1960s

Bernard W. Hindman, M.D. ’63, has retired from practice. He is keeping busy watching over his 11 grandchildren.

1980s

Daniel T. Barry, M.D., Ph.D. ’82, appeared on the CBS show Survivor: Exile Island (in Panama).

Connie Micklavzina, M.D. ’83, retired from obstetrics in January of 2005 and began teaching anatomy at Seminole Community College.

Sherri Birchansky, M.D. ’86, has been named a fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, following ten years of private practice in Miami. She is the first neuro imager in the department of radiology and imaging.

Mark Grenitz, M.D. ’86, is in private practice in ob/gyn in Plantation, Florida. He is president of the Broward County Medical Association and is actively involved in a national perinatal safety initiative. His wife, Anne, is president of the Florida Medical Association Alliance.

Linda K. James, M.D. ’87, is currently serving as chief of staff at the local 50-bed hospital in Mendocino, California. Her husband, Richard Sacks-Wilner, M.D. ’87, works with a local primary care group.

Karen Koffler, M.D. ’89, is director of integrative medicine at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Chicago and a national speaker on various topics in the field of alternative medicine and the judicious integration of alternative and conventional therapies.

1990s

Nancy Sanderson, M.D. ’90, announced the adoption of her tenth child this past summer. The children come from all over this country and from Ethiopia and Liberia. She also is hosting five foreign exchange students this year.

Ana Marie Echenique, M.D. ’91, is chief of interventional radiology and co-chair of the Department of Radiology at Mercy Hospital in Miami. She also maintains her voluntary appointment as associate professor at the Miller School of Medicine Department of Radiology.

Ana Ceide Hodges, M.D. ’92, is a private practice pediatrician in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The wife of Jonathan D. Reich, M.D. ’92, Shari Lynn Steinberg Reich, Jackson Memorial School of Nursing ’91, recently passed away from ovarian cancer at the age of 36. She left three sons, ages 10, 7, and 5.

Jeff Livingston, M.D. ’93, moved to Vero Beach, Florida, after completing his residency at UM/JMH. He currently practices otolaryngology in a group practice.

Cecilia Valdes Morales, M.D. ’96, is a general pediatrician at the Miller School of Medicine.

Leonik Ahumada, M.D. ’97, completed training in general surgery and plastic surgery. He has joined Aesthetic Center, a plastic surgery group in Ocala, Florida. His wife Salesia Alvarado Ahumada, M.D. ’98, was practicing in Birmingham as an internist before their move to Ocala.

Adam James Ball, M.D. ’99, is practicing with Gulfstream Urology Associates in Fort Pierce, Florida. He specializes in da Vinci Robotic Prostatectomy. He completed a fellowship in urologic laparoscopy/ endourology/robotic surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Jeff Halter, M.D. ’99, is finishing his surgery training at Syracuse University and will work at Children’s Hospital of Ohio in Columbus.

David Noah Kenigsberg, M.D. ’99, recently completed his general cardiology fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he was chief fellow. He is currently doing a two-year clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia.

David Lasko, M.D. ’99, is completing his training at the University of Miami and will attend the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Matthew Strange, M.D. ’99, recently joined Naples Radiologists in Naples, Florida. His wife, Brandy Hoffman Strange, M.D. ’99, worked as an attending physician in family medicine at Atlanta Medical Center.

2000s

Anna McConnell-Kramer, M.D., ’00, is a faculty physician with the Miller School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics.

Julie Baines, M.D., ’01, graduated from a pediatric residency at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and is completing a subspecialty fellowship in neonatology at University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina/ East Carolina University.

Torrey D. Baines, M.D., ’01, graduated from a combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He is currently employed in the Department of Internal Medicine at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville, North Carolina.

Thomas Heffernan, M.D. ’01, has started a four-year fellowship in gynecologic oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern/Parkland.

Alex Gonzalez, M.D. ’02, recently completed his residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is now an HIV/primary care physician at the Fenway Community Health Center and clinical instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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