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COM Outlook . Winter 2014
Richard L.
Adams, D.O.
(’93) passed
away on May
25, 2013, at his
home in Bun-
nell, Florida,
following a valiant three-year
battle with melanoma. Dr.
Adams, who was born in Ba-
kersfield, California, but spent
most of his youth in Wilm-
ington, Delaware, moved to
Gainesville, Florida, as a senior
and attended Gainesville High
School. An avid Gator fan, he
received his bachelor’s degree
in Zoology from the University
of Florida and then attended
Southeastern College of Osteo-
pathic Medicine (NSU-COM),
graduating in 1993. Over the
past two decades, Dr. Adams
was a practicing physician
in Ormond Beach and Palm
Coast. He is survived by his
wife, Julie Peck-Adams, and his
children Allison and Richard.
Ronald
Bekic, D.O.
(’04), who
completed a
fellowship in
hospice and
palliative
medicine at Broward Health
Medical Center in 2011, is
currently employed as a senior
palliative care physician at
Palliative Medical Associates
of Florida.
Christina
Caito, D.O.
(’09), an OB/
GYN, joined
the medical
staff of Par-
rish Medical
Center in Titusville, Florida.
Her areas of interest include
minimally invasive surgery,
preconception counseling and
prenatal care, annual well-
woman exams, evaluation
and treatment of women’s
ovulation cycles.
Alumni Corner -
Activities, Accomplishments, and Awards
Tyler Cymet,
D.O., FACP,
FACOFP
(’88),
associate vice
president
for medical
education
and chief of clinical education
for the American Association
of Colleges of Osteopathic
Medicine, coauthored an
article entitled “Fracture as a
Result of Volcano Boarding”
that was published in the Sep-
tember 2013 issue of
The AAO
Journal
—the official publica-
tion of the American Academy
of Osteopathy.
Gaston
Dana D.O.,
FACP, FAC-
CWS, FAAEP,
FAAMA
(’92)
was recently
certified by
the American Board of Wound
Medicine and Surgery. He
is now certified in six spe-
cialties. He also served as a
consultant with Medtronic on
insulin-pump therapy and as a
regional primary care diabetes
consultant for Sanofi Aventis.
Scott A.
Dinesen,
D.O., M.B.A.,
FACOG
(’91)
performed the
first single-
site robotic
hysterectomy in Pennsylvania
last May using a single 2.5 cm
umbilical incision. He is the
current department director of
robotic surgery at Doylestown
Hospital in Pennsylvania, and is
a national proctor for Intuitive
Inc., which manufactures the
DaVinci robot.
Adam Fier, D.O.
(’06) complet-
ed his anesthesia residency in
2010 at the University of Flori-
da and went on to do a cardiac
anesthesia fellowship, gain-
ing certification in advanced
perioperative
transesopha-
geal echocar-
diography. He
then joined
forces with
Brevard An-
esthesia Services in Melbourne,
Florida, recently becoming a
partner in the organization,
which has expanded to include
a new company called Brevard
Physician Associates—a mul-
tispecialty group composed of
several medical sites in Bre-
vard County. In addition, Dr.
Fier was named vice chairman
of the anesthesia division at
its flagship hospital—Holmes
Regional Medical Center.
Jessica Fischetti-Galvin,
D.O.
(’09), who is an OB/
GYN, recently joined the med-
ical staff of Monmouth Medi-
cal Center in Long Branch,
New Jersey. She completed
her residency in obstetrics and
gynecology at the Jersey Shore
University Medical Center in
Neptune, where she served as
chief resident.
Michael W.
Gray, D.O.
(’88), who is a
cosmetic sur-
geon in Michi-
gan, recently
launched a
social media platform called
Pegged.com
that allows users
to research and anonymously
review, or peg, the people they
meet. The site is meant to be
entertaining, but at its core, the
intention is to make people ac-
countable for their interactions
with others and to offer them
opportunities for self-reflection
and growth.
Thomas E. Green, D.O.
(’98)
was recently elected to the
American College of Osteo-
pathic Emergency Physicians
Board of Directors. In addi-
tion, he has been accepted into
the Carnegie
Mellon Heinz
College of
Business Mas-
ter of Medical
Management
Program,
which will begin in September
2014. He also was promoted to
the position of clinical curricu-
lum director at Midwestern
University’s Chicago College
of Osteopathic Medicine,
where he integrates, with the
basic sciences, and coordinates
the clinical courses in the
first two years of the medical
school curriculum.
William D.
Kirsh, D.O.,
M.P.H.
(’85)
coauthored an
article entitled
“Popula-
tion-Based
Medication Adherence Pro-
grammes: A Window of Op-
portunity” that was published
in the volume 49, number 3
issue of
World Hospitals and
Health Services,
which is the
official journal of the Interna-
tional Hospital Federation.
Janet M.
Kong D.O.
(’10), who
completed her
internship at
Niagara Falls
Memorial
Medical Center in Niagara Falls,
New York, and her residency
training at Jamaica Hospital
Medical Center in Jamaica, New
York, recently joined the Wat-
son Clinic in Lakeland, Florida,
as a family medicine physician.
Her areas of expertise include
general family medicine ser-
vices and osteopathic manipula-
tive therapy.
Mark Levenberg, D.O.,
FAOCD
(’02), who is affiliated
with the Dermatology & Mohs
Surgery Center in Doylestown,
