Previous winners are not eligible for nomination, but previous finalists may be nominated. 2025 Excellence in Health Care Career Achievement Award Dr. William Goggins Community Achievement iHEART Collaborative The Restoracy Transplant Optimization Program Physician Dr. Nasser Hanna Pharmacist Dawn Moore Innovations in Healthcare Community Heart and Vascular Hospital Electrophysiology Program Intersurgical Inc. Mental Health Advocacy […]
Fundraising will be done locally, with representatives from individual programs contacting potential donors, the university said Saturday.
Dr. John Cummings has been named medical director of neurosurgery for Community Health Network. Cummings, a neurosurgeon at Community for more than 20 years, did his training at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
The IU Medical Group added two internists. Dr. Rebecca Lindberg earned her medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed her residency at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Laura Nelson did her medical training and residency at the IU medical school.
Forethought Financial Group Inc. named Ronald Ziegler chief actuary. He will oversee product development, financial reporting, and risk management at the Indianapolis-based life insurance company. Prior to joining Forethought, Ziegler spent 22 years at Transamerica/AEGON Insurance Group.
Dr. Jeffrey Kellams was installed as the 137th president of the Indianapolis Medical Society on Tuesday. He is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the IU School of Medicine, chief of psychiatric services at Wishard Health Services and medical director of the Midtown Mental Health Center in Indianapolis.
Dr. Tracy Price has joined Central Indiana Cancer Centers, providing radiation oncology services at its Fishers, Greenfield and Greenwood locations. Price did her medical training at the IU School of Medicine.
Dr. Eriko Onishi has joined St. Vincent Hospice to lead its effort to set up electronic medical records for physicians. Dr. Onishi, a native of Japan, is an internist specializing in terminal cancer. She previously served as a hospice medical director in Columbus, Ind.
For the fourth consecutive year, Clarian Health’s Methodist Hospital made the list of the top-five hospitals that are part of U.S. academic medical centers. The University HealthSystem Consortium based its rankings on its annual Quality and Accountability Study, which includes 98 academic medical centers around the country. The study examines hospitals on such issues as safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity and patient-centeredness. The other four hospitals honored this year were the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.; the University of Utah Hospitals in Salt Lake City; the University Medical Center in Tuscon, Ariz.; and the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa. Clarian Health is a joint venture of Methodist Hospital and the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Community Health Network will add three slots to its family medicine residency program and restructure the program’s curriculum around the medical home concept. The Indianapolis-based hospital system has received $2.4 million from three federal grants to fund the changes. Community will use $1.3 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop the medical home concept, which attempts to let one family physician coordinate all the primary care needs of one patient, rather than having patients on their own go to numerous doctors for primary care. A second $960,000 grant will allow Community to expand yearly family residents from 21 to 24. The three extra slots will all be filled by doctors trained in osteopathic medicine. And a third grant of $213,000 will help Community buy needed equipment to support its program expansion. Community is the second local institution in a month to expand its family residency program. In late September, the Indiana University School of Medicine said it would use $1.9 million in stimulus funds to add two slots to its program in the Lafayette area.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wyoming have genetically engineered silkworms to produce artificial spider silk in quantities large enough to be commercially viable. The researchers are working with Michigan-based Kraig Biocraft Laboratories to commercialize the technology for medical, industrial and consumer applications. Spider silk has significantly higher tensile strength and elasticity than natural silkworm fibers. Notre Dame researchers claim the silk produced by their genetically engineered silkworms have qualities much closer to spider silk. In the medical arena, researchers hope artifical spider silk could be used to make suture materials, wound-healing bandages, or natural scaffolds for tendon and ligament repair or replacement. They think the artifical spider silk also could be used to make bulletproof vests, strong and lightweight fabrics for athletic clothing and improved automobile airbags.
Rising costs aren't the only impact of reform, say panelists taking part in a Power Breakfast sponsored by Indianapolis Business Journal.
In this new age of health care, ushered in by President Obama’s signing in March of a sweeping health care reform law, health care players are encouraged to remove the gloves if they want to reap the benefits of reform.
Clarian Health named Dr. Philip Dulberger CEO and chief medical officer of its Clarian Saxony Medical Center, which is under construction in Fishers. Dulberger, an anesthesiologist, was hired by Clarian in 2006 to lead the development of the new hospital.
BioCrossroads has elected Darren Carroll, vice president of new ventures at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., to the organization’s board of directors. Carroll oversees Lilly’s venture capital investments in the U.S. and Asia. He has previously chaired investment advisory committees for investment funds operated by BioCrossroads, an Indianapolis-based life sciences development group.
Eli Lilly and Co. named Jeffrey Winton its vice president of communications. Beginning Oct. 11, he will report to Bart Peterson, Lilly’s senior vice president of corporate affairs and communications. Winton has worked in communications roles for a variety of pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough, Pharmacia, Hoffmann-La Roche and American Cyanamid.
Jessica Jochim, a physician assistant, has joined St. Francis Medical Group Vascular Surgeons. She did her medical training at Butler University.
