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CAREER PULSE
Cooley Dickinson Welcomes Chan, Snyder, Paterno
NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Health Care recently welcomed primary-care physician Dr. Joanne Chan, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Benja- min Snyder, and director of Midwifery Services Mary Paterno.
Chan joins Amherst Medi- cal Associates. She earned a bachelor’s degree in com- puter science that brought her initially to Wall Street, where she worked for sev- eral years in the financial industry before making the decision to pursue a career in medicine. She attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Den- tistry in Rochester, N.Y., and then stayed to complete a residency in family medi- cine.
Chan has worked in many different medical settings, from community health centers to private practice to urgent care. She has treated patients at a walk-in, acute illness and injury clinic for adults and children in San Francisco, held positions in state- and federally funded
clinics that provide care for low-income and other underserved populations, and worked as a primary-care provider for the male inmate popu- lation of a California state prison.
Snyder has joined Cooley Dickinson Medical Group Orthopedics & Sports Medicine. He per- forms orthopedic surgery at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, including joint-replacement surger- ies at its Joint Replacement Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in bioengineering from Penn State University, where he focused on biomechanics. After a brief stint working as a biomedical engineer, he entered medical school at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and graduated in 2010 with doctor of medicine and master of public health degrees, focusing on clinical research, quality improvement, and shared decision making.
Snyder completed his internship and resi- dency in orthopedic surgery at UMass Medical School in Worcester, where he also pursued a one-year orthopedic-surgery research fellowship focusing on hip- and knee-replacement surgery. Following residency, he completed a joint- replacement/adult-reconstruction fellowship
at Stanford University in California, where he worked as a clinical instructor at both Stanford Hospital and Palo Alto VA Hospital.
Prior to joining Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Snyder worked as an orthopedic surgeon in both academic medicine (Geisel School of Medicine/ Dartmouth-Hitchcock) and private practice in Plymouth.
Paterno joins Cooley Dickinson’s Midwifery Center and the staff of Cooley Dickinson Medi- cal Group Women’s Health. She was the first graduate of the midwifery partnership program between the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Shenandoah University in 2010. She was simultaneously enrolled in the PhD in Nursing program, earning her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2012.
Paterno serves as president of the Massachu- setts affiliate of the American College of Nurse- Midwives (ACNM). In 2020, she was inducted as a fellow in ACNM and won the organization’s prestigious Kitty Ernst Award.
Her clinical experience includes roles as an
RN in surgical gynecology at the Mayo Clinic
in Rochester, Minn. and in labor and delivery
at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore. Her midwifery career began at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, before she returned to her native New England, where she joined Pioneer Women’s Health and Baystate Franklin Medical Center as the midwifery director for the Moms Do Care EMPOWER program. She was also an assistant professor at UMass Amherst from 2015 to 2020.
Health New England Welcomes Klein as Chief Medical Officer
SPRINGFIELD — Health New England an- nounced the recent appointment of Dr. Ira Klein to the role of vice president and chief medical officer. In this position, he is responsible for ensuring the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare services for Health New England members, and will focus on clinical excellence, innovation, and technology to improve health outcomes.
Klein joins Health New England’s executive lead- ership team and reports directly to Richard Swift, president and CEO.
Before joining Health New England, Klein served as senior director and lead, Healthcare Quality Strat-
egy at Janssen for Johnson and Johnson Inc. in New Brunswick, N.J. Previously, he held various positions at Aetna Inc. in Hartford, Conn., in- cluding medical director, Patient Management, Northeast Region; senior medical director and analyst, National Accounts; and chief of staff and national medical director, Clinical Thought Leadership.
Klein has published articles in several medical and insurance-industry journals. In addition, he is active on various industry committees, includ- ing National Academy of Medicine, Pharmacy Quality Alliance, National Quality Forum, Net- work for Excellence in Healthcare Innovation, Foundation for eHealth Initiative, National Phar- maceutical Council, Pharmaceutical Research
& Manufacturing Assoc., and Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.
He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the Ameri-
can College of Physicians, as well as a certified health-insurance executive with the Assoc. of Health Insurance Plans, Executive Leadership Program.
Klein holds an MBA degree from Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Management, a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University’s College of Pharmacy.
Elms Taps DePergola to Lead St. John Paul II Center for Ethics, Religion, and Culture
CHICOPEE — Elms College announced the appointment of Peter DePergola II, associate pro- fessor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, as executive director of the newly created St. John Paul II Center for Ethics, Religion, and Culture (CERC). DePergola is also associate professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and the direc- tor of the Bioethics and Medical Humanities
program at Elms.
CERC was launched on
Oct. 13 to increase engage- ment and discourse on the most pressing and complex questions related to eth- ics, religion, and culture in today’s society, and to lead the regional community in
thoughtful, engaging dialogue.
In addition to his appointment as CERC ex-
ecutive director, DePergola has been named the Shaughness Family Chair for the Study of the Humanities, which is the college’s only endowed chair. The Shaughness Family Chair was funded in 1994 by the late L. Stella Shaughness, and the endowment income is to be used to promote academic excellence by supporting teaching, publishing, and/or research in the humanities.
At Baystate Health, DePergola serves as chief ethics officer, senior director of Clinical Ethics, chief of the Ethics Consultation Service, and chair of the ethics advisory committee. He also holds secondary academic and research appoint- ments at UMass Medical School, Sacred Heart University, the American Academy of Neurol- ogy, and TEDMED.
A professional member of several international academic societies and associations, DePergola earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and religious studies at Elms College, his MTS in eth- ics at Boston College, and his Ph.D. in healthcare ethics at Duquesne University. He completed
his residency in neuroethics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, his fellowship in neuropsychiatric ethics at Tufts University School of Medicine, and his advanced training in neurothanatological ethics at Harvard Medi- cal School.
DR. JOANNE CHAN
DR. BENJAMIN SNYDER
PETER DEPERGOLA II
MARY PATERNO
DR. IRA KLEIN
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