Neurosurgeon

PeopleDr. Mary P. Hogan, a Columbia obstetrician and gynecologist in practice with Drs. Esposito, Mayer, Hogan & Associates P.A., has been elected president of the professional staff at Howard County General Hospital. She will oversee the hospital's nearly 600-member medical and dental staff, preside at executive committee meetings, serve as ex-officio member of clinical departments and medical staff committees and be a member of the hospital's board of trustees. She succeeds Catonsville neurosurgeon Dr. Charles J. Lancelotta, who served a one-year term.

Dr. Richard J. Otenasek Jr., a Baltimore neurosurgeon and volunteer who was ill with cancer, had stood humbly on the stage at Loyola High School's commencement to hear his life praised as a model for others.Dr. Otenasek, 63, who was presented the Rev. Joseph M. Kelley, S.J., Medal by the school's alumni association last month, died Monday at his Homeland residence surrounded by his family.In a letter to the alumni association, a son wrote: "My father has spent a lifetime embracing the spirit of St. Ignatius and being a man for others.

Amid all the hoopla of baseball playoffs and a new football team in town, Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, wants to divert attention to more cerebral pursuits."

A drama about a neurosurgeon hardly seems the stuff of children's theater.But the producers of "Ben Carson, M.D." were convinced that a play based on the life of the ghetto youth who grew up to be director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital would captivate youngsters.The Columbia School of Theatrical Arts/Theatrical Arts Productions, in residence at Toby's Dinner Theatre, has presented the play to visiting middle and high school students from Maryland and Washington since January.

Baltimore County Executive Roger B. Hayden sounded like his usual self yesterday afternoon, working as he waited in his Johns Hopkins Hospital room for specialists to decide how to treat the condition that caused a ruptured blood vessel in his head Sunday."

Dr. Benjamin Carson, a Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, will travel to South Africa next month to join a team of doctors in the delicate separation of Siamese twins who are attached at the back of the head.The girls, who are 6 months old, appear to have separate brains and a shared major blood vessel.The operation will be further complicated because one girl's brain encroaches into the other's skull.Most likely, surgeons will have to split the shared vein and reconstruct the halves so that each child has an independent and fully functioning vessel.

Dr. William H. Mosberg Jr., who earned national and international prestige as president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and as editor of a major neurosurgery journal, died Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital after a long illness. He was 73.Dr. Mosberg's medical education and work took him to three continents outside North America and to several island countries.The Baltimore native graduated from City College in 1936 at age 15. He also graduated from a business school that he attended for one year and, after working for a year in an iron foundry, enrolled the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Move over Michaels Jackson and Jordan. Make way for Elijah Cummings and Dr. Benjamin Carson.That's the message of "Another Kind of Hero," a locally produced cable series that begins at 6 tonight on Essex Community College's Channel 17 in Baltimore County."

Just when a legal settlement with three doctors seemed to calm tensions at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, the chief neurosurgeon yesterday filed a $6 million lawsuit, alleging that he is being wrongly forced out of his job.Dr. Clark Watts said his contract has been violated and his reputation damaged by Dr. Kimball Maull, the hospital's new director, who told him on July 6 to look for another job because of differences over the treatment of patients with head and spinal injuries.Dr. Maull insisted that he had not forbidden the 53-year-old surgeon to teach or perform surgery.

TO SOME PEOPLE, women who make sexual harassment charges are presumed to be bimbos in search of 15 minutes of fame as centerfolds or product-endorsers.But to all who watched her news conference Monday, it was apparent that Anita Hill's charge that Clarence Thomas harassed her with explicit descriptions of pornographic films when she was his special assistant in the early 1980s contradicts this assumption.Anyone or any body hiring or confirming a man charged with harassment should keep in mind the message conveyed by women like Hill, who try to succeed in male-dominated worlds such as law and medicine.

