Alumni Board

This board is the governing body of the VP&S Alumni Association. Members are responsible for implementing a variety of programs and initiatives to support the goal of achieving maximum alumni engagement.

Officers

  • Vivian Lewis '77

    • President

    Vivian Lewis ’77 is a professor emerita in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where she was also the vice provost for faculty development and diversity. She specializes in reproductive endocrinology, infertility, and menopause, and previously served on the advisory committees for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Food and Drug Administration’s reproductive health drugs committee. 

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  • Craig Granowitz '90

    • Vice-President

    Craig Granowitz '90 is Senior Vice President at Amarin Corporation, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapeutics to cost-effectively improve cardiovascular health.

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Members

  • John W. Aldridge '97

    John Aldridge ’97 is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in minimally invasive muscle sparing spinal surgery and total joint replacement surgery at Hampton Roads Orthopaedics Spine & Sports Medicine in Hampton Roads, Virginia.  

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  • Frank H. Arlinghaus '74

    Frank H. Arlinghaus '74 is a pulmonary and critical care specialist in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, who works for the Hackensack Meridian Hospitals network at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, New Jersey. His current focus is advanced lung disease, fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, and thromboembolic disease. An inventor of medical devices, he also has extensive experience and expertise in global health policy and initiatives.

    Frank H. Arlinghaus '74
  • Sean Bidic '96

    Sean Bidic ’96 is a plastic surgeon based in New Jersey. He is a managing partner of American Surgical Arts, medical director of Surgical Studios, and director of hand surgery for the Christiana Care Health System.

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  • Frederick Ehlert '86

    Frederick Ehlert  ’86 is a cardiac electrophysiologist with expertise in sudden cardiac death, pacemaker and defibrillator therapy and chronic device and lead extraction and revisions. He is associate professor of medicine at CUIMC and program director of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at NYP-CUIMC.

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  • Abdul El-Sayed '15

    Abdul El-Sayed '15 is a physician, epidemiologist, and public servant. He is the Director and Health Officer of Wayne County’s Department of Health, Human & Veterans Services and hosts Crooked Media’s award-winning “America Dissected” podcast. He holds academic appointments at the intersection between public health, public policy, and politics at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Wayne State University, and American University.

  • Risa L. Gold '82

    Risa Gold ’82 is a psychiatrist in private practice in Cold Spring Harbor, New York and teaches at Northwell Health. She is president and founder of Miracle of Help USA Inc., a nonprofit organization working to build a free hospital in Sierra Leone, West Africa. She also co-founded Doctors 4 Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization educating physicians about the public health crisis of gun violence.

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  • William Gomez '82

    William Gomez '82 is an orthopaedic surgeon at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute in Hamilton, NJ. He is head orthopaedic surgeon for the Trenton Thunder/NY Yankees AA affiliate, The College of New Jersey, and Hopewell Valley High School.

  • Emily S. Gordon '91

    Emily Gordon ’91 is an internist who specializes in and is certified in functional medicine with an emphasis on lifestyle and nutrition. She is also a certified yoga teacher with a focus on improving health.

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  • Jeffrey Hoffman '85

    Jeffrey Hoffman ’85 is an otolaryngologist specializing in endocrine surgery. He is chief medical officer of the Cambridge Health Alliance, a public health hospital and ambulatory system affiliated with Harvard Medical School, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Tufts University School of Medicine. He is president of Cambridge Health Alliance Provider Organization(CHAPO) and formerly served as the chief operating officer for The Southeast Permanente Medical Group.

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  • Dineo Khabele '94

    Dineo Khabele '94 is the Mitchell & Elaine Yanow Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is a recognized physician-scientist with extensive clinical and translational research experience in gynecologic oncology, with a focus on ovarian cancer.

  • Dean Y. Kim '94

    Dean Kim ’94, is surgical director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at Henry Ford Hospital and chief of transplant services at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He is an associate professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and an associate clinical professor of surgery at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.

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  • Jennifer Longobardi '90

    Jennifer Longobardi ’90 is a clinical instructor in pediatrics with Columbia University, assistant attending in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of New York, and partner at Westmed Medical Group in Purchase, New York. She currently serves as the medical director for the White Plains City School District and Windward School.

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  • Daniel McCrimons '79

    Daniel McCrimons ’79, a practicing pediatrician for more than four decades in Sacramento, California, is an assistant clinical professor at California Northstate University Medical School. Recently, he has given several talks about the ethics and responsibilities of physicians in all specialties. He has written two novels and a third to be published in 2020.

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  • Genevieve C. O'Connell '80

    Genevieve O’Connell ’80, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine working overnight shifts at the University of Connecticut, where she is affiliated with University of Connecticut Health Center – John Dempsey Hospital.

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  • Howard T. Rosenfield '81

    Howard Rosenfield ’81 is a retired psychiatrist who specialized in psychopharmacology and long-term adult psychotherapy. He practiced and lived in Brunswick, Maine and now divides his time between Boothbay, Maine, and Brooklyn, New York. He enjoys playwrighting and spending time with his wife, three daughters, and their children.

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  • Gary Tannenbaum '83

    Gary Tannenbaum ’83 is an assistant professor of vascular surgery at VP&S and director of vascular and endovascular surgery at NYP-Westchester. He provides surgical procedures for carotid artery disease, aortic aneurysm, lower arterial disease, dialysis access, and cosmetic vascular conditions. Recent research involves drug therapies for lower extremity vascular disease.

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  • William H. Theodore '74

    William Theodore ’74 is board certified in internal medicine, neurology, and epilepsy. He is an professor of neurology at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at USUHS and a senior investigator in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Division of Intramural Research. He investigates new therapeutic approaches to uncontrolled epilepsy and uses neuroimaging techniques to study cerebral metabolism, neuropharmacology, and functional cognitive anatomy. He is vice-president and president-elect of the American Epilepsy Society.

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  • Michael Vostrejs '91

    Michael Vostrejs ’91 is an orthopedic surgeon and assistant physician-in-chief at The Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in San Francisco, where he specializes in cartilage injury and all aspects of trauma and total joint replacement.

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