MEDICAL STAFF UPDATE
New faces at
Bryan
Welcome these colleagues to the Bryan medical community Nadia Abraham, MD, pediatrics/hospitalist, has joined Lincoln Pediatric Hospitalists, 402-483-4591. Dr. Abraham earned her medical degree in 2001 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and completed a residency in 2004 at the Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, where she was chief resident. Previously, Dr. Abraham was a hospitalist with Children’s Hospital in Omaha and has volunteered through Clinic with a Heart in Lincoln. Dr. Abraham is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Casey Cordts, MD, pediatrics/hospitalist, is associated with Lincoln Pediatric Hospitalists, 402-483-4591. Dr. Cordts earned his medical degree in 2008 from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, and completed his residency in 2011 at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr. Cordts previously worked as a pediatric hospitalist with Stormont Vail Health in Topeka, Kansas, where he served as a member of High-Five, a breastfeeding work group that offers assistance and education to new mothers through hospital programs. Dr. Cordts was an adjunct professor at the University of
Kansas School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics, and he has contributed to research on topics including asthma, infant sepsis and immunizations. Dr. Cordts is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Nichole Dean, DO, otorhinolaryngology, has joined Ear, Nose & Throat Specialties, 402-488-5600. Dr. Dean graduated from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Des Moines, in 2007. She completed a general surgery internship with Baptist Health Systems in Birmingham, Alabama, and in 2008, she was awarded the T32 Institutional National Research Service Award. Through this program she researched new methods to treat head and neck cancers, as well as reconstructive and robotic assisted surgery options. She went on to complete an otorhinolaryngology residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine in 2015. She previously practiced at MercyOne Clive ENT Care in Iowa. Dr. Dean is certified through the American Board of Otolaryngology. Richard Fermelia, MD, general surgery, is associated with Heartland Surgical Services, 402-227-8157. Dr. Fermelia has more than 25 years of experience in general surgery, and he has a special interest in weight loss and bariatric surgeries. Dr. Fermelia earned his medical degree from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1989, and he completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, in 1994. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Fermelia is certified by the American Board of Surgery.
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