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MAKING ROUNDS

Miami Children’s Hospital Appoints
Chief Research Officer

Miami Children’s Hospital (MCH) has appointed Raul
Herrera, M.D., as the Chief Research Officer. He is joining
MCH from Alexion Pharmaceuticals were he served as the
Senior Executive Director of Clinical Research and Drug
Development.

New Physicians Join Lee
Memorial Health System Dr. Raul Herrera

Lee Memorial Health System is pleased to announce the following physicians have
joined their Medical Staffs. Clifford G. Allen, D.P.M., Podiatry; Lance Hall, M.D., Nuclear
Medicine; Karen Harcourt, D.O., Family Practice; Susan King, Psy.D., Psychology; Shalin
Mehta, M.D., Cardiology; Marc Michelsen, D.O., Anesthesiology; Kultar Singh, M.D.,
Neonatology; Reggie Augusthy, D.O., Physiatry; Marshall Bedder, M.D., Pain
Management; Marcia Carbo-Calas, M.D., Pediatrics; Ankush Gulati, M.D., Nephrology;
Silvia Velasquez, M.D., Infectious Disease; and Matthew Ward, M.D., Radiology.

New
Appointments at
West Palm Beach

VA Medical Center

Dr. Deepak Mandi has
recently been named the
New Chief of Extended Care
for the West Palm Beach VA
Medical Center. Dr. Mandi
joined the West Palm Beach
VA Medical Center in 2004 Dr. Deepak Mandi Dr. Darin Rubin
and has served as Section Chief of Geriatrics and Associate Chief of Medicine.
Dr. Darin Rubin has recently been named the new Chief of Primary Care for the West
Palm Beach VA Medical Center. Dr. Rubin served in private practice for 3 years before
coming to the VA. He joined the West Palm Beach VA in 2000 as a staff physician, and
after his initial year, he was promoted to the Associate Chief of Ambulatory Care.

Barry T. Katzen, M.D., Honored
with Career Achievement Award

Barry T. Katzen, M.D., founder and medical director of
Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, has received the presti-
gious Career Achievement Award of the 2007 Transcatheter
Therapeutics Conference (TCT). Dr. Katzen was honored for
his pioneering development of angioplasty for vessels outside
the heart. Dr. Katzen performed the first “peripheral” angio-
plasty in the United States in 1978 by using a balloon mount-
ed on a catheter to open a blocked artery. Dr. Barry T. Katzen

UM Neurology Chairman Receives

Prestigious American Heart
Association Award

Ralph Sacco, M.D., M.S., Miller Professor of Neurology and
Epidemiology and Chairman of the Department of Neurology
at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine,
received the 2007 Chairman’s Award of the American Heart
Association.
Dr. Ralph Sacco
W. Jeffrey Davis, D.O., Named
Chief Medical Officer

St. Mary’s Medical Center CEO Davide M. Carbone
announced that W. Jeffrey (Jeff) Davis, D.O., F.A.C.E.P., has
been named the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
Dr. Davis is board certified in emergency medicine and
utilization review and most recently served as Trauma
Agency Director for the Palm Beach County Health Care
District and Medical Director of EMS, Department of
Public Safety in the Town of Palm Springs.
Dr.W. Jeffrey Davis
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