UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE

F a l l , 2 0 0 7 Volume 4, Issue 1

Family Medicine Quarterly

Our DFM sponsored alumni event was a success! We had approximately 90 guests representing all UIC COM campuses: medical students, current residents, former residents, attendings, and significant others. Thanks very much to all who represented UIC DFM:: Drs. Maria Albright, Maria Devens, Tamarah Duperval, Memoona Hasnain, Abbas Hyderi, Javette Orgain, Mark Potter, Glenda Rios, Nipa Shah, Patrick Tranmer. Other guests included: Lewellyn Bayba (Chicago/Navy Pier 1960); Don & Karen Brake (Rockford); Frank Chao; Max Goldschmidt (Chicago); Joanne Grand; David Hagan (Rockford); Karl Kochendorfer (Chicago); Corinne Kohla (Urbana); Diane Krall (Peoria/Rockford/Champaign); Martin Lipsky (Rockford); Jim Magee (Peoria); Katarzyna Malecka (Chicago); Dirk Meledie (Chicago); Bill Morgan (Rockford); Eric Neely (Rockford); Deb Norton (Chicago); Peter Perez; James Phillips (Chicago/Peoria); Glen Ricea (Chicago/Peoria/Rockford); Susan Rife (Chicago); Ravi Shah (Chicago); Dave & Karen Smith (Rockford); Jennifer Strong (Peoria); Ross Sudburg (Chicago); Nora Vasquez (Chicago) and Peter Ziemlocski (Urbana).

UIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE

CHICAGO ~ ROCKFORD ~ PEORIA ~ URBANA

ALUMNI REUNION RECEPTION

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Family Medicine Quarterly

Thank You DFM Volunteer Faculty

Clinical Associate Professor Elizabeth Feldman, MD Michael Friedman, MD Lawrence Goldberg, MD Christine Jacobs, MD Kathryn Steward, MD, MPH James Valek, MD Margaret Wiedmann, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor Alan F. Bain, DO Antonio Barajas, MD Jacqueline Bardwell, MD Murry Bass, MD Barbara Bellar, MD, JD Stephen G. Bennett, MD Jon Beran, MD Corinne Blum, MD Christopher Brenner, MD William Briner, MD Matthew Brown, MD Sangili Chandran, MD Milton Chavez, MD Brian Chicoine, MD Henry Cordero, MD Charles Crotteau, MD Martin Doot, MD Howard Ehrman, MD, MPH Jose Elizondo, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor Michael Fisher, MD Luvianca Fonseca, MD Melvin Glick, MD Martin Gonzalez, MD Judy Gordon, MD, MPH Diana Grant, MD Glen Grobe, MD Dean Grove, MD, MPH Richard Guthmann, MD Maurice Guzman, MD Benjamin Hasan, MD Michal Hytros, MD Michael Jutovsky, MD Kent Kamradt, MD Fred Karlin, MD Jaya Kasturi, MD Roy Lacey, MD Donna Lawlor, MD Irene Lesniak, MD Esther Liu, MD Benjamin Lo, MD Georgia Lubben, MD Brian Lynch, MD James McCoy, MD Michael Melnick, MD Ramiro Mercado, MD Robert Moss, MD Chiedu Nchekwube, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor Nigam Patel, MD Kenneth Pierini, MD, MS Stephen Rittman, MD Lizbet Ronning, MD Oscar Ruiz, MD Jorge Saad, MD, MPH Latifah Sabree, MD John Sage, MD T. Eric Schackow, MD, PhD Daniel Shin, MD Joel Shoolin, MD James Skomurski, MD Jack Spaniol, MD Stephen Sproul, MD Bruce Steffens, MD Thomas Waidzunas, MD Bruce Weber, MD Lise Weisberger, MD

Clinical Instructor Debra Haley, PhD Dragomir Jovanovic, MD Katarzyna Malecka, MD Haroon Olomi, MD Leon Que, MD Vineet Singla, DO John Tenhundfeld, MD

Lecturer Crystal Cash, MD Frank Castillo, MD, MA Margaret Dolan, MD Yacob Gawa, MD, MRCP Stuart Goldman, MD Judith Gravdal, MD Pauline Harding, MD, LDN Mirza Jesani, DO, Mark Kanaris, MD Greg Kirschner, MD Mark Macumber, MD Paul Omastiak, MD Steven Rube, MD Martin Shobris, MD,PhD,CMD Stephen Stabile, MD, MHA Gary Stuck, MD Robert Zitter, Ph.D.

Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Law

Cherilyn Murer, JD, CRA

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology

Albert Poronsky, DO Steven Zuckerman, MD, PhD

Thank you very much to our volunteer faculty for their participation in many DFM activities. Your contributions are important to the DFM in meeting the goals and mission of the department and we invite involvement of all faculty. If interested in predoctoral activities, please contact Nipa Shah, MD (nshah1@uic.edu); residency training, Mark Pot-ter, MD (mcpotter@uic.edu); Grand Rounds lecture series, Naomi Ashley-Benedict (naomiab@uic.edu) . Should you have any questions or need information regarding departmental activities or your faculty standing at UIC, please con-tact Liz Hawes, (ehawes1@uic.edu or 312.996.1336).

The Illinois Academy of Family Physicians celebrated its 60th year of caring for Illinois and honored some of its finest family physicians on October 4th, 2007. Family physicians from around the state gathered at the Art Institute of Chi-cago during the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Annual Scientific Assembly, the largest annual meeting of family physicians in the country held this week in Chicago.

James P. Valek, MD, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor, was named the 2007 IAFP Family Physician of the Year.

Greg Kirschner, MD MPH, Lecturer, was honored as the 2007 IAFP Family Medicine Full-Time Teacher of the Year. The IAFP also announced its newly elected board officers for 2007-2008, which includes two UIC DFM faculty. Javette Orgain, MD, MPH was elected president-elect. Patrick Tranmer, MD, MPH was elected first vice president.

IAFP 60TH ANNIVERSARY

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DFM ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congratulations to Jeffrey Tiemstra, MD and Nandini Khatkhate, MD, on the publication of their article, “Bell’s Palsy: Diagnosis and Manage-ment” in the American Family Physician published on October, 1st, 2007. The full article can be viewed at http://www.aafp.org/afp/20071001/997.html.

Nandini Khatkhate, MD was quoted in a Chicago Sun Times article entitled, “Birth Control Costs Soaring at Colleges” printed on August 13th, 2007. The full article is available at http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/517061,CST-NWS-birth20.article.

Congratulations to 3rd year Resident Katina Bonaparte, MD, MPH on receiving a full scholarship to attend the American Association of Reproductive Health Professionals annual conference on Reproductive Health. The scholarship awarded Dr. Bonaparte with an all expense paid trip to attend the con-ference held from September 26-29, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.

Congratulations to Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH, Katina Bonaparte, MD, MPH, and medical student Bi Ade on the acceptance of their presentation proposal, entitled “Integrating Residents into Clerkship Teaching: A Strategy for Promoting Family Medicine”, to the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s 34th Annual Predoctoral Education Conference. The conference will be held January 24-27, 2008 in Portland, OR.

Over the past months, the DFM has had the pleasure of acknowledging two of our faculty in per-forming outstanding acts of heroism. The DFM is extremely proud to have Drs. Sonia Oyola and Abbas Hyderi as UIC Family Physicians. In August, Sonia Oyola, MD demonstrated what being a physician is all about, helping someone in need. While on a run along the lakefront , Dr. Oyola administered CPR to another runner who had collapsed along the path. Thanks to her quick thinking, current BLS certification, and skill, the runner was resuscitated, taken to the hospital, un-derwent surgery, and recovered.

On Monday, October 9th, Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH also displayed quick thinking in the face of a medical emergency. While driving, he noticed a car moving erratically and witnessed it slowly drive into another vehicle. Dr. Hyderi stopped his vehicle and rushed to help the driver who appeared in distress. He started CPR and stayed until the ambulance arrived. Thanks to Dr. Hyderi’s quick thinking and calm action, the driver is recovering and doing well.

