ALUMNI

D.O.s and international medicine

He was about 13 years old, but his stature reflected that of a 9 year old. Alfredo (name changed) befriended our medical team hoping to escape the clutches of his local gang. To break away from the gang was a death sentence, but where can an ex-gang member find refuge?

I was part of a medical team providing medical services in a community in Tela on the northern coast of Honduras. I was the only D.O. among several M.D.s, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and ancillary volunteers. As our bus crested a hill among the banana plantation fields, seven bodies were lined up on the side of the road slain by a small army of armed policemen. We were the first to arrive on the scene and just minutes away from being in the middle of a shootout between law enforcement and the drug cartel. Welcome to Tela and the beginning of our medical mission experience.

Alfredo and his father were abandoned by his mother when he was about 5 years old. He and his father were homeless, living on the streets. Soon after, his father abandoned him also, leaving Alfredo to wander the streets alone, eating out of garbage cans. Joining a local street gang seemed to be his only hope for survival. Branding with the gang’s tattoos was a required ritual to demonstrate his loyalty to his new found “family.” Death would be the only way to sever the relationship and the tattoos, which he attempted to hide, as they were permanent reminders of whom he owed his allegiance.

He sought us for assistance. Our group welcomed him and wanted to do anything we could to help him in his expressed desire to start a new life. Throughout the week of seeing many patients in the community, as well as the local prison, we had three policemen wielding AK-47s guarding us at all times. They were there to protect us from violence or kidnapping and never left our side as we saw patient after patient each day. We also provided the guards personal medical care for which they expressed their appreciation. They knew Alfredo had befriended us and was shadowing us during our stay. He was granted permission to remain at the mission site for the night where the guards were also encamped.

However, while Alfredo was sleeping at the compound and presumed to be safe, the guards kidnapped him because of his tattoos and gang association. They did not arrest him or file criminal charges against him. His gang was their enemy and his desire for a life change made no difference to them. During the night they hung him by his arms from the rafters of their bunkhouse, stripped him and tortured him with beatings and cigarette burns to his body. It did not matter that he was our friend.

Once Alfredo re-joined us the following day and we saw the extent of his injuries, we provided him medical care. There was no Social Service program to which to refer him and local church leaders advised against entrusting him to the care of local law enforcement. He asked us to help him escape to a safer haven so he could begin a new and more promising life — a life away from the gangs and away from the local police. We arranged for him to move to the capital city of Tegucigalpa where he would be sponsored by a local pastor’s family, attend a private school with tutoring and receive counseling. We knew this may be a difficult transition for him, but Dr. Holstein is a board certified family physician residing with his wife, Jean, in Inverness, Fla. He is in private practice and participates in short-term medical missions nationally and internationally.

he was faced with few options. He was desperately seeking help and we were attempting to provide him assistance. I would like very much to tell you that the story ended “happily ever after.” However, shortly after our return to the U.S. we received word that Alfredo had run away from his new home and returned to Tela. He was murdered by his former gang for his betrayal.

Medical missions and international medicine is an immersion into new cultures and various social experiences. As osteopathic physicians we are challenged daily to become involved in the social issues facing our patients. Our response may prove beneficial or it may not. The important thing is that we take on the risk and confront the challenges facing us, to become immersed in total patient care. Alfredo had reached out to us for help and would face certain death if he remained in his present situation. We responded. We engaged.

If we as osteopathic physicians are to care about the “whole” person, then we will willingly engage with our patients in ways that extend beyond the treatment of disease and meeting physical needs. Most of my diagnosis and treatment as a family physician involves counseling and discussions regarding family and personal issues. A prescription pad may be inadequate. A diagnostic test may be insufficient. You may be what they need the most at that moment. Your response may prove beneficial or it may not. Yes, a referral may be prudent and necessary, but the most important thing is that you engage.

It is exciting to see the international medical community recognizing and accepting the credentials of osteopathic physicians and welcoming their services worldwide. Ministers of Health in many countries readily accept D.O.s as medical professionals desiring to serve in various capacities. Some of our D.O.s go to other countries to provide Continuing Medical Education courses upon invitation of the local medical community. I have been involved in medical missions since my undergraduate studies at Anderson University and was recently a speaker at a Missions Conference in Indiana for Children of Promise, lecturing on Tropical Diseases, Disaster Response and Human Trafficking. Many WVSOM alumni are engaged in similar opportunities of service in international medicine.

