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News Release

Contact: Chris Porter  
Telephone: 814-677-1461
Fax: 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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