Medical school alumna to head New Mexico homeland security

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1983 alumna Annette L. Sobel has been named director of homeland security for the state of New Mexico.

Annette L. Sobel

In her new position, Sobel will analyze the state's vulnerabilities and coordinate state and federal resources in New Mexico to ensure that those who would be "first responders" to terrorist attacks have the proper training and equipment.

At the time of the announcement of her new appointment, Sobel was a senior chemical and biological warfare analyst at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. The government-owned, contractor-operated facility develops science-based technologies to support national security efforts.

A brigadier general in the Air National Guard, Sobel also recently had been named director of intelligence for the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Va., where she previously was assistant to the chief for weapons of mass destruction and civil support. She reportedly will continue in this position for several days a month.

Cooper to serve as president of national dermatology organization

Kevin D. Cooper

Kevin D. Cooper, chair of the departments of dermatology at Case and University Hospitals of Cleveland, has been named president-elect of the Society for Investigative Dermatology.

He will begin his term as president in 2004.

Cooper also is director of the Skin Diseases Research Center at Case and is a professor in the departments of dermatology, oncology and pathology.

Medical alumnus adds Everest to his mountain-climbing resume

A 1986 Case School of Medicine alumnus Jonathan Gibans realized a personal goal
when he "summited" Mount Everest.

On a recent 68-day trip, Gibans served as physician to the eight-member American
Ski Everest Expedition, a team of high-altitude skiers and became one of the more than 1,100 people to have summited Everest since 1953.

Over the years, Gibans has climbed mountains in Alaska and elsewhere in the United States, as well as in Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Peru, Africa, Pakistan and Nepal.

When he's not climbing mountains, he practices orthopaedics and medicine at the Snowmass Urgent Care Center in Aspen, Colo., during ski season and is an emergency room physician at Claggett Memorial Hospital in nearby Rifle, Colo.

Medical board honors three alumni for decades of flawless work

Alumni Daniel Badal, Bernard Ceraldi and Earl Conaway were among 11 Ohio physicians recently honored.

Case School of Medicine alumni Daniel Badal, Bernard Ceraldi and Earl Conaway were among 11 Ohio physicians who recently received gubernatorial commendations and emeriti certificates from Ohio Gov. Bob Taft's office and the Medical Board of Ohio, respectively, in recognition of their practicing medicine for decades without having
a single complaint filed against them.

Badal, associate clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry, graduated from the medical school in 1937. He also earned his undergraduate degree at the University's former Adelbert College in 1934. Ceraldi, of Lakewood, Ohio, is a 1942 medical alumnus. Conaway, of Cambridge, Ohio, graduated from the School of Medicine in 1941.

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