2012 - Health Care Professionals - Dartmouth-Hitchcock

UROLOGY RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAMIn June we bid farewell to our two Chief Residents, Dr.Sverrisson and Peter Jones, MD. Dr. Sverrisson has started afellowship in Oncology at Moffit Cancer Institute in Tampa,FL and Dr. Jones has joined a private practice group inPocatello, ID. Both Drs. Jones and Sverrisson successfullypassed Part I of their American Board of Urology exam inJuly. In July, E. Ann Gormley, MD finished her term as theeditor on the AUA/ABU Exam Committee.Once again we had a very large contingent of residents andfaculty at the Annual Meeting of the New England Section.The meeting was held in Boston, September 6-8, 2012.Residents were first authors on eleven presentations. ScottWiener, GSM 2012, who is now a Urology Resident atUniversity of Connecticut, also presented work that he didwith Vernon Pais, MD. The following residents presented atthe annual meeting: Johann Ingimarsson, MD (1); BenHerrick, MD (2); Elizabeth Johnson, MD (2); Levi Deters,MD (1); Cullen Jumper, MD (1); Paholo Barboglio, MD (3);and Larry Dagrosa, MD (1).Dr. Herrick successfully completed a manuscript of hisresearch on socioeconomic status and stones, which qualifiedhim to compete in the residents’ prize essay contest. Wewere very pleased with Dr. Herrick’s first place finish in avery competitive field.Dr. Pais and Scott Fabozzi, MD, from our faculty atConcord, participated in a debate on the surgical treatmentof stones. Dr. Gormley moderated a debate on pelvic organprolapse, and William Bihrle, MD organized the socialprogram.Our residents are submitting abstracts to a variety ofsubspecialty programs that meet throughout the winter andto the 2013 American Urologic Association Annual Meetingin May.The Section of Urology is busy preparing for a celebrationto recognize John Heaney, MD’s contribution to residenteducation and to our Section. We will have scientificprograms on October 19th and 20th with all of thepresent faculty and many of Dr. Heaney’s former residentspresenting.Amanda Charbono, our Residency Program Coordinator,and Dr. Gormley are beginning to review the applicationsfor our program for 2013. We will be interviewing Oct31st, Nov 17th, and Nov 27th.Since the last Surgery newsletter, we have had major changesto our pediatric urology faculty. Leslie McQuiston, MD leftin May for a private practice position in Austin,TX andDaniel Herz, MD has announced his plans to move to theUniversity of Ohio in Columbus, OH at the end of the year.Fortunately, we have recruited David Chavez, MD, who willstart in January. Dr. Chavez graduated from our program in1995 and after completing fellowships in both endourologyand pediatrics, has been working in Montana. We arelooking forward to having Dr. Chavez join our urologyteaching faculty.DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY ANNUAL REPORT 201237