PHILADELPHIA, October 23, 2006 – Hahnemann University Hospital announces today the appointments of Brian Effron; Melissa Weiler Gerber; A. Scott McNeal, D.O.; and Ignatius C. Wang, AIA, to the institution’s Board of Governors.
As president and founder of Healthcare Administrative Partners, LLC, Brian Effron is responsible for the company’s vision and strategic direction. A member of the World Presidents Organization, Effron earned his bachelor of science degree from Northeastern University and completed graduate studies at both Boston University and Northeastern University.
Melissa Weiler Gerber is executive director of WOMENS WAY, the nation’s oldest women’s funding federation. WOMENS WAY raises funds and public awareness to support a broad network of organizations in the Greater Philadelphia region that provide services to women, girls and families and advocate for systemic change. Appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell to serve on the Pennsylvania Commission for Women and named to the Mayor’s Children’s Commission by Philadelphia Mayor John Street, Weiler Gerber also serves on the boards of directors of Philabundance, the Center for Responsible Funding and Delaware Valley Grantmakers. Weiler Gerber earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her bachelor of arts degree in history from Princeton University.
Dr. A. Scott McNeal currently serves as vice president and chief medical officer of Delaware Valley Community Health, Inc. Board certified in family practice, Dr. McNeal earned his doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the Eastern Pennsylvania Medical Society and the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Family Physicians Society, among others.
Ignatius C. Wang is a principal of UCI Architects, Inc. He is a member of the board of directors of Chestnut Hill College, former co-chair of the Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee for the Chestnut Hill Community Association, member of the board of trustees of the Community College of Philadelphia, and chair of the board of directors for the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation. Wang received his master’s degree in architecture from Kansas State University and completed the Graduate Management Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Hahnemann University Hospital is a 541-bed academic medical center at Broad & Vine Streets in Philadelphia, Pa. The hospital is a tertiary care institution that specializes in cardiac services, heart failure and transplantation, OB/GYN, orthopedics, medical, surgical and radiation oncology, bone marrow transplantation, renal dialysis and kidney/pancreas/liver transplantation. The hospital performed one of the city’s first kidney transplant in 1963 and one of the first bone marrow transplant in 1976. In 1986, Hahnemann became Philadelphia’s first Level I Regional Resource Trauma Center for adults, and since then has been served by University MedEvac, an aeromedical transport program for critically ill patients. Hahnemann is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency.
An affiliate of Drexel University College of Medicine, Hahnemann University Hospital is part of Tenet Pennsylvania, which also includes Graduate Hospital, Roxborough Memorial Hospital, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and Warminster Hospital. To learn more about Hahnemann, visit www.hahnemannhospital.com.
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