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Congratulations to our members and all the family physicians listed in this year's Top Docs issue of Chicago Magazine: Eva M. Bading, MD (Maywood), Stephen Behnke (Schaumburg), Brian A. Chicoine, MD (Park Ridge) John M. Hickner, MD (UI-Chicago) Deborah Miller, MD (Glenview), Mark C. Potter, MD (UIC), Stephen K. Rothschild, MD (Chicago), William A Schwer, MD (Rush), Julie V. Taylor, MD (Chicago) and James Valek, MD (Chicago and also IAFP's 2007 Family Physician of the Year).
Kimberly Hanneken, MD of Decatur offers tips for preventing catching strep throat and scarlet fever on WAND-TV News on Jan. 10.
Harald Lausen, DO and Jerry Kruse, MD will represent SIU HealthCare in a new partnership with Memorial Medical Center called the Midwest Healthcare Quality Alliance which will expand quality improvement projects to physician outpatient clinics. The story was covered in the January 15 Springfield State Journal Register.
David Gregory, MD of Decatur is the medical director of a new free clinic that opened in a downtown Methodist Church this week that will also include direct contact with caseworkers who can connect the uninsured to other community resources. The story appeared in the January 17 Decatur Herald-News.
Past President Javette C. Orgain, MD was quoted on WGN News at Noon on January 15 from the joint press conference where health and community advocates urged the Chicago City Council to pass the proposed ordinance regulating e-cigarettes, which the Council did at their meeting a few hours later.
Board Member Renee M. Poole, MD of Chicago authored the IAFP's official letter to the Chicago Tribune supporting the Chicago ordinance to regulate the sale of e-cigarettes and include them in the city's Clean Indoor Air Act which ran alongside letters from many other advocates it the Jan. 18 edition.
In Memoriam:
Mark Kanaris, MD - the 1989 Illinois Family Physician of the Year, passed away at the age of 91. He practiced in Chicago and Oak Lawn for over 30 years. Born in Greece, he was part of the Greek Resistance during WWII and spent two years in an POW camp, then went to the Aristotle Medical School. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1958 and eventually served as Chair of Family Practice at Christ Hospital.
Mark Loafman, MD of Chicago authored an editorial on Family Medicine obstetrics as part of training and practice in this month's American Journal of Clinical Medicine
Kohar Jones, MD of Chicago authored a stunning column in the January 9th Chicago Sun-Times about the South Side youth she worked with this summer and their views of the violence of "Chi-raq" and the constant gun violence they see around them. Read it here!
Kameron Matthews, MD, Medical Director for Mile Square Health System is quoted in a January 3rd Modern Healthcare article about Mile Square's new facility, which expects 76,000 patient visits in its first year, combining primary, urgent and specialty care in one community health center site.
UnityPoint Health Methodist/Proctor named IAFP member Keith Knepp, MD as its new Chief Operating Officer. In new role, Knepp will be responsible for hospital operations at both campuses as well as having direct oversight of Surgery/Anesthesia services, Oncology, Imaging, Lab, Pharmacy, Informatics and Quality and Safety.
We missed one: Russell Robertson, MD, dean of Chicago Medical School, co-authored an article in the November issue of Health Affairs called "Accelerating Physician Workforce Transformation Through Competitive Graduate Medical Education Funding"
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