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Alexis Nikoula said she hopes to remain in Southwestern Pennsylvania after she becomes a doctor.
Nikoula, a Hempfield Area High School and Seton Hill University graduate, is enrolled at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Seton Hill, which held its first day of classes Monday with 109 students enrolled.
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The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine will mark the start of classes at Seton Hill University on Monday.
A news conference with John M. Ferretti, LECOM president and chief executive officer, is planned for 10 a.m. that day in Harlan Gallery of Reeves Hall on the university campus.
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Hires/Promotions/Honors
Cardiology Group of Western New York welcomed Dr. Harry McCrea III and Dr. Robbie D. Wall to its practice. McCrea is a general cardiologist specializing in noninvasive procedures. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and served an Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship through the University of Rochester at Strong Memorial Hospital. Wall is a clinical electrophysiologist specializing in cardiac arrhythmias and device-based therapies. He attended medical school at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pa., and served an Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship in Detroit.
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West Penn Allegheny Health System's plans for a medical school could help keep qualified physicians in the region, experts say -- if the financially troubled health system can pull it off.
The hospital system, which otherwise is downsizing and consolidating services, is preparing to formally release plans for Pittsburgh's second medical school this spring. Start-up costs vary dramatically: from $120 million for a medical school built in Scranton to $4.5 million that Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine invested in a site at Seton Hill University in Greensburg.
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Because only one in 1,000 patients seen in a medical office or emergency room requires hospitalization, primary care physicians will remain front and center in health care for the foreseeable future, the new national president of the American Osteopathic Association said during a visit Wednesday to Greensburg.
Family medicine is where most of the care will occur," said Dr. Martin Levine of Bayonne, N.J., after speaking to a packed auditorium of medical students at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Seton Hill University. The school, in its third year of operation, will graduate its first class in 2013.
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PORTLAND For decades, dental schools across the country were more likely to close than open. Now that trend is reversing.
The founding dean of the University of New Englands new College of Dental Medicine, James Koelbl, has been on both ends of the trend.
...Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine will open its...
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When the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine opens this summer at Seton Hill University, Irv Freeman expects the targeted complement of 104 students to be enrolled.
I think that will occur," said Freeman, vice president for LECOM at Seton Hill. "We may be a bit over that.
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...The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) recen...
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A developer is looking at turning a downtown Greensburg building into housing for graduate students.
Donald Tarosky said he and his wife want to convert the former Lilly Shop into housing for students attending the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Seton Hill University.