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Winter Edition 2001-02
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Mission
Statement
The
purpose of the Illinois Osteopathic Medical Society is to protect,
advocate, maintain and support the philosophy of osteopathic medicine
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| Reminder
Osteopathic Physicians are
required to report address changes to the Illinois Department of
Professional Regulation. Delays in responding to official correspondence
and/or license renewals fro IDPR may subject the physician to
disciplinary action and fines. Address changes can be made
on the IDPR's web site at www.dpr.state.il.us |
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Thank
You...
The 2001 Annual Scientific Seminar and Convention was a great
success! Many people are a part of a successful program
and those efforts are much appreciated. Few programs have
had higher quality speakers, even at the national
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well attended and invigorated by the many special
guests - AOA President James Zini, DO, and his wife, Judy;
Illinois Osteopathic College Medical Society past president;
Kara Waugh and Rita Ullestad of Des Moines University College of
Osteopathic Medicine; Ken Printen, MD, of the Illinois State
Medical Society; and Suzanne Baase, from Illinois Lieutenant
Governor Corrine Wood's office. We had entertainment from
the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine Singers. I am
also very appreciative for recognition as the 2001 Illinois
Physician of the Year. This is a great honor to receive
from one's colleagues and was very unexpected. I am
hopeful that our young members will get involved and DO more,
as it results in personal and professional satisfaction. I
had also received the IOWA Physician of the Year award in 1989,
but will definitely hang these in alphabetical order!
Thanks Again! - Robert G. Good, DO
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Board
of Trustees
Congratulations to new officers and trustees who were
installed at the December 2001 annual meeting.
2001
/ 2002 Executive Officers
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| President
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Robert G. Good,
DO
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President-Elect
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Gary
Knepp, DO
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| Treasurer
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Gary
Plundo, DO
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| Immediate Past
President
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Teresa
Hubka, DO
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| Board of Trustees
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| District
1 |
Rodey
Wassef, DO
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| District
2 |
Andrew
Kotis, DO
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| District 3
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Raul
Rodas, DO
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| District 4
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Donald G. Johnston, DO |
| District 5
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Donald Porter, DO
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| Member at Large |
To be Determined |
| Member at Large |
To be Determined
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| Intern/Resident |
Suzanne Ashby
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| CCOM Student |
Nancy Wasserbauer
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| Auxiliary
Representative |
Mrs.
Abigail Turcotte |
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Executive Director |
Michael Mallie
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We Can DO More
When I was 14 years
old, I developed myocarditis of unknown cause and progressive
congestive heart failure. While
it took a long time to recover, this illness was a defining
moment in my life, when I developed a goal to become a
physician. Think of
your defining moment that directed your life and values.
In much the
same way, the Illinois Osteopathic Medical Society has had a
defining moment this past year.
Under the leadership of Teresa Hubka, DO, the
organization has developed new life and a sense of direction (a
“ROADMAP”). She has worked tirelessly to serve as a role model IOMS
leader and we appreciate her efforts.
I am real proud of Dr. Hubka, a Des Moines University
graduate, in fact the 2001 Alumni of the Year!
I also want to recognize her husband, John, for the many
hours he has been alone while she has been serving.
Our past has
meant much to us in IOMS. Previous
presidents and board members of the IOMS all have built a
history, which we stand upon proudly.
The Illinois Osteopathic Association was founded in 1903
and our past presidents were honored during our banquet.
The IOMS will
grow from our strengths. The
strength of the osteopathic physician and our profession in
general has been our personal relationships with our patients.
We serve as an essential part of the community –
leading various boards, medical staff committees, organizations,
churches and groups – and are a valuable resource for
health-related issues. That
relationship development creates a deep sense of responsibility
to serve as patient advocates.
It is not
enough to simply see patients – our responsibility goes beyond
the exam room and into hospital boardrooms, community forums and
the legislative process. We
can do more when we see our patients choosing medicine over food
and housing, when they omit needed prenatal care, or when our
diabetic patients only take half their medications because they
cannot pay. We can
do more when ethical dilemmas come before our lawmakers and
medical staff committees – physician-assisted suicide, stem
cell and cloning research, alternative and limited health care
practitioners, and extensive bureaucracy that interferes with
our patient relationships.
