Accreditation Awards Announced

The awards recognize programs granted either four- or five-year accreditation cycles from their respective accrediting body—the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or, in the case of osteopathy, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).

The maximum length of an accreditation review cycle is five years.

The following programs were granted a five-year accreditation cycle:

• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism fellowship (2015)
  Program director: Ajay Chaudhuri, MD
  Training program administrator: Noemi Voelker

• Family Medicine Sports Medicine fellowship (2015)
  Program director: John Leddy, MD
  Training program administrator: Pam Maconaghy

• Otolaryngology residency (2015)
  Program director: Nestor Rigual, MD
  Training program administrator: Beverly Hurley

• Radiation Oncology residency (2015)
  Program directors: Mohamed Khan, MD, and Anurag Singh, MD
  Training program administrator: Barbara Hails
  No citations from the ACGME; notable practice identified

• Sisters of Charity Hospital Osteopathic rotating internship (2015)
  Program director, Keith Felstead, MD
  Training program administrator: Sharon Sperazza

The following programs were granted a five-year accreditation cycle:

• Child Neurology fellowship (2014)
  Program director: Thomas Langan, MD
  Training program administrator: Eva Tamoga

• Obstetrics and Gynecology Sisters of Charity Hospital residency (2014)
  Program director: Anthony Pivarunas, MD
  Training program administrator: Michelle Sirianni

• Sisters of Charity Hospital Dual Track Osteopathic Internal Medicine residency (2013)
  Program director: Thomas Brewer, MD
  Training program administrator: Sharon Sperazza

• Urology residency (2014)
  Program director: Gerald Sufrin, MD
  Training program administrator: Wendy Scales

Michael E. Cain, MD, dean, presented the awards Feb. 17.