert S. Rahimi, MD

Class of 2007

Graham T. Mitchell, MD

Stephen S. Ou, MD

Anjum Sayyad, MD

Constance A. Stoehr, MD

Class of 2010

Chin H. Park, MD

Class of 2011

Pei Lin Chang, MD

Justin L. Wong, MD

Class of 2012

Kristin M. Disori, MD

Harold A. Fogel, MD

SCHOOL OF GRADUATE & POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES

(By Class Year)

Class of 1974

Laurence R. Meyerson, PhD

Class of 1982

Gordon L. Pullen, PhD

Class of 1991

Dr. Joon W. Kim

DR. WILLIAM M. SCHOLL COLLEGE OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE

(By Class Year)

Class of 1942

Charles Forster, DPM

Class of 1950

George B. Geppner, DPM

John R. Graham, DPM

Stuart J. Ruch, DPM

Class of 1951

Morton Wittenberg, DPM

Class of 1953

John Warren, DPM

Class of 1954

Paul A. Johns, DPM

Class of 1955

Francis M. Baker, DPM

Class of 1958

A. K. Gilchrist, DPM

Class of 1959

Reno G. Caneva, DPM

Class of 1962

Henry M. Asin, DPM

Jerry D. Brant, DPM

N. A. Vasenden, DPM

Class of 1963

Paul J. Selander, DPM

Class of 1966

Stephen Perlmutter, DPM

Michael B. Thompson, DPM

Jeffrey Yale, DPM

Frank Zappa, DPM

Class of 1967

Joel A. Feder, DPM

Jerome A. Mann, DPM

Jeffrey A. Mechanik, DPM

William J. Miller, DPM

Paul H. Schwarzentraub, DPM

Class of 1970

Howard I. Diamond, DPM

Class of 1973

Randall P. Bergen, DPM

John M. Wray, DPM

Class of 1976

Leonard R. Wagner, DPM

Billy Westbrook, DPM

Grant E. Wiig, DPM

Class of 1977

Marc S. Feder, DPM

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Spencer C. Misner, DPM

Ronald A. Sage, DPM

Class of 1978

Richard E. Ehle, DPM

Kent L. Magrini, DPM

Robert I. Steinberg, DPM

Dennis L. Turner, DPM

Class of 1979

William E. Chagares, DPM

Martin J. Faasse, DPM

Michael J. Hriljac, DPM

Class of 1980

Jerry P. Bonet, DPM

Tung W. Cheng, DPM

Maureen L. Crotty, DPM

Jeffrey A. Crowhurst, DPM

John F. Grady, DPM

Richard Wilson, DPM

Abraham Yale, DPM

Class of 1981

David A. Charnota, DPM

Mark D. Dollard, DPM

David R. Doyle, DPM

Jane E. Graebner, DPM

Bruce I. Kaczander, DPM

David Kibrit, DPM

Richard J. Miller, DPM

Sanford C. Proner, DPM

William B. Quinn, DPM

Class of 1982

Daniel Evans, DPM

Steve R. Feller, DPM

Matthew G. Garoufalis, DPM

Philip Gianfortune, DPM

Thomas A. Graziano, DPM, MD

Philip W. Holloway, DPM

Mark A. Ryerson, DPM

Class of 1983

Jondelle B. Jenkins, DPM

Robert F. Kukla, DPM

Philip S. Newman, DPM

Class of 1984

Malik Y. Abraham, DPM

Derick A. Ball, DPM

Dominick Garibaldi, DPM

Kevin J. Salvino, DPM

Karen L. Wrubel, DPM

Class of 1985

William J. Finn, DPM

Lawrence A. Huels, DPM

Beth D. Jarrett, DPM

Kathleen M. Stone, DPM

Brad R. Wenstrup, DPM

David Wysong, DPM

Class of 1986

James D. Corbiere, DPM

Michael R. Quinn, DPM

Steven J. Repitor, DPM

Class of 1987

Joseph E. Kiefer, DPM

Gloria J. Krason, DPM

James W. Mazzuca, DPM

David C. Schleichert, DPM

Class of 1988

Daniel Jeran, DPM

Amol Saxena, DPM

Ralph S. Sprinkle, DPM

Walter G. Warren, DPM

