February 2012 - University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago ...

Family Medicine Newsletter 

University University of of Illinois Illinois At At Chicago Chicago 

Chicago 

Department Department of of Family Family medicine medicine 

medicine 

AAFP 2012 ALSO COURSE 

The Department of Family Medicine sponsored the 2012 ALSO 

Course on Friday, January 20th and Saturday, January 21st, 

2012. Since 2003, the DFM at UIC has coordinated the Advanced 

Life Support in Obstetrics course, designed to teach obstetrics providers 

how to handle obstetric emergencies and keep them up-to-date 

on evidence-based practice recommendations. The ALSO course 

instructors are comprised of a consortium of Chicago-area family 

medicine residency faculty: UIC, Illinois Masonic, Hinsdale, Resurrection, 

and Cook County-Loyola-Provident are all represented. 

ALSO is a structured, evidence-based, multidisciplinary training program 

on the practical management of obstetric emergencies. The 

two-day course is for maternity care providers including physicians, 

midwives, nurses and other clinicians. 

FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 2012 

2012 

Course Co-Directors: Alicia Milan- 

Flanigan, MD and Jessica McIntyre, MD 

Advisory Faculty: Juliet Bradley, MD 

The 45th STFM Annual Spring Conference will be held April 

25-29, 2012 in Seattle, WA. The Annual Spring Conference 

offers presentations focusing on best practices, new teaching 

technologies, emerging research, and public policy issues. The 

educational offerings are great but the time between the session 

are very powerful. This meeting is the most powerful networking forum for family medicine educators, 

with attendance of more than 1,000. Registration is now open. For more information please go to: 

http://www.stfm.org/conferences/annual/an/index.cfm?CFID=10722818&CFTOKEN=97275481 

DFM presentations accepted: 

♦ Devens M, Stringham R. Building a Personal Well-being “Toolbox” for Medical 

Students Transitioning into Residency. Works In-Progress. 

♦ Figueroa E, Adawy S, Putz K, Guio M. The Addition of a Medical Spanish Curriculum 

into a Family Medicine Residency. Works In-Progress. 

♦ Figueroa E, Guio M. Family Medicine Faculty Development in Third Trimester 

Obstetrical Ultrasound. Scholarly Topic Roundtable Discussion. 

♦ Goold B, Hasnain M. Empowering Future Physicians to Build and Sustain Patient-centered 

Medical Homes. Works-in-Progress. 

♦ Hasnain M. Longitudinal Continuity of Care Training in Patient-centered Medicine: 

Opportunities and Challenges. Lecture-discussion. 

♦ Hasnain M, Massengale L, Dykens JA, Figueroa E. Health Disparities Training 

in Graduate Medical Education: A Review of the Evidence. Works-in Progress. 

♦ Hasnain M, Schwartz A, Girotti J, Bixby A, Rivera L, and the UIC Experiences 

of Care Project Group. Patient-reported Experiences of Care: Do Race and Acculturation 

Status Matter? Completed Projects and Research. 

♦ Hyderi AA, Bennett K, Brakman AJ, Henderson S, Herbitter C, Truesdell 

J. Bringing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Medical Education 

into the Mainstream: Competencies, Resources, and Collaboration. Seminar. 

♦ Potter MC, Hasnain M, Hyderi AA. Primary Care Residency Expansion to Address 

Unmet Medical Needs: Funding Support and Curriculum Design. Lecturediscussion. 

♦ Tiemstra JD. Moving from Traditional to Advanced to Open Access in a Teaching 

Family Practice. Works-in-progress. 

