The NCMS and its Foundation are pleased to announce the scholars who have been selected for the NCMS Leadership College Class of 2012. Preparing to enter its tenth year, the Leadership College is an elite program that allows physicians and physician assistants to learn and develop important skills that can be utilized in organized medicine and in other leadership roles at the local, state and national levels.
We are pleased to present the following 2012 scholars:

Kenneth P. Barnes, MD, Elon – Internal Medicine (Sponsor: N.C. Chapter- American College of Physicians)
Donald T. Buckner, MD, Sylva – Psychiatry  (Sponsor: N.C. Psychiatric Association)
Martha J. Chesnutt, MD, Rocky Mount – Internal Medicine (Sponsor: Boice-Willis Clinic)
Charles K. Dunham, MD, Greenville – Internal Medicine (Sponsor:  Cherry Hospital)
Lenard J. Edralin, MD, Wilmington – Pediatrics (Sponsor: New Hanover-Pender County Medical Society)
William G. Ferrell, MD, Raleigh – Neurology (Sponsor: N.C. Neurological Society)
Mark D. Gwynne, DO, Chapel Hill – Family Medicine (Sponsor: N.C.M.S.F. Community Practitioner Program)
Rachel D. Keever, MD, FAAC, Rutherfordton – Internal Medicine (Sponsor: Rutherford County Medical Society)
Brian S. Kuszyk, MD, Greenville – Diagnostic Radiology (Sponsor: Pitt County Medical Society)
Kelly C. Nelson, MD, Durham – Dermatology (Sponsor:  N.C. Dermatology Association)
Prashant K. Patel, MD, Cary – Internal Medicine (Sponsor: Triangle Indian-American Physicians Society)
Jeremy W. Pyle, MD, Raleigh – Plastic Surgery (Sponsor: N.C. Society of Plastic Surgeons)
Lisa P.Shock, MHS, PA-C, Hillsborough – Family Medicine (Sponsor: Durham-Orange County Medical Society)
C. John Torontow, MD, MPH, Siler City – Family Medicine (Sponsor: N.C.M.S.F. Community Practitioner Program)

Please join us as we welcome the 2012 NCMS Leadership College class and congratulate the 2011 graduating class at the NCMS Annual Meeting in Raleigh, NC, which will be held October 21-23, 2011. For information about the NCMS Leadership College, please visit www.ncmsleadershipcollege.org or contact Richard W. Skinner at 1-800-722-1350 or [email protected].