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Sunshine MD, PhD, neurointerventional medicine specialist at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center, vice chair-
man, Department of Radiology, UH Case Medical Center, and vice president and chief medical information offi cer at UH, was named nominating chair of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) at the group's annual meeting in August. Dr. Sunshine was named to the position following an annual election, in which the society's 600 members are invited to vote for leadership positions. Having practiced in Cleveland for 21
years, Dr. Sunshine is considered a key opinion leader in the area of acute intra- arterial stroke and brain aneurysm care. He is a 1990 graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where today he is an associate professor.
Erin Simon, DO,
FACEP, Emergency Medicine Research Di rector, Ak ron General, recent ly presented at the Me d i t e r r a n e a n
Emergency Medicine Conference. The paper, "The impact of two freestanding EDs on a tertiary care center," was well received with interest from other coun- tries, especially the Netherlands. The abstract was published in the September issue of the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Francis Mencl,
MD, EMS Director and attending emer- gency physician at Summa Akron City a nd St Thoma s
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Hospitals, served as course director for a preconference on regional nerve blocks at the recent Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress in Kos, Greece. Dr. Mencl has directed this course a number of times previously at the Mediterranean
EM Congresses as well as in Holland, Turkey and Las Vegas.n