These issues will not be easy but the osteopathic medical
profession must take responsibility to lead for our patients’
sake.
We can do
more with personal physician issues.
Because of the changes in medical practice, stress
associated with malpractice liability threats, increased demands
to work harder for less reimbursement, Peer Review items, and
the explosion of medical information that we need to know, many
physicians have become disillusioned.
However, after 25 years of practice I would make no
different decision than to become an osteopathic physician.
For the students, interns and residents who are here
tonight, I want you to know there is enormous hope for a
terrific future in this profession and a huge need from your
patients to deliver your care.
Our greatest reward is not financial, but the
satisfaction of helping another human being at his worst time
and to inspire health care decision-makers.
We have amazing influence on those around us.
These are factors in our initial “defining moments.”
They are or should be part of your personal mission
statement.
One of the
purposes of a professional organization is facilitate its
members to improve. While
we will continue to build the IOMS to become a stronger
organization, we can do more to enable its members to become
energized physicians. Not
only through educational programs, but by support for you and
your family.
Your spouses go through major sacrifices and they
should hold the No. 1 respect in the home.
Medicine has
a very high divorce rate. We
can do more to learn techniques to avoid family discord and
professional burnout. We
need to learn new paradigms of medical practice to reduce stress
and increase efficiency. In 2002, the IOMS will establish an ad hoc committee to focus
on these issues. We
need to stay focused on our mission in life.
Over the next
year, we will find ways of further empowering our membership to
make this a significant component society of the AOA.
We will develop an improved legislative relationship and
will support our members in personal growth.
We will continue to develop continuing medical education
programs of high caliber and look at ways how our rural members
can be influential in rural health policy.
We will continue to build a relationship with the
Illinois State Medical Society, Midwestern University, specialty
colleges, and our medical students and residents.
We have a
great profession, this is a great time to be a DO, and we want
you to feel good about it.
Your defining moment still has importance in this
society. However, I
challenge each of you to use your defining values to add to the
strength of osteopathic family in Illinois.
“DO” more and it will happen!
Robert
G. Good, DO
President
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Chicago
College of Osteopathic Medicine Report
There are many exciting events to report
from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine since our September
report. First, Dr. Gary Plundo graciously took time out of his busy
schedule on Oct. 18 to visit St. James Hospital in Olympia Fields for a
lunchtime talk. The event was sponsored by the Chicago College of
Osteopathic Medicine Student Council and Midwestern University Student
Services. Many students
rotating through the hospital where able to enjoy a wonderful talk and a
great lunch. Many thanks to
Dr. Plundo for celebrating National Primary Care Week with us!
National Osteopathic Medicine Week began
early on the CCOM campus. On
Nov. 5, John Crosby, J.D., and Teresa Hubka, D.O., joined students on
campus for a lunchtime talk. The
CCOM Student Council and the Student Osteopathic Obstetrics and
Gynecology Association, one of our newly founded student groups,
sponsored the event. At the
meeting, the CCOM Student Body presented a $1,000 check to Mr. Crosby
for the American Osteopathic Association Unity Campaign.
Also during the week, several students manned osteopathic
manipulative medicine stations outside our new campus library in
anticipation of finals week, and a bonfire was held in the campus
bonfire pit. Activities
continued through the next week, when several MS-III students traveled
downtown to provide OMM to employees of the AOA.
AOA President Dr. James Zini and his wife,
Judy, were welcomed onto campus Nov. 30.
Dr. and Mrs. Zini were given a campus tour and had the
opportunity to interact with the students for approximately two hours
that afternoon. Many
students were able to attend Dr. Zini’s speech and had specific
student concerns addressed by Lindsey Osteroff, the president’s
assistant.
On Dec. 1, the CCOM Singers, a small group
of MS-III students, performed for members and guests at the presidential
reception during the Illinois Osteopathic Medicine Society’s annual
scientific seminar. This
group of talented young medical students first sang together at their
White Coat ceremony last May. The
group looks forward to more opportunities to build its repertoire!
