Maryland Gov. Martin J. O’Malley has appointed John W. Roache, MD of St. Mary’s County to the College of Southern Maryland Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2013. Roache, who maintains a private surgical practice in Mechanicsville, has a distinguished career within the medical field as well as within the local volunteer fire and rescue community. “It is an honor for me to have been considered for appointment to the board of trustees of an institution so important to the citizens of our community,” Roache said. Serving on the Emeritus Medical Staff since 2003 for St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown (now MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital), Roache has been on staff at the hospital for 40 years, having served a chief of staff and chief of surgery. He has served as chair of its Hospital Committee on Cancer since 1974, and previously served as the Emergency Services Representative, and on the Emergency Room Committee, Advisory Committee to Chief of Staff, Infection Control Committee, Hospital Building Committee and Hospital Disaster Committee. He is currently director of the new Wound Care Center. Inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Southern Maryland Volunteer Firemen Association in 2003, Roache is the recipient of the [...]
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