Maria Behnam-Terneus, D.O.
(’09) is currently serving as the
academic hospitalist fellowship
associate program director and
pediatric residency associate
program director at Miami Chil-
dren’s Hospital.
Tyler Cymet, D.O., FACP,
FACOFP
(’88) was elected as
the 167
th
president of the Mary-
land State Medical Society, also
known as MedChi, in October.
MedChi is a nonprofit organiza-
tion whose goal is to serve as
Maryland’s foremost advocate
and resource for physicians, pa-
tients, and the public’s health.
Victoria M. Dreisbach, D.O.
(’97) had a legal digest article
published in the
Journal of the
American Academy of Psychia-
try and the Law
entitled “Not
Mentally Ill, Not Dangerous…and
Not Discharged.”
Joanna Drowos, D.O.,
M.B.A., M.P.H.
(’04) was
named associate chair of the In-
tegrated Medical Science Depart-
ment at Florida Atlantic Univer-
Behnam-Terneus
sity’s (FAU) Charles E. Schmidt
College of Medicine. Dr. Drowos
previously served as director of
FAU’s community and preven-
tive medicine clerkship, center
medical director for the Riviera
Beach Health Center, and direc-
tor of medical education for the
NSU-COM/Palm Beach County
Health Department Preventive
Medicine Residency Program.
Tamer Gozleveli, D.O.
(’87),
who owned a three-site family
practice called Primary Care
Offices in Broward County,
Florida, passed away on July 7.
In addition to running his busy
practice, Dr. Gozleveli served as
an NSU-COM clinical assistant
professor and as chief of Memo-
rial Hospital West’s Department
of Family Medicine. Because he
served in a variety of leadership
roles both in the community
and on a national level—includ-
ing a stint as president of the
Broward County Osteopathic
Medical Association—Dr. Goz-
leveli was instrumental in regard
to educating health care provid-
ers in the areas of quality care
and patient satisfaction.
Eric Harris, D.O.
(’08), a
hematologist/oncologist, re-
cently joined the Florida Hospital
HealthCare Partners medical staff
at Florida Hospital Memorial Med-
ical Center in Daytona Beach.
Robert Hasty, D.O., FACOI,
FACP
(’00), who received
the 2014 American College of
Osteopathic Internists’ (ACOI)
Educator of the Year Award, has
been appointed as associate
dean for postgraduate affairs for
Campbell University’s Jerry M.
Wallace School of Osteopathic
Medicine in Buies Creek, North
Carolina. Additionally, he was
selected to serve on the Ac-
creditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education’s Osteopathic
Principles Committee.
Marlow Hernandez, D.O.,
M.P.H., M.B.A., CPH
(’11) re-
cently established what he calls a
“one-stop shop for primary care”
called Cano Health in Pembroke
Pines, Florida, that provides pro-
Cymet
Drowos
Gozleveli
Hasty
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gressive medical, dental, vision,
and chiropractic care. In addition,
he is in the process of creating a
nationally televised medical reality
show entitled
Medicina Moderna
that will feature 12 contestants
and be filmed over a span of
several months. Each contestant
will be paid $100 per episode and
will compete for the grand prize
of $10,000—and the right to be
crowned Champion of Modern
Medicine. He also received his
board certification in internal
medicine from the American
Board of Internal Medicine.
Christopher E. Keel, D.O.
(’09), who recently completed
his urology residency at Tulane
University School of Medicine
in New Orleans, Louisiana,
joined Academic Urologists at
Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, where he is serving
as the new specialist in robotic
and minimally-invasive urologic
oncology and reconstruction.
Michele J. Lapayowker,
D.O., FACOOG
(’90), who re-
cently relocated her gynecology
Keel
Lapayowker
Moskow
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