Text of Annual Award citations given at the Annual Meeting
of The Rochester Academy of Medicine
May 10, 2005

Awards of Merit, 2005:

Marilyn R. Brown, M.D.
Citation by Elizabeth R. McAnarney, M. D.

Dr. Marilyn Brown, born in Washington, DC, moved to Scarsdale, NY when her father became
Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College. During that
time, Marilyn's family became good friends with Dr. Janet Travell and her family. Marilyn's
family built a summer home next to the Travells in the Berkshires in 1950 where one of Dr.
Travell's daughters became Marilyn's best friend. Dr. Travell was an internist in the Department
of Pharmacology at Cornell. She was internationally renowned, and published a two volume
treatise "Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction", the last volume of which was published when she
celebrated her 90th birthday. Dr. Travell treated President John F. Kennedy, and became the first
woman White House physician in 1960.

Marilyn's father received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for his determination of the
structure and function of oxytocin and vasopressin. Marilyn and her brother were in college at the
time, and were quite disappointed that their parents did not take them to Stockholm!
Dr. Brown received her A.B. degree from Cornell University where she was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa; subsequently she attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine where she
received her M.D. degree in 1962. She completed her internship and residency at The Genesee
Hospital and was appointed as an Instructor in Pediatrics at the University of Rochester in 1966
and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 1970. From 1960 to 1970, Marilyn was very busy
working on her academic career; during that same time, she married Barry Brown and became
the mother of three wonderful children, Bruce, Virginia, and Jill.

Marilyn came to the University of Rochester to work with Dr. William Klish. He encouraged her
work in pediatric obesity, and helped her to continue her research in parenteral nutrition. She was
instrumental in developing the Nutritional Support Service at Strong, and continues as the
Pediatric Medical Director today. Marilyn served as the only pediatric gastroenterologist in the
region from 1982 to 1997.

Dr. Brown's depth of knowledge and clinical experience in pediatric gastroenterology is
unsurpassed. She is respected both nationally and internationally in the field.

Marilyn is a wonderful citizen of the department, the university, and the community, and has
served on numerous committees. In the early 1980's, she served on the Medical Faculty Council
(MFC) and served as the President during 1982-1983. She also served on the Medical Staff
Council. More recently she was asked to be on the Board of the Rochester Academy of Medicine,
which led to becoming its president during 2002-2003. She has also served on the Honorary
Awards Committee, and chaired the Long Range Planning Committee. Marilyn started a new
group, along with Dr. Len Bloch, called the Friends of the Academy, to help preserve this
wonderful building. She also served on the Board of the Pediatric Telephone Triage Service.
Marilyn was President of the Rochester Pediatric Society during 2001-2002 and has represented
the Department of Pediatrics on the Faculty Senate. Other contributions include being on the
Pediatric Subcommittee of RCIPA for several years, and then on the RCIPA Board. Marilyn is
currently serving on the Rochester Health Commission as a representative of the Monroe Plan.

Marilyn is a treasure   full of service to others: patients, community, and friends. She has and
continues to be integral to the teaching and clinical programs in Pediatric Gastroenterology
within the Golisano Children's Hospital and the community. She certainly is most deserving of
this Award of Merit from the Rochester Academy of Medicine which allows us to say, "Thank
you, Marilyn, for a job terrifically done."

Francis E. Browning, M.D.
Citation by Roger J. Boulay, M.D.

Francis E. Browning has graced our community for the past 55 years. I have just 500 words to
describe a career that has significantly influenced the provision of medical care not only locally
but also in the wider nation.

I will do his bio briefly. Born in 1925, he attended St. Lawrence University taking his degree in
1946. While there he met his bride of 58 years, Jean Townsend, and together they had five
children. He then attended Cornell and arrived in Rochester in 1950 as an intern at Strong. His
medical training was interrupted by a two year stint in the Navy. He returned as an NIH fellow in
cardiology with Paul YU. Bill McCann then selected Frank as the Hochstetter Fellow. This was a
position of honor, serving as the right hand of the department chairman.

Frank then entered practice with Tom Cardillo, but after three years was enticed by Bob Berg to
join the newly formed Department of Preventive and Community Medicine. As a faculty
member, Frank was involved in a study of teaching methods with Franz Reichman and Ray
Hinshaw. This involved a study of the teaching programs in ten different medical schools. At the
same time, he became involved in the broader community where he was chosen for his skills as a
physician but often progressed to a leadership position.