Another new student group has been founded
at CCOM. The Student Osteopathic Pediatrics Association is a student
group to the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians.
Many exciting events are expected from the group because of a
strong student interest in pediatrics.
The new campus library is fully functional
and the second new campus building is open as well.
The new building will house the Department of Osteopathic
Manipulative Medicine as well as other offices and classrooms.
There are plans to remodel the old OMM lab into a student center
with student health services, a new campus counselor, a game room and
lounge.
The CCOM student body looks forward to
further involvement with the IOMS.
If you have specific ideas regarding educational opportunities
for CCOM students, please contact Nancy Wasserbauer, CCOM Student
Council President, at nancy.wasserbauer@mwumail.midwestern.com.
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OPTI
News
The Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine at Midwestern University has had a postdoctoral program for more than 50 years. Since July 1995, the American Osteopathic Association mandated that Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institutions be established and that all osteopathic programs have an affiliation with an OPTI that includes an osteopathic medical school. Currently, there are 16 OPTIs throughout the country.
The Midwestern University Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institution, which includes both the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, has developed from our original postdoctoral program and is currently approved by the Bureau of Professional Education.
We have the following members:
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Mt. Sinai Hospital |
| Christ Hospital |
Resurrection Healthcare |
| Cook County Hospital |
St. Francis of Evanston |
| Illinois Masonic Hospital |
St. Francis, Blue Island |
| Kingman Regional Medical Center |
St. James Hospital |
| Little Company of Mary Hospital |
St. Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers |
| Maryvale Hospital |
Tempe St. Luke's Hospital |
| Mesa General Hospital |
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We are meeting with several other hospitals interested in developing AOA-approved programs. Our primary training hospital remains St. James, Olympia Fields campus, which has 97 funded residency positions. In addition, we have 104 residency positions at affiliate and associate OPTI institutions. Recently, BroMenn Regional Medical Center in Bloomington, Ill., received AOA approval for 10 neurosurgery positions. The first two years of the five-year neurosurgery program will be at St. James, Olympia Fields campus.
The Midwestern University OPTI is rapidly increasing in size because of the considerable increase in requests for AOA-approved osteopathic residency programs. In October and November, the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine held a faculty development program in collaboration with the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at the Olympia Fields Country Club. It was a well-attended and informative session. The OPTI will continue to offer opportunities to assist our faculty and hospitals in providing effective postdoctoral osteopathic medical education.
At the Dec. 3, meeting of the Midwestern University OPTI, membership in the Governing Board was expanded to include representation from most of the associate and affiliate hospitals as well as Dr. Teresa Hubka, immediate past president of the Illinois Osteopathic Medical Society, in an attempt to provide representation and improve communication with the osteopathic physicians of Illinois. If any osteopathic physicians are interested in participating in the pre- and postdoctoral programs of the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine please let me know. I can be reached at Midwestern University's Downers Grove campus:
George T. Caleel, D.O., vice president, clinical education, 555 31st St.,
Downers Grove, IL 60515, (630) 515-6159 (office) or (1-888) 502-5456 (pager)
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CINF
Gains Approval for Residency Program
The Central Illinois Neurosurgery Foundation in Bloomington, Ill. - in a cooperative effort with the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine/Midwestern University, the Osteopathic Postdoctoral Training Institution and BroMenn Regional Medical Center - has gained final approval from the American Osteopathic Association for a new neurosurgery residency program.
This collaboration will allow graduates of osteopathic programs to enter into neurosurgical training after the completion of an American Osteopathic Association/Accreditation for Continuing Graduate Medical Education accredited internship and one year of general surgery training at the
CCOM/MU-OPTI-designated program (St. James Hospital, Olympia Fields campus). Following the completion of these prerequisites, candidates will undergo a vigorous selection process designed to evaluate the physician-candidate's clinical knowledge, skill and maturity through written applications, formal interviews, rotations in the neurosurgery service and letters of recommendations.
