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Clinical Department ChairsCargill H. Alleyne Jr., MDProfessor and Marshall Allen Distinguished Chair and Chairman,Department of NeurosurgeryDirector, Cerebrovascular ServiceDirector, Residency ProgramDr. Alleyne completed his medical degree at Yale University School of Medicine,neurosurgery residency at Emory University hospitals, and a cerebrovascularand skull-based surgery fellowship at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Alleyne was assistant professor andassistant residency program director at University of Rochester in New York before joining the Medical College of Georgiaas associate professor and academic vice chair. He is past chairman of the National Medical Association Neurology/Neurosurgery Section and a past president and member of the board of directors of the Georgia Neurosurgical Society.Alleyne is co-director of the Cerebrovascular Research Laboratory at Augusta University, and his research interestsinclude treatment of cerebral vasospasm and novel treatments for stroke and aneurysms. He’s been named to the list ofBest Doctors in America for Neurosurgery since 2007, to America’s Top Surgeons since 2009, and to Castle-Connolly’sregional Top Doctors in 2013.Specialties: Vascular neurosurgery, endovascular neurosurgery and skull-base tumorsMichael P. Diamond, MDWilliam H. Brooks, MD, Distinguished Chair in Obstetrics andGynecology and Chairman,Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyAssociate Dean for ResearchSenior Vice President for Research, Augusta UniversityDr. Diamond earned his medical degree and completed an obstetrics andgynecology residency at Vanderbilt University Medical School and a reproductiveendocrinology and infertility fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine. He was Augusta University’s inaugural vicepresident for clinical and translational sciences and came to MCG in February 2013 from Wayne State University Schoolof Medicine where he was associate chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Diamond is an expert indesigning and implementing clinical trials whose study focus includes infertility and procedure-related adhesions. He isserving his fifth term as a consultant to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Device Panel of the Food and Drug Administration’sCenter for Devices and Radiological Health. He has served as president of the Environment and Reproduction SpecialInterest Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and chair of the Society’s Androgen Excess SpecialInterest Group. He is a past president of the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and the Society ofReproductive Surgeons.Specialties: Reproductive endocrinology and postoperative adhesions5MCG CHAIR PROFILES

David C. Hess, MDPresidential Distinguished Chair and Chairman,Department of NeurologyCo-Director, Brain and Behavior Discovery InstituteDr. Hess earned his medical degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore.He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Allegheny General Hospitalin Pittsburgh before moving to Augusta to complete a Neurology residencyat MCG. He is extensively involved in many aspects of stroke research, including being a co-founder of the telemedicinesystem, REACH, which allows patients brought to rural hospitals for a suspected stroke to receive rapid assessmentand potential treatment with the clot buster tPA within the critical treatment window. He has been National Institutes ofHealth-funded in the area of acute stroke clinical trials and serves on the National Institutes of Health Neurological Sciencesand Disorders K (grant) Study Section. He has been involved in developing stem cell therapies for stroke and has beenselected as one of America’s Top Doctors yearly since 2001.Specialties: Cerebrovascular disease and remote provision of stroke careJoseph Hobbs, MDProfessor and Georgia Academy of Family PhysiciansJoseph W. Tollison, MD, Distinguished Chair andChairman, Department of Family MedicineSenior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Primary CareDr. Hobbs completed his medical degree in 1974 and a family medicineresidency in 1977, both at the Medical College of Georgia. He joined theDepartment of Family Medicine faculty after his residency where he has served as residency program director, predoctoraleducation director, inpatient service director, and vice chair of academic affairs. Hobbs is secretary of the Association ofDepartments of Family Medicine and is serving a second term on the association’s board of directors. He is a memberof the Board of Directors of the Pisacano Leadership Foundation, the philanthropic foundation of the American Boardof Family Medicine. He served as a member of the American Board of Family Medicine board of directors from 2003-08and of its Executive Committee from 2006-08. He received the 2010 President’s Award from the Society of Teachers ofFamily Medicine and was selected as a Bishop fellow for the American Council on Education in 2009. He is a member of theboard of directors of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians Educational Foundation, the academy’s Task Force on HealthPolicy, and a board trustee for its philanthropic foundation, the Georgia Healthy Family Alliance. He is project director ofseveral Health Resources and Services Administration/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grants to train andeducate students and family medicine residents, and to develop family medicine faculty.Specialties: Distributed medical education in community clinical venues; quality assurance/quality improvement of chronicdisease management in primary care; acid-base, fluid, and electrolyte disturbances in primary care; health care financing;rural health educational and clinical affiliations; faculty/resident academic practice transformation; and health care disparities6

