[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 54 (Friday, May 3, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


    GELB TO BE INSTALLED AS STATE OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 2, 2002

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call the attention of the 
House of Representatives to the May 3 installation of Dr. Ernest R. 
Gelb, D.O., of West Pittston as the 91st president of the Pennsylvania 
Osteopathic Medical Association.
  Dr. Gelb specializes in family practice. He attended Wilkes College 
and is a graduate of King's College and the Philadelphia College of 
Osteopathic Medicine. He has been vice president of the state 
association and a member of its board of trustees, a delegate to the 
American Osteopathic Association, and a community leader in the field 
of family medicine.
  His awards and distinctions include the receipt of the Raymond J. 
Saloom, D.O., FACGP, Memorial Award, 2000; and his selection as Fellow 
of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, 2001;
  His service to the community includes serving as health officer of 
the Borough of West Pittston from 1991 to the present and as troop 
committee chairman of Boy Scout Troop 352 of West Pittston. He has also 
served as a member of the board of trustees of the West Pittston 
Community Ambulance Association, as its vice president from 1986 to 
1993 and as its president from 1993 to 1994.
  Mr. Speaker, Dr. Ernest Gelb has distinguished himself as a dedicated 
physician who continues the osteopathic tradition of assuring exemplary 
family medicine. I am pleased to call to the attention of the House of 
Representatives the service to the community of Dr. Gelb and this well-
deserved honor he is about to receive, and I wish him all the best.

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