Lori Wilson, DPM

Class of 1989

Cynthia R. Cernak, DPM

Tammy M. Gracen, DPM

Shari L. Kaminsky, DPM

Theodore Polizos, DPM

Class of 1990

Michael D. Huels, DPM

Laura J. Pickard, DPM

Class of 1991

Mindy L. Benton, DPM

Ann Zmuda, DPM

Class of 1992

Howard M. Gale, DPM

Charles Khalil, DPM

John M. Miller, DPM

Class of 1993

Kathleen T. Neuhoff, DPM

Nancy L. Parsley, DPM, MHPE

Julia E. Shauger, DPM

Class of 1994

David A. Boyce, DPM

Michael A. Wood, DPM

Class of 1995

Joseph E. Mechanik, DPM

Helena A. Reid, DPM

Class of 1996

Timothy J. Felton, DPM

Steven W. Miller, DPM

Christopher Winters, DPM

Class of 1997

Seth M. Anderson, DPM

Andrew J. Highum, DPM

Class of 1998

Miki Hori, DPM

Jonat Lok, DPM

Susan Walsh, DPM

Class of 1999

Brooke A. Bisbee, DPM

Michael W. DeGere, DPM

Frederick S. Mechanik, DPM

Class of 2000

David Yeager, DPM

ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY’S LEGACY SOCIETY

Rosalind Franklin University seeks to recognize those members of our community who have chosen to include the university in their wills or have named the university as a beneficiary of a charitable trust, annuity, estate agreement or life insurance:

Gregory T. Amarantos, DPM

Lawrence Batlan, MD

Arthur M. Bernhang, MD

Estate of Bernard Boodin

Jerry Brant, DPM

Dean C. Brick, MD

Robert M. Caldwell, DPM

Lewis P. Carrozza, DPM

Walter D. Clark, DPM ’76

George F. Dalianis, DPM, ACFAS, ABPS

Jan H. Dauer, MD

Marie Delewsky, DPM

Thomas W. Dickieson, DPM

Ronald R. Eisner, MD

Jay Epstein, MD and Dee Epstein

Marc Feder, DPM

Estate of Dr. Harold Fein

Cynthia Fenberg, DPM

Estate of Marion Finkel, MD

Estate of Margaret Gannon

Matthew Garoufalis, DPM

Jack Gilman, MD

Dr. Ovidio Giovanelli Trust

Dr. Fred & Estelle Goldstein Family Trust

Dr. John and Kathleen Grady

Estate of Alvin Gross

Dr. and Mrs. Donald W. Hugar

Charles Keenan, Jr., DPM

Stanley C. Lowenberg and Anne E. Steinmann Family Trust

Dr. George W. Morningstar Living Trust

Estate of Haim Nagirnir

George M. Osborne, MD

Dr. Morris L. Parker Trust

Estate of Dr. Frederick Perl

Melvin M. Pick, MD

Howard N. Rose, MD

Estate of Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein

Amol and Karen Saxena and Family

Eugene P. Shatkin, MD

James S. Shaw, DPM

Frederick S. Sierles, MD

James H. Simonds, Sr., DPM

Daniel and Mary Ann Soloman Estate

Morton Philip Stanson

Kathleen Stone, DPM

Michael S. Stotsky, MD

Arthur Strick, MD

Edwin E. Swigart, DPM

Michael B. Thompson, DPM

Frank C. Toepp, DPM

Kathleen Toepp Neuhoff, DPM

Dorothy Von Solbrig Income Trust

Naomi and Gerald Weiner

Nathan S. Weiss, MD

Charles H. Wunderlich, DPM

From left: Judith Stoecker, PT, PhD, RFUMS vice president for academic affairs; Ann Butkiewicz, PT ’07; Karla Cortez Duda, PT ’07; Kasha Chrusciel, PT ’07; and Roberta Henderson, PT, PhD, chair and associate professor, department of physical therapy; Matthew Garoufalis, DPM ’82, and Cathie Garoufalis; Amol Saxena, DPM ’88, and family.

