PHILADELPHIA, December 6, 2005 — Hahnemann University Hospital announces today the appointment of Michael J. Hallowell, MD, RVT, as clinical service chief in the Department of Radiology.

Dr. Hallowell serves as a radiologist with Philadelphia Radiology Associates. Prior to his current position, Dr. Hallowell was medical director of the non-invasive vascular laboratory at Hahnemann University Hospital.

Appointed clinical assistant professor of radiology at Drexel University College of Medicine in 2001 (formerly MCP/Hahnemann School of Medicine), Dr. Hallowell is board certified in diagnostic radiology by the American Board of Radiology and is a member of the Radiological Society of North America and the Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Dr. Hallowell earned his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at the Medical Center of Delaware.

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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