 MCG
to Honor Distinguished Alumni
The Medical College of Georgia’s five alumni associations will
present awards during the university’s April 21-24 homecoming
celebration.
The School of Allied Health Sciences Alumni Association will present
its Distinguished Alumnus Award to Andrea Garr Koppelman, an
instructor in the MCG Department of Health Informatics and product
manager for McKesson Corp. in Atlanta. Ms.
Koppelman, who earned her bachelor’s degree in health information
management from MCG in 1993, served as health care informatics
administrator at North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, Ga., and
marketing manager and health care solutions manager for Lanier
Healthcare in Atlanta. She joined the McKesson Corp. in 2004.
Ms. Koppelman received the Georgia Health Information Management
Association’s 2003 Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. John B. Black, president of East Georgia College in
Swainsboro, Ga., will receive the School of Graduate Studies Alumni
Association’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dr. Black, who earned a Ph.D.
in endocrinology from MCG in 1959, served on the faculty of Augusta
College (now Augusta State University) for more than 20 years. He then
served as vice president for academic affairs at East Georgia College
and at Dalton State College. He was special assistant to the vice
chancellor for academic and student affairs in the University System of
Georgia before returning to East Georgia College in 2004 as president.
Dr. Black has directed fertility laboratories in Augusta, Macon, Ga.,
and Charleston, S.C.
The School of Dentistry will present its Distinguished Alumnus Award
to Dr. Logan Nalley Jr., an Augusta prosthodontist and assistant
clinical professor of prosthodontics at MCG. Dr. Nalley earned his
dental degree from MCG in 1978 and completed an MCG prosthodontics
residency in 1980. He is a diplomate of the American Board of
Prosthodontics, an honorable fellow of the Georgia Dental Association
and a member and past president of the Georgia Board of Dentistry.
The School of Medicine Alumni Association will present its
Distinguished Alumnus Award for Loyalty to Dr. Roy Witherington
and its Distinguished Alumnus Award for Professional Achievement to
Dr. John R. Woodard.
Dr. Witherington, MCG Professor Emeritus of Surgery (Urology), earned
his medical degree with honors from MCG in 1953 and completed an MCG
urology residency in 1960. He served on the faculty from 1960 until his
retirement in 1997. He also had a full-time urology practice in Augusta
from 1961-72 and served as president of the Georgia Urological
Association from 1967-68.
He received the American Urological Association’s 1997 Gold Cane
Award and the American Medical Association’s 1997 Physician’s
Recognition Award.
Dr. Woodard, who earned his medical degree from MCG in 1957 and
completed a pediatric urology fellowship in New York Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, retired in 1999 after serving as director of pediatric
urology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and as
chief of urology at Egleston Children’s Hospital at Emory. He also held
faculty appointments at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., and the
University of West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.
He is a past president of the Georgia Urological Society and the
Society for Pediatric Urology.
The School of Nursing Alumni Association will present its E. Louise
Grant Award to Shelby J. Lacy and its Phoebe Kandel Rohrer Award
to Dr. Kathryn Nightingale Hannah.
Ms. Lacy, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from
MCG in 1967 and 1996 respectively, is the manager of health education
at Athens Regional Medical Center in Athens, Ga. She has served as
president of the 11th District of the Georgia Nurses Association and
chair of the Clarke County Board of Health. In 1991, she helped
establish The Nurses’ Clinic, which provides health care to the
uninsured three days a week.
Dr. Hannah, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing in
1975 and 1976, respectively, is a senior health information management
consultant and adjunct professor of community health services at the
University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. She earned a Ph.D. from the
University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta and has over 20 years of
experience in developing and implementing information management plans
in integrated health services delivery organizations.
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School of Allied Health Sciences
Alfonzo Graham (respiratory therapy, ’88)
has been named director of cardiopulmonary services at Lake Norman
Regional Medical Center in Mooresville, N.C. He has 16 years of clinical
and management experience in respiratory care. He also has a dual
master’s degree in business and health administration from Pfeiffer
University in Charlotte, N.C., and a bachelor’s degree in biology from
Francis Marion University in Florence, S.C.
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Dr. Robert L. Waugh (’87), Athens,
Ga., has a full-time orthodontics practice, Waugh & Allen, Associates in
Orthodontics, and is an assistant professor in MCG’s orthodontics
residency program. He was recently the first orthodontist to address the
annual Symposium of the World Clinical Laser Institute, held Jan. 21-23
in San Diego. He is a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon and is board
certified by the American Board of Orthodontics. He is a past president
of the Georgia Association of Orthodontists and the Clarke County Dental
Society. He recently was inducted into the American College of Dentists.
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Dr. James L. Bland (’60), Aiken,
S.C., has been elected to the American Society of Bariatric Physicians
Board of Trustees. Dr. Bland is a diplomate of the American Board of
Bariatric Medicine and in addition to his medical degree holds a law
degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is a
fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine and a member of the
South Carolina Medical Association.
Dr. James C. Gray (’76) has begun
providing primary health services at the Macon County Health Department
in Lafayette, Tenn. He is board certified and a fellow of the American
College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was in private practice in
obstetrics and gynecology for 24 years in Cookeville, Tenn. He is an
adjunct faculty member at the Tennessee Tech School of Nursing and
enjoys gardening, computers, fishing and volunteering for First United
Method Church.
Obituary
Dr. William Hollingsworth Oglesby (’65)
died Oct. 21 at age 72. Dr. Oglesby’s career began with a general
practice in the Highlands-Cashiers area of North Carolina. He then moved
to Tifton, Ga., where he practiced general medicine and established the
first 24-hour emergency room service at Tift General Hospital. Survivors
include wife Frances Girtman Oglesby, five children, five grandchildren
and a brother.
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Mary Jane Welborn Hamilton (B.S.N., ’60)
has been named dean of the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi College
of Nursing and Health Sciences. Her goals include creating a doctoral
program, addressing the shortage in the nursing field and increasing
private funding for technology, facilities and student aid.
Katie Nordholz (’02) is a pediatric
and neonatal intensive care nurse at New York Presbyterian Hospital at
Cornell and plans to become a nurse anesthetist.
Rebecca K. Hodges (M.S.N., ’03) and
Kitty M. Garrett (B.S.N., ’80 and M.S.N., ’01) have
published their first book as lead editors, along with MCG faculty
Cynthia Chernecky and Lori Schumacher, titled Hemodynamic Monitoring.
Faculty member Richard Haas and nursing anesthesia graduate Lee Dorman
wrote the chapter titled Mixed venous oxygenation monitoring.
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Please keep us posted on personal and professional achievements by
dropping us a line. Remember to include your degree, class year and
contact information. Also, please let us know if your address has
changed. Send information to:
Christine Hurley Deriso,
Publications Editor
FI-1040, Medical College of Georgia
Augusta GA 30912
706-721-2124 (phone)
706-721-6397 (fax)
cderiso@mcg.edu
(e-mail)
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