Congratulations to our
New Emeritus Faculty!
Angelina D. Castro, M.D.
After completing her M.D. at the University of the Philippines, an internship at SUNY Upstate, and a residency in Anesthesia at Jefferson University in Philadelphia from 1968-1970, she received a fellowship in Anesthesia here at Penn Medicine from 1970-1972.
She was appointed Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care in 1974 and joined the Clinician Educator Track in 1977. Dr. Castro was promoted to Associate Professor in 1981. She served as Anesthesia Director of the Lithotripter Facility at HUP from 1985-1997. From 1994 until her retirement, she was Section Chief of Radiology at HUP.
During her time at the Medical Center she was involved in the training of residents in Anesthesia.============================================================
Charles C. Clark, Ph.D.
Dr. Clark did his undergraduate studies at Gannon College and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Northwestern University. This was followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Washington. He came to Philadelphia in 1972 when he obtained a research appointment at Philadelphia General Hospital in the laboratory of our own Nick Kefalides, and an adjunct appointment at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Biochemistry.
When PGH closed in 1976, he moved with Nick to the Connective Tissue Research Institute at the University City Science Center. In 1982 he was recruited to the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics . Dr. Clark was promoted with tenure in 1988.
During his long research career he focused on the structure and biosynthesis of extracellular matrix macromolecules in cartilage, bone and tendon, and more recently on the effects of electrical stimulation on gene expression in cartilage and bone in vitro.
Dr. Clark’s research was supported by numerous NIH awards and Program Project Grants and early in his career by an NIH Research Career Development award. He is currently an Associate Editor of the journal Connective Tissue Research.
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George W. Drach, M.D.
Dr. Drach received his medical degree from (Case) Western Reserve University. He then spent two years in surgical training at University Hospitals in Cleveland, which was interrupted by two years of active duty in the US Navy, part of which was spent as Chief Medical Officer on the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge. Upon returning to civilian activity, he completed one year of fellowship in urology with a subspecialty in endocrinology and three years of urology residency at Wake Forest University. He completed his training in 1969.
From 1970 – 1996 Dr. Drach taught at the University of Arizona, where he still holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Surgery/Urology and Founding Chief of Urology.
Dr. Drach has authored a large number of peer reviewed articles, book chapters and 3 books or monographs. He has served nationally as President of several organizations, including the Western Section of the American Urology Association, the American Board of Urology, the Society of University Urologists, the Clinical Society of Genitourinary Surgeons, and the Society for Research on Calculous Kinetics (the ROCK Society). He received the AUA’s Hugh Hampton Young (outstanding contributions to American urology), and he received the honor of “Father of American Lithotripsy” in 1993.
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David R. Goldmann, M.D.
Dr. Goldmann came to Penn for his residency in internal medicine in 1972. After his residency and further training in Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease at Children’s Hospital focusing on inherited metabolic disease, he joined the faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine of the Department of Medicine in 1977.
Dr. Goldman has devoted the major portion of his career at Penn to clinical medicine. He headed the Penn Tower Internal Medicine practice for many years following its inception in 1986. He reorganized and directed the Medical Consultation Service, developed a Medical School elective course in Consultative Medicine and edited one of the first textbooks in the field.
Dr. Goldmann has a long history in medical editing and publishing and has always had a keen interest in bringing evidence-based medicine to the bedside. At the American College of Physicians, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Physicians’ Information and Education Resource Section, a successful electronic point-of-care medical decision support tool designed to provide health providers with rapid access to evidence-based answers to clinical questions. David has also served in other editorial positions including that of Senior Deputy Editor for the Annals of Internal Medicine.
After retirement, David has continued as a consultant to the Center for Evidence-Based Practice, which develops systematic reviews and guidelines used in quality initiatives within the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
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John Monroe, Ph.D.
John Monroe came to Penn in 1986 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. In 1993 he became director of the Immunology Program. He rose through the ranks to become Full Professor in 1996. From 1997-2008 he was the Director of Cancer Immunology in the Abramson Cancer Center
He received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Training in 2003 and the American Association of Immunologists Distinguished Service Award in 2005.
