Dr. Edmond begins as WVU Medicine's Chief Medical Officer

 

Monongah grad begins as WVU’s Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Michael Edmond, Class of 1979 (Monongah High’s last graduation class), has begun his tenure as 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 was 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.