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14Dean Marjorie 21Slow Growth: 52Brian Jewell, M.D.: That was an ecstatic moment… I am amazed that every delivery can Bowman, M.D., the moment you wait for in your provide a new, special experience M.P.A.: research that eclipses all the whether it’s human or orangutan. You have to have a thirst for frustrations of the last years. knowledge that persists forever. From the Dean What’s Inside Vital Signs It’s hard to believe, but it’s been more than a year since I became dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine. Now that I’ve had time to settle in and get to Vol. 37, No. 1 know everyone, I’m even more amazed by the dedication, innovation, and Spring 2014 commitment to excellence I’ve seen here. Editor I have found the Boonshoft School of Medicine to be a jewel, often hidden, and Cindy Young less well known than it should be. In my meetings with our alumni, I have come 25 32 36 54 Art Director Emily Stamas to understand just how proud of their medical school they are. We have the Going Full Term: Nathan John Corker: Casey Contributing Writers proudest graduates I have ever met, and with good reason. I just want to walk Schlicher, M.D.: What better way McCluskey, M.D.: Anthony Gottschlich him out of here, Other legislators to make an I literally put my Heather Maurer The Boonshoft School of Medicine has kept its eye on its mission, in spite of take him home talk about the informed decision life in the hands Cindy Young and snuggle him, problems with the than to live and of my doctors… Photography environments that would push it otherwise. I have learned that we Roberta Bowers are a great value-added school. We admit enthusiastic students with a great but you can’t system, but I live work in our William Jones do that. in them every day nation’s capital Chris Snyder sense of passion, and we help them become even greater along the way. We with my patients. for a year. Cindy Young take enthusiasm and permanently ingrain mission.

As dean, it has been my distinct pleasure to meet the students, faculty, staff, Snapshots 4 In Residence How to contact us: Nathan Schlicher, M.D. 32 Editor, Vital Signs and alumni of the medical school and to learn their incredible stories. Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine In this issue of Vital Signs, you’ll meet some of those individuals. Our faculty are Issues In Depth On the Move 34 3640 Col. Glenn Hwy. Trauma: When Care is Critical 9 Dayton Ohio 45435 leading the way with cutting-edge research. We’re pleased to report on Dr. Future Docs Phone: (937) 245-7610 Julian Cambronero’s discovery of a mechanism to slow tumor growth and John Corker 36 Fax: (937) 245-7949 metastasis in breast cancer, and Dr. Thomas Brown’s research into preeclampsia, A Closer Look [email protected] Dean Marjorie Bowman, M.D., M.P.A.: Healthy Advice: Chronic illness www.med.wright.edu a life-threatening condition for both mothers and babies. You can never learn everything in is the major cause of mortality. To submit Class Notes: medical school. 14 We are trying to help patients Our alumni are making a difference in their communities nationwide. You’ll meet [email protected] change those unhealthy habits. 38 Dr. Nathan Schlicher, a graduate of our residency program WSU & Premier Neuroscience Phone: (937) 245-7610 who became the youngest state senator in Washington State, 1989 grad Institute: Fulfilling a Promise 18 Briefs 40 Vital Signs is published twice a year Dr. Ronald Golovan who serves as team physician for the Cleveland Indians, and for alumni, faculty, staff, and friends 2008 grad Dr. Bryan Jewell who helped deliver a baby orangutan at Zoo Atlanta. of Wright State University Boonshoft Research Spotlight Milestones 34 School of Medicine. Slow Growth 21 And our students are gaining recognition at both the state and national levels. You’ll meet recent graduate Dr. Casey McCluskey, who as a medical student © 2014 Wright State University Going Full Term 25 In Good Company Boonshoft School of Medicine overcame breast cancer and went on to receive a national public health award, Ronald Golovan, M.D., (’89): Taking Blowing Smoke: Exposure to care of professional athletes and fourth-year student John Corker who received an AMA Physician of Tomorrow secondhand smoke may lead musicians is great, but I still love Award, and third-year Topaz Sampson who serves as the 2013-14 president- to worsening pediatric going to work every day and seeing elect of the national Student National Medical Association. kidney disease 27 my regular office patients. 50

These are just a few of the remarkable stories featured in this issue. I look Fels Study featured in Brian Jewell, M.D., (’08) 52 forward to introducing you to more members of the Boonshoft School of American Journal of Physical Anthropology 28 Casey McCluskey, M.D., (’13) 54 Medicine family in upcoming issues. Web Mining: Using social media to understand nonmedical Alumni Notes 56 use of painkillers 29 Marjorie A. Bowman, M.D., M.P.A. Dean 1,000 Words 30 Events 58 Become our fan on Facebook

med.wright.edu 3 26 Wright State Physicians named Snapshots 2013 Best Doctors® in America Twenty-six clinicians affiliated experts in some 450 specialties Wright State partners with Saudi with Wright State Physicians and subspecialties worldwide. and faculty of the Wright State The local list is published university to create medical school University Boonshoft School annually in the Dayton of Medicine were named to Business Journal. Wright State University’s the 2013 Best Doctors® in The Wright State physicians Boonshoft School of America list. They represented and faculty were named best Medicine is expanding its almost a third of the 81 Dayton doctors across a broad range global reach under a new area doctors named. Eight of specialties and subspecialties agreement that enables a Boonshoft School of Medicine ranging from pediatric new medical school in Saudi alumni who practice locally to geriatrics and to Arabia to get started in an also were included on the list. orthopaedic surgery. innovative way, bringing the These leading medical best of Wright State’s “The faculty of the Wright practitioners, researchers, and medical education expertise State University Boonshoft professors are members of a to a new set of students. School of Medicine are prestigious, peer-reviewed leading the way in medical Under the agreement, group that includes the top 5 education and medical Unaizah College of Medicine percent of U.S. physicians. care,” said Marjorie of Qassim University, Saudi Best Doctors Inc. compiles Bowman, M.D., M.P.A., Arabia, will deliver a and maintains the list. For dean. “Congratulations to concurrent educational more than 20 years, Best the doctors of Wright State experience for its students, Doctors has conducted a Dean X. Parmelee, M.D., visited Saudi Arabia in December 2013 to help finalize plans. Physicians, the faculty of the parallel with the Boonshoft physician survey to identify Boonshoft School of Medicine, School of Medicine’s the doctors that other doctors and our local alumni who medical education program. trust most. The list includes The Wright State Physicians Health Center opened on the campus of were named the best doctors more than 53,000 medical Wright State University in summer 2012. Unaizah College of Medicine in the Dayton region.” will become the first medical school in Saudi Arabia to offer an American-style Listed below are the doctors of Wright State Physicians and the faculty of the Boonshoft School of Medicine who medical education, granting were named the Best Doctors in the Dayton region. the M.D. degree. Until now, Saudi medical schools Sherman J. Alter, M.D. Margaret M. Dunn, M.D., M.B.A. William Michael Klykylo, M.D. Arthur S. Pickoff, M.D. Pediatric Infectious Disease Surgery, Surgical Pediatric Specialist/Child and Pediatric Cardiology have granted a Bachelor of Associate Professor, Professor, Surgery Adolescent Psychiatry Professor, Pediatrics, Community Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Professor, Psychiatry; Associate Health Jack Bernstein, M.D. Greg M. Eberhart, M.D. Professor, Pediatrics or M.B.B.S. degree. (L-R) Boonshoft School of Medicine associate dean for academic affairs Dean X. Parmelee, M.D.; Boonshoft Infectious Disease (’94 Resident) Brenda J. Roman, M.D. School of Medicine dean Marjorie A. Bowman, M.D., M.P.A.; Sulaiman Alyahya, professor and vice president Professor, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics/General Richard T. Laughlin, M.D. Psychiatry Unaizah representatives for planning, development, and quality, Qassim University; Saleh Aldamegh, dean of Unaizah College of Medicine, Pathology Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Orthopaedic Surgery Professor, Psychiatry Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, approached the leadership Qassim University; Yousef Aidebasi, dean of the College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University; and Wright State vice president for research and Graduate School dean Robert Fyffe, Ph.D., met at Wright State David G. Bienenfeld, M.D. Robert J. Fink, M.D. Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Randy A. Sansone, M.D. of Boonshoft in 2012 to learn University to work out details of the agreement. Psychiatry Pediatric Pulmonology Psychiatry Professor, Psychiatry, Geriatrics Professor, Pediatrics Ann K. Morrison, M.D. Professor, Psychiatry, Internal more about its innovative Psychiatry Medicine education program, research Emmett Broxson, M.D. Julie P. Gentile, M.D. (’96) Associate Professor, Psychiatry educating the next international identity and Unaizah College of Medicine Pediatric Hematology-Oncology (’00 Resident) Glen D. Solomon, M.D. activities, and community- generation of physicians.” enables the university to was established in 2011 as Professor, Pediatrics Psychiatry Gary A. Mueller, M.D. (’83 Resident) based clinical training. Associate Professor, Psychiatry Pediatric Pulmonology Internal Medicine increase its global impact,” part of a new university Ann E. Burke, M.D. (’96 Resident) Associate Professor, Pediatrics Professor, Internal Medicine Wright State Provost Sundaram “Our outstanding educators Narayanan said. founded by Qassim Pediatrics/General Paulette M. Gillig, M.D., Ph.D. Narayanan, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor, Pediatrics Psychiatry Maria T. Nanagas, M.D. Steven K. Swedlund, M.D. and research faculty have University. Both campuses Professor, Psychiatry Pediatrics/General Family Medicine Bowman, and representatives The agreement will also attracted international are located in Qassim John S. Czachor, M.D. (’83) Associate Professor, Pediatrics Assistant Professor, Geriatrics of Unaizah College of provide opportunities for (’87 Resident) Robert A. Goldenberg, M.D. attention,” said Marjorie Province, northwest of Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine Otolaryngology Cynthia G. Olsen, M.D. (’85) We’d like to hear from you Medicine and Qassim student and faculty Bowman, M.D., M.P.A., dean Riyadh. At Unaizah and Professor, Internal Medicine; Professor, Surgery (’88 Resident) If you’re a Wright State grad who University have signed a exchanges and, most Assistant Professor, Pathology Family Medicine has been named to the Best of the Boonshoft School of other medical schools in Jerald Kay, M.D. Professor, Family Medicine, Doctor’s list, send us your three-year $5.5 million significantly, faculty Medicine. “We are proud Saudi Arabia instruction is Mukund Dole, M.D. Psychiatry, Pediatric Specialist/Child Geriatrics information, and we’ll include it in renewable agreement. development to enhance Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Adolescent Psychiatry the next issue of Vital Signs. that we can offer a new conducted in English. Associate Professor, Pediatrics Professor, Psychiatry John M. Pascoe, M.D., M.P.H. Contact us at [email protected] medical student education. school in a different culture “This agreement helps Pediatrics/General Professor, Pediatrics our proven program for strengthen Wright State’s

4 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 5 Boonshoft School of Medicine adopts a five-year Boonshoft School of Medicine earns strategic plan Accreditation with Commendation for its CME

The national Accreditation some educational efforts The medical school’s CME The Boonshoft School of Resources Following the kickoff meeting, Council for Continuing were duplicated because we program works closely with Medicine has charted its Maximize the facilitators met twice with Medical Education (ACCME®) have similar needs but did other Ohio medical school course for the next five years revenue each focus committee in awarded the Boonshoft not have the means to CME programs through a with the adoption of a new sources and 90-minute sessions to School of Medicine Continuing identify them,” said Karen consortium, CPD Ohio. In strategic plan. The plan was enhance the generate potential strategies Medical Education (CME) Bertke, CME program 2012, the medical school approved by the medical performance of our for the committee’s goals. Accreditation with administrator for the medical received the Alliance for school’s executive committee fundamental operations. The facilitators collaborated Commendation at its school. “We now can Continuing Education in the in August 2013. Development Each goal also features a with each focus committee July 2013 meeting. simplify those efforts to Health Professions Award for of a new strategic plan was culture statement that cochair to create the meeting include not only Innovation in Continuing undertaken as part of the Accreditation with elucidates the school’s agendas and to assist in requirements but also Professional Development. university-wide strategic Commendation is awarded values to inform the various creating reports to be medical school and planning process to determine nationally to only a few CME strategies and tactics. presented at a final retreat, residency educational the path for Wright State providers that demonstrate which was held on May 20. requirements.” University through 2018. “The strategic plan lays the compliance in 22 criteria. The retreat included not only foundation for all of our The ACCME commended The medical school’s strategic the membership of each of the activities over the next half the medical school for plan, “Improving Health focus committees, but also decade,” said Dean Marjorie meeting the accreditation through Exceptional executive committee AAFP recognizes Boonshoft School Bowman, M.D., M.P.A. requirements and for Academics, Research, Social members, fully affiliated of Medicine with a Top Ten Award “This plan will allow us to demonstrating that it is a Commitment, and Community faculty members, department strategically maximize our learning organization and Engagement,” sets strategies administrators and business efforts in the five core areas a change agent for the and tactics to achieve five managers, and representatives of education, research, patient physicians served in specific goals over the course from Premier Health—more care, community engagement, the Miami Valley. of five years. The goals are: than 80 attendees in all. and resource management.” This is the first time Education Following the adoption of Behind-the-scenes work on Wright State has received Advance the plan, Dean Bowman and the plan started in late 2012. Accreditation with learning the associate deans have In February 2013, the first Commendation. “It’s a real experiences designated champions to meeting with task force marker for excellence for the that prepare guide the implementation cochairs, department chairs, Boonshoft School of learners for the medicine of of the plan’s strategies and associate deans was Medicine,” said Albert F. tomorrow. and tactics. convened. The chairs and Painter Jr., Psy.D., assistant Research associate deans were “Our dedicated faculty and dean for faculty and clinical The American Academy of recognition was expanded to Advance the encouraged to provide input staff are our major asset, and affairs. “We have created a Family Physicians (AAFP) 12 schools to accommodate school’s during the entire planning they ensure the strength of continuum of medical honored the Wright State the growth in the number of reputation for process. Five committees our institution,” said Dean education that starts in University Boonshoft School geographically separated nationally were assembled, one for each Bowman. “I thank them for medical school, continues in of Medicine with a Top Ten medical school campuses. recognized research. goal. The committees were their tireless efforts in the residency, and is offered in Award for its consistent There are 141 allopathic chosen to encourage strong strategic planning process medical practice with Patient Care commitment to meeting medical schools in the input from a broad range and its implementation and for continuing education. Prepare for the nation’s need for United States. of faculty. helping us improve health The accreditation with and create the family physicians. for citizens in our community, commendation shows that According to the AAFP, future of Innovative Interchange our nation, and around the Boonshoft School of During the Society of Americans make more office patient care. Associates, a local consulting the globe.” Medicine is a national leader Teachers of Family Medicine visits to family physicians and facilitation firm with Community in physician education.” spring conference, the AAFP than any other medical experience working with View the Strategic Plan Engagement annually recognizes schools specialty. Family physicians corporations, government online: In 2011, the medical school Strengthen that graduated the greatest provide care for patients organizations, and nonprofits, med.wright.edu/about/ partnered with Premier community percentage of students who have sore throats, was engaged to facilitate strategicplan2013 Health to help streamline education, who chose first-year family patients who need stitches, the process. continuing medical medicine residency positions and patients who have community partnerships, and education in Dayton. “We academic partnerships. during a consecutive three- multiple, complex conditions share many of the same year period. Known as such as diabetes with physicians with the the Top Ten Awards, this congestive heart failure. . In the past,

6 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 7 Ann E. Burke, M.D., elected to American Board of Pediatrics Issues In Depth

Burke is the past president “There was not a good of the Association of standard to determine when Pediatric Program Directors a pediatric resident is ready (APPD), which serves to graduate,” said Burke. pediatric programs and their “The process was very leadership by advancing the subjective and not art and science of pediatric standardized. The outcomes- education for the purpose of based, accreditation-based ensuring the health and evaluation system will well-being of children. She provide benchmarks also served as the APPD’s for residents.” Trauma secretary-treasurer and Ann E. Burke, M.D., has been Burke became passionate curriculum task force chair. elected as a director of the about pediatrics while a American Board of Pediatrics Burke is working on the medical student at the and the American Board of board to further Pediatrics University of Virginia School When care is critical Pediatrics Foundation. Milestones, a collaboration of Medicine. She enjoyed of the American Board working with children and Burke, an associate of Pediatrics and the their families. “When children professor of pediatrics at Accreditation Council for are sick, they act sick. the Boonshoft School of Graduate Medical Education When they are well, they are Medicine and director of the (ACGME), a private, running around,” said Burke. school’s pediatric residency nonprofit organization that “Helping children and training program at the evaluates and accredits educating families is very Dayton Children’s Hospital, more than 9,000 residency rewarding. It’s part of our began a six-year term on programs in the United job as pediatricians.” Jan. 1, 2013. The American States. The Milestones Board of Pediatrics is one “Dr. Burke has established project aims to objectively of the 24 certifying boards herself as a leader in assess pediatric resident of the American Board of pediatric education,” said development in a more Medical Specialties. The Arthur Pickoff, M.D., outcomes-based manner. board of directors of professor and chair of the the American Board of She has coauthored articles school of medicine’s Pediatrics includes in the Journal of Graduate Departments of Community distinguished pediatricians Medical Education, a Health and Pediatrics. “This in education, research, and peer-reviewed, editorially prestigious appointment to clinical practice. independent journal the American Board of published by the ACGME, Pediatrics comes right on about the Pediatrics the heels of her completion Milestones Project, which of her term serving as addresses measurement president of the Association tools and benchmarks to of Pediatric Program Directors, help develop pediatricians. another attestation to her expertise in education.”

