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The class notes below were received between January 2008 and June 2008.
NEIL CALMAN, MD 1975, is president and CEO of The Institute for Family Health, which recently received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Minority Health and Disparities. The grant will support the institute’s project “The Bronx Faith-Based Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Health.”
MARIE BROWN, MD 1979, has been elected to the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board of Directors. ABIM sets standards and certifies physicians practicing in internal medicine and its subspecialties who possess the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide high quality care. Brown is an assistant professor at Rush.
NINA PALEOLOGOS, MD 1985, has been honored with the 2003 Tim Gullikson Spirit Award by the Tim & Tom Gullikson Foundation. The award is presented each year to a patient, caregiver, volunteer, corporation or benefactor who has shown extraordinary and unique courage, resourcefulness and ingenuity in battling brain tumors. Paleologos is director of the neuro-oncology program at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, the Stanley C. Golder Chair of Nuclear Medicine and associate professor of neurology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
PETER DEGOLIA, MD 1990, is an associate professor of family medicine at the Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, where he is also director of the new Center for Geriatric Medicine at University Hospitals. DeGolia oversees a geriatric medicine program that provides inpatient consultation, outpatient comprehensive assessment, medical care in the home, transitional care and nursing home medicine, and serves as medical director of both the University / Case House Calls Program and the oldest African American nursing home in the U.S.
SUSAN THOMPSON HINGLE, MD 1993, has been named governor-elect of the Illinois southern chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP). Hingle began her one-year term at the annual ACP meeting in May and will begin her four-year term as governor in April 2009. Hingle is an associate professor of internal medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
VEDANG LONDHE, MD 1995, assistant professor of pediatrics in the division of neonatology at Mattel Children’s Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles, recently received the 2008 Ross Award in Research by a Young Investigator from the Western Society of Pediatric Research. The society presents the award to emerging young faculty members in recognition of their outstanding research in a field related to pediatrics. Londhe’s research focuses on the role of inflammation during lung development. His work is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and a UCLA Faculty Research Grant.
SUSAN JACQUEZ-DEAN, MD 2002, has joined Aurora Health Care in DePere, Wis., as a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist. Aurora Health Care is a not-for-profit health care provider and a nationally recognized leader in efforts to improve the quality of health care. Aurora offers services at sites in more than 90 communities throughout eastern Wisconsin.
