Honoring enduring devotion to the University
Six Faculty and Staff Members Celebrate Four Decades
of Service to UM

or 447 Miller School employees the new year brought with it a significant milestone—the completion of ten years of service or more to the University of Miami. The University recognizes these landmark anniversaries in five-year increments. Of the esteemed group, six have contributed 40 years of knowledge and expertise to the institution.

“How do you describe all the progress that’s happened here?” says Robert E. Morgan, Ed.D., noting the extraordinary changes he’s witnessed at the medical campus over the past four decades. “It’s a new, wonderful, exciting world.”

Morgan, director of the Social Work Division in the Department of Pediatrics, has worked out of his current office in the Mailman Center since 1970. He currently works as director of the Heroes program, which provides support and resources to women and children who have encountered domestic violence.

“I’ve seen a lot of changes,” says Marcia Harding, who has also spent 40 years at the University, first as director of general accounting on the Coral Gables campus and currently, after moving to the medical campus in 1979, as associate budget director. “When you realize you’ve been here for two-thirds of your life, it stops you for a minute.”

Listed below are faculty and staff who have loyally worked to further the Miller School mission for 30 years or more:

40 Years
Lawrence Fishman, M.D., Medicine
Marcia Harding, Medical Finance
Robert E. Morgan, Ed.D., Pediatrics
Victoriano Pardo, M.D., Pathology
Mae Whatley, Pediatrics
William Whelan, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

35 Years
Yeon Ahn, M.D., Medicine
Mattie Angain, L.P.N., UMHC/Sylvester
Norman Block, M.D., Urology
Margaret Collado, Diabetes Research Institute
Amalia De La Vega, Medical Library
Manuel Estanga, UMHC/Sylvester
Ada Falcon, Surgery
Peter Ferrer, M.D., Pediatrics
Mary Ann Fletcher, Ph.D., Medicine
Laphalle Fuller, Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology
Vivian Gonzalez, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Yolanda Hernandez, UM/Sylvester
Susan Joseph, UMHC/Sylvester
Frances Kelsey, UMHC/Sylvester
David Landowne, Ph.D., Physiology and Biophysics
Loren Latta, Ph.D., Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Lorraine Lefkowitz, UMHC/Sylvester
Stephen Mallon, M.D., Medicine
Robert Powell, UM/Sylvester
Jeffrey Raskin, M.D., Medicine
Ricki Reynolds, ABLEH-BPEI
Duane Schultz, Ph.D., Medicine
Aldo Serafini, M.D., Radiology
Richard Thurer, M.D., Surgery
Jay Vegoda, Faculty and Professional Affairs
Rhoda Wilkes, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

30 Years
George Abdenour, M.D., Radiology
Samir Beydoun, M.D., Obstetrics and Gynecology
David Dingle, Veterinary Resources
David Fishbain, M.D., Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Awtar Ganju-Krishan, Ph.D., Pathology
Robert Hinkley, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Anatomy
Adrienne Jaret, Center on Aging
Pearl Jenkins, ABLEH-BPEI
Felisa Macapagal, R.N., UMHC/Sylvester
Octavio Martinez, Ph.D., Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Elizabeth Morales, Urology
Maria Morales, UM/Sylvester
Mehrdad Nadji, M.D., Pathology
Elouise Nottage, Pediatrics
Myron Rosenthal, Ph.D., IRB and Research Integrity
Robert Shebert, M.D., Neurology
William Sheremata, M.D., Neurology
Judith Tashjian, R.N., ABLEH-BPEI
Peggy Woodside, Genetics