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October 5, 2009: Visiting Professorship in Japan
In September 2009, Masahito Jimbo, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., gave a five-day visiting professorship consisting of lectures, hospital rounds, outpatient precepting, and case presentations for the faculty, residents, and students at Saint Marianna University School of Medicine in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

July 21, 2009: McCurry (Residency 1985) is Colorado Family Physician of the Year

A family doctor who has been bestowed with Colorado’s top honor feels he is making a difference in many lives despite practicing in the small town of Cañon City. In fact, he believes that being in a small town is where he can be most helpful.

Robert D. McCurry, D.O. (Residency 1985), has been honored by the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians as the 2008 family physician of the year. The academy represents more than 1,800 doctors in the state. In response, Dr. McCurry said, “It was a very humbling experience.”

Dr. McCurry has been taking care of Cañon City, Colo. patients from infants to nursing home elderly for 16 years. He practiced in Texas before moving to Colorado.

“Some of the things I do that help me feel more of a close connection with a family is having young adults as patients who go on to have their own children and I care for them, and, essentially, I am a part of their family,” McCurry said.

A former fellow family medicine resident, Michael S. Klinkman, M.D., M.S., associate professor (Residency 1985), remembers that “he was a down-to-earth, utterly solid and reliable colleague - even during our residency training, it was clear that he would be a great family doctor. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him. I’m not at all surprised to see him earn this great honor.”

Currently McCurry serves as chair of the ethics committee as well as the pharmacy and therapeutics committee at St. Thomas More Hospital in Cañon City where he has served as chief of staff. He also teaches advanced cardiac life support and since 2004 has been a part-time snowboard and skiing instructor.

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