1. Galdino Valvassori trained as an Otorynolarygologist and is considered the father of Head and Neck Radiology. He was an excellent teacher and gave specialized and personalized lectures on the plain views of the head and neck imaging, as well as writing a definitive text based on sectional imaging of temporal bone sections.
2. Glenn Dobben was a highly skilled and busy neuroradiologist. Residents had to schedule training sessions with him. He once diagnosed a brain abscess on plain films, saving the patient's life.
3. Ahmad Parvin received his Radiology training at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was a polished man of the world with an engaging personality, great sense of humor, and incisive teaching style.
4. Harris J. Feldman came to the University of Illinois from Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland Medical School, and did his residency training at George Washington University. Harris was an anglophile and was visiting England yearly. He had a great sense of humor and assisted greatly in preparing research papers for publication.
5. Paul Sevilla was an affable Pilipino and a kind teacher. He staffed general radiology. He adopted a child in order to enjoy a complete family life. He later went to join the staff of North Chicago VA hospital.
6. Edward Paggio was the chief of Angiography when we were senior residents. When he left UIC he moved to the State of Michigan.
7. James Hoffman came from the University of Minnesota and joined the angioraphy staff.
8. Gabriel Chan was a general radiologist. He proudly hand wrote in Chinese the order for our ethnic meal of the month, featuring China.
9. Drs. Virginia Patterson and Dan Pavel covered Nuclear Medicine.
10. Dr. Edwin Liebner the chieff of Radiation Therapy, obtained the Oldelft simulator and tomographic units for radiation therapy planning. He served as interim chief of Radiology between 1970 and 1974.
11. Dr. Prasad Mantravadi was an attending in Radiation Therapy. He was a most pleasant and competent therapist. His most notable work was in the intra-arterial injection of Itrium-90 for the prevention and treatment of hepatic metastases from colon cancer.
12. Dr. Vlastimil Capek a native of Czechoslovakia graduated from Charles University in Prague where he worked as a staff radiologist. He escaped after the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia. He moved to Austria and then to the United States. He was first hired as a dark room technician. When Dr. Harvey, the Chairman of Radiology realized the potential of the immigrant he advised him to take the State and Radiology boards which Dr. Capek passed. He was hired as the chief of angiography. Dr. Capek who had learned the Seldinger technique while in Europe, he introduced it at UIC and maybe Chicago. Residents learned this advanced technique of catheterizing vessels without a cut down or direct stick. When Dr. Harvey retired Dr. Capek was appointed the Chief of the Department in 1975.
13. Dr. Roger Harvey was the Chairman of University of Illinois Radiology between the years 1946 and 1970. He received his MD degree from the University of Rochester. Dr. Harvey carried out the first radiation treatment with a Betatron unit and reported good results in 23 inoperable cancers. He was a research associate of the Manhattan Project in WWII. In 1968, when he was the President of the American Cancer Society, he cautioned that lung cancer death rate in women, historically lower than men, was beginning to show a steady rise. Dr. Harvey was the longest serving Radiology Chairman at the University of Illinois. Unfortunately, the 1971 class of residents did not meet him but we learned from the staff of the Department that he was a great radiologist and a very kind man.
This post was written by Al Zuska and I. We dedicate it to Harris Feldman who has been a loyal friend with a refreshing sense of humor. Harris was our favorite attending during our residency period. It is also dedicated to Dr. Harvey whose kindness was well known to all who worked with him. As a pioneer in Radiology he won the respect of physicians in multiple specialties at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
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