William Butler, M.D. '58
William Butler has authored more than 150 publications in the
fields of immunology, infectious diseases, and medical administration. Currently
he is Chancellor Emeritus
of Baylor College of Medicine where
he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1979 to 1996. Additionally
he is a Distinguished Service Professor for the College and Professor of
Internal Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology.
Theodore Castele, B.S. Chemistry '51, M.D. '57
"Dr.
Ted" is Medical Editor Emeritus for NewsChannel 5, Cleveland's ABC affiliate,
where he had presented health reports to viewers since 1975. He is currently
affiliated with Lutheran Hospital where he has served in numerous capacities
including Director of Radiology, and Chief of Staff. In 1999 he was appointed
to the first National Institutes of Health Director's Council of Public Representatives
in Washington, D.C.
John D. Crissman, M.D. '66
John D. Crissman, MD, is the former dean
of the Wayne State University School
of Medicine, the nation's largest single-campus medical school. He is
a board-certified pathologist who served as WSU chairman and DMC specialist-in-chief
of pathology from 1990 through 1999. As Dean, he orchestrated the consolidation
of clinical faculty into a single, 750-member group practice and served as
president of Academic Health Center Services.
Gregory L. Eastwood, M.D. '66, Case Trustee
Dr.
Eastwood has been President of Upstate
Medical University of the State University of New York in Syracuse since
1993. Before going to Syracuse he held faculty appointments at Harvard Medical
School and the University of Massachusetts Medical School and served as Dean
of the Medical College of Georgia. He has also been a consultant to the National
Institutes of Health, the Department of Veteran's Affairs, and other organizations
in the U.S., China, Japan, Britain, and Europe.
Julie Louise Gerberding, B.S. Chemistry & Biology '77, M.D. '81
 
Julie
Louise Gerberding became the first woman Director of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (ATSDR) in 2002. Before becoming CDC Director and ATSDR Administrator,
Dr. Gerberding was Acting Deputy Director of National
Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), where she played a major role
in leading CDC's response to the anthrax bioterrorism events of 2002. She
joined CDC in 1998 as Director of the Division
of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCID, where she developed CDC's patient
safety initiatives and other programs to prevent infections, antimicrobial
resistance, and medical errors in healthcare settings.
Alfred Gilman, Ph.D. Pharmacology '69, M.D. '69
Alfred
Gilman, who earned his medical degree and pharmacology doctorate
from Case in 1969, shared the 1994
Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology with Martin Rodbell for discovering
G
proteins, which help send messages through the body's trillions of
cells in response to certain hormones and drugs.
Paul C. Lauterbur, B.S. Chemistry '51
 Paul
Lauterbur
has been chosen to share the 2003
Nobel Prize medicine or physiology with Sir
Peter Mansfield for discoveries in magnetic
resonance imaging. Dr. Lauterbur discovered that by introducing gradients
in the magnetic field it was possible to create a two-dimensional picture.
By combining this knowledge with the analysis of the emitted radio waves
it became possible to build up two-dimensional pictures of structures
that could not be visualized through other methods.
Aaron Lazare, M.D. '61
Dr.
Lazare is Chancellor and Dean of the University
of Massachusetts Medical School. Having taught psychiatry at both Harvard
and the University of Massachusetts, he conducted pioneering research on
the importance of understanding the patients perspective on clinical outcome
and applying a negotiating paradigm to the doctor-patient relationship. Dr.
Lazare is also the author of the first textbook on outpatient psychiatry,
Outpatient
Psychiatry: Diagnosis and Treatment, which was selected in 1990
as the American
Journal of Nursing's "book of the year."
JoAnn E. Manson, M.D. '79
Dr.
Manson is Chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Co-Director
of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology at Brigham
and Women's Hospital. She is also a professor of medicine and the Elizabeth
F. Brigham Professor of Women's Health at Harvard
Medical School. She has published more than 400 articles in the medical
literature, was named one of the top ten "Champions of Women's Health" by
Ladies Home Journal in 2000, and was the
recipient of the "Woman in Science Award" from the American
Medical Women's Association in 2003.
Ferid Murad, Ph.D. Pharmacology '65, M.D. '65, Case Trustee
Ferid
Murad, who received his M.D. and Ph.D. in pharmacology from CASE in 1965,
shared the 1998 Nobel
Prize in Medicine or Physiology with two others -- Robert F. Furchgott
of the State University of New York in Brooklyn and Louis J. Ignarro of the
University of California in Los Angeles -- for their discoveries concerning
nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
June E. Osborn, M.D. '61
Dr.
Osborn is the president of the Josiah
Macy, Jr. Foundation in New York. She has published extensively on
research topics in virology, infectious diseases, AIDS and public policy
related to health acre and public health. From 1989-93 she was chairwoman
of the U.S. National Commission on Aids and is a member of the boards
of the MIND Institute,
the International AIDS Trust,
the Center for Healthcare Strategies
and the International Advisory Board for the National
Academies. Since 1997 she has chaired Physician
Leadership on National Drug Policy.
David Satcher, M.D. '70, Ph.D. Anatomy '70, D.Sc. Honoris Causa '90
David Satcher serves as director of the National Center
for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.
In 1998 he became the 16th
Surgeon General of the United States, a position he held through
2002. Of the 17 surgeon generals, he was the second to have graduated
from Case and was the first African-American to receive simultaneous
M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Medicine. Prior to being named
Surgeon General, he was the director of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and administrator
of the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry. President Bill Clinton said of him: "No one
is better qualified than Dr. Satcher to be America's doctor. He is a
mainstream physician who is an eloquent advocate for the health of all
Americans."
Jesse L. Steinfeld, M.D. '49
Dr.
Jesse Steinfeld served as Surgeon
General of the United States from 1969-1973. In this position, he was
the first public health official in the U.S. to declare that smoking was
the number one public health problem, and strengthened the warning on packages
of cigarettes; changing it from "Warning: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous
to your health" to "Warning: The surgeon general has determined that cigarette
smoking is dangerous to your health." Among his other accomplishments as
surgeon general were paving the way for widespread fluoridation of drinking
water, and helping to ensure that prescription drugs were not only safe but
also effective (previously, they hadn't been required to be effective). After
leaving office, he held positions including director of the Mayo
Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Rochester, Minn., dean of the Medical
College of Virginia, and president of the Medical
College of Georgia until his retirement in 1987.
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