8 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 9 through physical rehabilitation, the trauma “You know why?” asked Butler. “Because of Working with the military— center nursed a patient back to health. A life the lessons learned from 9/11 and other lessons from war, staying was saved. disasters since then. They prepared, they sharp at home practiced, practiced, practiced, and when Long’s story also shows Wright State’s role in something happened, they were ready for it.” Doctors say advancements in trauma trauma care through its affiliation with local care are largely driven by the symbiotic trauma centers and the physicians and Similarly, hospitals in the Dayton region have relationship the military and civilian caregivers it educates, trains, and employs. plans in place should a natural or man-made medical communities enjoy. Besides Hendershot, a 1999 Boonshoft disaster strike this area. graduate, almost the entire faculty in the “The trauma center here has a close The region has five trauma centers: Miami Department of Surgery is on staff at a local relationship with Wright-Patterson Air Force Valley at Level I, Kettering Medical Center trauma center. That includes A. Peter Ekeh, Base,” Ekeh said. “Their surgeons come here and Dayton Children’s Hospital at Level II, M.D., professor of surgery and interim and rotate with us to keep them in a state of and Atrium Medical Center, Soin Medical director of Trauma Services at MVH, and his perpetual readiness. We’re also involved Center in Beavercreek and Greene Memorial predecessor in that role, Mary McCarthy, M.D., heavily in national and international meetings Hospital in Xenia at Level III. The entire state chair and professor of surgery, who founded has 44 trauma centers in all, 14 at Level I, MVH’s trauma program in 1991. “Virtually all Level I Trauma Centers are according to the ACS. affiliated with a university setting because “Virtually all Level I Trauma Centers are The different levels (I-V) refer to the kinds of research is an extremely important affiliated with a university setting because resources available in a trauma center and the research is an extremely important component, as is injury prevention and number of patients admitted yearly, according component, as is injury prevention and education,” to the American College of Surgeons, the education,” said McCarthy, a member of authority that verifies hospitals as trauma the American College of Surgeons (ACS) where we interface with the military and centers. Level I is the highest level, meaning Committee on Trauma. “The Wright State exchange ideas.” the hospital must be ready at a moment’s University faculty have participated in the notice to respond to large-scale disasters and development of the Miami Valley program Butler, the trauma surgeon in Middletown, is capable of providing total care for every throughout its existence. So what we have is a colonel in the Army Reserves who has aspect of injury—from prevention through here is nationally recognized quality care, served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in Cattle farmer Kelly Long and her dog Danica, who came to her rescue when she was rehabilitation. recent years. He said in every war there have seriously injured by a 1,400-pound cow. and it’s provided through the resources of the been medical advances, and “as we learn from university and the participation of its faculty “If there is an occurrence like the Boston each war we try to translate that knowledge Kelly Long’s date with trauma began Evidence later revealed that Danica must damage: eight broken ribs on Long’s right at a national level.” Marathon bombing, we are prepared for into better civilian trauma care.” He pointed one predawn morning last year when have attacked the cow during those harrowing side, a collapsed lung and a “shattered” liver. such a calamity,” said Ekeh. to three advancements in particular: the normally “super-cautious” cattle moments, giving Long the brief reprieve she Long would spend the next two weeks at MVH was designated in 2006 by the farmer made a rare misstep. She was needed to stumble out of the pen and into a MVH recovering from her injuries. She Preparing for disaster n The use of tourniquets, long frowned National Foundation for Trauma Care as sure there was a safe distance between the barn, where she found a five-gallon bucket, would return on two more occasions because upon in civilian medicine because they In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon one of the top five “highly prepared” trauma newborn calf she was about to tag and its sat down and phoned for help. Family of complications, but today is otherwise were believed to increase morbidity and bombing, Level I Trauma Centers at six area centers in the nation for its preparedness to 1,400-pound mother. But this was no members rushed to her aide, and when it healthy. Most grateful, too. mortality. “But in war we found that teaching hospitals treated hundreds of respond to large-scale disasters. The hospital ordinary mother—cow No. 6051 was a was clear Long couldn’t catch her breath and tourniquets do save lives and they’re an “I love them all, from the EMS crews to my patients, many with serious injuries. Three joined four other medical centers nationwide first-time mom new to Long’s Lynchburg, couldn’t get up from that bucket, they called absolute necessity to first responders, doctors, nurses, and therapists,” Long said. people died at the scene, but everyone who that received the accolade. Ohio, farm and in a particularly cranky 911. “The EMS squad was there in, like, two surgeons, and other medical personnel “They took such good care of me.” made it to the hospital that day survived. mood that morning. seconds,” Long remembered. Ekeh said MVH’s disaster plan involves in combat zones,” Butler said. In civilian “It’s remarkable how well the system worked,” virtually every facet of hospital operations, medicine today, he noted, most EMS Within seconds, the cow charged Long, First responders from Lynchburg Fire and said Daniel Butler, M.D., trauma program from the emergency department to the squads carry tourniquets. clearing a feed bunk along the way, and Rescue rushed Long to Highland District Wright State integral partner medical director for Atrium Medical Center operating rooms to the patient floors. Mock leveled the 130-pound farmer with her first Memorial Hospital in nearby Hillsboro, a in region’s trauma care n Blood transfusions. The old industry in nearby Middletown. disaster training helps staff determine how blow. She then trampled her target as the rural community about 60 miles southeast of standard was to pump a bleeding patient At a time when trauma care’s role in our and where best to use hospital resources, and 47-year-old lay helpless, barely conscious and Dayton. Long’s blood pressure bottomed out Speaking last September at Wright State as a full of I.V. fluids and red blood cells until society seems increasingly vital, as last year’s determine who is most seriously injured and covered in feed pen muck. “They’ll come at along the way. At Highland, doctors inserted panel member for a discussion on the region’s the bleeding could be stopped on the Boston Marathon bombing and other who is too injured to be saved. Working with you with their head like a bull, cows will,” a chest tube while a helicopter and EMS team trauma centers, Butler noted that within three operating table. But in the 1991 Gulf War, tragedies of the last decade remind us, Long’s other area hospitals, including competitors Long recalled months later. “If they feel their from CareFlight Air and Mobile Services minutes of the blast, all trauma centers in the military learned that method could experience illustrates how a trauma system is such as Level II Trauma Center Kettering calf is threatened, they won’t stop, and she waited to whisk Long to Miami Valley Boston were notified. Within four minutes, actually increase bleeding. During the supposed to work: An EMS crew responded Medical Center, is an integral component, didn’t stop. From then on, everything Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center. mutual aid requests had gone out to Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the military quickly to an injury scene. Absent a nearby too, he said. is blurry.” emergency personnel. Eighteen minutes after discovered whole blood transfusions At Miami Valley (MVH), a trauma team that trauma center, a local hospital stabilized a the blast, the scenes were all cleared, and “We’re working on how we can work together produced better outcomes. Bleeding During those blurry moments, Long later included Kimberly Hendershot, M.D., an patient, communicated clearly with the within 30 minutes, all of the injured were more on responding to disasters,” he said. patients are loosing whole blood, after all, learned, a four-legged first responder came to assistant professor in the Boonshoft School of nearest appropriate trauma center, and sent in a hospital. All survived. not just components. So today the her rescue — her dog Danica, a 2-year-old Medicine Department of Surgery, assessed the her there. From emergency department care border collie who specializes in cattle herding. standard is to start a “1:1:1 transfusion”

10 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 11 (one unit of red cells, one unit of platelets, The military benefits from civilian is the Air Force’s flagship hospital and serves In his current duties, Bini said he spends the Weaver said she fell for trauma care during and one unit of plasma) to match whole medicine, too. as a Level 1 Trauma Center in Texas. bulk of his time working for Wright State and her first job as a nurse working in the blood components that were lost MVH, but he also works one day a week emergency department at Wilson Memorial McCarthy, the surgery department chair, said “It’s providing us a platform to maintain our from bleeding. fulfilling clinical and educational responsibilities Hospital in Sidney, about 30 miles north of the first Air Force attending surgeon to join surgical proficiency,” Bini said of STARS-P. at Wright-Patterson Medical Center. Dayton. She grew more committed when she n Damage control surgery. This type of MVH’s staff joined in 1991. “It’s like an “I think as we progress in our peacetime joined MVH in 1991 and then CareFlight surgery has been around since the 1980s, embedded journalist; we have an embedded mission that all areas of military medicine Air and Mobile Services soon thereafter, first Butler said, but it really came into focus trauma surgeon,” she said. will find themselves looking for these Why trauma care? as a flight nurse and later as chief flight nurse/ during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. collaborative civilian ventures in order to McCarthy said Wright State and MVH have clinical operations manager. Military doctors learned they could save maintain proficiency.” It’s a brutal profession on several fronts. been training Air Force residents since 1974, more lives by focusing on the most serious Long hours, calls in the middle of night, Weaver said the job can be “emotionally and that half of Wright State’s eight surgical Bini brings considerable wartime experience damage first and leaving the rest for the injuries that are downright grisly, and patients taxing,” but trauma team members lean on residents each year are from the Air Force. to his latest post. He’s been deployed to operating room or ICU at a medical and families whose lives have been shattered, each other for support. “I cope with tragedy facility with a higher level of care. “You The latest to join is Lt. Col. John Bini, M.D., sometimes violently and almost always knowing that we make a difference in so don’t do any fancy surgery, you do under an Air Force program called the “…this is a place where you can make a needlessly. Then there’s the emotional many lives, and that when trauma patients are ‘meatball surgery’ to get the patient Sustainment of Trauma and Resuscitation very big difference very quickly. You hangover that follows. brought to our facility—we have over 30 years more stable,” Butler explained. Program (STARS-P). The program allows Air really do watch people who come in of caring for high acuity trauma patients—they But for those who work in trauma medicine, Force attending surgeons, nurses, and medical are being cared for by the best.” Butler also mentioned the military’s use of knocking on death’s door get better.” there’s nothing else like it and nothing else technicians to rotate through Level 1 Trauma cots instead of backboards as an important they’d rather do. Gans said she found her calling working with Centers to hone their war readiness skills. The lesson, but it’s been slow to catch on in the Afghanistan and Iraq three times, including MVH’s night trauma team when she was a rotations are considered part of their normal “Every day is different, you never know who’s civilian arena. “We know from the data that as a chief of trauma and as a surgical flight fourth-year medical student on her surgery duty time. going to come through the door,” said Alyssa lots of patients are injured by being on a commander. He’s also an instructor and rotation. “I loved it,” the Cleveland native Gans, M.D., a 2009 Boonshoft graduate and backboard, more so than from not being on Bini came to Wright-Patterson in September provider of Advanced Trauma Life Support, recalled. “I looked forward to coming to work fifth-year surgical resident at Miami Valley a backboard,” he said. “Some EMS units are from San Antonio, Texas, where he was chief and he has served as the course director for every night. It was the most fun I had in Hospital. “The other thing is this is a place slowly changing to get rid of backboards… of general surgery at Wilford Hall Medical the Defense Medical Readiness Training medical school.” where you can make a very big difference very Sometimes it’s not easy to translate what Center on Lackland Air Force Base. Wilford Institute’s Emergency War Surgery Course quickly. You really do watch people who Gans heads this summer to the University we’ve learned on the battlefield into since 2007. come in knocking on death’s door get better. of Cincinnati for a one-year fellowship in civilian medicine. It takes time and lots It’s very rewarding to take care of them and surgical critical care. She credits her education of education.” Assistant professor Kimberly Hendershot, M.D., (right), cared for Kelly Long when she was brought to the Miami Valley Hospital Level I Trauma Center. see them walk back out the door.” at Boonshoft and the training she’s received from faculty for getting her to this point. Echoed Wright State nursing graduate Lisa G. Weaver, R.N., Trauma Program “Wright State does a very good job of getting director for MVH: “Trauma is a great way us into the operating room and into clinical to immediately impact patients and families settings very, very early, which is one of the during a time when their lives have been things that sets us apart from other places,” turned upside down in a matter of seconds. Gans said. “You get much more of a hands-on We can’t always fix the patient, but we can education. We jump right in, and that provide the best care available, compassion prepares us well for our future.” VS to the patient in their last moments, and —Anthony Gottschlich reassurance to the family that their loved one was never alone.”

12 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 13 A Closer Look

When Marjorie Bowman, M.D., M.P.A., became dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine on October 1, 2012, she brought with her years of experience serving at some of the premier medical schools in America. But her inspiration to enter medicine, her dedication to hard work, and her natural inquisitiveness came Dean Marjorie Bowman talks to students. from her earliest days growing up on a farm. She entered the Penn State-Jefferson “I sewed all my own clothes when I was in Residency at age 22 Premedical-Medical Program in 1971 and high school because I didn’t have any money,” As a former farm girl, Marjorie Bowman is As a country kid, she never felt like she was “I believe I saw doctors maybe twice before I graduated with an M.D. from the Jefferson she said. “I did surgery on the cows and the Due to the accelerated program at Jefferson, used to hard work. But what some may part of the “in” crowd in high school. But graduated from high school,” she said. “But Medical College five years later. rats. Surgery was easy.” she started her residency when she was 22. consider the drudgery of farm life, inspired rather than let it get her down, it motivated the doctor was wonderful to us. My mother “I was so young,” she said. “I tried to dress in Bowman a natural curiosity about the her even more to excel. She played softball, would call, and he would give her answers as Bowman remained as active as ever in college. The oral exams in surgery were a different like I wasn’t. I thought I was dressing older, world around her, an overriding desire to ran track and field, competed in gymnastics, much as he could over the phone.” She worked 20 hours a week in a lab from her matter. She recommended a lumpectomy but when I look back, I really wasn’t.” make a difference, and a common sense and was a cheerleader. second through fourth years of medical rather than a total mastectomy for a woman What piqued her interest in medicine was her Bowman went to Duke University for her approach to medical care. school. She became a master bridge player with upper outer quadrant breast tumor with “I tried being on the basketball team one year, experience with the vet when he came to care and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the negative nodes. “As soon as I got out of there, residency. “I wanted to choose a good She grew up on a dairy farm in western but that was really stupid,” said the petite for the farm animals. national medical honor society. I thought, ‘This is probably not what I residency—one where you had a lot of options Pennsylvania, surrounded by her extended Bowman, who barely tops five feet tall. She should have said.’” She was sure she’d blown afterwards,” she said. So she looked at what “I once helped him deliver this calf that had She also joined the 1961 Society at Jefferson. family. “Being a dairy farm,” she said, “we was also class valedictorian. her chances because the physician who the graduates were doing and was impressed. a huge deformity,” she said. “We had to use “At first I didn’t know what the 1961 Society all worked.” pioneered the radical mastectomy procedure chains to pull this calf out, and we thought was,” she said. “But 1961 was the year that Like many residencies, hers was sink or swim. Although she wasn’t an outstanding student we were going to lose the cow.” They was the chair of surgery at Jefferson. “On my first day as an intern, I had 12 A decision to enter Jefferson admitted women after being cited in elementary school, she started to shine in managed to save the cow, but the calf didn’t admissions out of the emergency room, and medical school by the Surgeon General’s Bane report as the Her fellow students told her she was sure to middle and high school. “I did very well fare as well. last medical college in the U.S. to admit fail. Instead, she earned an A for the rotation. mind you, this is how many doctors were academically, and living on the farm, I was When she was exploring options after high around besides me—zero. Zero,” she said. “I wanted to do something that would help women. And it’s just sad to say that was “They probably liked that I had paid a very curious kid,” she said. school, she considered research, “but it didn’t “You were just thrown to it in a way we don’t people, that would keep me intellectually during my lifetime.” attention, looked it up, was thinking about have enough people interaction to suit me.” it,” she said. “I said what I believed, I read up do now. It was the way it was. We didn’t think Her curiosity led her to keep a colony of rats stimulated,” she said, “and I didn’t want to She thrived in medical school, and worked in on it, and I just thought there’s another way twice about it.” in the basement of her home for research. “I didn’t know you could become an M.D./ be bored. So that’s how I decided to go a medical lab to help support herself. “I got to to look at this.” Since then, the more Supported and encouraged by her high school Ph.D.,” she said. “If I had been introduced to into medicine.” do a ton of stuff I would never be allowed to As a resident she published research she conservative procedure has become much science teacher and her family’s veterinarian, that type of joint degree early on, I might do today,” she said. “We had a supervisor, but conducted on setting up a computerized more the norm. she began studying an anti-diabetic drug that have done that.” we did all the CBCs, the urines, the chemistries documentation system for all the residents gained attention statewide. College and medical school in North Carolina. She also became president She didn’t have much experience with the for the hospital,” she said. “I didn’t even have She considered going into surgery, but, “I in five years of the North Carolina Resident Society, and “I presented a lot across the state and won a medical field growing up. “My mother always a bachelor’s degree at that point.” couldn’t stand not dealing with the whole national resident representative for the fair number of awards for my research when I said she was against medical care, and I think person.” She finally decided on family She applied to an accelerated five-year She credits her upbringing on the farm for American Medical Association and the was in high school,” she said. As a result, she actually some of it was just the finances,” she medicine, “because I believed in prevention, program at Pennsylvania State University and her success in her surgery rotation. American Academy of Family Physicians. was asked to visit schools and enter science said. “They didn’t have the money, and health got in. “So that helped seal the deal,” she said. liked psychology, and wanted to deal with fairs to discuss her research. care costs money. people over the long term.”

