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Local Docs in National News Sharon Hull, MD, professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, is 1 of 17 new Fellows of the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), the national professional society for physicians committed to disease prevention and health promotion. Fellowship is achieved by physicians who have been active ACPM members for at least three years, maintaining good standing for the three years prior to their application for Fellowship, and who have contributed to the fi eld of preventive medicine and to the ACPM. Throughout her career, Dr. Hull has been extensively involved in medical student education, Sharon Hull, MD helping to develop curriculum in clinical skills, population health and preventive medicine. She was a multi-year recipient of a Regional Medicine/Public Health Education Center Grant at the Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine, in partnership with state and local health departments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of American Medical Colleges. She has served as a senior health policy analyst at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, SIU at Carbondale, and she was recently named director of community-based health services research for the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron, Ohio. She serves as the current president of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. David Kaelber, MD, is one of fi ve physicians in the nation to be recognized by the Association David Kaelber, MD of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) “for excellence, outstanding achieve- ment and special recognition in Applied Medical Informatics.” Dr. Kaelber is MetroHealth’s chief medical informatics offi cer and a pediatrician. He has used electronic medical records to better determine which children should be treated for obesity and related diseases, as well as to monitor blood pressure in children. His efforts have lead to changes in clinical protocol throughout the MetroHealth System. Dr. Kaelber, will be honored in July at the 20th Annual AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection Symposium at Ojai, California. Orthopedic department chair Dennis Weiner, MD, Jason Tank, MD, medical illustrator Dennis Weiner, MD David Jonah, the late Steven Kopits, MD, and William Schrader, MD, from Akron Children’s Hospital received a fi rst place award at the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America’s (POSNA) annual meeting in May in Quebec. The prize was for an e-poster presentation exploring the surgical management of children and teens with Ellis-Van Creveld Syndrome, a form of skeletal dysplasia seen in the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, PA, but rare in the general population. The e-poster, entitled “Operative Management of the Severe Genu Valgum Deformity in the Ellis-Van Creveld Syndrome,” describes a six-step surgical approach in treating the limbs of children with Ellis-Van Creveld Syndrome. After observing 59 patients and surgically managing 10 limbs, the authors concluded that their surgical approach — combining radical soft tissue release and bony osteotomy — appears promising. William Schrader, MD ARE YOU A doctor who has received a national award, been appointed or elected to a leadership position with a national association, obtained a research grant from a national organization, or authored a textbook or textbook chapter for a national publishing company? If so, send a press release to jraabe@mdnews.com.