Inside Inside Inside this this issue: 

issue: 

UIC Employee Recognition 

Awards 

2 

IAFP 3 

DFM Volunteer 

Faculty 

4 

Announcements 5 

DFM 2011 Holiday 

Festivities 

6

Page 2 FEBRUARY 2012 

20 Years 

Chris Bobek, NP Nandini Khatkhate, MD Augustine Sohn, MD, MPH 

15 Years 10 Years 

Yonous Smith Maria Devens, PhD Mary Fuller, MA 

5 Years 

Rosa Angulo Memoona Hasnain, MD, 

MHPE, PhD 

Meg Oberholtzer, MBA 

November November November 2011 

2011 

was was UIC 

UIC 

Employee 

Employee 

Recognition 

Recognition 

Month. Month. Please 

Please 

congratulate 



Department Department of 

of 

Family Family Medicine, Medicine, 

Medicine, 

College College of 

of 

Medicine 


employees employees who 

who 

have have achieved 

achieved 

service 

service 

recognitions! 

recognitions!


On September 21, 2011 physician leaders gathered at Rush 

Medical Center for an event releasing an updated Physicians’ 

Breastfeeding Statement that combined the work of 

IAFP with the Illinois chapters of the American Academy 

of Pediatrics and the College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 

Illinois currently ranks 31st in breastfeeding rates. The Illinois Academy of 

Family Physicians Task Force members volunteered to review and help shape 

this important physician statement are: 

Dr. Brenda Fann 

Dr. Lola Okunade (right) 

Dr. Ashley Nix Allen 

Dr. Risha Raven 

Dr. Marian Sasseti 

Dr. Lise Weisberger 

Dr. Rashmi Chugh , Public Health Committee Chair 

http://www.iafp.com/whatsnew/ILPhysiciansStatementBreastfeeding.pdf 

http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/promotion/calltoaction.htm 

AAFP Congress of Delegates September 12-16, 2011 in Orlando 

Javette Orgain, 

MD, MPH (left), 

IAFP’s pastpresident, 

was 

elected by acclamation 

of the 

Congress as the 

AAFP’s Vice 

Speaker. Dr. Orgain 

is the second 

Illinois member to serve in this position. 

Illinois Chapter Resolutions: 

IAFP was represented by delegates Drs. Orgain, Temporal, 

Brull and Miller. The Illinois chapter submitted 

or co-sponsored three resolutions considered by Congress: 

Resolution 201, 305, and 507. 

Christopher Guerrero, 

MD (left), 

IAFP’s 2010 Family 

Medicine Teacher 

of the Year for volunteer 

faculty, received 

the AAFP 

Humanitarian 

Award. He was 

honored for his 

humanitarian efforts in his native Philippines. His volunteer 

duties include teaching at a nursing school in the 

Philippines. He also leads medical missions to his homeland 

community of Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines. 

He was also featured in the Elmwood Park Times, the 

local edition of the Sun Times Media Group. The article 

covered his dedication to mission work in the Philippines 

and other nations. Dr. Guerrero received the 

award at the AAFP Annual Scientific Assembly in Orlando. 

Dr. Guerrero is a Clinical Assistant Professor in 

the DFM at UIC. 

Also in attendance as IAFP Board Chair was Patrick Tranmer, 

MD, MPH, Department Head (left, 1st) and Abbas Hyderi, 

MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine 

(left, 2nd). 

To read the complete IAFP Newsletter please go to: http://www.iafp.com/newsletter/IAFP%20Newsletter%20Nov-Dec%202011/ 

fscommand/IAFP%20Nov-Dec%20Newsletter4-new%20board.pdf

Page 4 

Thank You DFM Volunteer Faculty 

We would like to thank all clinical faculty who have contributed their time and expertise in the many educational activities in the 

Department of Family Medicine at UIC. It is our departmental mission to provide quality educational experiences for medical students, 

residents and faculty, and your participation is vital in accomplishing this goal. 

Please remember to update all your personal information by logging into the University of Illinois’ NESSIE employee access system. 

NESSIE can be accessed at https://nessie.uihr.uillinois.edu/cf/index.cfm. To prevent technical difficulties in accessing your UIC 

email account or the UIC Library, please log in to NESSIE, your UIC email, or the UIC Library at least once every year. By doing 

this, you are confirming your intentions to keep your accounts active. The University’s Academic Computing and Communication 

Center (ACCC) routinely deactivate accounts that remain inactive for greater than one year. If you have recently moved or changed 

your preferred email address, please notify the DFM Administrative Office at holtzer@uic.edu, so that we may continue to provide 

you with information regarding your appointment and the DFM Newsletter. 

