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Jacqueline Kaye Thompson, associate professor emerita in the School of Nursing, died July 24 in Millard Fillmore Hospital. She was 76.
A native of Bemidji, Minn., Thompson received her RN and BS in nursing degrees from the University of Minnesota and a doctorate in education from UB. She also completed a nurse practitioner degree from UB.
During her three-decade career at UB, Thompson specialized in educating students in pediatric nursing, with an emphasis in early childhood development, health and education, and the role of nursing in the community.
She spearheaded a program to place UB student nurses in Buffalo public elementary schools to provide health services, health lessons and therapeutic play in the classroom, while giving practical training in school nursing.
An alumnus of the Alpha Gamma Delta Professional Society, she retired from UB in 2000.
Edward J. Marine, clinical associate professor in the UB Department of Medicine who helped found Health Care Plan, now Univera, died July 11 in his Williamsville home. He was 77.
Born in New York City, Marine earned a BA from Columbia University and an MD from New York University Medical School. He trained in internal medicine and rheumatology at Buffalo General Hospital and at UB, where he became chief teaching fellow and the Buswell Fellow in Immunology and Rheumatic Disease.
Marine joined the UB medical school faculty in 1962 as an assistant clinical instructor in medicine and later became an assistant professor of medicine. He was named associate dean in 1969 and served as executive associate dean and director of academic programs from 1970-71. In those positions, he led an extensive reform of medical education at the university, including establishment of a new curriculum, academic calendar, grading system, primary care focus and new admission policies and practices. He also developed special programs for under-represented minorities.
In 1977, Marine became the founding medical director and chief medical officer of Health Care Plan, a health maintenance organization (HMO). He retired in 1998, but continued to work as a consultant.
A national leader in health care organization and quality improvement, Marine served as chair of the Medical Directors Division of the American Association of Health Plans and the Medical Directors Council of the Alliance of Community Health Care Plans.
He also was co-founder and chair of the advisory board of Effective Clinical Practice, a journal of health care quality improvement.
In addition, he helped found the National Committee for Quality Assurance, which developed standards for assessing quality assurance in HMOs, and was chair of its Standards Committee. He also was founding director and chair of the Community Health Foundation, which is dedicated to improving health in Western New York.
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