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He does, huh?

It's too bad Dr. Rosenthal doesn't work there.

He did, from 1971 on Jan. 31, 2014 and received a fond farewell by NEOMED for his excellent and successful work.

Many people on this board decide to ignore the importance of the last PR.


Dr. Kenneth S. Rosenthal: Igniting Success for 35 Years

http://www.neomed.edu/media-library/story-bank/2014/igniting-success-for-35-years

Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) recently offered a fond farewell to one of the most prominent figures of its short history. Kenneth S. Rosenthal, Ph. D., worked his final day on Jan. 31, 2014, closing a chapter of a brilliant career in which he inspired countless students who passed through NEOMED since his first day in 1979.

It seems as though certain people are put on the earth to do certain things. This certainly rings true for Dr. Rosenthal. Throughout his career, he has proven to be a natural born educator. The son of two teachers and father to another one, he always had a respect for academia.
“As long as I can remember, I aspired to be a teacher,” Dr. Rosenthal said. “Nothing against other disciplines, but I was always pulled towards education. It’s a field where every day you have the opportunity to help people improve themselves.”
Dr. Rosenthal was given the opportunity to teach and manage classrooms in high school, as an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware and especially as a graduate student at the University of Illinois. After those experiences, he was certain it was the correct career path for him.
“Teaching and research go hand in hand,” Dr. Rosenthal said.

Determined to begin his career, Dr. Rosenthal enrolled at the University of Illinois to work towards a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry immediately after earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry. Upon completion of his Ph.D. degree, he conducted post-doctoral research at the Dana Farbar Cancer Center, Harvard University School of Medicine and was encouraged to look into a fledgling medical college in Northeast Ohio. Despite his unfamiliarity with Northeast Ohio, Dr. Rosenthal trusted his advisor and scheduled an interview with NEOMED.

“When I arrived in Rootstown, I was surprised by its rural location but very impressed with the laboratory facilities and the décor of my office,” Dr. Rosenthal said. “It was an extremely unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a newly founded medical college. I had the opportunity to do independent research, mentor graduate students (from Kent State University) and teach medical students.”

Being a new institution, there was not a lot of financial help getting started. But fortunately, he was sufficiently skilled and lucky to receive NIH funding for his research and an American Cancer Society faculty advancement award for his salary. Thus began his research on herpes simplex virus, antiviral drugs, an artificial pancreas, and most recently, vaccines.
Only 28 years-old at the time of his hire, Dr. Rosenthal enjoyed some of the perks of being able to blend in with the student body.

“I definitely snuck into a few recruiting events for the free beer,” Dr. Rosenthal said with a laugh. “I really enjoyed going out and playing basketball or tennis with the students. The school was small enough so that everyone knew one another and it was not unusual for faculty, students, chairs and deans to eat lunch and do things together.”
Another noticeable difference at the time of his hire was the difference in lecture and course preparation between now and then. Before Powerpoint, lectures were presented with slides and Dr. Rosenthal and his colleagues had to prepare the entire course three or more months in advance so that slides could be hand drawn and photographed. Once the slides were created, no edits could be made.

“Students didn’t have the opportunity to learn and review things at any moment like they do now,” Dr. Rosenthal said. “Students had to know how to interact with the information much differently. Obviously there are more opportunities to learn outside of the classroom these days.”
While Dr. Rosenthal will miss his research program and interacting with students and colleagues on a daily basis, he has plenty of interests to occupy his free time. For one, he plans to play tennis on a regular basis and to “disappear into a few novels.” As a true educator, he also will be working on the 8th edition of his medical microbiology textbook and plans to create an interactive component for the book. Above all else, he looks forward to having more time to spend with his wife, Dr. Judy Rosenthal, and to travel.

“Right now our list of possible destinations include Israel, Alaska, Prague, Eastern Europe, Japan, China and Costa Rica,” Dr. Rosenthal said. “And I’m sure that list will continue to grow.”
Of all of his upcoming travel destinations, the two he is looking forward to the most are Charleston, S.C., and Montgomery, Ala.,— the locations of his two children, Rachel and Joshua. Rachel continued the family tradition of education and teaches seventh and eighth grades, while Joshua is a law clerk in the federal court after recently graduating from Yale University.
“I didn’t know much about this area when I came for my first interview, but it turned out to be an excellent place to raise a family,” Dr. Rosenthal said. “Above all else, that’s what kept me here for so long.”