Newsmakers
Director
of cardiac service named
Dr. Adam E. Berman has been named director of MCG’s Cardiac Arrhythmia Ablation Services and assistant professor of medicine.
Dr. Berman is a graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and a cardiology fellowship in adult cardiovascular diseases at Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, including a year as chief cardiology fellow. He recently completed an advanced fellowship in clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Duke University Medical Center.
He is board certified in cardiac electrophysiology, cardiovascular diseases, adult echocardiography and internal medicine.
Dr. Berman’s clinical interests include catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, including complex ablations for atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. His research interests include individually tailoring electrophysiology tools such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators and new imaging and mapping devices.
Dr.
Brann named to editorial board
Dr. Darrell W. Brann, professor and associate director of the Institute of Neuroscience, has been named to the editorial board of Neuroendocrinology, an international journal for brain and hormone interaction, for a third term. He has served as a reviewer for the journal since 1993.
He is a reviewer for American Journal of Physiology, Neuropharmacology, Journal of Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences, Brain Research, Endocrinology, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, Journal of Reproduction and Fertility and Neuroscience.
Dr. Brann chaired a special review study section of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development this year and served as an ad hoc member of the institute’s Fellowship Review Study Section.
He is co-director of a five-year National Institute of Health training grant in neurodegenerative diseases and neural repair. He chairs MCG’s Intramural Grants Program, which administers $1.1 million in grant dollars annually.
Dr. Brann received the 2001 School of Graduate Studies Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2005 Outstanding Basic Science Teaching Award from the School of Medicine and the 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award from his undergraduate alma mater, Henderson State University in Arkansas.
Dr.
Hobbs appointed to executive committee
Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chair of the Department of Family Medicine and vice dean for primary care and community affairs in the School of Medicine, has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the American Board of Family Medicine, the second-largest medical specialty board in the United States.
Dr. Hobbs also has been named chair of the Examination Committee and will serve on the Bylaws, Credentials and Audit/Finance Committees. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2003.
Dr. Hobbs, a 1974 graduate of the MCG School of Medicine, has served on the board of directors of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine since 1999 and is the association’s representative to the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Curriculum Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Minority Health Care Group and chairs the Academic Family Medicine Organization’s Subcommittee on Pre-doctoral Education. He was named to the Council on Graduate Medical Education of the Health Resources and Services Administration in 2006.
Two named to legal affairs office
Richard Murphy and Anthony Hightower have joined the Legal Affairs Office as senior legal advisers, providing advice on contracts, employment and discretionary issues, inventions, copyrights and other intellectual property and risk management to the university’s administrative officers, supervisors and faculty.
Mr.
Murphy comes to MCG from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s
Atlanta District Office, where he supervised enforcement teams that
prosecuted violators of federal securities laws. He was involved with
policy, budget, personnel and administrative issues and provided information
to the media about cases. His work earned him the Irving M. Pollack Award
for Distinguished Public Service.
He earned a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and government from Cornell University and a master’s degree in economics and juris doctor degree from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the state bars in California, the District of Columbia and Georgia.
Mr.
Hightower, a Georgia native, was a member of the Georgia House of
Representatives in 1991 and served on the College Park, Ga., city council
from 1986-90. He comes from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he
directed the Offices of Equity Access & Diversity, managing investigations
of discrimination complaints and implementing diversity training for
university faculty and staff. He previously was a supervisory attorney and
team leader with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights
in Dallas and Washington, D.C.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Clark College and a juris doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law. He earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was awarded a Kennedy Fellowship. He is a member of the state bars of Georgia and Texas, the American Association for Affirmative Action and the Georgia Municipal Association.
MCG
swimmer among best in world
Tom Northcutt, business operations specialist in auxiliary services, swam his way to three top-10 finishes at the FINA Masters World Swimming Championships Aug. 4-10 at Stanford University in Palto Alto, Calif. Mr. Northcutt finished eighth in the 200-meter butterfly, ninth in the 400 individual medley and 10th in the 200 individual medley. The event attracted more than 5,500 athletes from 70 countries, including nearly 100 former Olympians.
Obituaries
The MCG community extends condolences to the family and friends of:
Donald L. Teasley, 67, who died July 18. Mr. Teasley was the husband of Phyllis R. Teasley, operations manager of the Health Center Credit Union.