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SALUTE

TO PHYSICIANS

PALM BEACH GARDENS MEDICAL CENTER

Sean L. Sawh, MD

Dr. Sean L. Sawh is a board certified urologist on staff at
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center where he serves as the
current Vice Chief of Surgery. Dr. Sawh specializes in general
urology, prosthetic and reconstructive surgery, urologic oncol-
ogy, endoscopic and robotic surgery and stone disease. Dr.
Sawh completed his medical education and general surgery
training at Harvard Medical School. He underwent fellowship
training in minimally invasive and robotic surgery at Henry
Ford Hospital then completed a residency in urologic surgery
at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill where he
trained extensively in prosthetic surgery. At Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, he
introduced the MRI Fusion Prostate Biopsy program and was instrumental in making the
hospital a 24-hour center for stone surgery. Dr. Sawh is a founding member of the
American Society of Men’s Health and he is an active member of the Society of Robotic
Surgery and the Society of Urologic Prosthetic Surgery.

Ribal Darwish, MD

Dr. Ribal Darwish is the Medical Director of the Critical Care
Intensivist Program at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center.
The program consists of six intensivists and six nurse practi-
tioners overseeing four intensive care units, 24 hours a day
seven days a week. Those areas include cardiothoracic, med-
ical, neurosurgical, and surgical. Dr. Darwish received his med-
ical degree at Russian State Medical University faculty of
Medicine in Moscow, Russia. He did his residency in neuro-
surgery at Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute also in Moscow.
Dr. Darwish moved to Atlanta, Georgia to perform his fellowship at Emory University,
and followed that up with an internship and residency at the University of Missouri-
Columbia School of Medicine. He also did a fellowship at the University of Maryland
Medical Center in Baltimore in critical care medicine.

UHEALTH

Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH

Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo is the chief of internal medicine
at UHealth-the University of Miami Health System and a
tenured professor of medicine and public health sciences at
the Miller School of Medicine. He is a nationally recognized
population health expert. From the start of the pandemic
Dr. Carrasquillo has served as a co-investigator for the
Janssen vaccine clinical trial and several other studies to
test new treatments for COVID-19. He currently leads a
statewide collaborative outreach program to engage ethnic
and racial minority communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pan-
demic. Dr. Carrasquillo oversees a clinical, teaching and research enterprise of 42 full-
time faculty members across several faculty practices in Miami-Dade and Broward
counties. He has served as principal investigator on over twenty government and
foundation sponsored research and training grants totaling over $60 million in the
areas of minority health, health disparities, community based participatory research
and access to care.

Susan Doblecki-Lewis, MD

Dr. Susan Doblecki-Lewis is a leading infectious disease
physician and associate professor with UHealth—the
University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of
Medicine. A prolific researcher, she has been on the front-
lines of vaccination efforts. Dr. Doblecki-Lewis spearhead-
ed the University’s Moderna vaccine trial for COVID-19,
which is part of a large-scale study established by the
National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Doblecki-Lewis has continued to contribute to the
Miller School’s decades-long commitment to HIV and AIDS
research, as well as outreach to at-risk community populations. She has led the Miller
School’s community outreach for PrEP and established a clinic and the PrEP Mobile
Clinic in 2020. With both PrEP clinics, Dr. Doblecki-Lewis has made strides in help-
ing diverse, populations at-risk for HIV circumvent the often complex and confusing
web of access to PrEP, as well as the stigma surrounding HIV.

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