A Chesapeake physician is being honored by the Obici Hospital medical community next month.

Dr. Juan Montero of the Chesapeake Free Clinic has been tapped to receive the 2005 Medical Staff Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Medical Profession at Obici’s 52nd annual Clinical Conference.

The training conference for local physicians and medical professionals is being held from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. March 30 at King’s Fork Middle School, 350 Kings Fork Road. Registration is free and begins at 8:30 a.m.

A continental breakfast and lunch will be served, courtesy of the hospital.

Speakers include:

nDr. Brian. L. Gruber, president of the hospital’s medical staff, will make introductory remarks.

nDr. Patrick Parcells of Hampton Roads Neurology Inc. will speak on migraine headaches.

nDr. Algin Garrett, chairman of the Department of Dermatology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, will speak on the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer.

nDr. Victor Cotton, also an adjunct law professor at Widener University, Harrisburg, Penn., will discuss law, medicines and the standard of care.

nDr. David Albala, urology professor, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., will discuss laproscopic robotic radical prostatectomy.

nThis year’s George J. Carroll Lectureship presentation, &uot;All that Glitters Isn’t Gold: Nutrition Fads in the USA,&uot; will be presented by Dr. Jeffrey S. Hampl, registered dietician and associate professor of nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Arizona State University, Mesa, Ariz.

For more information about the conference, call 934-4399.

allison.williams@suffolknewsherald.com