Quick Hits: Joint Advanced Practice Council Presents Annual Awards

Lancaster General Hospital’s Joint Advanced Practice Council presented its annual awards Oct. 18.

The winners are shown below with Josh Butler, PA-C.


Physician Assistant of the Year: Kelly Bonneville, PA-C, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians Trauma & Acute Care Surgery	Advanced Practice Nurse of the Year: Beth Sigmund, CRNP, LG Health Physicians Family Medicine East Petersburg

Outstanding Advanced Practice Team: LG Health Physicians Geriatrics

Outstanding Advanced Practice Provider/Physician Team: Chris Vargo, CRNP, and Matt Beelen, M.D., LG Health Physicians Alzheimer’s and Memory Care

Advanced Practice Educator of the Year: Loretta Rock, CRNP, Trauma Service (not pictured)

Physicians featured in media interviews

Joseph Kontra, M.D., LGH Chief of Infectious Diseases, spoke to LNP about the importance of flu vaccine, which can prevent or lessen the severity of infection in the vast majority of people.

Oliver Wagner, M.D., LG Health Physicians Family Medicine Susquehanna, was interviewed for a Fox 43 story on this year’s flu season.

Randall A. Oyer, M.D., LG Health Medical Director of Oncology, wrote a Sunday op-ed that advocated being positive but realistic about breast cancer.