School Of Medicine

Dr. Philip Franklin Wagley, a prominent Baltimore internist who created and taught a highly regarded course in medical ethics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Thursday of bone marrow cancer at his home in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County. He was 83. From his office in an elegant brownstone townhouse at 9 E. Chase St., next to the Belvedere Hotel, Dr. Wagley practiced internal medicine from 1950 until retiring in 1990. Through the years, his patients included writer H.L. Mencken and poet Ogden Nash as well as the prominent and not-so-prominent from across the world who came to Baltimore to consult with him about their ailments.

Fetuses and newborns exposed to some common anti-inflammatory drugs may be at risk for lasting changes in brain structure that can affect adult sexual behavior, according to a new study involving rats. While researchers emphasize that the results might not apply in humans, some scientists say they raise the possibility that during a vulnerable window in pregnancy and infancy, these drugs could alter developing human brains, too. Known as COX-2 inhibitors, this class of anti-inflammatories includes aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen and indomethacin.

Dr. Phuong X. Nguyen has joined the surgical department at Mercy Medical Center, where he will focus on general surgery. Nguyen graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned his medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Bonnie Eareckson has been appointed the chief of human resource management service for the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System. Eareckson earned her undergraduate degree in 1983 from Southern Career Institute. Dr. Deepak Kashyap has joined the Endocrine and Diabetes Center at Franklin Square Hospital Center.

Rebekah Johnson, the young star of "Liberty Heights," munched brownies brought to her from the dessert table by a local doctor. "He said he'd heard actresses don't eat much, and he wanted to make sure I did!" Johnson was heard telling co-star Ben Foster, just before the two were swept up in a sea of new fans at the movie's premiere party.The buzz in the tent behind the Senator Theatre was "bravo!" for Baltimore-born director Barry Levinson's fourth B'more-based film. Its premiere here raised $80,000 for the Osler Scholar Program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Jewish Museum of Maryland.

Dr. William M. Goldstein, a psychiatrist who taught and wrote about his field, died of cancer yesterday at his Rockville home. He was 63. Born in Baltimore and raised in the Howard Park neighborhood, he was a 1960 graduate of City College and earned a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in Ohio. He was a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Goldstein, who practiced in Chevy Chase for many years, joined the faculty of Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1975 and taught its psychiatric residents the principles of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Dr. Robert A. Abraham, a physician who directed Johns Hopkins Hospital's obstetrics anesthesia program and was a leader in childbirth safety, died of an apparent brain hemorrhage Feb. 3 at his Lutherville home. He was 79. Born in Mahanoy City, Pa., and raised in Reading, Pa., he earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College and his medical degree from the University of Maryland. As part of his duties as a resident at what is now University of Maryland Medical Center, he delivered babies in West Baltimore homes.

On November 19, 2004, due to complications of diabetes, DR. DEAN H. LOCKWOOD, 67, of Pittsford, NY. He was born June 17, 1937, in Millford, CT. He graduated from Albany Academy in 1955, Wesleyan University in 1959 and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1963. Dean willingly served as a surgeon in the Public Health Service from 1964 to 1965, he taught at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1967 to 1976 and later as the Chair of the Endocrine and Metabolism Unit and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine from 1976 to 1991.

Dr. J. Alan Baldanza, a well-known Baltimore County internist and former medical educator, died of a heart attack Saturday while playing tennis at the Springdale neighborhood tennis courts in Cockeysville. He was 58. For the past 27 years, Dr. Baldanza, who lived in Cockeysville, had practiced medicine in a 100-year-old York Road shingled, tan-colored house he had purchased and converted into a medical office. Born in Passaic, N.J., and raised in Clifton, N.J., Dr. Baldanza was the son of a milkman and grandson of immigrants from Sicily.