May 2019 faculty arrivals

Behavioral Medicine
Charity Heding, LICSW joins the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry as a Faculty Social Worker at Sharpe Hospital in Weston, W.Va. Heding was formerly a therapist at Mountain CAP Child Advocacy Center in Buckhannon, W.Va.

Neurosurgery
Hal Meltzer, MD joins the Department of Neurosurgery as Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He was formerly Professor and Pediatric Neurosurgeon at the University of California at San Diego. He also served as the neurosurgical director of their multidisciplinary craniofacial program and director of the pediatric neurosurgery residency program.

Community Practice
Mid-Ohio Valley Medical Group located in Vienna and St. Mary’s, W.Va., have become faculty members in the Department of Community Practice. This includes 16 family medicine physicians and one psychologist: Catherine Adkins, MD; Jason Barton, DO; Jeffery Braham, DO; Darcy Conner, DO; John Conner, DO; Vickie Cox, DO; Kelly Fluharty, MD; Robert Heavner, MD; Thomas Herrmann, MD; Heather Straight, DO; Ryan Lowers, MD; Michael Mauzy,DO; Ernest Miller, DO; Dennis Newland, MD; Kim Stooke, MD; Sharileda Vance, MD; and Amy Louden-Dehmlow, MA.