Valerie Arkoosh, MD – Candidate for Congress (Part 2 of 3)

Dr. Val Arkoosh is an Anesthesiologist by training and a current candidate for Congress in the Pennsylvania 13th Congressional District. We recently had the chance to speak to Dr. Val to get her thoughts on being a doctor and being a candidate. Why did you decide to leave full time clinical practice at Jefferson and go to into administration? The position I left Jefferson to take was a pretty exciting one. You might remember that Allegheny opened this hospital for women. It was PCOM’s old hospital on City Ave. And they opened it up and reconfigured I to be a hospital for women. So they moved all the OB GYN, gyn onc ,breast surgery, most women’s services from Hahmemann and Medical College of Pennsylvania to that new hospital for women on City Ave. So that was actually the position that I left for. Anesthesiologist Valerie Arkoosh, MD Looking back were you satisfied with your new position? That was just a really great opportunity for me to really focus on women’s health as well as take on additional leadership and administrative responsibilities in the department. How soon after you took your position did the hospital close? After I had been there for 18 months, so I had really exqusite timing. After the closing what did you do? It was about 6 months after the system came out of bankruptcy in the spring of 1999 that I took over as Chair of the entire department of Hahnemann and MCP. I had academic responsibility for St Christopher’s as well, although I didn’t have bud...
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