14 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 15 After her residency, she was looking for Medical Education. He asked her to move to After serving three six-year terms as Fostering inquisitiveness Access to health care is something Bowman something different. She decided to join the Washington, D.C., and serve as his liaison for department chair, her time as chair at builds better doctors takes very seriously. “In sheer fairness and U.S. Public Health Services as a medical the D.C. government. Within a year she Penn was coming to an end. She had already equity for people around the country, they all officer in Hyattsville, Maryland, which did became the residency director for family exceeded the school’s two-term limit, when She believes in the school’s basic values of should have access to medical care,” she said. grants and contracts related to primary care. practice, and then director of the Division her third term was made possible by a special providing excellent care for the community “I think we’re a school far more likely to make At the age of 28, she became director of the of Family Practice. presidential committee. while advancing its research and academic that happen.” office of graduate medical education. enterprises. “I personally think that the best She also did research related to the HIV She was interested in deanships and looked clinicians still think like researchers,” she said. That’s one reason she’s so dedicated to service She still found enough time to play adult epidemic, which was just beginning to be at several positions nationwide. A friend “We need to be thinking about what we’re learning. “I believe in service-based learning. I women’s soccer and earn a Master of Public understood. At the time, doctors were often suggested that she consider a newer medical doing. Why is it like this? How could it be believe in getting real-world experience,” she said. Administration degree from the University of uncomfortable asking patients about their school. When the deanship at the Boonshoft better? What could we do?” Bowman is enthusiastic about the future of Southern California, which she found helpful sexual practices. Questions about the number School of Medicine opened up in late 2011 the Boonshoft School of Medicine. “Because in understanding politics and regulations. She of sexual partners, condom use, and HIV it seemed like a good fit. “I liked the place, it Bowman believes that people with a natural we pay attention to who and what we are, we also served as the federal representative on the testing weren’t routinely asked. She had similar goals to mine. I was ready to leave inquisitiveness and lifelong curiosity make aren’t trapped by some of what large institutions ACGME, LCME, and National Resident collaborated with a colleague to research a Penn,” she said. better doctors. “You can never learn have gotten trapped by,” she said. “We are a Matching Program. “I’ve always been kind of way to retrain doctors in the new era of HIV. everything in medical school, you have to flexible school that will come out ahead. high energy,” she said. have a thirst for knowledge that persists She came up with a standardized patient forever,” she said. “I think the worst doctors Sixth dean of the Wright “We will not always do exactly what we As a commissioned officer, she worked on one intervention and conducted both blinded and are the people who don’t think.” State University Boonshoft hoped to do,” she said. “We won’t get of the large graduate medical education non-blinded studies. The researchers found it School of Medicine everybody out there into rural environments. studies run out of what is now the Centers for was beneficial to have the doctors practice That natural inquisitiveness should also extend to interpreting research. “You have to But we will advance our research and try to Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Her asking the questions of standardized patients. Bowman expects to see big changes in the have enough of a critical eye for research to embed it more into the every day lives of docs “They have to practice,” she said. “You can delivery of health care in the United States. realize that some of it’s not good, and that and their patients.” tell them all you want, but until they’ve said “I think we are in a time of change, and there “You can never learn everything in you shouldn’t rely on it,” she said. Research this to a standardized patient, it could be could be very large upheavals in how medical medical school, you have to have a thirst findings can change, and “you also have to really hard to say these things to a real care is provided and where the doctor’s role fits look at the lived experiences of people.” Puzzling things out for knowledge that persists forever,” patient.” The National Institute on Allergy in that,” she said. “So things will be different. and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded it on Some feel that means physicians will lose She feels the Boonshoft School of Medicine Bowman is married to Robert Choplin, a work resulted in a change to a Medicare the first round, and she published papers on power. I think much more of what we do will instills and nurtures curiosity in its students. radiologist. Their five children, “yours, mine regulation that required medical schools to it in several journals. require intense team work.” “I love the fact that we’re very intent on and ours,” are all grown and out of the house. return Medicare money if they received helping our students interact with people and Up until the youngest left for college in 2012, She decided to become a department chair As dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine, federal grants. That single change in regulation understand the need for lifelong learning,” she coached youth soccer every weekend. In while she was at Georgetown. One week she Bowman wants to build a medical school that has saved medical schools millions of dollars. she said. “Because I think that’s a lot of the her spare time, she bikes and enjoys tackling got called by three places about department will flourish in a time of rapid change. “We guts of medicine.” large jigsaw puzzles. “It didn’t make any sense,” she said. “Why chair positions, including a call from her may feel uncertain along the way,” she said of would schools take a grant if they then have former dean who tried to recruit her as the path ahead. “We’re going to take some “My job is like that,” she said. “There are that amount withheld from their Medicare chair at the school where he worked after risks that may not pan out and we’ll take some a lot of pieces out there, and they are Increasing access to money?” she said. “It took a long time to get leaving Georgetown. risks that will. That’s who we are. all important. Trying to figure medical care that changed.” out, though, how they all She ended up deciding on the Bowman “We’re going to keep our eye on the goal of fit and fit together and Although she enjoyed her time in the Public Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest providing good community service with people Growing up in a rural environment, Bowman which color they bring Health Services, she was ready to move on. University, where she served as professor and who are excellent, thinking clinicians who also sees the need for more rural health care to it is part of the fun.” She wanted to have a wider impact. chair of the Department of Family Medicine know how to work well in teams,” she said. providers. She believes it is not only important to provide students with experience in rural areas, and Community Medicine for 10 years. She “Everybody is a part of making medical care But truth be told, she but it also helps rural physicians with whom was 33 years old. a success. admits she’s not very good they rotate, “because docs learn from students.” Making a difference in at relaxing. “I knew I was young, but I just went ahead “But I don’t think that will ever take away the academic medicine To that end, she is involved in helping to and did it,” she said. need for the doctor/patient relationship,” she “I’ve always got something else I want to do,” She considered her options and decided she said. “I think sometimes we get away from create the Wright Rural Health Initiative in From Wake Forest, she went to the University she said. “There is more to be done.” VS could have the most impact in academic that, but it’s still important, even with the the rural counties surrounding the Wright of Pennsylvania to start the Department of —Cindy Young medicine and teaching the next generation of changes that are occurring.” State University Lake Campus at Grand Lake Family Medicine, where she stayed for 16 physicians. “Plus, I had that academic bent,” St. Marys. The new program will expand the years. As the first female clinical chair at the she said. “So I ended up in academics and health profession pipelines that target University of Pennsylvania medical school, stayed here ever since.” underrepresented students, specifically she served as professor and founding chair of students in rural areas and small towns. She was interested in the dean of students the Department of Family Medicine and position at Georgetown University School Community Health in the Perelman School of Medicine, but it didn’t work out. But the of Medicine, and director of the university’s dean at the time liked her and a year later Center for Public Health Initiatives. hired her as assistant dean for Continuing

16 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 17 development of epilepsy, indications and research, investigators identified several key, outcomes for the surgical treatment of long-term adaptations that occur after nerve epilepsy, interventional treatment options injury even if nerve regeneration itself is for acute stroke management, and the successful. These adaptations point the way to mechanism of neurological involvement in new therapeutic strategies that will improve critical illness. recovery from movement and other disorders that remain long after nerve injury. In November 2013, the Neuroscience Institute held its second annual symposium, Timothy Cope, Ph.D., Brage Golding “Selected Topics in Translational Distinguished Professor of Research, chair of Neuroscience.” Presentations addressed the the Department of Neuroscience, Cell research into therapy for myasthenia gravis, Biology and Physiology and codirector of the research into therapy for vasospasm, Wright State University & Premier Health therapeutic options to prevent cerebral Neuroscience Institute, said there is a growing ischemia in preterm neonates, and how national awareness of the success in May 2012: stress adversely impacts health. neuroscience at Wright State. Department of established “One of the benefits is that we’re attracting first-rate students and training very highly Following his appointment as chair of the skilled technicians, such as experts in new Department of Neurology in May 2012, microscopy, who have become vital assets to Kenneth J. Gaines, M.D., M.B.A., hired a the community,” Cope said. core team of faculty who specialize in such areas as stroke, epilepsy, movement disorders, “We not only have the knowledge and core Fulfilling and critical illness. facilities necessary to do top-flight research, we also have the scientists, graduate students, The department continues to recruit for a and technicians necessary to conduct research movement disorders specialist and is seeking that will improve people’s lives.” at least one more neurology generalist. In addition, the department is seeking another The grant was one of only two of its type epileptologist to assist with the Epilepsy awarded that year by the National Institute of a promise Monitoring Unit at Miami Valley Hospital Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which is and with cutting-edge deep brain surgical March 2013: part of NIH. The five-year grant is for procedures focused on the treatment of $4.6 million NIH research titled “Synaptic Function: Effects epileptic seizures. Neuroscience Research of Nerve Injury, Repair and Altered Activity.” The Wright State University & Premier Health Neuroscience Institute was Grant Wright State investigators involved in the project include Cope; Robert Fyffe, Ph.D., unveiled on February 24, 2010, with the promise to speed the transfer of In early 2013, Wright State won a vice president for research and dean of the research discoveries from bench to bedside, improving the diagnosis and $4.6 million National Institutes of Health Graduate School; and Mark Rich, M.D., treatment of neurological disorders such as stroke. grant aimed at improving the movement of Ph.D., professor of neuroscience, cell biology badly injured limbs—funding that will and physiology, and neurology at the This collaboration between the Dayton region’s most advanced biomedical accelerate the growth and productivity of the Boonshoft School of Medicine. Also research institution, Wright State University, and the clinical resources of its rapidly developing neuroscience research on collaborating is Francisco Alvarez, Ph.D., largest hospital system, Premier Health, has resulted in a synergy that will campus and support the research and of Emory University. accelerate translational research and transform discoveries in research graduate training programs that will be laboratories into breakthroughs in patient care. housed in the new Neuroscience and Engineering Collaboration Building. The institute has made great strides since its genesis in 2010. The grant will explore how the central nervous system responds to injury of peripheral nerves. The research can lead November 2012: directly to new therapies to help soldiers and First Annual Neuroscience others recover near normal function after Institute Symposium injuries to a limb. This award builds on the research performed In November 2012, the first annual in the first $4.8 million Program Project Neuroscience Institute Symposium was held Grant awarded to the team in 2007. In that at Wright State University. Presentations explored the underlying mechanisms for the

18 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 19 Wright State researchers are working to find program and associate professor of neurology. treatments for stroke, epilepsy, traumatic “We have carefully designed a program that Research Spotlight brain and spinal injury, neurodegenerative builds the basic strengths necessary to become diseases, and other medical problems. People an outstanding clinical neurologist and, for who occupy the new building will build upon those interested in research, to develop into a the current research and investigate why first-rate physician scientist.” blood vessels in the brain burst, develop The residency program is closely aligned with imaging techniques to track neurological other programs within the medical school, diseases, help people at risk for depression including and psychiatry. Areas and disorders of learning and memory, work of specialization in the neuroscience program to regenerate damaged nerves to their fullest Wright State professor Julian include behavioral neurology, cerebrovascular possible function, and develop treatments for Gomez-Cambronero discovers disease, child neurology, clinical conditions like sleep apnea, SIDS and ALS. mechanism to slow tumor growth neurophysiology, critical care, epilepsy, and metastasis in breast cancer movement disorders, neuroimaging, April 2013: neuroimmunology, neuromuscular disease, Groundbreaking for neuro-oncology, neuro-, pain Neuroscience Engineering management, psychiatry, and sleep disorders. Collaboration Building Some Neuroscience Institute scientists are In April 2013, Wright State broke ground on included on the faculty of the Neurology Slow growth the new state-of-the-art Neuroscience Residency Program. Faculty from the Engineering Collaboration (NEC) Building. Neuroscience Institute will help provide basic The $37 million facility will house leading neuroscience education and research engineers, neuroscientists, fellows, and opportunities for the residents. medical students working and learning “The creation of the neurology residency collaboratively. By working shoulder-to- programs allows us to fulfill one of the shoulder, scientists and physicians will have original goals of the Neuroscience Institute— an invaluable opportunity to generate and to improve patient care in the Dayton share innovative ideas, support one another’s region,” said Marjorie Bowman, M.D., work and collaborate to achieve more than M.P.A, dean of the Boonshoft School of they could in isolation. Medicine. “By bringing new physicians to the The 90,000-square-foot NEC Building November 2013: region, the new residency program, working will feature laboratories, shared core Neurology Residency in tandem with the Wright State University infrastructure, state-of-the-art equipment, Program approved & Premier Health Neuroscience Institute, and research resources for engineers, will enhance patient care locally in a wide scientists, physicians, students, and post- In November, the Accreditation Council for spectrum of neurological disorders such as doctoral researchers. A 105-seat auditorium Graduate Medical Education approved the stroke, epilepsy, movement disorders, critical will provide space for seminars, workshops, new residency program in neurology at the illness, and more.” VS and advanced teaching sessions. The building Boonshoft School of Medicine. —Heather Maurer is expected to be completed by February 2015. The new program, which will begin on July Fyffe said the building has been strategically 1, 2014, was approved to accept up to 16 designed to encourage random interactions residents, who will train at Miami Valley between the neuroscientists and engineers. Hospital, the Clinical Neuroscience Institute “The goal is that these scientists, engineers, located at Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton and physicians will work together to address Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Dayton significant problems and through the Children’s Hospital. synergies, resources, and talent available in “We seek to graduate neurologists who are the NEC Building come up with very creative prepared to meet the challenges presented by transformational answers to the questions,” the rapidly expanding body of knowledge in he said. the neurosciences,” said Bradley Jacobs, When binding of a M.D., M.S., director of the residency natural substrate (a phospholipid) for the enzyme PLD at its catalytic site is interrupted by an inhibitor, tumor growth is slowed.

20 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 21 For some research scientists, there’s nothing Getting started From frustration to elation sweeter than stopping a tumor in its tracks, or at least slowing it down. Just ask Julian G. Cambronero said the idea for his breast In one experiment, the researches took Cambronero, Ph.D., a Boonshoft School of cancer research occurred to him in the low-invasive breast cancer cells and intro- Medicine professor of biochemistry and summer of 2009 while vacationing in his duced the gene, called “pld,” that encodes for molecular biology. homeland of Spain. He and his team had the PLD protein. This took several strategies been researching PLD for many years by that and attempts before arriving at a successful “This is a very satisfying moment,” said the time, finding in one study that leukocyte mechanism. But once there, the results professor, smiling as he reflected one migration could be stopped by PLD followed Cambronero’s expectation: The afternoon last spring in his Diggs Hall office inhibitors. While vital to our immune system, cells became highly aggressive. The about his latest discovery, a novel protein that leukocytes can cause harm when deposited in researchers subsequently injected the cells contributes significantly to breast cancer large amounts to the wrong place at the into the SCID through a procedure called tumor growth. wrong time. They tend to hang around the orthotopic xenotransplantation. The resulting heart for too long following a heart attack, tumors grew quickly and lung metastasis The protein is phospholipase D (PLD), for example, damaging healthy tissue. What if developed readily. which Cambronero and his research team say these PLD inhibitors could stop malignant is not only central to breast cancer tumor In the second experiment, the researchers cancer cells, too? Cambronero wondered. growth but to metastasis in the nearby lungs took highly invasive, aggressive breast cancer as well. Using mice as animal models, the “Upon my return, I convinced a graduate cells and “silenced” the pld gene. This was team found that by introducing two new student in the lab to do a pilot experiment, tricky, and one of several difficulties in the chemical inhibitors of PLD, they could which, to my delight, indicated that the study, Cambronero said. “It was frustrating shrink tumor growth and reduce subsequent hypothesis was correct, that in the lab we that the gene was not completely knocked out lung metastasis by around 70 percent. could inhibit cell invasion with PLD using molecular biology techniques in our inhibitors,” said Cambronero. “Since this lab,” he said. “We had to try several “Although it’s still early to tell, the applica- ‘invasion’ is a precursor of metastasis, I approaches.” This is where Berberich, then tion of these inhibitors to research in human immediately thought that this could have the department chair, lent his expertise. tissue is the next step that could lead to wider implications.” better, less toxic treatments in the battle When the team finally injected the cells into against breast cancer,” said Cambronero, who Cambronero brainstormed for a few days and the SCID mice, they found the cells were less since joining Wright State in 1995 has arrived at a three-pronged strategy to his invasive than in the previous experiment, the garnered more than $6 million in research study, an interdisciplinary approach that resultant tumors grew slowly and lung funding from the National Institutes of would involve research techniques in metastasis was diminished. Health, the American Heart Association, the molecular biology, cell biology pathology, and “That was an ecstatic moment…the moment American Cancer Society, and other state and animal studies. federal sources. you wait for in your research that eclipses But he had to overcome some early challenges all the frustrations of the last years.” Breast cancer kills more women in the United first, including his lab’s limited experience at Cambronero said. States each year—about 40,000—than any the time in tumor implants in animals. “It It was the summer of 2012 and there was still other type of cancer, according to the took us at least a year to learn the tech- one more experiment to go, one that would National Cancer Institute. The disease strikes niques,” Cambronero recalled. “We settled on attempt to show a real-world application of an estimated 232,340 females each year and commercially available immunodeficient the study’s findings, a way to deliver the 2,240 males. mice, called SCID, and I had to write all science pharmacologically. protocols and get proper approval from the Cambronero and his team’s findings were university. I also recruited for the project two published in a June edition of Oncogene, one For this study, Boivin and Dudley took mice D.V.M.s, Dr. Boivin and Dr. Dudley, to help of the world’s leading cancer journals. The xenotransplanted with human breast cancer me with the implants and the pathology study’s authors are all Wright State colleagues. cells and surgically implanted micro-osmotic studies that were going to follow.” Besides Cambronero, they include research pumps underneath the skin on their backs. Henkels, Cambronero’s research associate of associate Karen M. Henkels, veterinarians By the fall of 2011, the research team had the eight years, assisted. This was new territory Gregory Boivin, D.V.M., and Emily S. SCID and human breast cancer cells in hand, Dudley, D.V.M., of the Laboratory Animal ready for experimentation. Resources Department, and Steven J. Berberich, Ph.D., associate provost for faculty and staff affairs and former chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Julian G. Cambronero in his lab.

