Monongah grad named WVU’s Chief
Medical Officer
Dr. Michael Edmond, Class
of 1979 (Monongah High’s last graduation class), has been named WVU Health
System’s new Chief Medical Officer. He will join WVU Medicine in November.
Dr. Edmond is a Fairmont
State graduate who got his medical degree from WVU School of Medicine in 1986.
His career included stops
at the University of Iowa and University of Pittsburgh.
He is the chief quality officer,
associate chief medical officer and clinical professor of internal medicine –
infectious diseases at the University of Iowa Health Care. Earlier, he was
chair of infectious diseases at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Edmond also
was a pioneer in fecal transplants, putting fecies from healthy patients into
those suffering from C.diff (Clostridium Difficle), a common infection for
hospital patients.
Dr. Edmond was named Distinguished
Alumnus by the WVU School of Medicine in 2016.
Dr. Edmond’s wife, Dr. Laurie Jean Lyckholm, is a Creighton University
(Omaha, Nebraska) Medical School graduate who was on the Virginia Commonwealth
University faculty staff for 18 years, focusing on care for indigents and
prisoners.
Dr. Edmond’s mother was Lavinia Rose Prezioso Edmond, Class of
1960, daughter of Ruth Kanavy Prezioso Huskelhus and Arthur Prezioso.
Dr. Edmond’s siblings are Mari Lisa Johnson, Steve
and Amy Edmond of Fairmont and the late Mark Patrick Edmond.
Steve Edmond is the West Virginia Health & Human Resources
Bureau for Public Health’s Office of Emergency Medical Services’ trauma
designation coordinator under OEMS medical director Michael Mill. Steve also is a Registered Nurse.
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