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Missouri Medicine welcomes added experts in 2015–2016: Elizabeth A. Piontek, MD (Urology), C. Daniel Kingsley, MD, (Hematology & Oncology), Katherine R. Lichtenberg, DO (Public Health) and Gregory R. Galakatos, MD (Orthopedics). We thank Pamela Honeycutt, MD, PhD, (Hematology & Oncology), James Magera, MD (Urology) and Roger P. Jackson, MD, (Orthopedics) for their past service.
Missouri Medicine would like to publicly thank non-Editorial Board experts who have done peer-review of submitted manuscripts in 2015: Doug Bogart, MD, Joel Shenker, MD, PhD, and Lenard Politte, MD.
Congratulations to Patricia Benoist, MD, of Houston, for achieving the degree of Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. MSMA appreciates her support since 2011.
An MSMA member since 1976, John Bentley, MD, of Springfield has been honored with the Doctor of Public Affairs degree by Missouri State University.
Chitra Dinakar, MD, FACAAI, MSMA member since 2002, was presented with the Woman in Allergy Award from the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology which honors an individual who has advanced the role of women in medicine or made a significant contribution to the specialty. Dr. Dinakar is on the Missouri Medicine Editorial Board.
MSMA commends Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCU) on the construction of its new administration building. Marc Hahn, DO, KCU President, has been an MSMA member since 2012 and spoke during the ribbon cutting.
John B. Holds MD, FACS, St. Louis, MSMA member since 1991, was awarded a Life Achievement Honor Award at the 2015 American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in Las Vegas in November. This award is the final step of three awards given by the American Academy of Ophthalmology for service to the Academy.
Michael Montgomery, MD, has been a member since 1982, and is the recipient of Kansas City Medical Society’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. Photographed to his left is Lancer Gates, DO, Immediate Past President of KCMS and MSMA Vice Speaker.
Charles Norris, MD, MSMA member since 2006, served as honorary chair of the 39th Annual Ball hosted by Lake Regional Hospital Auxiliary, benefitting the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Emergency Department, Cancer Center, Family Birth Center, Surgery Center, and more.
A valued MSMA member for 15 years, Pranav Parikh, MD, has been named Chief Medical Officer of Hannibal Regional Healthcare System. We wish him all the best in his new role.
James Petersen, MD, now sees patients in Lincoln and Lake St. Louis. MSMA appreciates his support since 1993.
Congratulations to Jeffrey Piontek, MD, member since 2010, for being honored as the Mission Exceptional Recognition Physician Winner at SSM Health Medical Group in Holts Summit in December.
Richard Price, MD, now sees patients at Garden City Medical Clinic, in addition to Harrisonville Medical Clinic. He’s been an MSMA member since 1983.
Lisa Roark, MD, of Cassville, offered up a lesson on the skeletal system for first-graders in her community over the Halloween weekend. They assembled and labeled skeletons, learning where bones are located. MSMA is extremely proud to have her as a member since 2010.
