News in Brief

Babak Abai, MD, FACS, has joined the Jefferson Vascular Center and Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Dr. Abai completed residency training in 2005 at Drexel University and a fellowship program in vascular surgery in 2007 at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He will practice in Center City and at Methodist Hospital. John (Trey) Entwistle, III, MD, PhD, has joined the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Entwistle was a resident in general surgery at the Medical College of Virginia from 1990 – 1998 during which time he also spent three years as a research fellow in cardiac surgery and earned a PhD in Physiology. He completed his training in cardiothoracic surgery at Hahnemann University Hospital in 2001. He comes to Jefferson from Drexel University where he was the surgical director of cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support for the last nine years. Matthew Rosen, MD, has joined the Division of Acute Care Surgery. Dr. Rosen graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 2005 and completed his residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. In June, Dr. Rosen completed a surgical critical care fellowship at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School. He will practice in Center City and at the Trauma Center at Paoli Hospital. Dawn Salvatore, MD, FACS, has joined the Jefferson Vascular Center and Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Dr. Salvatore completed a combined residency program in medicine and pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic. After a couple years in practice, she changed specialties and completed a general surgery residency and vascular fellowship at Ohio State University. She will practice in Center City and at Methodist Hospital. Qiong (John) Yang, MD, has joined the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr.Yang completed residency training at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi Medical College and received a Master of Science degree from North Dakota University in cardiovascular pharmacology. He will be working as a nocturnist in the Surgical Cardiac Care Unit