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                         JeffNEWS, July 12, 1994
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TJU Affiliation With Pennsylvania Hospital Strengthened
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   In a further melding of the institutions' clinical and teaching
programs, the infectious disease divisions of Thomas Jefferson
University and Pennsylvania Hospital have been integrated, announced
Roger J. Pomerantz, MD, director of Jefferson's infectious disease
division. The combined division, with sections remaining at both
hospitals will see inpatients and outpatients for infectious disease
consultations at Jefferson, Pennsylvania and Wills Eye hospitals.

   Drs. Michael Buckley, John Stern and Michael Braffman joined
Jefferson on July 2.  

   Dr. Buckley, who is chief of infectious diseases at Pennsylvania
Hospital, has been appointed associate director of clinical affairs in
Jefferson's infectious disease unit and clinical professor of medicine
at Jefferson Medical College.

   Drs. Braffman and Stern will join Jefferson as clinical assistant
professors of medicine and will attend at each of the three designated
hospitals.

   "Drs. Buckley, Stern and Braffman are well known in the Delaware
Valley and are recognized experts in clinical infectious diseases and
clinical investigation.  Their addition to Jefferson's infectious
diseases faculty profoundly strengthens the clinical expertise that can
now be provided by the section," said Dr. Pomerantz.


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