Pictured: Herbert Silverstein, MD (right) was awarded SMH-Sarasotas 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, while Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch, MD, received the Sarasota medical staffs 2022 Physician of the Year. Photo courtesy of SMH. Photo courtesy of SMH.

The medical staff of Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Sarasota campus honored two physicians for outstanding service and installed its new slate of physician leaders for 2022-2023. Herbert Silverstein, MD, was awarded 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, and Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch, MD, was named 2022 Physician of the Year. Selected by a committee of physician leaders from the Sarasota campus, Drs. Silverstein and Wiese-Rometsch were recognized at its annual medical staff meeting Oct. 18.In addition to the physician awards, the SMH-Sarasota Medical Staff also appointed the 2022-2023 officers for its Medical Executive Committee: Jonathan Hoffberger, DO, was named Chief of Staff, serving as the top representative of SMH-Sarasota campus’ 1,800-plus medical staff members and advanced practice providers; Dr. Hoffberger succeeds Richard Lichtenstein, MD, whose one-year term as Chief of Staff ends this month. Sarah Temple, MD, was appointed Chief of Staff-elect. 

Pictured: Herbert Silverstein, MD (right) was awarded SMH-Sarasotas 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, while Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch, MD, received the Sarasota medical staffs 2022 Physician of the Year. Photo courtesy of SMH. Photo courtesy of SMH.