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Black church studies

Youngstown resident Carolyn L. O’Neil, 1542 Ravine Road, completed Ashland Theological Seminary degree requirements and received her doctor of ministry in Black church studies during the seminary’s commencement ceremony June 5.

Ashland Theological Seminary, a division of Ashland University, is the largest seminary in Ohio.

DOCTORS

Residency in pediatrics

Anna S. Tsikouris of Campbell recently received her doctor of medicine degree from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy.

Dr. Tsikouris is a 2002 graduate of Campbell Memorial High School. She earned her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Kent State University. She is a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

She begins a residency in pediatrics at the Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is married to Alex P. Tsikouris and is the daughter of Skevos and Despina Zembillas, all of Campbell.

Diagnostic radiology

Paul Harkey, a Youngstown State University graduate, has completed his five-year residency in diagnostic radiology at Case Western Reserve/MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. He served as chief resident the past year.

Dr. Harkey graduated summa cum laude from YSU and attended Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rootstown. He is a 1998 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School of Louisville.

He will be pursuing a one-year fellowship in musculoskeletal imaging at Emory Healthcare Center in Atlanta. Dr. Harkey is the son of Paul and Florence Harkey of Canfield and the grandson of Lorenzo DeSantis and the late Velia DeSantis and the late Peter and Josephine Harkey.

HONORS

Food safety

A Mercer County native was one the authors of a new Institute of Medicine and National Research report on enhancing food safety.

Barbara Kowalcyk, a Grove City, Pa., native, director of food safety for the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention, helped write the report.

Kowalcyk, a 1987 graduate of Grove City High School who now lives just north of Cincinnati, brought her extensive experience as a biostatistician and her personal experience to the discussions in the report’s preparation.

Kowalcyk, who is pursuing her doctorate in environmental health at the University of Cincinnati, got involved in food safety after the 2001 death of her 2 Ω-year-old son, Kevin, who suffered an E. coli infection. She co-founded CFI in order to pursue research and educational initiatives on food-borne illness and food safety.

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