Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty
Faculty Affairs and Professional Development
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
The Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty (ASEF) serves to
enhance the careers of the emeritus faculty by encouraging them to
remain a part of the community of scholars in the School of Medicine.
The Association also serves to support the senior faculty by raising
awareness of the full range of retirement options available to them,
whether they are planning to retire within two years or two decades.
Wallace T. Miller Sr., 81, Radiology
Wally Miller, an exceptionally gifted radiologist, an inspired teacher and mentor, and a dear colleague of many of us, died at the age of 81 on Sunday, June 23.
His distinguished 50 year career at Penn was recognized by many awards detailed in this obituary, but we especially remember him as the first recipient of the I.S. Ravdin Award, which recognizes an outstanding clinician at HUP. "Wally had an almost magical ability to construe arcane diagnoses from minute abnormalities on film, long before anyone else could," said his former trainees and echoed by all who knew him. They have established the Wallace T. Miller, Sr. Scholarship Fund at the University of Pennsylvania to which donations may be made via http://alumni.med.upenn.edu/annualgiving.php.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Faculty Retirement
We are proud to announce the release of the Sixth Edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to Faculty Retirement, ASEF's annually revised handbook highlighting the policy and process governing the transition from full-time faculty to emeritus.
Please refer to the official release notes
for a review of the updates to this year's edition.
Medical Faculty Senate Presentation
On Wednesday, November 14th ASEF President Anna Meadows delivered a presentation to the Medical Faculty Senate concerning ASEF's mission and current events. Here it is in case you missed it.
New book by Nicholas Kefalides
"Finding Aesculapius across the Atlantic: The Road to Discovery"
This memoir describes Dr. Kefalides' experiences as a college student in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, and the years as a medical student, as a USPHS officer directing a research project on burns in Lima, Peru, and as a faculty member in three universities culminating with a professorship at Penn.
Dr. Kefalides is Past President of ASEF.