As charter President of the local chapter of the Christian Medical & Dental Association at WVSOM, I am elated to know that WVSOM allows opportunities for our students, faculty, staff and volunteers to serve in international medical opportunities abroad. DOCARE and other Osteopathic organizations also provide ways to serve. Global Health Outreach (GHO) provides opportunities for physicians to serve abroad. Mission to the World (MTW), Samaritan’s Purse and Doctors Without Borders are among a multitude of other agencies with which to get involved.

International medical experiences provide lifelong memories, enhance your worldview and create a passion for serving others, whether internationally or in Appalachia, or in inner cities or locally in your own practice. Through such experiences, your life will forever be changed. I guarantee it. I challenge you to consider participating.

Thanks to president Adelman and the WVSOM administration for recognizing the value of the international medical experience as a positive influence in the lives of our students and in their educational endeavors.

Robert B. Holstein, D.O., ‘79

ALUMNI PROFILE

WVSOM alumna crowned Mrs. West Virginia America

In 2006, Kassandra Milam walked across the stage to receive her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from WVSOM. Four years later she walked across a pageant stage in hopes of representing the state as Mrs. West Virginia.

Milam has only participated in three pageants. She started competing as a way to bond with her sister, a frequent pageant participant. But her lack of pageant experience doesn’t mean she’s lacking wins. She won her first pageant, the Mrs. West Virginia Law Enforcement pageant, in 2010. (Milam’s husband is a West Virginia State Trooper.) She was firstrunner up in her second pageant, the Mrs. West Virginia America pageant. On Feb. 16, she took another stab at the Mrs. West Virginia America pageant in Charleston and won.

Now Milam will represent West Virginia in the nationally televised Mrs. America pageant competition Aug. 28 in Tucson, Ariz. According to the pageant’s website, the organization is dedicated to presenting America’s 70 million married women as not only beautiful and poised, but also accomplished, articulate and versatile.

In 1978, the year the pageant began, WVSOM was graduating its first class of osteopathic physicians, 11 percent of whom were women. Compare that to today’s data — 46 percent of WVSOM’s students are women. While some find it easy to dismiss pageants as trivial, the best programs evolved to reward the scholarship of women and eradicate barriers to advancement.

As one of this year’s 51 delegates, Milam admits it can be difficult to juggle family, pageants and work. For the past four years, Milam has practiced at Summersville Pediatrics with physician privileges at Summersville Regional Medical Center.

“My faith and my family come first,” she said. “My husband and two sons are my life. Everything else just falls into place. Work takes up most of my time but I squeeze in pageant activities on my non-call weekends.”

She would like to break down the stereotype that pageants always celebrate physical beauty over intelligence or humanitarian qualities, pointing out that the Mrs. America pageant brings attention to the accomplishments of women who successfully balance the demands of family life with other professional and personal accomplishments.

The WVSOM graduate remembers how the medical school shaped her life, stimulating her interest in rural medicine and advocacy for children’s health and welfare.

“Throughout residency I was interested in primary care medicine and a rural location,” she said. “I feel like practicing medicine in a rural area allows you to be a more important part of your patients’ lives. Knowing more about their everyday struggles makes it easier to make a difference. You get to know the community, the school and teachers, as well as the activities kids participate in.”

The Ansted, W.Va., native said she hopes to bring as much attention and awareness as she can to children’s organizations and charities during her time as Mrs. West Virginia America.

ALUMNI PROFILE

Improvisation saves a life

Making life and death decisions comes with the territory of being a physician but some decisions are more challenging than others requiring an unorthodox approach and fresh, new thinking within tight time constraints.

Such was the case for Michael Nicholas, D.O., Class of 1979, when he and his medical collaborators at Franciscan St. Margaret Health in northwest Indiana had to make a quick judgment call to save the life of an elderly patient. A massive pulmonary embolism had traveled from her leg to her lung, obstructing blood flow and threatening her heart function. There was an immediate need to dissolve the clot and restore blood flow.

Their solution to this medical emergency was presented at last fall’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference, earning a “Best Challenging Case” award. Every year, TCT invites physicians from around the world to provide their most interesting cases demonstrating new and emerging technologies in the area of coronary intervention, endovascular intervention and structural heart disease.

What was the solution?

