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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2010. LC Number: KF26 .V4 2009f OCLC Number: (OCoLC)535504220 Subject: Prostate -- Cancer -- Treatment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Safety measures. Excerpt: ... 11 Medicine ( ' ' Penn ' ' ). I have been Board Certified in Radiation Oncology since 1994, and an Attending Physician at Penn since that time. I am also a member of Amer-ican Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology. In order to gain additional expertise in anticancer treatment, I completed a doc-toral dissertation at Penn in Molecular Biology, which I successfully defended in 1998 and was awarded a Ph.D. from Penn in Molecular Biology. While still on staff at Penn, I completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in 2002. Shortly after completing my Fellowship, I was assigned to the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center ( ' ' PVAMC ' ' ) and then became a full-time staff mem-ber of the PVAMC. I was asked by the PVAMC to start a brachytherapy program at the PVAMC and was proud to have earned this honor. I accepted the responsi-bility and worked hard with others at the PVAMC to develop a top notch program in this evolving area of medicine. I remained a PVAMC staff physician in Radiation Oncology continuously until the beginning of 2008. Given all that I have worked so hard to achieve and my commitment to patient care, I was devastated, personally and professionally, by the false allegations pub-lished in The New York Times on Father's Day, branding me as a ' ' rogue doctor ' ' who had covered up mistakes and operated in isolation and without supervision. Never in my career have I ever falsified any medical records and never have I par-ticipated in a cover-up. On the contrary, what happened at the PVAMC in connection with the brachytherapy program is in no way what has been depicted by the New York Times article. The truth is that the Prostate Brachytherapy team at the PVAMC was a collaborative interdisciplinary effort tha
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