2020 In Memoriam

2020 In Memoriam

In 2020, we missed our opportunity to congregate together for our Annual Business Meeting. In our isolation, we wanted to offer this way to provide tribute to those we've lost. In honor of the lives and service of our ASCCP family members, we remember these members, friends, and colleagues. To notify ASCCP of a 2020 passing, please complete this form.

Kenneth Hatch, MD

Dr. Hatch served as President of ASCCP from 1996-98. He passed away on November 12, 2020 after a brief illness.

Dr. Hatch earned his medical degree at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1971. He completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology followed by a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology, both at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As a member of the US Air Force, he joined the faculty at Alabama prior to his recruitment to the University of Arizona in 1989. During his tenure at COM-T, he served as residency program director, division chief of gynecologic oncology, and as department chair.

Dr. Hatch’s many innovative accomplishments include the introduction of laparoscopic approaches to gynecologic malignancies, leading the first randomized clinical trial testing the effectiveness of this approach, having performed the first radical laparoscopic hysterectomy for cervical cancer in 1994. This procedure revolutionized the field and continues to be used worldwide today as the standard approach to gynecologic cancers. One of the many books he authored is Hatch’s Innovations in Gynecologic Laparoscopic Surgery. Also, he was among a few surgeons who treat early stage cervical cancer by radical trachelectomy, thus allowing young women the potential for future fertility. In addition, he was a primary investigator in the HPV vaccine trials that lead to FDA approval of the HPV vaccine.

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Adolf Stafl, MD, PhD

Dr. Stafl was a member of ASCCP since 1979, served as President of ASCCP from 1982-84 and was an author of the Modern Colposcopy Textbook & Atlas.

Adolf passed away peacefully in his home on April 9, 2020 with his loving wife Jarmila at his side on their 32^nd Wedding Anniversary. Adolf was extremely proud of his adoring and loving family. As a father to his two sons, the late Dr. Jan (Liba) Stafl and Denny (Lisa) Stafl and as a grandfather to Jan and Liba’s children: Erik (Andrea), Lenka (Cor), Natalie (Jeff), and to Denny’s children: Sydney and Sam. Adolf was also a proud great-grandfather to Nathan (son of Erik and Andrea) and to the soon-to-be baby daughter of Lenka and Cor.

Adolf's family, life, colleagues, and medical career are his legacy and some of his legends. We will miss him with all our hearts and beyond any words.

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Barbara A. Winkler, MD

It is with great sadness we report that Barbara A. Winkler, MD passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2020 from complications with COVID-19.

Dr. Winkler completed her pathology residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and was a Pathologist at CareMount Medical in Mount Kisco, New York. Dr. Winkler was an active member of the ASC and the College of American Pathologists. She was recently Chair of the ASC Public Affairs and Advocacy Committee from 2013-2016 and a Member of the CAP’s Cytopathology Committee. She was the force and the inspiration behind the humanitarian efforts at CervicoCusco, a Peruvian non-profit organization committed to improving the health and quality of life of Peruvian women through the prevention of cervical cancer.

Dr. Winkler is survived by her husband of 45 years, Dr. David Enrique Monsanto, daughter, Gabriela, and son-in-law, Kevin. She was a devoted aunt to Dominick and Henry Fortnash and a loving sister to David Winkler. She loved to watch and play tennis, traveling, shopping, going to Broadway shows, but above all, she loved the opera. She was an avid reader but her real passion besides her family was cooking. Those who worked with Dr. Winkler remember her very fondly for her wisdom, guidance, kindness, compassion, humor, and friendship. She was loved by all. May her memory be eternal.

Thomas M. Julian, MD

Dr. Thomas Michael Julian, age 70, of Middleton, passed away on Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, from pancreatic cancer. He was born on June 30, 1949, in Minneapolis, Minn., the son of Earl and Pearl (Passi) Julian. Tom graduated from Silver Lake High School and went on to graduate from St. Cloud State University. He married Kathy Chalupsky on June 12, 1971, in Silver Lake, Minn. and they moved to Brainerd, Minn. where he was a social worker.

They then moved to Minneapolis where Tom attended medical school at the University of Minnesota and graduated in 1978. He was a physician there until moving to Middleton, Wis. in 1988. He practiced and taught medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics for 23 years, retiring in 2011. He was a member of many professional organizations and did much speaking, editing, and writing of papers and books. He greatly enjoyed the many physicians, nurses, students, staff, and patients that he worked with over the years.

He had a lifelong passion for the arts. He was an avid reader, an amateur cartoonist, and, in his retirement, an award-winning wood carver. He loved playing baseball, softball, and the guitar. He also enjoyed teaching, crossword puzzles, gardening, and spending time with his grandchildren. His favorite thing in life was being a grandpa.

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