New faculty, staff for medical complex

New faculty and staff have arrived on the South Campus in recent months. Several individuals have come onboard to staff UB Associates, which will administer the clinical practice plan, while others were hired to fill medical school vacancies.

Office of Vice President for Health Affairs

- Kathy R. Lamb, assistant vice president and general counsel, is a nurse practitioner and holds a law degree from Syracuse University School of Law. She came to UB from the Rochester law firm of Harris, Beach and Wilcox, L.L.P., where she was a partner in the Corporate/Health Care Practice Group. Prior to working at Harris Beach, Lamb was a partner with Falk and Siemer, L.L.P. of Buffalo, handling corporate health-care issues. She also has served as a health-care attorney with Hancock & Estabrook in Syracuse and a litigation associate with Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel in Buffalo. Her UB duties include handling legal issues involving the clinical practice plan and administering contracts with the teaching hospitals.

- Tony Campanelli, formerly assistant vice president for fiscal affairs in the UB medical school, has joined the staff of the vice president for health affairs as assistant vice president for resource management.

- Patrick J. Dinicola, chief operating officer of the clinical practice plan, holds an MBA from Cornell University Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. Most recently, he was senior vice president for finance and administration at Trico Products Division in Buffalo, and prior to that spent three years at Trico's Texas Division. He also has held financial management positions with Frontier Corporation, Computer Consoles, Inc., and Schlegel Corporation, all of Rochester.

- Maryann O'Brien, compliance auditor, holds a degree in medical records administration from Daemen College and is in the master's-degree program in health services administration at D'Youville College. Before coming to UB, she was a full-time instructor in the Health Information Technology Program at Trocaire College.

- Brian W. Murphy, formerly a research physicist in the UB Department of Nuclear Medicine, now directs the Health Professions Information Technology Partnership. His group manages educational software development for the health-sciences schools and provides information-technology support.

- Tim Bleiler is an instructional designer and software developer for the IT partnership. He came to UB from the University of Iowa, where he developed several types of instructional programs, including software to study head and neck anatomy, and simulations of human temperature regulation. He is developing a program that can be customized for teaching histology.

- Brian Schroeder is a computer artist and multimedia designer for the IT partnership. He is a 1996 graduate of UB's fine arts program.

- Kimberly Krzemien, who is legal assistant to Kathy Lamb, formerly was with the firm of Cooper & Cooper in Hamburg.

Dean's office

- Carolyn Hamilton, assistant dean for minority affairs, fills the vacancy created by Maggie Wright's retirement. She will help recruit and retain minority medical and graduate students and secure funds to support these efforts. Hamilton was assistant director of admissions at University at Albany before coming to UB, and prior to that held the same position at SUNY at Delhi. She also spent nine years as Educational Opportunity Fund advisor at Stockton State College in Pomona, N.J., and has taught Afro-American history and culture courses at both Stockton State College and Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. Hamilton graduated from SUNY at Oneonta and holds a master's degree from Atlanta University and a doctorate from the University at Albany.

- Sandra Drabeck, formerly assistant dean for resource management for the School of Health Related Professions and the School of Nursing, has moved to the medical school to become its assistant dean for resource management. A UB economics graduate, Drabeck has been at UB for nine years. She also has served as assistant to the provost for budget and personnel administration.

- Thomas Martin has been appointed director of Laboratory Animal Research Facilities. An Australian, Martin formerly was director of the animal-care program and a senior lecturer at the University of South Wales, the most senior position in Australia in laboratory animal medicine. He has extensive experience with a range of species and has practiced as a veterinarian in several countries, including England and Iran. He holds a doctorate in veterinary pathology from the University of Sydney and an MBA, begun at the University of Sydney and completed at New York University. He is a research professor in the UB Department of Pathology, working in the areas of serological diagnosis, neurological effects of bacterial endotoxin and orthopedic repair using biocompatible and bioabsorbable collagen.