The majority of the four years of formal neurosurgical training will be carried out in Bloomington, focusing on both chemical neurosurgery and basic neuroscience. At the completion of the training, residents who have completed the requirements of the AOA and the American College of Surgeons will be eligible for board certification by the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery in neurological surgery. Residents will be clinically prepared to operate in a private hospital-based practice.
In a unique endeavor to train not only excellent clinicians, but also clinical researchers, the CINF is working with Illinois State University's Department of Biology to offer either senior level or chief residents the opportunity to pursue a doctorate in neuroscience upon completion of their neurosurgical training. This formal study will allow students to pursue areas of individual interest in collaboration with surgeons at CINF and researchers at ISU in fields such as
neuroimmunology, neuropharmacology, molecular biology
(neuro-oncology) and stroke research.
Preparation as clinical researchers will provide the highly trained specialties with the background necessary to contribute to the advancement of osteopathic neuro healthcare by applying concepts to the development of state-of-the-art medicine.
This month, James Zini, DO, president of the AOA, met with Konrad
Rentz-Miskowicz, director of post-doctoral education, AOA; John
Fernandes, DO and dean of CCOM/MU; Gary Slick, DO and director of medical education at St. James Hospital; George
Caleel, DO, director of OPTI at CCOM/MU and vice president of post-graduate education, AOA; District 3 Illinois Osteopathic Medical Society members; administrators of the BroMenn Regional Medical Center; CINF neurosurgeons (Keith
Kattner, DO, Raul Rodas, DO, Ann Stroink, MD, Michael Amaral, MD, and Emilio
Nardone, MD), and chairman of the biology department at ISU, Tak Cheung, PhD.
The new neurosurgery residency program will begin in July 2002. The
CCOM/MU-St. James Hospital is accepting applications for internship and the first-year general surgery residency slots for July 2002 and 2003, by contacting Dr. Gary Slick, director of medical education.
2021 South Crawford Ave. Olympia Fields, Il. 60461.
Dr. Raul Rodas, DO
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George T.
Caleel Receives AOA Presidential Citation
(Chicago, IL) -The American Osteopathic Association recently awarded George T.
Caleel, DO, with a Presidential Citation for his service to the osteopathic medical profession. Dr.
Caleel, a pioneer in the fields of nuclear medicine and endocrinology, is a professor of medicine and pharmacology at Midwestern University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Downers Grove.
In addition to his duties as professor, Dr. Caleel is director of CCOM's department of
endocrinology/metabolism and nuclear medicine, chairman of the Radiation Health and Safety Committee, associate chairman of the department of internal medicine and vice president for clinical
education.
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Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services Report
On Nov.15, the Region 5 Physicians Association meeting of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (now dubbed CMS, formerly HCFA) was held in Chicago. In addition to the Illinois Osteopathic Medical Society, other organizations represented included the Ohio State Medical Association, the Minnesota Medical Association and the Illinois State Medical Society.
The key issues discussed centered around CMS' initiatives to reduce the burden for practicing physicians. The agency is attempting to do this by listening to physician and clinician issues, improving communications with physicians, and redoubling education efforts. In that effort, CMS has formed a Physicians Regulatory Issues Team that is focusing on several key issues in the physician community. Recent high-priority issues were the development of an improved advanced beneficiary notice, which was released on July 1, and revisions are being made to the Certificates of Medical Necessity Process. For more information, physicians are referred to the web site,
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/
Currently, simplified requirements are being developed for the prescription of diabetic glucose monitoring supplies. New documentation requirements for the supervision of residents are being drafted. Coverage or payments for follow-up visits for cancer patients also are being evaluated.
Other issues are being reviewed as well, and for those physicians who want more detailed information, a Web site has been developed that I would encourage you to visit. The site is
www.hcfa.gov/medlearn/prithome.htm. I would solicit input from physicians who have issues that they would like brought to CMS' attention via this forum to contact me directly at
gknepp@bromenn.org. I look forward to representing the IOMS at CMS meetings this coming year.
Gary L. Knepp, DO
President-elect, IOMS
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