At the dawn of its 30th year...
Florida Cancer Specialists sets the benchmark for community oncology
Florida Cancer Specialists physicians with patients (Clockwise from above): Dr. Ralph Gousse, Drs. Jennifer Cultrera and Maen Hussein, Dr. Sandeep Thaper Central Florida Area Physicians Patrick Acevedo, MD Geethanjali K. Akula, MD Ahmed Al-Hazzouri, MD Roy M. Ambinder, MD Jennifer L. Cultrera, MD Maria Regina C. Flores, MD Ralph Gousse, MD Maen A. Hussein, MD Vasundhara G. Iyengar, MD Victor W. Melgen, MD Kottapurath Moideen, MD Shemin Saferali, MD Sandeep Thaper, MD Lynn Van Ummersen, MD Marays Veliz, MD
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rom its humble beginnings in February 1984, Florida Cancer Specialists (FCS) has always placed the highest priority on: • Providing exceptional patient care • Personalized attention • Customized treatment protocols • Treating patients — and their loved ones — as family
“In the beginning,” says FCS Founder and President Dr. William Harwin, “when I opened my Fort Myers practice to treat local oncology patients, it was just my wife Marilyn and me in the office.”
— was born a group that is now the largest independent oncology/hematology practice in the United States with nearly 200 physicians, 100 nurse practitioners and more than 70 clinical sites around the state. Today, FCS serves patients on the Gulf Coast from Naples to the greater Tampa Bay area, north as far as Tallahassee, in Orlando and surrounding Central Florida communities, on the East Coast in Daytona/Palm Coast and now in Palm Beach County. IntegrAted network of ComprehensIve CAre
What makes FCS so unique is that every doctor affiliated with the organization is committed to an As his original practice quickly grew, Dr. Harwin soon identical goal: providing world-class cancer care using recognized that he and other nearby small, independent cutting-edge technologies, in a setting where patients hematology/oncology practitioners could help save more cancer patients’ lives if they pooled their resources. And thus can be close to home and surrounded by family — from a single, family-run, “mom and pop” doctor’s office and friends.