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SALUTE TO PHYSICIANS

DELRAY MEDICAL CENTER

HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL
Joseph Ricotta, MD

Dr. Joseph Ricotta is the National Medical Director of vascular and endovascular sur- Omar M. Rashid, MD, JD
gery for Delray Medical Center, Tenet Health and Professor of Surgery and Program
Director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship at FAU School of Medicine. Dr. Ricotta Dr. Omar Rashid is an
specializes in minimally invasive endovascular therapies, endovascular robotic surgery, American Cancer Society
aortic and peripheral aneurysms, carotid/cerebrovascular disease, peripheral arterial leader internationally rec-
disease and limb salvage, and venous disease. Dr. Ricotta received his undergraduate ognized for cancer care
degree from Yale University, and then graduated with honors from Thomas Jefferson and research, born and
University Medical School in Philadelphia, PA. He completed his surgical internship at raised in Broward County.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD and did general surgery residen- As physician leader for
cies at Johns Hopkins, and Oxford University School of Medicine in Oxford, United Holy Cross Hospital's
Kingdom. His vascular surgery fellowship was at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN, alliance with Harvard
advanced endovascular surgery fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH and the University of Medical School's
Perugia, in Perugia Italy. Massachusetts General
Hospital, one of the top
Lloyd Zucker, MD ranked hospitals in the world, he has elevated the
quality of care. With American Board of Surgery
General Surgery and Complex General Surgical
Dr. Lloyd Zucker is a board certified neurosurgeon on staff at Delray Medical Center. Oncology certifications, Dr. Rashid offers cutting edge
Dr. Zucker diagnoses and treats all aspects of neurologic illness, including brain and services, including robotic, laparoscopic, and multi-
spine He cares for brain conditions including brain tumors, intracerebral hemorrhages, modality therapy. He has over 70 peer-review publica-
hemorrhagic strokes as well as all types of brain trauma. Utilizing technology from tions and membership in the American College of
Synaptive Medical and NICO Neuro’s Brainpath, he performs minimally invasive cran- Surgeons, American Society of Clinical Oncology,
iotomies, accessing deep lesions within the brain previously thought to be inoperable. Society of Surgical Oncology, Americas and
If necessary, craniotomies can be done awake, allowing monitoring of the subtlest International Hepatico-Pancreatico-Biliary
aspects of motor, sensory and language function. He is co-director of the movement Associations, and others. His training includes surgical
disorder program at Delray Medical Center, performing deep brain stimulation surgery oncology fellowship at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center,
for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. With a fellowship in com- general surgery residency at Virginia Commonwealth
plex spinal surgery and spinal instrumentation he cares for diseases of all areas of the University, MD and JD from Duke University, and
spine, cervical, thoracic and lumbar. He addresses degenerative spinal disease, including spinal stenosis and disc bachelor's from Dartmouth College. Dr. Rashid is flu-
herniation, compression fractures, spinal trauma and the surgical treatment of chronic spinal pain. He leads clin- ent in Spanish and proficient in Italian, Latin and
ical trials in the treatment of brain tumors, including fluorescent-guided surgery for gliomas, and trials involving Arabic.
traumatic injury to the brain and spinal cord.

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