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Volume 14 • Issue 8 • $5.00 February 2018
THE REGIONʼS MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

EDUCATION CARDIOLOGY

Local Cardiologist Elected President

of the Florida Chapter of the

American College of Cardiology

BY DANIEL CASCIATO

Florida Medical Center (FMC) Medical
Director, David Perloff, MD, FACC, FACP, a
board-certified cardiologist, was recently elected Dr. Michael Frost
president of the Florida Chapter of the American
College of Cardiology (ACC) and placed on the
Board of Governors for the National American
Dr. Salvatore Barbera Opioid
College of Cardiology. A practicing physician in
South Florida since 1997, Dr. Perloff’s three-year
Bridging Worlds term will start in March of 2019. Overdose:
Dr. Perloff joined the staff at FMC, part of
Tenet Healthcare, because the center was so An Expanded
BY BARBARA R. FALLON physician-centric when it came to the decision-
making process. Role for Hospitals
The journey from academic excellence “It was such a breath of fresh air to deal with
to real world employment can be confus- the individuals whom I was dealing with,” he Dr. David Perloff
ing for students. That’s why Salvatore (Sal) says. “It was clear to me that Tenet respected and
Barbera, DHA, MS, FACHE, Interim Chair appreciated the relationships it had with physicians. They take their relationship with BY MICHAEL FROST, MD, FASAM
and Clinical Assistant Professor at Florida physicians to heart and make it an important piece of what they do. This is a partic-
International University Master of Health ular institution that does not see physicians as competition but rather as a partner Eighty percent of the world’s opioid
Services Administration program is pas- with a mutually beneficial relationship. I really appreciated that and it made a huge supply is consumed in the United States.
sionate about exposing his students to difference in my decision to join FMC and Tenet.” Over 97 million Americans took pre-
more than book learning. As a result of a Continued on page 17 scription painkillers in 2015, and 12 mil-
well-rounded faculty balancing academic lion of those people did so without the
excellence and contemporary field experi- direction of a physician. The opioid cri-
ence, this year’s inaugural graduate class Vital Financial Can Help With sis sweeping the country continues to
will be fortified with ‘live from the work- grow, so hospitals and ERs are increas-
place’ knowledge to draw upon when Retirement Planning ingly confronted by this ongoing epi-
faced with operational or management demic.
decisions. According to the CDC, last year the
Dr. Barbera, a veteran of six CEO posi- BY LOIS THOMSON United States saw more than 63,000 peo-
tions in both proprietary and not-for-profit ple die of drug-related overdoses, and in
hospitals and physician practice manage- Hurricane Irma caused widespread destruction 2015, roughly one in every 50 deaths
ment companies, emphasizes the value of across Florida and other parts of the country last was drug-related. For every fatal over-
real world executive leadership prepara- fall. IRMAA, on the other hand, is not a hurricane, dose, there were as many as 25 ER visits.
tion. but can also result in catastrophic damage, In addition to seeing increasing numbers
“While making an academic course according to Jorge González. of patients needing treatment for over-
plan, our faculty incorporate contempo- González is managing director of the Boca dose, the patients seeking care are sicker
rary resources to introduce current topics Raton office of Vital Financial, a company that and more complicated to treat than in
into each course. This comprehensive specializes in financial planning, life insurance, the past.
approach is best described as when a pro- and retirement plans. He said IRMAA stands for The White House Council of
fessor reviews the academics and then Income Related to the Monthly Adjusted Economic Advisers reported that, in
shuts the book and relates that strategy to Amount, and it is mainly relevant to people who 2015, the opioid epidemic cost the
on-the-job tactics,” he said. have higher annual earnings; it is an additional United States economy over $500 bil-
Academic concepts put into practice amount that people pay for their monthly lion, and a study by Beth Israel
Continued on page 34 Continued on page 33 Jorge González Continued on page 33