If interested in medical student education activities, please contact Richard Stringham, MD (rstring@uic.edu); residency training, 

Mark Potter (mcpotter@uic); Grand Rounds lecture series, Rosa Angulo (rosalbaa@uic.edu). Should you have any comments or 

questions regarding your faculty standing or updating information, please contact Meg Oberholtzer (holtzer@uic.edu). For information 

about non-salaried appointments in the Department of Family Medicine and departmental activities, please visit our website at 

http://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/departments___programs/departments/fammed/ 

Thank you very much for your continued interest in the Department of Family Medicine at UIC. 

Clinical Associate Professor 

Elizabeth Feldman, MD 

Michael Friedman, MD 

Lawrence Goldberg, MD 

Richard Guthmann, MD 

Kathryn Stewart, MD, MPH 

James Valek, MD 

Margaret Wiedmann, MD 

Clinical Assistant Professor 

Alan F. Bain, DO 

Stanislaw Banas, MD 

Peggy Bandy, MD 

Antonio Barajas, MD 

Jacqueline Bardwell, MD 

Syed Baseer, MD 

Murray Bass, MD 

Barbara Bellar, MD, JD 

Stephen G. Bennett, MD 

Jon Beran, MD 

David Berdy, MD 

Asmamaw Beyene, MD 

Corinne Blum, MD 

Katina Bonaparte, MD, MPH, CCCP 

Boguslaw Bonczak, MD 

Christopher Brenner, MD 

William Briner, MD 

Matthew Brown, MD 

Suzanne Carlberg-Racich, PhD 

Sangili Chandran, MD 

Milton Chavez, MD 

Brian Chicoine, MD 

Henry Cordero, MD 

Charles Crotteau, MD 

Andre DeJean, MD 

Jose Elizondo, MD 

Michael Fisher, MD 

Luvianca Fonseca, MD 

Luis Garcia, MD 

Melvin Glick, MD 

Martin Gonzalez, MD 


Judy Gordon, MD, MPH 

Diana Grant, MD 

Glen Grobe, MD 

Dean Grove, MD, MPH 

Maurice Guzman, MD 

Michael Hanak, MD 

Benjamin Hasan, MD 

Edward Hernaez, MD 

Michal Hytros, MD 

Beth-Anne Jacob, PhD 

Michael Jutovsky, MD 

Kent Kamradt, MD 

Fred Karlin, MD 

Jaya Kasturi, MD 

Humaira Khan, MD 

Roy Lacey, MD 

Michael Ladewski, DO 

Joseph Laluya, DO 

Irene Lesniak, MD 

Alex Lima, MD 

Esther Liu, MD 

Benjamin Lo, MD 

Georgia Lubben, MD 

Brian Lynch, MD 

Katarzyna Malecka, MD 

Michael Melnick, MD 

Ramiro Mercado, MD 

S. Alicia Milan-Flanigan, MD 

Robert Moss, MD 

Kami Mullings, MD 

Chiedu Nchekwube, MD 

Obidike Nwakudu, MD 

Jacqueline Olivo, MD 

Nigam Patel, MD 

Kenneth Pierini, MD, MS 

Catherine Plonka, MD 

Albert Poronsky, DO 

Fred Richardson, MD 

Stephen Rittman, MD 

Rebecca Rodriguez, MD 


Lizbet Ronning, MD 

Mario Rosas, 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 

Audrey Stillerman, MD 

Rishi Sud, MD 

Srinivas Surabhi, MD 

Gabriella Temneanu, MD 

Rafael Vargas-Zapata, MD 

Thomas Waidzunas, MD 

Bruce Weber, MD 

Lise Weisberger, MD 

Clinical Instructor 

Anastasia Gianakakos, MD 

Debra Haley, PhD 

Jessica Haloskie, MD 

Dragomir Jovanovic, MD 

Marina Khusid, MD, ND, MS 

Joshua Merok, MD 

Haroon Olomi, MD 

Leon Que, MD 

Vineet Singla, DO 

John Tenhundfeld, MD 


of Psychology 

Steven Zuckerman, PhD 


of Psychiatry 

Rodney Eiger, MD 

Lecturer 

James Arons, DO 

Crystal Cash, MD 

Frank Castillo, MD, MA 

Margaret Dolan, MD 

Mark Drexler, MD 

Charles Edoigiawerie, MD, MPH 

Yacob Gawo, MD, MRCP 

Mandy Gittler, MD 

Stuart Goldman, MD 

Judith Gravdal, MD 

Pauline Harding, MD, LDN 

Mirza Jesani, DO, 

Mark Kanaris, MD 

Greg Kirschner, MD 

Mark Macumber, MD 

Jessica McIntyre, MD 

Paul Omastiak, MD 

Steven Rube, MD 

Martin Shobris, MD,PhD,CMD 

Stephen Stabile, MD, MHA 

Gary Stuck, MD 

Sajjini Thomas, MD 

Robert Zitter, Ph.D. 

Adjunct Clinical Assistant 

Professor of Law 

Cherilyn Murer, JD, CRA 

Adjunct Associate Professor 

of Family Medicine 

Ibrahim Bani, MD 

Clinical Professor 

of Orthopaedics and Sports 


Mark Hutchinson, MD 


of Orthopaedics and Sports 


Terry Nicola, MD, MS

Family Medicine Newsletter 

Patrick Tranmer, 

MD, MPH (left) 

was appointed Interim 

Associate 

Dean for Clinical 

Affairs on July 16, 

2011. 

Richard Stringham, MD (left) 

was awarded the 2011-2012 

Teaching Recognition Award by 

the UIC Council for Excellence 

in Teaching and Learning. 

Memoona Hasnain, MD, 

MHPE, PhD (left) has been 

elected to serve on the Board of 

Directors for the South Asian 

Public Health Association 

(SAPHA). 

Congratulations 

Congratulations! 

Congratulations 

Abbas Hyderi, 

MD, MPH (right) 

has been appointed 

Interim 

Associate Dean 

for Curriculum as 

of January 16, 

2012. 

Samuel Grief, MD (right) was 

named as one of the Top Doctors 

in Obesity; 

weight management; 

nutrition 

on the January 

2012 edition of 

the Chicago 

Magazine. 

Announcements 

Giving to the DFM 

The Department of Family Medicine is 

grateful for all those who have contributed 

to DFM gift funds throughout the 

year. Gift funds are extraordinary valuable 

in that they enrich the department 

by investing in new technology, resources 

for research projects, and the overall education of 

residents and medical students in Family Medicine. We 

invite you to consider a gift to the Department of Family 

Medicine! For more information and instructions on how 

you can give to the DFM, please visit our website at: 

http://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/ 

departments___programs/departments/fammed/ 

giving_to_the_dfm/ 

Drs. Figueroa, Hasnain and Hyderi, and Ben 

Goold, Ryan Carr, PatriciaChico, Linday Martin, 

Beth-Anne Jacob, Dr. Ricardo Rivero, 

Suzanne Carlberg-Rachich, Barbara Schechtman, 

family and friends all participated in the 

“AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s AIDS Run 

and Walk Fundraiser” held on October 1, 

2011. Together they raised a total of $5,468.


FMIG FMIG “Fireside “Fireside Chat” 

Chat” 

DFM 2011 Holiday Festivities 

DFM DFM 2011 2011 Holiday Holiday Party 

Party 

DFM NEWSLETTER STAFF 

Special thanks to Rosalba Angulo, Project Coordinator, Admin., DFM faculty and staff for their contributions to this newsletter. Please 

direct questions and comments to Meg Oberholtzer at holtzer@uic.edu.

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