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SALUTE TO PHYSICIANS

TENET FLORIDA PHYSICIAN SERVICES – Kimmerle “K.C.” Cohen, MD

PALM BEACH COUNTY Dr. Kimmerle “K.C” Cohen became a compassionate care-
giver early on in her life when she took care of her sick grand-
Jonathan Hersch, MD, FAAOS mother ailing from breast cancer. Dr. Cohen’s experience grew
into a passion for medicine. During her fellowship-training in
trauma and surgical critical care at East Carolina University
Dr. Jonathan Hersch’s passion for helping and caring for located in Greenville, NC, Dr. Cohen began working more
others runs deep, all the way back to his high school days with the liver, pancreas and bile duct. With her fascination in
when he spent time volunteering in the emergency room of a digestive system care increasing, Dr. Cohen completed addi-
local hospital in the neighborhood where he lived. Today, Dr. tional fellowship-training in hepatopancreaticobilary surgery
Hersch is an experienced orthopaedic surgeon and sports from Florida Hospital Tampa, Tampa, FL. For nearly a decade,
medicine physician specializing in the diagnosis and treat- Dr. Cohen has worked in South Florida as an oncological and
ment, including minimally-invasive and advanced treatments hepatopancreaticobiliary surgeon. Dr. Cohen’s areas of interest include laparoscopy and
for injuries of the hip, knee, shoulder and elbow. Dr. Hersch’s robotic surgery, complex gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, surgical critical care, pancreas,
areas of interest in adolescent and adult care includes fracture liver and bile duct ailments, and skin cancer. She is certified by the American Board of
care, sports medicine and arthroscopy, shoulder and elbow surgery, knee surgery, hip Surgery in general surgery, trauma and surgical critical care. Dr. Cohen is dedicated to
arthroscopy, the Subchondroplasty® (SCP®) Procedure for the treatment of bone defects providing expert surgical care to patients with pancreas, liver, bile duct and gastrointesti-
and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy. He is certified by the American Board of nal diseases. Her oncological and hepatopancreaticobiliary surgery practice with Tenet
Orthopaedic Surgery and is on-staff at West Boca Medical Center. An avid player and afi- Florida Physician Services is located in West Palm Beach. Dr. Cohen is on-staff at Good
cionado of tennis, Dr. Hersch recently took his orthopaedic and sports medicine specialty Samaritan Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center located in West Palm Beach as
back on the court serving for the 15th year as medical director of The Delray Open –ATP well as Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center.
World Tour 250 series men’s professional tournament. In addition, Dr. Hersch is passion-
ate about community service. He is a board member of the Anti-Defamation League and
is involved in charity bike rides which include a yearly trip to Israel to benefit wounded TENET FLORIDA PHYSICIAN SERVICES –
soldiers.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
David Padden, MD
Sangita Gogate, DO
Dr. David Padden combines nearly three decades of experi-
ence in orthopaedic surgery with additional skills in three- Dr. Sangita Gogate chose a career in medicine following the
dimensional thinking and a proficiency in working with his footsteps of her mother, a retired pathologist in Ohio. Dr.
hands to perform robotically assisted minimally-invasive hip Gogate made the choice to pursue family medicine because she
and knee replacement procedures. This evolution into robot- says it allows her the privilege of interacting with families and
ic-assisted procedures gives Dr. Padden another level of accu- their healthcare. In some cases, three generations of families
racy and precision to use in his total joint replacement special- are under Dr. Gogate’s care. Dr. Gogate has been practicing
ty as a treatment for arthritis and other ailments. Dr. Padden medicine as a family practitioner in Hialeah since 1997, and
is an expert in robotic assisted joint replacement of the hip and since 2010, with Tenet Florida Physician Services. She is on-
knee having performed hundreds of surgeries using the Mako® Robotic-Arm Assisted staff at Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah and bilingual in
Technology. In fact, Dr. Padden teaches robotic joint replacement skills to other surgeons. English and Spanish. Dr. Gogate’s areas of interest in family practice medicine include
His orthopaedic surgery focus includes minimally-invasive muscle-sparing anterolateral preventive medicine and women’s health issues. She is certified by the American College
and direct anterior total hip and knee replacement, revision joint replacement for both of Osteopathic Family Physicians. For her education and training, Dr. Gogate served as
the hip and knee, and the treatment of avascular necrosis or osteonecrosis. Dr. Padden is chief resident during her residency program and completed her internship at Palmetto
certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is on-staff at West Boca General Hospital and Nova Southeastern University in Hialeah. Dr. Gogate graduated
Medical Center. During his education and training, Dr. Padden had the opportunity to medical school from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health, located in Des
study with Dr. David S. Hungerford, an innovator in hip and knee joint replacements. Moines, Iowa. Dr. Gogate gives back to the community by teaching the third and fourth
Prior to his professional medical career in South Florida, Dr. Padden completed a fellow- year medical students from Nova Southeastern University voluntarily because she wants
ship in arthritis and reconstructive surgery at Johns Hopkins University located in to use her free time in an important way, helping the physicians of tomorrow.
Baltimore, MD.
ADVANCED NEUROSCIENCE NETWORK
TENET FLORIDA PHYSICIAN SERVICES – PHYSICIANS GROUP – MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
BROWARD COUNTY

