Marshall University School of Medicine Alumni

Welcome to the Promotions and Retirement BBS
Please post your messages so others can keep updated with what's happening in your life.

Kenneth Kline, MD '82 - I have just taken over the regional medical director's position for the correctional services of WV. I supervise the medical care that is provided in seven different WV prisons. They range from low security to high security.

Leslie Kidd, MD '2002 (Leslie Kidd Bair, MD )- married last summer, to Jake Bair. Also, I will be completing my internal medicine residency at MCV (Richmond, VA) this summer, and have accepted a position with a private practice in Hickory, NC to begin in August.

Donald L. Norris, II, MD, '2000 - Ohio State University Emergency Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor

Children: John William age 5 and Michael David arrived 12/16/2002
Other News: Benita is still in Family Practice at OSU and is very busy with her
patients as well as precepting the residents. Steve is a psychiatrist and is
an attending at OSU's Neuropsychiatry facility which was recently named in US
News and World Report's Best Hospitals. We will celebrate our 10th anniversary
in December. Life in Columbus is great.

Rusty Exner, '83. Rusty moved, after 11 years at Menominee Tribal Clinic, near Green Bay, to NOAA in Seattle. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) does a lot of ocean research, in addition to the National Weather Service. Rusty is in charge of the health care for seven ocean-going ships on the Pacific coast. He does a lot of phone calls and emails to keep the sailors and officers and scientists healthy. He also goes down to Madigan Army Hospital once a week to keep his Family Practice skills up.

Other News: Marshall and his wife, Tabitha, recently moved from Boston, where Marshall completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Mass General Hospital, to Atlanta. Marshall has joined the faculty in the School of Medicine at Emory University and is conducting research on fungal pathogenesis and infections in solid organ transplant recipients. Marshall and Tabitha, a pediatrician, are proud to announce the birth of their first child, John Marshall "Jack" on July 30, 2003.