ALUMNI NOTES ’60s Stanley Sateren, BS Med ’67, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Physician Recognition Celebration at Mount Carmel Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Sateren graduated from Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill., in 1969. After completing a rotating type 0 internship at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Ohio, he worked as a “general practitioner” in Britton, S.Dak., for three years. This was followed by a three-year internal medicine residency at Mount Carmel Medical Center. In 1976, he joined the Mount Carmel medical staff and began working at Mount Carmel East Hospital as chief critical care physician, a position he held for 18 years. During that time, he assisted with the development of the Critical Care Program and other hospital-based physician programs such as Medical House Physicians, both of which he directed. He served as vice president of System Medical Affairs at Mount Carmel East from 1994 to 2002. Throughout his tenure at Mount Carmel, Sateren served on the following Mount Carmel committees: Clinical Department Council (1979–2002); Continuing Medical Education Committee (1980–2002); Medical Staff Peer Support Committee (1988– 2005, chair 1988–2002); Special Care Units Committee (1977–2000, chair 1977–1988); Ethics Advisory Committee (1986–1993); Advanced Treatment and Bionics Institute Advisory Committee (1986–1989); Patient Care Committee (1977–1992); Hospital Code Blue Committee chair (1977–1995); Medical Informatics Committee (1995–1997); and the Infection Study Committee (1986–1995). In addition to Sateren’s commitment to quality patient care and education, he has been an advocate and a visionary regarding physician health and well-being. He was an early leader in computer applications in medicine. Many of these activities were covered by local and national media outlets. He planned and directed over 150 continuing medical education programs, ranging from the 1985 hands-on workshops “Accessing Remote Medical Information Data Bases” that introduced physicians to online medical literature searches to the “Annual Mount Carmel Medical Staff Wellness Symposia” from 1990–2003—a retreat for medical staff members and their families. From 2002 to 2009, Sateren served as president and medical director of the Ohio Physicians Healthy Program. Sateren is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He retired from the medical staff in October, 2009, and was granted honorary staff category.
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