Dr. Meredith J. Montero has joined the staff of Michigan Otolaryngology Surgery Associates in Ann Arbor. In addition to seeing patients with ear, nose and throat conditions, Montero is a specialist in laryngology, the study and treatment of diseases and disorders that affect the larynx.

Montero received her M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2007. She has also received a Fellowship in Laryngology from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Montero served her residency in Otolaryngology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

Among her professional honors, Montero received the 2011 Resident Research Award at the Resident Research and Alumni Conference. She was also a member of the American Federation for Aging Research Medical Student Geriatric Scholars Program. Montero was recognized for her scholarship while at the University of Michigan, receiving University Honors and the Scholar Recognition Award. Dr. Montero has also authored several publications and has been an invited speaker at professional conferences

We are excited that Dr. Montero is joining the practice, said Melanie West, practice administrator. She is bringing an excellent balance of general ENT skills in addition to her specialization in voice box conditions.

The Michigan Otolaryngology Surgery Associates was established in 1979. The practice specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of medical disorders of the ear, nose and throat, ranging from ear infections to throat and other cancers, for adult and pediatric patients. MOSA has offices in the Reichert Health Center in Ann Arbor, and in Brighton, Canton, Chelsea and Saline.

Montero received her M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2007. She has also received a Fellowship in Laryngology from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Montero served her residency in Otolaryngology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

Among her professional honors, Montero received the 2011 Resident Research Award at the Resident Research and Alumni Conference. She was also a member of the American Federation for Aging Research Medical Student Geriatric Scholars Program. Montero was recognized for her scholarship while at the University of Michigan, receiving University Honors and the Scholar Recognition Award. Dr. Montero has also authored several publications and has been an invited speaker at professional conferences

We are excited that Dr. Montero is joining the practice, said Melanie West, practice administrator. She is bringing an excellent balance of general ENT skills in addition to her specialization in voice box conditions.

The Michigan Otolaryngology Surgery Associates was established in 1979. The practice specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of medical disorders of the ear, nose and throat, ranging from ear infections to throat and other cancers, for adult and pediatric patients. MOSA has offices in the Reichert Health Center in Ann Arbor, and in Brighton, Canton, Chelsea and Saline.

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Eleven recent high school graduates and one second-year college student each have received $1,000 Ohio State University alumni scholarships to attend the university in the fall.

The sixth annual Molly B. Demuth Memorial Scholarship was established through the county OSU Alumni Club by Demuths family and friends to aid county students who plan to attend Ohio State. Here are the four winners.

Demi Wisnieski, daughter of Craig and Dawn Wisnieski, is a Claymont High School graduate and was involved in Student Council, National Honor Society and softball. Wisnieskis intended major is biology/Pre-Med with a goal of becoming a pediatric oncologist.

Magen Kennedy, daughter of Jim and Rhonda Kennedy, is an Indian Valley High School graduate and was involved in National Honor Society, softball, volleyball, basketball, Pep Club, Student Council and choir. Kennedys intended major is Pre-Vet.

Kayla Lowery, daughter of Darla Barker and Joe Lowery, is a New Philadelphia High School graduate and was involved in National Honor Society, softball, NYLC Presidential Inauguration Conference, Archelon, Greece Sea Turtle Rescue Center, National Youth Leadership Conference, People to People Student Ambassador, drama and French Club. Lowery intends to double major in psychology and international business to become an industrial-organizational psychologist.

Madison Montgomery, daughter of Mark and Kimberly Montgomery, is a Tuscarawas Valley High School graduate and was involved in National Honor Society, Red Cross Club, Hugh OBrien Youth Leadership World Counsel Ambassador, Capitol Honors Band, Student Council and Interact Club. Montgomery has been accepted into the Pre-Vet program.

The third annual Timothy and Karen Stokey Family Scholarship provides scholarships for first-year undergraduate students enrolled at the Columbus campus who are graduates of Dover High School who have a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher. The scholarship is renewable up to one year, provided the student maintains a 2.8 GPA.

Tyler Bond, son of Phil and Candy Bond, was involved in National Honor Society, band, 4-H and Jr. Fair Board. Bond intends to pursue a degree in Economics as part of the Mount Leadership Society dedicated to leadership and service in the community.

