IUPUI faculty and staff tributes and appointments

Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald, professor of medicine, is the recipient of the 2002 American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Master Endoscopist Award. He is the first pediatric gastroenterologist in the nation to receive the award and is the founding director of the Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. Fitzgerald also serves as chairman of the Endoscopy Committee for the Children’s Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation.

Dr. Thomas Inui has been named president and chief executive officer of Regenstrief Institute for Health Care. He will assume his duties Aug. 12 and also serve as associate dean for health-care research at the IU School of Medicine (IUSM). He is currently the Petersdorf Scholar-in-Residence of the Association of American Medical Colleges where he is leading a special research project on teaching professionalism in medicine.

James Brokaw has been named the new assistant dean of student affairs at IUSM. He teaches in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.

 

Bradley Wheeler has joined the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology as associate dean of teaching and learning information technologies. He will develop, lead and support university-wide initiatives that assist faculty in enriching student learning through effective use of technology. In addition to his appointment as associate dean, Wheeler continues his appointment at the School of Business as associate professor of information systems and faculty fellow for technology-supported learning and knowledge. http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/cpo/wheeler/

Merri Beth Lavagnino has been hired to serve as deputy information technology policy officer by the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology. Her primary role at the Information Technology Policy Office will be to develop and maintain policies regarding the appropriate use of information technology by members of the IU community, and to administer education programs about common technology and security issues and concerns. The office coordinates investigations and responses to reports of abuse or inappropriate use of electronic information or information technology, interacting daily with and on behalf of students, faculty and staff. Before coming to IU, Lavagnino served as director for learning and information technologies for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the academic consortium of the Big Ten.

Stephen Bogdewic, assistant dean for primary care education at the IU School of Medicine (IUSM), has been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2002 Secretary’s Primary Health Care Policy Fellowship. He was nominated to serve as a fellow by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

The “Best Abstract by a Fellow” honors at the Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society annual meeting have been awarded to Dr. Gary Butchko, a pediatric cardiology fellow at IUSM. His paper was “Prognostic Value of Right Ventricular Function at the Onset of Symptoms in Pediatric Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy.”

Dr. Kosmas Kayes, has been awarded the Clarian Health 2001 President’s Values Leadership Award. Kayes, an assistant professor of orthopaedics and a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Riley Hospital for Children, was praised for his family-centered approach to medicine and his readiness to include other disciplines in patient care. He also was recognized for his outreach work to children in Madras, India, who have polio and cerebral palsy.

Dr. Richard Miyamoto, chairman of the IUSM Department of Otolaryngology, recently presided at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO). Miyamoto is president of ARO, which is the largest international research organization in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. This year’s meeting included more than 1,000 research presentations.

Virginia Harvin, an emerita professor at the School of Education, has been selected a member of the Indiana Teacher Educators Hall of Fame. She taught K-12 and served as a principal and counselor before joining the faculty at IUPUI, where she served from 1969-1989. She continued to teach at IUPUI until 1993.