Scholastic Achievements and Awards

Governor Rick Snyder today announced the appointment of Joanna Kica of Lansing to the Child Lead Exposure Elimination Commission.  Kica is a research assistant III for the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Medicine at Michigan State University.   press release

Supratik Rayamajhi, MD, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine

  • The Rose Award 2017/18- for outstanding service in GME
  • Research Teacher of the Year 2017/18 - voted by Internal Medicine residents 
  • Selection to the Annals of Hypertension Editorial Board
  • Residency: Outstanding Fellowship Placements for graduating residents

Dr. Ade Olomu has been appointed by the Dean as a Co-Faculty Excellence Advocate (Co-FEA) with Dr Wanda Lipscomb. FEAs are appointed within the Office of the Provost to take on specific leadership, education, and advocacy drives in promoting a culture of excellence and inclusion across their colleges. As a link between the College Dean's Office and the departments, FEAs provide input, guidance, and resources across the college in an effort to build a high quality and diverse faculty.

Congratulations! Drs. Elahe Torabi-Crockett, Muhammad Nabeel and Nagib Chalfoun
are elected members to serve on the Executive Committee effective August 15, 2018.
Also, thank you to Drs. Anas Al-Janadi and Houria Hassouna for their excellent service to this committee over the past two years.  

Robert Smith, MD, MS, MACP, University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Dr. Smith was awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. read more...    

Subhashis Mitra, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director. 
Assumed the position of Infectious Disease Fellowship Program Director on July 1, 2018.

Saleh Aldasouqi, MD, FACE, ECNU, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Endocrinology
Dr. Aldasouqi was nominated President of the IT Committee, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists - AACE Michigan Chapter.

Adesuwa Olomu, MD completed the ELAM fellowship program in May 2018.  
The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM®) program is a year-long part-time fellowship for women faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy.  Read more

CHM Faculty Awards 2018 Outstanding Clinician Award: Anas Al-Janadi, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Chief Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medical Director of MSU Breslin Cancer Center, East Lansing, MI 

CHM Faculty Awards 2018 Outstanding Community Faculty: Kavitha Kesari, MD, MS, FACP, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine Clerkship Director, Flint, MI

Drs. Shilpa Kavuturu and Mukta Sharma completed the Biopsychosocial Medicine Fellowship program. http://medicine.chm.msu.edu/news/internal%20pages%20news/BiopsychsocialFellowship.htm

Robert Smith, MD, MS, University Distinguished Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine : 2017 Outstanding Faculty Award, Michigan State University Internal Medicine Residency

Ved Gossain, MD, Professor of Medicine Emeritus: International Journal of Diabetes of Developing Countries (IJDDC) Editorial Board; International Advisory Committee (2017, June 17).

Reynard Bouknight, MD, Associate Professor and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Honor for Service on Quality Improvement Committee (Physician’s Review Organization).

Cara A. Poland, MD, MEd, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Grand Rapids Campus, and Chief of the Addams Learning Society, has been nominated by medical student Katie Nguyen to be recognized as an AMA Women Physicians Section (WPS) Inspirational Physician. 

Kavitha Kesari, MD, Assistant Professor, Flint Community Campus, completed the Clinical Educator Mentoring Program (CEMP) and presented , "Integrating Residents with Institutional Quality Improvement Teams?“, at the CEMP Medical Education Scholarship Conference.   

Brenda Lovegrove Lepisto, PsyD, Assistant Professor, Flint Community Campus, completed the Clinical Educator Mentoring Program (CEMP) and presented, "Burnout, Depression and Empathy in Resident Physicians: Are These Related to Patient Perceptions of Physician Empathy?“, at the CEMP Medical Education Scholarship Conference.

Supratik Rayamajhi, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, was accepted into the 2017 Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) Executive Leadership Program

Houria (Suzy) Hassouna, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, received the CHM Student Council (Block II) Green Apple Award for Outstanding Faculty

Ade Olomu, MD, professor of medicine and vice chair of office for research in the Department of Medicine, College of Human Medicine, was nominated and accepted a fellowship with the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women (ELAM).  http://msutoday.msu.edu/360/2017/ade-olomu-role-model/

Adesuwa Olomu, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vice Chair for Research - Selected to serve as a member of the SGIM Research Committee. http://www.sgim.org/communities/research

Dr. Mukta Sharma received Fellowship with the American College of Physicians on March 30th, 2017. 

