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Dr. Vasco A. Lowery III (’89), Toccoa, Ga., has been named a member of the Stephens Federal Bank Board of Directors. He and wife Beth have maintained a partnership practice in Toccoa since 1992.
Dr. Diane Manning Pennington (’93), Kingsland, Ga., has opened Camden Oral Surgery, P.C. in Kingsland. |
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| Twins Featured on Medical Show
Drs. Alan and David Redding, identical twins who
graduated from the School of Medicine in 2002, got a taste
of stardom recently.
The twins, both allergy immunology fellows (Alan at
the University of Tennessee-Memphis and David at the
University of Texas Medical Branch), were featured on
the Aug. 1 episode of Diagnosis X, a program on The
Learning Channel.
The program mixes physicians with actors in dramadocumentaries
about cases that defy ready diagnosis. “She
asked if we had an interesting case they could use,” said
Dr. David Redding of a conversation he and his brother had
with the producer when they met at a medical conference
in San Diego. “Alan thought of a recent patient with a rare
and difficult-to-diagnose disease, IPEX syndrome.”
The condition, the full name of which is immunodysregulation
polyendocrinopathy enteropathy X-linked
syndrome, is a recently discovered immunodeficiency
disease that is fatal in early childhood without a bonemarrow
transplant. Mothers transmit the mutation to sons.
The Reddings tested for the mutation in a patient’s
FOXP-3 gene, which confirmed the baby had the syndrome.
A bone-marrow transplant saved his life.
“The family agreed to let them use their story for the
TV show, with some changes to protect their privacy,”
Dr. David Redding said.
He and his brother, who vetted the script for accuracy,
were pleased with the outcome. “It is showing the
interesting brain-teaser cases where the diagnosis is not
readily apparent,” he said. “It shows how doctors have to
go to the books—or on the Internet nowadays—and review
literature. It exemplifies that you have to be willing to
constantly learn and look things up to make a diagnosis.”
The program is shot at North Hollywood Medical
Center, a hospital that closed in the 1990s and is “an
excellent place to shoot medical shows,” Dr. David Redding
said. The series, Scrubs, is filmed on a different floor of
the hospital.
Thom Eberhart, director of the film, Gross Anatomy,
directed the Reddings’ episode, titled “Systems Failure.”
It took two 13-hour days to make.
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Dr. Barbara Castleberry Carlton (’57),
Wauchula, Fla., a retired family physician, has
funded one of the three 2007 T.A. Sappington
Awards, hosted by the Georgia Academy of Family
Physicians Foundation for academically outstanding
MCG School of Medicine seniors who demonstrate
an interest in family practice. This year’s three
recipients, Malcolm G. Floyd, Brian Neil Lewis
and David Zimmerman, began family medicine
residencies in Georgia in July. “There has been a
drastic decrease in students who choose family
medicine as a career over the past few decades,”
Dr. Carlton said. “This donation was a small
investment on my behalf to support interest in
this field.”
Dr. Arthur “Buster” Browning (’74),
Jacksonville, Fla., has been named Volunteer of
the Year by the National Association of Athletic
Development Directors. He has been directly
responsible for over $5 million of financial support
for the University of North Florida athletics
department and the university in general. In
addition to his volunteer efforts, he has been
the tournament physician for The PLAYERS
Championship since 1982, has served as the
physician to The President’s Cup since 1997 and
is on local and national boards of First Tee.
Dr. Oscar R. Jenkins Jr. (’86), Asheville, N.C.,
was recently elected governor of the North Carolina
Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. His
three-year term begins next March, and he currently
serves as governor-elect. He has been involved in
the N.C. chapter of the ACC for 13 years and has
served as secretary-treasurer and counselor. He has
been in private practice since 1992 in Asheville,
where he lives with his wife and three sons.
Dr. Braxton Turner (’00) is a pain
management specialist practicing at Specialty
Clinics of Georgia in Gainesville, Ga. He
completed an anesthesiology residency and a pain
management fellowship at Emory University.
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Dr. Caro “Cricket” Garlich (’01) practices
obstetrics and gynecology at the Longstreet Clinic’s
Center for Women’s Health in Gainesville, Ga. Her
husband, Dr. Paul Garlich, practices at Northwest
Georgia Otolaryngology. They recently had their
first child.
Dr. Adrian Holtzman (’01), Charlotte, N.C.,
has joined the Frye Regional Medical Center staff as
a radiologist. He completed a residency at Albany
Medical Center, where he served as chief resident,
then completed a fellowship in body imaging at the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School
of Medicine. He is board certified in diagnostic
radiology and is a member of the Radiological
Society of North America, the American Roentgen
Ray Society and the American Medical Association.
Dr. Brent Flickinger (’02) recently joined
Dr. Marta Bognar’s rheumatology practice in
Gainesville, Ga. He previously served on the faculty
of the Medical University of South Carolina in
Charleston.
