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MAKINGROUNDS…MAKINGROUNDS…MAKINGROUNDS…
Family Physician Dr. Desmond Fonji Robotic Total Hip and Knee
Joins Indian River Medical Center Replacement Surgery Specialist Joins
Tenet Florida Physician Services
Desmond Fonji, D.O., has joined the staff at Indian River
Medical Center.
Dr. Fonji graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in David A. Padden, M.D., a board-certified and fellowship-
biology from The City College of New York and received his trained orthopaedic surgeon, has opened a new practice with
medical training at the New York College of Osteopathic Tenet Florida Physician Services (TFPS) in Boca Raton, FL.
Medicine. He completed his residency in family medicine at Prior to joining TFPS, Dr. Padden worked as an orthopaedic
St. Petersburg General Hospital, and served as residency pre- surgeon and reconstructive surgery specialist at Optimotion
ceptor for Lakeside Medical Center’s Family Medicine Dr. Desmond Fonji Orthopaedics in Orlando, FL. His connection to providing Dr. David A. Padden
Residency Program. care to the South Florida community is deep having run a
Before joining the staff at Indian River Medical Center, Dr. Fonji served patients at practice at the Robotic Hip & Knee Replacement Center in Pembroke Pines, FL, on-
C.L. Brumback Primary Care Clinics. staff as an orthopaedic surgeon at Holy Cross Orthopedic Institute in Lighthouse
Point, FL, as well as an arthroplasty surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Florida, and as an
orthopaedic surgeon at Orthopaedic Center of South Florida in Plantation.
Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Aleksandar Milovanovic, M.D.,
Center Adds HIV Physician to Staff Kidney Health Expert,
Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center (CDTC) has Joins Jupiter Medical Specialists
announced that Dr. Vanessa Rojas has joined the medical
staff. Jupiter Medical Specialists, a joint venture multispecialty
Previously, Dr Rojas was a physician at Jamaica Hospital practice with Envision Physician Services and Jupiter
Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center in New York, Medical Center, welcomes Aleksandar Milovanovic, M.D. Dr.
where, inspired by her experiences with HIV-infected Milovanovic is board certified in nephrology and has more
patients, she was awarded the HIVMA Clinical Fellowship in than 15 years of experience in both the inpatient and outpa-
June 2017, providing HIV and primary care to under-served Dr. Vanessa Rojas tient healthcare setting. In addition to the overall treatment
patients. of kidney diseases, his other areas of expertise include post Dr. Aleksandar
Dr. Rojas received her undergraduate degree from University of Scranton and her kidney transplant management and electrolyte disorder. Milovanovic
medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine in Edison, NJ. She completed Dr. Milovanovic received his medical degree from Ross University in Dominica,
her residency in family medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Jamaica, NY. West Indies. He completed his internal medicine residency at Wright State University
in Dayton, OH, and nephrology fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor, MI.
30 November 2018 southfloridahospitalnews.com South Florida Hospital News