Good Wishes from Our Colleagues for Our 50 th Anniversary

1. I will not be attending. Unfortunately (yeah sure...) I will be in the French Alps paragliding in the Annecy region. I will definitely have a thought for the Department that provided me with top notch training. Sincerely. Michel Laurin, MD (CP Resident, 1984-1986), currently practicing at Montfort Hospital Lab in Ottawa, Canada. Mark Arnesen, MD was an AP/CP resident from 1976-1980. These days, as he reports, he splits his time between Abbott Northwest Hospital in Minneapolis and Alaska, “I'm sorry to say I won't be able to attend the celebratory dinner for the 50th anniversary. I'll be preparing to head to my "summer job" as senior guide at a king salmon fishing camp in Alaska ... 3 weeks on a river in SW Alaska with no pager, no phone, no alarm clock! My wife is the head cook and I am the chief pie baker in addition to my fishing duties.” A recent photo from Gary Striker, MD, who was resident from 1959-1964. He currently resides in New York City. I have so many wonderful memories of my CP residency in 1986-1989. The freedom to explore, while supported by an extraordinary team of lab docs, provided the basis for my continuing academic, diagnostic and research career here in New Zealand. The friendships with residents and faculty were and remain strong. Best wishes, Ian Morison, MD, currently Professor and Head of Department, Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand ian.morison@otago.ac.nz Indra (Neeper) Frank, MD was an AP/CP resident from 1990-1994 and CP Chief Resident from 1993-1994. In her very near future, she will be returning to graduate school in Public Health at Indiana University. She sends us good wishes and a recent photo of her family – L to R: Tahvi, Mark, Indra, Allegra Unfortunately I will not be available to attend our 50th. Anniversary Celebration. I do regret this, and will miss the social contacts and friendships and memories from a very important part of my/our formative lives. I have oodles of admiration for our faculty and administration and students. Please convey my admiration, respect and love to all. Here I am at Camp Kwando is in Botswana, the land of The Ladys’ first Detective agency, about 2007. Our guide Russ is sitting on the left, I am on the right in the blue turtle neck, and we are all cheering “Pula, Pula, Pula”, for either “rain, rain, rain” which is the blessing of fertility in this southern end of the Kalahari desert, or “money, money, money”, which is the blessing of fertility for modern economics in this southern end of Africa. We have just had a successful day photographing impala, lion, and cape buffalo. The excellence and depth with which I practiced Child Neurology are directly attributable to the excellent teachings and demonstrations of taste, smell, texture, look, sound and natural history of diseases at “U-Dub Path”. I and my patients owe you all a great deal. I “retired” to my medical legal practice and writing in June 2006. All we individuals will die. Great Institutions such as our Department of Pathology at UW can be immortal. When our Department survives with honor and dedication and ideals intact, our individual spirits, reputations, and legacies are immortal, too. I am proud to be one of your sons. Robert “Bob” Shuman, MD – Anatomic Pathology Resident and Neuropathology Fellow (1970-1974) This is a message from Dr. Rudolph Vracko sent 10 years ago with his memories of his time spent in our program. According to a letter sent to him from Dr. Benditt in 1959, Rudi was our first “official” resident to the program (1959-1962). Dr. Vracko passed away this Spring at his island home in Hawaii. As much as I want to write to you, I'm also afraid that my words cannot carry my feelings. My warmest congratulations for this year's graduates and I am greatly honored to have shared with you 2 years' experience at University of Washington Medical Center and at Harborview Medical Center. Everyday of my clinical service now makes me appreciate my training at UW more and day by day at microscope, I'm thinking about how my attendings at UW would do in the similar situations, and that help me a great deal not only at arriving a pathology diagnosis, but also providing a better service to the patients. Thank you, UW Pathology Program, with my deepest gratitude, congratulations to your 50th Anniversary! Lee-Ching Zhu, MD, Cytopathology Fellow 2006-2007; GI & Hepatic Pathology Fellow 2007-2008. She is currently practicing at GroupHealth Permanente in Seattle. zhu.c@ghc.org This is Ruthie Marie Debski born March 21. Her daddy is Robert Debski, MD – Pediatric Pathology Fellow 2004-2005. Robert is currently practicing at Korsair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, KY. He hopes to bring his family for a visit next Spring. I was one of two Pathology interns in the first year (1962-63) of that internship program at University hospital. A few weeks short of my 75th birthday, I am still full-time faculty in Duke's Department of Cell Biology, have 2 years remaining under a 10-year NIH Merit Award that ends in mid 2011, and have never been more excited about our research on molecular structural dynamics in striated muscle than I am right now. I am on a long lateral loop from Pathology (expecting always to return with insights useful to diagnosis and therapy), but I often return in memory to highlights among the 60-some cases I was privileged to explore during my year of Autopsy Service, and to the relentlessly high quality of mentoring I experienced under Drs Dennis Reichenbach (Chief Resident) and Karl Mottet (Chair of University Hospital Pathology). Michael Reedy, MD – Pathology Intern, 1962-1963 Malek Kamoun, MD PhD (right) at a recent ACLPS meeting in Philadelphia with Dr. Donald S. Young, Vice Chairman of Laboratory Medicine at University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Deborah Leonard, Vice Chair of Laboratory Medicine at Cornell Medical College. Malek is currently Director of the Clinical Immunology and Histocompatibility Laboratory at Penn. He was a clinical pathology resident from 1978-1980. Congratulations on 50 years of residency! - Maggie Lam, MD (AP/CP Resident, 2003-2007), currently at University of California, San Francisco. “CONGRATULATIONS! All the best for your future endeavors! Keep your feet firmly on the ground and look at the world with your heart, you will be great physicians.” Puja Verma, MD – GI & Hepatic Pathology Fellow, 2002-2003; AP Co-Chief Resident, 2003-2004. She is currently practicing with Stacey Berry, MD and Charlie Sthapanachai, MD at Clin-Path Associates in Arizona. Happy 50th Anniversary! I feel very fortunate to be able to claim the University of Washington as the place where I completed my AP/CP residency training. The experience has opened many doors for my career. It’s always great to hear about the continued success and achievements of the UW Pathology and Laboratory Medicine departments. Keep up the great work and I look forward to being there for the 75th anniversary. Tony Chang, MD – AP/CP Resident, 1999-2003; Renal Pathology Fellow, 2003-2004 – is currently a faculty member at the University of Chicago Hospitals. I send my best wishes to everyone, both young and not so young, especially to Denny Reichenbach, our wise and kind mentor. As you can see from the attached photo taken at Harborview in 1973, I have been wanted by the law for many years. I eluded them at first, but finally they caught up with me, even though I semi-retired and moved to darkest Iowa two decades ago…. I hope all the new graduates have as much fun as I had. Soon after leaving Seattle I learned that not all pathologists are trustworthy, but pathology will never let you down. Enjoy! Best wishes, Ed Schlenk, MD – AP/CP Resident 1972-1976 – currently living in Marshalltown, Iowa Since moving to Saskatchewan, Elizabeth Schultke, MD has expressed her creative side doing local theatre production. This is a recent production of Cinderella. Elizabeth was a neuropathology fellow with Dr. Buster Alvord from 1999-2000. She tells me she is moving soon from Canada and we will certainly keep in touch. Congratulations on the 50th anniversary of our residency program! I wish I could be in Seattle for the occasion. I hope everyone is doing well! I really miss the people in our department. My years in Seattle will always bring me happy memories- it was a very busy time, but also a period of a lot of professional and personal growth. Here is a recent family photo – our kids Chloe and Ethan are 5 and 3 now. I am enjoying my job as a blood banker at UCLA very much – if you have current or future residents interested in blood banking, feel free to have them contact me. Shan Yuan, MD – AP/CP Resident, 2000-2004; CP Chief Resident, 2003-2004 Good Wishes from Our Colleagues for Our 50th Anniversary