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School of Allied Health Sciences
Lisa Hoty (Department of Medical Technology, 2004)
volunteered at the Mercy Ships Aberdeen Clinic and Fistula Center (http://www.mercyships.org)
in Freetown, Sierra Leone in June. The primary task of the clinic is to
provide reparative surgeries on women suffering from vesico-vaginal
fistulas, a childbirth complication unknown in the developed world but
common in poor countries.
For information about MCG's new master of public health program in
informatics, visit
http://www.mcg.edu/News/MCGToday/Sum05/allied.htm
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School of Graduate Studies
Obituaries
 Dr. Andrew M. Kelahan (Ph.D., ’83), assistant professor at
DeVry University in Fort Washington, Pa., died May 5 of leukemia at age
50. Before joining DeVry, his positions included founder of the
Minnesota-based NorthStar Foundation for Clinical Research and
Education, vice president of external affairs and chief operating
officer for the Coalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups and
executive director for external affairs for the Eastern Cooperative
Oncology Group. He was co-editing a biotechnology textbook and
developing curricula for new programs in health information systems,
bioinformatics and biomedical engineering technology at the time of his
death. He also taught online courses for Sullivan University. Survivors
include wife Sara Rinker Kelahan, a stepdaughter, two grandsons, his
father and 10 siblings. “He worked tirelessly to help cancer patients,”
said his wife, a 1980 graduate of the Department of Medical Record
Administration.
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Dr. Warren White (’58), Anderson, S.C., has received
the Order of the Silver Crescent, awarded to South Carolina residents
for exemplary community performance, contribution and achievements. It
is the state’s highest award for volunteer and/or community service. Dr.
White was a family practitioner in Anderson for 40 years. He says, “I
always tried to treat all my many patients to the best of my ability and
with humility and respect.” He and his wife of 48 years, Miriam Garvin
White, have three children (Dr. Gayle White Appleby, Dr. Warren C. White
and David L. White) and six grandchildren.
Dr. Jerry Siegel (’60), New York City, was named a
master of the American College of Gastroenterology last October and was
recently elected governor of the college representing Manhattan. He also
was elected a board member of the American Society for Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy Foundation, whose current president is MCG President Emeritus
Francis J. Tedesco. Dr. Siegel was a presenter and co-moderator of
“Endoscopists’ Injuries” at Digestive Disease Week in Chicago last May
and, as director of therapeutic endoscopy at Beth Israel Medical Center,
is the course director for the “Live ERCP” workshops held at Beth Israel
twice a year. He was included in Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.’s
America’s Top Doctors publication and Woodward-White’s Best Doctors in
America. He and wife Beverly will celebrate their 50th wedding
anniversary in December.
Dr. Larry Boss (’61), Villa Rica, Ga., has retired
after 40 years of practice. He is a benefactor of the MCG Foundation and
worked for 23 years as a clinical faculty member in the MCG Department
of Family Medicine, having students in his office every rotation of
those 23 years. His clinical teaching earned him induction into the
MCG chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha.
Dr. Paul E. Stanton Jr. (’69), president of East
Tennessee State University since 1997, has been re-elected vice chair of
the Southern Regional Education Board
Dr. Frank Rumph (’71) has been named executive director
of the East Georgia Cancer Network, a 29-county group that is a Regional
Program of Excellence created under the Georgia Cancer Coalition
Initiative. He will promote excellence in cancer prevention, early
detection, diagnosis, treatment and research. The network will work
closely with a Center of Excellence combining research efforts at MCG
and the University of Georgia. Before assuming his new position, Dr.
Rumph served 14 years as director of Georgia’s East Central Health
District.
Dr. Elisabeth J. Rushing (’80) has been named chair of
the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology’s Department of Neuropathology
and Ophthalmic Pathology. Her duties include overseeing diagnostic
consultation and research and educational programs for the department.
Dr. Rushing is a native of Augusta and a member of the U.S. Army Medical
Corps.
Dr. Karen Foushee (’87), a pediatrician with Pediatric
Partners of Augusta, has been named to the Board of Directors of First
Bank of Georgia.
Dr. Annie T. Varughese (’89), a board-certified
cardiologist of the American College of Cardiology, has been named
medical director of eCardio Diagnostics, LLC. Based in Woodlands, Texas,
eCardio provides advanced technology cardiac arrhythmia monitoring.
Obituaries
Dr. William C. McCarver (’42) died July 20 at age 87.
Dr. McCarver practiced medicine in Gainesville, Ga., from 1949 until his
retirement in 1985. He was a 50-year member of the American Academy of
Family Physicians, the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians and the
Medical Association of Georgia.
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Publications Editor
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Augusta GA 30912
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