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MEDICAL DIRECTOR, RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Richard A. Krause, M.D. FACG
Dr.
Krause has 30 years experience as a Board Certified Gastroenterologist
and Internist. He graduated from Temple University Medical School
in 1972. He spent three years at Emory University and Grady
Hospital in Internal Medicine. One year at Yale University for a
fellowship in Gastroenterology; and an additional year at University of
Massachusetts for Gastroenterology. He started private practice
in Chattanooga in 1977. He has been Chief of Medicine, and Chief
of GI. And he has served on the Parkridge Medical Center Board. He has
taught at the UT Family Practice Program. Dr. Krause has been in
Clinical research since 1987 and the Medical Director
of Clinsearch since 1992.
Click Here for Dr. Richard Krause's Curriculum Vitae
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CLINICAL DIRECTOR, SUB-INVESTIGATOR
Rhonda Bovine, APN, FNPRhonda
Bovine joined ClinSearch in 2008 as our NursePractitioner and is a
certified Advanced Practice Nurse (American Nurses Credentialing
Center). After getting her BSN from the University of Tennessee
at Memphis, she went on to complete an MSN with a concentration in the
Family Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Alabama,
Huntsville. Ms. Bovine's long
experience includes stints in the diverse areas of women's health,
public health, primary care and college health. Local students
may
recognize her as the former Director of Student Health Service at the
University of Tennesse Chattanooga. She is also a member of Chattanooga
Area Nurses in Advanced Practice.
Click Here for Rhonda Bovine's Curriculum Vitae
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Dr. Steven K. Austin, M.D. , P.C.Dr.
Austin has been practicing cardiology in Chattanooga since 1997.
Dr. Austin received his Medical Degree from the University of
Tennessee, Memphis where he also completed his Residency (Chief
Resident). A Cardiology Fellowship followed at the Medical
University of South Carolina, Charleston. Dr. Austin was Board
Certified in Internal Medicine in 1994 and Cardiology in 1997.
He began in group practice in 1997 and private practice in 2001.
Click here to view Dr. Steven K. Austin's Curriculum Vitae
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Dr. Michael T. Czarnecki, M.D.
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Dr. Deborah R. DiStefano, M.D.
Dr.
Distefano is one Chattanooga's best known physicians. She first
came to the area in 1982 as chairperson of the Department of
Ophthamology at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She
completed her Medical Degree, Internship and Residency (Chief Resident)
at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. DiStefano completed her fellowship at Harvard in 1982.
Dr. DiStefano has numerous publications and awards to her credit.
In 2004 she founded a charitable organization that helps families
with with monetary support while undergoing treatment for cancer.
She is currently the owner of DiStefano Regional Eye
Center.
Click here to view Dr. Deborah DiStefano's Curriculum Vitae |  | RESEARCH SUB-INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Stephen DePasquale M. D.
Dr. DePasquale is originally from upstate NY, he moved to
the Tennessee region for the warmer weather and the great outdoors.
Dr. DePasquale did his undergraduate work at Albany College of Pharmacy.
He received his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree in 1988. He graduated from
the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School in 1993. He completed four years of residency in
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia in
1997.
From 1997 to 2001 he was a fellow in Gynecologic Oncology at
Brown Medical School, Women and Infants Hospital in Providence Rhode Island.
After completing fellowship he moved to Chattanooga Tennessee. Currently
he is Board certified by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in
both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology.
He is also a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, in
the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in Chattanooga at Erlanger Medical Center.
He sees patients at Memorial Medical Center and Parkridge Medical Center.
He specializes in Gynecologic Oncology; starting in 2003 he
has helped explore the utility of robotic surgery. The daVinci
laparoscopic Robotic Instrument was approved by the FDA in 2000. Dr.
DePasquale was one of the first Gynecologic Oncologist in the Region to utilize
this new tool. Today Dr. DePasquale performs many complex procedures with
the laparoscopic robotic instrument including surgery for endometrial, cervical
and ovarian cancer, making him one of a select few now offering this to
patients on a regular basis.
Dr. DePasquale participates in clinical research through
Tennessee Gynecologic Oncology Group as well as national cooperative groups and
pharmaceutical companies.
