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| St. Christopher’s Physicians Recognized |
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 | | Congratulating Dr. Delivoria-Papadopoulos (center) for becoming the Ralph W. Brenner Chair in Pediatrics are St. Christopher’s CEO Bernadette Mangan (left) and COO Jill Tillman. | | |
| Delivoria-Papadopoulos Earns Lifetime Achievement Award
St. Christopher’s physician Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos, M.D., a distinguished pioneer in the field of neonatal medicine, has been selected among thousands of candidates nationally to receive a lifetime achievement award for her tireless dedication to improving the odds for at-risk newborns. Honoring her nearly five decades of service is Castle Connolly Medical Ltd, the healthcare research and information company best known for helping consumers find the top doctors and top hospitals in America.
The prestigious honor will be given to Delivoria-Papadopoulos, director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Christopher’s and professor of pediatrics, physiology and obstetrics/gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine, during The Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. National Physician of the Year Awards on March 13 in Manhattan.
“It would be impossible to quantify Maria’s impact on the field of neonatal medicine,” says Bernadette Mangan, chief executive officer, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. “She has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of children over the course of her impressive career. Her devotion to the care of at-risk infants is inspiring, and even decades from now, her contributions will continue to reach far beyond the lives of her patients and students.”
A Greek immigrant, Delivoria-Papadopoulos completed her undergraduate work at Sorbonne University in Athens and received her medical degree from Greece’s National University School of Medicine. She continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a post-doctorate degree in physiology and spent the next 29 years as a faculty member.
A recognized leader in the fields of neonatal and perinatal medicine, Delivoria-Papadopoulos has helped drastically improve the lives of thousands of children through her medical practice and research. Her work includes studying the mechanisms of brain damage in infants and finding therapeutic interventions for extremely ill premature infants. For decades she and her late physician husband returned to Greece to spend summers treating the babies of families who could not afford proper care.
She has held numerous faculty and hospital appointments, served on several public advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health and published in a variety of medical journals. She is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Pediatric Society, the American Physiological Society, the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 2006, she was awarded the Ralph W. Brenner Chair in Pediatrics by St. Christopher’s Foundation for Children. Castle Connolly (www.castleconnolly.com) was founded in 1991 by John K. Castle (Chairman) and John J. Connolly, Ed.D. (President and CEO), who served as board chairman and president and CEO of New York Medical College respectively. The company has since become known as the nation’s most authoritative source for identifying top doctors throughout the United States. Under the direction of its physician-lead research team, Castle Connolly surveys tens of thousands of physicians and hospital executives in order to identify, screen and select those physicians regarded by their peers as leaders in their respective specialties and for specific diseases and techniques. |
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Goldsmith Honored for Excellence
Donald P. Goldsmith, M.D., director of the Rheumatology Section at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, was recently honored by the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation with the Joseph Lee Hollander, M.D., Award. The award, which recognizes excellence and achievement in the field of rheumatology, was presented at an “Evening of Honors” gala at the Cescaphe Ballroom in Philadelphia.
“What Dr. Goldsmith really cares about the most is guiding, supporting and advocating for his ‘kids,’” said Dr. Audrey Uknis, a professor of medicine and member of the Rheumatology Section at Temple University College of Medicine who received the Hollander Award last year. “All inhibitions absolutely come tumbling down when he bounds into the exam room and says to his youngest new patients, ‘Hi...I’m Dr. Goldfish!’ He has mentored and been a role model for numerous pediatric residents while enthusiastically providing the pediatric educational component for many of the adult rheumatology fellowship programs in Philadelphia.”
Since 1992, Dr. Goldsmith has served as director of the Regional Arthritis Program at St. Christopher’s, where he is director of Continuing Medical Education and president of the Alumni Association. He also serves as medical director of the Children’s Arthritis Network of Pennsylvania.
“It’s enormously satisfying to work with children who have long-term medical issues such as rheumatoid arthritis,” said Dr. Goldsmith, a professor of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine. “There's much hands-on work to be done, and even as a subspecialist pediatrician, you take care of the whole child and get to really know each family so well.”
Dr. Goldsmith attended the University of Vermont College of Medicine, where he was a cum laude graduate and a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. After completing an internship in internal medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and being voted “Intern of the Year” by his peers, he completed a pediatric residency and a rheumatology/immunology fellowship at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and Temple University School of Medicine.
Some of his contributions include the earliest description of post-streptococcal reactive arthritis in children, recognition of neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID), and development of the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ), the world’s most commonly used outcome assessment tool for juvenile arthritis. The author of more than 65 peer-reviewed publications and 11 book chapters, he has served as president of the Philadelphia Rheumatism Society, as an invited member of a National Institutes of Health consensus group for pediatric rheumatology, and as an American College of Rheumatology visiting pediatric professor.
A member of the Arthritis Foundation-Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter’s Pediatric Task Force, he was recognized last year with the organization’s “Quality of Life Professional Education Award” for his care and support of children affected by arthritis and his commitment to help educate medical professionals who work with people who have arthritis. Since 1948, the Arthritis Foundation has spent over $300 million to support more than 2,000 scientists and physicians in arthritis research. The Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter serves more than 20 counties, making the public knowledgeable about arthritis and the importance of appropriate treatment and helping people take personal control of their arthritis through self-help classes, warm water and land exercise programs and support and education groups. Locally last year, more than $1 million was awarded to researchers in the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter area.
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