Alumni Class Notes

School of Medicine alumni updates

1972

Randall Stenson

This past year we moved to Regency, a 55+ very active, friendly community in Folsom. This is close to our two sons’ families and our four grandchildren, now ages 14–19, with the oldest a freshman at UCLA. We continue to treat about 1,200 opioid-addicted patients at CORE and my daughter-in-law, Kristi Bell, M.D., has assumed my Medical Director role. I remain the owner but with much less responsibility.

Enjoy golf, pickleball, and good health (knock on wood!). Mary Ann is doing well, and we celebrated our 55th anniversary this past year. We were sad to hear of Polly Langsley passing, age 96, who always sent us a warm, newsy Christmas letter. We’ve been able to communicate with Don and Polly’s daughters, who we babysat during our medical school years.

1979

Paul Richard Beninger

In 2023, the National Academies appointed Dr. Beninger to serve as a member of the Committee on Developing a Framework to Address Legal, Ethical, Regulatory, and Policy Issues for Research Specific to Pregnant and Lactating Persons. The formal charge to the committee is to conduct a study on the state of real and perceived liability around research conducted in pregnant and lactating persons, and develop a framework for addressing medicolegal and liability issues when planning or conducting research specific to pregnant and lactating persons. Based on its review of the information and other expert and public input, the committee will develop a report with its findings, conclusions, and recommendations for safely and ethically including pregnant and lactating persons in clinical research that substantially mitigates or avoids incurring liability (absent negligence or malfeasance). Dr. Beninger was also promoted to full professor at Tufts University School of Medicine on Sept. 1.

2000

Archana Maniar

I am a UC Davis alum starting with medical school, through residency, and through fellowship, and currently a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Health. I have also been an aspiring novelist and after years of dabbling, revision, rejection and persistence, my first novel Dry Spells was published internationally by Lake Union Publishing in May of 2024, with a second novel to follow!

Emeritus faculty

David Siegel

Dr. Siegel, emeritus professor and former vice chair of internal medicine at UC Davis School of Medicine, was awarded the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award last May at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Commencement Ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York. The award recognizes Einstein alumni who have attained distinction in their medical fields and made major contributions to the health and welfare of underserved communities. Dr. Siegel also served as chief of medicine at the VA Northern California Health Care System and a professor at UCSF, where he received the NIH Preventive Cardiology Academic Award.

In the 1980s, he was a visiting medical professor in Nicaragua and investigated Geneva Convention violations of medical neutrality during armed conflict. He also worked for the World Health Organization’s Global Program on AIDS in Tanzania and developed an AIDS-prevention program for Oakland public schools.

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