22 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 23 for the longtime lab manager, though, and “I knew then that what we had found was But Cambronero’s breast cancer research is she had to learn anesthesia techniques and important, and that it could have a potential the first with a potential application for how to prepare the mice for surgery. The application to humans,” Cambronero said. humans, in a devastating disease, no less. pumps, which were filled with two different “This had turned into a bona fide preclinical And while his study shows promise, he and inhibitors of PLD activity, painlessly delivered research that could be the beginning of a his team fully realize that moving the research the drugs to the mice over 45 days. process for future use in humans. I was from the bench to the bedside of human ecstatic, yet cautiously optimistic as I knew patients is a long and tedious trek. He hopes Cambronero’s students were charged with many more experiments needed to be done.” that task will quickly follow, though. He is examining the mice, checking for tumors, actively seeking a partner—a pharmaceutical and reporting their findings to Cambronero. Henkels called the project “truly a team company or physicians in a tertiary Early on they couldn’t find any tumors. effort” and praised the work of all involved, medical setting, perhaps—to move the especially the student members of “No tumors yet? Really?” Cambronero asked research forward. Cambronero’s lab—Madhu Mahankali, his students. So the professor checked one Qing Ye, Ramya Ganesan, Samuel Kantonen, Meanwhile, Cambronero’s cancer research mouse himself. No lumps. He checked and Nate Hatton. continues. He’s currently designing another mouse. No lumps there either. experiments to explore the combination of Then another, and another. This was in stark Boonshoft researcher the immune system with cancer, looking at contrast to the control group, the mice with Next steps, patience “tumor-associated leukocytes.” Cancer is so breast cancer that weren’t receiving any PLD required pervasive, he says, that malignant cells not inhibitor. They all had lumps in their Thomas L. Brown only evade immune surveillance and Going mammary pads. Cambronero has enjoyed much success in his elimination, the sneaky little devils co-opt career. He has published 90 peer-reviewed For Cambronero, disbelief. So he and his leukocytes to work for their benefit and to making strides in papers in scientific journals, he’s presented students checked and rechecked again. They help them grow. his research at 60 scientific conferences did so every other day for the next two weeks around the world, and he’s collected “We are always thinking ahead,” he said. “It preeclampsia research until they started to notice tiny lumps in the full term numerous awards for his work. Last June, he has been a long dream of mine to find ways mice. The control mice, meanwhile, possessed was named a Brage Golding Distinguished to integrate different systems. Nothing in the lumps so large they were visible with the Here in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of There’s no way to stop preeclampsia but to Two years later, Brown said the grant is Professor of Research, a special award by the body occurs in isolation, and research in naked eye. a Dayton hospital, tiny Jaxon John Baldasare deliver the baby. So on June 6 Tiffany’s doctor paying off. Board of Trustees to a WSU faculty member biomedicine is moving in an all-inclusive struggles in his Isolette®, a modern-day delivered Jaxon via cesarean section. Born at “Many pregnancy-associated disorders, who has produced a significant body of work direction.” VS incubator. A ventilator does the work of his 6:30 p.m., the third son of Tiffany and Andy including preeclampsia, stem from abnormal in scholarship and research that brings —Anthony Gottschlich underdeveloped lungs, a feeding tube delivers Baldasare weighed 1 pound 13 ounces and placental development,” he said. “We’ve distinction to the university and national or nutrition, and various monitors track his stretched 13.5 inches head to toe. identified a protein that plays a crucial role in international recognition to the faculty member. vital signs. “I really didn’t think he was going to make placental stem cell development, and when His mother, Tiffany Baldasare, looks on with it,” reflected Tiffany, still carrying a hint of that protein is altered and not working properly, a mixture of love and anguish. uncertainty in her voice. the placenta doesn’t develop as it should.”

“I just want to walk him out of here, take It’s scenes like this one that drive Wright State’s Brown said the protein, called “hypoxia him home and snuggle him, but you can’t Thomas L. Brown, Ph.D., and his research inducible factor-1 alpha,” or HIF-1a, is an do that,” said Tiffany, who visits Jaxon daily team to work long hours in his laboratory in oxygen sensor that regulates trophoblast when she’s not working full time at another the Medical Sciences Building. Brown, a differentiation and maturation, the process hospital nearby, raising two other children professor and vice chair for research in the in which early placental cells become more with husband Andy, and commuting back Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology, specialized in form and function. He and forth to their home in Troy, some and Physiology, has dedicated the bulk of his explained that in a normal, healthy pregnancy, 20 miles north of Dayton. career to the study of embryonic development HIF-1a is active for most of the first trimester, and prevention of pregnancy-associated when oxygen levels surrounding the It’s late July and Jaxon shouldn’t be here, not disorders that lead to premature birth. developing embryo are very low. But as the yet anyway, but his life depended on it. So embryo grows and moves closer to the did his mother’s. Just 26 weeks into her In 2011, the promise and quality of his mother’s blood supply, oxygen levels rise, and pregnancy (and with 14 to go), Tiffany research garnered Brown a five-year grant of the protein becomes inactivated, allowing the developed preeclampsia, a life-threatening more than $1.5 million to investigate the placenta to develop properly. In preeclamptic condition marked by a rapid rise in blood underlying factors that cause preeclampsia, a pregnancies, however, something goes wrong pressure and high levels of protein in the disease that strikes five to eight out of every with HIF-1a and it stays “on” for too long, mother’s urine, symptoms that can lead to 100 births in the United States. The grant throwing a wrench into what should otherwise seizure, stroke, multiple organ failure, and, in was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver be an orderly, precise process where timing the worst of cases, death of the mother and/or National Institutes of Child Health and is everything. baby. Triggering the crisis was Tiffany’s Human Development, a division of the defective placenta, the nutrition pipeline that National Institutes of Health. “If you blow through the red light, some bad joins mothers to their developing babies. things can happen,” said Brown, who injected

24 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 25 What is preeclampsia?

Preeclampsia (pre-e-CLAMP-si-a) is a condition unique to human pregnancy. It is diagnosed by the elevation of the expectant mother’s blood pressure, usually after the 20th week of pregnancy, combined with the appearance of excessive protein in her urine. Important symptoms include headaches, abdominal Exposure to In adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD), Researchers were “very surprised” at the pain, visual disturbances, shortness of cigarette smoking is associated with an relatively high percentage of children exposed breath or burning behind the sternum, secondhand increased risk for CKD progression and to secondhand smoke, says researcher Derek nausea and vomiting, confusion, and a transplant failure. Now, a first-of-its-kind Ng, Sc.M., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg heightened state of anxiety. Preeclampsia Blowingsmoke may study by researchers at DaytonSmoke Children’s School of Public Health Department of and related hypertensive disorders of pregnancy impact 5-8 percent of all lead to Hospital and Johns Hopkins University has Epidemiology. “Twenty-two percent is births in the United States. found a possible similar effect in children very high, considering the known adverse worsening with kidney disease who are exposed to effects of smoking and the health status of secondhand smoke. this population.” Who gets preeclampsia? Jaxson John Baldasare of pediatric The most significant risk factors The study of 366 children aged 1 to 16 years Going forward, the researchers want to include: kidney is the first study of the effect of secondhand learn more about the causative link between • Previous history of preeclampsia disease smoke exposure in CKD, according to lead secondhand smoke and the worsening of a modified HIF-1a gene into pregnant mice Brown said HIF-1a probably isn’t a factor in all researcher Abiodun Omoloja, M.D., associate pediatric kidney disease, using this rich for his study. “We believe the prolonged cases of preeclampsia — like cancer and other • Multiple gestation (i.e., pregnant with more than one baby) professor of pediatrics at Boonshoft School of dataset, Ng says. presence of the HIF-1a protein prevents diseases, there could be many causes. He said Medicine and attending pediatric maternal arteries in the placenta from being he and his team now are studying what causes • History of chronic high blood The Dayton Children’s-Johns Hopkins study pressure, diabetes, kidney disease, nephrologist at Dayton Children’s. remodeled. This prevents the placenta from represents a significant contribution to HIF-1a to misbehave in the first place. Finding or organ transplant maturing at the right time and decreases blood answers could help scientists identify new tools “Within the study population of children understanding the adverse effects of second- • First pregnancy flow to the baby. Sensing the baby isn’t getting and therapies for early diagnosis and treatment. with CKD, the researchers found that 22 hand smoke on children, says Karen Wilson, enough oxygen, the mother’s body responds by • Obesity, particularly with body mass percent had been exposed to secondhand M.D., an associate professor of pediatrics at cranking up its blood pressure, and that can “Every day we don’t get closer is another day index (BMI) of 30 or greater smoke. They also discovered that exposure to Children’s Hospital Colorado and the cascade into a bunch of problems for mother babies, moms, and entire families are going to • Over 40 or under 18 years of age secondhand smoke was associated with higher University of Colorado-Denver. suffer from this devastating disorder,” Brown presence of proteinuria (an abnormal amount and baby both.” • Family history of preeclampsia “Many people think that secondhand smoke said from his office. “I think about that every of protein in the urine), which is a strong risk • Polycystic ovarian syndrome is only associated with respiratory illness,” she Those troubles almost always involve a preterm day I walk in here, ‘Are we one step closer? factor for CKD progression,” Omoloja says. birth, and when that birth is especially early, What can we do today to be one step closer • Lupus or other autoimmune disor- said. “So it is very helpful to have this data such as Jaxon’s, the baby and family are in for a tomorrow?’ That’s what motivates us to work ders, including rheumatoid arthritis, The researchers were able to identify showing a strong association between sarcoidosis, and multiple sclerosis long slog in a neonatal intensive care unit, if as hard as we do around here.” children’s exposure to secondhand smoke by secondhand smoke and kidney disease. It the baby survives. Even after that, Brown • In-vitro fertilization testing for the presence of cotinine, a metabolite highlights some of the systemic effects of noted, research shows the baby could face an At press time for this publication, Jaxon • Sickle cell disease of nicotine that shows up in the urine. secondhand smoke exposure in addition to increased risk for hypertension, cardiovascular Baldasare remained in intensive care, though respiratory problems. The study was published last spring in disease, diabetes, and stroke later in life. He now at Dayton Children’s Hospital, with Source: Preeclampsia Foundation Pediatric Nephrology, the journal of the “Going forward, it will be important to added that recent research further suggests the “severe chronic lung disease,” according to (preeclampsia.org) International Pediatric Association. The continue to do research on the medical effects mothers, too, are at an increased risk of stroke his mother. “We still have a long road ahead research was funded by the Dayton of secondhand smoke in kids because the later in life, even though their high blood of us, but he will eventually come home,” she said. VS Children’s Foundation. physiology of all these may be similar,” pressure quickly resolves after delivery. Wilson says. Increasing the understanding —Anthony Gottschlich In 2007, the Preeclampsia Foundation of these effects “will help us better protect estimated the combined short- and long-term children, both by helping families quit financial costs related to preeclampsia and smoking and also by finding treatments related pregnancy disorders at approximately for children who have been exposed to $7 billion per year in the United States alone. secondhand smoke.” VS Globally, preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are a leading cause of For information on how you can maternal and infant illness and death. By help support research in pregnancy conservative estimates, these disorders are associated disorders at Wright State, responsible for 76,000 maternal and 500,000 visit the website www.wright.edu/give/ pregnancyassociateddisorders or infant deaths each year. contact Dr. Brown via email at [email protected]

26 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 27 Fels Longitudinal Study featured in anniversary issue of American Journal of Physical Anthropology Web mining

By gleaning information from web Daniulaityte explained that people share Researchers at the Boonshoft School of longevity and Researchers use social web forums of drug users, who share their their lay knowledge about drugs in these Medicine are leading the charge in interrelated nature forum data to understand experiences and post unsolicited, web forums. “A lot of people go there understanding what makes people different. of the Fels nonmedical use of painkillers unfiltered, and anonymous questions, looking for information,” she said. “There Their research is providing physicians with a Longitudinal Study comments, and opinions about various is an increase in discussions about greater understanding of human growth and and the AAPA. Approximately 16 million Americans drugs, WSU researchers are learning buprenorphine. It appears that a lot of development. But it can also provide valuable Several of the used a prescription drug for nonmedical about the trends in knowledge, people are using it to self-treat opiate insights useful to another field of scientific participants had reasons in 2010, according to the attitudes, and behaviors related to the withdrawal symptoms.” discovery: physical anthropology. current or historical National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). nonmedical use of buprenorphine and connections to the Many of those drugs were painkillers, or Other indicators, such as the increase Richard J. Sherwood, Ph.D., director of the other illicit opiates. Fels Longitudinal pharmaceutical opiates such as in buprenorphine-related emergency Division of Morphological Sciences and hydrocodone (Vicodin®) and oxycodone Study, which began Daniulaityte explained that little department visits, also confirm that Biostatistics of the Lifespan Health Research (Percocet®, OxyContin®). in 1929 in Yellow information about the illicit use of nonmedical use of buprenorphine Center and professor of community health Springs, Ohio. buprenorphine exists. “While more is increasing. and pediatrics, and Dana Duren, Ph.D., The nonmedical use of prescription buprenorphine is being prescribed to associate professor of community health and Today, the Fels painkillers is one of the fastest growing Her team also is trying to obtain treat opiate addiction, more of it is being orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine and Longitudinal Study forms of drug abuse in the United States. geographic data to determine where ® diverted,” she said. “We want to learn rehabilitation, say that the growth and focuses on physical Since 2002, buprenorphine (Suboxone buprenorphine use is prevalent. However, ® more about the population who is using development data gathered over generations growth, skeletal and Subutex ) has been prescribed to people using the web forums do not give it for nonmedical purposes and how by the Fels Longitudinal Study can provide maturation, treat opiate addiction in substance abuse their true location. They give fake they use it. valuable insights for scientists in the physical craniofacial treatment programs, as well as by locations or use slang terms to refer to a qualified private physicians. However, anthropology community. growth, genetics, CITAR is working with Kno.e.sis to location. “Geographic indicators are very buprenorphine is now emerging as an longitudinal extract information from various web challenging,” she said. “That requires Their research and that of others was abused substance. biostatistical forums. Kno.e.sis developed an much more work than what we expected.” published in the January 2013 special issue of modeling, body application, PREDOSE (Prescription the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, To understand attitudes and behaviors An unexpected finding has been the composition, risk Drug abuse Online-Surveillance and the official journal of the American related to the nonmedical use of extra-medical use of loperamide factors for cardio- Epidemiology), that helps researchers Association of Physical Anthropologists. The buprenorphine, researchers are studying (Imodium®), a non-prescription vascular disease, and access, retrieve, and analyze user- special issue, guest edited by Sherwood and the illicit use of the drug through a medication used to treat diarrhea. Illicit aging of the generated content about illicit drug use Duren, commemorated the 80th anniversaries NIDA-funded study, which is a drug users have been posting on various musculoskeletal system. In 1977, the Fels on various web forums. The application of the Fels Longitudinal Study, the longest collaborative effort between the Center web forums that they use loperamide Research Institute and Fels Longitudinal currently contains more than one continuous study of human growth and for Interventions, Treatment and to self-treat a wide range of opioid Study became part of the Wright State million posts. development in the world, and the founding Addictions Research (CITAR) at the withdrawal symptoms. “That was University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine, Boonshoft School of Medicine and the of the American Association of Physical The purpose of this collaborative surprising,” Daniulaityte said. “Nobody residing first in the Department of Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge- Anthropologists (AAPA). research is to eventually achieve a high really knew that was happening.” Pediatrics and later within the Department enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) at Wright level of automation in information In 2011 a symposium, “Growth of a Species, of Community Health in the Lifespan Health State University. Daniulaityte cautions against relying extraction by applying Semantic Web, an Association, a Science: 80 Years of Growth Research Center. Participants in the study only on the web but sees its potential a technology that allow machines to and Development Research,” was held in range from infants to the elderly. Raminta Daniulaityte, Ph.D., an as a leading data source in identifying understand the meaning of information, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to celebrate the associate professor in the Department emerging drug-use practices. of Community Health (CITAR), and Amit and other cutting-edge information Sheth, Ph.D., professor of computer processing techniques. “However, “The web can be a very useful science and engineering, LexisNexis Ohio automatic information extraction is a very supplement,” she said. “It can help Eminent Scholar, and Kno.e.sis Center challenging task because the web forum researchers identify trends much earlier.” director, are principle investigators of posts do not always follow grammatical the study. rules,” Sheth said. “The posts may contain many abbreviations and slang terms.”

28 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 29 1,000 Words Medical school is serious business, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. Dean Marjorie Bowman and Boonshoft School of Medicine students cutting up for the camera doing a welcome reception for the new dean held last spring.

