Leadership Family physician and professor to serve as AOA president-elect Ernest Gelb, DO, will become AOA president in July 2022. July 20, 2021Tuesday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email The AOA’s incoming president-elect is Ernest Gelb, DO, an AOA board-certified family physician. Dr. Gelb will serve as the 2022-2023 president of the AOA. Dr. Gelb is an assistant professor of family medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine’s (PCOM) Sullivan County Medical Center and a staff member of Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania) General Hospital. Ernest Gelb, DO Dr. Gelb joined the AOA’s Board of Trustees in 2011. He is a past president of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association (POMA) and became a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians in 2001. After graduating from PCOM in 1978, Dr. Gelb completed his postgraduate medical training at Botsford General Hospital in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He also served in the United States Public Health Service from 1979 to 1981. Dr. Gelb is a 2010 recipient of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Family Physicians Society Family Physician of the Year Award and in 2008 was honored with a Distinguished Service Award from POMA. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleCMS releases Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule for 2022 Next articleOMED 2021 registration is now open
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