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Dr. Joseph Motta and Family Medicine Physician Mary
Dr. Richard S. Faro O’Meara, MD, Joins Cleveland Clinic
Join Tenet Florida Indian River Hospital

Physician Services
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital welcomes board-
certified family medicine physician Mary O’Meara, M.D.
Joseph Motta, M.D., FACS, a Dr. O’Meara earned her medical degree from Florida State
cardiothoracic surgeon who co- University. She completed the Family Medicine Residency
founded the open heart surgery program at West Kendall Baptist Hospital in Miami. She is a
unit at Palm Beach Gardens member of the American Medical Association, Florida
Medical Center, has joined Tenet Dr. Joseph A. Motta Dr. Richard S. Faro Medical Association, American Academy of Family Dr. Mary O’Meara
Florida Cardiovascular Care. Physicians and Florida Academy of Family Physicians.
Prior to joining Tenet Florida Cardiovascular Care, Dr. Motta and Richard S. Faro, Prior to joining Indian River Hospital, Dr. O’Meara practiced as a family medicine
M.D., FACS, led a successful medical practice at Palm Beach Cardiovascular Associates. physician in Winter Haven.
Dr. Motta has been on-staff at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center since 1983. He was
the Vice Chief of Staff at the hospital in 2001.
Dr. Faro, a highly experienced cardiac, vascular and thoracic surgeon and founder of Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
the Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Heart Institute has joined also Tenet Florida Welcomes Orthopaedic Surgeon
Cardiovascular Care.
Dr. Faro served as Founder and Director of Cardiac Surgery from 1983-2000 at the Michael MacKechnie, MD
Palm Beach Heart Institute at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center where he and Dr.
Motta established the open heart surgery unit at the hospital. During his medical career, Cleveland Clinic Martin Health welcomes board-certified
Dr. Faro has operated with staff privileges at six different South Florida hospitals. orthopaedic surgeon Michael MacKechnie, M.D. Dr.
Previously, Dr. Faro served as assistant professor, Department of Surgery at the University MacKechnie specializes in orthopaedic sports medicine sur-
of Florida in Gainesville, clinical instructor and adjunct attending at Rush Medical gery and performs many minimally invasive procedures to
College in Chicago and as assistant instructor at the Department of Surgery, Creighton help people stay active.
University. Dr. MacKechnie earned his medical degree from McGill Dr. Michael MacKechnie
University Faculty of Medicine in Quebec. He completed the
Cleveland Clinic Martin Health Orthopaedic Surgery Residency program at University of Toronto. Dr. MacKechnie com-
pleted the Clinical Fellowship in Orthopaedic Surgery Sports Medicine program at
Welcomes Neurosurgeon University of California – Los Angeles, where he worked as the assistant team physician
Zeguang Ren, MD, PhD to the Los Angeles Lakers and the UCLA Bruins football team.
Prior to joining Martin Health, Dr. MacKechnie has practiced as an orthopaedic sports
medicine surgery attending physician in Maine, and was a Clinical Instructor at
Cleveland Clinic Martin Health welcomes board-certified Dartmouth College's Faculty of Medicine.
vascular and endovascular neurosurgeon Zeguang Ren,
M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Ren received training in both neurosurgery and Pediatrician Elizabeth Feldman, DO,
endovascular neurosurgery. He completed a neurosurgery Joins Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
fellowship at the University of Washington, and a cere- Dr. Zeguang Ren
brovascular/endovascular neurosurgery fellowship from
Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester. He earned a Master of Neuroscience Cleveland Clinic Martin Health welcomes board-certified
degree and PhD of Neuroscience at Beijing Neurosurgical Institute and Beijing Tiantan pediatric physician Elizabeth Feldman, D.O.
Hospital. Dr. Feldman earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Prior to joining Martin Health, Dr. Ren has practiced as an attending neurosurgeon in degree at Nova Southeastern University College of
Tampa, Fort Pierce and in Beijing. He is board certified by the American Board of Osteopathic Medicine in Davie, Fla. She also earned a BA in
Neurological Surgery. Biochemistry, with a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental
Health Studies at New York University.
Dr. Feldman is board certified by the American
Thomas Morrissey, MD, Joins the Osteopathic Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Dr. Elizabeth Feldman
Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Pediatrics. Prior to joining Martin Health, she has practiced as a pediatrician in Stuart.

Institute as Director of Gynecologic Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, Joins Miami

Oncology Cancer Institute as Deputy Director,

Gynecologic oncologist Thomas Morrissey, M.D., FACOG, Chief Scientific Officer and Chief of
FACS, has joined the Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Solid Tumor Medical Oncology
Institute, a part of Baptist Health South Florida, as director
of gynecologic oncology. He is a specialist in the surgical and Dr. Thomas Morrissey
chemotherapeutic treatment of ovarian, uterine, cervical and Board-certified neuro-oncologist and medical oncologist
other female genital tract cancers. Manmeet Ahluwalia, M.D., FACP, M.B.A., joins Baptist
Dr. Morrissey joins the Lynn Cancer Institute from Cleveland Clinic Florida, where he Health’s Miami Cancer Institute, as deputy director, chief sci-
was the head of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology. He also served as clinical assistant entific officer and chief of solid tumor medical oncology.
professor of surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, Dr. Manmeet Ahluwalia
Reserve University. He will continue his position as clinical affiliate associate professor at neuro-oncology and hematology, Dr. Ahluwalia is a leading
Florida Atlantic University Schmidt College of Medicine. He is board-certified in obstet- expert in brain metastases and primary brain tumors.
rics, gynecology and gynecologic oncology. Dr. Ahluwalia joins Miami Cancer Institute from the Cleveland Clinic, where he was
Dr. Morrissey earned his medical degree from the State University of New York Health the Dean and Diane Miller Family Endowed Chair in Neuro-Oncology and the head of
Science Center at Syracuse College of Medicine. He completed an obstetrics, gynecology operations in the Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center (BBTC).
and reproductive sciences residency at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital. He also com- He also served as a professor in the Department of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic
pleted a gynecologic oncology fellowship at the University of North Carolina School of Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
Medicine. Dr. Ahluwalia earned his medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College,
University of Delhi. He completed his internal medicine residency at Cleveland Clinic
Health System and hematology/oncology fellowship at Roswell Park Center Institute. In
addition to his medical degree, Dr. Ahluwalia holds a Master of Business Administration
from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.

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