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President's Message

JOHN S. FARRELL, M.D.

Welcome!
NEPA VITAL SIGNS will promote health

and wellness in our community through a
series of articles written by doctors you know
and trust - your doctors.

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t is with great pride that I write these
words for the inaugural issue of NEPA
Vital Signs: The Journal of the Lackawanna County Medical Society. This publication
is the embodiment of the mission of the
Medical Society to educate and serve both
physicians and residents of Lackawanna
County. NEPA Vital Signs will promote
health and wellness in our community
through a series of articles written by doctors you know and trust - your doctors.

JOHN S. FARRELL, M.D., IS A
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGIST. HE
PRACTICES WITH GEISINGER HEALTH
SYSTEM'S RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT.
HE HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE
MEDICAL SOCIETY FOR 11 YEARS AND
IS LCMS'S 140TH PRESIDENT.

I would like to express my sincere thanks
to the board of the Lackawanna County
Medical Society for their contributions
to this publication. It is a privilege for me
to serve our medical society with these
exceptional physicians. I am indebted to
our editorial board led by Dr. Donna Eget.
Dr. Eget has worked tirelessly with Drs.
Karen Arscott, William Dempsey, and
Donald Preate, Jr. to make this journal a
reality. We are all grateful to our executive
administrator, Ms. Lisa Brister, for her
For our first issue, we have chosen the topic diligent work not only with Vital Signs but
of family wellness. Is there anything in our lives all events sponsored by the Lackawanna
more important than family? Our parents, County Medical Society.
grandparents, great grandparents, significant
others, children, grandchildren, siblings, aunts,
Thank you for reading our journal. We
uncles, and cousins are our past, present, and hope you find it both educational and fun
our future. Our families enrich our lives in to read. We look forward to your feedback,
marvelous ways each day. As such, the health which will help us craft future issues.
of our family members is, well, vital!

Be well!

John S. Farrell, M.D.
President
Lackawanna County Medical Society
johnfarrellmd@gmail.com
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