Alumni
1952
Schuyler V. Hilts, a nuclear medicine specialist, died on June 27, 2022, at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was 95. He was the chief of nuclear medicine at Tucson Medical Center and taught at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. During the Cold War, he served on the Atomic Energy Commission.
1953
Guy W. Leadbetter Jr., of Cambridge, Vermont, who specialized in urological surgery, died on July 24, 2022. He was 96. After completing his residency in urology at Massachusetts General Hospital and serving on the faculty of Harvard School of Medicine for nine years, he moved to Burlington, Vermont, where he became a professor at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine and practiced as a urologic surgeon at the University of Vermont Medical Center for many years.
1957
Henry Yeager Jr., a distinguished pulmonologist and professor at Georgetown University, died on June 28, 2022, at his home in Washington, DC. He was 88. After coming to Georgetown in 1972, he devoted his career to research, teaching and treating patients, with a focus on the treatment of tuberculosis and sarcoidosis. He also volunteered with Project HOPE in Nicaragua and for decades served disadvantaged patients in medical clinics in Washington, DC.
1961
Elwin Berger, whose career as an obstetrician/gynecologist spanned four decades, died on June 1, 2022, at his home in Denver, Colorado. He was 86. After completing his residency and a fellowship in obstetrics and gynecology at Johns Hopkins, he returned to Denver, where he became a founding member of The Denver Clinic, a multispecialty group practice. He later served as a teaching consultant in the family medicine residency program at St. Anthony’s Medical Center.
Michael E. Jabaley, a plastic surgeon who is remembered as an expert in Dupuytren’s contracture and carpal tunnel surgery, died on July 12, 2022, at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. He was 88. After completing his residency at Johns Hopkins, where he trained under Vivien Thomas, the renowned assistant to Alfred Blalock ’22, he became chief of the plastic surgery program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Later, he went into private practice, focusing primarily on hand surgery, and became the founder of the Hand Clinic at St. Dominic Hospital. A prolific writer, he authored almost 100 scientific papers, including one selected as the “best paper of the year” by Journal of Hand Surgery in 2001.
1965
Ronald Glasser, a pediatric nephrologist and writer, died on Aug. 26, 2022, at his home in Minneapolis. He was 83. After receiving his medical degree from Johns Hopkins, he was drafted into the Army, where he served as a physician in Japan during the Vietnam War. His best-selling book, 365 Days, is a classic account that chronicles the horror and suffering of the war. It has sold over 200,000 copies. After the war, he practiced as a pediatric nephrologist in Minneapolis while continuing to write other books, including Ward 402 and The Light in the Skull: An Odyssey of Medical Discovery.
Lawrence M. Lichtenstein, of Baltimore, died on Aug. 5, 2022. He was 88. His pioneering work led to a better understanding of asthma and allergies to ragweed and bee venom. In the 1970s, Lichtenstein, along with Philip Norman, a faculty member in Johns Hopkins’ Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, created a separate Division of Clinical Immunology, housed at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. In 1989, they moved to a state-of-the-art facility at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center to create the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Immunology Center, which has provided more than 150 providers from over 30 countries with clinical and research training. Lichtenstein was knighted in 1989 by the Italian government for training physicians in Italy.
1968
Ralph C. Auchenbach, of Shadyside, Pennsylvania, an internist for more than five decades, died on May 29, 2022. He was 80. Remembered as a gifted diagnostician and teacher, he was an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and practiced internal medicine in the Pittsburgh area. He was affiliated with the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System.
1969
Terrence J. Ball, of Mercer Island, Washington, a gastroenterologist, died on July 10, 2022. He was 79. After his residency at Hartford Hospital and a fellowship at Yale, he practiced as a gastroenterology specialist at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle for more than 30 years.
1971
Surgeon Leslie Pearlstein, of St. Petersburg, Florida, died on July 7, 2022. He was 77. In 1978, he joined the Suncoast Medical Clinic in St. Petersburg, where he practiced until 2001. He also served as chief of staff at Bayfront Medical Center and as an assistant clinical professor at the University of South Florida. He was instrumental in creating Bayflite, an aeromedical transport program, to serve the west coast of Florida.
