MD Class of 1997

Joshua Garren ’96 AM, ’97 MD, writes: “We have moved to Manhattan. Daniel is studying medicine at Oxford. Ariella was a Rhodes finalist this year and is in Buenos Aires doing fertility research, and has just received her first medical school acceptance. Maya has her first medical school interview next week. Uzi and Shira are continuing the Parysow Project, which so far has published Oy Mame! Oy Mame!, The Parysow Yizkor Book (Volumes I and II), Memories of Vilna, On the Jews of Yemen, and several other volumes. The first volume of their latest project, the Salonika Memorial Book, a translation from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Ladino, is in press. Michelle and I would love to see old friends, and we have guest bedrooms.” Contact Joshua at [email protected].

Joseph Papa writes that two of his daughters, Giavanna Lau ’89, ’97 MD, and Marianna Krejci-Papa ’86, are Brown grads. He and his wife, Madeline, have been married 63 years and have four children, 18 grandchildren, and three great-grandkids so far. He remembers Theta Delta Chi and the baseball team. He hopes some of his grandsons keep the tradition.

Janice Kruger writes: “I attended Commencement for my great nephew Seth Sabar ’24, who graduated with honors and a joint bachelor of science degree in mathematics and computer science. Three other alumni cheered Seth on in person: his parents Meg Van Achterberg ’93, ’97 MD and Ariel Sabar ’93, and his grandma Barbara Bromer van Achterberg ’62. My sister Stephanie Kruger Sabar ’60 cheered remotely.”

Joshua Garren ’96 AM, ’97 MD, writes: “I’m back in the U.S. after several years in London and Costa Rica, celebrating 20 years of marriage with Michal Yitshary (Hebrew University ’98) with our five children; Daniel and Ariella (Columbia ’25 and ’26), Maya, Jonathan, and Shira (hopefully Brown ’29, ’33, and ’34). Ariella and Maya’s organization, ParysowProject.org, has published translations of historical accounts of the plight of turn of the century Yemenite Jewry and of Holocaust memoirs from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and German and is now expanding to help document contemporary accounts of attempted genocide. The Parysow Yizkor Book is a particularly fascinating read.”

Peter Chin-Hong ’97 MD (see Linda Shiue ’93).

Linda Shiue ’98 MD is excited to share her debut cookbook Spicebox Kitchen: Eat Well and Be Healthy with Globally Inspired, Vegetable-Forward Recipes, which was published by Hachette Go in March (bit.ly/SpiceboxKitchen). Linda is the first director of culinary medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, where she practices internal medicine, and in 2017 she founded Thrive Kitchen, which provides healthy cooking classes for patients. Linda lives with Peter Chin-Hong ’92, ’97 MD, and their two daughters in San Francisco. Peter is associate dean of regional campuses at UCSF, overseeing the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program and the UCSF-San Joaquin Valley PRIME program at UCSF Fresno. Peter is a professor at UCSF School of Medicine and director of the Transplant Infectious Disease Service and has been a frequent media commentator on the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact Linda at [email protected] and Peter can be contacted at [email protected].