In and around the profession: Feb. 24

Per Gunnar Brolinson, DO, is blogging from the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he is treating U.S. athletes. Dr. Brolinson is the head team physician at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va.

The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine-Seton Hill in Greensburg, Pa., bestowed white coats on its inaugural class on Feb. 13.

MSUCOM celebrated the opening of its additional location in Clinton Township, Mich., on Monday.

In response to Chicago magazine’s feature on “Chicago’s Top Doctors,” AOA President-elect Karen J. Nichols, DO, wrote the magazine to protest its use of the term MD as a synonym for all physicians. Chicago published Dr. Nichols’ letter in its March issue.

Geriatrician David G. Harden, DO, and family physician Janette M. Willcox, DO, and accompanied 15 VCOM students on a weeklong medical mission to Honduras in January and February.

In a Feb. 11 op-ed, Sean Weaver, OMS I, of WesternU/COMP describes how his mother, who died in January, went without health insurance for five years when she was too sick to work and “not sick enough” to qualify for state health insurance. “[W]e have a moral obligation to achieve some form of health care equality in this country,” Weaver writes.

Hudson (Ohio) Monthly profiles Deborah Plate, DO, in its February issue. “Family medicine has a different personality,” she tells the magazine. “We treat infants to grandmothers, and we tend to be very human.”

Following up last month’s announcement that Marian University in Indianapolis plans to build an osteopathic medical school, the Indianapolis Star published an overview of osteopathic medicine last week. The article quotes AOA Trustee Boyd R. Buser, DO, Terry A. Iwasko, DO, and Heather R. Richardson, DO.

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Save money, time and calories by eating traditional morning foods for dinner, suggests William T. Betz, DO. “By dinnertime, all a person will require is something light. Breakfast foods like oatmeal, fruit smoothies, and omelets are great options,” says Dr. Betz, the senior associate dean for osteopathic medical education at PCSOM.

In Memoriam

George E.C. Evans, DO, 79 (DMU-COM 1956), of Leesport, Pa., died Jan. 16.

Gloria W. Freundlich, DO, 73 (UMDNJ-SOM 1984), of Lakewood, N.J., died Jan. 18.

Lorne A. Querci, DO, 46 (KCUMB-COM 1992), of York, Pa., died at home on Jan. 9.

Norman Rosenberg, DO, 71 (DMU-COM 1963), of Brighton, Mich., died Nov. 7, 2009.

Harvey G. Roth, DO, 69 (MWU/CCOM 1967), of Livonia, Mich., died Jan. 12.

Elizabeth A. Sagady, DO, 68 (MSUCOM 1974), of Phoenix died Jan. 4.

Ellis Siefer, DO, 92 (MWU/CCOM 1942), of Farmington Hills, Mich., died Jan. 25. In 2008, the AOA named Dr. Siefer a Great Pioneer in Osteopathic Medicine.

Jerry A. Taylor, DO, 70 (DMU-COM 1965), of Southfield, Mich., died Jan. 12.

Transitions

Lisa R. Nash, DO, has been named the associate dean for educational programs at UNTHSC/TCOM.

Critical care specialist Anita I. Charochak, DO, has joined Borgess Critical Care Services in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Radiologist Charles Croteau, DO, has joined Genesys Regional Medical Center-Health Park in Grand Blanc, Mich.

Orthopedic surgeon Robert J. Gunderson, DO, has joined Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City.

General surgeon Thomas Owen Morgan, DO, has joined Marlette (Mich.) Surgical Services at Marlette Regional Hospital.

Family physician Patrick W. O’Neil, DO, has joined Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, Mo.

Psychiatrist Christopher J. Squillaro, DO, is the new medical director of the Penn Foundation in Sellersville, Pa.