New faculty join UMMC academic ranks
Published on Monday, March 4, 2024
Medical Center leadership is proud to announce the following additions to its faculty and leadership staff.
Dr. Oheneba Boadum
BoadumDr. Oheneba Boadum, a PhD candidate in clinical anatomy at UMMC, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of advanced biomedical education in the School of Medicine and as director of the Simulation and Interprofessional Education Center.
Boadum earned his MD (MBChB) in general medicine and surgery in 2007 at the University of Ghana Medical School in Accra. He had his postgraduate training as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he earned an MS in biomedical science (Clinical Biochemistry and Hematology). He holds an MA in Theological Ministry from Trinity Theological Seminary, University of Ghana, and has published nine books.
He is the immediate past medical director and physician-in-charge at St. Gregory Catholic Hospital, UNHCR Refugee Camp in Ghana, where he was responsible for the medical care of all the refugees in the camp. He also served as a senior medical officer at Manna Mission Hospital, Accra Regional Hospital, and the Central Regional Hospital in Ghana.
Boadum is the co-author of a variety of professional publications and has served as a reviewer for the American Association for Clinical Anatomists.
He was a recent winner of the Carl G. Evers MD Society Basic Science Professor of the Year Award, School of Medicine, at UMMC and is a newly-inducted member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
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Dr. Alicia Ciarloni
CiarloniDr. Alicia Ciarloni, recently director of clinical education at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of nursing instruction in the School of Nursing.
Ciarloni earned a Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and, in 2017, a Doctor of Nursing Practice at UTHSC.
She has also worked as an operating room RN and, later, as cardiovascular operating room manager at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis; trauma operating room RN/charge nurse at Regional One Health in Memphis; nurse practitioner at MidSouth Pain Treatment Center in Memphis; clinical specialist at Agiliti Health in Eden Prairie, Minnesota; and as a member of the adjunct faculty for Christian Brothers University in Memphis.
Ciarloni is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the American Nurses Association.
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Dr. Kristi E. Reece
ReeceDr. Kristi E. Reece, recently a nursing instructor at Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of nursing instruction in the School of Nursing.
Reece earned her Master of Science in Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner) in 2009 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her Doctor of Nursing Practice, with the academic nurse educator concentration, in 2017 at Samford University in Birmingham.
She served in a variety of roles at North Mississippi Medical Center in Iuka, including clinical nurse educator; and as charge nurse at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence, Alabama; adjunct clinical instructor and nurse practitioner at the University of North Alabama in Florence; nurse practitioner for Express Med Urgent Care; and nurse practitioner at Iuka Family Clinic.
Most recently, she was also a part-time evaluator for Utah-based Western Governors University, and a nurse faculty coach for Ascend Learning.
Reece is a peer evaluator for the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing and an RN item writer for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
She is a member of the National League for Nursing and the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, and is an OADN Alpha Delta Nu student nurse honor society sponsor.