MEDICAL PEOPLE AND NEWS
LAKELAND REGIONAL HEALTH
Mark Szewczyk, M.D., joined Lakeland Regional Health Physician Group as an otolaryngologist seeing patients at the Grasslands Campus. Szewczyk earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He completed his internship in general surgery and his residency in otolaryngology head and neck surgery at Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Szewczyk is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology and is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
Stephanie Gonzalez, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, joined Lakeland Regional Health Physician Group as an advanced practice registered nurse at the LRH Student Health Center, Florida Southern College, Lakeland. Gonzalez earned her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and Master of Science degree in nursing from Indiana University South Bend, Indiana. She has experience in walk-in clinic settings as well as in providing medical care on college campuses. She is board-certified as a family nurse practitioner.
Lakeland Regional Health opened a new medical practice location Dec. 6 at 511 W. Alexander St., Plant City. Rheumatology is the first practice to open. Two of Lakeland Regional Health’s four rheumatologists, Durkhani Mahboob, M.D., and Adriana Moncayo, M.D., relocated their rheumatology practices from the Grasslands Campus in Lakeland to the Plant City location. Pediatric and primary care will be added to this location in the spring.
Lakeland Regional Health was recently recognized as high performing for maternity care in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals for Maternity Care” list. Lakeland Regional Health is the only hospital in Polk County to make the list. U.S. News asked hospitals to submit data related to five quality metrics that included: scheduled early deliveries, cesarean-section rates in low-risk women, newborn complications, rate of exclusive breast milk feeding and option for vaginal births after cesarean. Hospitals that scored well on these measures were recognized as high performing. At its Carol Jenkins Barnett Pavilion for Women and Children on the Medical Center Campus, LRH offers Polk County’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the county’s only Dedicated Children’s Emergency Department and the Center for Fetal Care for women with high-risk pregnancies. Lakeland Regional Health also provides pediatric specialty care to the families it serves, including a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and a Pediatric Surgery program through its affiliation with Nemours Children’s Health. Lakeland Regional Health is also rated high performing in colon cancer surgery, knee replacement, heart failure and heart attack care.
GOOD SHEPHERD HOSPICE
Good Shepherd Hospice held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Bethany Center for Grieving Children in Lakeland on Dec. 7 at 3470 Lakeland Hills Boulevard. The Bethany Center for Grieving Children, with locations in Auburndale and Sebring, provides free counseling for all children and families who grieve the loss of a loved one. The new Bethany Center in Lakeland features a range of interactive resources for children including an expressive art studio filled with an array of art materials for children to use for free expression, a play therapy room, complete with a state-of-the-art interactive sandbox, play kitchen and other amenities that enable children to play and engage with one another.
LIFE CARE CENTER
Kelli Hunter, nurse liaison at Life Care Center of Winter Haven, recently received Life Care Centers of America’s quarterly Southeast Division Whatever It Takes Champions Award for her dedication to customer service. Life Care awarded Hunter a $250 cash prize during an awards ceremony at the facility. Hunter was one of only eight associates from Life Care’s more than 200 facilities nationwide to receive the quarterly award. She had won Life Care Center of Winter Haven’s monthly Whatever It Takes Champions award for September. Life Care’s Whatever It Takes Champions program rewards associates for extraordinary acts of kindness.
WATSON CLINIC
Sandeep Anreddy, M.D., FACC, MPH, a board-certified cardiologist, joined Watson Clinic and treats patients from Watson Clinic Main, 1600 Lakeland Hills Blvd., Lakeland. Anreddy received his medical degree from Gandhi Medical College in Secunderabad, Telengana, India. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He served as a teaching hospitalist at Cogent Healthcare, Temple University, in Philadelphia and completed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. He is board certified in nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular computed tomography.
Alexandra Osorio, M.D., joined the radiology department at Watson Clinic Main, 1600 Lakeland Hills Blvd., Lakeland. Her areas of expertise include breast imaging, body imaging, vascular imaging and oncology. Osorio received her medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She went on to perform an internal medicine internship at the University Hospital of Puerto Rico in San Juan, a diagnostic radiology residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and a vascular and interventional radiology fellowship at Yale - New Haven Hospital at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Osorio is certified in interventional and diagnostic radiology by the American Board of Radiology and is a member of the American College of Radiologists, the Radiological Society of North America and the American Roentgen Ray Society.
Watson Clinic board-certified interventional cardiologist Zia Rab, M.D., recently introduced a new peripheral vascular disease program to help patients relieve or reverse symptoms. Rab received his medical degree from Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He did his internship and residency training in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, a cardiovascular disease fellowship at Hofstra University Northwell School of Medicine in Manhasset, New York, and an additional fellowship in interventional cardiology at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and the Society of Vascular Medicine. Rab possesses board-certifications in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, interventional cardiology, nuclear cardiology, adult echocardiography and endovascular medicine, and is a registered physician in vascular interpretation. Most procedures are performed at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center and office-based venous procedures are performed at the Watson Clinic Main Campus, 1600 Lakeland Hills Blvd., Lakeland.
This article originally appeared on The Ledger: New hires at local medical facilities