Dr. Robert Spruill (’04) practices family
medicine at the Kirk Clinic in Southside Medical
Park in Colquitt County. “My goal is to provide
compassionate health care while helping patients
understand more about their diagnosis,” he said.
He and wife Brooke have two sons, Charlie, 2, and
Wyatt, 1.
Dr. John D. Hain, who completed a
neurosurgery residency at MCG in June, has joined
Neurological Incorporated in Omaha, Neb. He
earned his medical degree from the University of
Nebraska Medical Center. He and wife Jacqueline
have two children and live in Elkhorn, Neb.
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Female School of Medicine
Graduate Dies at Age 103
 Dr. Emily Hammond Wilson Walker, who in 1927
became the second female to graduate from the Medical
College of Georgia School of Medicine, died July 10 at
age 103.
Dr. Walker, a physician in Anne Arundel County,
Md., since 1929, delivered thousands of babies, set
countless bones and diagnosed the first case of tick fever
in Maryland.
In an earlier interview with MCG Today, Dr. Walker
recounted a cold reception when she first arrived in Anne
Arundel, despite the county’s dearth of doctors. She broke
the ice by treating a dog hit by a car, sewing the gash in
his shoulder and cementing her reputation as a skilled and
trustworthy physician.
She made house calls on horseback or tractor when
the unpaved roads she traveled were too muddy for her
Ford. She charged $1 for an office visit or $15 to deliver
babies at home, often being paid with eggs or farm
produce. Her waiting room was integrated from the
beginning of her practice, a rarity at the time.
Dr. Walker grew up in Beech Island, S.C., often
accompanying her mother to offer homemade remedies
to those in need. She graduated from Goucher College
in Baltimore and completed premed courses at the
University of Georgia before earning her medical degree.
Dr. John Paul Jones (’41), Macon, Ga., who practiced medicine in middle Georgia for 60 years, died June 30 at age 91. After earning his medical degree, he served in the Army Air Corps as a flight surgeon for the 388th Bomber Group near London. During his career, he served as the first medical director of the Bibb County chapter of the National Polio Foundation, helped organize Georgia’s chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and helped develop the Children’s Hospital at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. He received the Leila D. Denmark Lifetime Achievement Award and was named the 2004 Bibb County Medical Society Physician of the Year. Dr. Jones served as medical director of the Bibb County Head Start program and helped establish Stratford Academy, where the trophy for the school’s outstanding senior athletes is named in his honor. He co-founded Highland Hills Baptist Church. Survivors include wife Edna, three sons and nine grandchildren.
Dr. Weems Rufus Pennington Sr. (’41), Lincolnton, Ga., died June 27 at age 89. After graduating from MCG, he completed an internship at Macon General Hospital, then served in World War II as a flight surgeon in the Army Air Corps. He practiced in Lincoln County, Ga., for 42 years. By the time he retired in 1988, he had delivered over 3,000 babies. Lincoln County expressed its appreciation by designating May 10, 1986 Weems Pennington Day. A parade in his honor featured over 400 of “Doc’s Babies” who came from as far as Canada and California to honor the man who brought them into the world. Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Margaret C. Pennington; a son, Dr. Weems R. Pennington Jr. (’71); a daughter, Peggy P. McMillian; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. |
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Dr. Homer Lewis Crandall (’48), Vestavia Hills, Ala., died Jan. 30 at age 82. He served as head of pediatrics at Lloyd Nolan Hospital, where he helped establish the process of Rh blood exchange in infants. He also served on the Residency Review Board for 12 years. He was a member of Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church, Vestavia Hills Kiwanis Club, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, Jefferson County Medical Society and the Jefferson County Pediatric Society. He had lived in Vestavia Hills since 1959. Survivors include wife June Covar Crandall; children Homer Lewis Crandall Jr., Laura Crandall Wheeler, Melanie Jean Crandall and William “Billy” Hendrix Crandall; and 10 grandchildren.
Dr. Joseph Campbell Knight, who completed an internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at MCG, died June 26 at age 71. He graduated second in his class from the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis, joining the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1959. He practiced in Murfreesboro, Tenn., for 32 years. He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and was a fellow of the American College of Medicine. Survivors include wife Glendel Bryson Knight, a daughter, a son and three grandchildren.
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NURSING
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| Suzanne Clary Bryan (’77), Savannah, Ga., is
an oncology nurse at Memorial Health University
Medical Center. She left the nursing field to raise
her sons (now 24, 22 and 19) but returned after
losing her husband to cancer, inspired to return
the help and support her family received. |
Diana Ellis Conco (M.S.N., ’80) is on the
nursing faculty at King College in Bristol, Tenn.
She earned a Ph.D. in nursing science in 1993
from the University of South Carolina and has
researched elder care, spiritual care, Web teaching
and stress reduction in nursing curricula. She and
her husband have a son, Spencer.
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