Charles G. Howell, MDMoretz/Mansberger Distinguished Chair and Chairman,Department of SurgeryChief, Section of Pediatric SurgerySurgeon-in-Chief, Children’s Hospital of GeorgiaDr. Howell earned a medical degree in 1973 and completed his generalsurgery residency in 1978, both at the Medical College of Georgia. Hecompleted a pediatric surgery research fellowship followed by a pediatric surgery clinical fellowship at the Children’sHospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, in 1982. Howell is currently professor of Surgery and Pediatrics andco-director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, or ECMO, Program. He is fellow of the American College ofSurgeons and an ad hoc reviewer for a number of journals including the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Clinical Pediatrics,Southern Medical Journal and American Surgeon.Specialties: Neonatal surgery, minimally invasive surgery in children, 24-hour pH monitoring for esophageal reflux inchildren, and management of children’s operating roomsMonte Hunter, MDDr. Charles Goodrich Henry and Carolyn Howell HenryDistinguished Chair of Orthopaedics and Chairman,Department of Orthopaedic SurgeryDirector, Sports Medicine CenterDr. Hunter is a Morehead Scholar graduate of the University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill where he played football for Coach Bill Dooley before earninghis medical degree at Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. He completed an emergencymedicine and orthopaedic surgery residency at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and a clinical fellowship in sportsmedicine at the University of California Los Angeles. Hunter has over 25 years of experience in sports medicine practice,including serving as team physician for the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons and UCLA Bruins. He is currently aprofessor of orthopaedic surgery and was appointed vice chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2007.He is the team physician for the Augusta University Jaguars and the Augusta GreenJackets. Hunter is an active memberof the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and serves as medical director of Augusta University’s TissueProcurement Center and on the Medical Board of Trustees of the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation. He hasauthored and co-authored numerous scientific papers and book chapters, and has lectured regionally and nationally onthe prevention and treatment of sports-related injuries. Hunter’s research interests include prevention and treatmentof injuries, and he was recently appointed to the first Augusta University Leadership Academy Executive LeadershipExcellence Program.Specialties: Sports-related injuries and rehabilitation, knee ligament reconstruction including ACL, PCL, andmultiligament injuries7MCG CHAIR PROFILES