“We had used this ClearWay™ drug delivery balloon for other procedures, usually for the legs and heart, but never in the lungs,” Nicholas said. After consulting with the hospital and patient and getting the necessary approvals, they tried it in the lung. It worked. Later, it was revealed that their solution represented only the fourth time in the world the technique had been attempted.

Nicholas, the interventional cardiology program director at the health center, said the team quickly did its homework before deciding to proceed. “This particular balloon gently infuses a drug within the clot to break it up,” he said.

Utilizing the ClearWay™ device may have seemed an unconventional solution at the time, but it was backed by conventional research and a solid understanding of the technology. The result: a life-or-death decision with a happy outcome and a grateful patient given more time to enjoy life.

Nicholas credits the other members of the interventional cardiology team at Franciscan St. Margaret who worked together to address the patient’s emergency including Michael Nuyles, D.O., and David Braunstein, D.O.

ALUMNI NEWS

Coyle named first urogynecologist

Michael Coyle, D.O., FACOOG, FPMRS, Class of 2000, was recently recognized as the first board certified Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgeon in the nation by the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery is a subspecialty of obstetrics and gynecology which treats urogynecological conditions such as incontinence and pelvic pain. Urogynecology has been around for a long time. However now that it’s being recognized as a board certified specialty, Coyle anticipates the certification will become more common. Physicians who are currently in OB/GYN and urology residencies will be required to do a threeyear fellowship program in order to become a urogynecologist.

“We are seeing a greater need for urogynecological services,” Coyle said. “Patients are living longer and more women are deciding not to live with these complaints. We are trying to get the message out to women that these issues are not necessarily a normal part of aging.”

Raising awareness of urogynecological conditions and bringing them out in the open is one of Dr. Coyle’s passions. Patients suffering from the issues he treats are often sensitive about their situation. He credits his experienced staff with understanding how to assist women with these complaints and easing their anxieties about treatment.

“Patients who suffer from urogynecologic complaints are dealing with severe quality of life issues,” Coyle said. “Often they do not tell others they are having these issues and may alter their lives because of them. It is not uncommon for patients to stop going out to engage in activities they used to enjoy. I encourage patients who have been successfully treated to talk to their friends and family.”

Coyle is a frequent speaker at women’s health seminars, working to educate women, as well as health care providers, about urogynecological conditions — how to talk about them and how to help more women find solutions. He practices at the Progressive Women’s Health Center in Milton, Fla. and serves as the Director of Robotic Surgery at Santa Rosa Medical Center.

Graduate named president of ACOEP

Mark Mitchell, D.O., FACOEP, FACEP, Class of 1989, has been named president of the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP). Beginning in October, he will serve a two-year term. ACOEP represents about 3,000 osteopathic emergency physicians.

Mitchell is senior vice president of Provider Services for Schumacher Group in Lafayette, La. An emergency physician with a broad spectrum of experience in practice management, provider relationships, technology, and informatics, his major areas of responsibility and accountability include emergency medicine/hospital medicine synergy and shared patient outcomes, provider retention and professional development. He is responsible for strategy development for physician and midlevel recruiting, residency program relationship development, business development and client relations.

Before joining Schumacher Group, Dr. Mitchell served as medical director and regional director for multiple health care facilities, including trauma centers, cardiac specialty hospitals, teaching hospitals and large tertiary care facilities. He speaks regionally and nationally on topics such as documentation, patient satisfaction and emergency medicine operations.

Robert Hunter, D.O., appointed president of Ohio ACOFP

Robert Hunter, D.O., FACOFP, WVSOM Class of 1997, was appointed president of the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians during an April 2013 meeting of the organization at the Ohio Osteopathic Symposium held in Columbus.

Dr. Hunter also co-chaired the symposium, a collaboration between the Ohio Osteopathic Association and Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Hunter, of Buckeye Family Practice in Huber Heights and Providence Medical Group, will use his new office to help spearhead the ACOFP’s goal of promoting excellence in osteopathic family medicine through education, leadership and responsible advocacy.

He will serve in his new position for one year.

Jeff Mann, D.O., elected president of TOMA

In May, Jeff Mann, D.O., WVSOM Class of 1981, was sworn in as the president of the Tennessee Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA). He is board certified in pediatrics and practices at TriCounty Family Medicine and Urgent Care in Martin, Tenn.