Class of 2002

Arush K. Angirasa, DPM

Class of 2003

Robert M. Joseph, DPM

Class of 2004

Daniel W. Kirk, DPM

Jon R. Morgan, DPM

Class of 2005

Haytham Mansour, DPM

Class of 2006

Pratibha B. Patel, DPM

Velimir R. Petkov, DPM

Class of 2007

Brittany Crowhurst, DPM

Class of 2009

Anna C. Kurban, DPM

Dyane E. Tower, DPM

Class of 2010

Naomi D. Schmid, DPM

Stephen C. Schmid, DPM

Class of 2011

R. Aida Kosak, DPM

2013-2014 Year in Review 4746 Rosalind Franklin Universit y of Medicine and Science | www.rosalindfranklin.edu * deceased

THE DR. WILLIAM J. STICKEL SOCIETY

The Stickel Society helps strengthen the educational, research and patient care programs at Scholl College. The Stickel Society recognizes those who have made an outright or planned gift of $25,000 or more to Scholl College:

Dr. Terence & Janice Albright

Dr. Donald* & Carol Alexander*

Dr. & Mrs. Gregory T. Amarantos

Bako Pathology Services

Bergmann Orthotic Lab, Inc.

Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation

Dr. Philip* & Jane Brachman

Dr. & Mrs. Jerry D. Brant

Dr. Robert M. Caldwell

Dr. Reno & Phyllis Caneva

Dr. Donald K.* & Mrs. Cardy

Dr. Robert R. Carnes*

Dr. R. Scott Carnes

Dr. Lewis P. Carrozza

Dr. Ronald G. Cervetti

Dr. Walter & Gail Clark

Dr. George & Rose Dalianis

Dr. Marie Delewsky

Dr. Thomas & Joyce Dickieson

Dr. Comfort

Mrs. Dorothy Doller*

Dr. Harold & Selma Feder

Dr. Marc & Eileen Feder

Alice K. Feffer*

Dr. & Mrs. Steve R. Feller

Dr. Cynthia A. Fenberg

Mr. Harold* & Mrs. Jean Finley

Dr. John & Marcine Forrette

Drs. Adolph Galinski* & Mary Vlahos

Dr. Matthew G. Garoufalis

Dr. & Mrs.* George B. Geppner

Dr.* & Mrs.* Joseph Giannini

Dr. Fred* & Estelle* Goldstein

Dr. John & Kathy Grady

Dr. & Mrs. James Heddens

Dr. David N. Helfman

Drs. Michael & Susan Hriljac

Dr. Donald & Patricia Hugar

Illinois Podiatric Medical Association

Illinois Podiatric Medical Students’ Association

Dr. Jondelle Jenkins-Milliner

Dr. Charles L. Jones*

Dr. Charles & Ronda Keenan, Jr.

Mrs. Thelma Kurzrock*

Dr. H.A.* & Gertrude* Larsen

Dr. Eugene A. London*

Dr. Donald & Arlene Mahrle

Mrs. Dorothy I. Majarakis*

Dr. Allen R. Martindale

Dr. Fortunee Massuda

Dr.* & Mrs.* Edward H. Mattingly

Dr. Robert & Dianne Mendicino

Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Miklos

Dr. Carol Muehleman

Dr. Kathleen Toepp Neuhoff

Dr. & Mrs. Richard B. Patterson

PICA/PACO

Dr. Gerald* & Sharon Quinlan

Retirement Research Foundation

Robert Ruiz, Esq. & Mrs. Marcy Singer Ruiz, Esq.

