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Meet Your 2016 MCMS Board

Officers                            chair of the Department            Maureen L. Beurskens, MD            Stephen R. Keener, MD, MPH
                                    of Internal Medicine at
Stephen J. Ezzo, MD, President      Carolinas Medical Center           Dr. Beurskens’ parents              Dr. Keener is a native of
                                    and Senior Medical Director        emigrated from the Netherlands      Denver, Colo., but spent
Born in St. Petersburg, Fla.,       of Academic Operations. He
Dr. Ezzo graduated from St.         remains clinically active,                       with her three older               most of his life in
                                    seeing both inpatients and                       sisters. She was                   North Carolina.
              Louis University      outpatients at CMC.                              born in Queens,                    He graduated from
              School of Medicine.                                                    N.Y. and spent                     Davidson College
              He completed          SimonV.Ward III, MD, Immediate                   her high school                    and Duke University
              his residency         Past-President                                   years attending                    Medical School, and
              in pediatrics                                            the American Community              then completed a residency in
              at Carolinas          Born in New Orleans, Dr. Ward      School in Beirut, Lebanon. She      family medicine at the Medical
Medical Center. He currently        graduated from Louisiana State     returned to the U.S. to attend      University of South Carolina in
is practicing at Novant Health                                         Smith College and received          Charleston, where he served as
Matthews Children’s Clinic and                    School of Medicine.  her medical degree from the         Chief Resident. He later earned
is a Physician Executive for                      He completed         University of Massachusetts         an MPH in health policy and
Novant Health. Ezzo has served                    his internship       Medical School. She completed       administration from the School
on the Matheson Foundation                        and residency        her residency in Massachusetts      of Public Health at UNC-
Committee and served as a                         in obstetrics and    and practiced obstetrics and        Chapel Hill and completed
delegate to the North Carolina                    gynecology at the    gynecology for six years in         a residency in preventive
Medical Society.                    Charity Hospital of Louisiana.     Massachusetts before moving         medicine. Keener is a career
                                    Ward practices general OB/         to Charlotte in 1992. She has       public health physician and
Elizabeth B. Moran, MD, Secretary   GYN with Novant Health             three adult sons of whom she is     serves as the medical director of
                                    Rankin OB/GYN.                     very proud and loves practicing     the Mecklenburg County Health
Dr. Moran is a native Charlottean,                                     medicine, gardening, reading        Department. He is board-
who earned her undergraduate        Directors                          and traveling.                      certified in general public health
                                                                                                           and preventive medicine.
              degree in biology     John R. Allbert, MD                W. Frank Ingram III, MD
              from Duke                                                                                    Scott S. Lindblom, MD
              University. She       Born in Lubbock, Texas,            Dr. Ingram was born at
              then received her     Dr. Allbert attended Texas         Presbyterian Hospital               Dr. Lindblom was born
              medical degree                                                                               in Minneapolis, Minn. He
              from Wake Forest                    Tech University                    and raised in         graduated from the Medical
University School of Medicine                     and obtained his                   Charlotte. He
and completed her residency                       medical degree                     attended                            College of
in obstetrics and gynecology                      at the University                  Davidson College,                   Wisconsin where
at Carolinas Medical Center,                      of Texas Medical                   graduating                          he completed an
serving as the administrative                     Branch. He                         with a degree                       internship and
chief her senior year. She is       completed his residency in         in biology. He earned his                         residency and
a Fellow of the American            OB/GYN at Carolinas Medical        medical degree at the Medical                     served as chief
Congress of OB/GYN and has          Center and a fellowship in         University of South Carolina        resident. He then completed
been in practice at Eastover OB/    maternal-fetal medicine at         in Charleston, where he             a fellowship in pulmonary
GYN Associates since 2008.          the University of Mississippi      also completed a residency          and critical care medicine
                                    Medical Center. He now is          in anatomic and clinical            at Barnes/Jewish Hospital
Scott L. Furney, MD,Treasurer       a maternal-fetal medicine          pathology. Following residency      at Washington University.
                                    consultant with Novant Health      training, Ingram completed          Lindblom has practiced at
Born in Lake Orion, Mich.,          Maternal-Fetal Medicine            an additional year of training      Carolinas HealthCare System
Dr. Furney completed his            Associates. He is a past           in surgical pathology at Johns      since 1996 and currently
                                    president of the North Carolina    Hopkins Hospital. Since 2008,       practices with Pulmonary &
              medical degree at     Obstetrics and Gynecology          he has been a member of             Critical Care Consultants and
              the University of     Society and is the current         Presbyterian Pathology Group,       Charlotte Medical Clinic. He is
              Michigan, where       North Carolina Vice Chair          serving as the medical director     the Specialty Medical Director
              he also completed     for the American Congress of       of the hospital’s microbiology      for CHS Adult Pulmonary and
              his residency and     Obstetrics and Gynecology.         and anatomic pathology labs.        Critical Care.
              chief resident year
in internal medicine. Furney is

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