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Congratulations to Drs. Carl Blatt Jr. and Leslie Tucker, for having their endoscopy unit at Mercy Hospital Washington certified by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. They have been MSMA members for a combined total of 55 years.
Felicitations are in order for Erik Meidl, MD, MSMA member since 1996, for being named President and CEO of Hannibal Clinic!. And thank you, Michael Bukstein, MD, for his many years of service in this role.
MSMA would like to recognize David Chang, MD, of Columbia, and the work he has been doing with medical missions since his first trip in 2005 to Kenya. Last fall, 56 children there had cleft lip and palate surgeries performed on them by Dr. Chang and the team. He has been a valued MSMA member since 2006.
We applaud James Corder, MD, for being recognized with the Physician of the Year Award from BJC Medical Group in St. Louis. We appreciate your membership since 1980.
MSMA is grateful to have Omofolarin Fasuyi, MD, as a new member and we applaud you for setting up practice at Mercy’s Rolla Clinic.
Congratulations to Sarah Gordon, MD, on moving her practice to serve the patients of Prairie Hills in Versailles and Warsaw. MSMA appreciates your membership since 2002.
An MSMA Delegate to the AMA and member since 1988, Rebecca Hierholzer, MD, of Kansas City, has been recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a 2016 Woman of The Year, for her role as the Chief Executive Officer of the Collection of Victim Evidence Regarding Sexual Assault.
MSMA applauds Sri Kolli, MD, on her practice move to Esse Health Physicians at St. Clare. She’s been an MSMA member since 2006 and serves as MSMA Councilor for the International Medical Graduate Section.
MSMA is proud to call Christopher Maugans, MD, a new member of MSMA. He is in his first year of practice and just joined Rockhill Orthopaedics in Lee’s Summit.
An MSMA member since 2013 from Columbia, Brian Fassil Mesfin, MD, has been initiated as a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). This designation signifies he passed a rigorous evaluation and met the ACS membership requirements for education and training, professional qualifications, surgical competence and ethical conduct.
Krikor Partamian, MD, an MSMA member the past 40 years, expanded his practice to include Northwest Health Services in St. Joseph.
Toniya Singh, MD, MSMA member since 2015, was recently published in the Saint Louis Post Dispatch for the work she has been doing to combat gender inequality through advocacy.
Karen Thies, DO, congratulations on setting up practice at MU and for being featured in COMO Living Magazine. MSMA appreciates your membership since 2008.
MSMA wishes all the best to Racheal Whitaker, MD, MSMA member since 2015, for setting up her new practice at Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital.