At our July 2019 department meeting, we honored the recent retirements of some of our physicians and CRNAs who collectively provided over 150 years of combined service:
Anesthesiologists
- Scott Brinkmeyer, MD; 10 years, UPMC Mercy
- Lakshmi Digumarthi, MD; UPMC Horizon/Jameson
- Andrew Herlich, DMD, MD, FAAP, FASA; 19 years, Eye and Ear, UPMC Mercy
- Stanley MacMurdo, MD; 16 years, UPMC Presbyterian
- Gordon Mandell, MD; 29 years, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
- Michael Mangione, MD; 23 years, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
- Jose Marquez, MD; 30 years, UPMC Presbyterian
- Rita M. Patel, MD, FASA; 29 years, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
CRNAs
- Heather Bress, UPMC Jameson
- Cheryl Bristol, 12 years, UPMC Mercy South Side
- Joyce Cottrell, 35 years, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
- Terry Doney, 31 years, UPMC Monroeville Surgery Center
- Linda Fedorchak, UPMC Monroeville Surgery Center
- Kenneth Harkless, 14 years, UPMC Altoona
- Betty Hinds, 14 years, UPMC Horizon
- Gale Jackman, 30 years, UPMC Presbyterian
- Kathleen Pahel, 17 years, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
(Note: Of these retirees, Joyce Cottrell and Drs. Michael Mangione and Andrew Herlich attended the meeting and were presented with the service awards at the event. All other retirees who were unable to attend received service awards after the event and are not pictured).