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White Memorial Doctors Make Top Docs List In Pasadena Magazine
Four Physicians Receive Angel Awards
Wmmc Pharmacy Residency Gets Published In Peer Review Journal
White Memorial Wins Awards For Physician And Patient Satisfaction
Physicians Are Part Of White Memorial’s Green Team
Physicians Present Abstracts At Professional Conferences
White Memorial Doctors Make Top Docs List In Pasadena Magazine
Nineteen physicians on the White Memorial medical staff were included in Pasadena Magazine’s “Top Docs” issue, June 2009. The magazine sent ballots to physicians in the San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles Area, and physicians voted online for the most esteemed in his or her chosen field. The physicians’ credentials were verified by outside sources. In addition, Lance Gravely, MD, a physician on White Memorial’s medical staff, was profiled in a special advertising section of the magazine. Also in that issue, Beth Zachary, White Memorial’s President and CEO, was featured on the cover of the magazine and profiled in an article titled “Medicine Meets Management.”
The WMMC physicians listed as Top Docs are:
Robbin Cohen, MD - T/CVS
Boris Larreta, MD - Cardiology
Robert Loitz, MD - Pediatric Cardiology
Koonlawaee Nademanee, MD - Cardiology
Gustavo Calleros, MD - Family Medicine
John Artenos, MD - Ob/Gyn
Janet Horenstein, MD - Ob/Gyn
Elizabeth Maslow, MD - Infectious Disease
Igor Fineman, MD - Neurosurgery
Mihran Shirinian, MD - Oncology
Marta Recasens, MD - Ophthalmology (Retina/Vitreous)
Kevin Pelton, MD - Orthopedic Surgery
Kate Savage, MD - Orthopedic Surgery
Joseph Ahdoot, MD - Pediatric Cardiology
Sam Bruttomesso, MD - Pediatrics
Lennis Burke, MD - Pediatric Cardiology
William Barba, MD - Urology
Vincent Rowe, MD - Vascular Surgery
Fred Weaver, MD - Vascular Surgery
Four Physicians Receive Angel Awards
Four physicians on the White Memorial medical staff – Leroy Reese, MD, John Vanore, MD, Allan Perry Jr., MD, and Gary Brown, MD – have received White Memorial Medical Center Angel awards. The awards were bestowed by the hospital after donations in the doctors’ names were made to the hospital’s Charitable Foundation. Through the Angel award program, individuals – most often patients and family members -- make a gift to the hospital in honor of their caregiver(s). The caregiver is recognized by the hospital with an Angel award, for being a champion and advocate for philanthropic support of the hospital.
Wmmc Pharmacy Residency Gets Published In Peer Review Journal
The White Memorial Pharmacy Residency Program, in collaboration with the White Memorial Infectious Disease Services department, has published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a peer-review medical journal. The topic was “Cefepime Therapy and All-Cause Mortality.” The effort was championed by Byron Williams, MD, medical director of the Infectious Disease Services department and President-Elect of the White Memorial medical staff. White Memorial has maintained a consistently good susceptibility of antibiotics against one of the most serious hospital-acquired pathogens, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, due to a strong antimicrobial stewardship program.
White Memorial Wins Awards For Physician And Patient Satisfaction
Physicians at White Memorial Medical Center have ranked the hospital as an excellent place to practice medicine, and given it high marks for the quality of laboratory services. In the 2009 Medical Staff Perception Awards, conducted by Professional Research Consultants, Inc. (and based upon White Memorial’s physician satisfaction survey results), White Memorial won a 4-Star Award for Laboratory Services and another 4-Star Award as a Place to Practice Medicine. A 4-Star Award means that White Memorial scored between the 75th and 89th percentile of all hospitals in the PRC database for “excellent” responses to the physician satisfaction survey questions about laboratory services and the hospital as a place to practice medicine.
Physicians Are Part Of White Memorial’s Green Team
White Memorial medical staff physicians Kathryn Shaw, MD, and Jahangir Sharifi, MD, are part of a new White Memorial “Green Team” that is helping the hospital take the first steps toward becoming more environmentally sustainable. The hospital has partnered with Waste Management Healthcare Solutions (WMHS) to implement new and environmentally sustainable waste management practices throughout the hospital. These include solid waste (including plastic, paper, glass and other recyclables; medical waste (primarily sharps and other biohazardous waste); pharmaceutical waste; confidential documents and hazardous waste (primarily radioactive waste from x-rays and other imaging studies).
Physicians Present Abstracts At Professional Conferences
Cinna Wohlmuth, MD, program director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical Residency Program at White Memorial, made an oral presentation of her abstract “Simulation Training in OB GYN Residency Programs- Current Practices and Collaboration in CREOG Region 5” in March. The presentation was made to the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) at their annual meeting March 11-14.
White Memorial medical staff physicians Ariel Malamud, MD and Subbaramaiah Kavuri, MD, together with White Memorial Internal Medicine resident Donald Portocarrero, DO, and Venkat Kavuri, MD (Subbaramaiah Kavuri’s son), presented an abstract in May. Titled “A Prospective Randomized Study Comparing Patients’ Perspective and Success Rate to Types of Anesthesia Used in Elective Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures,” the presentation was made at the Digestive Disease Week conference in Chicago.
Obstetrics and Gynecology medical residents Janis Penner, MD, and Nah Yong Moon, MD, made oral and poster presentations at the OB GYN Assembly of Southern California on April 4 and 5, 2009. Dr. Moon won third prize for her presentation.
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