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Greetings Buckeye Alumni and Friends!
It is time for the annual update on our growing Buckeye Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship.
Brief Update on the Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine Division
Clay Marsh continues to build the division in our “Good to Great Model1” and we now have 39 faculty (29 MD/9 PhD/1 PharmD)! New faculty this year include Doug Haden, MD from Duke University who will be joining our Pulmonary Hypertension Program and Jennifer McCallister, MD from Wake Forest who is our new associate director of the fellowship training program.
Research funding continues to increase with currently 11 faculty RO1’s, 7 K awards, 3 national network awards, 16 AHA/ALA/other notforprofit/NIH grants; all contributing to our growing translational research program with 9 active inpatient clinical trials and 33 active outpatient trial (http://internalmedicine.osu.edu/pulmonary/762.cfm).
Mark Wewers, MD and Tom Clanton, PhD were also successful in getting a renewal on the T32 training grant.
Clinical expansion has continued with growth in programs offered in our pulmonary outpatient clinics located at The Lung Center (614-293-4925) in The Martha Moorehouse Medical Plaza on Kenny Road. Karen Wood, MD is the new director of outpatient medicine and in addition to expanded general pulmonary clinics, we currently have sub-subspecialty programs in asthma, COPD, dive and high altitude medicine, ILD, interventional pulmonology, lung cancer (multi-disciplinary), lung volume reduction clinic (multi-disciplinary), post-BMT pulmonary clinic, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary transplantation and sarcoidosis.
The section of allergy has also moved into the Lung Center and is eagerly anticipating the arrival of the new allergy section head, Bryan Martin, DO, who is joining us from Walter Reed, where he has been the director of the allergy section. Drs. Martin and Hauswirth were recently successful in obtaining funding for an allergy fellowship beginning in July 2008!
We have also enrolled our first sleep fellow this past year, as Dr. Uly Magalang successfully obtained certification for our sleep fellowship program from the ACGME.
Update on Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Training Program.
We now match 5 new fellows per year, with a current total of 15 fellows. We were very pleased with our match this year, and the class of 2008 includes residents from The Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Tennessee and University of Florida (I know, I know, but he is not a native Floridian and also not an athlete so we cut him some slack).
Our new fellows (class of 2007) successfully completed our month-long orientation program, “Pulmonary Med School.” They take no call and are not assigned to clinical service for the month of July. Instead, they receive lectures on basic pulmonary physiology and basic “core” pulm/cc topics (asthma, copd, pfts); train in the spiffy Clinical Skills Lab in the Prior Medical Library using the newly purchased virtual bronchoscopy simulator as well as state-of-the-art dummy simulators to practice CVLs, chest tubes and airway management techniques; train in the Medical School Anatomy Lab with cadaver specimens for airway management skills and chest tube placement; attend wet labs on ventilators, PFTs, bronchoscopy including tech’ing for a bronch; attend an overnight sleep study; and also rotate on all the services in an “apprentice” mode with the F2s – F3s.
Our fellows had a very successful year in terms of academic accomplishments this past year. One hundred percent of our fellows were involved in scholarly activity, highlighted by 2 grant awards: Beth Besecker, MD received a NRSA grant for her work with Daren Knoell, PharmD studying zinc transporters in epithelial cells and Michael Ezzie, MD was awarded a 5 year Young Clinician Scientist Award for his work with Clay Marsh, MD and Phil Diaz, MD looking at the role of thromobspondin-1 in emphysema.
Our fellows have 26 manuscripts & abstracts either published or in press. All of our fellows attended at least one international meeting and we had a total of 16 abstracts/ posters presented at international meetings. Steven Kadiev was recognized for Best Case Presentation at the International CHEST Congress. Stephen Kirkby, who is our first fellow completing dual training in adult pulmonary/critical care and pediatric pulmonary, was named Outstanding Fellow at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. We are very proud of their hard work and academic successes!
In addition to our burgeoning research training program, our fellows continue to enjoy the tremendous clinical learning environment at OSU. With the new critical care responsibilities, fellows are now exposed to all aspects of medical, cardiac, and surgical critical care with designated months in the SICU and caring for critically ill post-op cardiac and thoracic surgery patients. Fellows continue to receive training in all procedural aspects of pulmonary/critical care, which is becoming an increasingly unique aspect of our program, as many other fellowships across the country are becoming more limited in the procedures offered to pulm/cc fellows, specifically training in intubations and chest tubes. Our graduating fellows average 200-250 bronchoscopies, 20-25 chest tubes, and achieve competency in intubation, CVL’s, S-G catheter placement, PFT/CPET interpretation, with the option to achieve competency in a variety of interventional pulmonology procedures including percutaneous tracheotomy.
