Doctors lead REturn to School Medical Panel
Five local physicians joined Head of School Penny Townsend on the school’s virtual REturn to Campus Medical Panel on September 23, answering questions about COVID-19 testing, mask-wearing, social distancing, campus safety, risk mitigation and more. Several hundred members of the Ransom Everglades community logged in for the event. If you missed it, you can watch it here. You can also find it on our REturn to Campus webpage.
The panelists:
Dr. David Arnold ’86, P’21 ’24 ’27, the Chief Medical Officer and Chief of Surgery at the Lennar Foundation Medical Center, who has practiced ear-nose-and-throat medicine as a faculty member at the University of Miami School of Medicine for 22 years and served on multiple COVID-19-related task forces at UM.
Dr. Stephan Baker P’22, who trained for five years in general surgery, managing ICU patients on ventilators daily at Columbia University’s St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center before gaining board certification in general surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Elana M. Oberstein ’93, P’23 ’24 ’27, a board-certified internist with a subspecialty in arthritis and autoimmune diseases who serves as a faculty member with the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Nick Namias P’17 ’20 ’25, medical director of the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital who is board certified in critical care, with extensive experience with respiratory failure, the use of ventilators and controlling infections. During the COVID-19 surge he was the medical director overseeing 19 critical care beds of COVID-19 patients with surgical problems.
Dr. Chad Perlyn P’27, a pediatric plastic, reconstructive and craniofacial Surgeon at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital; interim president of Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists; and associate professor and chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.