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SAXONBURG — Dr. Corey Pacek has come home to join the practice of the Tri Rivers Surgical Associates in Saxonburg, which opened earlier this month.
Pacek is a Knoch High School graduate.
He graduated from Grove City College with a bachelor's degree of science in molecular biology. He earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 2005, completing his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2011.
Pacek also has completed a hand and upper extremity surgery fellowship at UPMC and the Wexford Hand & UpperEx Center, working on his skills of hand, elbow and shoulder surgery, as well as microsurgery technics.
He lives with his wife, Athena, and their four children in Shaler.
He sees patients in the new South Butler Commons on Alwine Road in Saxonburg, as well as the Tri Rivers office in Slippery Rock and Butler Memorial Hospital.
Pacek also volunteers as the Knoch football team orthopedic doctor.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, originally of Butler, is traveling to Jakarta, Indonesia, this week to speak at a conference about influenza vaccine supplies in the Asia Pacific region.Adalja, who works for UPMC Biosecurity in Baltimore, is attending the conference at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Defense's Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance.He said that the Asia Pacific region produces about 60 percent of all influenza cases, but the countries there have little opportunity to produce vaccines for the population.Adalja said the swine influenza pandemic of 2009 showed that many countries had to borrow vaccine from Australia, Japan and China, which do produce vaccine.“Having to borrow vaccine is not a good position to be in,” Adalja said. “Sometimes you get it after the peak of cases, after it is most needed.”He hopes his talk, along with the chance to network with other scientists and health care personnel, may lead to countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam to make their own vaccines.
David “Cubby” Cubbison, originally of Butler and a 1980 graduate of Butler High School, has earned an advanced certificate from the state Department of Emergency Management. He is the Bedford County director of emergency management.
