Internal Medicine

The Society of Manufaturing Engineers has named Warren R. DeVries, dean of engineering and information technology at the University of Mary land, Baltimore County, as the 2007 winner of the SME Albert M. Sargent Progress Award for significant ac complishments in the field of manufacturing pro cesses, methods and systems. DeVries, an expert in materi al removal processes and manufacturing systems, served as the National Sci ence Foundation's division director for the Division of Design and Manufacturing Innovation before coming to UMBC.

The field of geriatrics never used to exist in medical-school curriculum, had no leaders and offered little opportunity to students.But in the past few years, student interest in learning to treat and care for older adults has increased significantly at medical schools across the country.University of Washington medical student Karin Harp chose this four-week rotation "because I've always been interested in geriatrics and wanted to see if it was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life."

Kroger is named Internist of the YearThe Colorado Society of Internal Medicine and the Colorado Chapter of the American College Kroger of Physicians has named J. Stephen Kroger, M.D. -- chief executive officer of COLA -- as Internist of the Year and recipient of the society's Laureate Award.The award is based on service to internal medicine and health care.Kroger has been active in the American Society of Internal Medicine for 25 years. He served as president of the Colorado Society of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Edward J. Benz Jr., one of the nation's leading specialists in blood disorders, has been selected to become chief of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and physician in chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.His appointment is effective Sept. 1, although it still is subject to confirmation by faculty and physician boards of the medical school and hospital. Those approvals are considered routine.Dr. Benz, who is chief of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, is a hematologist who has spent many years studying the molecular basis of inherited anemias such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia.

Dr. Ephraim T. Lisansky, a nationally known physician and medical educator whose special interest was in the social and emotional causes of disease, died Monday of congestive heart failure.Dr. Lisansky, a Baltimore native who was 80, graduated from City College, the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland medical school.After a tour of duty in the South Pacific during World War II, he practiced internal medicine in Baltimore from 1945 to 1980.He also taught at the UM medical school during those years and at the School of Social Work from 1961 to 1980.

The Centennial High School varsity cheerleading squad will be competing in the National Cheerleading Association's National Championships in Dallas Dec. 27-30.To help defray the cost of the trip, an auction will be held featuring goods and services from local businesses. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 in the school's auditorium.Information: 992-6811, 465-2305 or 418-8274.Charlestown Community names medical directorThe Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville has named Dr. Matthew Narrett of Ellicott City as Medical Center director.

Dudley P. Jackson, 68, Georgetown hematologistDr. Dudley P. Jackson, chief of the division of hematology at the hospital at Georgetown University, died Tuesday after an apparent heart attack while playing tennis at the Bare Hills Tennis Club.A memorial service for the 68-year-old Clarksville resident will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at the Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Highland.At Georgetown since 1972, he served as chairman of the department of medicine until 1982 and then became associate director of the training program in internal medicine there.

Drs. Pankaj R. Desai and Syed M.A. Riaz have opened an internal/general medicine practice in the Linthicum-Ferndale area.In opening their medical practice at 800 N. Hammonds Ferry Road, they are consolidating the established medical practices of Drs. Syed Ashruf and Charles Milton Linthicum, whom residents had patronized for many years. Ashruf retired from private practice in May and Linthicum died in November.Desai is a graduate of Grant Medical College of the University of Bombay, and Washington State University, with a master's degree in pharmaceutical science.

Dr. J. Frank Supplee III, a retired specialist in internal medicine, died early yesterday at Union Memorial Hospital after a short illness. He was 72.Services for Dr. Supplee will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at St. John's Episcopal Church, 1700 South Road in Mount Washington.He retired about seven years ago after being in private practice in Baltimore since 1949.A member of the staffs at Union Memorial and Johns Hopkins hospitals and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, he belonged to the Baltimore City Medical Society, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the American Medical Association and the Society of Internal Medicine.

Dr. K. MalinowInternist, psychiatristDr. Kenneth Malinow, who practiced internal medicine and psychiatry in Baltimore since 1980, died Saturday at Sinai Hospital of heart disease.Dr. Malinow, who was 42 and lived on Midfield Road in Pikesville, maintained an office in the Village of Cross Keys.He was a member of the staffs of Sinai Hospital, the Homewood Hospital Center South, Good Samaritan Hospital and Church Hospital.Born in Baltimore, he was a graduate of Milford Mill High School, the University of Maryland at College Park and the university's medical school.

