H S S S P EC I A L F E AT U R E
“WORKING WITH FOCOS HAS CHANGED MY LIFE AND PERSPECTIVE IN SO MANY WAYS.” —KYLE SWANSON, MD (HSS FELLOW, 2002)
Patients and their families are grateful for the new hospital and journey from all over Africa to receive care there.
to be a part of the team that made it happen.” Dr. Swanson’s late brother, Andrew, a spine surgeon who trained at HSS (Resident, 2005), also volunteered for FOCOS. After graduating from his residency, Andrew travelled to Ghana twice a year to donate his skills to the
patients of FOCOS. In 2009, Andrew died tragically at age 36 in a climbing accident in Alaska.
The Andrew N. Swanson, MD, Alumni Traveling Fellowship/Scholarship was established by the Swanson family and HSS in 2010 to support one HSS resident each year who is interested in spine care. The award also funds two weeks of travel to Ghana for its recipient to contribute to
FOCOS efforts there. The 2010 fellow was Han Jo Kim, MD, and the 2011 recipient was Dennis Meredith, MD. “My work with FOCOS has opened my eyes to the breadth and scope of spinal pathology that exists in underdeveloped countries,” said Dr. Kim (HSS Resident, 2011), who will join the HSS staff as a spine surgeon in January. He traveled to Ghana to work with FOCOS in 2009, 2010 and 2012 (during and after his HSS residency years). “I thought about the dream that Dr. Boachie made into a
Thomas P. Sculco, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief, and Louis A. Shapiro, President and CEO, proudly congratulate Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei and the FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital on their amazing accomplishments. We honor all of the HSS staff and alumni who have volunteered their time and resources to help the world walk tall: Sara Baker, PT Ariel Buell Kwame Boachie-Adjei Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD Nordis Brijmohan, RN Tara Carey, PT, DPT, CHT Maya Caspi, PT, DPT Mary Chambers, RN Gina Charles, BS Wing-Yee Mazza Chin-Ng, RN JeMe Cioppa-Mosca, PT, MBA Frank A. Cordasco, MD John P. Cox Matthew E. Cunningham, MD, PhD Jadie Detolla, DDS Christopher R. Edmonds, MD Lucia M. Fabrizio, MSN, RN, CPNP Michael Faloon, MD, MS Joseph H. Feinberg, MD Cathleen Finnegan, RN Israel Fleiss Kathleen Forson, RN, BSN Glenn Garrison, CPO Jaspaul S. Gogia, MD Christopher R. Good, MD
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Jessica Graziano, PT, DPT, CSCS Andrew Grose, MD Nicole Hoffman, MBA, RN, ONC Jerome K. Jones, MD Tonya Juge Antony Kallur, MBBS Jill Kaufman Han Jo Kim, MD Youngjung Kim, MD Akilah B. King, BA Tarki Koulouvaris, MD Thomas W. Lawhorne III, MD Darren R. Lebl, MD Baron S. Lonner, MD Elizabeth M. Manejías, MD Satyajit V. Marawar, MBBS Rosemarie Mastrandrea Michael J. Maynard, MD Dennis S. Meredith, MD Sarah Metz, RN Curtis A. Mina, MD, MBA Edna Morrison Shawna Nesbitt, BSN, RN, ONC Daniel A. Osei, MD
Elias C. Papadopoulos, MD Ravi J. Patel, MD Margaret Penner Ronald Perez, JD, RN, CNOR Melissa Peskin, MD Leigh-Ann Plack, PT, DPT Steven Portera Hagit Rajter, PT, MSPT, SST Sonya Reid Davis Reyes, PT, DPT Junior Rigby Melvin Satchell Nicole Schultz Scott Siverling, PT, OCS Gary S. Shapiro, MD Sara Sklar, RN Richard Slote, MS, RN, C, ONC Gbolabo Sokunbi, MD Andrew N. Swanson, MD (deceased) Kyle C. Swanson, MD Robert Turner, PT, OCS, MS, OM, LAc Kofi Tutu Michael K. Urban, MD, PhD Wayne Wright
Eriko Yagi Mitsuru Yagi, MD, PhD Peter Zenkewich
HSS staff in attendance at the April 2012 opening Kwame Boachie-Adjei Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD Maya Caspi, PT, DPT Wing-Yee Mazza Chin-Ng, RN JeMe Cioppa-Mosca, PT, MBA Heidi D’Esposito, RN Lucia M. Fabrizio, MSN, RN, CPNP Michael Faloon, MD, MS Glenn Garrison, CPO Nicole Hoffman, MBA, RN, ONC Shawna Nesbitt, BSN, RN, ONC Hagit Rajter, PT, MSPT, SST Sonya Reid Deborah M. Sale Gbolabo Sokunbi, MD