PALM BEACH NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE -
Fawwaz Mohiuddin, MD PALM BEACH COUNTY

Dr. Fawwaz Mohiuddin, an orthopaedic surgeon and sports
medicine physician, finds being able to restore proper form Raghuram Sampath, MD
and function to a person’s injury an appealing aspect of his
specialty. During his medical career, Dr. Mohiuddin’s sports Dr. Raghuram Sampath is a skull base and cerebrovascular
medicine experience included team coverage for teams in the neurosurgeon providing tumor care for skull base, sellar,
NFL, NBA and NHL in addition to serving as the team physi- supracellar, clival, foramen magnum and brain tumors. He also
cian for two high school’s sports programs. Since 2013, Dr. specializes in meningioma, pituitary and acoustic neuromas,
Mohiuddin has provided orthopedic surgery and sports med- Chiari malformation, trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm,
icine care to the communities of Broward County with an cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous and cavernous malforma-
office in Fort Lauderdale. He is on-staff at Florida Medical tions, cerebrovascular bypass surgery, repair of cerebrospinal
Center, a campus of North Shore. Dr. Mohiuddin specializes in prevention and manage- fluid (CSF) leak, colloid cysts and stereotactic radio surgery. Dr.
ment of sports-related injuries of the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle, fracture care Sampath is on-staff at Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah and
and treatment of early arthritis in the active patient. In addition, Dr. Mohiuddin is profi- St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach. Prior to providing care for the South Florida
cient in arthroscopic shoulder surgery, rotator cuff repair, labral repair and stabilization, community, Dr. Sampath worked as an attending neurosurgeon at Geisinger Health System,
as well as arthroscopic knee surgery, ACL reconstruction, meniscal repair, cartilage Wilkes-Barra, PA, and instructed future neuroscientists as an associated faculty member in
restoration and repair. the Neuroendovascular Surgery Fellowship Program at the Geisinger Commonwealth
Dr. Mohiuddin is certified by the American Board of Orthopedic surgery. During the School of Medicine. Dr. Sampath completed his fellowship-training in cerebrovascular sur-
2012 National Basketball Association (NBA) season, Dr. Mohiuddin was part of the NBA gery at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle, WA, as well as skull base surgery from
Champion Miami Heat team as a member of the team physician staff for the organiza- the University of Colorado. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in neu-
tion. rosurgery at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. In addition, Dr. Sampath
completed a residency in neurosurgery at St. Louis University Hospital and an internship
in general surgery from New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia/Cornell. Dr. Sampath
graduated medical school from the University of Delhi, Delhi, India, and is multilingual in
the English, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.

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