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Class NotesAlumni Making News... November 17, 2011 J. Stephen Jones, M.D., '86 PRESS RELEASE CLEVELAND CLINIC PHYSICIAN RECEIVES GIFT FOR ENDOWED CHAIR IN UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY
Stephen Jones, M.D., chair of the Department of Regional Urology in Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, is the recipient of a combined $2 million gift that will create an endowed chair for urologic oncology research. The chair will be named the Leonard Horvitz and Samuel H. Miller Distinguished Chair in Urological Oncology Research in honor of the two Cleveland philanthropists who contributed to the gift. The endowment will allow Dr. Jones to expand upon his work in improving diagnostic capability for early stage bladder and prostate cancers, as well as working to expand options for patients in management of these malignancies. "I am humbled by the generosity of Mr. Horvitz and Mr. Miller and I appreciate the support for our continued efforts to improve patient care in urological oncology," said Dr. Jones. At the time of Dr. Jones' retirement the chair will be renamed the J. Stephen Jones Distinguished Chair in Urological Oncology Research. Dr. Jones joined the staff at Cleveland Clinic in 2000. He is a member of the Cleveland Clinic Board of Governors and is professor of surgery at Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of more than 160 publications in major urological journals and nearly 30 book chapters; he has edited four urological textbooks and has written books for the lay public, The Complete Prostate Book and Overcoming Impotence. Contact: October 3, 2011 Grover Shipman, M.D. '03 September 29, 2011 A. Wesley Burks, M.D. '80 George R. Rader, M.D. '88 Tulsa, Okla. Surgical oncologist Samuel C. Bieligk, MD, FACS and anesthesiologist George R. Rader, MD, have joined Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) in Tulsa, along with nurse practitioner Mariama Sahor, MS, RN. Dr. Sam Bieligk has extensive training in Hy¬perthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC), a surgical procedure that delivers chemotherapy directly to the abdomen, immediately following surgery to remove or debulk a tumor. The benefits of HIPEC include delivering a more concentrated dose of chemotherapy directly to cancerous tissues in the abdomen, while minimizing exposure to other tissues in the body. He also has expertise in treating head and neck cancers as well as laparoscopic procedures such as laparoscopic liver resections. Dr. Bieligk earned a medical degree from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine and completed a surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Board certified by the American Board of Surgery, he is also a fel¬low of the American College of Surgeons and member of the So¬ciety of Surgical Oncology and the American Medical Association. Most recently Dr. Bieligk worked at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, MO, where his family lived through the recent tornado that destroyed the hospital. He has many published articles on the topic of surgical oncology and has contributed to multiple research projects. Dr. George Rader will be assisting Dr. Bieligk with anesthesiology during HIPEC procedures, as well as other surgical procedures. He also has experience assisting with anesthesiology needs for neurosurgeries. Dr. Rader earned a medical degree at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and completed an anesthesiology residency while there. He also completed a pain management fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiology. Prior to joining CTCA, Dr. Rader was a staff physician at Freeman Health System in Joplin, MO. Joplin physician joins Cancer Treatment Centers of America as well as a local anesthesiologist and nurse practitioner Ms. Sahor will join the integrated team of care providers who focus on the daily medical needs of inpatients. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing at Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville and a master's degree in nursing at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa. She completed a nurse practitioner clinical preceptorship, which included experience at three outpatient clinics in Tulsa. She also served as a clinical instructor for Tulsa Community College. "We are excited about the addition of all three of these talented clinicians," said Steve Mackin, president and CEO of the Tulsa hospital. "They believe in our mission of healing the whole person, improving quality of life and restoring hope." September 06, 2011 Jeanne Heard, M.D., Ph.D., '85 From: UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn Dear UAMS Family, I am very excited to announce that Jeanne Heard, M.D., Ph.D., who many of you know from her years here at UAMS, has accepted the position of vice chancellor for academic affairs, effective September 19. Dr. Heard will be filling the role currently held by Dr. Larry Milne who announced last September that he planned to step down and return to teaching in the College of Pharmacy. As vice chancellor, Dr. Heard will serve as UAMS' chief academic officer, working in partnership with the Deans, other cabinet members and areas across our institution to enrich the intellectual environment of the campus. Since 2004, Dr. Heard has been a member of the leadership team of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in Chicago. She has served the ACGME as director of the department of accreditation committees, senior vice president of accreditation committees and most recently as senior scholar. She also has served as adjunct professor of medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Prior to her move to Chicago, Dr. Heard was associate dean for graduate medical education and professor of internal medicine in the UAMS College of Medicine. During her tenure at UAMS, Dr. Heard was widely respected by faculty and students winning many awards including the College of Medicine's Red Sash Award for teaching excellence, the Outstanding Woman Faculty Award and the Dale Bumpers AHEC Leadership Award. Her legacy in the COM lives on through the Jeanne K. Heard Award for Excellence in Clinical skills, which is presented each year to the senior medical student who scores the highest on practical clinical exams. I want to thank Dr. Milne for his 36 years of exemplary service to UAMS as dean of the College of Pharmacy and vice chancellor. I am very grateful to him for agreeing to stay on in his current role for the last several months while a national search was conducted for his successor. I am also glad that he will be staying at UAMS in the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Heard's broad-ranging professional and educational experiences as well as her familiarity with UAMS make her the ideal choice for vice chancellor for academic affairs. We look forward to a smooth transition and continued advancement under her leadership. I know you join me in welcoming Dr. Heard back home to UAMS. September 2, 2011 Billy R. Thomas, M.D., '80 Thomas is Named First UAMS Vice Chancellor for Diversity LITTLE ROCK Billy R. Thomas, M.D., M.P.H., a neonatologist and leader of the UAMS Center for Diversity Affairs, has been named the first vice chancellor for diversity at UAMS. The appointment expands the center as a resource for diversity issues for the entire campus. The center already has an array of thriving programs targeting students from kindergarten through college to promote science and health care education, provide laboratory research experiences and offer preparation courses for the ACT, the pharmacy college admissions exam and medical college admissions exam. More than 500 students participate each summer in those summer enrichment programs. "Dr. Thomas and the Center for Diversity Affairs have created a center of gravity where UAMS can foster the resources necessary to educate and care for a diverse population," said UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D. Thomas earned his medical degree at UAMS and completed his residency in pediatrics in 1983. He received his Master of Public Health degree in 2004 from Tulane University. Thomas is a board-certified neonatologist who has for the past 25 years served on the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics in the UAMS College of Medicine, most recently as a professor. His research focus has been vitamin D metabolism with an interest in rickets and low bone density in premature infants. In 2004, he was appointed associate dean for diversity in the College of Medicine after serving since 1996 as assistant dean. In late 2008, the campus established a Center for Diversity Affairs and Thomas was appointed assistant vice chancellor for diversity. UAMS is the state's only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute, the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging and the Translational Research Institute. Named best Little Rock metropolitan area hospital by U.S. News & World Report, it is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 2,836 students and 761 medical residents. It is the state's largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children's Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS' Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or www.uamshealth.com. August 7, 2011 Toni Darville, M.D. '87 Noteworthy: Darville recently received the Carol Ann Craumer Endowed Chair for Pediatric Research, which recognizes leaders in pediatric research and provides them with funding for research that could influence medical care for children. April 2010 Bryan L. Burke Jr., M.D. '79 Richard (Tad) Fiser, M.D. '91, Director Sara Tariq, M.D. '02 December 2009 Stephen J. Clark, M.D., '79 November 2009 William T. Branch, M.D., F.A.C.S. '71, who is in the private practice of Urology in Tampa, Florida, has been reappointed as Chairman of the University of South Florida Medical School's Surgical Voluntary Faculty. He is currently an Affiliate Professor of Surgery at the University. He is the Past President of the Florida Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and Past Chairman of the Board of the National American College of Surgeons Board of Regents Nominating Committee while serving as a Governor from Florida. He is a founding member and Past President of the Tampa Bay Surgical Society. Dr. Branch is the immediate Past Chairman of the Board of the Tampa Shriner's Hospitals for Children and is the recipient of the Arkansas State University Distinguished Alumni Award. He was recently honored by being named to the Dunklin County Hall of Honor. He remains active in the community as a civic leader. Larry Embree, M.D., '57 A portrait of me that had been commissioned and completed was presented at the recognition dinner for senior neurology residents in June, 2009. The portrait of the first head of neurology and neuropathology at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport hangs in the Department of Neurology. Understandably, to be honored in this way leaves me speechless, but not aphasic, as I obviously can use written language to this extent. Pardon the commentary from the neurologist in me! Come see the portrait and ponder over the pathway that began in a five-story brick building on the east side of MacArthur