In 2010, he was the recipient of the Paul Grayson Smith, Sr. Physician of the Year Award, which recognizes outstanding dedication to serving the needs of the public along with his exemplary contributions to osteopathic medicine.

Many WVSOM students may know Dr. Mann as the creator of the “Biochemistry Survival Map,” which is a visual aid connecting biochemistry with other elements of medicine. The map is sold in the WVSOM bookstore.

Justin Pelberg earns residency award

Justin Pelberg, Class of 2011, has been named the John S. Zachariah Award recipient for the internal medicine residency program at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa. The award recognizes the resident who is a scholar, teacher and humanitarian in the residency program.

Air Force alumni

Lt. Col. Jennifer Ravenscroft, Class of 1997, and Capt. David Williams, Class of 2011, are stationed at Kunsan Air Base in the Republic of Korea as active duty members of the U.S. Air Force. Williams is a flight surgeon with the 35th Fighter Squadron and Ravenscroft is the chief of the medical staff for the 8th Medical Group. The picture was taken in the lobby of the Family Health Clinic during a military exercise.

WVSOM alumni reconnect at Summer Seminar

Nearly 150 people attended the Summer Seminar at Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach, S.C., from June 1215 this year, which was sponsored by WVSOM and the WVSOM Alumni Association.

The Continuing Medical Education seminar was approved for 20 hours of credit by the AOA CCME and included a variety of lectures and activities for alumni and their families.

Seventeen presentations were given by esteemed leaders in the medical profession as well as an EHR workshop regarding the future of electronic records. Presentation topics ranged from opiate addiction, trends in primary care, treatments of specific diseases, rural trauma and medicine in the courtroom. WVSOM alumni, faculty and staff who provided presentations included Mary Williams, D.O., F.A.C.N.; Edward Eskew, D.O.; Charles McClung, D.O.; Hugh McLaughlin, D.O.; John Lackey, D.O., F.A.A.O.; Andrea Nazar, D.O.; Jami Reaves, D.O., F.A.C.D.; and Leslie “Michael” Peterson, D.O. WVSOM administrators Michael Adelman, D.O., D.P.M., J.D., and Lorenzo Pence, D.O., FACOP, also provided presentations during the four-day event.

Seminar attendees were invited to a family picnic reception at the Palmettos Pavilion on June 12. Guests enjoyed a barbeque dinner and were entertained with a magic show by Dr. Michael Adelman and fun science experiments performed by Dr. Jim Nemitz, aka “Professor Science,” from the Abracadabra PBS television series. WVSOM Foundation Executive Director Heather Antolini introduced a beach towel contest. Each year, summer seminar participants receive a complimentary WVSOM beach towel. This year’s event encouraged guests to bring their previous years’ towels to claim prizes in categories such as “most towels” and “oldest towel.” Guests were in search of the infamous “brown towel” presented during a past conference. Only one alumnus, Cliff Myers, was able to find the tattered terrycloth.

2014 CME Don’t miss next year’s Summer Seminar: June 11-14, 2014

CLASS NOTES

1978

Edward W. Eskew, D.O., was named associate medical director for the West Virginia Medical Professionals Health Program. Although his background is primary care and emergency medicine, he recently became board certified in addiction medicine (Diplomat ABAM). He works as an advisor and counselor for the Kanawha County Drug Court. Dr. Eskew resides in Charleston, W.Va.

1980

Larry Sidaway, D.O., FACC practices with Avera Medical Group Cardiovascular Specialists in Aberdeen, S.D. In 2013, they received the Healthgrades Coronary Intervention Excellence Award and were named among Top 10 percent in the nation for coronary interventional procedures. The practice has been ranked a Five Star Recipient for Coronary Interventional Procedures for two years in a row (2012 and 2013).

1986

John Glover, D.O., was re-elected to a one-year term on the American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO) Nominating Committee during the AOA Convocation in Orlando, Fla., in March. Dr. Glover also teaches OMM in Germany. He just published an app for iPad entitled “Atlas of Counterstrain Tender Points” with Karen Snider, D.O., Class of 1998.

Gregory Molter, D.O., was the 2012 recipient of the Nathaniel Bedford Award for Outstanding Primary Care Physician. Presented by the ACMS, the award recognizes a physician for long-term provision of care and exemplary dedication to patients.

