COM Outlook Winter 2020

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | 43 Jeffrey S. Grove , D.O., FACOFP (’90), was chosen as a Notable 2019 LGBTQ Executive by Crain’s Chicago Business . The American Osteopathic Foundation nominated Grove, who is a past president of the Florida Osteopathic Medical Association. Marlow B. Hernandez , D.O., M.P.H., M.B.A., FACP (’11), was featured in the Inc. news- letter in the article “This Doctor Grew 1 Clinic into a Network All Across Florida. Now He Wants to Go Nationwide.” The article focuses on Hernandez’s successful launch of the primary care network Cano Health, which now consists of 36 clinics throughout Florida. Shawn Iverson , D.O. (’11), joined Bentz Eye Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, in July as a cornea transplant, cataract, and refractive surgeon. Iverson is one of the few ophthalmolo- gists in South Florida able to perform the ultra- thin, partial thickness cornea transplant known as descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty. Daniel F. Leiva , D.O., M.S., (’16), an emergency medicine and wilderness and research fellow at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, received a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute T32 research training grant. The funding will allow Leiva to derive and validate a simple model, based on readily available patient characteristics and resuscitation process variables independent of patient-specific comorbidities, to predict hospital outcome probabilities for geriatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest event survivors. Miguel Loya , D.O. (’10), is serving a two-year term as chief of staff for the Santa Ynez Cottage Hospital in Solvang, California. Katarina Lindley , D.O., FACOFP (’04), was invited to the White House in Washing- ton, D.C., on June 24 to witness President Donald Trump sign an executive order to improve price and quality transparency in health care. Lindley was invited based on her involvement with the DPC (Direct Primary Care) Action Board of Directors. DPC Action is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and advocating for improved access to affordable health care through independent direct primary care practices.