Faculty Tenure, Promotions and Sabbaticals
News from the Executive Vice Chancellor's Office
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
News from the School of Nursing
News from the School of Allied Health
News from the School of Nursing and KU Hospital
Faculty Tenure,
Promotions and Sabbaticals
Approved by the Chancellor
(Effective July 1, 1997)
To Professor — Anesthesiology: Kirk Benson, MD, previously tenured; dietetics and nutrition: Deborah Kipp, PhD, previously tenured; internal medicine: David Meyers, MD, previously tenured, and Anne Egbert, MD, Wichita; obstetrics and gynecology: John Calkins, MD, previously tenured; pathology and laboratory medicine: Jill Pelling, PhD, previously tenured; and surgery: Mark Noble, MD, previously tenured.
To Associate Professor With Tenure— Biochemistry and molecular biology: Mark Fisher, PhD; family and community medicine: Sudha Elangovan, MD, Wichita; hearing and speech: P. Lynn Hayes, EdD; internal medicine: Amy O'Brien-Ladner, MD; neurology: Sharon Lynch, MD; radiology: Linda Harrison, MD; and the School of Nursing: Nancy Hoffart, PhD, and Janet Pierce, DSN.
To Associate Professor — Internal medicine: Betty Drees, MD, and Allan Weston, MD, both of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo., and surgery: Steven Wilkinson, MD.
To Clinical Professor — Internal medicine: David Smith, MD.
To Clinical Associate Professor — Internal medicine: Vidya Sharma, MD; neurology: Alexander Troster, MD; pediatrics: Katherine Melhorn, MD, Wichita, Pamela Shaw, MD, and Bradley Warady, MD; psychiatry: Jane Lauchland, MD, and John Wisner, MD; radiology: Charles McGuire, MD, Wichita, and Mohammad Sarrafizadeh, MD, Wichita; and surgery: Paul Harrison, MD, Wichita, and Joseph Petelin, MD.
To Research Associate Professor — Biochemistry and molecular biology: Douglas Burns, PhD.
To Clinical Assistant Professor — Internal medicine: Sheryl Gottlieb, DO, Wichita, and radiology: Mark Brady, MD, Wichita.
To Assistant Professor — Family medicine: Pamela Whitten, PhD, and internal medicine: Sally Rigler, MD.
To Clinical Assistant Professor — Family medicine: Richard Ohmart, MD; internal medicine: Narin Arunakul, MD; and ophthamology: Charles Barnes, MD, and Douglas Herriott, OD.
Sabbatical Leave — Family medicine: Cynda Johnson, MD, and the School of Nursing: Lauren Aaronson, PhD, and Sue Popkess-Vawter, PhD.
News from the Executive Vice Chancellor's Office
Lydia Wingate, PhD, has announced her resignation as dean of the School of Allied Health, effective June 30, 1997. She was appointed dean of the School of Allied Health Feb. 10, 1992. During her service as dean, the certified nurse anesthesia program began, all academic programs were reaccredited, and a community advisory board was established. The resources of the school were reallocated to help create research opportunities for junior faculty. A distance physical therapy education program, a collaboration with community hospitals and Pittsburg State University, will begin this year. She will join the Primary Care Physician Education initiative in the School of Medicine as an associate director to David Calkins, MD. In her new role, she will help develop and lead interdisciplinary education efforts.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City and Wichita
The KU School of Medicine was among 38 medical schools recently honored by the American Academy of Family Physicians. At the May 3-7 conference of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in Boston, the schools were recognized for their efforts in making family medicine a top career choice for graduating medical students. This year’s awards recognize medical schools with the highest three-year average of graduates entering accredited family medicine residency training programs from 1994 to 1996. Awards were presented in gold, silver and bronze categories. Three schools (University of South Dakota, University of Iowa and University of Washington) were named gold Achievement Award recipients. KU was among 11 medical schools to be honored in the Silver Category. This category recognizes a three-year average between 25 percent and 29.9 percent of graduates entering family medicine residency programs. KU had a 25.1 percent average.
Edward Ellerbeck, MD, MPH, has joined the department of preventive medicine as an associate professor. During his first three years at KU Medical Center, he will be supported by the Primary Care Physician Education grant. Most recently he served the Health Care Financing Administration as a medical officer at the Medical Review Branch in Kansas City, Mo., from 1995 to 1997 and as a medical officer of the Office of Peer Review in Baltimore from 1992 to 1995. During that time, he was a part-time staff physician for Health Care for the Homeless. He earned his medical degree in 1982 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 1988. He currently is a reviewer for JAMA. Ellerbeck will direct the new required medical school course, "Health of the Public," which will be taught to fourth-year medical students. His research interests are quality of care, health care outcomes and building effective health care delivery units.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
Academic affairs is working on determining all those KU Medical Center faculty who have been named University Distinguished Professors so that university relations may publish an accurate list. As of this date, those faculty known to have been recognized as University Distinguished Professors are: Donald Goodwin, MD, psychiatry and behavioral sciences; Jared Grantham, MD, medicine and biochemistry and molecular biology; Gilbert Greenwald, PhD, molecular and integrative physiology; Kermit Krantz, MD, obstetrics and gynecology; and John Redford, MD, rehabilitation medicine. To be named a University Distinguished Professor, recipients must meet a number of criteria. Among the requirements are that recipients rank among the most distinguished scholars in the country and possess an international reputation; have a proven record of interest and concern with the growth and success of their institutions, colleagues and students; and demonstrate an interest in the activities of other departments related to their own.
The department of radiology will host a retirement reception for David Preston, MD, professor
of radiology and head of the division of nuclear medicine, from 2 to 3 p.m. June 23 in the Radiology Library. He joined the department in September 1973. Preston's last day will be June 30, but he will remain as a volunteer faculty member.
News from the School of Nursing
Karen Wambach, RN, PhD, clinical assistant professor, presented a research poster, "Maternal Fatigue Among Primiparous Breastfeeding Women During the First Nine Weeks Postpartum," at the national conference of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses June 15-18 in Washington. Her poster won the Honorable Mention Research Poster Award.
News from the School of Allied Health
Paul Mathews, EdS, RRT, FCCM, associate professor of respiratory care education, served on the credentialing committee of the American College of Critical Care Medicine June 7 in Anaheim, Calif. Also, his photo essay, "Using a Peak Flowmeter: Monitoring the Airwaves," was published in the
June 1997 issue of Nursing97.Barbara Loveless, MS, RD, LD, CNSD, courtesy instructor in dietetics and nutrition, was elected president-elect of the Sunflower Chapter of the Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition at the organization's spring meeting at KU Medical Center. Her term runs from May 1997 to May 1998.
News from the School of Nursing and KU Hospital
Four representatives from the School of Nursing and KU Hospital gave a presentation at the June 6 and 7 conference on Improving Patient Outcomes Through Differentiated Nursing Practice
in Vail, Co. Suzanne Shaffer, MN, RN, AOCN, clinical nurse specialist in the department of Nursing; Ruth Heaton, RN, MS, director of women and children nursing and renal dialysis; Nancy Hoffart, RN, PhD, assistant professor; and Katherine Bradley, RN, MSN, doctoral student, presented "Implementation and Evaluation of the C.A.R.E. Model."
News from the Center on Aging
Randolph Nudo, PhD, associate director of research at the Center on Aging and an associate professor
of molecular and integrative physiology, received a five-year $1,392,406 total costs renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health for "Reorganization of Motor Cortex Following Brain Injury."
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