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Office of Scholarly, Academic & Research Mentoring (OSARM) Faculty


 

Dr. Sally Rigler Sally Rigler, MD, MPH, Director, OSARM
Sally Rigler, MD, MPH received her undergraduate degree from Knox College and her medical degree with honors from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. She completed internal medicine internship, residency, chief residency, and geriatric medicine fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center where she joined the faculty in 1996 and completed an MPH degree. Her research interests are in the area of medication prescribing practices and outcomes for older adults, with focus on health services research using large data sets. She received an NIH K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award in 2001, followed by an R01 to evaluate fracture outcomes in older adults receiving antipsychotic medications. She has a strong interest in assisting junior faculty members in their scholarly growth to become well-rounded academic physicians.
   
Dr. Susan Pingleton Susan Pingleton, MD, OSARM Faculty Mentor
Susan K. Pingleton, MD, FACP, Master FCCP is the Joy McCann Professor of Women in Medicine and Science, Associate Dean of Continuing Education and a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine.  She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas as well as her medical degree.  She completed her internship, residency and pulmonary fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center.  She joined the faculty in 1983 where in 1990 she became Division Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.  She has served as Senior Medical Director for the University of Kansas Hospital and the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine from 2003-2007.  In a two year leave from the University she served as the Petersdorf Scholar at the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Chief Learning Officer at the University Healthsystem Consortium.  On return she has served as the Director of Quality and Professional Development in Continuing Medical Education as well as the Chair of the Mentoring Committee of the Department of Medicine.  She currently mentors the Incubator junior faculty in the Department of Medicine.  Throughout her professional career, she has mentored residents, fellows and junior faculty.
   
Dr. Jonathan Mahnken Jonathan Mahnken, PhD, OSARM Biostatistician
Jonathan D. Mahnken, Ph.D., PStat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics. He works with the Office of Scholarly, Academic & Research Mentoring (OSARM), providing biostatistical support to junior faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine. In addition to his collaborative support performing statistical analyses and assisting with grant development and manuscript preparation, Dr. Mahnken conducts research in the areas of study design and health services research. Dr. Mahnken received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1996 from Concordia University, his master's degree in Preventive Medicine from the University of Texas Medical Branch, and his doctorate of philosophy in biometry in 2003 from the University of Texas--Health Science Center. In 2010, Dr. Mahnken received Professional Statistician accreditation (PStat) from the American Statistical Association.
   
Dr. Theresa Shireman Theresa Shireman, PhD, RPh, OSARM Faculty Mentor
Dr. Theresa Shireman followed her undergraduate and masters level pharmacy degrees by completing a PhD in Pharmacy Economics, Epidemiology and Public Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She maintains a joint appointment with the Departments of Preventative Medicine & Public Health and Health Policy & Management, and is an accomplished investigator using large national databases to study patterns of medication utilization and outcomes of pharmacotherapy. Dr. Shireman teaches graduate courses on pharmacoepidemiology, cost-effectiveness analysis, and public payer data analysis, and has collaborated with various agencies to study Kansas Medicaid data. She brings her pragmatic skills in project design, data analysis, and scientific writing to assist selected Incubator Faculty members in the Department of Medicine with aspects of their OSARM projects.