LECOM Alumna Finds Place of Purpose Alexandria (Cisowski) Boley, DO As the spring issue of the LECOM Connection highlights education, enrichment, character, and community – all of which have been generated, supported, and advanced by the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) to ensure the resounding success of its graduates and the greater community, it is with deep satisfaction that the College recognizes the daring pioneers who took the risk of earning their medical degrees at a nascent college. It has been more than a decade since Alexandria (Cisowski) Boley, DO arrived as a Freshman on the Seton Hill campus in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. As such, she was the first student to enroll in the then new LECOM - Seton Hill University Cooperative Degree Program. Dr. Boley was one such scholar prepared to walk boldly forward companioned by a brand-new vision. In the years that have followed her graduation from LECOM at Seton Hill, she has established a thriving practice working in a Native Alaska Primary Care Clinic in Wasilla, Alaska. There, Dr. Boley provides care to residents with specific health care needs. Unquestionably, Dr. Boley has found the purpose of her calling. When asked to describe key elements of her practice, she responded
enthusiastically, “I am fortunate to work sideby-side with family medicine physicians to keep the family unit together under one provider, to provide specialized pediatric care to high-risk children, and to be available for consultation regarding pediatric problems.” Dr. Boley joins more than 700 physicians who have been graduated from LECOM at Seton Hill since LECOM welcomed its inaugural class in 2009. Those physicians work and serve in hospitals, physician offices, and in other healthcare settings providing medical services in rural Pennsylvania towns, strengthening medical care in major metropolitan areas, and traveling to places such as Wasilla to deliver first-rate medical care to a needful populace.
achieved except by those who dare to believe that something far greater than the present circumstance is possible. She stepped away from the crowd to make her own strides and decidedly, that path has led her to success in the profession. “It is amazing that it has been ten years since the Seton Hill-LECOM cooperative began,” noted Boley. The LECOM bond with Seton Hill continues to produce highly-trained physicians who serve in urban and rural populations. Doctors such as Alexandra Boley, DO, are answering the call of underserved communities, delivering to those communities the superlative care and training that they themselves received from a LECOM education.
Dr. Boley spoke with pride about her alma mater. “Thinking about where I am now makes me extremely thankful that LECOM at Seton Hill provided to me this opportunity.”
In the prodigiously successful decades that have followed those early days, LECOM has watched with pride the many graduates who have held themselves to distinction and note.
Today, with an enrollment of more than 400 medical students, LECOM at Seton Hill is providing that opportunity to many more scholars while simultaneously bolstering the Greensburg community.
This accomplished physician is one of the many LECOM at Seton Hill graduates who serve in the whirlwind of need and healing. In so doing, she has carried forth exceptional LECOM medical training and comprehensive compassionate care to others in places far from the crowd.
The Alaska-based pediatrician is a proud first graduate who knows that nothing worthwhile is
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