20 GME Programs Commended for Accreditation Status

The awards recognize programs granted either four- or five-year accreditation cycles from their respective accrediting body—the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association.

A program can be accredited for up to five years.

The following programs were granted a five-year accreditation cycle without any citations:

• Cardiovascular disease fellowship
  Program director: Joseph A. Paris, MD
• Infectious disease fellowship
  Program director: Charles S. Berenson, MD
• Nephrology fellowship
  Program director: James W. Lohr, MD
• Nuclear medicine residency
  Program director: Robert S. Miletich, MD, PhD
• Preventive medicine general residency
  Program director: Michael F. Noe, MD
  
• Psychiatry residency
  Program director: Cynthia A. Pristach, MD

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

• Child psychiatry fellowship
  Program director: David L. Kaye, MD
• Gastroenterology fellowship
  Program director: Michael D. Sitrin, MD
• Orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship
  Program director: Leslie J. Bisson, MD
• Pediatric neonatal/perinatal medicine fellowship
  Program directors: Rita M. Ryan, MD, and Vasantha H. Kumar, MD
• Pulmonary disease and critical care fellowship
  Program director: M. Jeffery Mador, MD
  

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

• Geriatric medicine fellowship
  Program director: Bruce J. Naughton, MD
• Geriatric psychiatry fellowship
  Program director: Marion Zucker Goldstein, MD
• Internal medicine/pediatrics combined residency
  Program director: Michael J. Aronica, MD
• Neurology residency
  Program directors: Alan H. Lockwood, MD, and Nicholas J. Silvestri, MD
• Ophthalmology residency
  Program directors: James D. Reynolds, MD, and Airaj F. Fasiuddin, MD
  
• Pain medicine anesthesiology fellowship
  Program director: Oscar deLeon-Casasola, MD
• Pediatrics residency
  Program director: Lorna K. Fitzpatrick, MD
• Pediatric gastroenterology fellowship
  Program director: Susan S. Baker, MD, PhD
• Pediatric nephrology fellowship
  Program director: Wayne R. Waz, MD
  

Michael E. Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, presented the awards Dec. 20.