| Date: October 15, 2011 | Media Contact: | Chuck Moran |
| | | Pennsylvania Medical Society |
| For Immediate Release | | (717) 558-7820 |
(Harrisburg, PA) At its annual House of Delegates meeting, held on October 15-16 in Hershey, PA, members of the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) elected the following physicians to positions on the statewide organization’s board of trustees.
Those elected to the board for the first time include the following:
David A. Talenti, MD – a gastroenterologist from Sayre, who will serve a four-year term as the society’s 12th District Trustee. In this role, he’ll represent physicians from Bradford, Luzerne, Sullivan, Susquehanna, and Wyoming counties.
Thomas J. Weida, MD – a family physician from Hershey, who will serve a four-year term as the society’s Primary Care (Family Medicine) Trustee.
Joseph W. Sassani, MD, MHA – an ophthalmologist from Hershey, who will serve a four-year term as the Surgical Specialties Trustee.
F. Wilson Jackson, III, MD – a gastroenterologist from Camp Hill, who will serve a four-year term as a Medical Specialties Trustee.
William A. VanDecker, MD – a cardiologist from Philadelphia, who will serve a four-year term as a Medical Specialties Trustee.
Cathleen A. Woomert, MD – a radiologist from Danville who will serve a four-year term as the Hospital-Based Trustee.
Theodore A. Christopher, MD – an emergency medicine physician from Philadelphia who will serve a four-year term as an At-Large Trustee.
Stephen Reed Chorney – a medical student from The Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton who will serve a one-year term representing medical students from throughout the state.
Re-elected to the Pennsylvania Medical Society board of trustees were:
Enrique Hernandez, MD – a gynecological oncologist from Philadelphia who will serve a four-year term as the 1st District Trustee, representing physicians from Philadelphia.
William R. Dewar, III, MD – an internal medicine specialist from Honesdale, who will serve a four-year term as the 3rd District Trustee, representing physicians from Carbon, Lackawanna, Monroe, Pike, and Wayne counties.
Scott E. Shapiro, MD – a cardiovascular disease specialist and internal medicine specialist from Lower Gwynedd, who will serve a one-year term as the medical society’s young physician trustee, representing physicians statewide under the age of 40. He will serve a one-year term.
John W. Spurlock, MD – a gynecologist from Bethlehem will serve a one-year term as vice speaker of the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s House of Delegates.
Martin D. Trichtinger, MD – an internist from Hatboro. Dr. Trichtinger will serve as the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s Speaker of the House of Delegates. He’ll serve a one-year term.
New members attended their first board meeting on October 16, 2011.
Those elected to the State Society’s Board of Trustees are responsible for reviewing matters that directly impact patient care and affect physicians in the commonwealth. On behalf of physicians from their respective districts or specialties, they set policy and carry out directives from the Society’s House of Delegates.
The patient-doctor relationship has been the priority of the Pennsylvania Medical Society since its founding in 1848. While there are always issues being debated about health systems and reform, the physician members of the Medical Society continue to focus on better health for all Pennsylvanians. To learn more about the Pennsylvania Medical Society, visit its website at www.pamedsoc.org or its patient website at www.myfamilywellness.org.
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