Angela Lawver, daughter of Michael and Tabitha Lawver, received the second-year renewal award. Lawver is majoring in Chemical Engineering and has been involved in Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and Green Engineering Scholars as well as serving as student ambassador for OSU College of Engineering and as student reporter for the Ohio State Engineer Magazine.

The second annual Jeanne (Keppler) and Voin Boich Memorial Scholarship was established through the county OSU Alumni Club by family and friends to aid Dover High School graduates who plan to attend Ohio State. Recipients are:

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News of the proposed idea of turning the Hyderabad Public School (HPS) also a heritage building, into a secretariat or assembly or both have spurred vast reactions from alumni of the school. According to news reports, the building seems to be a favourite because of its geographical location and its vastness. The property also seems to be on top of the list if the current changes takes place in the bifurcation of the state. The alumni took to social media to react and discuss the issue.

The proposal will not have any support from HPS students and staff. It is not easy to take a decision like that. HPS is a society and it has to be endorsed or passed by the society before they transform the school into something else. HPS is not just a building, theres heritage value to it and with it come the memories. The school should be left alone.

Ismail Sherif

Entrepreneur

Very depressing; am surprised at the news. Why is HPS being looked as an alternative? That it is a school is easily forgotten. The government has surplus land elsewhere, they can build anything anywhere. It looks like HPS becomes an easy choice just because it is a school. A film city in the outskirts has much more land than the school, why is that not considered? That location will also not lead to traffic jams and security issues within the city.

Shreyas Reddy

Director, Cardiac Medical Devices

I am yet to get confirmed news. So far we have read it in the newspaper and online but there has been no definite nod from any Government source. Either ways, as an alumnus I am dead against it. It is a school and not just a huge building. And moreover it is a heritage structure and we are all looking forward to celebrating its centenary. A school should not, and cannot, be simply turned into something else. Political changes could affect the future generations.

Kishore Krishnamoorthi

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Jonathan Lai, Inquirer Staff Writer Posted: Thursday, August 8, 2013, 1:07 AM

Grooving to the "Water Cycle Rap Song" and making bracelets in the Feelings room: Fun. Dancing to Aretha Franklin's "Respect" and playing musical chairs in the Respect room: Also fun. Making kites out of paper bags in the Smile room: Definitely fun.

But nothing beat the Happiness room for 6-year-old McKenna Nichols: "You make sun visors and you play with the balloons."

McKenna was one of 15 children from the summer reading program of Cooper Learning Center in Camden learning from 26 rising high school seniors in a two-week program at Rowan University's College of Education.

On Wednesday, teams of high school students put into action lesson plans they developed in the Rowan Urban Teacher Academy Program.

McKenna and her classmates rotated through five themed classrooms. Lessons were based on the children's book Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. The young students carried buckets that they decorated and filled with crafts made at 20-minute stops at each station.

"I learned, be nice, don't be a bully, and happiness," McKenna said.

In the Happiness room, Teaunah Moulden, 17, said she had always felt the calling to be a teacher. The Rowan program gave her an opportunity to explore teaching students from an urban environment, to which she said she feels drawn.

"I'm very concerned about the shortage of teachers in the urban setting," said Moulden, who attends Woodstown High School in Salem County.

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Dr. Candy Corey OB/GYN

Stillwater Medical Group doctors Candy Corey, MD, Laura Dean, MD, and Larry Morrissey, MD, were listed in the Best of Health directory as among the Twin Cities top doctors in the July 2013 edition of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine.

The magazines Top Doctors are determined by a survey of 2,500 physicians and 2,500 registered nurses, who indicate which doctors they would go to in pre-selected specialties. Physicians who receive the top 15 percent of the vote in each specialty are featured in Mpls.-St. Paul Magazine. Survey participants are randomly selected from the states list of licensed physicians and nurses in the 10-county metro area.

Dr. Laura Dean

Corey is a Stillwater Medical Group oncologist who attended the University of Minnesota Medical School, completed her residency at Washington University School of Medicine and held a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

It was wonderful to be named one of the Top Docs in the Twin Cities. Our program has grown dramatically in the last few years. We have added clinical trials, a nurse navigator, on-site pet scans, dynamic new leadership and have our own devoted new clinic space, Corey said.

