Annual Faculty Awards May 11, 2017
Distinguished Faculty Award Henry C. Barry, MD, MS Professor, Department of Family Medicine Presented by Bengt Arnetz, MD, PhD, MPH, MScEpi, Chair, Department of Family Medicine Outstanding Community Faculty Award Amy Romain, MSW Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine Presented by Bengt Arnetz, MD, PhD, MPH, MScEpi, Chair, Department of Family Medicine Outstanding Community Volunteer Faculty Award David J. Kass, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine Presented by Bengt Arnetz, MD, PhD, MPH, MScEpi, Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Mentor Recognition Tenure System Mentoring Program William Anderson, PhD, Office of Medical Education Research and Development Susan Barman, PhD, Pharmacology and Toxicology Henry Barry, MD, MS, Family Medicine James J. Galligan, PhD, Pharmacology & Toxicology Kathleen Gallo, PhD, Physiology Joseph Gardiner, PhD, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Richard Miksicek, PhD, Physiology Martha Mulks, PhD, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Narayanan Parameswaran, BVSc, PhD, Physiology Mathew Reeves, PhD, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Clinician Educator Mentoring Program Susumu Inoue, MD, Pediatrics and Human Development, Flint Steven Roskos, MD, Family Medicine, East Lansing John vanschagen, MD, Family Medicine, Grand Rapids Comments by Henry Barry, MD, MS Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs and Development Lester J. Evans, MD, CHM Distinguished Service Award Kathryn L. Lovell, PhD Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurology & Ophthalmology and Human Medicine Dean Presented by Brian Mavis, PhD William B. Weil Jr., MD, FAAP Endowed Distinguished Pediatric Faculty Award Edward Cox, MD Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Presented by Ajovi Scott-Emuakpor, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Human Development and Joseph Brzezinski, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Presented by Ajovi Scott-Emuakpor, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Human Development
Distinguished Faculty Award Henry C. Barry, MD, MS, is a tenured professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and serves as the senior associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Development for the college. Dr. Barry received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1982, served his residency at St. Lawrence Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. In 1995, he completed a master's degree in clinical research design and statistical analysis at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Through the ensuing 27 years, Dr. Barry has distinguished himself as a "quadruple threat" faculty member, achieving the highest standards for instructional performance, scholarship, public outreach, and administrative service. His scholarly focus takes a pragmatic approach to answering real world questions from students, educators, clinicians, and patients. Applying evidence-based medicine in education created opportunities to collaborate with faculty in other departments on the development of an information management theme for the medical school's undergraduate curriculum. A leader in integrating evidence-based information into patient care, he was named AAFP Senior Scholar in Residence at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in 2003. While there, he helped develop the nation's first major initiative to support the planning, implementation, and research on health information technology. Dr. Barry has become a nationally recognized expert in information mastery, serving as a founding editor of the highly regarded POEMs (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters), a series of critical summaries of recent research. During the past 20 years, he has written on numerous clinical subjects which have changed and improved the practice of thousands of physicians globally. William B. Weil Jr, MD, FAAP Endowed Distinguished Pediatric Faculty Award Joseph Brzezinski, MD, a 1991 graduate of the MSU College of Human Medicine Upper Peninsula Campus, worked as a pediatrician for Marquette General Hospital in Marquette, MI. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, serving as the assistant pediatric clerkship director for the UP campus. Dr. Brzezinski was involved in the development of the Blue Print for Health Pediatric weight control program and the Think First program. Additionally, he served on the Board of Directors of the Upper Peninsula Partnership for Safety, the Board of Directors for the Marquette General Foundation, the JOC/Board for the MGH medical group, and the UPHS Marquette Board of Trustees. Dr. Brzezinski received two MSU College of Human Medicine UP Campus Faculty Teaching Awards: the Marquette Family Residency Senior Award, and the Leader Among Peers Award from the medical group of MGH. Dr. Brzezinski passed away in 2016; however, he leaves a legacy of grateful patients, students, and colleagues.