Susan P. Osborne, D.O., celebrated her 15th year serving the community at the Barter Clinic in Floyd, Va. She helped the victims of Hurricane Sandy as part of the NC-1 Disaster team.

Roland Powers, D.O., has assumed command of a 450-member Marine Corp Reserve Unit in San Diego. They recently provided medical care 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle to 11 remote Alaskan villages, which could be reached only by helicopter. They were able to reach 3,000 patients. He will be in command until December 2014. He has been in the Reserves for 34 years.

1989

ACOEP (American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians) Scientific Assembly in San Diego for a two-year term beginning this October. Story on page 63.

1993

Mathew Lively, D.O., is the author of the book, “Calamity at Chancellorsville,” which analyzes the final days of Stonewall Jackson.

1994

Joan R. Allman, D.O., is the medical director of the Healing Center in Parkersburg, W.Va., which specializes in advanced wound care and hyperbaric oxygen medicine.

1997

Norman Wood, D.O., became the physician director for the Veterans Administration in Bremerton, Wash. He divides his time between actual patient contact and administrative duties. He has been awarded two U.S. patents for fall safety equipment, including the Rescue One CDS (Controlled Descent System) Harness. Dr. Wood teaches Suspension Trauma for Mine Safety and Administration and has lectured for various organizations throughout the U.S. He did his residency at Ohio Valley Medical Center.

Matt Arvon, D.O., completed an additional board certification in 2012 and is recognized as a diplomat by the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine (Phlebology). He practices Venous and Lymphatic Medicine in Beckley and Charleston, W.Va.

1998

Roxann C. Cook, D.O., a family practice physician, has joined Southpoint Medical Group in Lakeland, Fla. She is on the medical staff of Bartow Regional Medical Center. Dr. Cook completed her residency at Memorial Hospital Peninsula in Ormond Beach.

Karen Snider, D.O., along with John Glover, D.O., Class of

1986, just published an app for iPad entitled “Atlas of Counterstrain Tender Points.”

Terrance Stone, D.O., who specializes in diagnostic radiology and women’s imaging, was granted medical staff privileges at Heart of Florida Regional Medicine Center in Haines City.

1999

Jason B. Dees, D.O., FAAFP has been named president and CEO of Magnolia Health Plan a wholly owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation. Dr. Dees oversees a Medicaid Coordinated Care Plan with more than 75,000 members and is leading a team to develop Magnolia’s plan that will be offered in the Health Insurance Marketplace for more than half of the counties in Mississippi.

2000

Michael J. Coyle, D.O., became the first board certified urogynecologist in the U.S. Story on page 62.

Daniel R. Reed, D.O., was named “Top Doc” in radiation oncology by the Phoenix Magazine for 2013. Dr. Reed has won this prestigious award three times and is the only D.O. ever to have received the award.

2001

James B. Hill, D.O., is a VA (Veterans Administration) physician and gives motivational keynotes, both domestically and abroad. He and his wife, Nancy, have adopted two children from Russia.

John R. Simmons, D.O., is a radiation oncologist that recently joined the active staff at Licking Memorial Hospital in Newark, N.J. He was previously at Sentera Hospital in Norfolk, Va.

2003

Clifford Evans, D.O., will be on the staff at Marian University Osteopathic Medical School in their inaugural year this fall. For his first year in practice, he won Physician of the Year. Recently, Dr. Evans retired from the Army after 24 years of service. He resides outside of Indianapolis, Ind., with his wife, Lauri.

G. Michael Gould, D.O., is in his second year as the Burke County Board of Health Physician representative. He just celebrated his 20th wedding anniversary with wife, Elizabeth, at Cape Lookout, N.C.

Pete Palko III, D.O., was a Barbour County Chamber of Commerce Member of the Month this past March. Dr. Palko practices at Myers Clinic in Philippi, W.Va.

Tanya Leigh Watson, D.O., will assume a position as an obstetrician and gynecologist (OB/GYN) at Pleasant Valley Hospital in Point Pleasant, W.Va. She served as an OB/GYN to the Navy at Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital in North Carolina. Dr. Watson specializes in the care and treatment of long acting reversible contraception, preventive and primary gynecological care and surgical care to women with diseases

2004

Jami Reaves, D.O., opened her own practice, CallaDerma Center for Medical and Surgical Dermatology, in Kinsport, Tenn., this past March.

2005

Ryan Harris, D.O., after finishing his active duty commitment with the United States Air Force, completed a residency in Orthopedic Surgery at Pinnacle Health Hospital in Harrisburg, Pa. Starting Aug. 2013, he begins a one-year fellowship in Total Joint Reconstruction at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va.

2007

Hilary Basham, D.O., started her new position as a full time ED physician with Centra Health in Lynchburg, Va., in June.

L. Faith Payne, D.O., passed her urological boards. She currently resides in Daniels, W.Va.

2008

Karianna Andrews, D.O., just finished her residency at CAMC in OB/GYN and has accepted a WVU faculty position in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for their Charleston Division. She recently completed a year as the West Virginia Section vice-chair for ACOG (American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) and is now the acting section chair.

Justin Jeffries, D.O., has opened a practice, Greenbrier Primary Care, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.

Kris Palmer, D.O., will be inducted as a fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Internists in October. He was named associate residency director of internal medicine at University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center in Richmond Heights, Ohio.

Dwan Perry, D.O., started a sports medicine fellowship with VT/VCOM in July. Dr. Perry also worked the PGA at The Greenbrier in July.

Christopher Wood, D.O., completed his residency in internal medicine in 2011 and fellowship in geriatrics in 2012. He works for Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va.

2010

Zakiat Darojat, D.O., graduated from the internal medicine residency at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach. This program was

ranked first in the nation this year on the Osteopathic Internal Medicine Inservice Exam. Dr. Darojat was the chief resident of the internal medicine program and was awarded Resident of the Year.

2011

Dominic King, D.O., is the chief resident for the family medicine residency program at Cleveland Clinic’s South Pointe Hospital and president of the South Pointe Hospital Resident House Staff Council. As the chairman of the Medical Technology Committee at South Pointe Hospital, he piloted a study on iPad usage by medical residents. He was the recipient of the Cleveland Clinic “Patients First” Resident of the Year Award and has received a grant to produce osteopathic medical tutorial videos under the name OsteopathTech, which will be available online later this year.

Justin Pelberg, D.O., was the recipient of the John S. Zachariah Award for the internal medicine residency program at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa. Story on page 60. April Lambert-Drwiega, D.O., and husband, Robert,

announced the birth of their second child, Alexis Michelle Drwiega, on May 28, 2013. She joined her older brother, Landon, who is 3.

2006

Christy Campbell, D.O., and husband, Drew Smalley, announced the birth of their daughter, Eden Elizabeth Smalley, on July 12, 2012.

2010

Michelle Abe, D.O., and her husband, Brian, announced the birth of their second child, Owen Deskin Abe, born June 11, 2013.

Crissy Hendricks, D.O., and Brad Hendricks, D.O.,

announced the birth of their first child, Olivia Quinn Hendricks, on June 16, 2013.

Marriages

2003

Jason Oreskovich, D.O., married Janae Smith on May 31, 2013. He is an assistant professor and clerkship director at the WVU Department of Family Medicine.

2006

Christy Campbell, D.O., and husband, Drew Smalley, announce the birth of their daughter, Eden Elizabeth Smalley, on July 12, 2012.

2008

Carrie Crigger Tavelli, D.O., married James Tavelli on March 9, 2013. She and her husband reside in Louisville, Ky.

2010/2011

Michael Brackman, D.O., and Marri Brackman, D.O.,

welcomed daughter, Ryan Ann, on May 18, 2013.

2012

Jamie Blankenship, D.O., and her husband, Jacob, announced the birth of their son, Jackson Scott Blankenship, on March 23, 2013. Jackson is the grandson of Marshall Long, D.O. (1983) and Sheila.

Deaths

1981

Randy Snodgress, D.O, died May 1, 2013, of a stroke. Dr. Snodgress was in practice in Florida.

Births

2003

Andrea McClintic, D.O., and Alex McClintic, D.O.,

announced the birth of their fourth child, Julia Rae McClintic. Brother and sisters, Colin, Ava and Meredith all happily welcomed her.

1991

Terry Lee Fortune, D.O., born November 11, 1960, passed away June 10, 2103 at Hospice of the Western Reserve at the age of 52. He practiced emergency medicine at Cleveland Area hospitals. Survivors include his parents, Bob and Norma Fortune; son, Michael; and companion and best friend, Debbie Lammarino.