1 9 9 4 Sukumar Nagendran received the Father of the Year in New Jersey Award from the American Diabetes Association. Charles Rosser is a urologist at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center. He recently won the fifth annual Weinman Innovator Award for Translational Research for developing a new urine-based test that uses 10 biomarkers to detect bladder cancer. The honor, which includes a $50,000 prize, recognizes leading-edge cancer research with the potential to move into preclinical and clinical trials. 2 0 0 1 Carmen Lebron is a pediatrician at Jersey City Medical Center. —C o n t i n u e d LAST P A G E f r o m P a g e 6 4 2 0 0 2 Sheila Mellody is a family physician at Farmingdale Family Practice Associates. W hen the CMDNJ was recast as the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1981, and we became UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School, this seemed to me a simple administrative issue. Some years later, in 1986, the school’s name was officially changed to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Middlesex General Hospital was transformed into Robert Wood Johnson Hospital. This was a change I felt deeply. I was saddened to lose the very real connection with Rutgers and still always think of myself as an RMS alumnus. Over time, however—and a lot of time has transpired—I found the name Robert Wood Johnson Medical School began to take hold and flow easily from my mouth. What joy, then, to learn last year that RWJMS itself would be realigned and incorporated into Rutgers University. For almost everyone, the name Rutgers Medical School is only a historical note, but for those of us who received our medical degrees from RMS it is a dearly cherished memory, and I am once again a Rutgers man. Forty years have come and gone since my graduation, and it now feels as if my life has finally come full circle. I couldn’t be more pleased. M 2 0 0 3 Patrick Hsu is chief of plastic, cosmetic, and reconstruction surgery at Memorial Plastic Surgery in Houston. 2 0 0 8 Rheumatologist Gnanesh Patel is a physician at the InterMountain Medical Group in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 1 9 9 6 Dawn Bertram-Stewart practices pediatrics in Naples, Florida. 2 0 0 9 Oliver Choo, one of the 2013 graduating residents in the Department of Anesthesiology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, received the highest score in the country on the American Board of Anesthesiology Part I written exam. He is currently an anesthesiologist at University Medical Center of Princeton. Former Residents 1 9 9 7 Bruno Molino practices at Liberty Surgical Associates, a surgical group that provides Jersey City Medical Center with on-site coverage. 1 9 9 9 Sonia Garcia Laumbach is assistant dean for student affairs at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She was selected for a two-year term as an at-large member of the Alumni Leaders Council of the Rutgers University Alumni Association. Shailaja Shah is a psychiatrist in the Electroconvulsive Therapy Department of the Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead. I n M e m o r i a m 2 0 0 0 Didier Demesmin is an interventional pain specialist and founder of University Pain Medicine Center in New Jersey. He was honored at the ninth annual Harvest Jubilee by Bridgewater-based HomeSharing for his support of the organization, which works to prevent homelessness. Robert Dorian, MD ’81, passed away on March 19, 2014. Alan Miller, MD ’74, passed away in October 2013. What’s New? Please send your professional and personal news for Class Notes to: Roberta Ribner, Editor, Robert Wood Johnson Medicine, Coordinator, Alumni Affairs, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Alumni Association 335 George Street • Suite 2300 • New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 Phone: 732-235-6310 • Fax: 732-235-9570 • Email: ribnerrs@rwjms.rutgers.edu http://rwjms.rutgers.edu/alumni —Mark A. Bloomberg, MD ’74, MBA Senior Physician Executive, HealthNEXT; President, Bloomberg Healthcare Group Robert Wood Johnson I MEDICINE 63