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Infirmary, and their daughter Allison, 10, is feeling overscheduled, too! The family lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Daniel Perlin will be inducted as president of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia in October 2012 after serving as president-elect for the past year. He also is a member of the organization’s board at large. Perlin works as clinical director of the outpatient operating room at Medstar Health Washington Hospital Center.
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Steven E. Canfield writes that JMC and the Department of Urology provided him with wonderful opportunities to develop his career. He is chief of urology and residency program director at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and would like to thank everyone at Jefferson — especially Leonard Gomella, MD — for all of their support.
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Michael E. Pollack and his wife, Norma J. Johnson, MD ’96, live in Doylestown, Pa., with their two daughters. They both practice in Flemington, N.J., at Hunterdon Medical Center and Orthopedic Institute and send their best wishes to the entire Jefferson community.
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Rita M. Pechulis is a partner with Pulmonary Associates PC in the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa. She lives in MacUngie, Pa.
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Christopher P. Henderson is a spine surgeon with Scranton Orthopaedic Specialists. He lives in Clark Summit, Pa., with his wife, Gretchen, and their three children.
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Corey Waxman-Wasserman is a resident pediatrician at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. She recently became a contributing health editor for Fox News and lives with her husband, Jason Wasserman, MD ’11, in New York City.
Post Graduate
Mark Graham, MD, PGY ’81, is associate director of the internal medicine residency program at Jefferson. His latest project has involved creating the first National Committee for Quality Assurance-certified patientcentered medical home in South Philadelphia. Graham says he is “living large and well in South Philadelphia and trying to make a good thing better.” Vasiliki Saitas, MD, PGY ’93, is medical laboratory director at Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, N.J., as well as at Sovereign Medical Group LLC and Bergen Gastroenterology. Her 10-year-old son, Stavros, loves to look at cells under the microscope with her. Richard P. Winne Jr., PGY ’92, lives in Mendham, N.J., with his wife, Gail, and three daughters. He is a pain management specialist at Morristown Medical Center.
Frank A. Chervenak, MD ’76, Elected to Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Frank A. Chervenak, MD ’76, the Given Foundation Professor and Chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical College and obstetrician, gynecologist-in-chief and director of maternal-fetal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies — an honor considered one of the most prestigious in medicine. His election was announced at the IOM’s annual meeting in Arlington, Va., in October 2011, and he will be formally inducted at a ceremony in October 2012. The IOM recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health. “Dr. Chervenak has made many substantial contributions to the field of obstetrics and gynecology — particularly in the areas of ethics in maternalfetal medicine and global health — that have undoubtedly improved the health of mothers and children alike,” says Antonio M. Gotto Jr., MD, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. Chervenak has published more than 260 peer-reviewed papers and has co-authored or co-edited 28 textbooks on topics including ultrasound and ethics in obstetrics and gynecology and physician leadership. He serves as president of the International Society of the Fetus as a Patient; president of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine; vice president of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine; and co-director of the Ian Donald Inter-University School of Medicine and Ultrasound. He also serves on the March of Dimes Bioethics Committee and Prematurity Research Advisory Committee.