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SALUTE TO PHYSICIANS
PALMETTO GENERAL HOSPITAL
BROWARD COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Adrian Legaspi, MD
Shahnaz Fatteh, MD
Dr. Adrian Legaspi is a surgical oncologist at Palmetto
Dr. Shahnaz Fatteh was installed as the 2020 General Hospital. His areas of interest include esophageal
President of the Broward County Medical cancer, primary and secondary liver cancers and pancreatic
Association. cancer. Dr. Legaspi completed a clinical fellowship in surgi-
Dr. Fatteh is an Asthma, Allergy and Immunology cal oncology from Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer
Specialist and has been in private practice in Center and clinical research fellowship in the department of
Broward County since 1999. Dr. Fatteh earned her surgery at The New York Hospital Cornell University
undergraduate degree from Emory University and Medical Center. Dr. Legaspi has also published numerous
received her medical degree from the Medical scientific publications relating to oncology and surgery in
College of Georgia. She completed her internship peer reviewed journals. He has written numerous abstracts on his surgical oncology
and residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami and her asth- research and participated as an invited lecturer at several conferences during his pro-
ma, allergy, and immunology fellowship at The New York Hospital, Cornell fessional medical career.
University. Dr. Fatteh is a past president of the South Florida American Medical
Women’s Association and was involved as the Regional Executive Fundraiser Ritesh Kaushal, MD
for the National American Medical Women’s Association. She has been
involved with the Indian Physicians of Florida since 1995 and has served as Dr. Ritesh Kaushal, interventional neurologist, serves as
Secretary and Treasurer. Dr. Fatteh is the current President of the American the medical director of Palmetto General Hospital’s
Associates of Allergists and Immunologists from India. Dr. Fatteh is on the Comprehensive Stroke Center. In his role, he oversees a
medical staff of Westside Regional Medical Center, Plantation General team of interventional neurologist, neurosurgeons, clinical
Hospital, Memorial Regional Hospital, Memorial Hospital Pembroke, Memorial neurologist and other medical staff who care for Palmetto’s
Hospital West, Memorial Hospital Miramar, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, stroke patients. Dr. Kaushal completed his internship in
and Broward Health Medical Center. She is an Associate Clinical Professor, internal medicine at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago,
Department of Internal Medicine at Nova Southeastern University’s Dr. Kiran Illinois and his residency in neurology at the University of
C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Fatteh is a graduate of the South Chicago Medical Center. He completed his fellowships in
Florida Physician Leadership Academy and the Florida Medical Association stroke-neurocritical care and endovascular interventional
Physician Leadership Academy. She has been a leader in the Women Physicians neurology at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Kaushal is a
Section of the Broward County Medical Association. member of the American Heart/Stroke Association, American Neurology Association,
and Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology.
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