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30 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 31 Washington. He also serves nationally as the As state senator he worked on several issues service and reduce the cost on the Tacoma In Residence associate director of the Patient Safety including the coordination of care for mental Narrows Bridge administration. In addition, Organization for TeamHealth. Jessica is a health, coordination of diabetic care across he worked on the overall state budget pushing family physician working at the Harrison the state, and expansion of the ER is for for progress on education and getting people Medical Center Urgent Care facilities in Emergencies Program. He found long-term back to work. Belfair and Port Orchard. They live in stable funding for the prescription-monitoring Because he was appointed, Schlicher had to Gig Harbor, and have three young children, program. In addition, he worked to mandate run again in the Nov. 5 election to keep his David, Juliette, and Henry. CPR training in high school. seat in the final 12 months of former Sen. More than two years ago, Schlicher entered “Being the only physician, especially Kilmer’s term. Despite endorsements from politics when state officials decided Medicaid emergency medicine physician, in the the Seattle Times and other newspapers, his would not cover conditions it no longer legislature, brings a very different look at opponent, Republican State Rep. Jan Angel, Giving his considered emergencies, such as chest pain, the world,” said Schlicher, who continued to was elected in a tight race last fall. seizure, coma, and shortness of breath, among practice as an emergency medicine physician, Schlicher’s campaign started with a 20-point others, to save $21 million through the ER is working six shifts a month when the deficit and was able to close within a few for Emergencies Program. legislature was not in session. “Other points. “In a year in which we predicted a legislators talk about the problems with the “It was reckless and dangerous,” Schlicher higher Republican turn out, and a 13-year system, but I live in them every day with said. “I worked with the agency, sued the politician ready to battle, we have closed the my patients.” patients a state, and rewrote the law. That program is gap within three points,” Schlicher said in a now improving care and saving the state He is passionate about representing the poor thank you letter to supporters. “This election about $31 million a year.” and disenfranchised. “I fought for them by was the toughest and closest election our Youngest Washington State senator serving in the legislature and bringing their opponent has ever had.” That experience persuaded him to enter voice to Olympia,” said Schlicher, who also politics. “After that, I decided that my He encouraged his supporters to continue fought the good fight for Medicaid served as a lay preacher in multiple Methodist patients needed a voice in the legislature,” to fight. “Regardless of the results, we cannot churches. “I worked hard to voice the patients he said. “I believe I can provide that.” stop fighting for Washington state,” he said. voice problems they face in their daily lives from “We must keep fighting for candidates that A seat in the Washington Senate was open. employment to education to health care.” stand up for everyday citizens and fight for So Schlicher, a Democrat, applied for the While much of his work in the Senate was on working families.” VS appointment, campaigned, and was selected health care, he also has worked to save ferry in January 2013 to replace the Former 26th —Heather Maurer Legislative District Sen. Derek Kilmer, who Nathan Schlicher, M.D., 30, was the Schlicher and his wife came to Ohio for was elected to Congress. youngest senator in the Washington State their residencies. He was in the emergency Senate. But being the youngest is nothing medicine residency program at the new for him. Boonshoft School of Medicine from 2006 through 2009. She completed her residency As a child, he progressed quickly through through the Miami Valley Hospital Family school and graduated from high school at Medicine program, which is now part of the 14. He selected Pacific Lutheran University medical school. for college, because he could live on campus. He finished his undergraduate education in “My wife and I enjoyed being in Ohio,” said three years, earning degrees in biology and Schlicher, who recalled his rotations at Good political science. Samaritan Hospital, Miami Valley Hospital, Kettering Medical Center, Wright-Patterson Schlicher knew he wanted to be a doctor. His Medical Center, and Greene Memorial father was a hospital administrator, and his Hospital. “But we also knew we wanted to mother was a nurse. However, the University come home to our community and family.” of Washington was hesitant to admit a 17-year-old medical student. So, he went to He credits his residency with helping him law school at the University of Washington, prepare for what he faces on a daily basis in finished in two years and practiced law during the emergency room. “The lessons about medical school. dealing with difficult patients, caring for those who may see the world and their needs He balanced a law career and medical school differently, and learning about the cultural carefully. He worked in the morning and differences were all great training for my evening as an attorney with a law firm. “It current job,” he said. was a challenge,” said Schlicher, who met his wife, Jessica Kennedy, the first day of medical Schlicher works at the emergency department school. “But it was worth it.” at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Tacoma,

32 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 33 On The Move In Memoriam Robert Peter Turk, M.D., Colonel, USAF (Ret.), professor emeritus at the Boonshoft School of Medicine, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, at Alan Marco, M.D., M.M.M., FACPE Hospice of Dayton. He was 82. Associate Dean for Faculty and Clinical Affairs President and CEO of Wright State Physicians Dr. Turk will be remembered as a committed physician, a scholar, and an Alan P. Marco, M.D., M.M.M., FACPE, has been appointed associate dean for faculty outstanding educator. He touched the and clinical affairs at the Boonshoft School of Medicine and president and CEO of lives of many people during his service to the Dayton medical Wright State Physicians. community and the nation. Marco comes to Wright State from the University of Toledo College of Medicine Born in Hopelawn, New Jersey, Dr. Turk served his country during and Life Sciences, where he served as professor and chair of the Department the Korean War from 1950 to 1954. of Anesthesiology and program director for the residency training program Dr. Turk graduated in premedicine studies at the University of in anesthesiology. Alabama in 1956, and earned his medical doctorate at the A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, he received his medical training at the Medical College of Alabama in 1960. He rejoined the U.S. Air Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his training in anesthesiology at Force in 1959, and served a total of 24 years. Following his the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He earned a Master of Medical Management degree service, he came to Dayton in 1975. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. Dr. Turk served as chair of the Department of Surgery at After serving on the faculty at Johns Hopkins for eight years, he joined the faculty of Wright-Patterson Medical Center (WPMC) and founded the the Medical College of Ohio (now University of Toledo) in 1998. He was named chair WPMC General Surgery Residency Program (December 1975 to Jerome L. Yaklic, M.D., M.B.A., FACOG September 1979). He was instrumental in the integration of the in 2003. Chair of Department of and Gynecology WPMC program with the surgical training program at Wright State Board certified in anesthesiology, Marco is also a Certified Physician Executive, University School of Medicine in 1979. a Diplomate of the American Board of Quality Assurance & Utilization Review The Boonshoft School of Medicine has named Jerome L. Dr. Turk was a member of the Department of Medical Education at Physicians, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Healthcare Quality. Yaklic, M.D., M.B.A., FACOG, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has served as acting chair St. Elizabeth Medical Center (SEMC), from 1979 to 2000, and after since May 1, 2012. closure of SEMC, he continued his service to medical education in the Department of Surgery at the Boonshoft School of Medicine. Yaklic has been an associate professor in the Department of During these decades, he touched the lives of hundreds of medical Therese M. Zink, M.D., M.P.H., Obstetrics and Gynecology since 2010, and serves as medical students, family medicine residents, and general surgery residents. FAAFP director for Wright State Physicians Obstetrics and Gynocology. His sage advice was commonly referred to as “Turk’s Aphorisms,” and served as a guiding light for many learners. Chair of Department of Family Medicine Yaklic has served two stints as a faculty member at Wright Therese M. Zink, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, State. As an active duty service member in the U.S. Air Force For his medical career and contributions, Dr. Turk received many has been named chair of the Department at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, he served on the faculty honors, including Teaching Excellence Awards (numerous, from of Family Medicine, effective Jan. 20, 2014. of the WSU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from learners), Clinical Surgery Teacher of the Year Awards (the Alan B. 1996 to 2000, when he left to become the founding/managing Huffer Memorial Award, multiple times), Outstanding Teacher of the Zink comes to Wright State from partner of Lake Huron Ob/Gyn PLLC in Bad Axe, Michigan. He Year Award (Department of Emergency Medicine, 1993), and the the University of Minnesota (UM) in returned to Dayton in 2010 to become the medical director of Outstanding Clinician of the Year Award (Wright State University Minneapolis, where she served as a Academy of Medicine, 1988). Wright State Physicians Women’s Health Care. professor in the Department of Family Dr. Turk was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and held and Community Medicine and the In addition to his role at Wright State, Yaklic is also a medical professional memberships in the American Medical Association, staff member of the Miami Valley Hospital. He is board Rural Physician Associate Program. American Association for the History of Medicine, Association of certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, She also served as director of UM’s Military Surgeons of the U.S., Society of Medical Consultants to the Global Family Medicine Pathway. a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Armed Forces, Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons (Life Member), Gynecologists and a member of the American Urogynecologic Zink has extensive expertise in the areas of family violence, sexual assault, Ohio State Medical Association, Montgomery County Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Montgomery women’s health, rural health care delivery and education, international health, Society, and the Academy of Medicine (Life Member and Trustee). County Medical Society, and the Ohio State Medical Society. medical professionalism, and creative writing. During his military service, he was awarded the Legion of Merit, A native Daytonian, Zink attended Carroll High School in Dayton. She earned her Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Award, Air Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Air Force Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Medal, and bachelor’s degree in English at Marquette University in Wisconsin. She returned the Vietnam Service Medal. to Dayton to attend premed classes at Wright State. She earned her M.D. from The Ohio State University in 1985 and served her Dr. Turk was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. residency in family medicine at Ramsey (Regions) Medical Center in Minnesota. Zink The Boonshoft School of Medicine is planning a tribute to earned her Master of Public Health degree at the University of Minnesota in 1992. Dr. Turk on Tuesday, April 22, at 6 p.m. in White Hall on the Wright State Campus. For more information call the Office of Advancement at 937.245.7610. To make a contribution to the Robert Turk, M.D., Colonel USAF (Ret.) Scholarship Fund visit med.wright.edu/giving.

34 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 35 Future Docs Boonshoft chapter of Student National Medical Association hosts A passion for policy Region V Conference Fourth-year student John fellowship. Since beginning benefit his patients immensely,” communities. As legislation is He encourages physicians-in- with a bachelor’s degree in The Boonshoft Corker’s passion for health medical school, Corker has said Ashley Fernandes, M.D., discussed, he is in touch with training to not only educate biological sciences. “Since then, School of Medicine care policy and medical shared the knowledge he has Ph.D., FAAP, associate his national network through a themselves about health policy and especially since enrolling chapter of the learned about health policy professor in the Departments series of educational webinars, but also to actively engage in in medical school, I have been Student National journalism wins national with other students through of Community Health and letter-writing campaigns, and its formation in an effort to reaffirmed every day in my Medical Association accolades his roles as a host and director Pediatrics at the medical phone-a-thons. create the best possible health decision to pursue medicine.” (SNMA) hosted the at Radio Rounds, the nation’s school. “Society needs care system for patients and 2013 SNMA Region V Alarmed about the number of “As I’ve studied health policy, In August, Corker was only medical talk show created physicians who will bring their doctors. Conference, “Leadership in uninsured Americans—48.6 I’ve come to have a greater recognized for his journalism and hosted entirely by medical competence to the science of Medicine: Going Beyond the million—John Corker began appreciation for the power of The number of bills that have as one of two recipients students, and as the health medicine and nobility and Clinic,” last fall at Wright studying health policy as an policy to impact the lives of been unsuccessfully presented nationwide to receive the care correspondent for the virtue to the art of medicine. State University. extracurricular passion in 2005 patients on a far greater scale to Congress to address the AMA Foundation’s Johnson F. NextGen Journal, an online John will bring both.” as an undergraduate at the than ever would be possible in ever-growing national shortage Hammond, M.D., Physicians About 100 medical, pre-medical, publication run by a nationwide University of Notre Dame, a Fernandes recalled how a single practice or hospital of physicians has amazed him. of Tomorrow Award for and high school students team of college and passion that he has continued Corker excelled in the medical setting,” said Corker, who will “Politics are, without a doubt, Medical Journalism. attended the regional conference, graduate students. to cultivate as a medical ethics course he directs. He graduate this year. “Policy the biggest obstacle to which was sponsored by the “While I look forward to a long student at the Boonshoft His work also has been described Corker as a student decisions are being made creating good policy,” said Boonshoft School of Medicine, clinical career caring for School of Medicine. published in USA Today and who was not afraid to confront every day that will directly Corker, who plans to pursue a Premier Physician Services, and patients in the emergency Primary Care Progress. He his own doubts and ask affect my and my colleagues’ career in emergency medicine Doctors in Training. That passion has led to national room, I also hope to apply my was interviewed by Bloomberg questions of himself and others. future practices.” while continuing to seek recognition for Corker, with a lifelong passions for discovery, “We designed the conference to enhance News for a feature article on leadership roles in the AMA, fellowship with the American In his role with the AMA in He worked with state writing, and teaching on a the leadership ability of medical students, medical student debt and was state, and county medical Medical Association (AMA) Washington, D.C., Corker legislatures to ensure the broader scale as a medical offering them substantive knowledge in transforming health and a Physician of Tomorrow asked to speak on behalf of societies, as well as in analyzed various issues, from highest level of patient safety journalist,” Corker said. VS care, promoting health policies and practices, and exploring the AMA on the same issue public policy. Award for Medical Journalism health care delivery reform to and quality care in under- the need for leadership in medicine,” said Uchenna Conley, for a Consumer Financial John Corker’s columns from the AMA Foundation. physician payment reform staffed emergency rooms. He His interest in medicine began for the NextGen Journal second-year medical student and conference chair. “Each Protection Bureau field hearing are posted online, to funding for graduate also worked with Congress when he was an undergraduate workshop is designed to provide medical students with As he began his third year of in Miami, Florida. along with blogs medical education. to ensure that international student at the University of from several other the proper leadership skill sets needed as a physician- medical school, he wasn’t sure current students, In 2011, he was awarded a medical graduates who want Notre Dame. He was a leader in the clinic and beyond into the community.” he wanted to incorporate his He also works to keep medical at med.wright.edu/ Betty Ford Foundation to practice in high-need biomolecular and chemical insights. interest in health policy into his students informed. He sent a The SNMA is the oldest and largest student-run fellowship to study addiction primary care specialties are engineering major who hoped medical career. So he applied weekly email with health care organization focused on the needs and concerns of medicine in California. He not squeezed out of the U.S. to contribute to patients’ for the Government Relations policy updates to medical medical students of color. SNMA Region V brought back what he learned physician workforce. well-being through the Advocacy Fellowship with the students, residents, and young includes chapters from medical schools in and shared it by teaching a development of state-of- AMA to find out. physician subscribers. He He organized a nationwide Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. series of small group sessions the-art technological posted regular updates to the SaveGME campaign “What better way to make an to first-year medical students advancements. AMA website and tweeted ( ) to educate informed decision than to live as part of an ethics class. SaveGME.org and work in our nation’s capital information to AMA followers. both the public and Congress After one year, he realized that for a year?” said Corker, who In addition, Corker has been the He is responsible for working about protecting federal the engineering experience began his fellowship in vice chair of the WSU student with the AMA’s Medical funding for graduate medical was not what he had imagined. Washington, D.C., in July chapter of the AMA. He also Student Section Governing education. In addition, he So, he switched his major to 2013, taking a year off from has held leadership roles in the Council to assist students in worked closely with the federal biological sciences and began medical school. “It is the school’s Christian Medical writing and giving testimony Consumer Financial Protection volunteering at a local hospital. Association and Catholic for their own policy resolutions. Bureau (CFPB) to bring perfect opportunity to explore “Those initial experiences Medical Student Association. attention to the growing the world of health policy from In addition, Corker travels working with doctors, nurses, medical student debt crisis an insider’s perspective.” “I observed a continuous and around the United States to and patients at the hospital and its impact on public sincere yearning to discover meet with medical students. At got me hooked,” said Corker, Faculty members at the health, representing the AMA the truth in ethical and social these meetings, he encourages who learned about the plight medical school say Corker is a as a panelist at a CFPB National questions, one which will advocacy and leadership in of the uninsured during this perfect fit for the AMA Field Hearing on Student Debt. Used with permission from the students’ home time. He graduated in 2007 American Medical Association

