1980s
Martin S. Levine, D.O., MPH, FACOFP, '80, Bayonne, N.J., has been named to New York Magazine's annual list of the New York- metropolitan area's best doctors. Dr. Levine specializes in osteopathic and sports medicine and maintains family practices in Jersey City and Bayonne. This summer, Dr. Levine was reelected to the American Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees.
Ian R. Levenson, D.O., FACOFP, '81, Englewood, Colo., has been appointed president of the board of directors of Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Andrew F. Jones, D.O., '83, Cottonwood, Idaho, was named Family Physician of the Year 2007 by the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians. He was recognized for his contribution in practicing full scope family medicine and teaching family medicine residents. He sees patients in the Cottonwood, Nezperce, Elk City, and Kamiah clinics, in addition to performing general and laparoscopic surgery and endoscopy. He also has an active OB practice, volunteers for the TAR WARS anti-tobacco program, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Idaho Perinatal Project and the Idaho Colon Cancer Prevention Task Force. He also serves as a clinical professor of rural family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Jones was interviewed by NPR on the subject of rural medicine for a program that was scheduled to air in August.
William M. McDonald, D.O., '83, Camdenton, Mo., relocated his practice to his home state of Missouri after spending the last 20 years in private practice in Montezuma, Ga. While in Georgia, he was selected Physician of the Year by the Georgia Osteopathic Medical Association and Faculty Member of the Year by the Georgia Osteopathic Institute. He is a board- certified family practice physician, and is on staff at the Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, Mo.
Michael R. Jaff, D.O., '85, Newton, Mass., has been named the first full-time medical director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Vascular Center. Over the past several years, Dr. Jaff has been integral in creating and shaping the Vascular Center at Mass General West in Waltham, a distinctive collaboration of clinical specialties working together to deliver comprehensive care to patients with a wide range of vascular conditions. An assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Jaff also directs the Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory at the main MGH campus in Boston and he is medical director of the Vascular Ultrasound Core Laboratory, one of the world's largest peripheral vascular clinical device research ultrasound laboratories.
Jeffrey J. Anderson, D.O., '87, Kennewick, Wash., is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, chief of OB/Gyn at Kadlec Medical Center in Richland, Wash., and member of the Board of Directors of Kadlec Clinic.
Janet I. McMahon, D.O., '87, Oneida, N.Y., is working full time in an emergency room after seven years in an office-based practice. She is also medical advisor for local, rural emergency medical services.
Thomas E. Reeths, D.O., '87, Manistee, Mich., recently accepted a position with Bay Regional Medical Center as clinical DME and director of the family medicine residency program. Prior to accepting this position, he was in a solo family practice for seven years in Manistee.
Ellie W. Campbell, D.O., '89, Cumming, Ga., completed an intensive, three-day continuing medical education course offered by ZRT Labs in Portland, Ore. The course was entitled "Bio-identical Hormone Restoration Therapy in Male and Female Patients." In addition, she was a featured guest lecturer. Following her lecture, she was interviewed on the topic of Vitamin D testing and treatment strategies for KBOO Radio in Portland.
1990s
David Riesbeck, husband of Susan Moore- Riesbeck, D.O., '90, Granger, Ind., has received the Warner Allen Award from the Advocates to the Indiana Osteopathic Association (AIOA). Mr. Riesbeck was recognized for his outstanding service to the AIOA and the osteopathic profession. He is treasurer of AIOA for 2007-08.
Harry M. Arters, D.O., FACOEP, '95, Brooklyn, Conn., has been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. He is currently the clinical director of emergency medicine at the Memorial Campus of University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Maria A. Katsaros, D.O., '95, and Mark R. Katsaros, D.O., '95, Harrisburg, Mo., are the parents of a baby boy they named Samuel. He joins their two other children, Shaman and Starlight.
Steven W. Krause, D.O., '96, St. Charles, Ill., has joined the Cardiology Department at Dreyer and sees patients at the Mercy Campus site. Dr. Krause practiced medicine in the United States Army from 1996 to 2003 at the Martin Community Hospital in Fort Benning, Ga., and the Wuerzburg Army Hospital in Wuerzburg, Germany. He is certified in internal medicine and cardiology by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine and has received numerous medals and awards for outstanding service.
Christian C. Willingham, D.O., FACOEP, '96, Platte City, Mo., has been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. He holds a full-time staff position at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., where he is director of emergency ultrasound, as well as an associate clinical professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine.
Nikhil L. Shah, D.O., M.P.H., '97, Atlanta, Ga., is director of robotic & laparoscopic urology at Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, performing robotic surgery for urologic oncology cases.
