People Section, summer 1998

Students
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians student chapter of MSUCOM received the "Most Improved Membership Award" and the "Educator Award" at this year's ACOFP national convention, April 3-5 in Nashville, Tenn. The membership award recognized the chapter for increasing student membership from 23 percent of MSUCOM students to 70 percent in one year. The educator award honored the group for providing the best educational programs for students among all osteopathic ACOFP school programs. Also at the convention, Christine Elder, MSUCOM Class of 2000, was elected national ACOFP Student Vice President. Four students attended the convention and were seated as Michigan delegates at the ACOFP House of Delegates.

The Undergraduate American Academy of Osteopathy MSUCOM chapter held an auction this year to raise money for their trip to the American Academy of Osteopathy's annual convocation held March 24-28 in Colorado Springs. Nearly 30 MSUCOM students and physicians attended the event this year. MSUCOM had the largest number of first year students at the event.

Sarah Manney, Class of 2000, was selected to attend the 1998 Health Policy Leadership Institute, July 6-10 in Washington, D.C. The program offers medical students education in health policy issues. It is sponsored by the University of Maryland, the American Medical Student Association and the Health Policy Leadership Institute.

Alumni
John Everett, DO, Class of '87, was elected to the Michigan Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees at the Annual MOA House of Delegates, May 13. Dr. Everett, a family physician from Indian River, is also a board member of the Michigan Association of Osteopathic Family Physicians and president of the Northeastern Michigan Osteopathic Association.

Steven Karageanes, DO, Class of '95, is beginning a primary care sports medicine fellowship with the physicians for the Cleveland Indians baseball team-Horizon Orthopedics in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Karageanes graduated from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine's family practice residency program in June. On a personal note, Karageanes married Cynthia Kozanecki in Grosse Pointe on June 27.
Trinh Nguyen, DO, Class of '91, is volunteering four hours of service per week to the Ingham Community Health Center at the St. Lawrence Hospital in Lansing where, with support from the ICHC staff, he provides health service to vulnerable populations including many Vietnamese patients and refugees. Dr. Nguyen's volunteer service was formerly located at the Black Child and Family Institute in Lansing.

Faculty
Sander Breiner, MD, clinical associate professor in psychiatry, was a 1998 Gradiva Award nominee for his article "Deficit-Brain? Ego? Social?" The Gradiva Award is presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the World Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Shirley Harding, DO, associate professor and acting chairperson, Department of Osteopathic Surgical Specialties, has been selected as one of six MSU fellows to participate in the 1998-99 Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program. The program is designed for those who seek to know more about the workings of the university beyond their units and who want to explore the skills needed to lead a university such as MSU at various levels. MSU's CIC/ALP fellows meet regularly for candid discussions with campus administrators about leadership skills such as planning and budgeting, human resource development, advancing diversity, resolving conflicts, mentoring and government relations.

Roger Haut, PhD, professor, Departments of Osteopathic Surgical Specialties and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, will present three papers at The Third World Congress of Biomechanics, August 2-8, 1998, in Sapporo, Japan. The titles of the invited papers are: "Post-traumatic osteoarthrosis of the knee in subfracture experiments in an animal model" authored by R. Haut, W. Newberry and C. Mackenzie; "Augmentation influences joint remodeling after removal of the central third of the patellar tendon" authored by R. Haut, P. Atkinson, C. DeCamp and C. Mackenzie; and "Impact model for the human patellofemoral joint," authored by R. Haut, P. Atkinson, J. Garcia and N. Altiero. Dr. Haut has also been asked to chair two scientific sessions at the meeting, on the biomechanics of tendons and ligaments, and the biomechanics of crash injury and impact.

Margaret Jones, MD, professor of pathology, spent seven months of a sabbatical leave in South Australia at the Department of Chemical Pathology, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide. This is her second time working with this research group, which is part of a continuing collaboration to develop therapies for inherited lysosomal storage diseases which affect brain function. Dr. Jones and her Australian colleagues have completed two projects on Sanfillipo disease and a paper on one of the projects.

Harris W. Mainster, DO, assistant clinical professor of osteopathic surgical specialties, was elected as a director to the National Osteopathic Foundation Board. Dr. Mainster is chairman of the Department of Surgery and senior consulting staff surgeon at Botsford General Hospital. He is also a member of the American Osteopathic Association and on the Board of Directors of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons. The National Osteopathic Foundation is the philanthropic affiliate of the AOA, providing loans and scholarships to osteopathic medical students and administering research grant proposals for scientific and clinical osteopathic research.

Carol Monson, DO, assistant professor of family and community medicine, had an award-winning scientific paper published in the February and March issues of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians Journal. The two-part article was entitled "Computer Assisted Instruction in a Family Medicine Training ClinicAn Educational Project." Dr. Monson has also recently been appointed to the Michigan Council on Graduate Medical Education.

Gerald Osborn, DO, professor of psychiatry, along with Robin Pedtke and Christopher Fennell, MSUCOM Class of 1999, are members of the Renaissance Singers of East Lansing. The group performed "A Festival of Early Music" on June 14 at the Kellogg Center Auditorium on the MSU campus. The program featured choral music, instrumental music and choreographed dances. Their newly released CD includes a recently transcribed motet first published in 1604.

Donald Stanton, DO, chairperson, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, presented two lectures as the Prince Visiting Professor at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University Medical School, on April 22. His topics for the lectures were "Manipulative Procedures" and "Manual Medicine: Modality or Method of Practice." The Prince Visiting Lecture Program at the Rehabilitation Institute began in 1984, and has allowed numerous world-renowned scholars to visit and share their expertise with members of the institute's faculty and staff.

Robert Ward, DO, professor, Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, received the A.T. Still Medallion of Honor from the American Academy of Osteopathy at their annual convocation in March. The Medallion of Honor is given to individuals in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in scientific or professional affairs. Persons who receive the award must have an exceptional understanding and application of osteopathic principles, and of the concepts which are the outgrowth of those principles.

J. Michael Wieting, DO, assistant professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, is helping create a course on OMM to be given in Turkey this fall. Donald Stanton, DO, PM&R chairperson, and other faculty members are planning to accompany Dr. Wieting to teach the class.

Several faculty members and alumni traveled Down Under for the 12th International Congress of FIMM on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Raymond Hruby, DO, chairperson, and Robert Ward, DO, professor, Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine; Walter Mill, DO, professor emeritus, Department of Osteopathic Surgical Specialties; Harold Friedman, DO, Class of '87 from San Francisco and Wolfgang Gilliar, DO, Class of '86 from San Mateo, Calif., attended the conference, held April 14-16. Dr. Ward also presented a paper at the conference.