Dean is an OB/GYN at Stillwater Medical Group. She

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attended Mayo Medical School and completed her residency at the University of Minnesota in obstetrics and gynecology and received her certification from the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dean belongs to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Mayo Alumni Association, Twin Cities Medical Society, American Medical Association and the Minnesota Medical Association. She received the Dr. Joseph E. Graham & Family Outstanding Physician Award in 2006.

I am honored and humbled to be recognized as a Top Doc. It is a privilege to care for my patients and our community, she said.

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The annual Delco Pro-Am league meets weekly at Haverford College and offers a chance to see college and professional basketball players take to the same court for offseason play. In most cases, alumni-ties are the building block for teams in the summer, and while they may not wear school uniforms, teams have very similar pedigrees. In Delco, the Omega Medical team was a stand-in for the Wildcats of Villanova -- with a roster that included 'Nova alums Antonio Pena, Reggie Redding and Shane Clark, along with current Wildcat James Bell.

Pena and Redding are both active professionals in Spain and Germany. On Sunday, they combined for 49 points as their Omega Medical team crushed Radano & Associates, 91-72, to win the Delco Pro-Am final. Pena was named the league's Most Valuable Player, his second such award in the last three seasons.

Pena had 25 points alone and pulled down 10 rebounds while Redding scored 24, Shane Clark added 17 and James Bell put in 10 points in the win.

Radano & Associates is a team comprised primarily of players from Big 5 rivals, St. Josephs.

Redding will head off to Berlin next weekend to join ALBA Berlin, in the German Basketball Bundesliga, while Pena is still waiting to see where he will suit up this season -- he told the Delco Times that he hopes to return to Europe after playing for Caceres in Spain last season.

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The dean of UCLAs Anderson School of Management spent nearly $300,000 of university money on first-class airfare since 2008, citing an unspecified medical condition that did not prevent her from taking part in at least two triathlons, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.

The scathing report, which covers 17 UCLA academic deans who spent a combined $2 million on travel and entertainment during a four-year period from 2008 to May 2012, was particularly critical of Andersons Judy Olian, whose lavish spending included a 2010 flight to Washington, D.C., and Asia that cost the university $12,000.

In all, Olian spent $647,000 on meals, lodging, registration fees, car service, airfare, and other expenses, according to information obtained through a public records request, CIR reported. Of that amount, $296,000 was spent on premium airfare, under an exception to the University of Californias ban on business or first-class flights for employees with a medical need. CIR estimates that for all the UCLA deans with medical exemptions economy-class tickets would have cut travel costs in half.

During the four-year period examined, Olian, 61, at least twice took part in Monterey Countys Wildflower Triathlon, which includes a 56-mile leg that takes cyclists up a grueling 5-mile hill that climbs 1,000 feet. In April 2011 she took part in the race as part of a university-sponsored team, according to CIR.

Over the same period, the dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, Richard Lyons, spent $107,000 on travel and entertainment, about one-sixth of Olians total. CIR says Lyons booked premium-class international flights eight times during the four-year period citing a nonmedical exemption, the need to rest before starting work immediately upon landing.

Olian declined to comment, and both Anderson and UCLA would not disclose the medical condition used to justify the premium travel. Anderson spokesperson Allison Holmes told Bloomberg Businessweek that Olians medical condition allows her to bike. Anderson maintains that outside organizations have reimbursed, or will reimburse, the school for about $100,000 of Olians travel and entertainment expenses.

Holmes says Anderson relied on tuition revenue and donationsnot state fundingto foot the bill for Olians travel and entertainment, adding that such expenses are needed for fundraising, engaging with alumni, launching new academic programs, and attracting international applicants. Over the same period, Holmes said, Olian has raised $118 million, much of it in anticipation of the schools full-time MBA program becoming self-supporting. Says Holmes: Thats incredible return on investment by any measure.

Tuition for Andersons full-time MBA program for California residents has increased about 33 percent since 2009.

Dianne Klein, a spokesperson for outgoing UC President Mark Yudof, referred all questions to UCLA.

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A Tuesday night town hall meeting for Charleston School of Law students yielded few answers for those concerned about the college's uncertain future. Frustrated students were unable to get direct answers on whether the school is being sold to Florida-based InfiLaw Systems, how InfiLaw will be involved with the school's management, whether enrolment at the school will increase, and whether present faculty will be kept on after the 2013-2014 academic year.