William B. Weil Jr, MD, FAAP Endowed Distinguished Pediatric Faculty Award Edward Cox, MD, FAAP, is the former director of the Academic General Pediatric Division of Helen DeVos Children s Hospital in Grand Rapids. After 15 years in private practice, he was the first general pediatrician hired by Butterworth Hospital in 1990 and participated in the early work leading to the founding of the children s hospital. He oversaw the growth of the division and the residency program for 23 years until his retirement from clinical practice in 2013. He was a co-founder of the Children s Assessment Center, the multi-disciplinary center for the coordinated evaluation of suspected child sexual abuse in Grand Rapids. He helped recruit physicians specializing in child abuse which led to the development of the Center for Child Protection at HDVCH. Dr. Cox served at the state and national levels in the American Academy of Pediatrics, serving on many committees and task forces. He was elected district vice-chair of District V and served as committee chair for three years. He has authored policy statements and clinical guidelines and presented at local, national, and international meetings. He is co-chair of the Kent County Oral Health Coalition and serves on the Board of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition. He remains active on the Legislative Committee of the Michigan Chapter of the AAP. Since his retirement, he has continued to teach first and second year medical students at the Secchia Center of MSU/CHM. Outstanding Community Faculty Award Amy Romain, MSW, earned a bachelor of science degree in Psychology and Individual and Family Studies from Central Michigan University in 1990. She graduated with a master s degree in Clinical Social Work from Michigan State University in 1995. Amy joined the faculty of the Sparrow/MSU Family Medicine Residency program in 2002, where she has been the director of Behavioral Medicine since 2010. Amy works collaboratively in teaching residents, medical and social work students in behavioral medicine. She s nationally recognized for the development and teaching of a robust curriculum in patient centered communication, contextual care, physician resilience/reflective practices, and mental health diagnosis and treatment. Amy adapted the Ecomap for use in medical settings and uses this to teach learners the art of gathering contextual information to build connection and inform the care of patients and families. Amy is a leader in innovation and advocacy, creating partnerships to improve patient care and access to mental health services. She was a key contributor in the development of the BIRCH Clinic, offering integrated primary care to patients. She led the development of behavioral health integration at the Sparrow Family Medicine Residency sites and strives to expand the model to other settings throughout the health system. Amy has a strong history of leadership and teaching within the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and as co-founder and co-chair of the Group on Family and Behavioral Health. She serves on the program committee for the Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine, sponsored by the Medical College of Wisconsin. Amy and her husband, Don, have three children (Hannah 21, Noah 18, Sophia 16) and together they enjoy the arts, outdoors and spending time at their cottage in Whitehall, MI.
Outstanding Community Volunteer Faculty Award David J. Kass, MD, is a 1992 alumnus of the College of Human Medicine and a graduate of CHM s affiliated residency program in Marquette. He has been practicing family medicine on the Keweenaw Peninsula for more than 20 years and teaching medical students during their eight-week rural family medicine clerkship for almost as long. Not only does he teach frequently, he does it exceedingly well. He has had among the highest numerical evaluative ratings when compared to his teaching peers. He encourages students to follow-up with patients, shadow social workers to witness how difficult situations are handled in a hospital, and most importantly, allows students to see patients independently all while asking tough questions and encouraging students to create differentials as expected of a first year resident. After finishing a long work day, he has been known to take students stream fishing for brook trout as he cares about his students not just as learners, but as people. All who know Dr. Kass appreciate his kind, competent, and caring manner. He willingly shares his knowledge with a smile and nod, performing his duty as a physician and dedicated to the mission of educating future health care providers. Lester J. Evans, MD, CHM Distinguished Service Award Kathryn L. Lovell, PhD, received a BS magna cum laude in Physics from Colorado College in 1969, a PhD in Biophysics from Michigan State University in 1975, and a NIH postdoctoral fellowship for research in neuropathology. Since joining the MSU faculty in 1978, she has been a member of the Departments of Pathology; Neurology and Ophthalmology; Radiology, Division of Anatomy; and the Neuroscience Program, with major contributions in teaching and research involving both basic science and medical education projects. She retired in 2013; however, she continues teaching part-time. Kathryn has been a leader in the development of computer-based educational materials in neuroscience and neuropathology since 1988. For over 15 years, she was coordinator for the Neuromuscular/Neurology domain, where she lectured and created course pack content resources for over 20 topics. Recently, she has developed computer-based laboratory tutorials and acted as course director for the year one Medical Neuroscience course. As a faculty participant in the Advanced Baccalaureate Learning Experience (ABLE) program, she prepared ABLE students for success by teaching the Medical Neuroscience course and helped in the transition of a revised ABLE student curriculum for 2016-17. Her dedication to teaching, innovative development of educational materials, research in both basic sciences and medical education and service to the college, university, and national communities is exemplary.