People: Week of March 30
Allegheny County Medical Society announces newly elected officers. Officers local to the South Hills include:
• David J. Deitrick, DO, 2016 ACMS president-elect. Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, he is a member of Jefferson Womens’ Health / Metropolitan OB/GYN Associates and is on the staff of Jefferson Hospital of Allegheny Health Network. A member of ACMS since 1990, Dr. Deitrick served on the board of directors from 2004 to 2006 and was the board of directors presidential appointee from 2007 to 2011. He was ACMS treasurer in 2013, secretary in 2014 and vice president in 2015, serving on the Executive Committee during that time. Dr. Deitrick participated on the Communications Committee from 1999 to 2004 and the Nominating Committee from 2001 to 2002. He chaired the Legislative Committee from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Deitrick has also served on the Finance Committee from 2011 to 2013, as well as the Membership Committee from 2007 to 2012, serving as chair in 2007. At the state level, Dr. Deitrick was an alternate delegate to the Pennsylvania Medical Society House of Delegates from 1999 to 2001 and again in 2008. He served as delegate from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2009 to 2013. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society Political Action Committee (PAMPAC) board of directors from 2001 to 2005. Dr. Deitrick served as the division director for University of Pittsburgh Physicians Womens’ Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UPMC Mercy Hospital for many years and was a member of the Medical Executive Committee at UPMC Mercy. A graduate of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, Miss., in 1993, he completed his residency at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1997. He resides with his wife, Gretchen, and their sons, Adam, Nathaniel and Benjamin, in McMurray.
• Robert C. Cicco, MD, 2016 ACMS vice president. Board certified in pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine, he most recently served as associate director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at West Penn Hospital and is clinical assistant professor, pediatrics, at Temple University School of Medicine. A member of ACMS since 1980, Dr. Cicco has served on the board of directors and Executive Committee since 2014. He was the ACMS treasurer in 2014 and secretary in 2015. At the state level, Dr. Cicco served as a delegate to the Pennsylvania Medical Society in 2013. He was a member of the PAMED Task Force on State of Medicine from 2010 to 2013. In addition, he has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the ACMS Physician Volunteer Award and the PAMED Physician Volunteer Award. In 2012, The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics named Dr. Cicco Pediatrician of the Year. Dr. Cicco is a past president of Parent Care, a national association of parents and professionals that advocates for family centered NICU care. Dr. Cicco is a past president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and also serves as the co-chairman of the Committee of the Fetus and Newborn for the state chapter. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1976, he completed his residency at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh and a fellowship at Magee Women’s Hospital of UPMC. Dr. Cicco resides with his wife, Anita, in Scott Township. They have four sons: Brian, Michael, Steven and Patrick.
Peters Township Council recently appointed Meyer, Unkovic & Scott attorney and Township Councilman Frank Kosir Jr. to serve as the township representative on the South Hills Area Council of Governments.
SHACOG is a voluntary organization of municipalities located predominantly in the South Hills of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. SHACOG meets regularly to discuss and study community challenges and to seek solutions to common problems. SHACOG also coordinates and administers programs of regional interest that benefit member municipal governments.
Kosir is of counsel to Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP and works in the firm’s Real Estate and Lending, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Construction Law and Energy & Mineral Rights Groups. He has nearly 15 years of experience working on all matters related to real estate and development law. Prior to becoming an attorney, Kosir worked for many years for his family’s residential construction company.
Kosir is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section Council, and serves as assistant secretary of the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Real Property Section. He frequently lectures at Continuing Legal Education courses, writes a monthly real estate case law update for the Allegheny County Bar Association and a quarterly real estate column for The Legal Intelligencer. Pennsylvania Super Lawyers has recognized him as a “Rising Star” in real property law five times.
A resident of Peters Township, Kosir formerly served as vice chairman of the Township’s Planning Commission and currently serves as an elected member of the Township Council. He graduated from Washington & Jefferson College and earned his law degree at Duquesne University School of Law.
South West Communities Chamber of Commerce announces its 2016 Board of Directors. Ed Sickmund, MyWay Mobile Storage, was elected to a second term as president. Wendy Kingsland, president of Visionary Federal Credit Union, was re-elected to the office of vice president/corporate secretary; and Joseph Verduci, vice president of Brentwood Bank, was re-elected treasurer. Board members for 2016 are Katie Green, The Almanac; Jana Grimm, Steptoe and Johnson; Richard Kasmer, Kasmer Surveying & Engineering; Sallie Pagano, Coldwell Banker; Matt Serakowski, Upper St. Clair Township; Jason Vanzin, Right Hand Technology; Cynthia Volpe, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; and Glenn Wells, Single Source, Inc. The South West Communities Chamber of Commerce serves Bridgeville, Collier, Heidelberg, Scott, South Fayette, Upper St. Clair and surrounding South Hills communities.