Indianapolis-based Adult and Child Center won $2 million from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to improve access to primary care for Americans with serious mental illnesses. Such patients die, on average, 25 years earlier than those without such conditions, according to a 2006 report by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. During the four-year project, Adult and Child will have a primary-care physician and nurse care coordinator available to patients at its mental health center. The medical staff will try to address patients with mental illnesses who also suffer from chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
A $1.9 million federal stimulus grant will enable the Indiana University School of Medicine's department of family medicine to add two residents a year in the Lafayette area. IU’s family medicine residency program currently accepts 10 doctors annually for post-med-school training as family physicians. The grant will enable the program to add two residency slots in collaboration with Clarian Arnett Health, St. Elizabeth Regional Health and Riggs Community Health Center in Lafayette. IU med school officials hope graduates of the residency program will set up medical practices in and around Lafayette, which like much of Indiana has a shortage of primary-care physicians. The expansion of the residency program will be effective in July 2011.
Lilly Endowment Inc. gave $4 million to Indiana University to help address ethical, legal and social issues involved in the growing sharing and study of health information. IU will create the Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR Health Information). The center also will partner with government, industry and not-for-profit groups in an effort to increase reliability and trust in the use of health information.
Columbus Regional Hospital is suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to recover $17.1 million in federal funds the hospital claims it is owed due to damages caused by a massive flood. The June 2008 flood, designated a federal disaster, caused $167 million in damages and business-income losses to the hospital, which did not fully reopen until nearly five months later. The suit, filed Sept. 15 in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, accuses FEMA of violating federal regulations, negligence and misrepresentation for failing to pay the full amount the hospital says it is owed. The flooding from nearby Haw Creek filled the hospital’s basement to the 12-foot ceiling and partially submerged the first floor. Key medical equipment destroyed by the flood included radiology scanners, radiography and fluoroscopy systems, ultrasounds, cardiac-catherization labs, biopsy tables and biochemical analyzers.
-St. Francis Medical Group LLC, for Southeast Family Physicians, leased 8,245 square feet in Emerson Office Parke Building 2, 965 Emerson Parkway, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, Emerson Office Parke Building Two LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group. The name of the tenant was incorrect in last week’s Real Estate Weekly.
-Jordan-Fishers LLC bought the 40,000-square-foot Village Square retail center at 11033-11361 Allisonville Road, Fishers. The price wasn’t disclosed. The buyer was represented by Keith Dedrick of Corporate Commercial Group. The seller, Huntington Bank, was represented by Bob Barker of Z&B Realty Services. Kevin Broadrick of Marcus & Millichap worked with both buyer and seller. The name of the seller’s broker was incorrect in last week’s Real Estate Weekly.
-Jones Lang LaSalle has been named leasing agent for Lake Pointe Center 5, a 150,000-square-foot office building in Allison Pointe office park. Adam Broderick of Jones Lang LaSalle has been named leasing agent for the two-year-old building, which has 90,000 square feet available. The building is owned by Edgeworth Laskey Properties LLC.
-Premium Supply Inc. leased 45,100 square feet in the North by Northeast Business Park, 9901 Kincaid Drive, Fishers. The tenant was represented by Fritz Kauffman of Cassidy Turley. The landlord, Prologis, was represented by Chip Barnes and Matt Dickerson of NAI Olympia Partners.
-University Pediatric Associates Inc. leased 27,245 square feet at 11590 N. Meridian St., Carmel. The tenant was represented by Zane Brown of CB Richard Ellis. The landlord, Fidelity Office Building II LP, was represented by Mike Napariu of REI Investments.
-Southside Family Physicians leased 8,245 square feet in Emerson Office Parke Building 2, 965 Emerson Parkway, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, Emerson Office Parke Building Two LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-County Line Pediatrics leased 8,000 square feet in Greenbrooke Medical Pavilion Building 2, 747 E. County Line Road, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Travis Tucker of Duke Realty. The landlord, GWA Wheatcraft LLC, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-Stewart-Richardson & Associates leased 5,414 square feet in the Regions Bank Tower, One Indiana Square. The landlord, One Indiana Square Associates, was represented by Ralph Balber and Kelli Dugan of Halakar Real Estate. The tenant represented itself.
-Re/Max Select leased 3,000 square feet in Library Parke, 489 S. State Road 135, Greenwood. The tenant was represented by Keith Turnbill of Re/Max Select. The landlord, Greg Allen Property Management, was represented by Greg W. Allen and John Cunningham of Allen Commercial Group.
-Miebach Consulting Inc. leased 2,982 square feet in Market Square Center, 151 N. Delaware St. The tenant was represented by Matthew Tobe of Halakar Real Estate. The landlord, Hertz Indianapolis One LLC, was represented by Crystal Houston and Dan Richardson of CB Richard Ellis.
-Crown Liquors leased 2,760 square feet at Westside Center, 645 W 11th St. The tenant was represented by Mark Perlstein of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The landlord, Westside Development Corp., was represented by John Schick of The Broadbent Co.