In the late 50's and early 60's, he became the medical director of three studies that helped shape
the provision of medical care in Rochester, and in the case of home care, nationwide. The studies
were the Todd Study of chronic illness, the hospital bed utilization study, and the Ford Care of
the Aging study. These studies led to a level of planning and change that made Rochester a poster
boy for Health Care during the Clinton administration.

One specific result of these studies was the formation of the first home care program supported
by any Blue Cross program. Frank as a founding board member worked with community leaders
including David Stewart, Blue Cross president, to create the Rochester Home Care program.
Frank also became chairman of the board. When Medicare was enacted in 1965, it provided
payment only for what already existed in the way of medical care, with a single exception,
HOME CARE. The Medicare home care provisions were taken almost verbatim from the
Rochester Home Care program. Frank later served as a consultant on home care to the
Department of Health Education and Welfare.

Frank left his university position in 1965 to join the medical team at Kodak Park as staff
cardiologist. As before, Frank's talents led to his assuming a leadership position, this time as
Medical Director of Kodak Park, retiring in 1989. While there, he developed programs to
enhance the clinical skills of nurses. This program was later incorporated in the corporate
training of nurses from outlying plants. Frank also organized a team approach to caring for the
workers, each worker having an assigned physician. It was also during his tenure that an acute
cardiac care unit was developed.

Frank apparently was not busy enough with the U of R or Kodak. He became a board member of
the old Park Avenue Hospital in 1972. As before, Frank rose through the ranks and became
chairman of the board of the Park Ridge Health Care System, serving in that capacity for five
years. During his tenure as chairman, a great expansion took place with the building of an
inpatient chemical dependency unit, out patient mental health services, a medical office building,
a child care center, the acquisition of ACM Laboratories etc. In 1988, Frank was honored by the
NYS Hospital Trustee Association, Trustee of the Year, in recognition of his work at Park Ridge.

The Rochester Academy of Medicine has always been a special interest. In 1989, he joined Al
Snell and Larry Rowe who had started the Retired Physicians Group. In true Browning fashion,
he assumed the chairmanship and under his leadership this program has become the best attended
and one of the most successful of the academy's programs. Quietly, he provided a new sound
system for the program, not once, but twice! The first was stolen!

There is an impressive list of other positions of service that Frank has held but I do not have the
time to detail them. I would like to close by quoting from a letter from Tim cCormick, president
and CEO of Unity Health, "Frank Browning is a true gentleman whose consistent leadership has
helped to make us so successful. We at Unity are fortunate to count him as a true friend and one
of our best community leaders" Indeed, we have all been fortunate to have Frank as a friend and
member of our health care community.

William A. Johnson, Mayor of Rochester
Citation by Carl J. Atkins, D.M.A.

(Text not provided)

Earl S. Lipman, M.D.
Citation by Jane Crawford, R.N., M.S.

It is with pleasure that I read a citation adding Dr. Earl Lipman to that group of prestigious
recipients of the Academy's Award of Merit.

It will be fifty years ago next month that he returned here to become the first Director of Medical
Education at the Rochester General Hospital. He was the full-time faculty of one. His charge was
to create a house staff environment based on education rather than on service alone. Through
untiring efforts and determination he energized a menagerie of hospital factions; made rounds
seven days a week; gave basic science seminars; started multi-specialty conferences; revamped
the surgical service; and in a move not widely acclaimed, he abruptly converted the large doctor's
lounge into a medical library. With Dr. Milton Bohrod, he instituted "Evenings without
Medicine", a monthly dinner meeting for a culturally underprivileged house staff and their
spouses which was devoted to the humanities. They had presenters from the Dryden, the RPO,
the Art Gallery and some colleges. It was novel and warmly received.

He was a seminal influence for the General Hospital's affiliation with the Medical School.
In a surprisingly short period of time, these and many other innovations transformed a service
atmosphere into a lively educational experience, which attracted an overflow of house officers
many of whom became the respected physicians in this area. From those formative years,
teaching at the Hospital has increased manyfold and the General is now a premier teaching
community hospital.

