Leader named for new teaching program at BHS
Dr. Michael Fiorina has been named vice president of medical education by the Butler Health System.
Fiorina, a longtime family practice physician in Butler, will head up the creation and implementation of the medical residency program now being finalized by BHS officials.
It is anticipated that BHS will complete the required regulatory and accreditation requirements that will allow it to accept its first class of residents in July 2023.
In addition to formal medical education and training, Fiorina will assure that Butler Memorial Hospital resident physicians reach out into the community to educate residents on the ways and means to remain healthy.
Fiorina said one of his goals for medical residents is to instill in them a proper sense of community responsibility so they will become physicians who are intelligent, kind and compassionate stewards of the community’s health.
In the new residency program, BMH will become a teaching hospital for the first time in its 125-year history. Clarion Hospital, which is within the Butler Health System, has a residency program in family medicine.
Fiorina has served as a family medicine physician for 23 years in Butler County. He is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
He has been chairman of the Department of Medicine and president of the medical staff at Butler Memorial Hospital, and was recently appointed to the faculty in the new Duquesne University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Fiorina lives in Center Township with his wife, Kristen, and their children.
