class notes
Posted: November 21, 2014
1960s
Edward M. Hobbs Jr., DO, ’62, Austintown, Ohio, is retired after more than 50 years in primary care.
Wayne C. Cole, DO, ’65, retired in October 2013 after more than 40 years of serving patients in Providence, Ky.
During his career, he was a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air National Guard (1984-99), was on the Green River Health Department for nearly 30 years, and served four years on the Providence City Council and four years as Providence mayor.
John R. Bowling, DO, FACOFP, ’69, Trophy Club, Texas, was recognized with the Meritorious Service Award for his leadership and commitment to osteopathic family medicine at the joint meeting of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association and Texas Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians in San Antonio, Texas, in June.
1970s
Ted C. Alexander Jr., DO, ’71, retired in August 2013. He is now a full-time farmer and rancher in Wichita Falls, Texas.
“Best wishes to all my classmates.”
– Dr. Ted Alexander
Thomas N. Told, DO, FACOFP, ’73, was recognized as Educator of the Year by the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians at their 51st annual convention held in Philadelphia.
Following a long career of general practice in Craig, Colo., he presently serves as interim dean and chief academic officer for the Rocky Vista College of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker, Colo. He served as 2006-07 ACOFP president.
E. Glenn Browning, DO, ’74, closed his private practice in Kirksville on Aug. 1.
Frederic L. Jackson, DO, MPH, FAAFP, ’74, underwent his fourth retirement Nov. 28, 2013. Dr. Jackson, a former naval aviator, attended KCOM on a Navy scholarship and remained in the Navy to complete a 30-year career, including a family medicine residency, designation as a naval flight surgeon, numerous tours on both coasts and abroad, and commanding naval hospitals in Oak Harbor, Wash., and Long Beach, Calif. Following military retirement, he practiced as a hospital medical director, family medicine residency director, and for the past nine years as a full-time hospice physician in Georgia and California.
Dr. Jackson is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine in hospice and palliative medicine, American Osteopathic Board of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (Aerospace), American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, the late American Board of Medical Management, and as a certified physician executive by the American College of Physician Executives.
Dr. Jackson and his wife, Pat, former nursing director at the Adair County Nursing Home, live in Pensacola, Fla.
David V. Pulliam, DO, ’78, Corder, Mo., received the 2014 Family Physician of the Year Award from the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians at their 66th Annual Scientific Assembly, held June 6-7 in Lake Ozark, Mo. He was chosen based on nominations made by patients, community members, and fellow physicians.
Dr. Pullium is ABFM certified in family medicine and is an AAFP fellow. He practices at Family Practice Associates of West Central Missouri with clinics in Higginsville and Warrensburg. He has been an MAFP member since 1983.
1980s
Michael L. Kuchera, DO, ’80, Greenwood, Ind., professor and chair, Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, successfully reapplied for an additional five-year fellowship (2014-19) with AACOM’s National Academy of Osteopathic Medical Educators in the teaching and evaluation category.
Dr. Lockwood
Michael D. Lockwood, DO, FCA, ’81, is on faculty in the OMM department at Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He spent 32 years on faculty at KCOM and as a clinician at the Gutensohn Clinic.
Paula J. Melone, DO, ’81, received second place in the ACOG film festival for her film, “Fetal Pig Simulation Model for Uterine Evacuation” at the 2014 American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists meeting in Chicago. Dr. Melone is clinical assistant professor at Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.), in the division of maternal-fetal medicine and teaches obstetrics and gynecology.
Cynthia B. Paulis, DO, ’84, Massapequa, N.Y., was honored for her contributions to the community by assemblyman Joseph Saladino along with eight other accomplished women on Long Island at his 2014 Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony. The annual event highlights outstanding and highly successful women in the community and showcases them as examples for other young women to follow.
Don L. Maples Jr., DO, ’85, Springfield, Mo., was featured in The Marshfield Mail story “Dr. Don Maples is bringing back the old-fashioned house call,” published March 12. Dr. Maples, a physician with Ozarks Community Hospital’s Bolivar Clinic, visits patients in their homes once a week.
Howard S. Levine, DO, ’87, was elected president of the medical staff at Bayonne Medical Center. This is his fifth term as president, as voted by physicians on staff. Dr. Levine maintains two offices in New Jersey, one in Bayonne and one in Jersey City. An important part of his practice is performing house calls for the elderly; he visits more than 1,000 patients in their homes each year. Dr. Levine also serves as a regional assistant dean for ATSU.
Daniel V. Freeland, DO, ’89, Austin, Texas, was recognized for his leadership and commitment to osteopathic family medicine at the joint meeting of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association and Texas Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians in San Antonio, Texas, in June. Dr. Freeland, ACOFP vice president-elect, served as a convention co-chair and was given the Radar Award for his judicious oversight of the Texas Society’s finances throughout the year. He will become society president in 2015.
1990s
Mark DeSantis, DO, ’93, West Islip, N.Y., was selected as Physician of the Year by the American Academy of Radiology. He was honored at a ceremony in June in Tampa, Fla.
Dr. Alsager
Dale Alsager DO, PhD, ’94, longtime family physician in Maple Valley, Wash., and parttime medical school instructor, was appointed interim dean of Seattle-based International Cloud University. According to Dr. Alsager, International Cloud University uses cloud-based teaching to allow students to obtain an accredited medical degree anywhere in the world.
Gina Reghetti, DO, ’95, Warren, Ohio, recently published two articles highlighting the osteopathic medical profession and the challenges it faces: “Saving Private Osteopathic Medicine” and “ACA: The Shredding of Healthcare and United States’ Constitution.”
