Ohio's Own Shining Star: Dr. Margaret Dunn

Winter 2012 Advocacy Fall Statehouse Update: 129th General Assembly Ohio’s Own Shining Star: Ohio Chapter S-PAC Needs You! Dr. Margaret Dunn Cutting Edge Ohio’s Own Shining Star: Dr. Margaret Dunn Evening Under the Stars: Annual Meeting Chapter News November Council Meeting Committee Reports Resident Research Forum Annual Resident Research Forum Winners Pulse Throughout Ohio District Councilor Reports From the College Patricia L. Turner, MD, FACS, Named Director of American College of Surgeons Division of Member Services New ACS Regents and Officers Elected during 2011 Clinical Congress Plus Much More... See page 9 for details Ohio Chapter, American College Ohio Chapter Committees Development of Surgeons Advocacy & Health Policy Linda M. Barney, MD, FACS Executive Committee Wright State University Dept of Surgery Michael E. Stark, MD, FACS [email protected] Alice Ann Dachowski, MD, FACS Toledo Surgical Specialists Chair Holzer Clinic [email protected] First Decade Society [email protected] Chair President Peter F. Klein, MD, FACS B. Mohan Das, MD, FACS TSSI Steven M. Steinberg, MD, FACS Chalmers P. Wylie Ambulatory Care [email protected] Ohio State University Center Chair [email protected] Vice-Chair President-Elect Medical Education/Program Association of Women Surgeons Nancy L. Gantt, MD, FACS Representatives Steven M. Steinberg, MD, FACS St Elizabeth Health Center Ohio State University [email protected] Natalie Joseph, MD, FACS [email protected] OHIO CHAPTER, Secretary MetroHealth Medical Center Chair [email protected] AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS Randy J. Woods, MD, FACS Co-Chair Membership Wright State University www.ohiofacs.org [email protected] Kristine Danielle Slam, MD, FACS Juan A. Crestanello, MD, FACS Treasurer [email protected] The Ohio State University Co-Chair [email protected] Joseph J. Sferra, MD, FACS Chair Toledo Surgical Specialists Inc Audit Table of Contents [email protected] Nominating Immediate Past President Bruce Jeffery Averbook, MD, FACS Advocacy MetroHealth Medical Center Joseph J. Sferra, MD, FACS Michael D. Sarap, MD, FACS [email protected] Toledo Surgical Specialists Inc President’s Message . 3 Southeastern Ohio Physicians Inc Chair [email protected] [email protected] Chair Fall Statehouse Update: 129th General Assembly . 5 Past President Awards Ohio Chapter S-PAC Needs You! . 7 Resident Abstract District Councilors Linda M. Barney, MD, FACS S-PAC Contribution Form . 8 Wright State University Department of Surgery Walter Cha, MD, FACS Bruce Jeffrey Averbook, MD, FACS [email protected] MetroHealth Medical Center MetroHealth Medical Center [email protected] Cutting Edge [email protected] Christopher R. McHenry, MD, FACS Chair Northeast MetroHealth Medical Center Ohio’s Own Shining Star: Dr . Margaret Dunn . 9 [email protected] Resident and Associate Society Brent Michael Alan Bogard, MD, FACS Evening Under the Stars: Annual Meeting . 11 Cleveland Clinic Michael D. Sarap, MD, FACS Jeffrey A. Blatnik, MD [email protected] Southeastern Ohio Physicians Inc University Hospitals Case Medical Center Northeast [email protected] [email protected] Chair Chair Chapter News Michael Bielefeld, MD, FACS November Council Meeting Committee Reports . 13 Surgical Specialists of Bowling Green Bylaws Ohio Committee on Trauma LLC [email protected] Gary B. Williams, MD, FACS Charles J. Yowler, MD, FACS Northwest Summa Health Systems MetroHealth Medical Center Resident Research Forum [email protected] [email protected] Annual Resident Research Forum Winners . 19 Peter F. Klein, MD, FACS Chair TSSI CAC Representative [email protected] Jonathan M. Saxe, MD, FACS Northwest James I. Merlino, MD, FACS Wright State University Pulse Throughout Ohio Cleveland Clinic Foundation [email protected] David M. Hasl, MD, FACS [email protected] Vice-Chair District Councilor Reports . 19 Lancaster Surgical Associates [email protected] Commission on Cancer Executive Office Southeast From the College Valeriy Moysaenko, MD, FACS Jennifer Starkey J. Allen McElroy, MD, FACS [email protected] [email protected] Patricia L . Turner, MD, FACS, Named Director of Surgical Associates of Marietta Chair Executive Director American College of Surgeons Division of Member [email protected] Services . 25 Southeast Communications New ACS Regents and Officers Elected during 2011 Apokfure Peter Ekeh, MBBS, MPH, FACS Scott Michael Wilhelm, MD, FACS Clinical Congress . 