-Qdoba leased 2,275 square feet at Greenfield Corner Shops, 2037 N. State St., Greenfield. The tenant was represented by Larry Davis of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate. The landlord, MAP Greenfield LLC, was represented by Jeff Hubley of Midland Atlantic.
-Jimmy Johns leased 1,625 square feet at Speedway Shoppes, 5949 Crawfordsville Road. The tenant was represented by Drew Warner of Eclipse Real Estate. The landlord, Westside Development Corp., was represented by Mark Perlstein of Sitehawk Retail Real Estate.
-LBL's Salon leased 1,600 square feet at Plainfield Commons II, 2683 E. Main St., Plainfield. The tenant was represented by Dawn Lyon of Site Link Commercial Realty. The landlord, Plainfield Commons II LLC, was represented by Liz Yoho of Providence Development.
-Chun Lin leased 1,300 square feet of retail space at 9546 Allisonville Road. The landlord, LOR Corp., was represented by Jacque Haynes of Cassidy Turley. The tenant represented itself.
Fewer than half of the physicians who received $1 million or more in consulting fees from orthopedic implant makers—including Warsaw’s Zimmer, Depuy Orthopaedics and Biomet—disclosed the financial ties in subsequent articles they wrote about the industry. That’s the finding of a study published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine, according to a Bloomberg News report. The study authors focused on 40 orthopedic surgeon researchers who each received more than $1 million from a single orthopedic implant company in 2007. Those doctors published 95 articles related to the companies in 2008, the year following their payments, including studies, reviews and analyses designed to influence the future of patient care, according to the report. Just 44 of their articles disclosed the industry payments at all, and most of those that did merely stated that the author had receive more than $10,000 from the company. In all, five orthopedics companies made 985 payments to doctors for a total of $184 million in 2007 for consulting services, honoraria or assistance related to hip- and knee-replacement and reconstruction, with an average payment of $187,000.
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has received a three-year, $335,309 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand undergraduate research projects in orthopedics. The governmental agency hopes research by engineering students leads to improved, cost effective designs for knee and hip implants. The projects are being conducted through a partnership with Rose-Hulman’s department of applied biology and biomedical engineering and the Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana Research Foundation based at the Center for Hip & Knee Surgery in Mooresville.
Biosciences Vaccines Inc., a firm trying to improve vaccines against infectious diseases and cancers, has moved its offices from South Bend to the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette. Biosciences Vaccines adds its extracellular matrix technology to vaccines to make them work more effectively and at a reduced cost. The technology was licensed from Cook Biotech Inc., which is also based in the Purdue Research Park. Biosciences Vaccines was launched last year and received a $400,000 investment from the Indiana Seed Fund, which is managed by Indianapolis-based BioCrossroads, a life sciences business-development group.
Community Health now has about 550 physicians, either on its payroll or committed through integration contracts, who have some of their pay hinge on measures of quality and communication. CEO Bryan Mills says the hospital system is looking to add even more.
Dr. Jeffrey Weinberger has joined Community Heart and Vascular, a division of Community Health Network. Weinberger, a vascular surgeon, recently completed a fellowship in vascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Jinzhi Pu joined the IUPUI chemistry and chemical biology department as an assistant professor. Pu was most recently in post-doctoral training at Harvard University. Pu holds a bachelor's degree from Peking University and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota.
Rajesh Sardar joined the IUPUI chemistry and chemical biology department as an assistant professor after completing his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sardar earned bachelor's and master's degrees in India and a doctorate at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.
Scott Roberts has been appointed business manager for St. Francis Hospital & Health Center’s imaging services. Roberts also will oversee operations of the hospital's Greenbrooke Imaging Center.
OrthoIndy added Dr. Brian Ludwig, an orthopedic surgeon with a focus in sports medicine, as well as Dr. Robert Marsh, an orthopedic surgeon with a focus in foot and ankle issues. Both physicians work at the OrthoIndy South office, 5255 E. Stop 11 Road.
The local startup expects to raise another $1.3 million this year and launch pilots of a new mobile device connecting patients with doctors.
Dr. Elliot Androphy has been named chairman of the department of dermatology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Androphy joins IU from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was vice chairman for research.
Dr. Mark H. Belfer has joined St. Vincent Physician Network as chief medical officer. Prior to joining St. Vincent, Belfer was president and chief medical officer for Akron General Partners Physicians Group in Ohio.
Indianapolis-based SynCare LLC, a disease-management company serving Medicaid plans, named Ryan D. Chizum vice president of compliance and quality.
Five physicians joined Indianapolis-based Northwest Radiology Network: Dr. Michael S. Conley, medical director for Saint John’s Health System in Anderson; Dr. Joseph George, director of medical imaging at St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana; Dr. Eric Retrum, Dr. Kurt Returm and Dr. Sara Shull.
It looks like Clarian may be back to deal-making. The Indianapolis-based hospital system has signed a letter of intent to absorb Morgan Hospital and Medical Center.
Botox maker Allergan Inc. said it would pay $600 million to settle a years-long federal investigation into its marketing of the drug. Indiana will get $636,000 of that money.