Last week, students and alumni found out via the blog FITSNews that the for-profit downtown school had entered a "management services agreement" with Florida-based InfiLaw Systems, leaving many wondering whether the school was going to be sold. Hundreds of students and alumni showed up to Tuesday night's meeting, which was held in the Charleston Music Hall and included a panel of school administrators and InfiLaw leaders.

What the audience did learn was that the leadership of the Charleston School of Law had already fielded some offers from other companies. Judge Robert S. Carr, a founding member of the school's board of directors, said that two private colleges had approached the board over the past five years about making "arrangements," but the deals fell through. Carr said the school also tried to become a nonprofit institution, but that plan also fell through. When a student criticized Carr and the directors for moving part of the school's base and structure to Florida, Carr responded that the board had looked for other options.

"First of all, my obligation is to the students," Carr said. "My obligation is to the faculty and staff. My obligation is to the business partners. The community comes fourth. We are trying to preserve the school community. What good would it do the community for this school to go away, to not exist?"

Talks with InfiLaw about the management agreement began in October 2012, but a member of the school's non-governing board of advisors rose to say he didn't hear about the potential deal until the news broke online last week. Still, school leaders say the relationship with InfiLaw goes back even earlier than October.

Judge George C. Kosko, another founding board member of the Charleston School of Law, said that when the school was founded in 2003, he reached out to InfiLaw CEO Rick Inatome and Charlotte School of Law President Donald E. Lively. "We looked to people who had done it for advice, and we got it," Kosko said. "Not only did we get advice, but we made friends, and we came to learn what they stood for. The things that Charleston School of Law stands for now were in very large measure molded and created by Rick, Don ... What's going to change in this law school between the way it was last semester and this coming semester is nothing."

According to Kosko, two of the school's original five Board of Directors members have stepped down, and the remaining three are the school's owners. Kosko said that both Judge Alex Sanders (the former chairman) and Ralph C. McCullough II left the board due to medical issues. Neither Sanders nor McCullough could be reached for comment.

The Tuesday night meeting began with a lengthy presentation by the panel, including numerous Powerpoint slides about the merits of InfiLaw's three other schools, Charlotte School of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law (in Jacksonville), and Phoenix School of Law. When Inatome rose to a lectern to speak, a few boos came from the back of the auditorium. "If I had read some of the things about our association that you all have read, I would be out there booing too," Inatome said. "What I hope to do is let you know exactly what I feel are some of the misrepresentations that you've heard about, read about, and what we really stand for, and let you know how proud we are to invite you into our consortium."

The crowd grew restless after about 50 minutes of Powerpoint presentations and introductions of InfiLaw employees and demanded that the panel skip to the Q&A session. Dean Andy Abrams said he had already spoken with many students in his office and received numerous suggestions via e-mail, some of which were "anatomically impossible."

At one point during the Q&A, an audience member stood to ask a question of his fellow students: "If you had known the school was going to be sold to InfiLaw, how many of you would have applied?" In a crowd of hundreds, nearly none of the students raised their hands.

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OTTAWA, Aug. 1, 2013 /CNW/ - The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is pleased to recognize three young physician leaders as the recipients of its 10th annual Award for Young Leaders. The award celebrates the efforts of young physician leaders of tomorrow for their efforts today.

The recipients of the 2013 Award for Young Leaders are medical student Dr.Rithesh Ram from Calgary, medical resident Dr. Paul Singh Dhillon from Regina and, in the early career category, Dr. Kathryn Andrusky from Edmonton.

Rithesh Ram (student)

Throughout his science, doctoral and medical studies at the University of Calgary, Dr. Rithesh Ram proved his commitment to improving governance and student life. As president of the Calgary Medical Students' Association, he successfully fought an increase in tuition fees and was cited in the Alberta Legislature for his position that medical school needs to remain accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. He founded the Community Health Sciences student executive, credited with solidifying communication with the department administration. He also was responsible for a major renovation of graduate facilities and improved participation in the graduate students' association. At the national level, he has been active in the Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada, the CMA Political Action Committee and Canadian Doctors for Medicare.

Dr. Ram has won several awards for his thesis, a randomized, triple-blinded clinical trial investigating a novel treatment using dextrose injections for sclerotherapy for treatment of Achilles tendinopathy. Among his many awards for student leadership is the University of Calgary's prestigious Arch Award: Future Alumni.

