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The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 100, Issue 1, Winter 2023

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Message from the Dean
• An Educational Legacy in Bloom - Jeffersonian Roots and Branches
• 100 Years of The Bulletin - Highlights from 100 Years of The Bulletin
• Where Are They Now? Catching Up with SKMC Alumni
• Message from the Editor

Note: On the website, https://www.jefferson.edu/alumni/connect/alumni-bulletin/centennial-edition.html, this issue is listed as "Winter 2023 | Volume 100, Number 1," which is different than what is printed on Page 4 (Winter 2022 | Volume 100, Number 1) of this issue.

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 71, Issue 2, Summer 2022

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Dean's Column
• Time Capsule - Dr. Marion Siegman
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale
• ICYMI (In Case You Missed It)
• At the Intersection of Health and Design
• Discovery - A Path Toward Digital Equity
• Mark L. Tykocinski Takes the Helm as President of Thomas Jefferson University
• Student Profile - Kayla Holston
• Faculty Profile - Stephen D. Silberstein, MD
• Alumni Profile - Mahesh Krishnan, MD ’94
• Class Notes
• Reimagine
• Bookshelf
• In Memoriam
• By the Numbers - Match Day 2022

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 71, Issue 1, Winter 2022

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Dean's Column
• Time Capsule - The No Limits Klasko Era
• ICYMI (In Case You Missed It)
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale
• Discovery - University’s Global Reach Will Soon Extend into Space
• First Class of Med Students Completes JeffMD Curriculum
• Student Profile - Ryan Emoff
• Faculty Profile - Marc Altshuler, MD ‘01
• Reimagine
• Class Notes
• Alumni Weekend 2021
• Class Agent
• In Memoriam
• By the Numbers - SKMC Class of 2025

Women In Higher Education - Primary Source Set, Freddy Enrique Moran

Lesson Plans

Higher education in America prior to the 19^th century looked a specific way, white and male, and while there have been many advancements in medicine, and teaching medicine, since then. An equally impressive jump forward socially for education happened during these time periods. Education as a whole saw drastic changes between the 19^th and 20^th century with the increasing enrollment of women in higher education. The evolution of higher education between 1870 and 1930 saw drastic changes to women enrollment within universities, going from 5% to 14% female enrollment at a higher professional degree seeking university. Even …

Oregon Trail, Heading Out West, Freddy Enrique Moran

Lesson Plans

Oregon Trail. Students will use a primary source journal and maps to build a picture of the hardships many individuals and groups faced on their trek out west and what are some push and pull factors that led to the decision to go.

Grade Level: 7-8

Lesson Length: 55 minutes

Purpose: Students will explore migration and be able to identify push and pull factors that applied to those embarking out west by using primary source documents from the Oregon Trail.

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will be able to list specific push and pull factors that led to people heading out …

Warfare In The 19th Century, Freddy Enrique Moran

Lesson Plans

Students will be learning about 19^th century warfare and challenges nations faced when fighting a war. The lesson will be accomplished through primary source journal entries and graphs.

Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Length: 60 minutes

Purpose: Students will read the excerpt from multiple sources and will compare and contrast warfare from the 19^th century and the 20^th century.

Learning Outcomes:

• Student will have the ability to point to specific reasons as to what could have made the Civil War so deadly a conflict.
• Students will give specific examples as to how the Civil War changed/impacted …

Anna Justina Magee: A Woman Of Determination And Vision, John F. Ditunno Jr., Chris S. Formal

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Faculty Papers

This article tells the story of Anna J. Magee (AJM), the founder of the Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia, one of the country’s premier medical rehabilitation institutions. AJM’s life was shaped by her family, her times, and her city. The daughter of one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Railroad, she emerged in the late 19th century as an independent woman of elite Philadelphian society, demonstrating a special devotion to St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church at 10^th and Market Streets and, inspired by her personal physician, a determination to serve the rehabilitative needs of physically disabled patients, regardless of their …

Virchow At 200 And Lown At 100 - Physicians As Activists., Salvatore Mangione, Mark L. Tykocinski

