1985-1989

John Spinosa

  • Email:  john@spinosa.com
  • Undergraduate Institution:  Claremont McKenna College BA, Chemistry, 1980
  • Graduate Department:  Biology (Experimental Pathology, now called Molecular Pathology)
  • Thesis Title:  Human neutrophil interactions with model immune complexes : modulation by human C5a anaphylatoxin
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. Dennis E. Chenoweth
  • Graduation Year:  1987
  • Postgraduate Education:  Pathology, UCSD Medical Center
  • Current Position: Chief of Staff and Staff Pathologist at Scripps Memorial Hospital and Chairman of the Pathology Department, La Jolla, California
  • Publications 

 

Raymond Gariano

  • Email:  Ray.Gariano@hhs.co.santa-clara.ca.us
  • Undergraduate Institution:  UCLA, BS, Chemistry, 1981
  • Graduate Department:  Neurosciences
  • Thesis Title:  Dopamine autoreceptors : distribution, role in neuronal activity and relation to antipsychotic drugs
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. Philip M. Groves
  • Graduation Year:  1988
  • Postgraduate Education:  Ophthalmology, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
  • Current Position:  Chief, Retina-Vitreous Surgery, Dept. Surgery, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center; Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Publications 

 

Joseph L. Higgins

  • Email:  nousl345@telocity.com
  • Website:  Profile
  • Undergraduate Institution:  UC San Diego, BA, Bioengineering, 1979
  • Graduate Department:  Bioengineering
  • Thesis Title:  Photoplethysmography: theoretical and experimental considerations in the diagnosis of venous disease
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. Arnost Fronek
  • Graduation Year:  1988
  • Postgraduate Education:  Radiology, Stanford University Hospital
  • Current Position:  Diagnostic Radiologist, Modesto Radiological Medical Group, Inc.
  • Publications 

 

John D. Pfeifer

  • Email:  pfeifer@path.wustl.edu
  • Website:  Profile
  • Undergraduate Institution:  UC San Diego, BA, Physiology, 1981
  • Graduate Department:  Biology
  • Thesis Title:  Production of Soluble Factors Influencing T Cell Reactivity by a Cloned Line of Thymic Epithelium
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. Richard W. Dutton
  • Graduation Year:  1988
  • Postgraduate Education:  Pathology (Anatomical / Surgical), Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Post Graduate Medical Scientist Training Program
  • Current Position:  Professor, Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis
  • Publications (see website)

 

Jeffrey E. Rubnitz

  • Email:  jeffrey.rubnitz@stjude.org
  • Website:  Profile
  • Undergraduate Institution:  University of Wisconsin, BS, Mol. Biology, 1979
  • Graduate Department:  Biology
  • Thesis Title:  Homologous Recombination in Mammalian Cells
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. Suresh Subramani
  • Graduation Year:  1988
  • Postgraduate Education:  Pediatrics, Stanford University Hospital
  • Current Position:  Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty, Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Training Program
  • Publications (see website)

 

Gerald F. Cox

  • Email: gerald.cox@genzyme.com
  • Undergraduate Institution:  Harvard, BA, Biology, 1980
  • Graduate Department:  Biology
  • Thesis Title:  Identification and Characterization of Enactin: A New 245 kd Protein Associated with Adherens Junction and the N Lines of Striated Muscle
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. S.J. Singer
  • Graduation Year:  1989
  • Postgraduate Education:  Pediatrics and Medical Genetics at Boston Children's Hospital
  • Current Position:  Medical Director, Genzyme Corporation, Instructor Harvard Medical School
  • Publications 

 

Carl E. Fricks

  • Email:  unknown
  • Undergraduate Institution:  Brandeis Univeristy, BA, Chemistry, Physics, 1978
  • Graduate Department:  Biology
  • Thesis Title:  Studies of the conformational changes of poliovirus during virus neutralisation, cell entry and infection
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. James Hogle
  • Graduation Year:  1989
  • Postgraduate Education:  Internal Medicine, USC Medical Center, Los Angeles
  • Current Position:  Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Scripps Hospital, La Jolla
  • Publications 

 

Beatrice Golomb

  • Email:  bgolomb@ucsd.edu
  • Website: Profile
  • Undergraduate Institution:  USC, BS, Physics, 1979
  • Graduate Department:  Biology
  • Thesis Title:  Visual motion perception : some special properties
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. Donald MacLeod
  • Graduation Year:  1989
  • Postgraduate Education:  Postdoc at the Salk institute, Computational Neurobiology; Internal Medicine, VA Hospital, San Diego, California
  • Current Position:  Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego
  • Publications (see website)

 

Richard D. Rasmussen

  • Email:  unknown
  • Undergraduate Institution:  University of California, Davis, BS, Biochemistry, 1977
  • Graduate Department:  Biology
  • Thesis Title:  Characterization of Late Transcripts and Viral DNA from a Region of HCMV which Contains Cell-Related Sequences
  • Thesis Advisor at UCSD:  Dr. Deborah Spector
  • Graduation Year:  1989
  • Postgraduate Education:  Dermatology, Barnes Hopsital, St. Louis
  • Current Position:  Dermatologist, Grants Pass, Oregon
  • Publications