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Purchase chemistry alumni occupy different positions in industry, government, and academia. This page shows some of our alumni and their current undertakings. If you would like to contact someone in the chemistry program, please email chemistry@purchase.edu.
Representative Chemistry Alumni
John Ambroseo ’83, PhD, University of Pennsylvania; president and CEO, Coherent Inc.
Enoch P. Baldwin ’82, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; associate professor, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis
Dora Carrico-Moniz ’99, PhD, Yale University; assistant professor of chemistry, Wellesley College
Sean M. Casey ’88, PhD, University of Minnesota; associate professor and chair, Department of
Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno
Tom Casti ’80, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; product specialist, Gore Associates (Gortex)
Younhee Cho ’04, PhD, Texas A&M University; research associate, Scripps Institute, CA
Peter C. Compo ’81, PhD, City College of New York; senior research scientist, DuPont
Matthew Craddock ’99, PhD, University of Minnesota; postdoctoral fellow, Columbia University; science teacher, Millennium High School, New York, N.Y.
Julio D’Arcy ’00, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; postdoctoral fellow, MIT
David Ebel ’07, research technician, Kerry Ingredients
Francis Greally ’00, chemistry teacher, the Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Robert A. Herman ’79,MD, SUNY Buffalo; staff psychiatrist, University of Maryland Health Center,
College Park, and Anne Arundel Medical Center
Jacques Jospitre ’92, MD, Columbia University, PhD, New York University; psychiatrist
David Khoshabo ’03, research scientist, BASF, Tarrytown, NY
Martha Knieriem’86, MS, Lehigh University; Regulatory document writer, Novartis Pharmaceutical
Corporation
Derek Levison ’86 (chemistry and biology), PhD, City University of New York; managing director, EMP Biotech, Germany
George Livermore ’81 (chemistry and biology), MD, Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences; otolaryngologist
Juan March ’85,MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University; professor and chief of the Division of
Emergency Medical Services, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University
Colm McCarthy ’09 (chemistry and biology),MD (currently PhD student),McGill University
Jonathan Mathis ’10, medical student, Morehouse College
Mark Pastore ’87, vice president of clean coal solutions, Environmental Energy Services (EES) Inc.
Peter Powchik ’79,MD, New York University; head of clinical development and regulatory affairs,
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Christopher L. Reilly ’85, MD, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University (UK); general and
laparoscopic surgeon, West Houston Surgical Associates PA, Houston,Texas
Sharon Rivera ’03, PhD, Syracuse University; postdoctoral fellow, Columbia University
Milo Russell ’11 (chemistry and creative writing), PhD student, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
Mahsa Salsabili ’10 (chemistry and biology), Pharm D student, SUNY Buffalo
Clifford Soll ’84, PhD, City University of New York; mass spectrometry facility director, Hunter
College, City University of New York
Robert Vitti ’82,MD, St. Andrews Medical College; ophthalmologist and vice president, Regeneron
Pharmaceuticals
Reinemarie Willimann ’87 (chemistry and biology), DVM, Cornell University; veterinarian, Mount
Kisco Veterinary Clinic
Frances Zappalla ’81 (chemistry and biology), DO, Long Island College of Osteopathic Medicine;
pediatric cardiologist, North Shore University