News & Events: Honors & Awards
August 2010
David Austin, MD
Hospital Medicine
Dr. Austin was awarded the Department of Pediatrics "Faculty Teaching Award" for outstanding contribution to medical student education during the Pediatric Clerkship 2009-2010.
July 2010
C. W. Gowen, Jr.
Neonatology
Dr. Gowen was awarded the American Academy of Pediatrics 2010 Special Recognition Certificate for his contribution to education in Pediatrics.
Kenji Cunnion, MD, MPH
Infectious Diseases
Dr. Cunnion was approved for a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Departments of Pedaitrics and Microbiology and Molecular Biology, effective July 1, 2010.
L. Matthew Frank, MD
Neurology
Dr. Frank was promoted to the rank of Professor of Pediatrics, effective July 1, 2010.
June 2010
Eric J. Werner, MD
Hematology/Oncology
Dr. Werner was re-elected Chair of the Executive Committee for the Section of Hematology/Oncology of the AAP for a second two-year term.
May 2010
Joel Clingenpeel, MD
Emergency Medicine
Dr. Clingenpeel was selected by the EVMS Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha to be inducted as oen of the EVMS alumni this year.
Stephen Miller, III, MD
Emergency Medicine
Dr. Miller was named Volunteer of the Year for Bayside High School. He's been volunteering at all football games, home wrestling matches and the Beach District Gymnastics Meet for the past seven years. He also helped them establish guidelines for the school's athletic trainers to use when evaluating injured athletes.
March 2010
Joel Brenner, MD, MPH
Sports and Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Brenner testified at the Virginia Senate in favor of Senator Ralph Northam's Bill 652 that will help improve education and treatment of sports concussions in youth.
Joel Brenner, MD, MPH
Sports and Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Brenner was appointed AAP representative to the steering committee for the STOP (Sports Trauma and Overuse Prevention) Sports Injuries campaign led by the American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine (AOSSM).
Jonathan T. Fleenor, MD
Cardiology
Dr. Fleenor was awarded the Department of Pediatrics "Faculty Teaching Award" for outstanding contribution to medical student education during the Pediatric Clerkship 2009-2010.
Cynthia Kelly, MD
Allergy/Immunology
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is awarding an $875,000 grant to Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Department of Pediatrics. EVMS is one of 25 national awardees, the only site in Virginia to receive funding for this cycle of the HUD Healthy Homes Program. The focus of the Consortia for Healthy Homes in Norfolk (CHHN) project will be asthma, air quality, and household safety. Project Director Jude Taylor Fishwick will lead the 14 member CHHN including such partners as the Children’s Specialty Group/ CHKD, the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Norfolk Resident Organization, City of Norfolk, the Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Project, Old Dominion University, and Norfolk Department of Health. Pediatrics faculty members Dr. Cynthia Kelly will be the Program Medical Director and Kurt Heisler will be responsible for data analysis. Project goals are to decrease children’s exposure to dust and dust mites, molds, insects, rodents, fire and poisoning hazards, and accidental falls. The program will coordinate efforts to improve indoor environmental quality and safety, involve lowincome and minority residents, and ensure that the CHHN is integrated into a larger, collaborative, community- based and capacity building approach that involves many organizations, stakeholders and opinion leaders, and develop and implement an evaluation of the effectiveness of CHHN in improving the quality of the home environment.
Febuary 2010
Cynthia Kelly, MD
Allergy/Immunology
Dr. Kelly has been selected as an honoree for a 2010 Health Care Heroes Award presented by
Inside Business, The Hampton Roads Business Journal. These awards epitomize the spirit emobodied in the word "hero" in the delivery of health care to the community. The goals of the program are to recoginize excellence, promote innovation, encourage emulation of successful programs, educate the general public, contribute to the enhancement of the value and quality of health care, and to give recognition to those deserving. Recopients of the 2010 Health Care Heroes Awards will be profiled in a special supplement of
Inside Business and presented awards at a luncheon on February 8, at the Norfolk Airport Hilton.
Joel Brenner, MD, MPH
Sports and Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Brenner was recently elected to be the next Chairman of the AAP Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness.
Faiqa Qureshi, MD
Emergency Medicine
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) acknowledged
Faiqa Qureshi, M.D., CSG, for scholarly contribution to the systematic review and presentation of the topic:
“In pediatric patients in clinical cardiac arrest (prehospital [OHCA] or in hospital [IHCA] ) (P), does the use of a focused echocardiogram (I) compared with standard assessment, assist in the diagnosis of reversible causes of cardiac arrest?”
at it’s international conference in Addison, Texas, February 1-6, 2010. The purpose of the conference was to produce an international evidence-based consensus on Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) science to serve as the foundation for updating the 2005 Guidelines. Three hundred and eighty of the world’s most prominent resuscitation research scientists were present at the conference, and attendance was by invitation only. There were over 240 worksheet authors who completed over 400 evidence evaluation worksheets, each of which took an average of 40 hours for an individual to complete. The condensed summary statements will be published in the Circulation and resuscitation Journals, and individual resuscitation councils have used these summary statements to produce council (country) specific resuscitation guidelines.
January 2010
Joel Brenner, MD, MPH
Sports and Adolescent Medicine
Dr. Brenner attended the inagural "Partners for Prevention National Youth Sports Injury" meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 16, 2009, as the AAP representative.
October 2009
Kyrie Shomaker, MD
Hospital Medicine
Kyre Shomaker, MD, was awarded the Department's “Faculty Teaching Award” for outstanding contribution to
medical student education during the Pediatric Clerkship 2009 - 2010.