Page 9 - This Month at Sansum Clinic – June 2021

Provider Updates
Jay Winner, MD, State Street Family Practice, recently lectured at a 3-day (virtual) conference put on by the American Academy of Family Physicians: “Physician Health and Well-Being Conference.” Two of
and has three adult children, Matthew, Luke and Mark, who is the weekend anchor at KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles.
Dr. Mester admits he is living the American Dream, and that today’s Hungarian world is now much freer than the country he left in the 1980s.
He enjoys connecting to Hungarian culture by traveling home during his summers, by publishing Hungarian poetry in journals around the world, and by cultivating his love for music and live concerts passed on to him by his parents.
his sessions were “EMR Pearls:
Documenting with Sanity” and “EMR Inbox Management and Well-Being Discussion.” And he did a live 45 minute keynote called “Becoming a More Relaxed and Healthy Physician.”
Dr. Winner will be giving Grand Rounds (virtual) for USC Medical School on physician well-being this month.
Ophthalmologists Dr. Mark Silverberg and Dr. Mica Bergman recently published the article Single horizontal rectus muscle vertical augmented transposition with posterior fixation suture in management of monocular elevation deficiency, in the medical journal Strabismus, Volume 29 Issue 1.
Otolaryngologist Dr. Andrew Mester, who works in the clinic’s ENT (Ear, Nose Throat) Department, shared his “Coming to America” story with Hungarian Hub, a website that gathers information on Hungarians in this country. The son of a Hungarian surgeon who pioneered laser medicine, Dr. Mester can speak 4 languages, English, Hungarian, Russian and German. He received his medical education at Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest. He moved with his young family to the United States in 1986 for a rhinology research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. He applied for political asylum, and first became a California resident when he received
an NIH research award at UCLA. After completing his residency at Boston University, he joined Sansum Clinic in 1997. He lives with his wife, Sun Ae,
Dr. Mester and his son, Mark
Dr. Jay Winner
Dr. Mester with his parents and brother, Adam in Budapest, Hungary
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