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In Memoriam
K.C. Donnelly
Mary F. Kanz
Kathryn R. Mahaffey
Paul Urso
Sheldon Leon Wagner
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Kirby Cornell (K.C.) Donnelly, Ph.D.
Kirby Cornell (K.C.) Donnelly passed away on July 1 after his 18-month courageous battle with esophageal cancer. He was Professor and Department Head of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Texas A&M (TAMU) Health Science Center’s School of Rural Public Health. He also held an appointment in the Department of Veterinary Integrated Biosciences at TAMU. Nancy W. Dickey, President, Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC), Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, in a statement to HSC faculty staff and students noted that Dr. Donnelly’s “imprint will remain with us and those who follow in his footsteps for decades to come.”
Mary F. Kanz, Ph.D.
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Mary Kanz (left) at the Academic Program Session of the Undergraduate Program March 2009 |
Mary F. Kanz passed away on July 5, 2009, following complications associated with aggressive cancer. She was an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas. She was the recipient of the UTMB Graduate Student Association Distinguished Teacher Award and the Experimental Pathology Department Student Award for Teaching and Mentoring. Dr. Kanz was an active member of the SOT Gulf Coast Regional Chapter and served as a leader of this group for many years. Two of her former students, Tammy Dugas and Vicente Santa Cruz, have established a memorial fund to provide a travel award to graduate students to enable them to attend a national or international meeting. Contributions can be sent to the Mary Kanz Travel Award in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Attn: Ann Anderson, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0148.
Kathryn R. Mahaffey, Ph.D., ATS
Kathryn R. Mahaffey passed away on June 2, 2009. She was the 2006 recipient of the SOT Arnold J. Lehman Award presented in recognition of the contributions she made to the understanding of the risk posed by metals such as lead and methylmercury. She contributed at several levels to the regulatory process for limiting exposure of women of childbearing age and children to methylmercury exposure through fish consumption. She worked at the Food and Drug Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and numerous positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). Dr. Mahaffey also was a distinguished professorial lecturer at George Washington University. Among her many other accomplishments, she was awarded the Bronze Medal for Commendable Service from U.S. EPA for her work on mercury, appointed to many panels at the National Academy of Sciences, and was one of the principal authors of U.S. EPA’s Mercury Study Report to Congress that served as the background for alerting the scientific and regulatory communities to the health risks posed by methylmercury and for identifying subpopulations at highest risk from such exposures. She also published over 100 manuscripts in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, another seven reports to Congress, 15 book chapters, and 7 books.
Sheldon Leon Wagner, M.D.
Sheldon Leon Wagner passed away on July 19, 2009. From 1972 to 2003, he was a Professor of Clinical Toxicology at Oregon State University. He joined SOT in 1994 and was a member of the Pacific Northwest Regional Chapter and the Comparative and Veterinary and Occupational and Public Health Specialty Sections. In 2002, the International Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine presented him with an award for “lifetime contributions to the diagnosis and treatment of pesticide poisoning.”
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