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- [David] My name is David Scoblionko,
and I'm a cardiologist.
I'm chief of cardiology here at Coordinated Health,
and I'll be seeing patients
at the Bethlehem Hospital campus,
on Highland Avenue,
beginning in November of 2011.
I have always had a fascination with cardiology.
I can remember as a child
being fascinated
and studied the circulation of a salamander
in my basement when I was about eight years old.
I just remember
looking at this little salamander
and seeing through this very thin skin its blood vessels,
and I wondered just how the whole thing worked.
I went to college at the University of Pennsylvania
and completed my medical education
at Temple University School of Medicine.
When it came time to follow a specific path in medicine,
I found myself naturally studying the heart
and vascular disease,
and finding a great interest in that.
I never looked back on that decision.
I did my Internal Medicine residency at Dartmouth,
and my Cardiology fellowship
at the University of Washington.
I spent several years on the faculty as a cardiologist
at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Medical School.
I thought I would actually spend
most of my career at Dartmouth.
I really loved it there
and had trained there
and had a really good academic opportunity
at a major medical school.
But I found that,
rather than blend into the academic background,
I really needed to make my own space,
my own spot,
and my own contributions.
The thing that I enjoyed most
was taking care of people.
So I returned to the Lehigh Valley in 1985
and founded Valley Cardiology Associates,
our private practice,
which continued for 25 years.
I spent five years
working at St. Luke's Cardiology Associates.
I think that we have a unique opportunity
to bring together in a specialty hospital system,
which is owned and run by physicians largely,
to focus our goals on bringing together,
in a collaborative way,
a variety of different areas of health care
to benefit the overall well-being of our patients.
I think Coordinated Health offers a special blend
of values and excellence.
Patient is really at the center of our experience
and our mission.
The opportunities that we have here
to practice the highest level
of medical care
at the same time as we maintain as central
or patients' well-being,
and our value system
is a tremendous attraction.
We try to do what we do well,
and we intend that, whatever we do,
we are going to do well.
I'm hopeful that our patients will find in me,
in my colleagues, and in our cardiology division,
a program that will provide
a form of integrated care
that will bring together
our primary care physicians,
our specialists,
and particularly, our cardiologists,
to enable patients
to have a very user-friendly environment
and understand that their health care providers
will be talking to each other,
and In talking to each other,
in a way that keeps their interests
at the center of what we're doing.
I think the thing that fulfills me the most
is making people better.
I genuinely have an intellectual interest
in medicine and in cardiology.
But I think the thing that makes me smile
and feel best inside
is knowing that I can make a different in people's lives.
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