aimed to address <\/a>a shortage of physicians in underserved urban and rural areas.<\/p>\n\u201cWe saw an opportunity to contribute to an area that needed osteopathic medicine physicians,\u201d Iadanza said. \u201cOpening a school, in general, is a big lift. There\u2019s things you need to look up and look down in terms of systems and infrastructure. Bringing that knowledge from the inside is rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iadanza has more than two decades of experience in education. He held medical education roles at Duquesne University\u2019s Nasuti College of Osteopathic Medicine and the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University.<\/p>\n
Iadanza earned a doctorate in educational leadership from Western Illinois University, an educational specialist degree from Missouri Baptist University, a master\u2019s in education from William Woods University, and a bachelor\u2019s in education from Central Methodist University.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s approachable, compassionate, has a brilliant mind and can see the big picture,\u201d said Miko Rose, founding dean of IUP\u2019s Medical School.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania has three independent colleges of osteopathic medicine \u2014 Duquesne, Lake Erie and Philadelphia. IUP would be the state\u2019s first college of osteopathic medicine at a public university.<\/p>\n
IUP\u2019s school holds pre-accreditation status from the American Osteopathic Association\u2019s Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation, and is actively recruiting and admitting students.<\/p>\n
At IUP, Iadanza said instructors will focus on what makes a good rural physician \u2014 compassion, empathy, understanding rural life, the ability to communicate and longevity. Iadanza said his past experiences, coupled with growing up in rural Missouri, make him a good fit at IUP.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to set them up to be good physicians,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of ways we\u2019ll approach that, and it depends on being adaptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rose, the dean, said the new school aims to address the severe physician shortage in federally designated rural areas and medically underserved communities across the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can meet the needs of our community,\u201d Rose said. \u201cRural health care has reached an all-time crisis. This is an issue, and it\u2019s something the medical school meets head-on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana University of Pennsylvania officials have tapped a former Duquesne University educator to help lead its new College…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-278002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}