Dr. Marc Applestein, a urologist on staff at Howard County General Hospital, has been named president of the professional staff. Dr. Jonathan S. Fish, an internist, was named vice president, and Dr. Francis S. Chuidian, a specialist in pulmonary disease and critical care, was named secretary/treasurer. Applestein joined the hospital's professional staff in 1988. He graduated cum laude from Duke University with a bachelor of science, and from the University of Maryland with a doctorate in medicine.

* Saint Agnes Hospital has named Dr. Norman M. Dy physician director of pay for performance and core measures. In this role, Dy will work with Cheri Hahn, assistant vice president for quality and safety and her staff to design, organize and implement pay-for-performance programs. Dy is a board-certified internal medicine physician who is the vice chairman of medicine, chairman of the Clinical Provider Order Entry Committee and program director of the internal medicine residency program at Saint Agnes.

* Dr. Timothy G. Doyle and Dr. Jason E. Goodman have joined the clinical staff at Mercy Medical Center. They will see patients exclusively at Overlea Personal Physicians at 7602 Belair Road, Overlea. Board certified in internal medicine, Doyle has managed an internal medicine practice in Towson for the past 12 years. He earned his medical degree in 1993 from the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa. Goodman is board certified in internal medicine and has been in private practice in Silver Spring for the past eight years.

Howard County General Hospital has appointed Dr. Tin Maung Oo, medical director of the hospital's Hospitalist Program. Hospitalists are physicians who specialize in the care of hospitalized patients and whose practice is in the hospital, not in an office. A hospitalist is assigned to care for an inpatient if he does not have a primary care physician or if his primary care physician has referred him to the program. Oo was born and raised in Burma, now Myanmar, where he completed medical school in 1973.

* Dr. Catherine G. Jonnakuty and Dr. Marisha Newton have joined the staff of the Center for Bone Health and the Division of Endocrinology at Mercy Medical Center. Jonnakuty received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and her medical degree from Kasturba Medical College. She is board-certified and completed her internal medicine residency and internship at the New York University School of Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital. Newton received her medical degree from the Howard University College of Medicine.

After four years of medical school and three years of internal medicine training, Jessica Colburn could have chosen just about any field of medicine to practice. Gastroenterology would have been lucrative, brain surgery exciting. At one point, pediatrics piqued her interest. But Colburn, 31, picked one of the least-popular areas of medicine to make her mark: geriatrics. "I've always loved old people," said Colburn, chief resident at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency program.

The Society of Manufaturing Engineers has named Warren R. DeVries, dean of engineering and information technology at the University of Mary land, Baltimore County, as the 2007 winner of the SME Albert M. Sargent Progress Award for significant ac complishments in the field of manufacturing pro cesses, methods and systems. DeVries, an expert in materi al removal processes and manufacturing systems, served as the National Sci ence Foundation's division director for the Division of Design and Manufacturing Innovation before coming to UMBC.

Dr. Wilmer K. Gallagher, a retired internist and avid canoeist, died of a cerebral hemorrhage Monday at Howard County General Hospital. The longtime Ellicott City resident was 71. Dr. Gallagher was born in West Chester, Pa., and moved with his family to Irvington and later Ten Hills. He was a 1951 graduate of Friends School and earned his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1955. After earning his medical degree in 1959 from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Hospital names head of professional staff Dr. Michael Macon has been named president of the professional staff of Howard County General Hospital. Dr. Michael E. Silverman has been named vice president, and Dr. Edward J. Lee, secretary-treasurer. Macon is section chief for general surgery at the hospital. A member of the Maryland Surgeons practice, he received his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine, and he completed his internship and residency at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore.

Awards Lawrence M. Principe, a historian and chemist at the Johns Hopkins University, has received the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize for an outstanding scholarly publication for his book, Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. A professor in the Department of the History of Science and Technology and the Department of Chemistry, Principe wrote the book with William R. Newman, an Indiana University science historian. Their book argues that historians should look to alchemist Joan Baptista Van Helmont and philosopher George Starkey for the origins of modern chemistry, rather than the scientists who normally get credit, such as Robert Boyle or Antoine Lavoisier.