VCOM - Virginia 2017 Yearbook

Awards and Honors Faculty and Staff (continued)

Brian Dickens, DO, FACOFP Fellow Degree from ACOFP

Leadership Breakfast 2017, American Heart Association HeartChase Speaker, VCOM’s Council of Presidents, New River Valley Heart Chase, Faculty development seminar presentation “Physician Role Modeling in the First Two Years of Medical School” Research: Student Mentor for the anatomy summer surgical internship, 2nd place in Medical Education Research Poster Competition at VCOM Research Day “From Dissection to Documentation, Teaching Clinical Skills in the Anatomy Laboratory”, The 34th American Association of Clinical Anatomists Annual Meeting Poster accepted “Dissection and Documentation of the Axillary Artery: Incorporating a Clinical Skill in the Anatomy Laboratory” Attended 2017 Experimental Biology, American Association of Anatomists Meeting, April 22-26, Chicago “Golden Pear” Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Block 2 Anatomy Instruction Member, admissions committee; graduate certificate program student evaluation committee; served on a professional ethics standards board; faculty advisor, Medical Society of Virginia’s Medical Student Section (MSV/MSS) Board member, Brain Injury Services of Southwest Virginia

Susan Meacham, PhD, RD External Advisory Committee Member, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New

Orleans, Summer Health Professions Education Program Board member, Southwest Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Board member, Virginia Rural Health Association Oral and Poster Presentations and Abstracts (51) with VCOM (16) and other faculty/professional (3) coauthors and VCOM students (17), post-bac (100) and other PhD students (3) at state/regional (10) national/international meetings (7) Podium Presentations at 10 local and regional presentations National/State/VCOM Student Research Posters • OMED/BIOM • Center for Higher Education Pedagogy • Extreme Appalachia, Appalachian Studies Association • American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, • First Place student winner – Kate Slaymaker • Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2017 Via Research Recognition Day, Clinical Research - Faculty, First Place, “Identifying Factors contributing to higher rates of chronic health conditions in coal producing regions and other rural, underserved counties in Virginia” Mentor, First Place, Nicholas Ryan, “Are We Making a Difference? Understanding the Impact of Public Health Education Modules on Nutrition Knowledge in Children in Honduras and El Salvador” Mentor, Second Place, Kendall Talley, “Assessment of Honduran and El Salvadoran children exposed to high violence environments while participating in violence prevention educational intervention” Mentor, Honorable Mention, Tyler Weeks, ”Drug abuse educational modules; assessing effectiveness among children in El Salvador” Honorable Mention, Susan Meacham, “Lessons learned from pre-medical student public health education missions in Latin American and Caribbean countries”

Dr. Brian Dickens receiving his ACOFP Fellowship.

Ann Peton, MPH Speaker, American Association of State Medical Executives, Baltimore, MD Speaker, National Center for Rural Health Works

State Workshop, Reno, NV Keynote speaker, 2016 West Virginia Rural Health Association Annual Conference Keynote speaker, 2nd Primary Care Congress meeting, Phoenix, AZ Presenter, Rural Health Determinants Conference, Chicago, IL Co-Presenter, National Governor’s Association, Washington, DC Speaker, AAMC Physicians Workforce Conference, Washington DC Speaker, National Rural Health Association Annual Conference, San Diego, May, 2017 Speaker, National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health Region E meeting, July, 2017 Speaker, National Center for Rural Health Works State Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ, July 2017 Ashleigh Prince Dunn, DO Invited Speaker, New River Valley Heart

Skip Garner, PhD Appointed, Senior Research Member, Gibbs Cancer Center in 2017 Chaired, “Scientific

Integrity and the Law” session and presented at the 2017 World Conference on Research Integrity, Amsterdam, May, 2017 Chair, NIH/NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Study Section Filed provisional patent, ICD Logging System (with Fred Rawlins), June, 2016 Graduate student, Karthik Valmarugan, in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, defended his thesis in February, 2017 Invited presenter, University of Illinois Medical School, Chicago, March, 2017

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