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 70, Issue 1, Spring 2021

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Dean’s Column Leveling the Field, Paving the Way to Success
• Time Capsule Milestones and Influencers: Women in Medicine at Jefferson
• On Campus
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale Building a New Legend
• Discovery Predicting Heart Disease from the Skin
• Gender Equality in Medicine Still a Work in Progress
• Faculty Profile Diane Merry
• Student Profile Matt Rohn and Mark Shapses
• Class Notes 2020 Virtual Alumni Weekend
• Love Story Physician-Researchers Found Life’s Work—and Each Other—at Jefferson
• Class Agent
• In Memoriam
• Bookshelf

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 69, Issue 2, Summer 2020

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• A Message from the President Facing Crises with Creativity
• Dean’s Column Difficult Times Define Us
• Jefferson COVID Stories
• Reflections from the Frontlines
• One Step of Many White Coats for Black Lives Peaceful Protest at Jefferson
• Time Capsule Philadelphia 1918: The Flu Pandemic Hits Home
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale Helping the Heroes
• Discovery Combating COVID-19
• Heroes on the Sidelines Sidelined from Patient Care, SKMC Students Find Purpose in Volunteer Work
• From the Front Lines to Online SKMC Doesn’t Miss a Beat in Medical Education
• Navigating Uncharted Waters in Search of the Class of 2024
• You’ve Got …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 69, Issue 1, Winter 2020

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Dean's Column - An Acquired Taste
• On Campus - Sidney and Caroline Kimmel Fund New Biomedical Research Building
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale - Generosity Goes Both Ways
• Discovery - It Takes a Village
• Solving the Puzzle - Shaping Jefferson's Neuroscience Department
• Faculty Profile - Kristin Rising, MD
• Alumni Profile - Neal Flomenberg, MD
• Student Profile - Hannah Garrigan
• Class Notes - 2019 Alumni Weekend
• Class Agent
• In Memoriam
• By the Numbers - The Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience

The Punch-Drunk Boxer And The Battered Wife: Gender And Brain Injury Research., Stephen T Casper, Kelly O'Donnell

College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Papers

This essay uses gender as a category of historical and sociological analysis to situate two populations-boxers and victims of domestic violence-in context and explain the temporal and ontological discrepancies between them as potential brain injury patients. In boxing, the question of brain injury and its sequelae were analyzed from 1928 on, often on profoundly somatic grounds. With domestic violence, in contrast, the question of brain injury and its sequelae appear to have been first examined only after 1990. Symptoms prior to that period were often cast as functional in specific psychiatric and psychological nomenclatures. We examine this chronological and epistemological …

The Scott Memorial Library Quasquicentennial: Celebrating 125 Years Of The Jefferson Library (1894-2019), Kelsey Duinkerken, Msi

Library Posters

The Early Years

(1894-1930s)

The Modern Library

(1960s-1970s)

The Computer Age

(1980s-2019)

Arming Of The U.S. Army During War 1861, Jessica Colfer

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Length: 60 minutes

Learning Objectives:

• The student will be able to identify the armament of the Union army at the beginning of the Civil War.
• The student will consider the preparedness of the Union and Confederate armies.
• The student compare and contrast prior knowledge about the Civil War to interpret historical documents.
• The student will be able to analyze and interpret a primary document.

The Election Of 1860 And The Secession Of The South, Jessica Colfer

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Length: 80 minutes

Learning Objectives:

• Students will be able to analyze primary documents and identify the relation between student attendance and the political and societal context of the time.
• Students will be able to analyze and apply their prior knowledge to interpret the perspectives of those during the outbreak of the Civil War.
• Students will be able to identify the primary causes of South Carolina’s secession from the Union.

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 68, Issue 2, Fall 2019

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Dean's Column - The 195th Commencement of SKMC
• Perspectives
• On Campus
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale - Reimagine Jefferson
• Discovery - Know Thy Self
• Seeing the Holistic Picture - Integrative medicine is taking techniques from the past to change the future of healthcare - and Jefferson is leading the charge
• Faculty Profile - David Nash, MD, MBA
• Student Profile - Carrie Walsh
• Alumni Profile - Austin Chiang, MD, MPH, GI Fellow '18
• Class Notes
• Class Agent
• In Memoriam
• By the Numbers - The Class of 2023

The Debate Over The Efficacy Of Federal Hate Crime Legislation: A Look At Arlen Specter’S Senatorial Efforts And Its Legacy, Sierra Reddi