Park in September, 1953. D. Brent Polk, M.D., '84, has accepted the position as Chair of Pediatrics and Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs - CHLA at University of Southern California, Physician-in-Chief and Vice-President of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and Director of the Saban Research Institute. This will be effective April, 1, 2010 on the 108th anniversary of the founding of CHLA. This is an unprecedented opportunity to work to bring together three institutions that have tremendous strengths and challenges. Kris Shewmake, M.D. '84, was named the best plastic surgeon in Arkansas by his colleagues in 1999. Ten years later, he's been named again as the top doctor in his field, an honor he shares with James Yuen of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. October 2009 Paula W. Morris, M.D. '83, Associate Professor and Chief of the Rheumatology Section at UAMS was recently elected as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha by the UAMS AOA Chapter. F. M. Wilson, M.D. '53, will be honored by the Arkansas State University Alumni Association as a Distinguished Alumni award recipient for his work as a noted physician. Read More The Arkansas Times has published the list of Arkansas' Best Doctors and we are proud of the following top vote getters: James Abraham, III, M.D. '87 Rheumatology September 2009 Jim Grissom, M.D. '75, Sidney Hayes, M.D. '76, Susan Santa Cruz, M.D. '79, and Sue Ulmer, M.D. '90, are "docs that rock" as members of the B-Flats, a rock and roll band that gets folks boogying at fundraisers and other events in central Arkansas. The band was featured in the September 2009 issue of Arkansas New Sixty, a recently launched magazine aimed at readers in their late 50s and 60s. Read more and rock on. October 6, 2004 Volney Steele, MD, '44 Volney is a modern pioneer nester. He brought high human capital and conscience to our region. For the past 45 years, he has contributed to our community in medicine, education, history, compassion, and conservation. We all know Bozeman is a magnet for highly successful folks. These individuals have excelled in various demanding arenas and now, having obtained success, settle here. And it's no wonder. Our area has a near perfect conjunction of attributes: great scenery, splendid outdoor activities, a thriving university, excellent air service, a vibrant community, and medical services far beyond any reasonable expectations for a town our size. But it wasn't always so blessed. When I arrived as a young man in the mid '60s, shortly after Volney's arrival, I found a rather provincial place with high potential. Some of us lament what we've lost, and the losses are real, but on net this is a far better place. For this we owe some very special, community-oriented individuals. Join me in celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of Volney Steele, MD, a citizen who excels on many dimensions. Vol was prescient, well ahead of the curve -- and we are lucky he was. He is precisely the individual who improves a community on many measures. His work and his play have helped make this place so attractive. Here is a brief overview of Vol's good works -- but I only skim his contributions. He deserves a biography to memorialize a life devoted to competence, community, conservation, and compassion. He is a role model whose life merits emulation. Such folks warrant special recognition. Vol grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and joined the US Navy V-12 medical program in 1942. He earned his MD in 1944 and served in Cuba, Greece, and Italy until '48. He then returned to teach at the University of Arkansas Medical School's Dept. of Pathology. Then back to the Navy, to the Panama Canal Zone, to Cornell's Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and on to Chicago for certification in surgical pathology. And then, at last, he came to Bozeman to found the Physician's Laboratory Services in 1959. Volney led this organization for 27 years and dramatically upgraded patients' medical safety. (I understand that when he arrived our hospital would have ranked highly -- but only by Third World standards.) This is obviously a noble career, but we are blessed with lots of good docs. What's so special about Vol? In addition to his medical competence he has made generous contributions to community, conservation, and scholarly history. I'll mention one that is suggestive of Vol's good works. Eagle Mount epitomizes success in its work with handicapped and ill people. (See my June 25, 2003, column on www.free-eco.org for an account of Eagle Mount.) Perhaps its toughest challenge is Camp Brave Heart, its annual program for children stricken with cancer. These kids, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, come to Bozeman to experience outdoor activities, camping, river rafting, and fishing. I applauded it and contributed to it. Thanks to Volney, I now know they love it. Did I really want to be with ten-year-olds, many of whom I knew wouldn't live to eleven? No, not really. I'd rather just send another check. But Volney knew Ramona and I have a nice spring creek and a series of ponds, some wheelchair accessible. He gently but persistently convinced me of my duty to these kids. And yes, thanks to Vol and the guides he recruited, now all the kids catch a trout on our place. Dr. Volney Steele sees children's sufferings, understands their pathologies, and he acts to ameliorate their pains though outdoor experiences. Adults, like children, can benefit from role models. Vol is mine. John A. Baden, Ph.D., is Chairman of FREE and Gallatin Writers.
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