Class Note 1986
Issue
Mar - Apr 2017
Please join me in congratulating Mark Proctor, M.D., who has been named Boston Children’s Hospital’s new neurosurgeon-in-chief.
Mark earned his M.D. from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and went through the Harvard Business School leadership development program. In addition to founding several first-of-their-kind programs and services, Mark has taken on progressively demanding leadership roles, including director of neurosurgical spine and craniofacial program, director of the brain injury center, associate director of the residency program, vice chair of neurosurgery and president of the physicians’ organization.
He is also the president of the New England Neurosurgical Society and the incoming chair of the joint section of pediatrics of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the national organization for pediatric neurosurgery. He co-directs the annual Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School neurological sports injuries conference, now widely considered to be the premier national concussion and spine injury conference. Mark’s instrumental involvement in developing the nation’s first pediatric intra-operative MRI once again brought national attention to his work. The project was a clinical success and has been the subject of national meetings and highlighted in a live brain surgery webcast that he moderated and which went on to receive a national Webby Award.
Liz Shea Fries and John Marchiony write: “At a pseudo-official mini-reunion Bart and Krista Thomas Corr, Taraneh Azar ’89 and Mike Moody, Charlotte and Mark Proctor, Beth Kostman Cranston, Davida Sherman Dinerman, Thom Fries, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Janet Quigley Clay, Bruce Chaffee, Sarah Page and her parents, Dick (’54) and Jane, were blown away by Melinda Lopez performing her own show, Mala, which was simultaneously her autobiographical story and a conversation-starter for all of us who have, are or soon will be experiencing the inevitable part of life that is the death of parents and elders.” Boston Mayor Walsh declared October 29, 2016, Melinda Lopez Day.
Here is an update from Matthew Weatherley-White: “Wow. Crazy year. Have been bowling in the Truman Lanes at the White House, consulting with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation on its climate-change investment strategy, guest lecturing at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Oxford’s Saïd Business School, contracting at the White House on Pay For Success, snagging a first ski descent in central British Columbia, speaking in Parliament. Had enough media BS to last a lifetime. Was living in Vatican City for three days on assignment as advisor to the Vatican Bank and awarded a pile of patents for a financial technology company we’re spinning out. Only possible trajectory is down. Mic drop, anyone?”
After many years at companies as a software engineer and many more years doing his own work on the side, Robert Munafo hopes to enter into academic research. He has begun the M.S. program at Boston University’s electrical and computer engineering department as a full-time student and is enjoying the modern science, technology, engineering and math pedagogy (which he notes is far advanced from what we had in the 1980s!).
—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com
Mark earned his M.D. from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and went through the Harvard Business School leadership development program. In addition to founding several first-of-their-kind programs and services, Mark has taken on progressively demanding leadership roles, including director of neurosurgical spine and craniofacial program, director of the brain injury center, associate director of the residency program, vice chair of neurosurgery and president of the physicians’ organization.
He is also the president of the New England Neurosurgical Society and the incoming chair of the joint section of pediatrics of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the national organization for pediatric neurosurgery. He co-directs the annual Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School neurological sports injuries conference, now widely considered to be the premier national concussion and spine injury conference. Mark’s instrumental involvement in developing the nation’s first pediatric intra-operative MRI once again brought national attention to his work. The project was a clinical success and has been the subject of national meetings and highlighted in a live brain surgery webcast that he moderated and which went on to receive a national Webby Award.
Liz Shea Fries and John Marchiony write: “At a pseudo-official mini-reunion Bart and Krista Thomas Corr, Taraneh Azar ’89 and Mike Moody, Charlotte and Mark Proctor, Beth Kostman Cranston, Davida Sherman Dinerman, Thom Fries, Jim O’Shaughnessy, Janet Quigley Clay, Bruce Chaffee, Sarah Page and her parents, Dick (’54) and Jane, were blown away by Melinda Lopez performing her own show, Mala, which was simultaneously her autobiographical story and a conversation-starter for all of us who have, are or soon will be experiencing the inevitable part of life that is the death of parents and elders.” Boston Mayor Walsh declared October 29, 2016, Melinda Lopez Day.
Here is an update from Matthew Weatherley-White: “Wow. Crazy year. Have been bowling in the Truman Lanes at the White House, consulting with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation on its climate-change investment strategy, guest lecturing at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Oxford’s Saïd Business School, contracting at the White House on Pay For Success, snagging a first ski descent in central British Columbia, speaking in Parliament. Had enough media BS to last a lifetime. Was living in Vatican City for three days on assignment as advisor to the Vatican Bank and awarded a pile of patents for a financial technology company we’re spinning out. Only possible trajectory is down. Mic drop, anyone?”
After many years at companies as a software engineer and many more years doing his own work on the side, Robert Munafo hopes to enter into academic research. He has begun the M.S. program at Boston University’s electrical and computer engineering department as a full-time student and is enjoying the modern science, technology, engineering and math pedagogy (which he notes is far advanced from what we had in the 1980s!).
—Mae Drake Hueston, 624 Poppy Ave., Corona Del Mar, CA 92625; mdhueston@me.com