Fall/Winter 2024 5 Emma Bye, MD, provided a little extra for her OB patients at Wagner, South Dakota, Indian Health Service (IHS). Dr. Bye, along with a University of South Dakota medical student and several public health nurses, worked to distribute donated diapers; wipes; sleeper outfits; and other items, like travel-size lotions, body wash and detergent. They went around door-to-door delivering items to Dr. Bye’s expecting moms from Wagner IHS. April Willman, MD, FAAP, has been appointed as the Dr. Charley F. and Elizabeth Gutch Chair in Medicine, effective July 2024 through June 2027, for the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine (SSOM). Dr. Willman has been serving as associate dean of the Yankton campus and associate professor in the department of pediatrics. A 2007 SSOM graduate, Dr. Willman practices pediatrics at Yankton Medical Clinic, and she served as the SSOM pediatrics longitudinal integrated clerkship coordinator from 2017 through 2022. “Dr. Willman embodies many of the qualities Dr. Gutch stood for,” says Tim Ridgway, MD, Dean of the SSOM. “She is an accomplished physician and academic leader of the Yankton campus and is truly dedicated to the success of the school of medicine. Dr. Willman, like Dr. Gutch, is committed to excellence in all she does. She is most deserving of this honor.” Dr. Gutch was chief of medical services at the Royal C. Johnson Veterans’ Memorial Hospital, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and an associate dean at the school of medicine until his 1988 retirement, when he was named Professor Emeritus. He was recognized as an expert in kidney function and kidney dialysis and was a prolific writer and academic visionary. He passed away in 2009. It is through the generosity of Dr. Gutch and his wife, Betty, that this chair in medicine was endowed. Dr. Willman appointed Chair in Medicine University of South Dakota’s Tim Ridgway, MD, Dean of the Sanford School of Medicine; April Willman, MD, FAAP; and Lori Hansen, MD, FACP, FCCP, University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine Dean of Medical Student Affairs. Dr. Bye ‘delivers’ extra to Wagner patients
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