Our Alumni Make a Difference!
Corydon La Ford, M.D., Class of 1842.
Prominent lecturer and author on anatomy and physiology, and Dean of the Medical School of the University of Michigan.
John Preston Mann, M.D., Class of 1842.
Pioneer in non-invasive orthopedic treatment of clubfoot and other abnormalities.
Alfred Mercer, M.D., Class of 1845.
Outstanding surgeon, medical educator, and public health administrator in Syracuse; father of Alfred Clifford Mercer and great uncle of Herman Gates Weiskotten.
Moses Gunn, M.D., Class of 1846.
Dean of the Medical School of the University of Michigan.
Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., Class of 1849.
The world's first woman to earn a regular M.D. degree from an accredited medical school by completing a full course of study.
Stephen Smith, M.D. (Columbia 1850; attended Geneva Medical College, 1847-1848.)
Founder and first President of the American Public Health Association (APHA).
Charles Leonard Wells, M.D., Class of 1869.
President of the Minnesota Academy of Medicine.
Sarah Loguen Fraser, M.D., Class of 1876.
The College of Medicine's first African-American graduate and America's fourth African-American woman physician.
Alfred Clifford Mercer, M.D., Class of 1878.
Accomplished photomicroscopist and expert on tuberculosis.
Albert George Swift, M.D., Class of 1902.
Professor of surgery and progenitor of the locally celebrated Swift family of physicians and surgeons.
Herman Gates Weiskotten, M.D., Class of 1909.
Dean of the College of Medicine for 29 years and a national leader in the development of medical education.
Gordon D. Hoople, M.D., Class of 1919.
President of the American Board of Otolaryngology and Chair of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees.
Edward C. Hughes, M.D., Class of 1924.
Author of Obstetric-Gynecologic Terminology and President of the Medical Society of the State of New York.
George F. Reed, M.D., Class of 1946.
President of the American Board of Otolaryngology, the American Society of Head and Neck Surgery, the Society of University Otolaryngologists, the American Council of Otolaryngology, and the Onondaga County Medical Society, and Dean of the Upstate Medical Center College of Medicine.
Warren Winkelstein, M.D., Class of 1947.
Dean of the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, and leader in AIDS research.
E. Robert Heitzman, M.D., Class of 1951.
Author of standard textbooks in chest radiology.
Leonard Marmor, M.D., Class of 1952.
Prominent joint replacement surgeon and co-founder, with his wife Cheryl, of the Leonard Marmor Surgical Arthritis Foundation.
Paul Douglas Parkman, M.D., Class of 1957.
Isolator of the rubella virus and co-discoverer of the rubella vaccine.
Patricia J. Numann, M.D., Class of 1965.
Founder of the Association of Women Surgeons and the first woman to chair the American Board of Surgery.
Bertram Zarins, M.D., Class of 1967.
Chief of the Sports Medicine Service at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Gwendolyn Snellings Lipscomb, A.A.S., Class of 1968; R.N., M.S.M.
First African-American graduate of the College of Nursing; Director of Minority Health for the State of Alabama.
Lori J. Mosca, M.D., Class of 1984; M.P.H., Ph.D.
Director of Preventive Cardiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University.
Russell E. Rider, M.D., Class of 1986.
The only physician practicing year-round in Long Lake, Hamilton County, New York, a rural Adirondack community.
Sunita D. Srivastava, M.D., Class of 1991.
Vascular surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic.
