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Baptist Health Lee County Medical Society

Medical Group Announces 2017 Board of Officers
Continues to Grow
The Lee County Medical Society recently installed its Board of Officers for 2017 during
with the Addition of the nonprofit’s annual awards event at Lexington Country Club in Fort Myers.
Officers of the Board for 2017:
New Physicians • 85th President of the Society, Jon Burdzy, D.O., Family Medicine Physician with
Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida
Baptist Health Medical Group • President-Elect, F. Rick Palmon, M.D., Ophthalmologist, Founder and Medical
has added several specialists and Director of Southwest Florida Eye Care
primary care physicians to its team. Dr. Gabriel Solti Grasz Dr. Pascual De Santis - Past-President, Shari Skinner, M.D., Dermatologist with Associates in Dermatology -
Primary care physician Gabriel Treasurer Daniel de la Torre, M.D., Hospitalist with Lee Health Lee Physicians Group’s
Solti Grasz, M.D., endocrinologist Pascual De Santis, M.D., Hospitalist Group
and gastroenterologist Barry Mills, M.D., have joined the • Secretary Elizabeth Cosmai-Cintron, M.D., Cardiologist with Florida Heart
Medical Group. Associates
Dr. Solti Grasz is Board-certified in internal medicine. He At-Large Board Members 2017:
earned his medical degree at Universidad Central de • Joanna Carioba, M.D.; Arie Dosoretz, M.D.; E. Trevor Elmquist, D.O.; Ryan
Venezuela, Escuela José María Vargas, in Caracas, Venezuela. Lundquist, M.D.; Alejandro Miranda-Sousa, M.D.; Cherrie Morris, M.D.; Annette St.
He completed internships in internal medicine at Hospital Pierre MacKoul, M.D.; Tracy Vo, D.O.
Vargas de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela, and Mount Sinai
Medical Center in Miami Beach. He also completed a residen-
cy in pulmonary medicine at José Ignasio Baldó Hospital in IRMC Welcomes Cardiothoracic
Caracas, and later served as associate program director of the
hospital’s pulmonary residency program. Surgeon John C. Brock, M.D.
Dr. De Santis obtained his medical degree from Universidad Dr. Barry Mills
Central de Venezuela Escuela de Medicina in Caracas, Indian River Medical Center (IRMC) welcomes board-certi-
Venezuela. He completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Miami fied Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon John C. Brock,
Miller School of Medicine-Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. M.D., to its multi-specialty group of physicians.
Dr. Mills obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Boston College in Dr. Brock attended medical school at the University of
Chestnut Hill. He attended medical school at Washington University School of Medicine Florida in Gainesville, FL and completed his internship, resi-
in St. Louis. He completed residencies in internal medicine and gastroenterology as well dency and cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Baylor College
as a fellowship in gastroenterology at Washington University School of Medicine, of Medicine in Houston, TX.
Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Dr. John C. Brock
Dr. Brock’s academic and hospital appointments include
clinical professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL and Chief of
IRMC Welcomes Medical Oncologist Cardiothoracic Surgery at Tampa General Hospital.
Patrick Judson, M.D., to the
Scully-Welsh Cancer Center The Memory Disorder Center
at St. Mary’s Medical Center
Indian River Medical Center (IRMC) welcomes board-cer-
tified Medical Oncologist Patrick Judson, M.D., to its multi- Appoints New Medical Director
specialty group of physicians.
Dr. Judson received his baccalaureate and medical degrees Arif Dalvi, M.D., will now serve as the medical director of
from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He the Memory Disorder Center at St. Mary’s Medical Center.
completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine Dr. Patrick Judson Dr. Dalvi specializes in Adult Neurology and all movement
at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii and disorders. He also currently serves as the medical director of
served a fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at Walter Reed Army Medical the Comprehensive Movement Disorder Center for the Palm
Center in Bethesda, MD. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, Beach Neuroscience Institute. He is also board certified by the Dr. Arif Dalvi
Hematology and Hospice and Palliative Medicine from the American Board of Internal American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has been
Medicine. practicing medicine since 1990.

Lynch Named to Lead Clinical

Quality and Informatics
Coming next month in for Lee Physician Group

South Florida Hospital News Leah Lynch, M.D., has been promoted to system medical
director of clinical quality initiatives and informatics for Lee
and Healthcare Report... Physician Group. Dr. Lynch joined Lee Physician Group as an
internal medicine physician in 1995. She is board certified in
both internal medicine and clinical informatics, and has
served as Lee Physician Group’s Medical Director of
Annual Salute to Volunteers Dr. Leah Lynch
Informatics. She earned her medical degree at the University
• Healthcare Volunteerism in South Florida of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa and she completed an internship and
internal medicine residency at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
• Healthcare Consulting/Outsourcing
• Insurance for Healthcare Professionals,
Businesses, Consumers
• Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness

• Palm Beach 2017 Heroes in Medicine

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