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Surgeons Join Tenet Family Medicine Physician Robert
Florida Physician Kawa, DO, Joins Cleveland Clinic

Services in Boca Martin Health
Raton Cleveland Clinic Martin Health welcomes board-certified
family medicine physician Robert Kawa, D.O. Dr. Kawa
Leandro J. Feo, M.D., FACS, earned his Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine degree from
FASCRS, a colorectal and general Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale. He com-
surgeon, has opened an office pleted his residency in family medicine at St. Vincent’s
with Tenet Florida Physician Family Medicine Center in Jacksonville. He completed his
Services (TFPS) in Boca Raton. Dr. Leandro J. Feo Dr. Erica R. Podolsky residency in neuromusculoskeletal medicine at Florida
Erica R. Podolsky, M.D., Hospital East in Orlando. Prior to joining Martin Health, Dr. Dr. Robert Kawa
FASMBS, a highly-experienced general surgeon with expertise in bariatric and minimal- Kawa has practiced as a family medicine physician in Hawaii.
ly-invasive surgery, has also joined Tenet Florida Physician Services (TFPS) in Boca
Raton. Currently, Dr. Podolsky is the Medical Director of the Surgical Weight Loss
Program at Delray Medical Center. Breast Surgical Oncologist Hilary
Prior to joining TFPS, Dr. Feo worked as a colorectal surgeon at South Palm Beach Shapiro-Wright, DO, Joins Christine E.
Surgical Associates in Boca Raton as well as Delray Medical Center. His past experience
also includes as attending physician in colorectal surgery at Catholic Medical Center in Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness
Manchester, NH, as well as general practitioner for Corposuvida Health Company in
Maracaibo, Venezuela, and Egidio Montesinos Hospital in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Institute and Eugene M. & Christine E.
Prior to joining TFPS, Dr. Podolsky worked for South Palm Beach Surgical Associates Lynn Cancer Institute
and on-staff at Delray Medical Center and West Boca Medical Center. Presently, Dr.
Podolsky is an affiliate associate professor of clinical biomedical science at the Charles E.
Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She also holds Board-certified breast surgical oncologist Hilary Shapiro-
the role of director of medical students at Delray Medical Center. Wright, D.O., joins Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health &
Wellness Institute and Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Dr. Hilary Shapiro-Wright
Cancer Institute, a part of Baptist Health South Florida. Dr.
Dr. Joseph Ricotta of Delray Medical Shapiro-Wright joins Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness
Center Named 2020 TCAR Clinical Institute and Lynn Cancer Institute from the Kettering Health Network and Kettering
Cancer Care. She earned her medical degree from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic
Operator of Experience Medicine. She completed her general surgery residency at Botsford Hospital at Michigan
State University and her surgical breast oncology and diseases of the breast fellowship at
Joseph J. Ricotta, M.D., MS, DFSVS, FACS, National Allegheny General Hospital. Dr. Shapiro-Wright is board-certified in general surgery.
Medical Director of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular
Therapy for Tenet Healthcare, Chairman of Vascular Surgery Holy Cross Health
Department at Delray Medical Center and Professor of
Surgery and Program Director of the Vascular Surgery fellow- Adds Four Physicians
ship at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida
Atlantic University has been recognized as a 2020 TCAR Dr. Joseph Ricotta Holy Cross Medical Group
Clinical Operator of Experience for improving carotid artery announces the addition of Elena
disease treatment using an innovative procedure called TransCarotid Artery Pimanova, M.D., Ronald Pham,
Revascularization (TCAR). Delray Medical Center performed the first TCAR procedure D.O., Astha Bhatt, M.D., and Ann
in South Florida and the hospital has performed over 160 TCAR procedures, which is the Vu, M.D.
most in the state of Florida. Dr. Pimanova joins Holy Cross
Health from Cleveland Clinic
Palliative Care Physician Patricia Jacobs, Tomsich Health and Medical Dr. Elena Pimanova Dr. Astha Bhatt
Center of Palm Beach County
MD, Joins the Eugene M. & Christine E. where she was a primary care
physician. She completed her resi-
Lynn Cancer Institute dency in internal medicine at the
Memorial Health University
Palliative care physician Patricia Jacobs, M.D., has joined Medical Center in Savannah,
the Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute, a part Georgia and completed a residen-
of Baptist Health South Florida. cy in internal medicine at Minsk
Dr. Jacobs joins the Lynn Cancer Institute from UCLA Medical University in Belarus
Medical Center, where she completed a hospice and pallia- where she received her Doctor of
tive medicine fellowship. She is board-certified in internal Medicine.
medicine and previously worked in internal medicine before Dr. Pham joins Holy Cross
pursuing a subspecialty in palliative care. Dr. Patricia Jacobs Health as a specialist in osteopath-
She currently serves as an affiliate faculty member at the ic medicine. Dr. Pham completed
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. Previously, Dr. his internal medicine residency at Dr. Ronald Pham Dr. Ann Vu
Jacobs served as an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at Palmetto General Hospital in
UCLA for more than 15 years. Hialeah. He graduated with a medical degree from the Philadelphia College of
Dr. Jacobs earned her medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Pham graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University
UCLA. She completed an internal medicine residency and a hospice and palliative care with a post baccalaureate graduate certificate in premedical graduate health sciences and
fellowship at UCLA Medical Center. received a bachelor’s degree in physiological science from UCLA.
Dr. Bhatt is a board-certified general surgeon, and competed a fellowship in Minimally
Invasive Colorectal Surgery. She received her Bachelor of Medicine and her Bachelor of
Surgery from the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in India. She was a surgical resident
at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. She is joining Holy Cross from Advent Health Hospital
in Tampa.
Dr. Vu is board certified in pulmonary by the American Board of Internal Medicine and
is board eligible for critical care medicine. She is a Fellow with the Mayo Clinic Division
of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and instructor in medicine at the Mayo Clinic
College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, MN. Dr. Vu has extensive academic expe-
rience at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital and
Mayo Clinic in Rochester. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science
from University of Miami and received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of
Miami Miller School of Medicine. She completed her residency and was chief resident at
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital before moving to the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester.

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