Stilianos Kountakis, MD, PhDEdward S. Porubsky, MD, Distinguished Professor and Chairman,Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck SurgeryDirector, Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery FellowshipDirector, Georgia Sinus CenterDr. Kountakis is a graduate of the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.He completed a general surgery residency at UT-Houston Medical School,Hermann Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Hospital Systemof the Texas Heart Institute, and an otolaryngology residency at UT-Houston Medical School, Hermann Hospital, LyndonB. Johnson General Hospital, and MacGregor Medical Associates. He completed a PhD at the University of Crete MedicalSchool. He came to MCG in 2003 from the University of Virginia, Charlottesvile, where he was director of the Divisionof Rhinology and Virginia Sinus Center. Kountakis is vice president of the American Laryngological, Rhinological, andOtological Society, Southern Section, and a member of the board of directors and past president of the Georgia Societyof Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He is past president of the American Rhinologic Society and received thesociety’s 2011 Golden Mirror Teaching Award. He is editor-in-chief of the first encyclopedia of otolaryngology, the fivevolume Encyclopedia of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. His research interests include pathophysiology andpathogenesis of sinusitis, surgical outcomes, immune parameters in sinusitis, allergic fungal sinusitis, pathophysiology ofnasal polyps, and leukotrienes in chronic sinusitis. He is consistently ranked among America’s Best Doctors.Specialties: Diseases of the nose and sinuses, acute and chronic sinusitis, rhinology, endoscopic sinus surgery, nasal polyps,nasal obstruction, deviated nasal septum, nasal allergies, nasal and sinus tumorsCharles W. Linder, MDEllington Charles Hawes Distinguished Professor and Chairman,Department of PediatricsPediatrician-in-Chief, Children’s Hospital of GeorgiaDr. Linder is a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia. He completeda pediatrics residency at Fitzsimmons General Hospital and ColoradoGeneral Hospital in Denver and a pediatric allergy and respiratory diseaseAppointment Date: 2014fellowship at MCG. He served as a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corpsbefore joining the faculty of the MCG Department of Pediatrics. He wasnamed professor in 1981, associate dean of medicine in 1985, and director of the Division of General Pediatrics andAdolescent Medicine from 1972-99. He has served as an assistant hospital administrator, chief of staff, and chief medicalofficer for the university’s teaching hospitals. Linder was named professor of pediatrics and associate dean emeritus in2001 but remained an active volunteer faculty member until his reappointment in 2014. His memberships include theChild Health Finance Committee of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Committee onDevelopment of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a past president of the Georgia Chapter of the Academyand former chairman of the Academy’s Southeastern District.Specialties: Primary care and prevention, fluid and electrolyte therapyMichael P. Madaio, MDVirgil P. Sydenstricker, MD, Chair and Chairman,Department of MedicineDr. Madaio is a graduate of Albany Medical College. He completed his medicineresidency at Medical College of Virginia, including a year as chief resident.Following clinical and research fellowships in nephrology at Boston Universityand a research fellowship in Immunology at Tufts University, he held facultypositions at Tufts, the University of Pennsylvania and Temple. In addition to hischair responsibilities, Madaio is an attending physician in nephrology and has an active laboratory focused on immunologymechanisms of renal disease. He has served on National Institutes of Health, National Kidney Foundation, American Heart8

Association and Lupus Foundation of America study sections. Madaio currently serves on a variety of editorial and advisoryboards and committees, including the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Research Committee, the Association ofProfessors of Medicine Nominating Committee and editorial boards for the Journal of the American Society and theInternational Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, and he is an ad hoc grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health’sNational Institute of Diabetes & Digestive and Kidney Diseases.Specialties: Lupus nephritis and glomerular diseaseW. Vaughn McCall, MDCase Distinguished University Chair and Chairman,Department of Psychiatry and Health BehaviorDr. McCall completed his medical degree and postgraduate psychiatric trainingat Duke University. He came to MCG after serving nearly a decade as professorand chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at WakeForest University School of Medicine. He also completed a master’s degree inepidemiology while at Wake Forest University. He is board-certified in generalpsychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and sleep disorders medicine. His research interests include depression, electroconvulsivetherapy, quality of life, and insomnia and has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health since 1995.Specialties: Sleep disorders and geriatricsSteffen E. Meiler, MDProfessor and Chairman,Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative MedicineDr. Meiler is a graduate of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Schoolof Medicine in Frankfurt, Germany, and spent 11 months at the Ohio StateUniversity College of Medicine as a visiting medical student on scholarship.He returned to Ohio State for a research fellowship in heart failure, completedan internal medicine and anesthesiology residency at the University of IowaHospitals and Clinics and a critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.He also completed research fellowships in molecular genetics and gene therapy at Harvard’s Cardiovascular ResearchCenter. Meiler, an anesthesiologist, internist, and critical care specialist, came to MCG in 2002 from MassachusettsGeneral Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the department’s vice chair for research and director of the Programof Molecular Perioperative Medicine and Genomics. He is co-director of the teaching hospitals’ Perioperative ExecutiveTeam, chairman of its OR Committee, and a member of the MCG Clinical Translational Science Advisory Committee andMD/PhD Admissions Committee. His research interests include identifying new genetic and pharmacological therapiesfor sickle cell disease. Meiler was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Institutes of Health-fundedNanomedicine Center for Nucleoprotein Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology that pursued nanomedicinebased gene correction technologies for sickle cell disease. His collaborative, federally funded studies at MCG areexploring ways to help patients with sickle cell avoid kidney and lung damage and pain.Specialties: Airway and tracheal surgery, surgery for adult patients with sickle cell disease9MCG CHAIR PROFILES

