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Aetna Foundation Grant Supports USF Obesity Initiative MarketWatch (press release)

24.05.10

And the Aetna Foundation have awarded $47,500 to the University of South Florida (USF) Foundation to support the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile, which is targeting obesity among underserved students in the Tampa area.

The USF Pediatrics Mobile Health Program has provided care to more than 5,000 children and teens since 2006, visiting 59 schools in Hillsborough County and providing the equivalent of more than $1 million in free medical services. A nurse practitioner, pediatric residents and medical and nursing students staff the 40-foot-long Ronald McDonald Care Mobile, which is licensed to USF Pediatrics by Ronald McDonald House Charities.(R)

"This generous donation from the Aetna Foundation allows us to provide comprehensive medical care, including weight management, to children and youth who otherwise would not have access to these services. This affiliation with Aetna ensures these children a better quality of life," said Dr. Lynn Ringenberg, who is medical director of the Care Mobile.

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Chastized St. Petersburg doctor resigns leadership post

Prominent St. Petersburg neurosurgeon Dr. David McKalip is resigning as president-elect of the Pinellas County Medical Association.

The move follows statewide and national uproar over his forwarding an e-mail of a picture showing President Barack Obama as a witch doctor, wearing an exotic headdress and with bones in his nose.

"I believe that it would be in the best interests of the Pinellas County Medical Association and its mission to serve patients, if I step down from the association at this time," McKalip wrote in his resignation letter. "I will remove myself from the debate on health system reform so that my efforts do not become a distraction to the efforts to protect patients from intrusion into their medical care by government and insurance companies."

The county medical association has released a statement denouncing McKalip's action, and accepting his resignation.

"The Pinellas County Medical Association regrets and is appalled by the statements and act of Dr. David McKalip. Dr. McKalip acted in poor taste and on his own accord when preparing and issuing his message," it notes.

Read the full text here: Download McKalip

More details coming in tomorrow's St. Petersburg Times.

-- Letitia Stein, Times health reporter

Source: The Buzz: Florida Politics

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