Alumni

Jaroslav M. Bandera, M.D. (Residency 1964), of Clare, Michigan, died January 6, 2010, at age 81.

Marianne E. Cinat (M.D. 1990) died suddenly at home in Rossmoor, California, on June 18, 2011. She was 45. Cinat completed her bachelor’s and medical degrees at the U-M then went to the University of California, Irvine, for residency training in general surgery and a fellowship in trauma and critical care, and began practicing there. During her career at UC-Irvine, she served as professor of surgery, co-director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program, and director of the Regional Burn Center.

Robert M. Cutler (M.D. 1959, Fellowship 1967), of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, died April 1, 2011. He was 76.

Joseph C. Donnelly Jr., M.D. (Residency 1965), 81, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, died May 14, 2011.

Donald N. Fitch (M.D. 1959) died August 8, 2011, after a battle with cancer. He was 77. Fitch completed a residency in general medicine at Minneapolis General Hospital in 1960, and served for two years in Montana and South Dakota with the U.S. Public Health Service, Division of Indian Health. He then settled in Escanaba, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where he lived and practiced for the next 50 years. The Michigan Academy of Family Practice named him Family Physician of the Year for 2011. Together with his wife, he established the Paddy and Donald N. Fitch, M.D., Scholarship in the U-M Medical School. Contributions to the fund, made payable to the Department of Family Medicine (“Fitch Scholarship” in memo), may be sent to: Department of Family Medicine, Attn. Amy St. Amour, 1018 Fuller St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

A. Hartwell Jewell, M.D. (Residency 1957), died June 8, 2011, in Marin County, California. He was 89. Jewell served in World War II and the Korean War, and received his medical degree from Northwestern University before completing a surgical residency at the U-M Health System. He practiced surgery in Marin County for 30 years, including service on the clinical staff at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.

Anthony S. Kasiborski (M.D. 1963, Residency 1967), 71, died July 16, 2010. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and practiced dermatology in Wyandotte, Michigan, for more than 40 years.

Robert M. Kretzschmar (M.D. 1957, Residencies 1958 and 1962) died July 14, 2011, following heart failure. He was 83 and resided in Coralville, Iowa. He served with the U.S. Army in Italy, then returned to his native Ann Arbor where he completed a medical degree, and residencies in surgery and obstetrics and gynecology, at the U-M. During his career, he served as associate professor of ob/gyn at the University of Iowa Medical School, and professor and chair of ob/gyn at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Harold A. Kwast (M.D. 1956), 80, died February 15, 2011. He interned at St. Lawrence Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, then served in the U.S. Army and trained at the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine and at the U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine before serving in Japan. Following his military service, he completed an internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. In 1964, he relocated to Midland, Michigan, and co-founded a cardiology and internal medicine practice. In 1965, he helped to establish a dedicated coronary care unit at Midland Hospital, which he directed for more than 30 years. He served MidMichigan Medical Center in a variety of roles during his career, including director of the cardiac rehabilitation unit, chair of internal medicine and volunteer medical staff instructor for the family practice residency program.

James W. Morrow, M.D. (Residencies 1953 and 1958), died January 23, 2011, at age 85. He resided in Freeland, Washington.

Donald Schanz, M.D. (Residency 1994), died August 17, 2011, at age 57. An anesthesiologist and pain-management specialist, Schanz opened a clinic, Professional Pain Management, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to becoming a physician, he had a successful career as a player with the Canadian Football League.

Robert P. Singer, M.D. (Residency 1963), died March 29, 2011, of cancer. He attended Cornell Medical School and interned at Rochester General Hospital in New York before completing a neurosurgical residency at the U-M under Edgar Kahn (M.D. 1924, Residency 1926). He then relocated to Richmond, Virginia, where he co-founded Neurosurgical Associates.

Bernard J. Woodley (M.D. 1956) died August 2, 2011, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 82. Woodley served as a lieutenant physician in the U.S. Navy from 1958-60, then returned to the downriver area south of Detroit to practice family medicine. He served for eight years as chief of staff at Seaway Hospital in Trenton. He retired in 2004 after 45 years of practice and delivery of more than 2,000 babies, the last of which was his first grandson.

Faculty

William C. Castor (M.D. 1951, Residency 1953), of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, died June 11, 2011, at age 85, from complications of pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease. His U-M medical training was interrupted by service as an X-ray technician on a U.S. Army hospital ship during World War II. A specialist in rheumatology and arthritis, he became an internal medicine instructor at the U-M in 1955, and by 1967 had become a full professor. He was named emeritus professor in 1995, but remained active in research, receiving continuous support from the NIH from 1960-99.

Theodore Miller Cole, M.D., professor emeritus of physical medicine and rehabilitation, died March 26, 2011. He was 79. Cole served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951-52, attended the University of New Hampshire for his undergraduate degree, received his M.D. from Tufts Medical School, and completed an internship and residency at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He began his career at the University of Minnesota in 1963, and in 1977 joined the U-M faculty as professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He retired in 2001.

Howard Victor Dubin, M.D. (Residency 1970), died October 16, 2011, at age 73. He attended Columbia University in New York, then completed residencies in internal medicine (at Columbia) and in dermatology (at the U-M). In 1968, he joined the faculty in the U-M Department of Dermatology, and served the Ann Arbor community for four decades in private practice and as a clinical professor. He served in the U.S. Army for two years during the 1960s. Upon stepping down from the executive board of the Dermatology Foundation, which he served as president from 1991-98, the organization honored him with its Distinguished Service Medallion.

Galen B. Toews, M.D., died October 12, 2011, from complications of prostate cancer. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, he completed a residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, served with the U.S. Army, and completed pulmonary and immunology fellowships at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he served on the faculty for eight years. In 1987 he joined the U-M as chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine. A pioneering lung researcher who led the field of respiratory research for 30 years, he also served as associate dean for research at the Medical School from 2006-08. Contributions to the Galen B. Toews, M.D., Professorship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine may be sent to 1000 Oakbrook Dr., Suite 100, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, or submitted online at www.med.umich.edu/intmed.

Joseph Walton Jr., M.D. (Residency 1966), 76, died September 12, 2011. He graduated from the University of Florida Medical School, studied angioplasty in Switzerland and was the first cardiologist to bring the procedure to Michigan. A retired U.S. Air Force captain, he taught in China and at East Tennessee State University during his career. He joined the U-M faculty in 1966 and played a key role in developing the cardiac catheterization program, directing the cath lab for 17 years. In 1994 he was designated professor emeritus.

Friends

Peter G. Corriveau died September 19, 2011, at his home in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He was 83. Corriveau, founder of Corriveau Steel, and his wife of 58 years, Virginia, generously supported clinical education, melanoma research and nephrology at the U-M Health System. Corriveau was a graduate of the University of Detroit. —MF