Children’s Mercy Physician Receives Henry L. Barnett Award
Bradley Warady, MD, FAAP, Director-Division of Nephrology and Director of Dialysis and Transplantation, was presented with the 2015 Henry L. Barnett Award for outstanding teaching and clinical care for children with kidney disease during the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting.
Children’s Mercy Appoints Surgical Director of Cardiac Transplantation
James D. St. Louis, MD, has been named Surgical Director of Cardiac Transplantation at Children’s Mercy. Dr. St. Louis is a board-certified thoracic and cardiac surgeon with more than 15 years of pediatric experience. Previously he served as the Director of Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation and the Director of the Heart Center at University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital.
Children’s Mercy Appoints Medical Director of Cardiac Transplantation
Aliessa P. Barnes, MD has been appointed Medical Director of Cardiac Transplantation at Children’s Mercy. Dr. Barnes is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist specializing in pediatric heart failure and pediatric cardiac transplantation. She has 10 years of experience, the past five as Medical Director of Heart Transplantation at Children’s Medical Center, Dallas.
Children’s Mercy Appoints Section Chief for Neurosurgery
Paul Grabb, MD, a board-certified neurosurgeon, is the incoming Section Chief for Neurosurgery at Children’s Mercy. Most recently Dr. Grabb served as Director of Neurosurgery at the Children’s Hospital in Colorado Springs. He has special interests in neuroendoscopy for tumors, cysts, and hydrocephalus, brachial plexus injuries and spinal trauma.
University of Missouri selects first woman to lead the College of Engineering
Elizabeth G. Loboa, acclaimed materials science engineer and researcher, educator and administrator, has been named Dean of the University of Missouri College of Engineering, effective October 15, 2015. She comes from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University (NCSU), where she served as an associate chair and professor of the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.
University of Missouri Appoints Director for NIH Funded Biocontainment Laboratory
US Army Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Jeffery Adamovicz has been appointed the Director of the Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research (LIDR) at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri. This laboratory is one of 12 regional biocontainment laboratories established by the National Institutes of Health and is used to conduct research designed to prevent and treat infections caused by biothreat and emerging infectious diseases agents.
Strategic Hire to Enhance KU Autism Research Program
Matthew Mosconi, a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies autism spectrum disorders has joined the University of Kansas as an associate professor in the Clinical Child Psychology Program and associate scientist in the Life Span Institute.
University of Kansas gets grant for rural telemedicine
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute will receive part of a $3.9 million grant over three years for providing telemedicine to underserved rural areas. The grants, which are from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Rural Health Policy, will focus on rural children living in poverty and their families. An estimated 1.5 million children and 4.5 million adults who live in rural areas have income below the poverty line, according to a news release from HHS, and the poverty rate is 20 percent or higher in more than 300 rural counties.
Saint Luke’s Health System Executive Announcements
Bobby Olm-Shipman, former Saint Luke’s Health System’s Vice President of Planning and Project Management has been named the Chief Executive Officer of Saint Luke’s South Hospital. Jani L. Johnson, RN, MSN, has been appointed CEO for Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. She succeeds Julie Quirin who has assumed a new position as Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations, with Saint Luke’s Health System.
Dr. Spertus receives AHA Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. John Spertus, Director of Outcomes Research at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association in November 2015 for his research on measuring outcomes and health care quality, as well as the use of information technology to guide medical decision-making.
UMKC School of Medicine appoints new Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Samuel H. Turner, former Shawnee Mission Medical Center president and CEO, is the new Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the UMKC School of Medicine.
Lynda Bonewald receives Prestigious William F. Neuman Award
Lynda Bonewald, endowed professor at the UMKC School of Dentistry and one of the world’s leading bone scientists, is receiving the William F. Neuman Award, the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research’s most prestigious recognition.
UMKC dental school gets $4M in NIH research funding
The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Dentistry and the School of Nursing and Health Studies have received National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding potentially totaling $4.38 million over the next five years. The UMKC School of Dentistry is the only public dental school in the Missouri and Kansas region, according to the university. The school has an agreement with the state of Kansas to educate dentists from the state in addition to its priority for educating dentists in Missouri. The schools will collaborate with the Kansas Bureau of Oral Health School Sealant Program to examine the impact of dental hygienists in Kansas, according to the university. The research will study oral health and social outcomes in school-aged children in prekindergarten to high school from 17 underserved, primarily rural communities who receive school-based care from dental hygienists.
Tammy Beckham, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, K-State
Tammy Beckham succeeded Dr. Ralph Richardson as the incoming Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University on Aug. 2. Previously, Dr. Beckham was the Director of the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, or IIAD, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence in College Station, Texas where she led efforts to perform research and develop products to defend the nation from high-consequence foreign animal, emerging and zoonotic diseases.
Ralph Richardson, Interim Dean and CEO of K-State Olathe
Dr. Ralph Richardson, former Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, was appointed to Interim Dean and CEO of the K-State Olathe campus on August 2.