Jeffrey Tiemstra, MD completed his 19th consecutive Chicago Marathon on Sunday, October 7th, 2007. Prior to the marathon, Dr. Tiemstra shared his tips for a success run in a Chicago Sun-Times article entitled “Born to Run”. Congratulations to Dr. Tiemstra on this outstanding accomplishment.

Congratulations to Maria Devens, Ph.D. for achieving Board Certification in Clinical Health Psychology. Dr. Devens is one of only 101 Board Certified Clinical Health Psychologists in the US, Only 5% of all practicing psychologists who are members of the American Psychological Association have achieved ABPP Board Certification. The process was long and difficult, but Dr. Devens per-sisted. The DFM is honored to have her on our family medicine team.

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DFM NEWSLETTER STAFF Special thanks to Liz Hawes, Administrative Coordinator; and Meg Oberholtzer, Assistant to the Head for their contributions to this newsletter. Please direct questions and comments to Meg at holtzer@uic.edu.

FALL 2007 MVTP

Congratulations to Shelby Johnson, MA University Village, Pink Team, who has been chosen to be recognized as the Fall 2007 DFM Most Valuable Team Player. Shelby was nominated by several people who made the following com-ments about her: Shelby has good rapport with patients, remains calm in the face of a busy day, anticipates what the practitioner with whom she is working might need, and is thorough and complete in her docu-mentation. She works well with other team members and is an integral part of the pink team! I support's Shelby's nomination for MVP this quarter. I appreciated Shelby's thoroughness in screening patients, kindness to coworkers and patients and efficiency. She is pleasant to deal with and always keeps her cool. Calm, cool and collected. Shelby is where you need her, when you need her and always willing to help. Has anyone ever heard Shelby say "no"??? No one need double check on Shelby, if she says it will be done, it will ... usually, one needn't even ask because she just has it done already. She is quiet and efficient and very respected. Let's not mention her humility ... I bet she's busying herself somewhere right now to avoid this very, very deserved limelight!

Congratulations Shelby and thank you for your outstanding service to the DFM and UIC!

Tamarah Duperval, MD, MPH has been selected as a 2008 American Marshall Memorial Fellow. The Mar-shall Memorial Fellowship pro-vides a unique opportunity for emerging leaders from the United States and Europe to explore societies, institutions, and people on the other side of the Atlantic. The German Mar-shal Fund awards more than

100 Marshall Memorial Fellowships each year to lead-ers in politics, government, business, media, and the nonprofit sector from twenty countries, who are com-mitted to strengthening the transatlantic relationship. Congratulations to Dr. Duperval on this amazing honor.

Zena Mnasi Mabeyo, Suleiman Masoud

Mtwana and a col-league, social workers

from Tanzania recently visited with Laura

Landmeier and Dr. Tranmer at the Uni-versity Village Family

Medicine Center. Discussion included

HIV treatment options offered to patients in the United States as compared to what is

available to patients in Tanzania.

International Medicine

UIC DFM RESIDENCY ALUMNI UPDATE In an effort to update our residency alumni database, we would like to hear from you! Not only will we be able to keep you informed of future alumni events at UIC, this will be a great way to network with UIC grads located near you. Please email your current practice name and location to fmres@uic.edu. Listed below are 2005, 06 and 07; we will continue our listing in the next issue of the newsletter!

2007 Sakthikarpagam Arigovindan, MD - Chicago, IL J. Andrew Dykens, MD, MPH - UIC, Mile Square Health Center, Chicago, IL Adel Khdour, MD - White County Hospital, Monticello, IN Shreeketa Mehta, MD - UIC, Department of Family Medicine, Chicago, IL. Yves-Mario Piverger, MD - Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL

2006 M. Vikas Ahmad, MD - Sonoran Medical Centers, Phoenix, AZ Mirela Galatanu, MD - Oak Lawn, IL

2006 Karl Kochendorfer, MD - University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Family & Community Medicine Heidi Krebs, MD - Cincinnati, OH Tahir Yaqub, MD - Merced, CA

2005 Ella Varney, MD - Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System, Sarasota, FL Mahtab Tashakori, MD - Carle Foundation Hospital, Charleston, IL Shivani Rawal, MD - Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN Jacqueline Olivo, MD - Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL