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40 | Issue No. 5wpahospitalnews.comPitt’s Dunbar Jacob elected to firstInternational Nurse ResearcherHall of FameJacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, RN, PhD, FAAN, dean and professor, University ofPittsburgh School of Nursing, will be one of only 22 esteemed nurse researchers tobe inducted into the newly created Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse ResearcherHall of Fame. This unique recognition eternally honors nurse researchers who areHonor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) members; whohave achieved long-term, broad national and/or international recognition for theirwork; and whose research has impacted the profession and the people it serves.STTI will induct 22 nurses who are leaders, mentors, scholars and role models.Their research projects have been focused on areas such as patient/family outcomes,community wellness, national or international healthcare policy and healthcareinterventions.For more information visit www.nursingsociety.or or www.pitt.edu.John T. CinicolaHeritage Valley appointsCMOJohn T. Cinicola, former division director and the interimchairman of the Department of Medicine at Allegheny GeneralHospital, has been appointed vice president and chiefmedical officer at Heritage Valley Health System.As a member of the senior management group, Cinicolawill oversee the medical staff office, including peer review,continuing medical education, ethics and the medical library.Cinicola is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.He obtained his medical degree from the West VirginiaSchool of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residencytraining at the Cleveland Clinic.Memorial’s WehnerNamed President, PA’sAmerican College ofEmergency PhysiciansDaniel R. Wehner, MD, chairman, Department ofEmergency Medicine, MMC, has been appointed to aone-year term as president of the Pennsylvania Chapterof the American College of Emergency PhysiciansFor the past year, Wehner has been active as president-elect,working on issues from emergency departmentovercrowding to healthcare reform. Dr. WehnerDaniel R. Wehnersays, “Among my goals are efforts to reduce emergency department crowding andboarding of admitted patients in our emergency departments, making strides towardimproving the medical liability situation in Pennsylvania and promoting access toquality emergency medical care to all who seek such care.”Wehner joined Memorial Medical Center in May 2000 as chairman of theDepartment of Emergency Medicine.Healthcare Professionalsin the NewsWenzel Receives American ThoracicSociety AwardSally Wenzel, M.D., professor of medicine, University ofPittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSOM), and director, Universityof Pittsburgh Asthma Institute @ UPMC/UPSOMreceived the 2010 Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishmentsat the American Thoracic Society (ATS) InternationalConference in New Orleans, May 17. She gave a presentationtitled “Asthma Phenotypes: A Prelude to MechanisticInsights on Disease Pathogenesis.”The award is given each year to ATS members whodemonstrate outstanding scientific contributions in basic orclinical research that further the understanding, preventionand treatment of respiratory disease or critical illness.Sally Wenzel Wenzel has a longstanding interest in severe asthma and isone of four National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-fundedinvestigators in the NIH-sponsored Severe Asthma Research Program. She has publishedwidely on differing inflammatory profiles in asthma and their relation to clinical characteristics.She is actively involved in clinical trials in severe asthma, incorporating theseinflammation variations in predicting response to therapy. Dr. Wenzel also is internationallyrecognized for her contribution to identifying vastly different personal approaches tothe treatment of asthma and severe asthma in particular.Wenzel served on the Pulmonary-Allergy Advisory Committee to the FDA, was assemblychair for the ATS section on Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation, and chaired theATS International Conference Committee. She was Deputy Editor for the American Journalof Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine from 2005 to 2009.CCMH Announces Addition of HamotAffiliated CardiologistCyril Gunawardane, MD, recently joined the medicalstaff at Charles Cole Memorial Hospital.Gunawardane is a cardiologist with the Hamot Heart Instituteand comes to Charles Cole Memorial Hospital as the hospital’srelationship with Hamot continues to evolve. Services,such as cardiology, are one of the priorities established byboth organizations in their recent announcement outliningtheir new clinical affiliation agreement. Gunawardane willhelp to expand cardiology services at CCMH, where he joinsDrs. Howard Miller and Steven Herrmann.Gunawardane completed an internal medicine residencyand cardiovascular diseases fellowship at State University ofCyril Gunawardane New York at Buffalo affiliated hospitals. He previouslyserved as director of non-invasive cardiology at the ErieCounty Medical Center, associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Buffalo’scardiology division, and as a staff cardiologist at the Olean Medical Group. He is anAmerican College of Cardiology fellow.Sandra Osborne, director of InformationSystems at Monongahela ValleyHospital, wa honored for a strong commitmentto work and the goals and idealsof the health care system with the 2010Edward J. Protin Memorial Award.The Protin Award is one of the hospital’smost prestigious honors and therecipient is not named until the night ofthe event. Osborne, whose career atMonongahela Valley Hospital spansmore than 40 years, received a standingovation from the audience. Criteria arethat the recipient must have served thehospital for at least 10 years, exhibitedsignificant contributions to the healthcaresystem over and above what isrequired, and demonstrated the qualitiesof leadership, loyalty, compassion andempathy.Osborne Receives MVH Protin AwardA graduate of Charleroi High School,Osborne began her MVH career evenLouis J. Panza Jr.,president and CEO ofMonongahela ValleyHospital (left) andRichard A. Barcelona,chairman of the Mon-Vale Health ResourcesBoard of Directors andMonongahela ValleyHospital Board ofTrustees, present the2010 Edward J. Protinaward to SandraOsborne.before college in 1964 with a part-timesummer job at the Charleroi-MonessenHospital. She is a nursing graduate of theLillian S. Kaufman School of Nursingand is also a Penn State alumni. In theeighties as an obstetrics nurse, she wasrated outstanding for many years.In the mid-eighties, she becameMVH’s first information system’s nurseliaison when the hospital launched nursingorder entry and in 1988 became managerof information systems for the hospital.Recently, through her direction of theinstallation of a hospital-wide computersystem, filmless radiology, stroketelemedicine and computerized physicianorder entry are a few of the new technicalsystems now available at the hospital.Physicians are able to link directly to thesystem and to patient medical recordsfrom their offices.