It is the largest independent blood bank in Florida, providing more than 200,000 pints of blood to hospitals and health care facilities each year.įreeman, who retired in 1989, and his wife, Laura Jean, currently split their time between Orlando and Highlands, N.C.ī. While maintaining his private practice in internal medicine, Freeman served as medical director of the blood bank from 1971 to 1989. Freeman Jr., 51M, with the naming of the Oscar Freeman Laboratory Building. In recognition for 18 years of service, the Central Florida Blood Bank Board of Directors honored Oscar W. Ruth McClure, 48M, one of the first female Emory medical graduates, has retired from her gyn/ob practice. Paul Teplis, 44C, 47M, is the proud head of an accomplished family of high achievers, including his son, Alan Teplis, 78C, 82M, who now practices emergency medicine at Holy Spirit Hospital in Harrisburg, Pa., and his daughter, Carol Teplis, 94M, who is a pediatrician in Elgin, Ill. A native of Elberton, Ga., Patz also holds a master of liberal arts degree from Hopkins, which he received in 1998 at age 78. He served as director of the Wilmer Eye Institute for 10 years. Patz joined the full-time faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1970 and in 1979 founded the Retinal Vascular Center. Specializing in diseases caused by abnormal growth of blood vessels in the eye, Patz helped develop one of the first lasers used to treat eye disease. For this discovery, Patz received the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award, the first of many prestigious awards to come. Benton Jr., 42C, 45M, won the 2000≢001 Volunteer Award from the health department in Broward County, Fla.Īrnall Patz, 45M, received an honorary doctorate from Johns Hopkins for his contributions as a researcher and teacher in ophthalmology.Īt age 32, Patz showed that the popular practice of giving high levels of oxygen to premature infants was causing an epidemic of blindness. He resides in Atlanta with his wife, Margaret, and is father to three grown children.Ĭurtis D. Retired radiologist Albert Rayle Jr., 44M, is keeping busy as a volunteer at the Good Samaritan Health Center, founded by William Warren, 79M. The Miami Project is a research center dedicated to the study of paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury. His most recent donation was a six-foot stainless steel sculpture of the logo of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in memory of his beloved wife, Doris J. He continues to be an avid art collector and agent who has donated many pieces to the University of Miami Medical School, which he helped found. Maurice Rich, 36C, 39M, has retired after 42 years of caring for patients with cardiopulmonary disease.
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