COM Outlook Winter 2021

52 | DR. KIRAN C. PATEL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE Ernesto Martinez Duarte , M.D., M.P.H., FCAP (’16), received the Harold M. Mauer Outstand- ing Resident Educator of the Year Award, which is bestowed annually by the microbiology and pathology residents at the University of Nebraska to the faculty member who has demonstrated extraordinary commitment and excellence to resident education. Larry Field , D.O., M.B.A., CHCQM, CPC, CHC, LHRM (’87), serves as medical director for two national programs—the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organization Beneficiary Care Management program and the CMS Medical Review Accuracy Contractor program. Andrew R. Garrett , D.O., M.P.H., M.S. (’15), was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy and was appointed to the position of assistant professor of neurology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Joshua D. Lenchus , D.O., R.Ph., FACP, SFHM (’00), chief medical officer at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was appointed vice president of the Florida Medical Association (FMA). Additionally, Lenchus, who recently completed a three-year term as the FMA’s speaker of the house, was featured as a profile in leadership in the August issue of South Florida Hospital News . Stanley J. Linder , D.O. (’15), was featured on the weekly National Public Radio show This American Life to discuss his experi- ences as a nephrology and critical care medicine fellow in the intensive care unit at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, during the initial COVID-19 surge. He also published three book chapters in Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2021 on subjects ranging from diabetic ketoacidosis to hypomagnesemia. Maximiliano Mayrink , D.O., FACOG (’09), was appointed chair of obstetrics and gynecology and residency program director at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida. Bruce G. Rankin , D.O., CPI, FACOFP (’85), medical director of Accel Clinical Research in Deland, Florida, was featured on FOX 35 News to discuss the lab’s participation in COVID-19 clinical research trials. Biotech company Moderna selected the site as one of its trial labs as the race to find a vaccine heats up. Charles Schafer , D.O. (’16), a fourth-year general surgery resident at the University of North Carolina Hospitals, matched into the plastic surgery fellowship at Emory Univer- sity in Atlanta, Georgia. The program will commence in July 2021. ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI Spotlight