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Holy Cross Medical Group Adds Dr. Kole Promoted to Vice
Endocrinologist Dr. Brandon Perry President of Clinical
Transformation at Lee Health
Holy Cross Medical Group announced the addition of
endocrinologist Brandon Perry, M.D.
Board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology by Marilyn Kole, M.D., MBA, has been promoted to Vice
the American Board of International Medicine, Dr. Perry pre- President of Clinical Transformation for Lee Health.
viously served as assistant professor of clinical medicine at Dr. Kole joined Lee Health in 2000 and has served in a
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Prior to becoming a number of leadership roles, including System Medical
doctor, he served as a nurse at the Children’s Hospital in Dr. Brandon Perry Director of Intensive Care Services, System Medical Director
Birmingham, AL. of Clinical Effectiveness, System Medical Director of Dr. Marilyn Kole
He completed a fellowship in endocrinology at Vanderbilt University, where he also Specialty and Hospital-based Physicians and System
completed his residency in internal medicine. He received his medical degree from the Medical Director of Clinical Transformation. She also worked part-time as a critical
University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, AL, and bachelor’s degrees in care physician with Lee Physician Group Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep
nursing and biomedical sciences from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL. Specialists.
In addition to Dr. Kole’s leadership experience with Lee Health, she also worked as
a physician and partner at Jersey Coast Pulmonary and Critical Care in Sea Grit, NJ;
as an associate pulmonary/critical care/internal medicine physician at Internal
Dr. Saima Aftab Joins Miami Medicine Associates in Fort Myers, FL.; as a hospitalist; and as a physician and part-
Children’s Health System as Medical ner at Coastal Internal Medicine Specialists in Fort Myers.
Director of Fetal Care Center

Miami Children’s Health System welcomes Saima Aftab,
M.D., FAAP, and neonatologist, as Medical Director of the
Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. Dr. Aftab is
employed by the health system’s multispecialty group practice,
Pediatric Specialists of America (PSA) and also serves as PSA Dr. Saima Aftab E-mail Your Physician Appointments to
chief for the Section of Neonatology and Perinatal Medicine.
Prior to joining PSA and Miami Children’s Health System, Dr. Aftab served as director editorial@southfloridahospitalnews.com
of education in the Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine and assistant director of
the STRATUS Center for medical simulation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston,
Massachusetts. She has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, Tufts
University School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of
Medicine.

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