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Peter An-
drade, D.O.
(’09)
was
featured in an
installment of
NY Med
─an
eight-episode
reality summer series on ABC
that provided a raw and inti-
mate look at life inside several
New York hospitals where
physicians spent far more time
with each other than with
their families and developed
complicated and intertwined
personal relationships. In the
segment featuring Dr. An-
drade, he was shown perform-
ing a test-tube placement.
George P. Bekic, D.O.
(’97)
has joined the Division of
Cardiology and the Cardio-
vascular Institute at Allegheny
General Hospital (AGH) in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining the AGH team,
Dr. Bekic was a cardiologist
in private practice in Lumber-
ton, North Carolina. While
in North Carolina, he held
academic appointments at the
University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill and Duke Univer-
sity Medical Center.
Bridget
Bellingar,
D.O., FACOFP
(’86)
was ap-
pointed to a
two-year term
on the Florida
Board of Osteopathic Medi-
cine by Governor Rick Scott.
Dr. Bellingar, who is a self-
employed physician in Largo,
serves as a research affiliate
with DMI Research in Pinellas
County and is past president
of the Florida Society of the
American College of Osteo-
pathic Family Physicians.
Glenn Charles, D.O.
(’92)
a leading hair transplant
surgeon who serves as im-
mediate past president of
the American Board of Hair
Restoration Surgery, recently
acquired the groundbreaking
ARTAS® System for use in
his Boca Raton-based practice.
The ARTAS System is the
first and only FDA-cleared
and physician-controlled
computer-assisted technology
for harvesting follicular units
directly from the scalp.
Harold L. Dalton, D.O.,
FAAPMR, DABPM
(’96),
who
was named president elect of
the Florida Society of Inter-
ventional Pain Physicians,
received the organization’s
President’s Achievement
Award for his work regard-
ing pain clinic regulation and
recently became the first os-
teopathic physician to become
a member of the Greater Fort
Lauderdale Caducean Society.
Doede
Donaugh,
D.O.
(’04)
is currently
working as a
family prac-
tice physician
at the Ka’u Family Health
Center in Hawaii.
Jeffrey S.
Grove, D.O.,
FACOFP
(’90)
will be
inaugurated
as the 60
th
president of
the American College of
Osteopathic Family Physicians
(
ACOFP) during the organiza-
tion’s 50
th
Annual Convention
and Scientific Seminars to be
held March 21-24, 2013, in Las
Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Grove,
who is board certified in
family medicine with added
certification in geriatrics, has
played an active leadership
role in the ACOFP, which
include stints as a Board of
Governors member, chair of
the Florida Society Delega-
Alumni Corner -
Activities, Accomplishments, and Awards
tion to the ACOFP Congress
of Delegates, chair of the
Marketing and Public Rela-
tions Committee, chair of the
Young Physicians Committee,
and vice chair of the Member-
ship Committee. In addition
to his national ACOFP service,
Dr. Grove served as president
of the Florida Society of the
ACOFP and as 2011-12 presi-
dent of the Florida Osteopath-
ic Medical Association.
Shawn
Iverson,
D.O.
(’11)
was awarded
$70,000 from
the National
Eye Institute
Clinical Loan Repayment
Program, which is an L-Series
award designed to attract
health professionals to careers
in clinical or pediatric research.
Dr. Iverson, who is pursuing
an ophthalmology residency, is
currently working on the “Ad-
vanced Imaging for Glaucoma
Study” at the Bascom Palmer
Eye Institute in Palm Beach
Gardens, Florida.
Christopher
E. Keel, D.O.
(’09),
who is
affiliated with
the Depart-
ment of Urol-
ogy at Tulane
University School of Medicine
in New Orleans, Louisiana,
was honored with a first-place
prize in the Montague Boyd
Essay Contest held in conjunc-
tion with the Southeastern
Section American Urology As-
sociation 76
th
Annual Meeting
held March 22-25 in Amelia
Island, Florida. His award-
winning manuscript was
entitled “Protective Effects
of Reducing Renal-Ischemia
Reperfusion Injury During
Renal Hilar Clamping: Use of
Allopurinol as a Nephropro-
tective Agent.”
Robert Kominiarek, D.O., FA-
COFP
(’95)
is hosting a twice-
weekly TV program called
the
ABC’s of Health Series
on
NBC’s Living Dayton WDTN2
in Ohio. He also serves as a
medical adviser and director
to emergency medical services,
police departments, and radio
and television shows.
Joshua D. Lenchus, D.O.,
R.Ph., FACP
(’00)
achieved
a major milestone in June
2012
when he became the first
osteopathic physician to be
named president of the Jack-
son Health System medical
staff in the institution’s 94-year
history. “I recall sitting in the
AOA President’s Luncheon at
last year’s meeting in Chicago
while a few individuals were
recognized for their life’s work
toward advancing osteopathic
medicine,” said Dr. Lenchus,
who also serves as associ-
ate program director of the
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Internal Medicine Residency
in Miami, Florida. “I vividly
remember one physician who
worked in Miami but was
prohibited from seeing his pa-
tients at Jackson. It is because
of these pioneers who never
stopped fighting for the equal
rights of D.O.s that I now sit
as Jackson’s representative of
its medical staff. I feel truly
privileged and humble to
do so and will carry out my
responsibilities to the best of
my ability. The days of D.O.s
receiving second-class treat-
ment at Jackson are now long
since gone.”
Teresa W. Rawe, D.O.
(’88)
was appointed medical direc-
tor for emergency medicine at
Manatee Memorial Hospital in
Bradenton, Florida, where she
has served as a staff emergen-
cy physician since 1998.
