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Gwinnett Medical Center Reaches Out to GA–PCOM
Dr. Daren Wannamaker
Daren Wannamaker, DO, assistant professor, internal medicine, and osteopathic director of medical education – GA–PCOM, has been tapped by Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC) – Duluth to teach GA–PCOM third- and fourth-year medical students as they perform their internal medicine rotation at the center. “For several years medical students have been rotating through the hospitalist service at Duluth for their core internal medicine rotation,” notes Alan Bier, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer at GMC. “As the service has
become busier, the hospitalists have had less time to devote to teaching. Dr. Wannamaker will help to fill that gap.” The medical students will accompany Dr. Wannamaker as he makes his rounds and see firsthand how diagnostic and treatment decisions are made. The fact that Dr. Wannamaker taught these same students as first- and second-year medical students brings added value to their education. “Supervising these students on rotation gives us both a broad spectrum of education,” says Dr. Wannamaker.
Interim Dean Named at GA–PCOM H. William Craver, III, DO ’87, has assumed the position of interim dean of GA–PCOM’s osteopathic medicine program, stepping in for Dr. Paul Evans who has left the College to become vice president and founding dean of the proposed new osteopathic medical school at Marion University in Indianapolis. Prior to his current position, Dr. Craver had been serving as associate dean for clinical affairs at GA–PCOM. Dr. Craver completed a residency in general sur-
gery at the Osteopathic Medical Center of Philadelphia in 1992. After being named chief resident, he joined the teaching faculty and was the academic coordinator of the surgery residency. He has also practiced in the medically underserved rural communities of Jasper, Georgia, and Hardinsburg, Kentuncky. Dr. Craver is board certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery, and is a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons.
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Meta Christy, DO ’21, Honored PCOM’s first African American graduate was honored by the New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative outside the courthouse and museum in Las Vegas, New Mexico, this summer. The world’s first black osteopathic physician, Dr. Christy ran a clinic from her home in Las Vegas, and was committed to a lifetime of service. She died in 1960. Dr. Christy is remembered yearly by PCOM’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA) during their reception. The event recognizes the efforts of individuals who have been involved in establishing and realizing the role played by minorities in the osteopathic profession. The top award is the Meta Christy Award, presented in recognition of exemplary practice of osteopathic medicine, service to the community and inspiration to future doctors. The 2010 award was presented to J. Steven Blake, DO ’89, who was also recognized in 2001.
Celebrating the installation of the marker are, from left: Mayor Alfonso E. Ortiz Jr.; Ali MacGraw, actress and Santa Fe resident; Gary Williams, deputy director of the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs; Patricia French, co-founder of the New Mexico Historic Women Marker
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Initiative and Christy researcher; Timothy Dodge, city
Meta Christy Award recipient Dr. Blake with SNMA
manager; and Diane Moore, city councilor.
Chapter award recipient Olukayode Akinsola, DO ’10.
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