"There are many amazing leaders among the medical students, residents and physicians in Canada, and to be recognized as a part of this group is truly an honour," said Dr. Ram. "I have been very fortunate for the opportunities that have been given to me, and this award is a reflection of those who put their trust in what I would accomplish on their behalf."

He graduated in May 2013 with a joint MD - PhD degree from the Leaders in Medicine - Epidemiology program. His long-term medical interest is in primary care, medical education, public health and medical leadership.

Dr. Paul Singh Dhillon (resident)

A political science graduate of the University of British Columbia, Dr. Dhillon studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and graduated in 2009. The following year he earned a diploma from the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, United Kingdom, and an International Red Cross certificate in health emergencies in large populations at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. In 2011 he completed a certificate in surgical science at the University of Edinburgh and in 2012 he earned a master's degree in disaster medicine at the Universit del Piemonte Orientale, Novarra, Italy.

He completed his family medicine residency at the University of Saskatchewan in June 2013. During his residency he became involved with the Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Saskatchewan, serving as president in 2012-13. He has also been active in the American College of Emergency Physicians Humanities Section and was selected as one of the New England Journal of Medicine Scholars in an essay competition celebrating the journal's 200th anniversary. An excerpt from his first novel was awarded the Aindreas McEntee Irish Medical Writing Prize in 2011. Proceeds from his second novel and collaboration with Rotary International raised more than $ 30,000 for a health project in Zimbabwe.

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Newswise DALLAS Aug. 1, 2013 Geneticist Dr. Andrew R. Zinn, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, has been named the eighth dean of UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, effective August 1.

Dr. Zinn brings years of experience in discovery research, graduate and medical education, and administration to this position, said Dr. David W. Russell, vice provost and dean of basic research, and professor of molecular genetics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The graduate school, ranked in the top 20 programs in the nation for biological research, has nearly 650 students enrolled in one of more than a dozen programs leading to doctor of philosophy, master of science, or combined doctor of medicine-doctor of philosophy degrees for biomedical scientists, counselors, engineers, and communicators. The school also includes postdoctoral training.

I look forward to this opportunity to provide leadership at the school, which offers a proud tradition of training some of the worlds top leaders in biomedical research, said Dr. Zinn, a UT Southwestern alumnus. We plan to develop novel initiatives in graduate education that include the use of online learning, while continuing to recruit top-notch students, develop an office of career development for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and work towards increasing contacts with our esteemed alumni.

Dr. Zinn will continue to direct the Medical Scientist Training Program, which annually enrolls about 10 outstanding M.D./Ph.D. dual-degree students from around the world who have substantive experience in laboratory investigations and a strong desire to pursue a research career related to medicine.

Dr. Zinn graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors from the Plan II honors program at UT Austin, and began his research career there working in protein synthesis before earning his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from UT Southwestern. He was inducted to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as a medical school student, and also received the 1988 Nominata Award, the highest honor bestowed on a student by the graduate school.

He completed internships and residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and postdoctoral training in human and mouse genetics as a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He returned to UT Southwestern in 1993 as an independent postdoctoral fellow in the Program for Excellence in Postgraduate Research and joined the faculty in 1996, earning an international reputation as a human geneticist. He and his laboratory colleagues made important contributions to our understanding of human sex chromosome disorders, discovered the genetic basis of the most common form of inherited obesity (mutations in the SIM1 gene), and most recently identified a novel cause of a rare skin and immunodeficiency disorder.

The graduate school trains future scientists to investigate basic life processes from the molecular level to the whole animal and allows them to pursue majors in the laboratories of some of the world's most distinguished researchers. The goal of the graduate school is to provide students with a foundation for successful careers as leaders in biomedical research and education. Its alumni can be found at top research institutions throughout the world. The graduate school was established in 1972 when UT Southwestern was reorganized as a medical center with three components, the medical school, graduate school and health professions school. It has since awarded about 2,700 degrees.

The graduate school offers 11 doctoral programs including biological chemistry, cancer biology, cell regulation, genetics and development, immunology, integrative biology, molecular biophysics, molecular microbiology, and neuroscience in the basic sciences, and doctorates in clinical psychology and biomedical engineering, a joint program with UT Arlington and UT Dallas.

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