Two Crozer-Chester Medical Center physicians — Cardiologist R. David Mishalove, M.D., and Endocrinologist Ruth Ann Fitzpatrick, M.D. — recently received the prestigious honor of being promoted to Clinical Professors of Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine.
As a teaching hospital, Crozer-Chester Medical Center is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and is affiliated with Temple University Health System, as well as The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Crozer-Keystone physicians from a range of specialties participate in educating students from these schools.
The titles of Clinical Professor or Professor are the highest that clinician educators can achieve at Temple’s School of Medicine. To become a Clinical Professor or Professor, a physician must be board-certified in his/her specialty; display excellence in teaching, scholarly and clinical activities; and earn national recognition in his/her field.
“Dr. Mishalove and Dr. Fitzpatrick have distinguished themselves as outstanding educators as well as respected clinicians. I congratulate both of them on their deserved achievements,” says Paul Woolf, M.D., chairman of the Department of Medicine at Crozer. Woolf is Professor of Medicine and Associate Chairman of Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine.
Other active Crozer physicians who have achieved Professor status with the Temple School of Medicine are Gerald Kolski, M.D., chairman of Pediatrics; Joel Noumoff, chairman of Obstetrics/Gynecology and chief of Gynecologic Oncology; Susan Williams, M.D., director of Medical Education; and recently retired Director of Medical Education James E. Clark, M.D. Raymond J. Vivacqua, M.D., chief of Hematology/Oncology and medical director of the Crozer Regional Cancer Center, is a Clinical Professor.
Mishalove recently ended his tenure after 24 years as chief of Crozer’s Division of Cardiology. He precepts both Temple medical students and Crozer resident physicians. In 2001, he was the first recipient of the medical center’s James E. Clark Teaching Award.
Fitzpatrick is the chief of Crozer’s Division of Endocrinology. She is responsible for the endocrinology curriculum at Crozer, which includes both didactic and “hands-on” teaching of Temple third- and fourth-year medical clerks and Crozer’s house staff. She has also been a mentor for four Widener University undergraduates who participated in the Crozer Scholars Program, originally a partnership of Crozer, Widener and what is now Drexel University.