We had an enjoyable Fellow’s Appreciation Dinner to honor our graduating fellows in June. The dinner was again held at the Huntington Club in the Horseshoe, making it a very “Buckeye Pride” event! At the dinner we announced this year’s Chief Fellow: Michael Green, MD, who completed residency at The Ohio State University and is pursuing his MBA as his research/scholarly activity. We also announced this year’s Buckeye Adult Lung Award (BAL award) recipient, which is awarded to a faculty member for excellence in fellow teaching. This award is voted on by the fellows: Scott Aberegg, MD was the recipient with Roy Essig, MD and Jim O’Brien, MD the other finalists.
We also have a program to recognize outstanding fellow achievements, noting both academic and clinical excellence, whereby we award “Buckeye Leaf” stickers at our monthly fellow’s meeting. Fellows place the Buckeye Leaf awards on their division-issued Buckeye coffee mugs and the fellow with the most Leaf Awards is proclaimed the “Most Outstanding Buckeye.” This year the honor went to Michael Ezzie, MD, with Stephen Kadiev, MD and Ben Bringardner, MD taking 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
Of our 4 graduating fellows, Beth Besecker has elected to join us as a Research Faculty, Ben Bringardner accepted a position in private practice in Charlotte N.C., Brad Harrold will join the group at Grant Hospital in town, and Martin Valdivia-Arenas is joining a private practice group in Findley, OH.
We continued our recent tradition of giving Housestaff awards at the end of the year IM Housestaff Dinner for excellence in both pulmonary medicine and in critical care medicine. We opted this year to name the award for excellence in pulmonary medicine the James N. Allen Award for Excellence in Pulmonary Medicine! Jim is clearly a fitting embodiment of excellence in pulmonary medicine and we felt this added special value to this award. Jim was present at the dinner to give his award to Sara Horst, MD. The awards were once again voted on by the faculty, fellows, and the MICU Nursing staff. Brent Riscili, MD, who won last year’s award in pulmonary medicine, this year took home the critical care award. We certainly look forward to having the highly decorated Dr. Riscili as part of our 2007 fellowship class.
We continue to regularly meet with the housestaff interested in pulmonary/critical care at quarterly happy hour events. This year in addition to the 2 residents who matched with us, we had residents match at Colorado, Indiana and Vanderbilt for pulmonary/critical care fellowship training. While we love to keep our own best and brightest it is certainly a good thing to send our residents to other high quality fellowship programs.
This past year we had several residents participate in research projects within the division with two presenting their work at the ATS International Meeting. Currently our housestaff pulmonary/critical care interest group has approximately 12 housestaff signed up so we can anticipate the Buckeye training pipeline to continue churning out the pulmonary/critical care docs. We also had 5 residents apply for allergy fellowships, which bodes well for our new allergy fellowship program.
In summary, we are very excited about the progress and future direction of both the division and our fellowship program and we look forward to graduating more outstanding Buckeye Pulmonary/Critical Care docs! We would love to hear from you, particularly if there are specific topics or insight you have that you wished someone would have told you during fellowship.
For those who are local, you are certainly welcome to attend any of our conferences, which are listed on our web page. You can also find information regarding upcoming CME events and Jim Allen’s MedNet 21 virtual CME center at: http://ccme.osu.edu/cmeactivities/onlineeducation/webcast/
We have attached an information update form as we are planning to add an alumni section to our Web page. We hope you will fill out this information so we can post it and allow your long-lost Buckeye friends to get back in touch with you. Please let us know if there are other things that would be useful to have in the alumni section of our web page. Please return the form either via e-mail or regular post to the addresses listed at the bottom of the page. This will also ensure we have the correct information to send your invitation to our annual Buckeye Reception at the ATS meeting in May.
Please feel free contact me or Clay with any questions or feedback. Go Bucks!
 
John G. Mastronarde, M.D. Clay Marsh, M.D.
Director, Fellowship Program Division Chief
Office: 614-247-7707 Office: 614-247-7707
Email: john.mastronarde@osumc.edu Email: clay.marsh@osumc.edu
1Good to Great. Jim Collins. Harper Collins Inc. 2001
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