Click here to view Dr. Stephen DePasquale's Curriculum Vitae
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Dr. Vaishali DoshiClick here to view Dr. Vaishali Doshi's Curriculum Vitae |  | RESEARCH SUB-INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Jitendra Gandhi
Dr. Jitendra Gandhi of Associates in Oncology and Hematology
has a thriving practice located at 2205 McCallie Avenue with his wife, Dr.
Vaishali Doshi. He
attended medical
school at Seth G.S. Medical College, Bombay University in Bombay,
India. He did his Internal Medicine residency at Worchester City
Hospital (an affiliate of the
University of Massachusetts Medical Center) where he was chief
resident. He later completed a
fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the University of Massachusetts Medical
Center in Worcester, Mass. Dr. Gandhi
has a wealth of oncology research experience with an emphasis on lung cancer, lymphoma,
breast cancer and multiple myeloma.
.Click here to view Dr. Jitendra Gandhi's Curriculum Vitae |  | RESEARCH SUB-INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Mark M. McKenzie, M.D
Dr.
McKenzie has been practicing Internal Medicine in Southeast Tennessee
and the Chattanooga area since 2002. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Biology Degree from Southern
Adventist University in 1991. After spending 4 years working as a
Medical Technologist, he decided to study medicine. He completed
Medical School and Residency at the Medical College of Ohio at the
University of Toledo in 2002. He
recently left group practice to start The McKenzie Center for Internal
Medicine.
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RESEARCH SUB-INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Glenn N. Pomerance, M.D. As
an Ophthalmologist, Dr. Pomerance diagnoses and treats all disorders of
the eye. He specializes in cataract and refractive
surgery. He recently received the Alcon Centurion Award for
outstanding LASIK procedures.
Dr.
Pomerance graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Columbia University and completed an internship in surgery and a
residency in Ophthalmology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, D.C., where he served as Chief Resident. Dr.
Pomerance holds staff privileges at most area medical centers and is a
member of many national, state and local medical societies.
Dr.
Pomerance has participated in numerous clinical research efforts,
including Contrast Sensitivity Testing as a measure of efficacy in
treatment of glaucoma and macular degeneration and pharmaceutical
testing including those for dry eyes, anti-infectives and
anti-inflammatories.
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RESEARCH SUB-INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Richard Sadowitz, M.D.
Dr.
Richard Sadowitz has been practicing Gastroenterology in Chattanooga,
TN since 1994. He is Board Certified in Gastroenterology. Dr. Sadowitz
received his bachelor's degree from the University of Florida, at
Gainesville and his doctorate from the University of Miami School of
Medicine. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine
at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Dr. Sadowitz completed a
fellowship in Digestive Diseases at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey.
Dr.
Sadowitz' scope of practice includes, but is not limited to, Upper
Endoscopy, ERCP, Capsule Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, Liver Diseases,
Infrared Coagulation for the Treatment of Hemorrhoids and Irritable
Bowel Syndrome.
Chattanooga
Gastroenterology is located at Parkridge Medical Center, 2341 McCallie
Avenue, Plaza Three, Suite 400, Chattanooga, TN 37404. Satellite office
at Hutcheson Medical Center, 102 Gross Crescent Circle, Suite 202, Ft.
Oglethorpe, GA 30742.
Click here to view Dr.Richard Sadowitz's Curriculum Vitae
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Dr. Daniel R. Smith M.D.Dr.
Smith completed his medical studies at Medical College of Georgia in
Augusta in 1988. Internship and Residency followed at St. Vincent
Hospital in Indianapolis, then a fellowship at the Medical
College of Georgia, Augusta in Pulmonary Disease/ Critical Care
Medicine and extended training in Sleep Medicine. Dr. Smith is
Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care
Medicine ands Sleep Medicine.
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RESEARCH SUB-INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Andrew Norbert Vernon, M.D.
Dr.
Vernon completed his Medical Degree at the University of Oklahoma
Medical School in Oklahoma City. There followed his Internship
and Residency at the Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City,
After an academic apointment to the University if Oklahoma,
Tulsa Medical Center he completed a Fellowship in Pulmonary / Critical
Care at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland Ohio. Dr.
Vernon located to Chattanooga in 1993. Since 2007 He has been
with Specialists in Pulmonary, Critical Are and Sleep Medicine PLLC.
.Click here to view Dr. Andrew Norbert Vernon's Curriculum Vitae |
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