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News Release
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Chris
Porter |
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| Telephone: |
814-677-1461 |
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814-677-1440 |
UPMC NORTHWEST
ANNOUNCES MEDICAL STAFF OFFICERS
August 4,
2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CHRIS PORTER
Family practitioner
Peter Bendt, MD, is the new president of the UPMC Northwest medical
staff, and nephrologist David Brooker, MD, is vice president.
Dr. Bendt assumes
the presidency from obstetrician/gynecologist William McGrail, MD,
who has been president the past two years. Dr. Bendt has been a
UPMC Northwest staff physician for 17 years and Dr. Brooker for
nine years.
Both officers
will serve a two-year term that began July 1.
Also on July
1, family practitioner Gerald Kahler, MD, and surgeon Matthew Lehman,
MD, began the second year of their two-year terms as Medicine Department
and Surgery Department chairmen.
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