Chester County Home to 11 of Main Line Today’s 2020 Healthcare Heroes

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Clockwise from left: Catherine Domanska Elliott, Nirav Mehta, and Shafinaz Akhter.

Eleven medical workers in Chester County are among Main Line Today’s 2020 Healthcare Heroes who are redefining medicine in the region, writes Melissa Jacobs for the magazine.

With antibiotic resistance on the rise in the U.S., Shafinaz Akhter, the Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Chester County Hospital, is working to minimize the overprescribing of antibiotics.

Catherine Domanska Elliott is the Women’s Health Medical Director at La Comunidad Hispana in Kennett Square, while Luke English is the Clinical Director of Recovery Centers of America in Devon.

Leslie Forest, Nurse Educator & Allied Health Science Instructor at the Technical College High School Brandywine Campus, runs a program that gets teenagers interested in healthcare careers.

Meanwhile, Candace Gantt, Executive Director of Mind Your Brain Foundation in Berwyn, uses her company to share what she learned from her recovery from a brain injury.

April Gasbarro is the Stroke Coordinator at Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville, while Dr. Bernadette Logan provides pro-bono dental services at the Tredyffrin/Easttown Middle School.

Dr. Nirav Mehta is a cardiologist at Paoli Hospital, and Arianne Missimer founded The Movement Paradigm, an integrative health center in Downingtown.

The list is rounded out by Holly O’Connell, Executive Director of A Path to Hope in Downingtown, and Eric Zabat, a surgeon at Premier Orthopaedics in Exton and Malvern.

Read more about Main Line Today’s 2020 Healthcare Heroes here.

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