LECOM and Highmark Inc. Announce Partnership to Increase Physicians in Rural Areas of Pennsylvania
Monday, 29 April 2013
The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) and Highmark Inc. today announced a scholarship program aimed at increasing the supply and retention of physicians in rural areas of Pennsylvania. The five-year, $500,000 initiative will be funded by Highmark and support LECOM students in their four years of medical school. “The shortage of phys... Read More »
LECOM Finalizes Building Purchase for Dental Clinic in DeFuniak Springs
Dental students and faculty will help ease the shortage of physicians in rural Florida The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) has announced plans to bring much needed dental health care to the Florida Panhandle community of DeFuniak Springs, where the College has purchased a medical arts building that will become home to a LECOM School ... Read More »
LECOM Named Institution of the Year by the Manatee Chamber of Commerce
Monday, 22 April 2013
LECOM honored with Champions of Healthcare Award The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine received the Manatee Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Champions of Healthcare Institution of the Year Award. LECOM was lauded for its dedication to community service and economic impact in Manatee County. Anthony Ferretti, D.O., Assistant Dean of Clinical Educa... Read More »
LECOM Announces Opening of Dental Group Practices
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Primary Care Dentistry Now Available to the Public Jasmine Shafagh, Timothy Speer, Assistant Dean of Clinical Education Francis Curd, DDS, Daulton Roberts, Stephanie Nguyen and Neha Chakravarti are ready to treat patients at the LECOM School of Dental Medicine group practices. Bradenton, FL– The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine con... Read More »
LECOM Students Learn the Value of Organ Donation
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Turning tragedy into triumph; giving hope to a hopeless situation. It is the message that resonated through the lecture hall as Starla Cassani made an impassioned plea to second-year medical students at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Erie, Pa. and Bradenton, Fla., campuses on the importance of organ donation. “As future phys... Read More »
LECOM President Named Person of Year by Erie Notre Dame Club
Friday, 22 March 2013
The Notre Dame Club of Erie recognized the life-time achievements of LECOM’s president by honoring John M. Ferretti, DO as the club’s 2013 Person of the Year. Notre Dame Alumnus Paul Hakel told the crowd gathered at the Erie Kahkwa club that Dr. Ferretti has provided the unfaltering and unmatched leadership necessary to navigate the Lake Erie C... Read More »
Eastside Medical Center Expansion Complete
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
State-of-the-Art Facility on Erie’s Eastside Medical Associates of Erie (MAE), the Clinical Practices of LECOM, held a press conference and open house on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at Eastside Medical Center, 2625 Parade Street, at 10 a.m. This event signified the completion of the renovations to the Eastside Medical Center (ESMC), a projec... Read More »
LECOM School of Dental Medicine Opens in Grand Fashion
Friday, 8 March 2013
Ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opens the $52 million facility in Bradenton, FL Manatee County Commissioner Vanessa Baugh, Willis A. Smith Construction Company Vice President Warren Simonds, LECOM Board of Trustees Chairman Michael Visnosky, Esq., LECOM School of Dental Medicine Dean Robert Hirsch, DDS and LECOM President and CEO John M. Ferre... Read More »
LECOM School of Pharmacy Students Kick Off Script Your Future Medication Adherence Challenge
Friday, 22 February 2013
Throughout February, pharmacy and medical students from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine will be reaching out to the Erie community to promote awareness and understanding of medication adherence. They are embarking on the Script Your Future Student Pharmacist Medication Adherence Challenge hoping to repeat their 2012 achievement when they... Read More »
Primary Care Olympics Challenge Students’ Physical Skills
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Annual competition promotes a healthy mind, body, and spirit. LECOM students were caught up in the big competition at the start of February. Not the Super Bowl, but the Primary Care Olympics took them out of the bitter winter cold and into the hot competition at the LECOM Medical Fitness and Wellness Center. Fourteen teams of LECOM Erie studen... Read More »