26 Wright State University University Hospital Cleveland [email protected] [email protected] Southwest Chair Cari A. Ogg, MD, FACS Mallory Williams, MD, MPH, FACS Cincinnati General Surgeons Inc University of Toledo Medical Center [email protected] [email protected] Southwest Vice-Chair Community Hospital ACS Board of Governors: Ohio Members Mary Carey MacDonald, MD, FACS Alice Ann Dachowski, MD, FACS Samaritan Professional Corp Holzer Clinic Pulse is the official publication of the Ohio Chapter, [email protected] American College of Surgeons. It is published two times [email protected] a year in Columbus, Ohio as a benefit of membership Chair and circulated free of charge to Ohio Chapter members. David N. Linz, MD, FACS Information appearing in this publication is obtained Michael D. Sarap, MD, FACS from sources we believe to be reliable. The information Canton General Surgery Associates Southeastern Ohio Physicians Inc may not be a complete statement of all available data [email protected] and is guaranteed as such. Conclusions are based [email protected] soley on editorial judgment and analysis of technical Vice-Chair factors and surgical/medical industry information Christopher R. McHenry, MD, FACS sources. Pulse is copyrighted and portions may be reprinted with the permission of the Ohio Chapter. MetroHealth Medical Center Pulse is not responsible for the contents of its Delegate to OSMA advertisements and advises all members to investigate [email protected] claims before making any purchases. William C. Sternfeld, MD, FACS Michael D. Sarap, MD, FACS Permission requests to reproduce written material Toledo Clinic should be sent to: Southeastern Ohio Physicians Inc Ohio Chapter, ACS [email protected] P.O. Box 1715 [email protected] Delegate Columbus, OH 432176-1715 (877) 677-3227 Joseph J. Sferra, MD, FACS @ Copyright 2011, Oho Chapter, ACS. Toledo Surgical Specialists Inc All rights reserved. [email protected] President’s Message By Alice Dachowski, MD, FACS It is an honor to serve ACS leadership positions including: I encourage you to read the cover the Ohio Chapter Robert Bahnson, MD, FACS, an profile article about Dr . Dunn and her as your president . OSU urologist from Columbus, was achievements starting on page 9 . Since taking office inducted as first vice-president; A . New Initiates in May I have been very busy with Brent Eastman, MD, FACS, of San This year, 1,591 Fellows were many Chapter activities, including Diego, CA, was named president- initiated at the ACS Convocation the 2012 Annual Meeting, legislative elect; and J . David Richardson, MD, held in San Francisco, CA . Of these issues, and representing the Chapter FACS, from Louisville, KY, was new initiates, 37 are from Ohio . at College meetings . The following elected chair of the Board of Regents . Please take the time to welcome them are brief updates on these and other I attended the 23rd annual and invite them to participate in important issues . recognition luncheon of the Fellows Chapter activities, committees, and Ohio Chapter Annual Meeting Leadership Society of the ACS the 2012 Annual Meeting in Toledo . Plans are underway for the Ohio Foundation where our chapter’s Mujjahid Abbas, MBBS, FACS Chapter’s 2012 Annual Meeting in contribution to the Foundation Toledo May 3-5, 2012 at the Toledo was formally acknowledged . David Diya Ihsan Alaedeen, MD, FACS Hilton . Many thanks to Steven Nahrwold, MD, FACS, gave a tribute, Jennifer Hall Aldrink, MD, FACS Steinberg, MD, FACS, chair of the “Lessons from an Icon: C . Rollins Planning Committee . Registration Hanlon, MD, FACS, 1915-2011 .” Krishna Prasad Athota, MD, FACS material will be mailed in early 2012, Dr . Hanlon completed his surgical Devra Beyer Becker, MD, FACS so please plan on joining us at the residency at Cincinnati General Ryan Kent Berglund, MD, FACS Annual Meeting . Hospital . Drs . Thomas and Nona Sricharan Chalikonda, MBBS, FACS Advocacy Update (Chiampi) Russell received the During the time since I accepted distinguished philanthropist award at Marcus Felix Cox, MD, FACS the luncheon . the president’s gavel at the Ohio Lewis Arnold Diulus III, MD, FACS Chapter’s Annual Meeting, I have The Ohio Chapter held a networking been involved with a “volleyball reception on Monday evening during Garth F . Essig Jr ., MD, FACS game” of emails with many Fellows the Clinical Congress . It was a lovely Dana Marie Frazer, MD, FACS from Ohio, other physicians, and time to meet and greet our newly Michael Roland Go, MD, FACS our representative from Capitol initiated Fellows and network with Consulting Group, Charlie Solley, surgeons from all over Ohio . Jennifer Brandon Thomas Grover, DO, FACS regarding a number of key legislative Starkey, executive director, and Paula Dale S . Horne, MD, FACS initiatives which affect the practice Hammer, assistant executive director, Thomas L . Husted, MD, FACS of surgery in Ohio . Topics such did a wonderful job with hosting the as the informed

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