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Baptist Health Medical Group New Doctor Joins
Welcomes Internal Medicine and Holy Cross Hospital
Pediatrics Physician Karen Williams, A new doctor has joined the Holy Cross Medical Group.

MD, to Its Primary Care Team Kritzia Pineda, M.D., is a board-certified internal medicine
and primary care specialist who joins the Holy Cross Medical
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics physician Karen Group after completing her internal medicine residency at the
Williams, M.D., has joined Baptist Health Medical Group. University of Miami program at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort
Dr. Williams received her medical degree from the State Lauderdale. In addition to internal medicine, Dr. Pineda
University of New York at Buffalo ― School of Medicine and Dr. Karen Williams focuses on annual wellness visits, preventive care, tobacco Dr. Kritzia Pineda
Biomedical Sciences. She completed an internal medicine and cessation, fall risk assessments, depression screenings, care
pediatrics residency at Georgetown University Hospital in management and STD screenings. Dr. Pineda attended med-
Washington, D.C. She then joined Johns Hopkins Community Physicians in Odenton, ical school at the Universidad Latina and received her doctorate of medicine from
MD., where she was a primary care physician. Most recently, Dr. Williams was a physi- Universidad de Iberoamerica in San Jose, Costa Rica. Dr. Pineda is a member of the
cian clinical specialist with the Maryland Department of Health, where she focused on American College of Physicians and the Florida Medical Association.
tuberculosis control, refugee health and adolescent health.
Dr. Williams is Board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics. She is a member of Dr. Maria E. Franco Elected President of Medical
the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Obesity
Medicine Association and the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association. Staff for Nicklaus Children’s Hospital

Neurologist Joins the Palm Beach pulmonologist at Nicklaus
Maria E. Franco, M.D., pediatric
Neuroscience Institute Children’s Hospital, has been elect-
in West Palm Beach ed president of the hospital’s
Medical Executive Committee
(MEC) for a three-year term.
Tenet Florida Physician Services (TFPS) is pleased to Elected vice president for a
announce Dr. Leila M. Patallo, a neurologist with nearly two three-year term is Ziad Khatib,
decades of experience practicing neurology, has joined the M.D., a pediatric hematologist/
Palm Beach Neuroscience Institute practice in West Palm oncologist on the hospital’s med-
Beach, FL. Dr. Patallo specializes in stroke, dizziness and ver- ical staff since 1993.
tigo, neuro-critical care, general neurology and neuro-hospi- Dr. Leila M. Patallo Dr. Franco has been in private Dr. Maria E. Franco Dr. Ziad Khatib
tal care. Dr. Patallo is on-staff at Good Samaritan Medical practice based at Nicklaus
Center in West Palm Beach, FL, and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. Children’s main campus since 1998. She is board certified in both pediatric pulmonology
Prior to joining PBNI, Dr. Patallo worked the past five-years as a neurohospitalist at and general pediatrics. She received her medical degree from Nuestra Señora del Rosario,
Holmes Regional Medical Center located in Melbourne, FL. She also has over a decade Bogota and completed her residency at Crozer Chester Medical Center in Philadelphia
of experience working as a neurologist at Titusville Neurology, a private practice in and her fellowship in pulmonology at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in
Titusville, FL, and previously at the Neurophysiology Center as a neurologist in private Philadelphia.
practice in Tampa, FL. Dr. Khatib has been in private practice with offices at the hospital since 1993. He
For her education and training, Dr. Patallo completed a residency in neurology from received his medical degree from American University of Beirut, Lebanon and completed
New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center located in Westchester, NY. In his residency in Pediatrics at Jackson Memorial Hospital and a fellowship in hematol-
addition, Dr. Patallo completed an internship in internal medicine from the State ogy-oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.
University of New York, Brooklyn, NY/St. John’s Episcopal Hospital located in Far Joining the MEC for three-year terms are Julie Kantor, M.D., a pediatrician; and
Rockaway, NY. Dr. Patallo completed medical school at the Medical Science Superior Christopher F. Tirotta, M.D., Chief of Anesthesiology at Nicklaus Children’s.
Institute, located in Havana, Cuba.
Highly-experienced Cardiothoracic
Larry Bush, MD, Elected President of the Palm Surgeon Rejoins Tenet Florida
Beach County Medical Society

Physician Services
Larry Bush, M.D., assumed the role of leadership of the
Palm Beach County Medical Society as the 2020 President. Jeffery H. Newman, M.D., FACS, a highly-experienced car-
Dr. Larry Bush has practiced the specialized field of diothoracic surgeon, has joined the Tenet Florida
Infectious Diseases in Palm Beach County since 1989. Cardiovascular Care (TFCC) practice located in the new
Dr. Bush holds the academic positions of Affiliated Delray Medical Center Tower in Delray Beach, FL. Dr.
Professors of Medicine at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Newman is certified by both the American Board of Surgery
Medicine at the Florida Atlantic University as well as and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Jeffery H. Newman
Affiliated Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Prior to joining TFCC, Dr. Newman worked most recently
Miami-Miller School of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s at a South Florida based hospital system. He rejoins Tenet Florida Physician Services
degree in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, and (TFPS) after previously serving as a cardiothoracic surgeon for the multi-specialty group
his Medical Degree from the Medical College of Dr. Larry Bush and returns to Delray Medical Center where he’s been a cardiothoracic surgeon on-staff
Pennsylvania. Subsequently, he did his residency in Internal for over 25-years.
Medicine at the Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, For his education and training, Dr. Newman completed a thoracic surgery fellowship
where he went on to serve as Chief Medical Resident for one year. He completed special- at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ. In addition, Dr. Newman
ty training as a fellow in Infectious Diseases at the Medical College of Pennsylvania also finished a residency in thoracic surgery at University of Medicine and Dentistry of
before relocating to south Florida. New Jersey, Newark, NJ, and an internship and residency in general surgery at St. Luke’s
He has authored over 90 peer reviewed medical journal article publications, is a cur- Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY. He graduated medical school from the New
rent associate editor of 2 national Infectious Diseases journals and continues to author York Medical College, Valhalla, NY.
book chapters in medical reference books and the Infectious Diseases component of the
American College of Physician study program.

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