“It is not due to physicians’ lack of commitment or education, but the changing conditions in which we practice.”
– Dr. Gina Reghetti, from “Saving Private Osteopathic Medicine”
Katherine R. “Kate” Lichtenberg, DO, MPH, FAAFP, ’97, Kirkwood, Mo., past president and board chair, MAFP, received the Soaring Eagle Award during the 66th Annual Scientific Assembly of the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians on June 7 in Lake Ozark, Mo., for completing her tenure in leadership. Dr. Lichtenberg is physician director of Enhanced Personal Health Care at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri. She has been an MAFP member since 1997.
Daniel J. Jones, DO, ’99, Sandy Lake, Pa., is on his second five-year medical mission since 2007 with his wife at Zimba Mission Hospital in Zimba, Zambia, Africa.
2000s
Mark W. Shen, DO, ’00, Osage Beach assistant medical director, achieved the gold standard credentials in hospice medical director certification from the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board.
Dr. Shen has more than 12 years of family medical practitioner experience. He currently practices in the family medicine department at Lake Regional Health System and is on staff at Lake Regional Hospital and Osage Beach Health Care. Dr. Shen began his career at St. Johns Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo., where he served as chief resident in family medicine from 2002-03.
Dr. Shen is board certified in family medicine and an active member of The American Academy of Family Physicians and the Missouri State Medical Association. He also is president of the Lake Ozark Medical Society.
Brian Panik, DO, FACOEP, FACEP, ’02, Haleiwa, Hawaii, was nominated to serve on University of Hawaii’s board of regents. Dr. Panik also is treasurer and secretary for Hawaii ACEP’s board of directors and vice president of HIBC’s board of directors in Honolulu.
Dr. Baik
Peter U. Baik, DO, ’05, joined Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Okla., as a thoracic surgeon. He provides minimally invasive thoracic procedures, including laparoscopic surgeries, video-assisted thoracic surgery, and chest wall reconstructions. He is trained in robotics using the da Vinci® SiTM surgical robot. Dr. Baik is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery and a member of the American Osteopathic Association.
Timothy Oh, DMD, ’08, was named president-elect of the Maine Dental Association at the 2014 state dental convention in Rockland, Maine. Dr. Oh served as vice president and chair of the executive board for the state association from 2013-14. He also received an honorary fellowship into the international dental organization, the Pierre Fauchard Academy. At the American Dental Association annual session in New Orleans, Dr. Oh received the distinction of being inducted into fellowship with both the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists.
Dr. Oh is currently director of Caring Hands of Maine Dental Center in Ellsworth, Maine, an active externship site for ASDOH seniors. He’s also immediate past president of the ASDOH Alumni Board (2014-15).
Lincoln J. Westfall, DO, ’08, Zillah, Wash., joined the Sunnyside Community Hospital team of physicians in February and also sees patients at the Lincoln Family Medicine Clinic, both in Sunnyside, Wash.
Jonathan M. Beary, DO, ’09, Kirksville, Mo., joined Northeast Regional Medial Group as an adult neurologist in August. Dr. Beary is the only neurologist in the Kirksville area certified by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. He completed his internal medicine and neurology residency at The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as a fellow in electromyography and neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Beary is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and holds additional certification in clinical neurophysiology/epilepsy, as well as in therapeutic applications of neurotoxins.
2010s
Mark Takayoshi “Tak” Shima, DO, ’10, went to St. Elizabeth/ St. Joseph in Warren, Ohio, for clinical rotations, staying on as a resident in surgery and becoming chief resident. He recently was accepted into the Kleinert Institute Hand Surgery Fellowship in Louisville, Ky., and is the only resident (and the only DO) serving on the Emergency Hand Care Committee for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Shima’s research, “Kaolin Thromboelastography is Unreliable for Detecting Warfarin-Coagulopathy” was published in the Thrombosis Journal. He presented that publication at Resident Research Day at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and won first place for oral research.
He has been honored with several other awards—the prestigious Resident of the Year Award by Akron Children’s Hospital and five awards in recognition for excellence in action: Excellence in Service Documentation, Patient Care and Bedside Manner, Emergency Patient Care, and two Patient Care awards. Dr. Shima was a QOS Leadership Rounds Honoree.
As an osteopathic general surgeon, he wrote an EMR note template for hand trauma adopted and presently in use by the orthopaedic and trauma departments of St. Elizabeth’s.
Elaine Kalous, AuD, ’14, and Elizabeth D’souza, AuD, ’14, received Professional Leadership Awards for outstanding performance and contributions to the community and profession at a ceremony held Aug. 7 at the Superstition Springs Golf Resort. Dr. D’souza is a speech and language practitioner in the Connecticut school system and is pursuing licensing for a career in educational audiology. Dr. Kalous is in practice at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mia Pendergrass, AuD, ’14, received the Outstanding Student in Audiology Award at a ceremony held Aug. 7 at the Superstition Springs Golf Resort for her academic excellence and professional growth in the program.
Michelle Weber, MS, ’14, and Kelsey Picha, MS, ’14, represented ATSU’s Athletic Training program at the Arizona Parks and Recreation Association award banquet, held Aug. 18. Mesa Parks and Recreation, in partnership with ATSU, Positive Coaching Alliance, Arizona State University College of Health Solutions, NextCare Urgent Care, and East Valley Sports, received the Outstanding Program Award for their Positive Play Project that encourages wellness and development in youth sports.