A L U M N I P R O F I L E S Class of 1974 Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary Ruth S. Feldman, MD ’74 patients, especially at the school’s student-run community clinic, inspired by the late Christian Hansen, MD—who became a lifelong friend. A second major influence, during clinical rotations at Hunterdon Medical Center, was Frank Snope, MD, a seminal leader in family medicine. “He taught a respectful whole-patient approach,” recalls Dr. Levandowski, “treating patients as people with illness, not as ‘the gallbladder in Room 203.’” That was also the approach at Lancaster General Hospital, where Dr. Levandowski completed his residency in family medicine. During a decade at Princeton University Health Services, first as team physician and then as director of athletic medicine, he volunteered as a physician with the U.S. Olympic Committee. Other opportunities followed, including service to U.S. Track and Field and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. Since 1978, as a clinical faculty member, Dr. Levandowski has taught an integrated allopathic/osteopathic approach to the whole patient at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School. In the mid1980s, wanting “to give something A child of the South Bronx, Dr. Feldman graduated from the City College of New York before accepting a full scholarship from Rutgers Medical School. The school’s first building had been dedicated in 1970, just months before the arrival of Dr. Feldman and her classmates. Landscaping was still under way. “It was new and gorgeous,” she says. “Everything was state of the art.” In the Great Hall, enlargements of woodcuts from Andreas Vesalius’s text on human anatomy added a sense of history, a link to the Renaissance origins of modern medicine, she adds. Dr. Feldman made lifelong friends at both the medical school and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. As a first-year student, she formed an immediate bond with classmate Linda Roe. Both were elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, both became radiologists, and they remained close until Dr. Roe’s death from cancer in 2001. The Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons offered a residency in anatomical and clinical pathology at Overlook Hospital, in Summit, which Dr. Feldman completed along with a residency in radiology. She joined the Department of Medical Imaging at 56 Robert Wood Johnson I MEDICINE Hunterdon Medical Center and was later appointed department chair; she also served as president of the Hunterdon Medical Society. Dr. Feldman served on the clinical faculty at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and was a champion of women’s health issues, particularly breast cancer and osteoporosis. “I fought tooth and nail to establish the Hunterdon Regional Breast Care Program,” she says. From biopsy to treatment, every patient in the pioneering, comprehensive program had a personal advocate—often the program director: Dr. Feldman herself. “People said,‘Radiologists don’t talk to people,’” she says. “‘Well,’ I told them, ‘I do!’” COURTESY OF RUTH S. FELDMAN, MD ’74 Richard Levandowski, MD ’74 A s Dr. Levandowski was running track for Princeton University, he developed a clear plan for his career in medicine: he wanted to become a primary care sports medicine physician. The plan took shape early on at Rutgers Medical School, where Dr. Levandowski appreciated the opportunity to work with