With his program on solid footing, he decided to enter private practice. But he continued his
devotion to teaching. Instructing anyone who would listen, his interchange of ideas made
tolerable by his humor and an eidetic grasp of the medical literature. Some admiring residents
dubbed him "Earl the pearl". Between 1965 and 1974 he was the Associate Chief of Medicine at
the General Hospital He was an early recipient of the Kohn Teaching
Fellowship awarded by the Medical School.

Dr. Lipman was a gifted diagnostician in an era of few lab tests and limited radio imaging. A
testament to his skill and an abiding patient concern was the trust afforded to him by his
colleagues. For he was, at one time or another, the physician to 39--yes 39 doctors and some of
their spouses. Truly a doctor's doctor.

A decade ago, unwilling to wage the war of insurances, he surrendered. However, even in
retirement as an Emeritus Clinical Professor of Medicine he continued to enjoy teaching medical
students.

Dr. Lipman is the father of John, a notable interventional radiologist in Atlanta and Eric,
presently the legal counsel to the governor of Minnesota. When Earl was at Mt. Sinai Hospital in
New York, the residents were paid fifty dollars a month and had to buy their own food. However,
each evening at ten they were offered a free buffet. So, most residents would eat then and squirrel
away food for the next day. Each night he would bring the evening supervisor of the Premature
Nursery a corned beef sandwich and a pickle. And he delights in repeating that a truism of
mammalian zoology is--If you feed them, they will follow you home. And 49 years later she is
still glad she did.

Henry A. Thiede, M.D.
Citation by James R. Woods, M.D.

I am pleased to review with you the accomplishments of Dr. Henry A. Thiede, this year's
recipient of The Award of Merit.

Dr. Thiede was on faculty in the Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology at the University of
Rochester from 1957-1966 as Instructor/Senior Instructor then Assistant Professor and finally
Associate Professor. He left the University in 1967 to become the second Chair in
Obstetrics-Gynecology at the University of Mississippi and later served as Assistant Dean and
then Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. Dr. Thiede returned to Rochester in 1974 to become
Chair in Obstetrics-Gynecology and served in that role until his retirement in 1995. In 1990, he
was elected President of The American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society which is arguably
the most esteemed society in our field.

Throughout his career, Dr. Thiede involved himself actively in advancing education within the
field of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The committees of note that Dr. Thiede participated include
Board of Directors of the American Board of Obstetrics-Gynecology (1974-1980) and Board
Examiner until 1993; Residency Review Committee for Obstetrics-Gynecology (1977-1979); and
Chair (1979-1982); Board of Directors, American Board of Emergency Medicine (1977-1979
and 1984-1990); numerous committees for The American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists; Learning Resources Commission; Chair, Education Commission; Professional
Standards Committee as Member and Chair; and Consultant and Director of Technical
Assistance to the National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Committee.

His keen insight into health needs was felt on many levels. Dr. Thiede integrated three residency
programs into the Affiliated Hospitals Program to improve residency education. He played a
significant role in the development of midwifery in Mississippi and then extended that effort in
Rochester. He began the Perinatal Data Collection Center which now is the transformed Regional
Perinatal Database for our ten counties. He was considered a pioneer in the field of
Urogynecology and opened the first urodynamics laboratory at Strong Memorial Hospital. Dr.
Thiede organized the First Rochester Trophoblast Conference and edited the publications from
that and subsequent meetings into the journal, Trophoblast Research. The Rochester Trophoblast
Conference has evolved into the International Federation of Placental Associations. His efforts to
nurture this field directly spawned international programs in Europe, Japan and Australia.

Dr. Thiede's national and international status were balanced by his understanding into the health
needs in Rochester, New York and the importance of the field of obstetrics and gynecology in
serving underserved women. As an acknowledgement of his leadership within the community, in
1992, Dr. Thiede organized a comprehensive community-wide meeting entitled "The Monroe
County Obstetrical Access Task Force on Improving Services for Low Income Pregnant Women
and Their Infants" to draw together representatives from all factions from women's health care in
the community. I was fortunate to have been invited to that meeting.
Throughout the morning, small groups addressed many of the issues and provided suggestions
for solutions which even now, nearly fifteen years later, remain viable and well conceived.

The Award of Merit is intended for an individual dedicated to improving medicine, public health
and community welfare. This form of recognition for Dr. Henry Thiede's lifetime effort is most
appropriate and I congratulate the Academy for acknowledging his contributions.