Among his research interests are the biochemistry of antigen receptor signaling in mature and developing B lymphocytes, and the drivers of B cell development.
Dr. Monroe left Penn to become Director of Immunology Diagnostics & Biomarkers at Genentech in 2008.
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Edward N. Pugh, Jr., Ph.D.
Dr. Pugh received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1972. His postdoctoral training in Ophthalmology, was at the University of Michigan Medical School.
He came to Penn in 1974 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology and was promoted to Professor of Psychology in 1983. In 1999 he became Professor of Ophthalmology. He has also held a secondary appointment as Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering.
Dr. Pugh was appointed Professor of Physiology in 2008, where he held the Jules and Doris Stein Professorship in vision research.
He also served in a number of administrative capacities, including Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology 1975-1979, and Associate Director and Director of the undergraduate Biological Basis of Behavior Program 1989-1994. He also served as the Associate Director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the same time.
Dr. Pugh’s research interests include photoreceptor physiology, polarization vision and murine electroretinography.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards including: Election to Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the 2006 Proctor Medal of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
Beginning in 2008, he began serving as Editor-in-chief of the Journal of General Physiology.
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Alan C. Rosenquist, Ph.D.
Alan Rosenquist received his Ph.D in Neuroscience from Princeton University in 1968, and after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty first in the Department of Anatomy and later in the Department of Neuroscience, where he attained the rank of Professor of Neuroscience. From 1997-2004 he served as the medical school’s Associate Dean for Basic Science Education, and participated in the development and implementation of Curriculum 2000. He served on the Board of Trustees for Children’s Seashore House from 1994 until its merger with CHOP in 1998.
Dr. Rosenquist is the recipient of many teaching awards and honors including the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. For the past 15 years he has served the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Care International (AAALAC), as a Council Member and as its Ombudsman. He was Chair of Penn’s IACUC from 2003-2006, and Associate Dean for Animal Research in the School of Medicine from 2006 – 2008.
Dr. Rosenquist’s research focused on the mammalian visual system, especially cortical and midbrain mechanisms underlying syndromes of visual attention and recovery from cortical blindness. His interests also included the study of noradrenergic mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases. He has served on several NIH Study Sections and NSF Panels, and was an Associate Editor for the journal, Cerebral Cortex.
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Alan D. Schreiber, M.D.
Dr. Schreiber was recruited from Harvard Medical School, to Penn Medicine, as an Assistant Professor in the department of Medicine specializing in Immuno-hematology. He rose through the ranks to become Professor of Medicine in 1984.
He has also served as Chairman of the Graduate Group in Immunology. Notably, he was the first non Ph.D. to serve as Chairman of a Graduate Group in the School of Medicine.
From 1991 to the present, he served as the Assistant Dean for Research and Research Training. Dr. Schreiber’s research contributions are numerous. They include the characterization of the mechanisms of immunologic infertility in certain infertile couples and its successful treatment with glucocorticoid therapy, characterization on a molecular level of signal transduction involving the Fc gamma receptors, and the importance of the protein tyrosine kinase Syk. His more recent work led to the development of Excellair. This is an si (small interfering) RNA directed at Syk kinase that effectively controls inflammation in asthma. This drug is currently in clinical trials testing the effectiveness of Excellair in asthmatic patients.
His scientific excellence has resulted in a very large number of external grants, largely from the NIH. Some of these honors are:
1976-Humanistic Physician Award for Humanistic Medicine, HUP
1987-Lupus Foundation Award
1987-1997-NIH Merit Award from NHLBI
1994-Kyoto, Japan Award for the Molecular Dissection of Phagocytic Signalling
He has also served as President of American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, Penn Chapter.
In 2003 he founded the biopharmaceutical company ZaBeCor Pharmaceutical Co., LLC and since 2008, he has been CEO and Chairman of the Board.
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Alfred M. Sellers, M.D.
