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Dr. Wohl Receives Advocacy Award Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
from Florida College Names Physician of the Quarter
of Emergency Physicians

Aaron Wohl, M.D., FACEP, an emergency medicine physi-
cian with Lee Health, was awarded the Martin Gottlieb
Advocacy Award at the Florida College of Emergency
Physician (FCEP) Annual Meeting. Dr. Wohl is a member of
the FCEP Board of Directors.
Over the last three years, Dr. Wohl has developed relation- Dr. Aaron Wohl
ships with legislators and helped to craft legislation to
reduce some of the morbidity and mortality associated with the opioid crisis. Such
legislation allowed Dr. Wohl to spearhead a naloxone (opioid overdose antidote) dis- (l-r) Chris Dinolfo, Director of Business Development; Teresa Urquhart, Chief Operating
tribution program from our emergency departments and from Lee Health outpatient Officer; Dr. David West, Anesthesiologist PBGMC, Dianne Goldenberg, Chief Executive
pharmacies for those patients suffering from opioid use disorder. This year, with other Officer, Howard Brown, Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, Chief Human Resources
thought leaders in the state, he has been developing some best practices for our emer- Officer, Kerry Johnson, Chief Nursing Officer, Alex Masmela, Assistant Administrator
gency departments to improve the care and health of our communities’ opioid use dis-
order patients. This is in response to recently passed legislation directing hospitals to “Great attention to detail, ensures safe delivery of anesthesia, always kind and
do more for this patient population. thoughtful, and greatly respected by his colleagues.” These are just some of the words
colleagues use to describe Dr. David West who was awarded with the Physician of the
Miami Cancer Institute Quarter at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. Dr. West is an anesthesiologist at the
hospital and was nominated by several employees who described his ability to educate
Names Guenther Koehne, M.D., others in the OR about the process, technique and particular way of delivering anes-
thetics. One employee said of Dr. West, “Dr. West is always pleasant and easy to
Ph.D., Chief of Bone Marrow approach. Many of us appreciate a day to work with Dr. West for many reasons.”
Transplantation and Lee Physician Group Welcomes

Hematologic Oncology
Renee Sarra, A.P., D.O.M.
Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South
Florida, has announced that Guenther Koehne, M.D., Ph.D. Lee Physician Group is proud to welcome Renee Sarra, A.P.,
– currently one of the leading physicians in the Adult Bone Dr. Guenther Koehne D.O.M., Florida Licensed Acupuncture Physician, Licensed
Marrow Transplantation Service in the Division of Therapeutic Massage Therapist and Doctor of Oriental
Hematologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Medicine. Sarra joins Heather Auld, M.D., Integrative Medicine
Center (MSKCC) in New York City – will be its new chief of Bone Marrow Physician, and Teresa Spano, Naturopathic Consultant, in the
Transplantation and Hematologic Oncology. Lee Physician Group Integrative Medicine practice in Bonita
A physician-scientist, Dr. Koehne received his medical degree and Ph.D. from Springs. Sarra is recognized as a dual Diplomate of Dr. Renee Sarra
Medical University of Hamburg, Germany, where he also completed a residency in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology by the National
internal medicine. He completed an additional internal medicine residency at Rush Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental
University Medical Center in Chicago. He did his medical oncology/hematology fel- Medicine (NCCAOM). She completed the advanced study program in Traditional
lowship at MSKCC, and an additional research fellowship in the Immunology Chinese Medicine in Chengdu TCM University of China; and completed a residency at
Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, Allogeneic Bone HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Sarasota, Fla. and an internship at New College
Marrow Transplantation Service, where he also served as a research associate. of Sarasota.

Heartwell Adds Three
Highly-Trained and Experienced New Doctors to Its
Pediatric General and Miami-Dade
Thoracic Surgeon Opens Practice Cardiology Group
in West Palm Beach

HeartWell, LLP, South Florida’s pre-
Palm Beach Children’s Surgical Specialists (a Tenet Florida mier cardiology group, announced
Physician Services practice) welcomes Mark Kayton, M.D., a that it has added three new physi-
pediatric general and thoracic surgeon with over a decade cians to the growing practice. Dr. Roberto Arce Dr. Paula A. Montana
of practice experience. Dr. Kayton is on staff at Palm Beach Dr. Mark Kayton Roberto Arce, MD, Paula A. Montana De La Cadena
Children’s Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center in West De La Cadena, MD and Ashok Mittal, MD join HeartWell.
Palm Beach. Dr. Arce is an established clinical cardiologist with a focus on
Dr. Kayton graduated medical school from Columbia University – College of cardiovascular disease and internal medicine. He graduated
Physicians and Surgeons in New York and performed his residency and internship in from the University of Miami School of Medicine and complet-
general surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He has extensive fellow- ed his both his internship and residency at Jackson Health
ship training having completed fellowships in pediatric surgery at the Johns Hopkins System.
Hospital and the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD, and in surgical oncology Dr. Montana De La Cadena comes to HeartWell from Texas
at the National Cancer Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. where she was an assistant clinical professor of Medicine at the
Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She
completed her cardiovascular disease fellowship at the
University of Texas Health Science Center and her internship Dr. Ashok Mittal
and residency in internal medicine at Geisinger Medical
Center in Danville, PA. She earned her MD at the Universidad del Valle in Cali,
Columbia.
Dr. Mittal brings valuable experience he gained at the Heart and Vascular Institute,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland where he was a fellow in the Division of
Vascular Medicine, with Level III training in vascular medicine. He is also skilled in
echocardiography and nuclear cardiology and earned his Level II training at Montefiore
Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He earned his
medical degree at Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi, India and completed a
post-doctoral fellowship in molecular cardiology at Weill Medical College of Cornell
University.

10 October 2017 southfloridahospitalnews.com South Florida Hospital News