Arlen Specter Center Research Fellowship

Bias-motivated violence is considered especially heinous in the United States of America. This research examines the Federal legislation that cements that value into law. Hate crimes are criminal acts where the target was specifically chosen because of their race, sexual orientation, gender expression, ethnicity, or religion. These crimes, whether intentionally or not, have a ripple effect on societal values, and especially spread fear within oppressed minority groups. This research begins by examining the context that precipitated a need for hate crime laws to begin with and then looks at federal developments as a reaction to landmark hate crime cases. One …

A Doctor's Story, Randall M. Mclaughlin, Md

Jefferson Biographies

This memoir details the beginning of Randall M. McLaughlin's medical career. It begins in 1942 while he is a Pre-Med student at Penn State interviewing for medical school. From there it covers his time as a medical student at Jefferson, including classes, life in Philadelphia, and World War II. It ends at the beginning of his professional career, first with an internship at Cooper Hospital and later as a First Lieutenant in the Army.

Portugal In Ruins: From "Europe" To Crisis And Austerity, Samuel Weeks

College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Papers

This article engages the analyses of Poulantzas, Anderson, and Ferreira do Aramal to outline the main politico-economic contours of post-Carnation Revolution Portugal. The account that follows examines the effects of accession to the European Economic Community (EEC), European Union (EU) structural funding and liberalization policies, and the euro currency. The article concludes by situating the troika’s 2011 “rescue” of the Portuguese state—and the accompanying austerity measures—within the post-1974 process of “Europeanization.”

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 68, Issue 1, Spring 2019

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Dean's Column - Reflecting on a Decade
• On Campus
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale - Jefferson Giving Day
• Discovery - Network Effects
• Alumni Profile - Robert Schless, MD 1916
• Faculty Profile - Cuckoo Choudhary, MD
• Class Notes
• Class Agent
• Bookshelf
• In Memoriam
• By the Numbers - Match Day 2019

“A Matter Of Great Importance”: Interest Groups, The Senate Judiciary Committee, And Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, Elizabeth A. Lane, Jessica A. Schoenherr

Arlen Specter Center Research Fellowship

As Senator Arlen Specter once explained, the Supreme Court confirmation process is a “matter of great importance” to the president, the nominee, senators, and the public at large. The public cares who sits on the Court, and interest groups play a key role in disseminating information about the nominee and his or her qualifications for the job. In this paper, we focus on one piece of interest groups’ involvement in Supreme Court confirmation hearings: their decision to send senators summarized information about the nominees via briefing books. We use a combination of archival research and text analysis to examine the …

Alexander Koppel: Pioneer - Physician - Provider, Max Koppel

Jefferson Biographies

Alexander Koppel was born to immigrant parents on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1905. Early in his life, his mother was forced to return to Austria to her tenant farmer parents with Alexander and his two sisters because of a severe downturn in the American economy. A few years later, his mother brilliantly sensed the upcoming disastrous World War in 1913, and returned with the three children to Wilmington, Delaware where by that time, her husband, Samuel Koppel, had established the Wilmington Window Cleaning Company.

Alexander Koppel seized the opportunity for higher education made available to …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 67, Issue 3, Fall 2018

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Explaining Uncertainty
• A Series of Fortunate Events
• 2018 Alumni Weekend
• The Dean's Column
• Findings
• The Jefferson Legacy
• Time Capsule
• On Campus
• Jefferson Researcher Explores Cell Death Controls and Effects
• New Alumni Association President
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• By the Numbers

Reshaping A Fractured System: Arlen Specter’S Footprint On The Criminal Justice System In The U.S., Kaitlyn Brown

Arlen Specter Center Research Fellowship

The criminal justice system in the United States of America has been in peril since the beginning of the 1960’s, spiraling downward as the rates of crime shot upward across the country. Such drastic changes to a major system within the United States brought the issue of criminal justice to the forefront of nearly every political agenda of politicians in office. This paper examines the work one such politician, the late Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, performed in his fight against the crippling system. This paper evaluates the actions and policies Specter introduced, from his controversial Armed Career Criminal Act to …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 67, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2018

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Exposure: Michael Weinstein, MD '94, had a plan to take his own life; now he is back to living it
• Medical School 2.0: JeffMD - A New Way to Train Physicians
• 25 Years of JeffHOPE Clinics: Student Volunteers Shape Patients' Lives - and Their Own
• Caring for the Most Vulnerable a "Moral, Ethical, Medical Responsibility": Jefferson's Latina Women's Clinic Dispenses Care and Compassion
• The Dean's Column
• Findings: New Look at Eye's Immune Status
• Home at Last: A message from Elizabeth Dale
• Endowed Professorships
• Time Capsule
• On Campus
• Feeling all the Bumps: Jefferson Oncologist Looks at the World …

