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Medical School Alumnus Earns Milestone Appointment
Joshua D. Lenchus, D.O., R.Ph., a graduate of NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine class of 2000, achieved a major milestone in June 2012 when he became the first osteopathic physician to be named president of the Jackson Health System medical staff in the institution’s 94-year history.
“I recall attending the American Osteopathic Association’s President’s Luncheon at last year’s meeting in Chicago… [where] a few individuals were recognized for their life’s work toward advancing osteopathic medicine,” said Lenchus, who also serves as associate program director of the Jackson Memorial Hospital Internal Medicine Residency in Miami, Florida. “I vividly remember one physician who worked in Miami but was prohibited from seeing his patients at Jackson. It is because of these pioneers who never stopped fighting for the equal rights of D.O.s that I now sit as Jackson’s representative of its medical staff. I feel truly privileged and humbled to do so and will carry out my responsibilities to the best of my ability.”