PHILADELPHIA, December 8, 2005 -- Hahnemann University Hospital announces today that Paul J. Chase, D.O., FAOCR, has been named section chief of the hospital’s Department of Nuclear Medicine.  Most recently, Dr. Chase served as chairman in the department of radiology and medical imaging with South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center.             

Current president of the American Osteopathic College of Radiology Education Foundation, Dr. Chase also sits on the Board of Examiners for the Head Nuclear Medicine Section of the American Osteopathic Board of Radiology and is a board member of the American Osteopathic Board of Nuclear Medicine.  He is a past president of the American Osteopathic College of Radiology.  Dr. Chase is an active member of a number of professional organizations including the American Osteopathic Association, Society of Nuclear Medicine, Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society, and the Radiology Society of New Jersey.            

Dr. Chase earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Temple University and his Doctor of Osteopathy degree from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine located in Missouri.  He completed his residency in radiology at Cherry Hill Medical Center located in Cherry Hill, N.J.            

Dr. Chase resides in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Hahnemann University Hospital is a 618-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 the one of the city’s first kidney transplants 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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