36 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 37 Boonshoft The program, Students On the first Saturday of the certain population of patients glucose levels down. A month Teaching Educational Plans month, the students conduct they may not meet—the later, he had decreased his School of for Success (STEPS), works health screenings from 9 to indigent and those without soda intake to one per day, Medicine with vulnerable populations in 11 a.m. They check for high health care,” said faculty sometimes none. Humes and students help Dayton to manage chronic blood pressure, obesity, volunteer Robert Brandt Jr., other students also helped Healthy illnesses by promoting and other risk factors for M.D., (’80), a clinical professor him design a plan to decrease underserved healthy behaviors. cardiovascular disease. with Wright State Physicians. the number of cigarettes Through motivational “This is a good way for that he smokes. manage chronic Paul Blair, a member of the interviewing, a technique of exposure. It gives them a illnesses by cohort of students who Humes praised the motivational goal-oriented, client-centered chance to practice their organized the Wright State interviewing aspect of the promoting counseling, patients are interviewing skills outside of initiative, garnered the support STEPS initiative. “People can advice healthy empowered to take the right medical school in a real- and active leadership of six steps to better health. world setting.” behaviors other students—Rebecca “Chronic illness is the major Beesley, Nikki Craker, Ross “Chronic illness is the major David, 48, a participant in a cause of mortality. We are trying Humes, Matias Iberico, T.J. cause of mortality. We are recent session, was grateful to help patients change those On a snowy Saturday Klein, and Nadia Zaim. Today, seeing unhealthy habits,” Blair for the advice he received. unhealthy habits.” morning in February, William the program is comprised of said. “We are trying to help The students helped David, went to a health screening a team of WSU medical, patients change those who suffers from asthma, arrive at their own solutions,” at the St. Vincent de Paul nursing, psychology, social unhealthy habits.” develop a plan on how to he said. Gettysburg Gateway for Men work, and nutrition students, better cope with his condition. As they listen to the participants, homeless shelter. But this along with Cedarville University “I am sleeping in a dorm,” Third-year medical student the students help guide them wasn’t a typical health clinic. School of Pharmacy students. said David, who is staying at Rebecca Beesley explained toward attainable goals. the St. Vincent de Paul that many of the people the After Boonshoft School of They were inspired by a Paul Hershberger, Ph.D., shelter. “Because of my students meet with are on the Medicine students took his similar program run by ABPP, professor and director asthma, I have to get up in verge of diabetes. blood pressure and checked students at another university. of behavioral science for the the middle of the night.” his glucose levels, William sat “The STEPS initiative empowers “I realized it would be a great Boonshoft Family Medicine down with another group of The students reviewed how to the patient by encouraging program for the students at Residency Program, assists students who asked him use his inhaler and gave him them to figure out why Wright State University and the students with motivational questions about his health leads on how to connect with a certain habits are bad, why the vulnerable populations of interviewing. At the weekend and helped him develop ideas primary care physician who can they should quit engaging in Dayton,” Blair said. “We want sessions, he reviews the to better manage it. prescribe additional medicine. certain activities, or why they the participants to understand technique with the group of should be more proactive in a “They’re giving me avenues that they are the ones in charge volunteer students before they T.J. Klein, a second-year certain area,” Beesley said. “It of how to find a new care of changing their lifestyle.” meet with the participants. medical student, and other is extremely rewarding to use provider,” said William, 54, “This is very patient-centered,” students have helped some Zaim explained that STEPS motivational interviewing to who has hepatitis. “I have a said Hershberger, a clinical participants modify their works to fight the chronic help someone come up with chronic disease. I need to get psychologist. “We want to behavior with a regimen of illnesses that are devastating their own answers to their connected to a clinic.” discuss behavioral issues from reduced salt intake and to the poor, the homeless, problems. The solution the perspective of the patient.” increased exercise. “This refugees, and minorities. “We comes from them, not us. Passionate about fighting enables our participants to are building an interdisciplinary He encourages the students They know their schedule chronic illness among the take their health and well collaboration of students and to find out what is important and resources best.” poor and the homeless, a being into their own hands,” group of Wright State faculty to help people make to the participants by asking Klein said. “We encourage While Blair and Zaim University Boonshoft School healthy choices,” she said. open-ended questions, using participants to recognize and graduated last year, they of Medicine students reflective statements, and The WSU initiative was modify their own behaviors made sure that the program implemented a community- being understanding. “Our implemented in September through dialogue and included second- and third- based, volunteer-powered leading health problems 2012 at the Dakota Center, a conversation with us.” year medical students who counseling program in the are chronic illnesses,” Dayton community center. In are committed to continuing fall of 2012. Hershberger said. “Behavior Ross Humes, a third-year January 2013, the initiative the STEPS initiative. is a major factor in people’s medical student, and other was moved to the St. Vincent susceptibility to developing students met with a participant, “We feel very passionate de Paul Gettysburg Gateway these chronic illnesses.” who drank four sodas a day. about this initiative,” Beesley for Men, a homeless shelter They worked with him to said. “We are confident that for single men in Dayton. “The STEPS initiative is giving develop a plan to decrease we will be able to continue for Second-year medical students exposure to a student David Solarz his soda intake to keep his years to come.” VS checks the blood pressure of a Gettysburg Gateway client.

38 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 39 Autism in the Arab world Double Jeopardy Doug Laurain, Luke Andera, Glen Solomon, M.D., Fulbright grant supports Boonshoft School of “My medical and Robert Beaulieu professor and chair of the Medicine student’s research on autism specialty interests competed against other Department of Internal are internal medical students teams in Medicine, applauded their Boonshoft School of Medicine student T.J. Klein has been medicine, Doctor’s Dilemma® at the victory. “It shows how selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowship for pediatrics, 2013 Ohio Chapter Scientific academically prepared Wright 2013-2014 to study autism in Oman. neurology, and Meeting of the American State medical students are The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest U.S. psychiatry,” said College of Physicians (ACP) compared with their peers at exchange program offering opportunities for students and Klein, who earned in Columbus last fall. other medical schools,” his undergraduate young professionals to undertake international graduate study, Solomon said. “On virtually degree at advanced research, university teaching, and primary and The questions test medical any measure, our students Princeton secondary school teaching worldwide. students’ knowledge on are at the top of their University. “This (From left) Doug Laurain, Luke Andera, and Robert Beaulieu won the uncommon or rare syndromes profession. Winning a Klein began the nine-month study at Sultan Qaboos University, Doctor’s Dilemma® contest at the 2013 Ohio Chapter Scientific Meeting project really is a (From left) Boonshoft School of medicine students in internal medicine. This is located outside of Muscat, the capital city of Oman, in September. of the American College of Physicians on Oct 10. statewide contest just helps to perfect fit as it T.J. Klein, Kelsey Black, and Jeffrey Zabinski went the second year the Ohio ACP to Oman in June 2012 as part of a medical validate the exceptional quality dovetails all of Boonshoft School of For the second consecutive ® “Autism, like many other mental health and developmental observership at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital. has offered Doctor’s Dilemma of our medical students.” year, three fourth-year disorders, is relatively unstudied and under-diagnosed in these fields Medicine students win to medical students. WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine non-Western parts of the world,” said Klein, who completed statewide Doctor’s Boonshoft School of Medicine “I am looking forward to learning more about the Arab culture ® students have won the his second year of medical school. “This project includes public Dilemma contest two students Tom Bacon, Kate and customs,” said Klein, who would like to be an academic statewide student Doctor’s health outreach and education, as well as biomedical studies years in a row Baker, and Paul Blair won the physician at a large research university, where he can work Dilemma® contest, a medical dealing with the genetic and possible environmental causes of 2012 competition. closely with patients in the clinic and conduct basic science jeopardy competition. this disorder.” research. “I realize that there can be some distance between Although Klein has not been personally affected by autism, he the general American public and the Arab Muslim world, and I gained an interest in it when he took a course on autism during hope to use this opportunity to help bridge that distance.” his postbaccalaureate program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kyle Davis receives AMA Physicians of Tomorrow award Boonshoft medical student selected president-elect of Student National Medical Association proteins, Davis has known I’m highly motivated to patient care by nominating since he was a child that he maintain my treatment him for the Arnold P. Gold oldest and largest founding of the SNMA, the wanted to enter the pediatric regimen,” said Davis, who Humanism Honor Society. student-run organization SNMA should reflect on this hematology/oncology field. wants to serve as a mentor His interest in international focused on the needs and mission and ensure that we to people with hemophilia. Davis had ankle bleeds at health led Davis on a concerns of medical stay true to our purpose.” least once every two weeks. Davis is one of 18 national Boonshoft School of Medicine students of color. Sampson served as the When he was seven, he community speakers with the Global Health Initiative The nonprofit organization is webmaster and social started prophylactic, or Baxter Healthcare True Identity medical mission trip to Peru. committed to supporting chairperson of the Wright preventive, treatment with his Program. He educates families He also traveled to Paris, current and future State chapter of the SNMA parents’ help. When he was a and patients about the France, to attend the 2012 underrepresented minority and as the SNMA Region V teenager, his hemophilia nurse importance of adhering to World Federation of His life as a hemophilia medical students, addressing webmaster. She also was trained him to self-infuse the prophylactic treatment and Hemophilia World Congress. patient provides the needs of underserved selected as one of 20 unique insights into missing blood factor. has spoken before the Ohio “Hemophilia has shaped my communities, and increasing SNMA Future Leadership patient care Health and Human Services During middle and high life,” said Davis, who wants to Topaz Sampson will the number of clinically Project Fellows. Subcommittee as an advocate school, he played baseball, become the director of a lead national student- excellent, culturally Boonshoft School of Medicine for funding the Bureau for In addition to her work with basketball, and ran cross- hematology/oncology center run organization competent, and socially fourth-year student Kyle Davis Children with Medical Handicaps. SNMA, Sampson volunteers country. But he developed in the United States and conscious physicians. was one of 15 recipients Sampson, now a third-year monthly at Reach Out of arthritis in his right ankle. “I’m He has served as the dedicate a portion of his nationwide to receive the 2013 medical student at the “The mission of the SNMA Montgomery County. She frustrated that hemophilia has copresident of the medical career to international health American Medical Association Wright State University is one that resonates within served on the student limited me in that way,” he school’s Pediatrics Club and care. “I know my life as a (AMA) Foundation Physicians Boonshoft School of me,” said Sampson, who committee for the selection said. “Because I can’t run as vice president of Phi Rho hemophilia patient will of Tomorrow Award. Medicine, was selected the served as president of her of the dean of the medical anymore, I bought a road bike Sigma, a service organization. provide unique insight into my 2013-2014 president-elect of first-year medical school school and a student Diagnosed at six months with and started biking.” His medical school peers patients’ experiences and will the Student National Medical class. “As we enter into the committee for the selection hemophilia, a rare blood recognized him for his allow me to better understand He self-infuses every other Association (SNMA), the 50th anniversary of the of the medical school’s clotting disorder caused by commitment to service and their needs.” inactive or deficient blood day. “Being medically inclined, academic advisor.

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Milestones 2013Convocation The Boonshoft School of Medicine welcomed The class of 2017 was selected from a group 104 new students during the Convocation of 4,400 applications, a record for the and White Coat Ceremony last July, formally medical school. Educated at various marking the start of their medical education. universities across Ohio, members of the incoming class also hail from Harvard Last year for the first time, each student University, Duke University, Emory received a stethoscope engraved with the University, Brown University, Furman words, “Excel in Leaving a Mark,” thanks University, and UCLA, among others. to The Jason Madachy Foundation. From serving as a Salvation Army bell ringer The foundation has given more than 700 to building houses for Habitat for Humanity, stethoscopes to medical students nationwide. they already have shown a strong Dolly and Joe Madachy established the commitment to community service both at foundation in February 2008 in honor of home and abroad. Several have taken mission their son, Jason Madachy, who died tragically trips to the Dominican Republic, Thailand, in June 2007 just before he was about to start Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, South Africa, medical school at Marshall University. Nicaragua, and Ghana. One student served with the Peace Corps in Panama and another volunteered for a mission trip to Appalachia. The class also includes two Eagle Scouts.

Fifty-four percent are women, while 46 percent are men. They speak many of the world’s languages including Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, Polish, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Pennsylvania Dutch, Japanese, Urdu, Hindi, Greek, Arabic, Gujarati, and Korean. One student speaks five languages — English, Spanish, Hebrew, Russian, and Yiddish.

Jenn Haas, M.D., (’13), says she keeps her stethoscope close to her heart because it is one of her only remaining connections to her boyfriend Jason Madachy, who died tragically in 2007 just before he was to start medical school.

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Briana Teresa Costello Ashleigh Galizio Bradley David Kuhn Abigail Margaret Mowry Robert Rakosi Laura Nicole Thornhill Internal Medicine Pediatrics Surgery-General Surgery-General Surgery-General Family Medicine Rush University Medical Center Case Western University Hospitals Spartanburg Regional Healthcare Akron Gen Medical Center/ Keesler AFB Ventura County Medical Center Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Spartanburg, SC NEOMED Biloxi, MS Ventura, CA Akron, OH Shamie Das Richa Garg Katherine Ann Larson Sridevi Ramalingam Emily Marie Tibbits Emergency Medicine Family Medicine Internal Medicine Brandon James Murphy Internal Medicine Surgery-General Match Day Emory University School of University of Chicago Medical Virginia Commonwealth University Surgery-General Medical College ofWisconsin David Grant USAF Medical Center 2013 Medicine Center Health System Mount Carmel Health System Affiliated Hospitals Travis AFB, CA Atlanta, GA Chicago, IL Richmond, VA Columbus, OH Milwaukee, WI Alyssa Ann Tobe In March 2013, 104 graduating Boonshoft School of Laura Marie DeVita Amipratapba Gohil Stephanie Marie Lauden Vivian C. Nanagas Jennifer Leigh Rammel Internal Medicine Medicine students learned where they will pursue Anesthesiology Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Pediatrics Pediatrics WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine University of Maryland Medical Resurrection Medical Center University of Minnesota Medical Loyola University Medical Center University of Florida COM Dayton, OH their residency training. Center Chicago, IL School Maywood, IL Jacksonville, FL Baltimore, MD Minneapolis, MN Eric E. Vangeloff Gathered with family, friends, and other supporters in the Flor Sostene Guerengomba Brendan Neary Elizabeth Shanika Ranasinghe Anesthesiology Zachary DiPaolo Pediatrics Bryan Lee Family Medicine PGY1: Transitional Year Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Berry Room of the Wright State University Nutter Center, the Orthopaedic Surgery Eastern Virginia Med School Internal Medicine Trident Medical Center Kettering Medical Center Winston-Salem, NC students took part in the national event that has become a WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Norfolk, VA Ohio State University Medical Charleston, SC Kettering, OH Dayton, OH Center PGY2: Ophthalmology Tasha A. Vardya rite of passage for those on the brink of becoming physicians. Jennifer Angela Haas Columbus, OH Ryan M. Noska Boston University Obstetrics and Gynecology Brian Nelson Donahue Surgery-General Anesthesiology Boston MA Case Western/University Hospitals- Wright State students matched in outstanding programs in Pediatrics Summa Health/NEOMED Daniel B. Luckenbill University Hospital Case Medical Center University of Alabama Medical Akron, OH Orthopaedic Surgery Cincinnati, OH Bradley Sanville Cleveland, OH Dayton, throughout Ohio, and across the country, including Center WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Internal Medicine Case Western Reserve, the Cleveland Clinic, Cambridge Birmingham, AL Ryan Stephen Hamilton Dayton, OH Kyle L. Ott Legacy Emanuel/Good Samaritan Aaron Stephen Wasserman Orthopaedic Surgery Family Medicine Portland, OR Emergency Medicine Health Alliance (Harvard), Duke University, and the Mayo Clinic. Stephen R. Donnelly University of Toledo Marjan Elizabeth Lyons WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Central Michigan University COM Emergency Medicine/Family Toledo, OH Internal Medicine Dayton, OH Ronald James Schroeder Saginaw, MI Medicine Otolaryngology Parag Amin Paul Wilson Blair Lenox Hill Hospital Christiana Care Julie Han SUNY Upstate Medical University Nathan Weir Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine New York, NY Jeffrey Edward Otte Newark, DE Internal Medicine Syracuse, NY PGY1: Internal Medicine St. John Hospital George Washington University Orthopaedic Surgery Riverside Methodist University of Illinois Detroit, MI Washington, D.C. Poorni Manohar Mount Carmel Health System Shanna O. Duffy Columbus, OH Internal Medicine Columbus, OH Scott William Seider Chicago, IL Psychiatry/Family Med Transitional Year PGY2: Dermatology Clara M. Antoury Claire Brandon University of Michigan Hospitals University Hospital Eric W. Hard Navy Medical Center WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Internal Medicine Psychiatry Ann Arbor, MI Kathleen Jean Oxner Cincinnati, OH Internal Medicine San Diego, CA Dayton, OH Cleveland Clinic Foundation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Internal Medicine University of North Carolina Cleveland, OH Sinai Casey K. McCluskey Kettering Medical Center Meaghan Ebetino Hospitals Margarette Jeannette Shegog Thomas C. Yang New York, NY Pediatrics Kettering, OH Family Medicine Chapel Hill, NC Family Medicine Psychiatry Ayesha Kader Ashai Indiana University School of WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Mountain Area Health Education North Shore-LIJ Health System Psychiatry James Brockett Medicine Uloma Oziri Dayton, OH Miriam Atira Harewood Center Great Neck, NY University of Maryland Medical Surgery-General Indianapolis, IN Anesthesiology Internal Medicine Asheville, NC Center Akron General Medical Center/ University of Texas Southwestern Robert Alan Eick Kettering Medical Center Scott Matthew Yapo Baltimore, MD NEOMED Jaclyn Leigh McCord Medical School Family Medicine Kettering, OH Lauren Elizabeth Siewny Psychiatry Akron, OH Pediatrics Dallas, TX University of North Carolina Emergency Medicine Cambridge Health Alliance James Atkins WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Hospitals Lindsey Diane Hogle Duke University Medical Center Cambridge, MA PGY1: Surgery-General Britta Lauren Buchenroth Dayton, OH Denada Palm Chapel Hill, NC Emergency Medicine Durham, NC WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology Internal Medicine Ohio State University Medical Kevin Yavorcik Dayton, OH Riverside Methodist Colleen Marie McCormick University Hospital Sarah Michele Elswick Center Samira Sihabdeen Emergency Medicine PGY2: Anesthesiology Columbus, OH Pediatrics Cincinnati, OH Surgery-General Columbus, OH Carolinas Medical Center Indiana University School of Northwestern McGaw/CMH Anesthesiology Mayo School of Graduate Medical Loyola University Medical Center Charlotte, NC Medicine Cole Christopher Budinsky Chicago, IL Himaja Palur Education Sonya Layla Hovsepian Maywood, IL Indianapolis, IN Surgery-General Family Medicine Rochester, MN Surgery-General Vivek Yedavalli WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Luke Daniel McCoy John Peter Smith Hospital North Shore-LIJ Health System Jonathan Edward Silverman PGY1: Internal Medicine Asim Khan Babar Dayton, OH Internal Medicine Fort Worth, TX Kiran Ann Faryar Manhasset, NY West Suburban Medical Center Internal Medicine Christ Hospital PGY1: Transitional Year Emergency Medicine Kettering Medical Center Oak Park, IL University of Texas Medical School Jennifer Renee Castelbuono Cincinnati, OH Thomas Pitts University of Louisville School of Mariano Matias Iberico Lozada Kettering, OH PGY2: -Diagnostic Houston, TX Anesthesiology Internal Medicine Medicine Internal Medicine PGY2: Phys. Med. & Rehab. Cook County-Stroger Hospital University of Tennessee Graduate Leslee McElrath Miami Valley Hospital Louisville, KY Kaiser Permanente Carolinas Medical Center Chicago, IL Thomas Scott Bacon School of Medicine Family Medicine Dayton, OH San Francisco, CA Charlotte, NC PGY1: Transitional Year Knoxville, TN WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Patrick Colin Feasel Chong Yun Mount Carmel Health System Dayton, OH Brandon Pollak Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical Erin Katherine Johnson Robert Vincent Smith Family Medicine Columbus, OH Michael Robert Chaka Internal Medicine Cleveland Clinic Foundation Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern PGY2: Ophthalmology Pediatrics Allison Colleen McMahon Case Western/University Hospitals Cleveland, OH University of Virginia University of Utah Affiliated Medical School Boston University Medical College of Wisconsin Obstetrics and Gynecology Case Medical Center Charlottesville, VA Hospitals Dallas, TX Boston, MA Affiliated Hospitals Riverside Methodist Cleveland, OH Lauren M. Ford Salt Lake City, UT Milwaukee, WI Columbus, OH Pediatrics Ankush Kalra Nadia Zaim Kathryn Baker Sara Elizabeth Puening Rush University Medical Center Internal Medicine Psychiatry Rachel Snyder Pediatrics Internal Medicine Puja Dhaval Chokshi Robert Mikan Chicago, IL Thomas Jefferson University University of Colorado School of Family Medicine Sinai Hospital University of Minnesota Medical Internal Medicine Pediatrics Philadelphia, PA Medicine Mount Carmel Health System Baltimore, MD School Washington Hospital Center Indiana University School of Christoforos Michael Aurora, CO Columbus, OH Minneapolis, MN Washington, DC Medicine Frangopoulos Michelle Marie Keeley Indianapolis, IN For information on the 2014 PGY1: Transitional Year Obstetrics and Gynecology Saba Iftikhar Qureshi Lakshmana Swamy Match Day visit: med.wright. Jennifer Lauren Beck Daisy Ewurakua Conduah Mount Carmel Health System Beaumont Health System Family Medicine Internal Medicine edu/whatsnew/2014/match Pediatrics Surgery-General Jason Charles Miller Columbus, OH Royal Oak, MI WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Boston University Medical Center Cincinnati Children’s Hospital NCC-Walter Reed National Military Anesthesiology PGY2: Anesthesiology Dayton, OH Boston, MA Cincinnati, OH Medical Center Indiana University School of University of North Carolina Bethesda, MD Medicine Chapel Hill, NC Indianapolis, IN

