Internal Medicine Staff Congratulations
January 2010: Dr. Molly Southworth MD, FACP will receive an Alaska Chapter ACP Volunteerism Award at the May 2010 Chapter meeting. She is receiving this award in recognition of her work over the years with the Alaska WWAMI Medical students. Dr. Southworth was instrumental in implementing the Internal Medicine Interest Group (IMIG) for the first year students. This has been a vibrant program for first year students with various activities designed to introduce students early in their career to the many opportunities that internal medicine affords them. She has also organized the yearly fall Alaska Chapter ACP Internal Medicine Mentoring Dinner on an ongoing basis. This year the dinner featured a presentation by ACP Regent Wayne Riley MD, FACP focused on racial and ethnic disparities in medical care. Congratulations to Dr. Southworth, and many thanks for her hard work on introducing Alaskan medical students to internal medicine.
January 2010: Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Ferucci, ANMC rheumatologist. Dr. Ferucci has been elected to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians. Election to Fellowship is an honor reserved for those physicians who have met high professional standards of excellence. The American College of Physicians is a professional society that represents over 120,000 internists, subspecialists in internal medicine, and students. Dr. Ferucci will be entitled to use the designation FACP in her credentials to reflect her Fellowship in the College.
August 2009: Congratulations to Dr. David Templin who has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Paulding Phelps Award. This honor and distinction is given "to a clinical rheumatologist for outstanding service to patients, community and the profession of medicine." Dr. Templin will receive the award on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at the ACR Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia.
April 2009:
On Saturday, April 4, the Hepatitis B Foundation presented their "Distinguished Scientist Award
2009" to Brian J. McMahon, M.D., Scientific Program and Clinical Director of the Liver Disease
and Hepatitis Program, Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska.
Said Timothy M. Block, Ph.D., Hepatitis B Foundation president: "The community owes a tremendous
debt to Dr. McMahon who has almost single-handedly reduced the enormous burden of hepatitis B in
Alaska Native people through his pioneering work in promoting vaccination and liver cancer screening."
March 2009: Dr. Mary Catherine Schumacher, outpatient internist at ANMC, is being honored with the 2009 Shining Lights Award from the Temple Beth Shalom in Anchorage for her community service in helping to establish Anchorage Project Access. Dr. Schumacher and her husband Dr. KC Kaltenborn, an Anchorage private practice endocrinologist, are sharing the award which will be presented in May. Anchorage Project Access helps to provide subspecialty medical care to the uninsured.
October 2008: Congratulations to Sinnamon Bovey, Robin Bassett and and Cindy Wilson! Sinnamon Bovey advanced to her RN III and Robin Bassett her RN IV on the ANMC clinical ladder. Sinnamon Bovey was named as an ANMC Outstanding Preceptor. Three of the Internal Medicine Case Managers were once again certified as ANCC board certified case managers. Congratulations to Robin, Sinnamon and Cindy.
July 2008: ANMC neurologist, Brian A. Trimble MD, was awarded the Sven Ebbesson award by the College of Natural Science and Mathematics Department of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, on July 15, 2008. This award recognizes deserving Alaskan neuroscientists and is an acknowledgment of superb scholarship in the field of neuroscience. Dr. Trimble was recognized for his work on the Alaska Native Stroke Registry which was created in 2005. The registry is striving to reduce the burden of stroke in Alaska Native peoples by devising culturally innovative methods of intervention.
June 2008: Richard Neubauer MD, FACP, received the Alaska Chapter ACP Laureate Award at the annual Alaska Chapter Scientific Meeting held in Anchorage June 26-28, 2008. The Laureate Award honors those Fellows of the American College of Physicians who have demonstrated by their example and conduct an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education or research, and service to the community and the American College of Physicians. This award is the most prestigious honor bestowed to a chapter member at the local level. Dr. Neubauer was cited for his contributions to post graduate medical education including 18 consecutive years of planning and executing the Alaska Chapter ACP Scientific Meeting, his various contributions to the ACP, including four years on the ACP Board of Governors representing the Alaska Chapter, his ongoing participation on the ACP Board of Regents and his advocacy and committee activities.
June 2008: Congratulations to Dr. David Templin MD who was recently featured in the American College of Rheumatology Directory of Members for his work delivering care to Native Americans across the State of Alaska. In a full page spread on the inside cover of the directory (Click here to view) Dr. Templin's work was extensively outlined and celebrated. His efforts have brought high quality care to patients living in remote places in Alaska; care that would otherwise be difficult or impossible for patients to access given the huge size of our State.
March 2008: Congratulations to Dr. John Bocachica who was selected as the new Chair of the Teledermatology Special Interest Group. This group functions within the American Telemedicine Association and is the largest group in the nation solely devoted to teledermatology. Dr. Bocachica received the 2007 Innovations in Teledermatology Award at the American Telemedicine Association annual meeting. He is also the co-author on the recently published "Standards Guidelines in Teledermatology", the first ever published set of standards of care in teledermatology, and was recently named to the list of the 100 Top Dermatologists in the nation.
March 2008: Congratulations to Dr. Molly Southworth MD who was recently elected to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians (ACP). Fellowship in the ACP is a career milestone that recognizes service to the medical profession in general, to internal medicine, and to the community. Dr. Southworth is currently Chief of Staff of the Alaska Native Medical Center, and has devoted much of her career to the betterment of the health and welfare of Alaska Native Peoples. She is faculty advisor to the Alaska WWAMI Internal Medicine Interest Group (IMIG) that has been active in promoting careers in Internal Medicine for Alaska students in the WWAMI program. Dr. Southworth will now be able to proudly use the credentials Molly Southworth MD, FACP.
March 2008: Congratulations to Richard Neubauer MD, FACP who was recently re-elected to a second term on the American College of Physicians (ACP) Board of Regents. Dr. Neubauer is Chief of Medicine at the Alaska Native Medical Center, and is a former Governor of the Alaska Chapter of ACP. He has been on the ACP Board of Regents for three years, and was recently re-elected to a second three year term. The Board of Regents is the governing body of the ACP which is the second largest medical membership organization in the United States, representing over 120,000 internal medicine specialists, sub-specialists, doctors in training, and medical students.
November 2005: Congratulations to Dr. Brian McMahon who has been elected to Mastership in the American College of Physicians (ACP). Dr. McMahon is Director of the Viral Hepatitis Program at ANMC. Election to Mastership in the ACP is an honor extended to very few physicians and is based on extraordinary contributions to internal medicine. Dr. McMahon joins a select group of highly distinguished physicians who have achieved recognition in medicine by exhibiting preeminence in practice or medical research, holding positions of high honor, or making significant contributions to medical science or the art of medicine. Dr. McMahon can now proudly use the credentials Brian McMahon MD, MACP
November 2003: Congratulations to Dr. Brian McMahon who has been named the first recipient of the Alvan R. Feinstein Award from the American College of Physicians. The Award was established in 2001 after Dr. Feinstein's death "to be granted to physicians who have contributed to the development of scientific patient care, applying what Dr. Feinstein defined as Clinical Epidemiology and Clinimetry." The award was given in recognition of Dr. McMahon's contributions to the field of viral hepatitis. Dr. McMahon is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar whose original research has contributed to halting the spread of Hepatitis B in endemic areas and devising rational immunization practices for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis A. Dr. McMahon serves as the Director of the Viral Hepatitis Program at ANMC.