Dr. Richard & Carolyn Santee

Dr. Amol & Karen Saxena

Dr. Scholl Foundation

SCPM Alumni Association

Dr. Marvin Shapiro*

Dr. James H. Simonds, Sr.

Dr. Alfreda J. Sluzewski*

Dr. & Mrs. Scott Snyder

Dr. Doug* & Linda* Sowell

Dr. Kathleen M. Stone

Mr.* & Mrs.* W. Clement Stone

Dr. J. Edward Stricker*

Dr. Walter C. Swanson Family Foundation

Dr. Edwin E. Swigart*

Dr. Joseph & Mary Thul

Dr. & Mrs. Frank C. Toepp III

Universal Footcare Products, Inc.

Dr. Helen F. Walters*

Dr. Ray G.* & Mrs. Lois W. Ward*

Washington Square Health Foundation, Inc.

Dr. Lowell Scott & Nancy Weil

Dr. Charles & Wilma Witt

Dr. Morton Wittenberg

Dr. & Mrs.* Charles H. Wunderlich

Dr. & Mrs. Martin Yorath

GIFTS IN KIND

The following individuals and organizations provided generous in-kind support to the university:

Agro-Farma Chobani Yogurt

Dan & Mary Burgett

The Family of Dr. Herbert Fine

Sakenna Haq, DPM

Dr. Gerald Mackey, DDS

Ms. Diane Minarcik

North Shore Gas

Topco Associates

Tryst Gourmet

Barbara Vertel, PhD

ESTATE GIFTS

The university recognizes the following estates for their support:

Estate of Dr. Harold Fein

Estate of Dr. Marion Finkel

Estate of Dr. George Osborne

Estate of Dr. Frederick Perl

Estate of Dr. Melvin Pick

Estate of Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein

MEMORIAL GIFTS

Gifts were made in memory of the following individuals:

Naomi Aarons

Jordan Ackerman, DPM

Howard C. Berger, MD

Zelma Berk

Howard Bers

Meyer & Rosalind Blatt

Leo J. Carlin

Dr. Shi Chang

Pam Cleary

Sidney & Selma Cohen

Elaine Cominsky

John Cozen, MD

Virginia Daniel, PT

Salvatore & Rose F. Di Lillo

Robert Elias

Marc Fahami

Nina S. Fields, PhD

Herbert Fisher, MD

Louis Fisher

Reba Freedman

Burton Garfinkel, MD

Victor & Gloria George

Dr. & Mrs. Goodwin Gilbert

Albert & Edith Ginsberg

Jerome Goldflies, CMS ’45

Sidney B. Gordon, MD

Esther Goren

Marcus Goren

Sheldon Goren

Milton Greenberg, MD ’55

Dr. & Mrs. Morris Greenberg

Kari Gustafson

James Hagerstrom

S. Herbert Handler

George Housakos, MD

Lester Klein, MD

Mrs. Carol Koerner

Eugene S. Krusch

Phyllis Laszlo

Melvyn Leichtling, MD

Esther Levy

Iuda Levy

Joseph Liebross, MD

Dr. Herbert Lipschultz

Joseph A. Marlo, MD

Abraham Mizock, MD

From left: Phyllis and Reno Caneva, DPM ’59; Mildred M. G. Olivier, MD ’88, CMS assistant dean of diversity, with Howard Rose, MD ’56; Jennifer Miklos, DPM ’07, David Miklos, DPM ’10, Robert Miklos, DPM ’80.

