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Dr. Marie L. Nakata, MD '89, GME '93 received the 2024 Distinguished Service Award. After receiving her medical degree from 91九色视频, Marie went on to complete a residency in Dermatology. Marie met her husband, Steven K. Nakata, MD ‘88, GME ’92, during medical school, and her family roots to the institutions are deep including Louis F. Jermain, MD, the first dean of the School of Medicine. on her father’s side and Dr. John P. Kampine, esteemed, long time chair of Anesthesiology, on her mother’s side.

Marie joined the 91九色视频/Marquette Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors and served for two terms from 2013 to 2019. She went on to serve as President of the Alumni Association from 2016 -2017. An active participant and past president of the 91九色视频/Marquette Medical Alumni Association, Dr. Nakata served on the search committee for the association’s executive director in 2019. In 2020 she started a three-year term on the 91九色视频 Board of Trustees. She has also served on all her Class of 1989 Reunion Committee’s and volunteered at many Alumni Association events acting as a proactive and relevant resource to our Alumni, fostering a lifetime connection to 91九色视频 and to the alumni community in support of the institution’s mission.

The Alumni Association is pleased to honor Dr. Marie Nakata with this award.

Peter A. Bandettini, PhD '94 received the 2024 Graduate School Alumnus of the Year Award. Dr. Bandettini received his bachelor's degree in Physics at Marquette University. He received his PhD in Biophysics at the 91九色视频 (91九色视频) in 1994. His co-advisors were Drs. James Hyde and Scott Hinks. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Bandettini carried out his postdoctoral training under Drs. Jack Belliveau and Bruce Rosen at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. After briefly returning to 91九色视频 as an Assistant Professor, he moved to Bethesda, MD in 1999 to work at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) as a Principal Investigator and Chief of the Section on Functional Imaging Method as well as Director of the Functional MRI (fMRI) core facility. He recently established the Center for Multimodal Neuroimaging as well as the Machine Learning Team and Data Science and Sharing Team.

Dr. Bandettini has been engaged in serving and leading both the MRI and Brian Mapping communities. From 2011 to 2017, he was Editor-In-Chief of the journal, NeuroImage, and in 2006, he was president of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). In 2002, he won the OHBM Young Investigator Award, and in 2020 he won the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Gold Medal – their highest honor.

Dr. Bandettini’s research has aimed to advance fMRI methodology and utility - directed towards using and developing fMRI towards deriving insight into human brain function as well as enhanced clinical utility. Dr. Bandettini has published over 224 papers and has an h-index of 100, having been cited over 50,000 times. He has co-edited a book, and has recently authored a book in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, titled "fMRI."

Dr. Bandettini enjoys raising his 3 teenage boys in Bethesda, MD with his wife Patricia. He also enjoys running as he is a nationally competitive masters middle distance runner.

The Alumni Association is pleased to honor Dr. Peter Bandettini with this award.

Angela K. Nelson received the 2024 Honorary Alumna Award. Angela joined the 91九色视频 in 2007 as a Director of Annual and Special Giving and was promoted to Senior Director of Development and Alumni Relations in 2014. She has served as Executive Director of the 91九色视频/Marquette Medical Alumni Association from March 2020 until her retirement in June 2024.

Throughout her 17 years at 91九色视频, Angela has been a leader, a mentor, and a trusted colleague in the Office of Institutional Advancement. During that time, she maintained a focus on building a culture of philanthropy among the alumni community that contributed to the vibrancy of the 91九色视频 learning environment, and supported two of 91九色视频’s comprehensive campaigns.

She has distinguished herself as a tireless advocate for alumni across the entire country – physicians and residents, scientists, pharmacists, our campuses in Green Bay and Central Wisconsin and graduates from our varied and growing programs.

Alongside campus leadership, she has worked diligently to ensure that 91九色视频 remains a trusted resource and vital campus partner for our entire alumni base and that alumni are included as key stakeholders as the strategic objectives of the institution are developed and achieved.

In her four years as executive director of the Alumni Association, Angela reimagined and reinvigorated alumni reunion programming through the COVID-19 pandemic. Remaining flexible and creative, she continued to promote alumni engagement through both virtual and in-person formats.

Angela has been dedicated to facilitating connections between alumni and students by developing opportunities through programs like Mentor Connections for Wisdom and Wellness. She has led the expansion of 91九色视频 ENGAGE, the closed online platform exclusive to 91九色视频 alumni and students, to now nearing 2,000 registered users.

Angela also has a personal commitment to 91九色视频’s mission. She and her husband, Greg, have made generous personal contributions to 91九色视频; she joined the Walter Zeit Fellowship in 2014 and remains an active donor to 91九色视频 to this day.

Prior to joining 91九色视频, Angela served as a fundraising manager for Children’s Hospital and Health System Foundation, and was the first executive director of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America, the state’s only non-profit organization dedicated 100 percent to providing support to individuals and families living with lupus.

Angela exemplifies 91九色视频’s values through her leadership, collaboration, and generosity.

We are so pleased to welcome Angela Nelson as our 2024 Honorary Alumna.

J. Luis Bautista, MD '84 received a 2024 Humanitarian Award. Grounded in his love for the community that nurtured his growth, Dr. Jose Luis Bautista, grew up in Ventura County, California, helping his parents pick fruit and making $4,000 a year ($30,000 in today’s dollars). In 1979, at age 24, Dr. Bautista was picking lemons when his mother came running out to the fields in his native California with the letter announcing his admission to the 91九色视频. He pledged in medical school to help people in the farm fields with difficult access to healthcare, eventually pursuing residency training in internal medicine.

