Alumni Day 2008

Alumni Day (and Night) April 3-4, 2008, was an enormous success. Friends, colleagues and classmates caught up with each other during an evening of great food and good company at Phipps Conservatory in Oakland. The next morning, alumni and medical staff gathered in McCluskey Auditorium for presentations by five distinguished current and former Children’s Hospital faculty:

• Transplant pioneer Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD
• 2002 Mermelstein Award winner J. Carlton Gartner Jr., MD, pediatrician-in-chief, Alfred J. duPont Hospital for Children
• Cardiologist Donald Fischer, MD, former Children’s medical director; chief medical officer, Highmark
• Vivek Allada, MD, clinical director of Children’s Division of Pediatric Cardiology
• Timothy Kane, MD, FACS, FAAP, Children’s director of Minimally Invasive Surgery