WASHINGTON - Baltimore neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson said he was "humbled" when President Bush draped the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, around his neck yesterday. But such accolades are routine for the doctor who persevered through a childhood of poverty and urban violence to become the youngest department head at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a benefactor distributing thousands of scholarship dollars each year. Four months ago, Carson was at the White House to receive a Ford's Theatre Lincoln Medal, awarded to individuals who exemplify the spirit of the 16th president.

William H.M. Finney, a retired neurosurgeon who was known not only for his technical expertise, but for his commitment to public health, died Thursday after an apparent heart attack while driving near his home in Towson. He was 79. Dr. Finney was an expert on back injuries and performed hundreds of disc operations during his career. He also helped start Shepherd's Clinic, a low-cost treatment center for Baltimore's working poor. "He was one of the last of the old breed of doctors, who gave their lives completely to the field," said his longtime friend and colleague, Union Memorial Hospital surgeon Dr. William Howard.

Paintings of birds decorated Center Stage's Head Theater for the 1999 Nightingala party. But the entertainment came in human form, as Marthanne Verbit presented an evening of piano theater to benefit the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Community Health Nursing Program. Among the 320 guests enjoying the high-flying night: Anne Pinkard, honorary event chair; Renee Waldron and Terry Ulmer, event co-chairs; Townsend Kent, Lindy Lord, Chessie Donnelly and Mary-Ann Pinkard, event committee members; Sue Donaldson, dean of the Hopkins School of Nursing; Dr. Bill Brody, Johns Hopkins University president; former Baltimore Colts quarterback Marty Domres, now with DB Alex.

PeopleDr. Mary P. Hogan, a Columbia obstetrician and gynecologist in practice with Drs. Esposito, Mayer, Hogan & Associates P.A., has been elected president of the professional staff at Howard County General Hospital. She will oversee the hospital's nearly 600-member medical and dental staff, preside at executive committee meetings, serve as ex-officio member of clinical departments and medical staff committees and be a member of the hospital's board of trustees. She succeeds Catonsville neurosurgeon Dr. Charles J. Lancelotta, who served a one-year term.

Amid all the hoopla of baseball playoffs and a new football team in town, Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, wants to divert attention to more cerebral pursuits."

Dr. Richard J. Otenasek Jr., a Baltimore neurosurgeon and volunteer who was ill with cancer, had stood humbly on the stage at Loyola High School's commencement to hear his life praised as a model for others.Dr. Otenasek, 63, who was presented the Rev. Joseph M. Kelley, S.J., Medal by the school's alumni association last month, died Monday at his Homeland residence surrounded by his family.In a letter to the alumni association, a son wrote: "My father has spent a lifetime embracing the spirit of St. Ignatius and being a man for others.

A drama about a neurosurgeon hardly seems the stuff of children's theater.But the producers of "Ben Carson, M.D." were convinced that a play based on the life of the ghetto youth who grew up to be director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital would captivate youngsters.The Columbia School of Theatrical Arts/Theatrical Arts Productions, in residence at Toby's Dinner Theatre, has presented the play to visiting middle and high school students from Maryland and Washington since January.

Baltimore County Executive Roger B. Hayden sounded like his usual self yesterday afternoon, working as he waited in his Johns Hopkins Hospital room for specialists to decide how to treat the condition that caused a ruptured blood vessel in his head Sunday."

Dr. Benjamin Carson, a Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, will travel to South Africa next month to join a team of doctors in the delicate separation of Siamese twins who are attached at the back of the head.The girls, who are 6 months old, appear to have separate brains and a shared major blood vessel.The operation will be further complicated because one girl's brain encroaches into the other's skull.Most likely, surgeons will have to split the shared vein and reconstruct the halves so that each child has an independent and fully functioning vessel.

Dr. William H. Mosberg Jr., who earned national and international prestige as president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and as editor of a major neurosurgery journal, died Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital after a long illness. He was 73.Dr. Mosberg's medical education and work took him to three continents outside North America and to several island countries.The Baltimore native graduated from City College in 1936 at age 15. He also graduated from a business school that he attended for one year and, after working for a year in an iron foundry, enrolled the University of Maryland School of Medicine.