A Hybrid Holistic Thinking Approach For Resetting The Seabrook Chapter Of The Japanese American Citizens League (Jacl), Michael K. Asada

Full-Text Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this capstone is to describe how a Hybrid Holistic Thinking Approach has helped the author analyze the Seabrook Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) review its perceived relevance as a national civil rights organization, address its systemic challenges, and reset the organization.

A quantitative, quasi-experimental research design was implemented to address organization improvement. The study targeted the Seabrook JACL, a non-profit, civil rights organization to review its current state and its challenges and synthesize a compelling argument for organizational change. The capstone implemented a participative style of problem management utilizing a Hybrid Holistic Thinking Approach …

'Agrarians Or Anarchists?' The Venceremos Brigades To Cuba, State Surveillance, And The Fbi As Biographer And Archivist, Teishan A. Latner

College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Papers

In the late 1960s, as thousands of Americans traveled to Cuba to evaluate the nation’s evolving revolutionary process, the FBI launched a surveillance campaign designed to prove that travel to the communist island by US citizens represented a threat to national security. Focusing on the FBI’s investigation of the Venceremos Brigade, a radical humanitarian organization that sent delegations of Americans to Cuba as volunteers for agricultural and construction projects, this article evaluates the FBI’s claims that Cuba was indoctrinating leftwing Americans with revolutionary theory and training them in guerrilla warfare. But while state surveillance was intended to criminalize the Venceremos …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 67, Issue 1, Winter 2018

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Dean's Column
• Findings: "Living Electrodes" may change neurological device design
• Ch-ch-ch-changes: Jefferson's realignment of departments and programs
• The Difference Alumni Make: A message from Elizabeth Dale
• A Fighting Chance: Harrisburg's boxing scene has an unlikely ally in cardiologist Andrew Foy, MD '08
• Alumni Weekend
• 2017 Jefferson Gala: Gathering to celebrate our shared success
• Time Capsule
• The Shot Doc: Meet Herb Magee, head coach of Jefferson's men's basketball team, the Rams
• Going the Distance: Students bring compassion into the clinic in Nicaragua's remote mountains
• On Campus
• Stephanie Moleski, MD '05: Jefferson doctor moves from board room to exam …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 66, Issue 2, Fall 2017

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Introducing the New Jefferson: One Name. Two Legacies. Infinite Possibilities
• The PhiladelphiaU Story: A History of Change and Innovation
• Two Alumnae, One Vision: A New Home Base for All Graduates
• Second Opinions for Docs, Second Chances for Patients: The Jefferson Angioplasty Center Helps Cardiac Patients Avoid Open Heart Surgery
• Dean's Column
• Findings: Molecule May Help Maintain Brain's Synaptic Balance
• The Families We Choose: A Message from Elizabeth Dale
• On Campus
• Basil Harris, MD '02: Merging Medicine, Engineering, and Design to Revolutionize Digital Healthcare
• Big Things, Small Beginnings: Jefferson Surgeons Are Exploring New Therapies That May Make Standard …

2017 Commencement For Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson Graduate School Of Biomedical Sciences, And Jefferson School Of Population Health

Sidney Kimmel Medical College Commencements

Processional

• Trumpet Voluntary, JOHN STANLEY
• The Jefferson Processional, BURLE MARX
• Organist, THE REVEREND R. BRUCE TODD

Opening Proclamation

• RICHARD W. HEVNER, Chair, Board of Trustees, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health

Presentation of Colors

• U.S. Armed Forces Career Center, Philadelphia

The National Anthem

Convocation and Remarks

• STEPHEN K. KLASKO, MD, MBA President and CEO, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health

President's Award

• PRESIDENT KLASKO (HAROLD AND LYNNE HONICKMAN)

Conferring of Honorary Degrees

• PRESIDENT KLASKO (CAROLINE KIMMEL, Doctor of Science; SIDNEY KIMMEL, Doctor of Science; DONATO J . TRAMUTO, Doctor of Science)

Conferring of Degrees in Course (President Klasko)

Jefferson College …