Dr. Sellers received his M.D. from Duke University in 1951. He then trained in the Department of Medicine here at Penn. In 1959, he was appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in 1966. From 1975 until his retirement in 2008, he served as Associate Professor of Medicine. Dr. Sellers did early research on and specialized in the treatment of essential hypertension.
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Michael E. Selzer, M.D., Ph.D.
Michael "Mickey" Selzer obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. in Physiology in 1968 from New York University School of Medicine, where he also interned in medicine. He then went to the NIH as an officer in the Public Health Service followed by a residency in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. He then joined the faculty and rose through the ranks to become Professor of Neurology in the Departments of Neurology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. From 2007-2009 he served as Director of Rehabilitation Research and Development at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington. As of September 1, 2009, he became Director of the Shriner Hospitals Pediatric Research Center and Professor of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine.
Dr. Selzer’s research focused on regeneration in the central nervous system, using the spinal cord of the sea lamprey as a model for determining the molecular mechanisms that underlie regrowth of nerve fibers after injury. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government and non-governmental organizations, and has served on peer review panels for the NIH, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. In recent years, Dr. Selzer served as Associate Dean for Graduate Education and the Director of Biomedical Graduate Studies (BGS). He also served as Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Track. Dr. Selzer is also the Director of the NIH-funded Center for Experimental Neurorehabilitation Training, at Penn, one of six such centers nationwide.
Dr. Selzer is the former Editor-in-Chief of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and of the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development. He was the founding Program Chair of the American Society of Neurorehabilitation, and currently the President of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Howard M. Snyder, III, M.D.
Dr. Howard Snyder graduated from Princeton University and from Harvard Medical School. His postgraduate medical training was undertaken at various institutions in the Boston area and the Great Ormand Street Hospital and Alder Hey Hospital in London and Liverpool respectively.
From 1980-1986 he was Assistant Professor of Surgery in Urology at Penn Medicine. He was Associate Professor of Surgery in Urology from 1986-1992 and from 1992 until his retirement, he was Professor of Surgery in Urology
Dr. Snyder is currently the Director of Surgical Teaching in the Division of Urology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a Retired Colonel in the Army Medical Corps.
In addition to serving as a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals, Dr. Snyder is the Regent for Urology of the American College of Surgeons; and serves on the Advisory Board Health Policy Institute of the American College of Surgeons. He is a former Trustee for the American Board of Urology.
Dr. Snyder’s interests include reconstructive pediatric urologic surgery, especially hypospadias on which he has published extensively. He worked with the late Dr. John Duckett to develop many one-stage approaches to hypospadias, and has instructed surgeons on the procedures of reconstructive pediatric urologic surgery in all parts of the world.
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Peter Sterling, Ph.D.
Dr Sterling attended NYU medical school for a year before realizing that research was his true calling. He then proceeded to earn a PhD. in neurobiology at Western Reserve University, and subsequently undertook postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School under the supervision of future Nobelists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel.
He came to Penn as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy in 1969. He has noted that he “lasted 40 years in the same office, looking out the same window onto the same Bio-pond.” He devoted much of his time in the 1970s to teaching and developing courses in the neurosciences.
In the 1980s his research focused on the retina, and this continued for the next 25 years. He noted that he was blessed with wonderful long term colleagues and collaborators and in the last decade they were able to combine structure, function, and theory in advancing the understanding of the visual receptor organ. He found this to be one of the most satisfying periods of his career.
His colleagues in the Department of Neuroscience organized a symposium to mark his retirement this past June.
In his remarks at that symposium, Peter noted that when he arrived at Penn the facilities were terrible. ”Today, everything is better: our nation, Philadelphia, Penn, and the SOM -- thanks partly to mass struggles: civil rights and anti-war movements -- also to good leadership: including former President Rodin, former Dean Kelly, the late Eliot Stellar, and his Chairs, (Elliot Stellar and Bob Barchi)."
"Today the faculty is better, and graduate education is hugely better.”
Peter and his wife Sally Zigmond, Prof. Emerita of Biology, now divide their time between Panama and New England.