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Out & About

• May 21: A SEASIDE BRUNCH FOR THE YALE CHILDREN’S HEALTH COUNCIL was sponsored by WTNH news anchor Jocelyn Maminta and her husband Gary Doyens at the home of WTNH meteorologist Mel (“Dr. Mel”) Goldstein and Arlene Goldstein in East Haven, Conn. From left: Richard Blumenthal, attorney general for the State of Connecticut, joined Maminta, Goldstein, and Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., chair and Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics at the event.
• May 22: The fifth annual TIMBER SPEARS MEMORIAL GOLF OUTING, sponsored this year by Manafort Brothers, Inc., of Plainville, Conn., and presented by Foxwoods Resort Casino, was held at the Lake of Isles Golf Resort in North Stonington, Conn. The event, which benefits School of Medicine research and clinical care in pediatric immunology, is named for a member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN) who was born with a primary immune deficiency and died in 2001 at age 3. 
  
  
  a. Joseph J. Carter b. Cherokee Spears c. Crystal Whipple d. Keri Spears, mother of Timber Spears e. Lake Spears Jr. f. Maxine Carter g. Kayla Frasier h. Jasmine Smith i. Kenneth Reels, MPTN vice-chairman j. Stormy Rickerson k. Allan Thomas, l. Justin Carter m. Patricia Charity n. Roxanne Smith.
• May 22: The fifth annual TIMBER SPEARS MEMORIAL GOLF OUTING, sponsored this year by Manafort Brothers, Inc., of Plainville, Conn., and presented by Foxwoods Resort Casino, was held at the Lake of Isles Golf Resort in North Stonington, Conn. The event, which benefits School of Medicine research and clinical care in pediatric immunology, is named for a member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN) who was born with a primary immune deficiency and died in 2001 at age 3.
• May 22: The fifth annual TIMBER SPEARS MEMORIAL GOLF OUTING, sponsored this year by Manafort Brothers, Inc., of Plainville, Conn., and presented by Foxwoods Resort Casino, was held at the Lake of Isles Golf Resort in North Stonington, Conn. The event, which benefits School of Medicine research and clinical care in pediatric immunology, is named for a member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN) who was born with a primary immune deficiency and died in 2001 at age 3.
  (Front row, left) Ramsay L. Fuleihan, M.D., associate research scientist in pediatrics, and (far right) Jose G. Calderon, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics join Lauren Manafort, Vice President of Manafort Brothers, and the company’s golf team.
• May 22: The fifth annual TIMBER SPEARS MEMORIAL GOLF OUTING, sponsored this year by Manafort Brothers, Inc., of Plainville, Conn., and presented by Foxwoods Resort Casino, was held at the Lake of Isles Golf Resort in North Stonington, Conn. The event, which benefits School of Medicine research and clinical care in pediatric immunology, is named for a member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN) who was born with a primary immune deficiency and died in 2001 at age 3.
  
  
  Reels, Justin Carter and Thomas on the golf course.
• June 11: The medical school’s Anlyan Center was the setting for the first annual Yale Medical Group (YMG) PATIENT SATISFACTION RECOGNITION PROGRAM CELEBRATION. YMG Director David J. Leffell, M.D., and colleagues presented 28 awards to the YMG practices that scored the highest or have shown continued improvement in recent patient satisfaction surveys. 
  1. Nicolas Papale and John Woods of Therapeutic Radiology. 
  2. Alan Bale and Margretta Seashore represented Genetics, a gold award winner. 
  3. Shawn Mathis, Neurology, with Sharon Barone, Dermatologic Surgery. 
  4. Gold award winners Penny Riggione,Elizabeth Lowe and Adam Bennett of Sleep Medicine.
• July 29: The DEDICATION OF THE MARTIN AND EVELYN GORDON CONFERENCE ROOM at the medical school’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library drew a large crowd. Martin E. Gordon, M.D., clinical professor of medicine and member of the School of Medicine’s Class of 1946, chairs the Board of Trustees of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates. 
  
  
  Clockwise from left: Judy I. Dienstag, daughter of Martin and Evelyn Gordon, Evelyn Gordon, Martin Gordon, Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine, and Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., son of the Gordons and the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine.
• July 29: The DEDICATION OF THE MARTIN AND EVELYN GORDON CONFERENCE ROOM at the medical school’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library drew a large crowd. Martin E. Gordon, M.D., clinical professor of medicine and member of the School of Medicine’s Class of 1946, chairs the Board of Trustees of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates.
  
  
  From left: Beverly Zimmerman, Saul S. Milles, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine, and Marvin P. Zimmerman, M.D.
• July 29: The DEDICATION OF THE MARTIN AND EVELYN GORDON CONFERENCE ROOM at the medical school’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library drew a large crowd. Martin E. Gordon, M.D., clinical professor of medicine and member of the School of Medicine’s Class of 1946, chairs the Board of Trustees of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates. 3. J. Charles Wakerley, Diane Seton Wakerley, Sperie Perakos.
• July 29: The DEDICATION OF THE MARTIN AND EVELYN GORDON CONFERENCE ROOM at the medical school’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library drew a large crowd. Martin E. Gordon, M.D., clinical professor of medicine and member of the School of Medicine’s Class of 1946, chairs the Board of Trustees of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates. 
  
  
  Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., clinical professor of surgery, and June Yanagisawa.