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Two area doctors receive medical honors
Two area medical leaders, Dr. Thomas E. Albani Jr. and Patricia McAllen, Ph.D., have received state and national honors, respectively.
Dr. Albani, of Boardman, has been named the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians’ 2011 Family Physician of the Year. He will receive the award Aug. 6 at the 2011 OAFP Awards Dinner at Marriott Columbus Northwest in Dublin.
McAllen, a registered nurse and dean of Mercy College of Northwest Ohio, St. Elizabeth Campus, has been appointed an ambassador by the National League for Nursing.
Her role in this position will be to keep the faculty and administration informed about NLN initiatives, grant opportunities, conferences, publications, workshops and other benefits available to NLN members. McAllen, a certified nurse educator, also will have an opportunity to communicate to the NLN board and professional staff some of the issues and challenges that are of greatest concern to nurse educators in the field, officials said.
Dr. Albani has been practicing family medicine for 27 years and has a solo practice in Canfield. He also is a volunteer faculty member for the family-medicine residency program at St. Elizabeth Health Center and an assistant clinical professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown.
In 2008, Dr. Albani helped start the Midlothian Free Health Clinic, which provides free primary care to anyone age 18 to 65 with no health insurance or health assistance eligibility. He is the clinic’s medical director.
He graduated from Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed his family medicine residency program at Mount Carmel Medical Center in Columbus.
McAllen helped establish the St. Elizabeth campus of Mercy College and has been its director since 2002. The program opened in January 2003 and has graduated seven classes with a total of 217 nurses.
Her previous nursing- education experience includes serving on the faculties of the St. Elizabeth School of Nursing and the nursing programs of Youngstown State University and Kent State University.
McAllen and her husband, Ted, director of nursing informatics at Akron General Medical Center, live in Canfield. They have three adult children.