Waleed F. Mourad, MDAssociate Professor and Interim Chairman,Department of Radiation OncologyMedical Director for Clinical Service,Co-Leader, Head and Neck Multidisciplinary TeamAugusta University Cancer CenterDr. Mourad received his medical degree at Ain Shams University School ofMedicine. He completed his radiation oncology residency training in 2005 followed Appointment Date: 2015by multiple fellowships in image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), stereotacticradiosurgery (SRS), head and neck, brachytherapy, and intraoperative radiationtherapy (IORT) at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida, University ofMississippi Medical Center, Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, and Montefiore Medical Center. Hereceived multiple awards including the Young Oncologist Essay Award, Roentgen Fellow Research Award in RadiologicResearch, and Young Oncologist Travel Award. He spent four years as a radiation oncologist at the Continuum CancerCenters of New York, Beth Israel Mount Sinai, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine before joining the faculty of MCGand the Augusta University Cancer Center. He has started a comprehensive radiation oncology program for patients withhead and neck tumors that includes brachytherapy and IORT for locally advanced tumors, recurrent tumors, and previouslyirradiated patients. He has authored textbook chapters, more than 33 original articles, and presented more than 130presentations at national and international meetings and exhibits.Specialties: Head and neck cancer, cutaneous malignancies, ocular tumors, HIV/AIDS-related tumors, benign diseases,sarcoma, SRS, brachytherapy and intraoperative radiation therapyJulian J. Nussbaum, MDProfessor and Chairman,Department of OphthalmologyCo-Director, James and Jean Culver Vision Discovery Instituteat Augusta UniversityAssistant Dean for Ambulatory Care ServicesDr. Nussbaum is a 1976 graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicineand completed his ophthalmology residency at the Medical College of Georgia in 1980. He simultaneously completedfellowships in vitreous and retina surgery at Retina Associates in Cambridge, Massachussets; clinical ophthalmology atMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of Harvard Medical School; and research at the Eye Research Institute of the RetinaFoundation of Boston. He joined the faculty of the Henry Ford Health System in 1982 where he built and directed the RetinaService. Ten years later, he was named chairman of Henry Ford Eye Care Services. In 2001, Nussbaum returned to the MedicalCollege of Georgia as professor and chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology. He has overseen the department’sgrowth in the immediate Augusta community as well as the surrounding region, including Edgefield, South Carolina, andWashington, Georgia where he regularly sees patients. In 2008, he was instrumental in coordinating the development ofAugusta University’s James and Jean Culver Vision Discovery Institute, bringing together clinical and basic science facultyfrom across the campus of the university’s colleges and departments to collaboratively address the issues of vision servicesand research at Augusta University.Specialties: Retina/vitreous surgeryJames V. Rawson, MDP.L., J. Luther, Ada Warren Professor and Chairman,Department of Radiology and ImagingDr. Rawson graduated from Tufts Medical School in 1989. After an internshipat Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, he completed a radiology residency at New YorkMedical College in 1994. Rawson pursued additional training at the MallinckrodtInstitute of Radiology at Washington University with a fellowship in body MRI.10

He then joined the faculty at the Medical College of Georgia. Rawson is a member of the American College of RadiologyEconomic Commission and chairs the ACR Committee on Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payments and Committee onEconomic Issues in Academic Radiology. He also chairs the ACR Committee on Governmental and Regulatory Issues inAcademic Radiology. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American College of Radiology and Cureus. Heserves as a board member of the Society of Chairs in Academic Radiology Departments, the Georgia Radiological Society,and the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute. He served a four-year term on the Center for Medicare and MedicaidServices Ambulatory Payment Classification Advisory Panel and is a standing reviewer for Patient Centered OutcomesResearch Institute.Specialties: Body MRI, health economics and policy, process improvement an

Director, Residency Program Dr. Alleyne completed his medical degree at Yale University School of Medicine, . He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh before moving to Augusta to complete a Neurology residency at MCG. He is extensively involved in many aspects of stroke research, including being .