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Publishing
Viroon Donavanik, M.D., et al. “A Prospective Phase 2 Trial of Transperineal Ultrasound- Guided Brachytherapy for Locally Recurrent Prostate Cancer After External Beam Radiation Therapy.” (NRG Oncology/RTOG- 0526).
Michael Farrell, M.D., MS; Audrey Spencer, M.D.; Adebayo Gbadebo, MBA; Zugui Zhang, Ph.D.; and Caitlin Halbert, D.O., MS. “Relationship of Hemorrhagic Complications with Perioperative Blood Pressure in Bariatric Surgery.” American Surgeon. May 2019
Ismael A. Matus, M.D., FCCP, and Patrick Ho, D.O. “Ambulatory Iodopovidone Instillation via Indwelling Pleural Catheter for Malignant Pleural Effusions.” Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology. Published ahead of print, May 2019.
Robert Witt, M.D., et al. “Neurturin-Contain- ing Laminin Matrices Support Innervated Branching Epithelium from Adult Epithelial Salispheres.” Biomaterials. June 2019.
In the Delaware Journal of Public Health, Communicable Disease issue. May 2019.
• Omar A. Khan, M.D., MHS. “In This Issue.”
• Neal D. Goldstein, Ph.D., MBI, and Deborah Kahal, M.D., MPH, FACP. “Comments on the Communicable Disease Issue.”
• Stephen C. Eppes, M.D. “Hepatitis C in Pregnant Women and Their Children.”
Marci Drees, M.D., MS; Kimberly Fischer, BSN, RN; Loretta Consiglio-Ward, MSN, RN; William M. Chasanov II, D.O., MBA; Jillian D. Laude, Pharm.D., BCPS; Nicole Harrington, Pharm.D, BCPS, AQ-ID; Robert Dressler, M.D., MBA.; et al. “Statewide Antibiotic Stewardship: An eBrightHealth Choosing Wisely Initiative.”
Presentations
Heather Farley, M.D., MHCDS, FACEP, was a guest speaker for the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s Physician Resiliency Summit, joined by nationally noted experts Tait Shanafelt, M.D., and Pamela Wible, M.D., June 2019. Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
At the national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting in Washington D.C., May 2019. Resident poster presentations:
• Robert DeGrazia, M.D. “Resident-led Initiative to Improve Screening for Social Determinants of Health in an Outpatient Clinic.”
• Scott Holmes, D.O. “Non-Opioid Prescription Alternative Initiative (NOPAIN) - A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce the Use of Opioids in Low Back Pain.”
• Matt Langston, D.O. “A Fatal but Uncommon Cause of Headache.”
• Jenna Laughlin, D.O. “Implementation of Telephone Visits in a Residency Clinic: A Strategy to Build Telehealth Skills, Improve Patient Ownership and Enhance Care Delivery in a Residency Practice.”
• Jenna Laughlin, D.O. “Beyond the Walls of the Clinic: A Telemedicine Pilot to Enhance Care Delivery in a Residency Practice.”
• Justin Nichols, M.D. “Masquerade or Miss? A Case of Undiagnosed Neurosyphilis.”
• Michaela Seigo, D.O. “A Hostpotting Curriculum to Enhance Education on Complex Ambulatory Patients.”
• Izzy Pines, D.O. “Rates of No-Shows in an Urban Primary Care Clinic: Defining the Problem.”
• Mike Goulet, D.O. “Abrupt Worsening of Diabetes Control Associated with New Diagnosis of Endometrial Adenocarcinoma, with Return to Baseline Following Curative Surgery.”
• Nikita Donti, D.O. “Nitrous Oxide Toxicity: NO Laughing Matter.”
• Melissa Morgan-Gouveia, M.D.:
– MOC Update with ABIM.
– Teaching Health Disparities Through House Calls.
– Update in Geriatric Medicine.
At the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual. Houston. April 2019
• Talha Khan, M.D. “Acute Atraumatic Leg Pain in a 34-year-old.”
• Crystal Kucuk, D.O. “Healthy Female with Chronic Ankle Pain.”
At the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Conference. Toronto. May 2019.
• James Nathan Becker, M.D. “Assessing the Acceptance of PrEP and Need for Teaching It Among Family Medicine Residency Programs.”
• Colleen Hazlett-O’Brien, D.O., Anna Filip, M.D., and Erin Kavanaugh, M.D. “Parental Leave in Residency: Creating a Formal Parental Leave Policy.”
Robert Witt, M.D. Moderated a panel on sali- vary gland tumors and gave a lecture on sur- gery for parotid tumors for the Confederation of European Otohinolaryngology Societies. Brussels. July 2019.
Appointments
Marshala Lee, M.D., Harrington Physician Scholar and Program Director, Harrington Value Institute Community Partnership Fund, was recently appointed to the Delaware Community Foundation Equity Project Board.
The Education, Development and Advancement Council congratulates the following new RN III nurses: Mary E. Austin,
BSN, MSN, RNC-NIC, NICU; Japhia Bowman, BSN, RN-BC, 4C; Stephanie Cressman, BSN, RN-BC, Inpatient Behavioral Health; Brandon Hoskins, MSN, MSM, RN, CEN, CCRN, 3E MICU; Brenda Johnson, BSN, RN, CPAN, Surgical Admissions; Katharine Meisterich, MSN, RN-BC, CCRN, 3E MICU; Nilgun Onal, MBA, MSN, RN, CMSRN, 5C; Jordan Prieto, BSN, RN-BC, 4C; Alexandra Rachko, BSN, RN-BC, 5E Heart Failure Unit; Gemma Ryder, BSN, RN, CEN, Christiana ED; Justine Shockley, BSN, RN-BC, 8S; Jacqueline Steen, BSN, RN, PCCN, 5E Heart Failure Unit; Bernadette Walsh, BSN, RN- BC, Outpatient Neurology; Deborah Wambold, BSN, RN, CEN, Wilmington ED; and Kimberly Woods, MSN, RN, PCCN, 3D TMU.
Evelyn Chris Skinner, MSN, RN, CAPA, was elected treasurer of the American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses.
Robert Witt, M.D., was appointed to the executive board of the new formed, interna- tional Multidisciplinary Salivary Gland Society (MSGS), serving as the board member representing North and South America.
Awards & Achievements
Diana Dickson-Witmer, M.D., has been nominated as a member of The American Society of Clinical Oncology Management of Hereditary Breast Cancer Guideline Consensus Panel as the Breast Surgeon representative.
Marci Drees, M.D., MS, FACP, FSHEA, was awarded Fellowship in the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
Erin Kavanaugh, M.D., received the 2019 Program Director Recognition Award - Bronze Level at the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors Workshop in Kansas City, Missouri in April.
Natalia Rivera-Torres, senior research scientist at the Gene Editing Institute at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute, successfully defended her dissertation and received her Ph.D. degree in May. Dr. Rivera-Torres received the Hispanic/ Latino Graduate Student Association - Student, Faculty, and Staff Award.
Nick Rosenfeld, M.D., has been selected as the Association of Family Medicine Residency Program’s Scholarship winner. He was one of seven residents chosen nationally to attend the Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C. in May.
Evelyn Chris Skinner, MSN, RN, CAPA, was elected to a two-year term as treasurer and member of the executive board of the American Society of Perianesthesia
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