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2013Graduation One-hundred and seven members of In addition to the degrees, several special the Boonshoft School of Medicine class awards and honors were presented of 2013 received their M.D. degrees during the ceremony: during the school’s commencement Appreciation Award— ceremony at the Benjamin and Marian Dayton Children’s Hospital Schuster Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 24. For exceptional collaboration and partnership in support of research and Michelle Au, M.D., author of This Won’t medical education at the Boonshoft Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies), School of Medicine. delivered the commencement address. Au serves as a staff anesthesiologist at Dean’s Award— Physician Specialists in Anesthesia at St. Jeffrey E. Otte Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta. She started For commitment to academic excellence, her popular blog “The Underwear Drawer” empathy, and compassion toward in October 2000 during her second year others, personal integrity and of medical school. In 2011, she published professionalism, and earning the respect her memoir, This Won’t Hurt a Bit (and and trust of classmates and faculty. Other White Lies.) The Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award— Casey K. McCluskey (student) and Virginia C. Wood, M.D., associate professor, internal medicine, (faculty)

For consistently demonstrating compassion and empathy in the delivery of care to patients.

Teaching Excellence Award— Gregory Toussaint, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics

46 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 47 From Harlem to medical school The road less travelled As a child, Daisy Conduah reading medical books in the who was commissioned a Boonshoft International Health realized that most people in public library. “I also would captain last May. “It’s a great Program. “Surgery is a blending The path to medical school is as diverse as her Harlem neighborhood like to mentor students from honor to serve these soldiers.” of medical and surgical Dr. Mom did not have medical care. backgrounds similar to mine. intervention, which can help She looked forward to her the people who traverse it. Here are the Many of her neighbors were I want them to know that they to alleviate symptoms or As a child, Kathleen “Kit” Oxner, I started medical school,” said general surgery residency at immigrants or didn’t have can become doctors. It prolong someone’s life.” stories of just a few of our 2013 grads. 41, read her older sister’s Oxner, who is from Springfield, the NCC-Walter Reed jobs that provided health is possible.” nursing textbooks and Ohio, and graduated the National Military Medical She marvels at how the insurance. She was fortunate. magazines. She wanted to same weekend that her Before she returns to Harlem, Center. Walter Reed is known body’s organs are made and Her mother, who works as become a physician, but a daughter graduated from Conduah will spend six years for its research and innovation. fit together. “It is amazing to a hotel housekeeper at a challenging high school Shawnee High School. in a U.S. Army residency She wants to do a fellowship open up the human body, fix Manhattan hotel, had chemistry class thwarted “Having a child with a chronic program. An Army Health in surgical oncology. things, and put it back health insurance. her dream. illness and an aging mother Professions Scholarship together,” said Conduah, who “The operating room is an and mother-in-law has “I would ultimately like to helped Conduah pay for credits her mother with After high school, she married exciting place to be,” said increased my exposure to the go back to Harlem to serve medical school. “I also joined instilling a love for people. “I her husband, Steve, and had Conduah, who was an active medical community from the people who need health the Army because I wanted to look forward to the challenges Decision: Farmer or doctor? two children, Alex and Megan. member of the WSU chapter patient side. It also influences care but can’t access it,” serve the people who have that lie ahead. I know surgery She was working and taking of the Student National One of seven children, Jeff He and his siblings worked how I relate to my patients.” said Conduah, who spent put their lives on the line for will be a rewarding field.” college courses. But Alex was Medical Association and the Otte grew up on a pig and on the farm growing up. They diagnosed with juvenile After her three-year residency hours as a child and teen our country,” said Conduah, dairy farm in Maria Stein, showed pigs at the county diabetes at 2-1/2 years old. program in internal medicine Ohio. As the fifth child of fair. Otte remembers taking She dropped her classes at Kettering Medical Center, a nurse and a farmer, Otte blood from wiggling, squirming to care for Alex, who is now she would like to return to her wrestled with whether to be pigs for the county fair drug a psychology major at hometown of Springfield and All in the family a farmer or become a doctor. test. At Match Day, 16 family Wright State. work with aging adults. His curiosity in the sciences members and his girlfriend Ryan Hamilton was the Hamilton credits his parents As her children got older, she pushed him to pursue a surprised him to show “When patients don’t go to second of three siblings from with instilling their work ethic began taking college classes career in medicine. their support. the doctor on a regular basis, Beavercreek, Ohio, to pursue in him and his sisters. His again at Wright State. Hesitant maintaining their health can their medical degrees at father, Steve Hamilton, “I enjoyed human anatomy, “My parents really pushed to enroll in a chemistry course be difficult. Some people Wright State University. D.D.S., is a dentist in biology and later medicine. us to work hard at everything because of her high school weren’t raised to go to the Fairborn, and his mother, I wanted to use my skills to we did, whether it was experience, she overcame her His older sister, Laura doctor. Others can’t afford it,” Linda, manages the dental help the greatest number of school, sports, or work,” fear and excelled in the Hamilton, graduated in 2009 said Oxner, who also was vice office. “From a really young people,” said Otte, who has said Otte, whose great-great course. Her professor, David and has started a pediatric president of the WSU chapter age, our parents demanded begun a five-year residency in grandfather immigrated to the Dolson, Ph.D., associate emergency medicine fellow- of the American Medical our best in school,” said orthopaedic surgery at Mount United States in the 1870s professor and assistant chair ship at Nationwide Children’s Women’s Association (AMWA) Hamilton, who has begun Carmel Health System in and established the family of chemistry, encouraged her Hospital in Columbus. His during her second year. a five-year residency in Columbus, Ohio. “There is farm in Maria Stein. His to become a premed major. younger sister, Sarah, finished “Springfield has an aging orthopaedic surgery at the no other specialty in which parents’ farm has been in the Her husband, who graduated her second year of medical population and needs more University of Toledo. you can help someone family for more than 80 years. from Wright State in 1993, school and will graduate in physicians who can provide “Everything else came through the use of hammers, Otte and two of his brothers also encouraged her. 2015. Laura’s husband, Tim basic primary care. I am second to that.” drills, and chisels with grew up in the same bedroom looking forward to doing Rust, also is a 2009 graduate “My children were teens and successful patient outcomes. that his father shared with his meaningful work.” of the medical school. Hamilton also credits Carroll essentially self-sufficient when You can drastically improve brothers. Aunts, uncles, and High School in Dayton with Having an older sister in the the quality of someone’s life cousins live within close providing a great science same medical school had its through nonsurgical and proximity to their farm. The foundation “The class in high benefits. She gave him advice surgical measures.” Otte family has dubbed the school paved the way,” said and answered his questions. area “Otteville.” Hamilton, who also earned Otte credits his supportive “Now I am the one giving both an undergraduate family with his success. “My Otte wants to return to Maria advice to my younger sister,” degree in biology and a family is my biggest support Stein, after his residency and he said admitting that there is master’s degree in anatomy and my biggest asset,” said a fellowship to open an some friendly, joking competition. Otte, who has received orthopaedic practice. “When from Wright State. “It was a numerous honors and awards I’m all done with my training, hard class but it prepared us as a student leader. “I am I’d like to move back to Maria for college and medical school.” very blessed.” Stein to Otteville,” he said. “It’s a rural area, and they need orthopaedic surgeons.”

48 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 49 In Good Company

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Ronald Golovan spends six weeks with the team in spring training each year.

Alumnus Ronald Golovan serves as team physician for As a Cleveland-based private practice Upon Wilder’s retirement in 2000, Golovan noting that healthy employees are happier in accommodate. It is not unusual for him to internist, Ronald Golovan, M.D., (’89) has assumed the role of head team internist for general and are on the job more, thus meet with the performers prior to the show or the Cleveland Indians, cares for entertainers appearing spent 22 years treating professional baseball the Indians. While he doesn’t have to be at incurring less sick time. sometimes after. players, musicians, actors, and corporate every game, Golovan spends a lot of time at By spreading the same message to his “I have had my share of late nights, but I am at the House of Blues, Blossom Music Center, and executives. However, he is quick to point out the ballpark. He typically arrives one hour corporate clients as he does to his own not complaining. I love being part of the that some of the most satisfying moments of before the game to address any medical issue. other Cleveland venues, serves patients, Golovan is able to persuade a wider show and I have met some really great people his career have come from his involvement in He also sees players from the opposing team. audience of the benefits of health promotion along the way,” he said. as medical director for a the health care of his more typical internal Golovan explains that the baseball season and disease prevention. He admits that the medicine patients. Golovan’s generosity and spirit are evident in corporate wellness firm, actually begins in February. “I spend six advice is not too complicated. his willingness to give back to the Boonshoft “I won’t lie. Taking care of professional weeks with the team in spring training,” he “Take care of yourself. Eat right and exercise School of Medicine. He is a steadfast and sees patients in athletes and musicians is great, but I still love said. “It’s not easy to be away from home for regularly,” said Golovan who also served on supporter of the Match Day celebration. going to work every day and seeing my that long, but it is a great time to get to know his private practice. the board of directors of the Cleveland regular office patients,” said Golovan, who the players and for them to get to know me.” He recalled his own experience. “I was Academy of Medicine and currently holds a received the 2013 Outstanding Alumni involved in planning our Match Day party, Throughout the course of a long season, teaching position with the Fairview Hospital Award from the Wright State University and I remember wishing that we had a little Golovan credits his very understanding Internal Medicine Residency Program. Alumni association. more money to pay for some of the expens- family. “My kids grew up with baseball,” said When he is not busy with his internal es,” he said. With this in mind, he has It all started with a cold call. Golovan, who has great memories of being at medicine practice, the Cleveland Indians, or donated to the Match Day fund since his the ballpark with his wife, Lisa, and their four “It was 1991, and I was just about to start the Be Well Solutions, Golovan can be found graduation in 1989. children, Samantha, Chase, Isabelle, and Eric. last year of my medicine residency,” he said. treating entertainers at Playhouse Square or “I know how hard the students have worked,” “Because I was interested in baseball and Golovan also serves as the medical director for backstage providing care for the musicians at he said. “They’ve earned a celebration and sports related medicine, I called the Indians Be Well Solutions, a privately owned corporate the House of Blues, Quicken Loans Arena, shouldn’t have to scratch to find the money just to ask about spending time with their wellness company. He helps companies or Blossom Music Center. “I am a musician to pay for it.” medical staff.” formulate programs to keep their employees at heart,” he said. healthy and to identify those who are at risk Whether it is backstage, in the office, at the That’s when Golovan was introduced to Dr. He points out that caring for athletes and for cardiovascular disease and cancer. ballpark, or in the boardroom, Golovan William Wilder, the longtime team physician entertainers requires many of the same skills. remains grateful to the Boonshoft School for the Cleveland Indians. The two met for In the changing world of economics and Often time constraints and travel schedules of Medicine for providing the strong dinner and immediately hit it off. Wilder health care, work site wellness programs are need to be considered. A concert tour may foundation on which he has based his career. invited Golovan to join his private practice at becoming more and more important. “In the only be in town for a matter of hours so there “I am truly fortunate. I have the greatest job Lutheran Hospital where Golovan continues simplest of terms, healthy employees are less is not much time to waste if a performer is ill in the world.” VS to see patients and today serves as vice expensive than unhealthy employees,” he said, and requires the doctor’s care. This means president of medical operations. that Golovan must be ready and willing to —Heather Maurer

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Boonshoft grad Bryan When Bryan Jewell, M.D., was a student at times before the birth to determine whether Bullinger, an M.D./Ph.D. student, graduated Delivery the Boonshoft School of Medicine, he never Blaze needed a C-section. from the medical school in 2011. She is Jewell delivers a baby imagined he would be part of a team that completing a three-year residency in Blaze had been trained to participate in performed a C-section on an orangutan. neurology at Emory University in Atlanta. orangutan by C-section voluntary ultrasounds throughout her But on Jan. 10, 2013, Jewell worked with his pregnancy. But during the C-section, Jewell also participated in several business partner, Brad Moore, M.D., to the veterinary anesthesiologists gave international medical mission trips to perform a C-section and deliver the baby her anesthetics. Jamaica, Cambodia, Bolivia, and Swaziland orangutan with the assistance of a team through the medical school’s Global Health Jewell remarked that an orangutan C-section of animal doctors at Zoo Atlanta. A team of Initiative, which seeks to enhance the was very similar to a human C-section. One neonatologists from Children’s Healthcare education of medical students by facilitating main difference was that the patient was not of Atlanta cared for the newborn male their exposure to medical issues facing people awake. However, he recalled that the infant, Pongo. in other countries and medical issues facing orangutan’s anatomy was almost identical to immigrants in the United States. “It was probably the coolest experience I have that of a human on the inside. ever had,” said Jewell, a 2008 graduate of the He also was a recipient of the Gold Since the birth, Jewell has visited Pongo at Boonshoft School of Medicine and a graduate Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Zoo Atlanta, which exhibits the nation’s of the medical school’s obstetrics and Teaching Award in 2010 as an obstetrics largest zoological orangutan collection. gynecology residency. “The veterinarians and gynecology resident. “The baby is developing perfectly,” he said. don’t normally intervene with primate A native of Columbus, Ohio, Jewell became deliveries at the zoo. It’s best to let nature The Zoo Atlanta website has followed the interested in becoming a doctor after making take its course, but orangutans are extremely development of Pongo since his earliest days frequent trips to the doctor for sports-related endangered. This baby was very important to with a blog. injuries. He chose obstetrics and gynecology the gene pool.” Jewell joined Haven OB/GYN in Atlanta in because it provides a mix of office-based Pongo’s mother, Blaze, a 16-year-old July 2012. He received many academic and practice, procedures, and surgery. He enjoys Sumatran orangutan, had given birth a couple humanitarian awards during his medical the chance to get to know his patients during of years ago to an infant that died during training at the Boonshoft School of Medicine, prenatal care, as well as the continuity of care delivery. Because of her small body and her including the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s after the delivery. reproductive history, Zoo Atlanta Animal Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award Jewell understands that not everyone who Management and Veterinary Teams assembled for a graduating medical student in 2008. goes into medicine feels the same way that he a team of human experts and consultant During medical school, he participated in the does about obstetrics. “It’s pretty amazing to veterinarians. Student-to-Student program, volunteered at participate in the delivery of babies, and I Reach Out of Montgomery County and for Jewell explained that Zoo Atlanta called love my job more every day,” he said. “I am the Anatomical Gift Program’s Memorial Moore, his business partner. Jewell and amazed that every delivery can provide a Service, and was a member of the Honor Moore practice obstetrics and gynecology at new, special experience whether it’s human Code Committee. Haven OB/GYN in Atlanta. or orangutan.” VS During medical school, Jewell and Katie The zoo had worked with Moore before on —Heather Maurer Bullinger, whom he married in April 2012, other animal cases. For Blaze’s case, the zoo’s also volunteered to help with Reunion veterinarians met with Moore and other Weekend, babysitting the children of the members of the medical team that included attendees. “We had so much fun with it while human obstetricians, neonatologists, and getting to meet many of the past alumni,” veterinary anesthesiologists. They met several Jewell said.

