MOORESVILLE, Ind. – Tobi Reidy, D.O., will begin a fellowship program July 1 with the Indiana University School of Medicine Colon and Rectal Residency Program at Kendrick Regional Center for Colon and Rectal Care, St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers.Reidy is the second fellow in this colorectal residency program, the first of its kind in central Indiana. She follows Shirley Shih, M.D., who completed her one-year fellowship this month.
Reidy has completed a general surgery residency at Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati, earned her doctorate in 2005 at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Florida.
Upon completing her training, Reidy will be eligible for the qualifying and certifying exams of the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery.
The residency program was established in 2008 through a partnership between IU, St. Francis and Kendrick Regional Center and marks the first educational joint venture between St. Francis and the medical school, the nation’s second-largest academic medical institution.
The teaching staff comprises surgeons with Kendrick Regional Center and assistant clinical professors with the IU School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. They are Drs. Olaf Johansen, Fred Lane, R. Barry Melbert, Bridget Sanders, Dipen Maun and Ben Tsai from Kendrick; and Drs. Bruce Robb and Virgilio George from IU.
Sanders was appointed program director in May 2010; Maun serves as associate program director.
More information about the fellowship is available by calling 317-834-9618 or at the Kendrick Regional Center for Colon and Rectal Care website www.kendrickcenter.com, or the IU School of Medicine site, www.medicine.iu.edu.
In 2007, St. Francis established the Colorectal Cancer Center center of excellence for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. It’s one of the largest programs of its kind in Indiana. To learn more about its services, go to www.stfrancishospitals.org/Cancer/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=38
