Katherine Wagner-Reiss, MD ’79, retired to Florida with her husband after practicing pathology for over 30 years. Professor Gonzalo Aponte, “The Gonz,” had told her that pathology would be good to her, and it was! Her daughter practices orthodontics, and her son, Jacob Reiss, MD ’18, followed in her footsteps by completing Jefferson’s Penn State Accelerated Program; he is currently an internal medicine resident at Lankenau Hospital, where he was chosen to be a chief resident.

Christopher McGowan, MD ’06, announced the opening of his new practice True You Weight Loss in Cary, North Carolina, which is the nation’s first and only physician-founded medical practice exclusively focused on providing nonsurgical, state- of-the-art, endoscopic weight loss procedures and support. Dr. McGowan is one of the few physicians in the nation who is triple-board-certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and obesity medicine. He is a world-renowned leader in endobariatrics, a new field of gastroenterology that aims to address the obesity epidemic.

Amanda Grant Smith, MD ’97, is director of clinical research at the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, and professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

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