52 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 53 For Casey McCluskey, M.D., M.Ed., sanctity of the relationship between a doctor of Medicine alumnus, class of 1983, the path to obtaining her medical and a patient. I literally put my life in the and an active duty officer in the USPHS, degree was a circuitous journey. hands of my doctors and trusted that they presented McCluskey with the 2013 were doing the right things to take care of me.” Excellence in Public Health Award before the After graduating from the University of medical school’s graduation ceremony. When she returned to medical school in the Notre Dame in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree The USPHS award recognizes medical fall of 2009, she was behind her class because in English and film, television, and theater, students who are involved in public health she had missed several weeks. So she retook she earned a master’s degree in education issues in their communities. while teaching through a two-year her first year and joined the class of 2013. postgraduate service program. She was placed McCluskey jumped back into her activities “I am going into pediatrics, and I think the What and helped at Reach Out of Montgomery foundation for that pathway was laid down in an under-resourced elementary school in Mississippi. “It was probably the hardest County, where she also served as a Reach Out before I started medical school,” said thing I’ve ever done,” she said. “I learned a lot board member. McCluskey, who is in her first year of residency at the Indiana University School of life lessons with 25 kids relying on me.” A leader in her class, McCluskey participated of Medicine in Indianapolis. “My years of in training activities throughout medical cancer She returned to her hometown of Akron, teaching helped me get to know children and school that fostered the team approach in Ohio, to teach K-8 technology at a Catholic understand who they are and how they think.” school for a few years. She also spent a patient care. She was a cohost on Radio summer teaching English to fifth-grade Rounds, the radio show hosted and produced One of the biggest things being a teacher children in Ethiopia. entirely by medical students. She also was a taught her to do is break down information teaches speaker in the “Social and Ethical Issues in for patients in simpler ways so they can have But she realized that she wouldn’t be happy Medicine” course. She served as codirector a better understanding of their illnesses and teaching for an entire career like her mother, of Finding Meaning in Medicine, a medical treatments. “The more patients understand aunt, and brother. “I didn’t think I could student group that discusses the purpose and what is going on with them, the more A former teacher, sustain the enthusiasm I had for a teaching meaning of medicine. She volunteered as part motivated they are to take care of 2013 graduate Casey career. I had always thought about medicine. of a service-learning elective in New Orleans themselves,” she said. “I may have left the But I didn’t know if I wanted to make the to help restore houses. classroom, but I will always consider McCluskey overcame commitment,” said McCluskey, whose father myself a teacher.” is a family physician. “If I hadn’t pursued She volunteered with the Weekend Intervention cancer, applied lessons medicine, I think I would have wondered if Program, a driver intervention program for After she completes her pediatrics residency, that’s what I should have done.” substance abuse clients. She served as McCluskey wants to be a hospitalist in a learned to caring for kids, president of the local chapter of Physicians children’s hospital. As a doctor based in a and received the U.S. So, in the fall of 2008, McCluskey started for Human Rights. She is a member of Phi hospital setting, McCluskey wants to help her first year of medical school at the Rho Sigma Medical Society, a national social adolescents who are ill. Public Health Service Boonshoft School of Medicine. Active in her and community service organization. She “Adolescents are walking that fine line class, she volunteered at Reach Out of collected food for the Boonshoft School of between childhood and adulthood. It takes 2013 Excellence in Montgomery County, an organization that Medicine Canned Food Drive, which patience to help them navigate this world,” Public Health Award provides the underserved and uninsured with provides food to local food pantries. access to health care. McCluskey said. “They need to be given She also began talking about her experience enough trust and responsibility, while at the “I loved the opportunity to work with as a cancer patient and continues to educate same time, still be allowed to be a child again. patients during my first two years when it young women about breast cancer awareness. They are a fascinating group that is often seemed like all we did was bury our heads in She spoke at an American Medical Student neglected in medicine.” VS books,” she said. “It was a great reminder of Association (AMSA) national convention on —Heather Maurer why I actually went into medical school. It the topic of “Medical Student as Patient: also was a great opportunity for medical Lessons Learned from Breast Cancer.” students to work one on one with local physicians and learn from them.” “I am humbled by Casey’s continual efforts to meet the needs of those with whom she However, by the end of her first year of comes into contact,” said Gary LeRoy, M.D., medical school, McCluskey faced an associate dean of student affairs and unexpected hurdle. She was diagnosed with admissions. “She is compassionate and a malignant breast tumor. In the summer of driven to make life better for children 2009, she had a mastectomy, followed by and adolescents.” chemotherapy. The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) “It’s the best class I ever took in medical took note of her compassion and school,” McCluskey reflected on her commitment to public health. Geoffrey M. experience as a cancer patient. “My Calvert, M.D., M.P.H., a Boonshoft School experience also helped me understand the

54 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 55 Alumni Notes 1997Kevin Meyer, M.D., serves as medical 2000Janice Eastman Bach, M.D., serves on Sarah Tibbetts, M.D., is in the Department director of the Emergency Department at the Oneida Healthcare board of trustees in of Emergency Medicine at Charlton Memorial Mercy Health-West Hospital in Cincinnati. Oneida, New York. She has practiced at Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts. She Child Health Associates since 2003 and and her husband, Allen Bernier, live in serves on the Oneida Healthcare Pediatric Rochester, Massachusetts. Medicine medical staff. She has been We’re proud of our alumni and graduates of our residency programs and want 1998Juanita Bhatnagar, M.D., is a pediatric instrumental in the implementation of Susan E. Williams, M.D., is on staff in the Oneida Healthcare’s Meditech, the Department of Endocrinology at the Cleveland to spread the word about your achievements. If you have professional news or hospitalist at Pediatrix Medical Group in Austin, Texas. She enjoys traveling, home hospital’s electronic medical record system. Clinic. She lives in Sagamore Hills, Ohio. personal updates to share—or simply want to stay in touch—please contact the fitness, and live comedy. She is the mother Office of Advancement at [email protected] or 937.245.7610. of twins, a son and daughter, Raghav and Sean Barnett, M.D., M.S., FACS, FAAP, Jaya (10), and daughter Shreeya (7). They is the new chief medical officer at live in Round Rock, Texas. Kaleidoscope, a product design and 2006Ealena Callender, M.D.,* is practicing at development consultancy based in Cincinnati, Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea, Melanie Carlson, M.D., is a partner and Ohio. He was formerly a surgeon at Cincinnati Minnesota, in obstetrics and gynecology. Elizabeth Mann, M.D., worked at Kathleen Glover, M.D., is the owner/ 1980John Lyman, M.D., FACEP, was Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She previously provided general obstetrics president at Geauga Family Physicians in named president of the Ohio Chapter of the Pediatric Center of Richmond in Indiana for director of Alma Clinic—Integrative Internal Chardon, Ohio. She practices family and gynecology care at the Center for Americal College of Emergency Physicians 11 years. She won the Humanity in Medicine in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She has medicine. She and her husband, Jesse, Women’s Health in Newport News, Virginia. in June 2013. Medicine Award in 1993. In 1997, she three children and four grandchildren. became a full-time mom, wife, and have two children, Josie (11) and Connor (9), and live in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Casey Boyce, M.D., is practicing at Hilltop home-school teacher. She works part time Kenelm McCormick, M.D., is the senior 2003 OB/GYN in Middletown, Ohio. She and her in kids’ ministry at her church. She and her medical director of Hospice of Medina Sarah Prince Carlson, M.D., is practicing husband, Scott, have two children, Cierra Sara Houston, M.D., is practicing in the husband, Michael, have two children, Julie County in Medina, Ohio. He and his wife, 2007 James H. Jones, M.D.,* has been 1982 at Davidson Family Medicine in Davidson, (5) and Bryce (2). pediatrics department at Essentia Health’s elected president of the American Board of (18), and Eric (16). They live in Swanton, Jane, have two grown children and live in North Carolina. She enjoys cooking, yoga, South University Clinic in Fargo, North Dakota. Emergency Medicine. Jones is a professor Ohio. She is taking Spanish with her son. Akron, Ohio. and volunteering in her son’s kindergarten Chastity Edwards, M.D., is practicing as at the Indiana University School of Medicine class. She and her husband, Glenn, have a surgical specialist in obstetrics and Rubeal Mann, M.D., is the emergency and medical director of the Wishard Michael Oleksyk, M.D., is the first Robert M. Meuser, M.D., is a staff one son, Ben (6), and live in Morresville, gynecology at Sidney Health Center in department medical director at Springfield Memorial Hospital Emergency Department physician in the United States who was surgeon at Heritage Valley Health System in North Carolina. Sidney, Montana. Before moving to Regional Medical Center in Springfield, Ohio. dual-certified by the U.S. Olympic Committee Southwestern Pennsylvania. He and his in Indianapolis. Jones completed his Montana in November 2013, she practiced residency training at WSU in 1982. in sports medicine and drug testing. He is wife, Rebecca, have four children, Derek (20), Kevin D. Frank, M.D., is currently in Maryland, where she was honored as vice president of medical affairs and chief Mitchell (18), Austin (16), and Hannah (14). one of Chesapeake Family Magazine’s Top medical officer at Baptist Health Care Inc., practicing at Mount Carmel Medical Group at Diley Ridge in Canal Winchester, Ohio. 100 Physicians because of her attention to Jill Aston, M.D., is an emergency Pensacola, Florida. He is also an assistant Alice Onady, M.D., is the medical director 2008 He is the proud father of three children, detail and rapport with patients. department physician at Mercy Fairfield James Augustine, M.D., was elected clinical professor at Florida State University of Community Behavioral Health in 1983 Sydney (13.5), Geneva (11), and Hospital in Cincinnati. She and her to the board of directors of the American College of Medicine in Tallahassee, Middletown, Ohio. She and her husband, Kavanaugh (9). Richard V. Hausrod, M.D., FACEP, husband, Scott, have two children, Bennett Florida. He and his wife, Suzette, reside Gary Onady, M.D., (’87) have two grown College of Emergency Physicians last FAAEM, is chair of emergency medicine at (4.5) and Grant (2.5). October. He and his wife, Linda, live in in Pensacola. children, Dia and Rena. Ronald McGilton, M.D., is practicing at EMH Health Care in Elyria, Ohio, and chief Naples, Florida. They have three grown Family Physicians of Englewood, Ohio. He operating officer of Emergency Medicine Todd A. Bialowas, M.D., is on active duty children, Jill, Joshua, and Jenna. Charles Ware, M.D., is an orthopedic Robert Tracy, M.D., practices family ran his first marathon in 2012, the Air Force Consultants. He and his wife, Brooke E. as a U.S. Army Medical Corps officer and is surgeon at Mishawaka Orthopedics in medicine with St. Elizabeth Physicians in Marathon. He also has run the Disney Half Hohn, M.D., reside in Avon Lake, Ohio. practicing emergency medicine and sports Neal P. Barney, M.D., is a professor in the Mishawaka, Indiana. He is a colonel in the the greater Cincinnati area. He and his wife, Marathon the past three years. He and his medicine. He and his wife, Catherine, have Department of Ophthalmology and Visual U.S. Army Reserves. He and his wife, Liz, Randi Callahan Tracy, M.D., (‘87) have two wife, Mel, have three children, Sydney (13), Ellen MacRitchie, M.D., is a pediatrician one child, T. Alexander (12). have three grown children, Noel, Chad, grown children. Sciences at the University of Wisconsin with Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrics. and T.J. Noah (11), and Samantha (7). School of Medicine and Public Health. He She’s currently trying to keep up with her kids, Justin Mistovich, M.D., is chief resident and his wife, Christine, have two grown and enjoys painting, reading, and running. She of orthopedics at Allegheny General Faren H. Williams, M.D., is chief of children, Erin and Patrick. and her husband, Michael Jewett, have two Hospital in Pittsburgh. He and his wife, physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Mark Browne, M.D., is chief medical 1991 Gary Butchko, M.D.,* FAAP, FACC, joined children, Tommy (4) and John (1.5). Keili, have one child, Madeleine (6 months). Kevin Budke, M.D., is an internist at University of Massachusetts. She enjoys officer and senior vice president at 1999 Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Group Health, which is part of TriHealth traveling, cooking, gardening and music. Covenant Health, a community-owned Christi, Texas, as a pediatric cardiologist at Anna Rohrbacher, M.D., is an outpatient She and her husband, Luke R. Maki, have health system in Knoxville, Tennessee. Physician Partners in Cincinnati. He and psychiatrist in private practice. She lives in two grown children, Trevor Maki and Driscoll Children’s Medical Plaza-McAllen. his wife, Lora, live in Cincinnati. They have St. Charles, Illinois. Elizabeth Chung, M.D.,* has joined four grown children, Matt, Karen, Kristen, Preston Maki. 2013 Sumant Lamba, M.D.,* is practicing in Women’s Care in Mansfield, Ohio, as an and Katelyn. Jacksonville, Florida, where he offers Jennifer Shoenfelt, M.D., is medical obstetrician/gynecologist. She also is on Judy Burichin, M.D., practices at Hilltop 1993 leading methods of treatment for coronary director and director of psychiatry at St. the medical staff at MedCentral Health Phil Cusumano, M.D., was nominated to Obstetrics & Gynecology in Franklin, Ohio. care, vascular disease, and cardiac arrest. Joseph’s Orphanage in Cincinnati. This year System in Mansfield. Tari (Smith) Anderson, M.D., practices She and her husband, Jerry Twohig, have “Best Doctors” listing in Cleveland, Ohio, 1988 she became a water color painter. She has with Riverside Gynecology in Cincinnati. two grown children, Patrick and Mary. for eight years. He specializes in internal two grown children, Michael and Stephanie. medicine at Beaufort Memorial Hospital in She and her husband, Greg, have three Beaufort, South Carolina. He and his wife, children, Sam (19), Paige (17), and Grant (13). Sibel Gullo, M.D., is a primary care In Memoriam Barb, have four grown daughters, Laura, physician with Baptists Physicians in Christy, Katy, and Chelcie. Lexington, Kentucky, She and her Rudolph A. Fajardo, M.D., (’04) husband, Chris, have three children, passed away on November 8, 2013. He Jamie (18), JoJo (16), and Tony (10). was a resident of Springfield, Missouri.

Tom Proctor, M.D., is president of Emergency Medicine Specialists in * Residency graduates Dayton, Ohio.

56 Vital Signs Spring 2014 med.wright.edu 57 Events Inspired to make a difference

Diane Bizimana always how the woman suffered. Reach Out of Montgomery Upcoming events Academy of Medicine Dinner wonders why her life was “I decided at that moment I County, a clinic that provides spared during the 1994 wanted to be a doctor.” access to health care to the April 23, 2014 ethnic conflict in Rwanda. underserved and uninsured; For more information on upcoming Even after the conflict ended, and a tutor for Rwandan and events, visit med.wright.edu/calendar Long before J.R. Martinez won legions of Diane, was seven years old Rwanda was marked by Burundian refugees in Dayton. fans as the winner of Dancing With the when the conflict in Rwanda insecurity. Her family suffered Dermatology Reception for Alumni Stars in 2011, he was inspiring audiences erupted in 1994. “Did I need more bloodshed. People She received an Armed & Resident Graduates of all kinds with his remarkable story. to see and take all those rushed into her cousin’s Forces Health Professional American Academy of Dermatology Annual memories with me so that I house and killed his whole Scholarship in 2013. As part Meeting Born to a single mother from El Salvador, will speak for those lives, family. Her cousin was shot, of her commitment to the Sunday, March 23 n 5:30–7:30 p.m. his dream was to become a professional lost senselessly?” but he survived with a bullet U.S. Army, she will serve as a Four Seasons Hotel Reception Room football player. His plans were derailed by 1111 14th Street, Denver, Colo. lodged in his ribs. “He is surgeon for five years after a sports injury. So he enlisted in the Army, While the memories are RSVP to Nicki Crellin at [email protected] slowly dying. He is usually in a her residency. Then, she plans where he was assigned to the 502nd painful for Bizimana, who is lot of pain,” said Diane, to continue to practice Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne a second-year medical San Antonio, Texas, Alumni Dinner explaining that there are not general surgery in the United Division. Martinez saw it as a way to give student at the Boonshoft Thursday, March 27 n 6 p.m. enough surgeons in Rwanda. States, but she wants to back to a country that already had given School of Medicine, she Las Canarias “When I can, I will remove the return to Rwanda for a month so much to him and his family. wants some good to come 112 College Street, San Antonio, Texas bullet surgically.” out of each year to do pro Survivor out of what she experi- RSVP to Nicki Crellin at [email protected] In March 2003, J.R. was deployed to Iraq. Less than a month later, the Humvee he bono surgery. Eventually, she enced. “I would not change Diane followed her father and was driving hit a land mine. Three other soldiers were ejected from the burning of Rwandan wants to build a hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, Alumni Dinner my sad story,” said Diane, his family to Dayton, Ohio. vehicle, but Martinez was trapped inside. Suffering from smoke inhalation and severe Rwanda or another country Saturday, March 29 n 6 p.m. who was born in Rwanda “I came here to be with the burns to 34 percent of his body, Martinez spent the next 34 months in recovery, ethnic in Africa. “I need to help, but The Grill Room, Windor Court Hotel and immigrated to the other half of my family and to undergoing 33 different surgeries, including skin grafts and cosmetic surgery. I need to help in the places 300 Gravier Street, New Orleans, LA conflict United States in 2007. “It has get a better education,” said where I am needed the most,” RSVP to Nicki Crellin at [email protected] Martinez has spoken at events nationwide. 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The Boonshoft School of Medicine’s first ever WELL (Welcome to Education, Life, and Leisure) weekend was a smashing success. More than 60 alumni, faculty and friends attended the four-day CME retreat at Marco Island, Florida, in early February. The getaway weekend featured sunshine, white sandy beaches, and balmy temperatures in addition to a two-day CME symposium, a shelling expedition, Luau on the beach, and dinner in Naples at the lovely home of Joseph (’85) & Merrylee Kandel.

Enjoy education, life and leisure at our next WELL weekend in Napa Valley, California, March 26-29, 2015. With breathtaking views around every turn and picturesque rolling hills planted with vineyards, Napa Valley is the perfect place to reconnect with friends and the Boonshoft School of Medicine.