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University of Missouri- Columbia

Annual Report

Leadership
Chair + Vice Chairs
David Fleming, MD, MA, FACP, is Professor of Medicine and Chairman, Department of of Medicine
and Director, MU Center for Health Ethics at the University Of Missouri School Of Medicine in
Columbia, Missouri. He has served on faculty there since 1980. From 1999-2001 he was a U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services primary care research fellow at the Center for Clinical
Bioethics at Georgetown University, having practiced internal medicine and geriatrics in North
Central Missouri for nearly 20 years prior to that experience. In addition to his duties as chair
of medicine and center director, he directs the clinical ethics consult service at University of
Missouri Health Care, co-chairs the clinical ethics committee, and spends a great deal of time
teaching and developing curriculum in health ethics and professionalism in the medical school
and venues schools across the university campus. He is widely published and pursues research
in end of life care, health disparity, health literacy, organizational ethics, health care access, and
research ethics. Dr. Fleming also serves as Chair of the Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights
Committee , member of the Board of Regents, and most notably, President-elect beginning April
2013 for the American College of Physicians, and is a member of the Board of Regents for the
National Library of Medicine.
Ramesh Khanna, MD, Karl D. Nolph Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Division Director
of Nephrology, accepted the role of Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine effective
November 1, 2013. Dr. Khanna joined the MU faculty in October 1983 and has served our
department and the Division of Nephrology in many capacities and consistently driving our
educational, research, and clinical initiatives forward. He is an internationally recognized
nephrologist as a leading force behind globalizing and advancing peritoneal dialysis. Dr. Khanna
holds multiple global patents for his original invention of the peritoneal dialysis catheter. He has
edited or authored 48 books, written 86 book chapters, 228 abstracts, and published 305 peer
reviewed scientific papers in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of
Clinical Investigation, and other high impact biomedical journals. Further, he has presented over
512 scientific presentations at national and international meetings. He also currently serves as
editor to three prominent nephrology journals, associate editor on one symposium proceedings
publication, and sits on the editorial board of five other nephrology journals.

Turi McNamee, MD, joined the University of Missouri as Internal Medicine Residency Program
Director and Vice Chair of Training and Education in April of 2013. She is a graduate of the
University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency
at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. Prior to joining MU, she directed the
Internal Medicine Residency Program in the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of
South Dakota. Turi exhibits a true passion for educational innovation and improvement. She has
improved, altered, and developed curricular changes for innumerable educational programs at
our system and her previous system; it is a natural skill that she seems to enjoy. Most recently,
in response to the ACGME transition to milestone evaluations, Turi developed an innovative
and original “Skip Logic Evaluation” which has been widely well-received, including an invited
presentation at the 2014 ACGME Annual Educational Conference at the Gaylord National in
National Harbor, Maryland in winter 2014.

James Sowers, MD, is Professor of Medicine, Physiology/Pharmacology, Vice Chair for Research in
the Department of Medicine, and Director of the Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Division.
Dr. Sowers received his MD at The University of Missouri-Columbia. He i 2F