1980

Anna Meenan, MD , FPR '83 , has retired after 21 years at the University Primary Care Clinic in Mt. Morris. Aside from staffing the University Outreach Prenatal Clinic in Rochelle every other Friday, she plans to catch up on 21 years of deferred housework, spending more time with her husband, Kevin, keeping tabs on Doug (22, NIU senior), Alex (19, ISU freshman), and Elise (17, Boylan, junior), doing some volunteer work, and enjoying never having to work another night, weekend or holiday ever again.

1982

Marygrace Elson, MD, shares the news that she married in June to Iowa native, Don Schroeder, so it looks like she will be at the University of Iowa for awhile.

1983

WIlliam Hay, MD , was promoted to clinical associate professor of family medicine at University of Nebraska Medical Center. He and his wife, Louisa Foster, PsyD, celebrated their   15th wedding anniversary in October.  The couple and their three children, Aidan 9, Liam 6, and Sorcha 4, live in Omaha, Neb.

1989

David Deutsch, MD, was appointed chairman of pediatrics at both the College of Medicine and Rockford Health Systems. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist.

Thomas Wright, MD, has returned to the College of Medicine as associate professor of clinical psychiatry.   He is the medical director for the Rosecrance adolescent substance abuse program and will assist in the M3 psychiatry clerkship.

1991

Jack Lyons, MD, still enjoys practicing diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine at
St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. He is active on several medical staff committees but saves time to spend with his wife, Ruth, and daughter, Morgan, and sons, Carl and Jonathan.  

1997

Kristin Millin, MD, and husband, Ed Rataj, welcomed their first child, Ronan Gerald on August 19. Ronan was 10 pounds, 7 ounces at birth. Kris is an assistant professor and medical director of the West Pediatrics Clinic at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

1998

Jerlyn (Cummings) McCleod, MD , of Dothan, Ala., completed her residency and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, and has taken a position in a smaller city in southeast Alabama with Laurel Oaks Behavioral Health Center.  She also has an outpatient practice at Dothan Behavioral Medicine Clinic, www.harmonex.us . Jerlyn was recently initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.   She and her husband, Donald, a CPA, have two children. Donald III is 4, and Michelle is one.

2000

Kimberli (Hospelhorn) Guelde, MD, and husband Daniel, welcomed their second daughter, Heather Gabrielle, in July 2004. Heather joined her sister, Taylor, at home.   Kimberli is practicing with the KSB Medical Group in Dixon, Illinois, and helping precept the new rural track of the Family Practice Residency Program of the College of Medicine at Rockford.

2000

Nicole Norris, MD, joined the medical staff at Illinois Valley Community Hospital. Norris completed her family practice residency at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Ind.

2002

Heather Ricketts, MD, and husband , Lance, welcomed their first child, Gavin Matthew, on April 29. Heather is completing an obstetrics and gynecology residency at St. Johns Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis.

2004

Charles Sweet, MD, and his wife, Lisa, welcomed Ruby Noel Sweet on July 12. Charles is a psychiatry resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

2005

Emily Rogers, MD, and her husband, Nate, welcomed their daughter, Abigail Emily, on April 14. Abigail was born just nine days before mom got her medical degree. Emily is a first-year resident at the medical school's Family Practice Residency Program at SwedishAmerican Hospital in Rockford.

Obituaries

Karen Wakefield, MD, Class of 1993

Dr. Wakefield of Palestine, Ill., died December 5, 2005.

After medical school, she completed her residency at Community East Hospital in Indianapolis.    She then returned to her hometown of Palestine, where she was the village doctor for nine years.

Dr. Wakefield was on the U of I faculty, working as a preceptor to rural medical education students from the Rockford campus.

She is survived by her husband, David, and two children, Lucas and Allie.

Annette Yonke, PhD, retired faculty

Dr. Yonke of Orangeville, Ill., died November 7, 2005.

She retired from the College in 2001, after 25 years of service in the department of medical education and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She served as head of the curriculum and instruction program areas and held a joint appointment in the department of family and community medicine.

Dr. Yonke is survived by her husband, Gerald Estes.