LECOM Trustee leads florida health choices Former Florida state senator and LECOM Board of Trustee member Durell Peaden, Jr., MD, JD has taken a leadership position with Florida Health Choices. As chairman, Dr. Peaden will be involved with the development of a Health Insurance Marketplace for the state. The Marketplace is a central web portal where small business owners with two to fifty eligible employees can choose from a variety of health plans that best meet their needs. Dr. Peaden, a Florida native, became a LECOM board member soon after the Bradenton Campus opened. He served in the Florida Senate from 2001 until 2010. He brings a wealth of medical, legal and political experience to an organization striving to improve health
FACULTY Notes Hershey S. Bell, MD, MS, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the LECOM School of Pharmacy was named chairman of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education advocacy group of inter-professional teaching and collaboration. Dr. Bell also co-authored The Impact of Pharmacy Students’ Remediation Status on NAPLEX First-Time Pass Rates, which was published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. Mark A. Best, MD, Oren D. Rosenthal, PhD, and James D. Leiber, DO coauthored First-Year Medical Student Attitudes on Nutrition Topics Before and After a Nutrition Course at the International Association of Medical Science Educators annual meeting in Portland, OR. Dr. Best also co-authored and presented Implementing and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fentanyl Transdermal System Patient Education at the 2012 Texas Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists Annual Seminar
care access for Florida citizens. Florida Health Choices was created in response to a vastly changing health care environment to help small business owners in Florida make sense of the complex health insurance system. The Insurance Marketplace provides easy access to affordable, quality health care in a competitive health insurance market. Florida’s Insurance Marketplace is a “one-stop-shop” that provides employers and their employees with flexible insurance options and products. Users can compare multiple insurance products side-by-side; enroll in the one that best meets their needs and access important health information–all in one portal. and Exhibition. Kim Burns, RPh, JD, spoke at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, Youth Training Day on prescription drug misuse. Dr. Burns also submitted an abstract for a Department of Health meeting later this year on prescription drug misuse collaboration efforts with LECOM and the Erie Department of Health Thomas Corso, PhD, has been named the Director of Student Promotion and Graduation for the School of Pharmacy in Erie.He also-authored Schizophrenia: A Neurodevelopmental Disorder — Integrative Genomic Hypothesis and Therapeutic Implications from a Transgenic Mouse Model., published in Schizophrenia Research Magazine, Research was conducted at the University at Buffalo. Frank Etzler, PhD, Teresa Schweiger, PharmD. and Michael Madden, PhD, co-authored The Impact of Pharmacy Students’ Remediation Status on NAPLEX First-Time Pass Rates, which was published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. Dr. Madden also published a letter to
the editor entitled The Significance of Information in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s The Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. Deepak Gupta, PhD was named the School of Pharmacy’s Director of the Center for Drug Delivery and Targeting. Richard Hahn, PsyD., has been named LECOM’s Director of Behavioral Health. Dr. Hahn is an Erie native and Pennsylvania licensed psychologist who has been in clinical practice for over 40 years. His previously worked at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie and has been in a private group practice for the last 23 years. Gregory James, DO, was named 2013 Osteopathic Family Medicine Educator of the Year by the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP). The ACOFP Osteopathic Family Medicine Educator of the Year Award honors those who encourage osteopathic principles when teaching, and who have an extraordinary effect on students, residents and peers. Randy J. Kulesza Jr., PhD, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Assistant Dean of Post Baccalaureate/MS in Biomedical Science Programs, has been appointed as the Foundational Biomedical Sciences Division Chair of Anatomy for the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME). The NBOME also named Dr. Kulesza as the 2012 NBOME Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensure Examination of the United States (COMLEX-USA) Level 1 Item Writer of the Year. Patrick Leary, DO, LECOM’s Director of Sports Medicine, co-presented an American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine webinar: The Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury in Athletes. Donald G. Linville, PhD, was nominated and accepted as a division board member of the Westmoreland County (Pa.) Division of the American Heart Association.
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