TaLawnda L. Bragg, MD, received the 2017 Eugene Browning Medical Service Award at the 35th Annual Giants Awards Banquet. Dr. Bragg is an internal medicine hospitalist, Spectrum Health Medical Group, and program director and assistant professor, Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners/MSU Internal Medicine Residency Program. 

Congratulations to Dr. Supratik Rayamajhi - 2016 Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society Inductee

Dr. Saleh Aldasouqi contributes to a weekly medblog on Endocrinology

Kenneth Rosenman, M.D., F.A.C.P.M., F.A.C.E., was appointed to a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committee to study a more coordinated, cost-effective set of approaches for occupational safety and health surveillance is needed in the U.S.

Dr. Kenneth Rosenman became a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine(ACOEM)

Michael Zaroukian, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.C.P., F.H.I.M.S.S.  - Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) North America Board of Directors (7/1 – chair elect from Jan-June)

Nazia Naz S. Khan, M.D., MS - Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM).  Term:  June 1, 2016 – June 30, 2019

Michael Zaroukian, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.C.P., F.H.I.M.S.S - HIMSS Board of Directors (Global board) – (Effective 7/1, elected Spring 2016)

Reynard Bouknight, M.D., was elected to serve as a member of the Evangel University Board of Trustees for a 3-year term beginning on September 1, 2016.

Supratik Rayamajhi, M.D., Congratulations on his new position as internal medicine residency program director.  Dr. Rayamajhi was the previous associate program director for the residency, and currently, the advanced medicine clerkship director and a clinician in the Division of General Internal Medicine.  And a DOM thank you to Heather Laird-Fick, M.D., MPH, for her service as residency program director from 2007 to the present. http://www.im.msu.edu/ 

Shilpa Kavuturu, M.D. and Mukta Sharma, M.D. have joined the residency key faculty for this academic year. http://www.im.msu.edu/

Ved Gossain, M.D., MSU Swartz professor of medicine was elected Chair Elect: American Medical Association International Medical Graduates Governing Council for 2016. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/international-medical-graduates/about-us/img-governing-council.page

Ade Olomu, M.D., professor of medicine, was honored in the MSU Women’s Resource Center May 2016 Publication as one of the MSU’s Award Worthy Women 2015-2016.  /news/documents/April 2016_excerpt_Olomu.pdf

Trinh Tran received the MSU Jack Breslin Distinguished Staff Award. Tran has gone beyond the call of duty to provide quality patient care. She is the clinic coordinator for the MSU Department of Medicine. more http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2016/msu-employees-to-receive-jack-breslin-award-may-16/

Laura Carravallah, M.D., associate professor of medicine and clinic preceptor, Hurley Medical Center, is one of five MSU faculty from the Colleges of Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine honored on April 30th by the Michigan State Medical Society with Public Health Leadership Awards for their outstanding leadership in bringing to light the Flint water crisis and their continuing efforts to address the current and longstanding effects on the people of Flint.  /news/documents/2016_04_April GCMS Bulletin_Carravallah.pdf

Ved Gossain, M.D., MSU Swartz professor of medicine, will receive the Outstanding Clinical Endocrinologist Award presented by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists on May 27. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2016/msu-professor-to-receive-outstanding-clinical-endocrinologist-award/

Medical oncologist Jatin Rana, MD joins Healthteam 
https://www.healthteam.msu.edu/about-us/News/provider-announcements/rana-jatin.aspx

Ved Gossain, M.D., Swartz professor of medicine and chief, division of endocrinology has been reelected to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Board of Directors for a three-year (3) term beginning May 29, 2016. https://www.aace.com/  

Heather S. Laird-Fick, M.D. was elected to the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) Council for a three-year term beginning in July 2016. http://connect.im.org/p/cm/ld/fid=734

Daniel Havlichek, Jr., M.D., professor of medicine and microbiology and chief of the division of infectious disease, is one of the 2016 inductees into Sparrow’s Physician Hall of Fame.  http://www.sparrow.org/News/Article.aspx?id=1560&sid=1&nid=1268&showBack=true

Adesuwa B. Olomu, M.D. received the Community Engagement Scholarship Award at the MSU Awards Convocation. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2016/2016-community-engagement-scholarship-award/