1972
Eric A. Wulfsberg, a pediatric geneticist, died unexpectedly on June 1, 2022, at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 76. He completed his residency in pediatrics at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, and a fellowship in pediatric genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a U.S. Navy captain, he was stationed at hospitals in Long Beach, Okinawa and San Diego, as well as the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He also spent 12 years working in the Division of Human Genetics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
1973
Elizabeth K. Frank, of Baltimore, died on June 30, 2022, from complications of dementia. She was 103. During World War II, Frank was a staff member for the Office of Strategic Services in London and Paris. After a career in museum administration beginning at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, she served for decades as a mental health counselor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins.
1981
Susan C. Simonton, a pathologist, died on July 24, 2022, at her home in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. She was 68. After completing her residency in pathology at the University of Minnesota Hospital, she worked for many years as the lab service director at the Minneapolis and St. Paul Children’s Hospital and Clinics.
1983
Jill Goldman, of Brookline, Massachusetts, who specialized in internal medicine and pathology, died of lung cancer on Aug. 30, 2022, at the age of 66. She was an internist at Brigham and Women’s and Faulkner hospitals in Boston for more than 30 years.
1991
Michael A Kjelsberg, of Lexington, Massachusetts, died of colon cancer on Aug. 21, 2022. He was 57. After several years at Mayo Clinic, he joined Mount Auburn Cardiology Associates in 2002 and served as the chief of cardiology at Mount Auburn Hospital until his illness. Kjelsberg specialized in interventional cardiology. In his honor, benefactors of Mount Auburn Hospital have endowed the Michael A. Kjelsberg Memorial Award for Clinical and Teaching Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease and the annual Michael A. Kjelsberg Memorial Lecture in Cardiovascular Disease.
1994
Marc R. Chevrier (Ph.D.), a clinician, research scientist and business leader who was an expert on lupus, died on Feb. 6, 2021, at his home in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, after a brief illness. He was 54. After he completed his Ph.D. in pharmacology and molecular sciences at Johns Hopkins, he earned his M.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and then specialized in rheumatology and internal medicine. He was an assistant professor in internal medicine at the University of Maryland, and then held leadership positions at Human Genome Sciences, Centocor and Janssen Pharmaceutical, where he became the head of autoimmunity evaluations. In 2018, he received a Medical Visionary Award at a national conference for his contributions in the management and treatment of lupus.
Former Faculty, Fellows and House Staff
James B. Snow Jr. (HS, surgery, 1956–57), of West Grove, Pennsylvania, a renowned otolaryngologist who became the first director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, died on May 28, 2022. He was 90. After completing his training in surgery at Johns Hopkins and in otolaryngology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, he served as a professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center and then held the same positions at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The author of numerous articles and books on otolaryngology, he was also the editor of Ballenger’s Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery through several editions. In 1991, he was inducted into the Society of Scholars of Johns Hopkins University.
Tom L. Austin (HS, pediatrics, 1965–66, 1968–70; faculty, medicine, 1970–71), of Blythewood, South Carolina, a neonatologist, died on June 8, 2022. He was 82. After training at Johns Hopkins, he relocated to Columbia, South Carolina, where he practiced as a neonatologist for many years, working concurrently at Richland Memorial Hospital and Lexington Medical Center, while also serving as a professor on the faculty of the University of South Carolina.
Mae E. Kastor (faculty, psychiatry, 1985–89), a psychiatric social worker, died on June 5, 2022, at her home in St. Louis. She was 90. Beginning in 1985, she was a senior mental health counselor at The Johns Hopkins University, where she worked with students for many years. She also maintained a private psychotherapy practice and was a longtime member of the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Douglas A. Canning (HS; faculty, urology, 1987–88), of Philadelphia, died on May 30, 2022, of severe injuries sustained in a cycling accident. He was 65. One of the world’s leading pediatric urologists, he was chief of the Division of Urology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) for the past 25 years and an internationally renowned expert in bladder and cloacal exstrophy and hypospadias. Working with pediatric urology colleagues at CHOP, Boston Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Canning led the Multi-Institutional Bladder Exstrophy Consortium.
