2008 Emeritus Faculty

DR. PHILLIP LEE BALLARD
Dr. Ballard received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1967.  After internship at Stanford and residency at USCF, he joined the faculty at UCSF, where he rose through the ranks to Professor of Pediatrics in 1985.  Until the fall of 1991, Dr. Ballard continued to make great strides in fetal lung development at USCF School of Medicine.  He joined the faculty at Penn in 1992, where he served as Director of Neonatology Research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  Dr. Ballard has worked in the area of fetal lung development since 1972. His early work showed that lung is a target tissue for glucocorticoids during fetal life.  He also made contributions to the treatment that was developed to reduce the risk of respiratory disease in premature infants.  More recently, Dr. Ballard’s work has focused on Pathobiology of Lung Development and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.  He works collaboratively with many Penn and UCSF faculty, as well as his wife, Dr. Roberta Ballard

DR. ROBERTA  BALLARD
Following medical training and pediatric residency at the University of Chicago, Dr. Roberta Ballard did additional residency work at Stanford University and trained in neonatology fellowships at George Washington University Hospital and the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF.   She was appointed as Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF in 1973 and rose through the ranks to Professor in 1988.  She became Chief of the Department of Pediatrics in 1975 and served in that role until 1990.  She was also the Director of the Pediatric Residency Training Program there as well.  She established the neonatal service at UCSF and combined the tradition of melding training and research activities in that area between UCSF and Mt. Zion.  In 1991, she was recruited to the University of Pennsylvania and as Director of the Neonatology Division at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  She has been an outstanding leader in that role.  Dr. Ballard’s research, primarily clinical, has focused on neonatal care.  She is the author or co-author of many publications in this area and is widely known for her textbook Diseases of the Newborn.  She has led or participated in numerous collaborative studies and clinical trials on lung development and lung disease,  including a multi-center clinical trial on inhaled nitric oxide for the prevention of chronic lung disease

Drs. Phillip Lee and Roberta Ballard have returned to UCSF where they are continuing their research on a part-time basis.  They are also spending time with their two sons and their families.

DR. JENNIFER CHU
Dr. Chu received her M.D. from  the  Institute of Medicine #2, in Rangoon, Burma, in 1971.She began her academic career in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvlalnia in 1975.  She retired with the rank of Associate Professor. She authored many peer-reviewed publications including a tetbook entitled “Electrodiagnosis:  An Anatomical and Clinical Approach.”  Not only is she an active member of numerous prestigious national medical societies, she was awarded honorary membership in the European Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.She holds four issued patents, plus three pending patents, for he purpose of nerve related muscle pain relief.  She is now the founder of eToima Soft Tissue Comfort Center and is also President and CEO of eToims Medical Technology LLC, a medical device company with training programs in eToims Twitch Method.  The present state-of-the-art eToims Twitch Method, developed over 17 years, resulted from Dr. Chu’s more than three decades of experience in electrodiagnostic studies.

DR. MURRAY DALINKA.
Before accepting his honorary title  as Professor Emeritus, Dr. Dalinka was  Chief of Musculoskeletal Radiology for several years at HUP.Dr. Dalinka received His M.D. from the University of Michigan and his residency training  at Montefiore Hospital. Dr. Dalinka began his career  in academic radiology in the 1960’s  with an appointment as instructor at Harvard’s Peter Bent Brigham  hospital.  He joined The University of Pennsylvania School of medicine in 1976 where he has mentored , educated and influenced countless radiology residents and fellows since that time.Considered one of the world’s leaders in musculoskeletal imaging, Dr. Dalinka is a founding member of the International Skeletal Society. He has published over 240 scientific articles and reviews, many of which have become seminal treatises on their topics. His textbook Arthrography remains the definitive work on the topic.Dr. Dalinka has served on the editorial board of several radiology Journals and is currently an assistant editor of the A merican Journal of Roentgenology.Now, as Dr. Dalinka contemplates life as Emeritus professor, he watches as the new Perelman Centerfor Advanced Medicine is taking shape, his section and the rest of the department members are poised to move in  and continue to apply the skills they have learned from mentors like Dr. Dalinka.

