COM Outlook Summer/Fall 2019

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | 31 Aaron Klein , D.O. (’01), joined Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s BocaCare® physician network in February, where he provides a concierge medicine option to the network’s patients— the first hospital-based concierge medicine program in Palm Beach County, Florida. Klein is board certified in internal medicine and has been practicing medicine in Boca Raton for 13 years. Katarina Lindley , D.O., FACOFP (’04), received the 2019 American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) Excel- lence in Advocacy Award, which recognizes physicians who have significantly contributed their time and talents to national health care policy issues at the local, state, and/or federal levels on behalf of their profession and patients. She received her award during the ACOFP 56th Annual Convention and Scientific Seminars held March 21–24 in Chicago, Illinois. Katie Meyer , D.O. (’13), joined the Children’s Clinic— Saltillo pediatric staff in Missis- sippi. She completed her pediatric residency training at Broward Health Medical Center’s Chris Evert Children’s Hospital in Fort Lauderdale in 2016, where she was named Resident of the Year. Meyer previously worked at the Dignity Health Medical Foundation in Merced, California. David Pizzimenti , D.O., FACOI, (’02), was named director of inpatient services at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. In this role, he will also serve as the founding director of a large internal medi- cine residency program in one of the nation’s most underserved areas. Additionally, he has served on the American Council for Graduate Medical Educa- tion (ACGME) Internal Medicine Resident Review Committee since 2017 and is serving on the ACGME 2035 Subcommittee. Stephen Plumb , D.O. (’99), accepted a new position in May at Phoebe Dermatology in Albany, Georgia, where he assumes responsibility for building a new practice from the ground up and leveraging his board certifications in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, dermato- pathology, and dermatology—with a fifth to come soon in Mohs surgery. William Stager , D.O., M.S., M.P.H., FAAFP, FAAMA, FAAO, FACOFP dist. (’89), past president of the Florida Osteo- pathic Medical Association, was elected to the American Academy of Osteopathy Board of Governors. Tony L. Weaver , D.O. (’11), became the first Native American/Alaskan Native to graduate from an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education- approved plastic and reconstruc- tive surgery residency program. Weaver also is the first osteopathic physician to complete the University of Mississippi Plastic Surgery Program. He will be seeing patients in the newly established Huntsville Hospital Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Clinic in Huntsville, Alabama. o