A Commitment to Healthcare: Paving the way for future generations
Jack Cush, MD ’81
Philip Lahrmann, MD ’81
Fran McGill, MD ’81
John Madden, MD ’81
40 Years of Memories Slideshow
Co-Chair Biographies
John Madden, MD ’81
Helping Students Find Their Path
A native New Yorker, John Madden came to SGU after practicing as a PA in an “ER” in Harlem for just over a year. While active in what now would be considered student government, when he started clinicals at Coney Island, Andy Belford would ask him to come to meetings in NYC to speak to prospective students and more importantly their parents.
Soon after John was the first student to be used to interview students (at $25 an hour!) and a few years after graduation joined the Admissions Committee and became the Associate Dean of Students for the US. Until 2020 he also served as an Associate Dean of Clinical Studies. After an IM residency at Coney Island and an EM residency at Jacobi Hospital he went on to work in the ED’s at first Hahnemann University and the Christiana Care Health System in Delaware where he lives with his wife Janet. They have two sons, Andrew and Patrick who are now in their thirty’s.
In 2020, John asked the SOM Council of Deans to create an Office of Career Guidance (OCG) to organize the medical student counseling in one office which was approved, and he was named the Director. He built the OCG into a group of SGU grads who provide remote counseling to students around the US with support from the Bay Shore and now the Great River office. John went very part time in the ED in July 2015 and full time with SGUSOM, serving on many committees and groups and traveling to the UK each year and the Grenada campus several times a year. John retired from clinical medicine in January 2018.
Frances McGill, MD ’81
An Advocate for Women’s Health
Prior to her full-time faculty appointment at SGU, she worked as a part-time associate dean of clinical studies, making clinical site visits in the US, facilitating student mentoring, and working to advance the Gold Humanism Honor Society at SGUSOM. Dr. McGill had been a visiting professor at SGU for many years.
Prior to joining SGU, Dr. McGill was head of gynecology, director of the fellowship in obstetrics and gynecology for family practice physicians, and the director of residency in obstetrics and gynecology for physician assistants at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY.
She also taught obstetrics and gynecology and held program director positions at several New York medical schools including Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Medical College, and St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center.
Counted among her experience, Dr. McGill was the director of medical education in obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in Bronx, NY. She returned to Grenada in 2008.
Dr. McGill has contributed her experience and knowledge of medical education by sitting on several SGU committees. She also is the faculty advisor for two student organizations: Women in Medicine and the Catholic Students Organization. She is an active member of the SOM Alumni Association.
Dr. McGill is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Medical Association, the Grenada Medical Association, the Medical Society of the State of New York, and the New York County Medical Society.
John “Jack” Cush, MD ’81
Changing Lives of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
John J. Cush was a member of the second graduating class of St. George’s University School of Medicine in 1981, at which time he received the Robert Hingson Humanitarian Award.
Dr. Cush received his undergraduate degree (BS, Biology) from St. John’s University in Jamaica, New York. His clerkship and residency in internal medicine were performed at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, where he was named Intern of the Year and Chief Resident in internal medicine. In 1984, Dr. Cush began his rheumatology fellowship and was later appointed to the Rheumatology faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Since 1996 he has been Chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Medical Director of the Arthritis Center at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and is a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Cush serves on the Board of Trustees and is Chair of the Academic Board of Trustees for St. George’s University.
During his fellowship and faculty tenure, Dr. Cush focused his research on the immunopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, transendothelial lymphocyte migration and novel drug development through clinical trial research, with an emphasis on rheumatoid arthritis, the spondyloarthropathies, and biologic agents.
As a result of his efforts, Dr. Cush was voted one of the Best Doctors In America and Best Doctors in Dallas by his peers. In 1998-99, the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas named him Teacher of the Year. He has over 100 publications on a variety of topics including rheumatoid arthritis, drug-induced lupus, spondyloarthropathies, immunotherapy, Still’s disease, drug safety, biologic therapies and nutraceuticals.
