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He also holds a faculty appointment at the University of Central Florida. Leslie Biesecker MD '83, has been elected to the National Academy of Medi- cine, the medical division of the National Academy of Sciences, which is one of the highest honors in the medi- cal field and recognizes those who have demonstrated out- standing professional achievement and commitment to ser- vice. A Peoria campus alumnus, Biesecker is a clinical and molecular geneticist at the Na- tional Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Kevin McCune, MD '85, has had a 30-year career in the health care field, which began in a small medical practice in Park Ridge, Ill., and has now seen him become the chief medical officer of Advocate Medical Group in Illinois. McCune also serves as the senior medical director for Advocate at Home, Advocate's home health company. And earlier this year, he was named chair of the AMGA (American Medical Group Association) Foundation, member organizations of which deliver care to one in three Americans. Before he came to Advocate Medical Group, McCune worked in a wide range of health care settings in the Chicago area, including Advocate Lutheran General Health Partners, where he served as medical director, and as a board member to several organizations, including Advocate Hospice as well as Advocate Medical Group. Michael Hogan MD, Res '86, Fel '90, has joined Franciscan Physician Network in Lafayette, Ind. Hogan received his MD from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. A board- certified cardiologist, he specializes in the care of patients with heart disease, including coronary artery and peripheral vascular disease. Javette Orgain '72, MD '81, MPH '05, is a speaker and an officer of the board of the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegates, the organization's governing body. An AAFP member since 1983, Orgain has served on both the national and state levels in a variety of positions. A family physician in Chicago, she is an associate professor of clinical family medicine at the COM and team physician for Vitas Innovative Healthcare. She is also medical director/consultant for the Village of Park Forest Health Department and formerly served as medical director at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System Mile Square Health Center. She received the Helen O. Dickens, MD, Alumni Award for distinguished service and leadership from the College of Medicine's Urban Health Program (UHP) as well as the Practitioner of the Year Award in 2014 from the National Medical Association. She served as assistant dean of the UHP from 2006 - 2011 and has been the chair of the Medical Alumni Council since 2014. Adam Rodney MD '81, has joined Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya. After serving as a full-time faculty member at the University of Arizona through 2010, Rodney became a Fulbright scholar in Nairobi and joined AKU in 2012. The graduate of COM's Rockford campus is chair of the infection control and research committees. His primary work is in microbiology, diagnostic molecular biology and clinical infectious diseases, but he also works extensively with the department of medicine. Daniel Kelly '78, MD '82, was named director of the Penn Cardiovascular Institute, a multidisciplinary group of researchers and physicians dedicated to scientific discoveries and medical breakthroughs in heart and vascular care. Kelly will join Penn Medicine from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute near Orlando, where he began as the Institute's founding scientific director in 2008. A renowned cardiac metabolism expert and physician- scientist, Kelly has spent the majority of his career focusing on the metabolic origins of heart muscle diseases. Kelly serves as an associate editor for the Journal of I L L I N O I S M E D I C I N E | 43 '81 '82 '83 '85 Clinical Investigation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Basic to Translational Science, and he is currently on the editorial board for Nuclear Receptor Signaling. Kelly did his residency training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis before completing a postdoctoral research fellowship and a clinical cardiology fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine, where he continues to serve as an adjunct professor of medicine. Joseph A. Flaherty oseph A. Flaherty '68, MD '71, Res '75, who served as dean of the College of Medicine for more than six years, has retired as dean of the Ross University School of Medicine in Miramar, Fla. Before accepting the lead position at the COM, he was head of the department of psychiatry on the Chicago campus. A medical faculty member, clinician and researcher since 1975, Flaherty completed an internship in pediatrics and a residency in psychiatry in addition to his MD. He received additional research training in social psychiatry at the University of Illinois-Chicago and in sociology at London University. Flaherty enjoyed more than 25 years of National Institutes of Health funding in the areas of gender, depression and alcoholism. He published more than 200 professional papers, books and chapters. A distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatry, Flaherty also served on a number of committees of the World Health Organization, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and the NIH. J FORMER COM DEAN FLAHERTY RETIRES FROM ROSS UNIVERSITY Javette Orgain Daniel Kelly Leslie Biesecker '86 Michael Hogan