Dr. Michael Mull

Ethel Pailet

Herbert Pailet

Ivan & Syd Pinsker

Tara Pullara

Eugene Rogers, MD

Mrs. Ruth M. Rothstein

Anna Blanche Russell

Catherine Scholl

Jack Scholl

Dr. Sol Scholnik

John J. Sheinin, MD

Saul Silverman

Joe & Mary Ann Smajo

Linda Southcombe

Doug Sowell, DPM

Gerald Stein, DPM

Herbert Tetenbaum, MD

Milo Turnbo

Naomi Weiner

Zelda Weiner

Ernest Weitz, MD ’55

Isabelle Wohlrab

Jonas Wolfberg

Irving Yale, DPM

HONORARY GIFTS

Gifts were made in honor of the following individuals:

Jennifer Eig Agran

Alan Axelrod, MD

Mariclaire Barrett

Theodore Booden

Dr. Mahabal & Mrs. Lacey Boodram

Hiram Ching

Stanley Epstein, MD

Matthew Harris, MD

Dr. Michael Hriljac

Dr. Samuel Kessler

Edwin Kleinman, MD

Virgie Ve Lillian Pace

Dr. Bradley A. Palmer

Paul Pundy

Ronald Sage, DPM

Alice Segal, PhD

Ms. Margot Surridge

Anthony & Alexis Torre

Daniel & Valerie Wolloch

Jeffrey F. Yale, DPM

CORPORATION, FOUNDATION AND ORGANIZATION GIFTS

The university recognizes the following corporations, foundations and organizations for their generous support of our students, programs and research:

Abbott Fund

AbbVie Foundation

Accelerated Health Systems

Aetna Foundation

American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

APMA Educational Foundation

Assured Software Ltd.

AstraZeneca

AYCO Charitable Foundation

B&D Foundation

Bako Integrated Physician Solutions

Baxter International Inc.

Chicago Dental Society Foundation

CMS Alumni Association

Community Foundation of Henderson County

Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan

The Container Store

Corning

CVS Charitable Trust

Darco International

DePaul University

Dr. Scholl Foundation

Drytech International

EMD Millipore

Evanston Community Foundation

FAPA Fraternal Inc.

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

First Bank of Highland Park

Fisher Scientific

Gorter Family Foundation

Grace Elizabeth Groner Scholarship Foundation

Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County

Hospira

IBM

Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists

Iowa Podiatric Medical Society

IPMA

Jewish Communal Fund

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Jewish Foundation of Greensboro

Roy G. Kerr Foundation

Lake County Community Foundation

Libertyville Sunrise Rotary Charitable Foundation

Mettler Toledo

Midwest Podiatry Conference

Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation

National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation

National Philanthropic Trust

New Albertson’s

NorthShore University HealthSystem

Northwestern Mutual

The Orthotic Group

PICA

Powerstep

Grace P. Rose Charitable Foundation Trust

Schwab Charitable Fund

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

State of Illinois

Topco Associates, LLC

VNA Foundation

Walgreens

Walmart Foundation

Washington Square Health Foundation

Wells Fargo Foundation

Wintrust Community Banks

We are Grateful for your Support Through every decade of its 102-year history, RFUMS has been buoyed by the generosity of those who believe in its mission. We particularly rely on our alumni, who have been molded by faculty members who know that to teach is to lead, and fellow students who understand that together, they can learn more, accomplish more and be more.

We thank you for helping RFUMS continue its mission to educate resilient, remarkable healthcare leaders and practitioners who will most certainly build a better, brighter future.

WHY GIVE BACK TO ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE?

• To show appreciation for the education you, your family or friends have received

• To make a powerful statement of belief in our community

• To ensure the university’s continued commitment to the future of medicine and science

To make a gift online, please visit us at www.rosalindfranklin.edu.For additional giving options, please contact us at 847-578-8340 or advancement@rosalindfranklin.edu.

Total enrollment, Fall 2013Chicago Medical School — 774College of Pharmacy — 204College of Health Professions — 784Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine — 358School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies — 37

Male to female ratio

Students of ethnic and racial diversityAmerican Indian and Alaskan Native — 5Asian — 511Black — 86Hispanic — 68International — 91Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander — 6Two or More Races — 36White — 1,171

Total applicationsAll degrees awarded 2013-2014Number of alumniBoard and donor designated endowmentsTotal operating revenues

BY THE NUMBERSRFUMS

2,157

45:55

1,974

17,726694

17,818$70.1M

$106.9M

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