November 2018

Western Reserve Hospital Recently Held Its Annual Medical Staff Meeting And Resident Research Presentation

  • Residents from the Graduate Medical Education Program presented their current research posters as part of a program competition
  • Peer-selected presentations included the following, with poster contest winners indicated in parenthesis:
      • Dr. Jessica Tullington, "A Community Hospital's Implementation of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery for Bariatric Procedures" (1st place)
      • Dr. Mike Fisher, "Infantile (less than 2 years) Supracondylar Humeral Fractures” (2nd place)
      • Dr. Jillian Nicholas, "Ostomy Education for Improving Nursing Knowledge and Confidence" (3rd place)
      • Dr. Logan Mellert, "Postoperative Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis Secondary to SGLT-2 Inhibitor in the Bariatric Patient" (People’s Choice)
      • Dr. Heather Preston (presenting on behalf of Dr. Gordon Preston), “Maintenance of Curve Correction with Magnetic Growing Rods at 2 Years”

Research Day 2018

Pictured L to R: Dr. Logan Mellert, Dr. Jessica Tullington, Dr. Jilian Nicholas, Dr. Heather Preston (presenting on behalf of Dr. Gordon Preston) and Dr. Michael Fisher shown here following their poster presentations

October 2018

ACGME Update

Orthopedic Surgery - Full accreditation as of October 2018

Family Medicine- Full accreditation as of October 2018

Otolaryngology-  Initial accreditation as of January 2018

General Surgery- Initial accreditation as of April 2018

Internal Medicine- Initial accreditation as of April 2018

January 2018

ACGME Update

As of December 2016, 5 of Western Reserve Hospital's residency programs have become ACGME accredited.

Orthopedic Surgery - Initial accreditation as of April 2016

Family Medicine- Initial accreditation as of October 2017

Otolaryngology-  Initial accreditation as of January 2018

General Surgery- Continued pre-accreditation as of November 2016

Internal Medicine- Continued pre-accreditation as of September 2017

November 2017

Fourth Annual Western Reserve Hospital Research Day

The Fourth Annual Western Reserve Hospital Research Day was held this fall.  The two-day event, held on October 25 and November 9, included four research poster winners chosen by judges who are practicing physicians at the hospital. The winners received cash prizes for their poster.  Four winners were selected by the residents and medical students at the hospital and gave podium presentations during the event on November 9th. The poster competition featured 7 biomedical/clinical posters, 20 case report posters and 1 medical education poster.

The overall winners are:

  • First Place : Jessica Tullington, D.O., PGY-1, General Surgery, Nathan Cain, DO., PGY-5, General Surgery, Rick Gemma, DO., "Drop the Knife: A Conservative Approach to Localized Retropneumoperitoneum"
  • Second Place: Kristin Cola, DO., PGY-5, Orthopedic Surgery, Caleb Pinegar, DO., Gregory Hill, DO., "The Windmill Softball Pitch: Not as Protective as We Once Thought?"
  • Third place – Kasey Schaef, DO., PGY-3, Internal Medicine, "A Case of Eosinophilia"
  • The People’s Choice- Kyle Marcotte, DO., PGY-3, Internal Medicine, Kimberly Miller, DO., "Classic Presentation of Subacute on Chronic Back Pain and Its Complications"

Research Day

Photo info: Our four podium presenters Drs. Gordon Preston, Chandni Patel, Kristin Cola, and Benjamin Lehmkuhl

October 2017

ACGME UPDATE

As of December 2016, 5 of Western Reserve Hospital's residency programs have become ACGME accredited.

Orthopedic Surgery - Initial accreditation as of April 2016

Family Medicine- Initial accreditation as of October 2017

Otolaryngology-  Continued pre-accreditation as of April 2016

General Surgery- Continued pre-accreditation as of November 2016

Internal Medicine- Continued pre-accreditation as of September 2017

May 2017

Congratulations Dr. Burger!

Our Orthopedic Surgery resident, Dr. John Burger, DO, PGY-5 scientific paper entitled “Superficial Nerves Crossing the Surgical Field during the Surgical Approach to the Distal Fibula: A Cadaveric Study” was selected for the award of First Place in the category of Foot & Ankle by the American Osteopathic Academy of Othopedics (AOAO).

January 2017

Congratulations Dr. Stromberg!

A new article titled "Hydroxyapatite cement cranioplasty following translabyrinthine approach: Long-term study of 369 cases" has been published for one of our Otolaryngology residents, Dr. Kellen Stromberg, DO, PGY-5.

To read more about the article please follow this link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lary.26403/full

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December 2016

Our orthopedic resident, Kristin Cola, D.O., PGY-4, attended the International Pediatric Orthopedic Symposium (IPOS) on December 6th. Dr. Cola was selected to compete in the resident/fellow skills competition. She placed in the top three out of 36.

Award

Photo info: Kristin Cola, D.O., PGY-4 is on the middle left.

ACGME Update

As of December 2016, 5 of Western Reserve Hospital's residency programs have become ACGME accredited.

Orthopedic Surgery - Initial accreditation as of April 2016

Otolaryngology-  Continued pre-accreditation as of April 2016

Family Medicine-  Continued pre-accreditation as of October 2016

General Surgery- Continued pre-accreditation as of November 2016

Internal Medicine- Pre-accreditation as of November 2016

November 2016

Third Annual Western Reserve Hospital Research Day

The Third Annual Western Reserve Hospital Research Day was held this fall.  The two-day event, held on October 26 and November 1, included three research poster winners chosen by judges who are practicing physicians at the hospital. The winners received cash prizes for their poster.  Four winners were selected by the residents and medical students at the hospital and gave podium presentations during the event on November 1st. The poster competition featured 10 biomedical/clinical posters, 17 case report posters. 

The overall winners are:

  • First Place : Kellen Stromberg, D.O., PGY-5, Otolaryngology, Seth Willen, MD., "A Rare Cutaneous Malignancy of the Scalp in a Middle-Aged Woman-Trichilemmal Carcinoma: A Case Report"
  • Second Place: Gordon Preston, DO., PGY-2, Orthopedic Surgery, Toomas Anton, MD., "T2 Vertebrectomy with combined Anterior and Posterior Arthodesis for Treatment of a Solitary Plasmectomy"
  • Third place – Mark Rose, DO., PGY-3, Orthopedic Surgery, Douglas Chonko, DO., Megan Bickett, BNS, RN; Abi Morrison, MSN, BSN, RN., "Western Reserve Hospital Own the Bone Quality Improvement Project"
  • The People’s Choice- Maureen Cheung, DO., PGY-3, General Surgery, Michael Firstenberg, MD., "Advance Fluid Dynamics in Echocardiology"

Research Day

Photo info: Our four podium presenters Drs. Mark Rose, Kelly Hale, Brittany Boger and Maureen Cheung.

September 2016

Our Ohio University CORE medical students spending a day with Habitat for Humanity.

 

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July 2016

Western Reserve Hospital is excited to announce are affiliation with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine as our new OPTI as of July 1, 2016.

June 2016

Western Reserve Hospital 2016 Graduation

 Graduation

Graduates Of 2016

Podiatry

  • Tressa Jordan, DPM

Otolarynology/FPS

  • Maria Compton, Do

Orthopaedic Surgery

  • Sean Keyes, DO
  • Caleb Pinegar, DO

Internal Medicine

  • Woodson Crenshaw, DO
  • Shona Desai, DO
  • Morgan Smith, DO

Family Medicine

  • Brinkman Murray, DO
  • Jessica Heintzelman, DO

Emergency Medicine

  • Donald Kennedy, DO