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- Michael H. Barnett, MS '70, JD '72, to Receive 2008 Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence
- Gunther Walter Kuron, PhD, MPH '64
Michael H. Barnett, MS '70, JD '72, to Receive 2008 Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence
The Mailman School is pleased to announce that Michael H. Barnett, MS '70, JD '72 has been chosen to receive the 2008 Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence. The award recognizes a Mailman School alumnus/a who has made exceptional contributions to the Mailman School community and has exhibited distinguished leadership in the field of public health, including healthcare administration, research, education, and public health practice.
Mr. Barnett has served on the Alumni Executive Board (AEB) for more than10 years and, for the past three years, has demonstrated outstanding leadership serving as AEB President.
Since graduating from the Mailman School, Mr. Barnett has practiced healthcare law and is a founding partner at Barnett, Edelstein, Gross, Kass & Lieber. He is currently serving his second term as a gubernatorial appointee to the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council, and is also the co-founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Concerned Lawyers Coalition, Inc., a not-for-profit charitable organization.
Mr. Barnett has selflessly volunteered his time to provide mentoring, career guidance, and other opportunities to students and alumni at the Mailman School. For his enormous generosity to the School, he has been honored in past years at the Mailman School's Public Health Scholars Event and in 2007, he received the Columbia University Alumni Medal.
The Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence will be presented to Mr. Barnett at the Mailman School of Public Health Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, which will be held from 5 pm to 7 pm in the Faculty Club, located at 630 West 168th Street on the 4th Floor.
To attend this special event, please contact Allison Oldehoff at ao2210@columbia.edu.
Gunther Walter Kuron, PhD, MPH '64
Gunther Walter Kuron passed away in March 2008. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, to Walter and Margaret Kuron, he resided in Milltown, New Jersey before moving to Freehold 40 years ago.
He served in the U.S. Army as an instructor of meteorology, stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He married his wife of 56 years, Helen Grinley, in 1951 and raised his family while both working and pursuing higher education full time. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Rutgers University, an MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health, and a PhD in biochemistry from Columbia University. He was a member of Rutgers University College Honors, Sigma Xi, and the New York Academy of Science.
He worked for Merck & Co. for 39 years, retiring in 1987 as senior research fellow. He published numerous articles in the field of atherosclerosis. He was a co-developer of Cholestyramine, Mevacor and Zocor, and the holder of several use-patents on cholesterol-lowering drugs.
He was also an accomplished pianist and played in several jazz combos in his younger years.
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