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Palm Beach County Medical Society presents
Managing The Diabetic Patient for the Primary Care Practitioner
Sat., April 07, 2018 7:00 am - 5:00 pm
Hilton Palm Beach Airport
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The UM Business School presents
The Business of Health Care: What's Next?
April 13, 2018
Coral Gables
SFHEF presents
Planning Your Career in Healthcare
Thurs., April 19 | 5:30-8 pm
Memorial Regional Hospital Hollywood
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Do You Know a Healthcare Game Changer?
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Publisher of
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Week in Review,
Specialty Focus,
Updates in Pediatrics,
FHIweekly & Game Changers
Creator of:
The Healthcare Roundtable Series
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Henri R. Ford, MD Named Dean, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
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The
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine is enthusiastically announcing that
Henri R. Ford, MD, has been named the new Dean of the
 Medical School. Ford will join the University on June 1, 2018.
Dr. Ford is a Haitian-born pediatric surgeon who maintains close ties with his native country. In 2010 he traveled to Haiti after the earthquake to provide surgical care to children injured in the devastation. Since then, Dr. Ford has returned regularly to provide medical care to its residents. In May 2015, he performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins in Haiti, telling
CBS News that it was "extremely gratifying" to be able to perform the operation in his home country alongside Haitian surgeons whom he helped to train.
He is currently the Senior VP and Chief of Surgery at the
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Vice-Dean of Medical Education, and Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Surgery at the
Keck School of Medicine of the
University of Southern California. Dr. Ford was Professor and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at the
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine prior to joining CHLA in January 2005.
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Jupiter Medical Center Names New Medical Director of Urgent Care
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Jupiter Medical Center recently announced the appointment of
Dr. W. Jeffrey Davis as the new Medical Director of Urgent Care. With more than 30 years of experience in health care, Dr. Davis is a recognized leader in emergency medicine and public safety. In his new position, Dr. Davis will oversee the clinical quality of patient care in all of the Medical Center's urgent care locations, including four in Palm Beach County and a fifth location that will open this spring in Martin County.
"Our urgent care centers are backed by the full resources of a regional medical center, and now we have a veteran of emergency medicine supervising our urgent care program," said
Don McKenna, President and CEO of Jupiter Medical Center.
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Internist Nabil Tadross, MD Leads Cleveland Clinic Florida's New Concierge Medicine Program
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Board-certified internist
Nabil Tadross, MD, a leading primary care physician in Cleveland, Ohio, for more than two decades, has been selected to lead
Cleveland Clinic Florida's new Concierge Medicine program in East Fort Lauderdale. The first practice of its kind for the Cleveland Clinic enterprise, the Concierge Medicine program provides consistent, comprehensive, personalized medical care, while cultivating in-depth patient-physician relationships that support patients' health goals.
Dr. Tadross relocated to South Florida from Cleveland where he was Associate Medical Director of the
Richard E. Jacobs Family Health Center. In addition to overseeing the large medical practice, he concurrently served as Chair of Medicine at
Cleveland Clinic's
Avon Hospital and as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic's
Lerner College of Medicine of
Case Western Reserve University.
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