Alumni

Paul W. Hoffert, M.D. ’45, of Mamaroneck, N.Y., notes that his granddaughter Rachel Light (left), a member of the Class of 2006, represents the family’s third generation at the School of Medicine. Rachel Light’s uncle, Marvin J. Hoffert, M.D., graduated with the Class of 1972.

Edward C. Halperin, M.D. ’79, the L.R. Prosnitz Professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Duke University, has been named vice dean of the Duke University School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at the Duke University Medical Center.

George L. Kelley, M.P.H. ’74, of Albany, Ga., will be profiled in the 56th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America. Kelley is also the subject of a notice in Volume VIII, Dictionary of International Biography, for distinguished service in international mental health and education.

Daniel W. Rahn, M.D. ’78, HS ’80, FW ’81, professor of medicine and vice dean of the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) School of Medicine and senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer for MCG Health, was installed in April as the seventh president of MCG, Georgia’s health sciences university in Augusta. Rahn was on the faculty at Yale until 1991.

Patricia Hellman Gibbs, M.D. ’87, HS ’90, received one of six Bicentennial Medals for Distinguished Achievement from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. The presentation was made at the college’s 200th anniversary celebration in April. Gibbs and her husband, Richard D. Gibbs, M.D.’86, are the founders and directors of the San Francisco Free Clinic, which serves the uninsured.

E. John Kuhnley, M.D., FW ’81, has relocated from Winchester, Va., to Lynchburg, Va., to serve as medical director for the Child and Adolescent Unit of Virginia Baptist Hospital. Kuhnley also notes that his daughter Lisa graduated from Shenandoah University in May; his daughter Sheila graduated from Penn State University in August. Lisa has a one-year-old son, Christopher.

David L. Mork Jr., M.P.H. ’82, former vice president of operations at South Jersey Health Systems, was appointed vice president of operations for the South Georgia Health System in Valdosta, Ga., in January.

Benhur Lee, M.D. ’95, an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, was named a recipient of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Charles E. Culpepper Scholarship in Medical Science for the year 2002. Lee will receive $100,000 a year for up to three years to fund his research on how HIV attaches itself to dendritic cells.

Tori Williams Reid, Ph.D. ’99, writes with this news: “I have departed from the laboratory and work for Accenture, a technology consulting firm. I am quite happy to have returned to my home state of North Carolina. My best news is my new husband, Marc V. Reid. We were married on April 13.”