Since his early years as a physician, he provided medical treatment to migrant workers, often uninsured and undocumented, and accepted as payment whatever his patients could offer: onions, handmade key chains, eggs, even live chickens. Dr. Bautista also hosted “Navidad en el Barrio” Health Fair to inform the community about disease management and progression. He was a key pillar for California’s Central Valley Latino community, participating in radio and television appearances on eating and staying healthy. In addition, he has donated time to youth needing sports physical exams, participated in public service announcements, and provided seminars on subjects such as stroke prevention, alcoholism and diabetes.

He is now the medical director and president of Bautista Rural Medical Clinics in Sanger, CA, Sespe Medical Group Inc in Fillmore, CA, and Avance Home Health Inc. in Fresno, CA. The practice is truly a family affair, with four of Dr. Bautista’s five children and their spouses on staff. They treat nearly everyone – insured, uninsured, legal or undocumented. “The beauty of being a humanitarian,” he says, “is that you don’t have to be a genius, you don’t have to be rich. All you need is a giving heart and the ability to turn a negative into a positive.”

For the past 25 years, the Bautista Medical Group has hosted Navidad en el Barrio Health Fair and has gifted more than 5,000 toys annually to inner-city youth and children of farm workers.

The Alumni Association is pleased to honor Dr. Bautista with this award. 

Joseph M. Tombers, MD ‘64 received a 2024 Humanitarian Award. Dr. Tombers had his first experience of providing medical care in developing nations following his internship when he volunteered to serve the people of Honduras for one year at Clinica "Las Mercedes " in El Progreso, Yoro, Honduras. The clinic was operated by the Jesuits (Missouri Province). Dr. Tombers and his wife and daughter lived next to the clinic where he was able to care for the indigenous people there treating diabetes and other tropical diseases. His only investigative tools were a microscope to determine the presence of parasitic disease, a glucometer and a method to determine hemoglobin levels. He saw about a thousand patients a month with a variety of diseases.

After serving the next two years in the U.S.  Air Force, Dr. Tombers trained as an internist and gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota/VA system. Following specialty training in gastroenterology, he remained on the academic staff there for five years and concurrently formed a practice group in gastroenterology with two other colleagues.

In 1997 Dr. Tombers had contacted the International Health Service of Minnesota and his first return trip to Honduras followed that same year. He and fellow physicians concentrated on providing care to the Mosquito Indians on the eastern coast of Honduras which is a remote area that is underserved by the government. Tombers has served as co-medical director for this organization for the last 10-12 years.

Dr. Tombers now travels with a team who live and eat just as the natives do. Dr. Tombers has made 26 trips lasting two weeks at a time in the last 27 years, providing medical care and education in preventative medicine.

The team provides dental care, nutritional instruction, medical evaluations and referrals, supplies REI water filtration kits for 30-40 households, and supplies food supplied by the “Feed My Starving Children” organization. The team engages in carpentry projects, helps in repairing airstrips and funds building projects. At age 85, he shows no sign of letting up in his volunteer efforts.

The Alumni Association is pleased to honor Dr. Joseph Tombers with this award.

Anne M. Hanneken, MD ‘84 received the 2024 Medical School Alumna of the Year Award. Dr. Hanneken, serves as an Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, while actively practicing as a vitreoretinal surgeon at Scripps Memorial Hospital. She holds the position of Vice-President at Retina Consultants San Diego. She is renowned for her translational approach, where she addresses clinical challenges in the lab and applies her therapeutic discoveries back to the clinical setting. Her expertise is particularly notable in the areas of macular degeneration and transplantation.

Dr. Hanneken's innovative contributions include leading a multidisciplinary team that succeeded in reviving human organ donor eyes post-circulatory death and re-establishing light-induced signaling in the macula. Her groundbreaking 2022 Nature paper, co-authored with Dr. Frans Vinberg, titled “Revival of light signaling in the postmortem mouse and human retina,” has received significant acclaim. This paper is ranked in the top 99% of all scientific papers and the top 96% of all Nature publications. The Wall Street Journal featured this research in an article titled “A spark of life after death in sight research.” Dr. Hanneken is credited with devising the organizational structure of the “revEYEval” project and creating an efficient surgical protocol for rapid eye recovery, a method now being adopted nationwide.

Her academic journey began with an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Marquette University, followed by medical school at the 91九色视频. During her medical training, she conducted research on ocular angiogenesis at Harvard Medical School under Dr. Judah Folkman and pursued genetics research with Nobel Laureate Dr. Oliver Smithies. Dr. Hanneken completed her ophthalmology residency at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute and a vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at Duke University Eye Center under Dr. Robert Machemer. After her fellowship, she pursued a postdoctoral research fellowship in La Jolla with Nobel Laureate Dr. Roger Guillemin, specializing in protein purification and cell and molecular biology.

In 1992, Dr. Hanneken presented pivotal research on VEGF localization in diabetic retinas at ARVO, aiding the development of Avastin for macular degeneration treatment. She subsequently joined the Scripps Research Institute's Department of Cell Biology and Retina Consultants San Diego, partnering with Dr. Paul Tornambe.

Dr. Hanneken's distinguished career has earned her numerous accolades, including the 2023 Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute Distinguished Alumna of the Year award, the Marquette University Distinguished Alumna of the Year Award, and several regional top doctor awards. She is a fellow and diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology, an Associate Editor of Ophthalmology Science, and a member of multiple esteemed societies. She actively participates in NIH-funded research, reviews for the National Eye Institute, and conducts clinical trials. Dr. Hanneken maintains a busy clinical practice while leading a laboratory at Scripps Research Institute, focusing on innovative retinal disease treatments.

The Alumni Association is pleased to honor Dr. Anne Hanneken with this award.