DR. PAUL DE WEER
Dr. De Weer was born in Belgium. He emigrated to the United States in 1965 after having received his B.S., M.D. and M.S. from the University of Leuven in Belgium.  In 1969 he received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Maryland.  The same year he was appointed Assistant Professor of Biophysics at the same institution. In 1972 he was appointed Associate Professor and in 1978 Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Washington University in St. Louis.Dr. De Weer joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 as the Isaac Ott Professor of Physiology and Chairman of the Department.Dr. De Weer’s research interests lie in the area of active transport of ions across cell membranes.  His contributions in the field are attested by his numerous publications.He received several honors and awards including two consecutive Senator Jacob Javits Awards of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.  He is the Chair of the International Inter-University Francqui Foundation and was the President of the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology from 1996-1997.Dr. DeWeer spent his summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, doing research on squid giant axons.   He is currently the Chair of the Laboratory’s Science Council. It is obvious from his biographical sketch that in the ensuing months and years he will spend more time with his family and especially with his 6 grandchildren.

DR. PETER NOWELL
One of the most honored and esteemed members of the medical faculty at Penn is Dr. Peter Nowell. Dr. Nowell’s fame has approached the fringes of notoriety.Peter joined the University of Pennsylvania as a medical student in 1948 and in 1952 he received his M.D .  In the course of the next 55 years he became the recipient of several honors and awards, including an endowed chair  “the Gaylord P. and Mary Louise Harnwell  Professorship of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. From 1967 to 1973 he was the chair of the department.Dr. Nowell made a number of seminal contributions, including the landmark discovery of the Philadelphia Chromosome, a discovery that has increased our understanding of the pathogenesis of leukemia and lymphoma.  His scientific contributions have also had practical applications in diagnosis, prognosis and patient management.  He showed the critical significance of cytogenetic findings in the prognosis of myelodysplastic syndromes.  Much of what we know about the genetic basis of cancer today has derived from the work and intellect of Peter Nowell.  He has published  more than 400 articles, chapters and reviews.His continued research efforts earned him the American Society of Experimental Pathology’s annual award for outstanding contribution to the conquest of diseases.  Other awards followed, most notable among them the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award for his “incisive studies in patient-oriented research that paved the way for identifying genetic alterations that cause cancer in humans and that allow for cancer diagnosis in patients at the molecular level”.Peter also received the Distinguished Graduate Award and for his extraordinary service to Penn the Penn Alumni presented him with the Alumni Award of Merit. Peter, we are pleased to have you join our group and we hope that this period would not be one of idleness but a continuation of your imaginative endeavors.

DR. JAMES C. SAUNDERS
We are especially pleased to welcome Jim to the ranks of Emeritus faculty.  He has been a senior member of the Association and one of its founding members.  As of July 1 of this year he became the President-elect of the Association. Dr. Saunders received his B.A. in Psychology from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1963 and M.A.s in Experimental Psychology from Connecticut College in 1965 and Princeton University in 1967, respectively.  He obtained his Ph.D. in sensory psychology from Princeton in 1968. Dr. Saunders currently holds the title of Professor of Research Otolaryngology, Physiology and Neuroscience. The cornerstones of his career have been teaching, research, and service to the University.  During his career he has supervised the research activities of over 160 residents, post-doctoral, medical, and undergraduate students, and undertaken collaborative research with over 30 colleagues. In 1990 he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in the School of Medicine, and in 1992 the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Pennsylvania.  In 1999 former students founded the  “Saunders Prize” for outstanding student research in Otorhinolaryngology. Further recognition of his research efforts includes the Claude Pepper award (1998) for research excellence from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. As he enters the Emeritus stage of his career Dr. Saunders looks forward to continued interaction with the University community and the new challenges that this passage will bring.

DR. SAUL WINEGRAD
Dr. Winegrad is a distinguished member of the Penn Med Faculty.  Until this past July he was Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Saul received his B.A. in 1952 and his M.D. in 1956, both from the University of Pennsylvania.  After joining Penn in 1962 as Assistant Professor of Physiology, he quickly moved up the ladder to Associate Professor in 1966 and to Professor in 1969. He is the founding Director of Biomedical Graduate Studies, the organization that now oversees all graduate education in the Biomedical area, in the School of Arts and Sciences and in Bioengineering. To many of us here who served in one or another graduate group, Dr. Winegrad’s contributions in the area of Biomedical Graduate Studies are well known and truly appreciated. He received several honors and awards, including  induction into the Phi Beta Kappa and the AOA Societies, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and Fogarty International Fellowship. Saul is a member of several scientific societies, and has served or is a member of several editorial boards. Saul it is an honor to have you join The Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty.