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Elaine Husni, MD, director of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Treatment Center at Cleveland Clinic and an assistant professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, has been named to the National Psoriasis Foundation medical board. As a member of the board, she will help facilitate access to quality care by advocating for better clinical research tools, promoting medical education, identifying and promoting medical professionals who most effectively treat psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and assisting with the development of information relating to disease pathophysiology and disease management. A rheumatologist, Dr. Husni has extensive experience with psoriatic arthritis and is a 2010 National Psoriasis Foundation Translational Research Grant recipient for her work in studying the disease. Dennis E. Kane, DO, FACOA, has been named the 2011-2012 president of the American Osteopathic College of Anesthesiologists. A veteran clinician and medical educator, Dr. Kane currently serves as a co-chief of staff of South Pointe Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic Hospital. His academic appointments include direc- tor of Anesthesiology Residency Program at South Points/Brentwood Hospital; core assistant dean and professor of Anesthesiology Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Athens, OH); and regional dean for Des Moines College of Osteopathic Medicine (Des Moines, IA) and Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (Kirksville, MO). Jonathan Lass, MD, has been chosen by the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA), the oldest transplant association in the nation, as the 2012 R. Townley Paton Awardee for his work on corneal preservation and his more than 30-year career as an ophthalmologist and medical educator. Dr. Lass is the Charles I Thomas Professor and chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center, and Director of the UH Eye Institute. Dr. Lass is also Medical Director for the Cleveland Eye Bank, Director of the UH Eye Institute and Medical Director of the Case Cornea Image Analysis Reading Center. Steven M. Radwany, MD, medical director of Summa Health System's pallia- tive care and hospice services and program director for the hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program, received a $37,750 Hearst Foundations Fellowship grant on behalf of Summa Health System. The funding will be used to partially support Summa's hospice and palliative medicine fellowship position for the 2012-13 academic year. Vivian E. von Gruenigen, MD, system medical director of women's health services at Summa Health System and chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Summa Akron City and St. Thomas Hospitals, gave a presentation entitled "Timing and Extent of Surgery in the Elderly" at the 11th Meeting of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology in Paris, France, in November. Martha Wright, MD, interim division chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and director of the Residency Program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, won the Walter W. Tunnessen Jr. Award for outstanding innovative contributions to the field of pediatric graduate medical education. She received the award at the National Association of Pediatric Program Directors spring meeting. ■ Vivian E. von Gruenigen, MD Steven M. Radwany, MD Jonathan Lass, MD Dennis E. Kane, DO, FACOA Elaine Husni, MD Martha Wright, MD JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2012 MDNEWS.COM MD NEWS Cleveland-Akron-Canton | 17