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Allied Health SciencesCarbon Stewart (Department of Physician Assistant, ’74) is a part-time assistant professor of physician assistant at MCG. Sharon K. Chestnut (associate degree, ’83 and bachelor’s degree, ’85) has joined the MCG Department of Biomedical and Radiological Technologies as an assistant professor. Dabney Marie Eidson (Department of Respiratory Therapy, ’96) is a part-time instructor of respiratory therapy at MCG. Juan Reyes (bachelor’s degree, 2000 and master’s degree, 2005) is a respiratory therapy instructor at MCG. Kimberly Marie Hall (bachelor’s degree, 2001 and master’s degree, 2003) has joined the MCG dental hygiene faculty as a part-time assistant professor. Brianna Michelle Whitworth (Department of Radiologic Technologies, 2002), works in ultrasound at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, Ga., and married Joseph Godfrey Hay Jr. Feb. 4 in Lawrenceville, Ga. Cumi Layton Fillion (bachelor’s degree, 2003 and master’s degree, 2005) is a part-time assistant professor of dental hygiene at MCG. Blaine Henry (Department of Physical Therapy, 2005), received the 2005 Bella J. May Award, named in honor of a founding faculty member, in recognition of leadership and outstanding academic and clinical performance. [Top] DentistryDr. Virginia A. Merchant (’77), professor in the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry Department of Biomedical Sciences, received the university’s 2005 Outstanding Faculty Member Award. Dr. Denise Ann Allen Brown (’97) practices general dentistry in Suwanee, Ga., and married Robert Scott Brown Feb. 25 in Atlanta. [Top] MedicineDr. James L. Bland (’60), Aiken, S.C., has been named president-elect of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. Dr. Bland is a diplomate of the American Board of Bariatric Medicine. He holds a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law and is a fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine. He is a member of the South Carolina Medical Association and the Aiken County Medical Society. Dr. Carl P. Weiner (’77), a nationally recognized leader in premature-birth research and the practice of fetal medicine, has joined the University of Kansas School of Medicine as professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He recently received a $2.8 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant to investigate causes of premature birth, which affects 12 percent of U.S. pregnancies. Dr. Robert M. (Bo) Kennedy (’80), a pediatric emergency medicine physician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital Emergency Department and associate professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis, has developed drug and behavioral techniques to ease children’s anxiety in emergency rooms. He recently biked 3,000 miles to Alaska with his brother and bride, then spent a year there working and having outdoor adventures. His roles at Washington University have included associate director for educational affairs and director of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support Program. From 2003-05, he served as medical staff president, helping create a pain and sedation subcommittee. He also helped develop some of the original trauma center regulations for the state of Missouri. Dr. Christopher Cates (’82), director of Vascular Intervention at Emory University Hospital and Emory Crawford Long Hospital, has been elected to the board of directors of the Society of Medical Simulation. He also has been appointed to the editorial board of the journal, Simulation in Healthcare. Dr. Robert Douglas Foster (’85), Burlington, Ark.,is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in neck and back procedures. He is on the medical staff of Great River Health Systems and recently founded the Great River Spine Clinic. He started his health care career in 1973 by earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing from MCG, then by putting himself through medical school working as a nurse. Dr. Sallie A. Carter (’86), Anderson, S.C., recently received Mercer University’s Walter L. Moore Humanitarian Award. After earning a psychology degree from Mercer in 1971, she coordinated Project Upward Bound to help prepare young people for college, then became educational director of the women’s prison in Hardwick, Ga. She then graduated from Yale Divinity School and became the first woman chaplain of Sweetbriar College in Virginia. Next came her medical degree, which she earned while raising three children. Her private practice in Anderson includes mobile treatment to the medically underserved via a custom-outfitted recreational vehicle. She has never turned away a child and has provided free service to hundreds of families. Dr. Glen Portwood (’89) has joined Carolina Digestive Health Associates in Harrisburg, N.C. Board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology, he completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Duke University. [Top] NursingP.J. Johnson (’77) has been promoted to chief operating officer of Trident Medical Center in Charleston, S.C. Grace Newsome (’77), Dawsonville, Ga., has been appointed by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to the Health Strategies Council, representing nurse practitioners. She is a professor of nursing and coordinator of the family nurse practitioner program at North Georgia College and State University and is a family nurse practitioner in Atlanta and Dahlonega, Ga. Ms. Newsome is immediate past president of the Georgia Association for Nursing Education. She and husband Billy have three children and eight grandchildren. Dr. Karen J. Minyard (M.S.N., ’80) has been appointed by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to the Cervical Cancer Elimination Task Force. The task force was created in 2005 to produce two reports before disbanding June 30, 2006. Dr. Minyard is executive director of the Georgia Health Policy Center. She is an officer on the founding board of the Community Health Leadership Network and an associate research professor in the Georgia State University School of Public Administration and Urban Studies. She earned a Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Christine Barrett Berding (bachelor’s degree, ’83 and master’s degree, ’92) is an assistant professor of biobehavioral nursing at MCG. Julia Lowe Behr (bachelor’s degree, ’88 and master’s degree, ’92) is a part-time assistant professor of biobehavioral nursing at MCG. Judy K. Glaser (’93) is a part-time instructor of biobehavioral nursing at MCG. Nicole Scalise Wimmer (’97) has joined the MCG faculty as an instructor of physiological and technological nursing. Lindsay Erin McClellan (2005) married James Dustin Keeble of New York July 16 in Lawrenceville, Ga. ObituariesMarsha Ann Brandon (M.S.N., ’75) died Jan. 1 in Lithonia, Ga. [Top] All Smiles and Match Day
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