January 22, 2002

FOR RELEASE: Immediately

Frederick T. Lohr, M.D., has been elected by his colleagues to serve as president of Kent & Queen Anne's Hospital's Medical Staff which represents all physicians with privileges at the hospital in matters of clinical and administrative policy, quality assurance and strategic planning.

As president, Lohr will represent the medical staff as a voting member of the hospital's Board of Directors; he previously served as president in 1994. A graduate of the Hahnemann University, he completed his residency training at the University of Maryland Hospital and began an orthopedic practice in Chestertown in 1987.

President-elect of the medical staff is Anita R. Sgrignoli, M.D., a pathologist at Kent & Queen Anne's Hospital. Prior to joining the hospital in 1996, she completed a fellowship in cytopathology at the National Cancer Institute. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and was the chief resident in pathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Elected as secretary/treasurer is Frederick W. Delboy, M.D., a family practitioner who earned a medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed a residency at the University Hospitals of Cleveland where he was co-chief resident for the Department of Family Medicine. He joined the family medicine practice of Wayne D. Benjamin, M.D., in August of 1997.

Anthony J. Moorman, M.D., the past president, will also be a member of the Medical Executive Committee. Additional members of this committee are Surgical Performance Improvement Chairman Joseph B. Aquilla, M.D.; Medical Performance Improvement Chairman Andrew S. Ferguson, M.D., and members-at-large Freddy O. Araujo, M.D., George Panas, M.D., and Susan K. Ross, M.D.

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