March 3, 2010
Joel Roskind MD Retires from Active Practice to Function as a Instructor
After a thirty year occupation as a plastic surgeon, New York’s Dr. Joel Roskind now plans to pass his knowledge to other physicians, both ordained and new. Recognized doctors may do good from consulting with him in the fields of practice management and outpatient facility accreditation. On the clinical side, medical students at Boston University will have the chance to take Integrated Problems, a differential diagnosis class, from Dr. Joel Roskind.
Joel Roskind approaches medicine from a multidisciplinary and humanitarian perspective. Dr. Joel Roskind also served in the U. S. Navy as part of a three-man plastic surgery team, and during that time he traveled to Mexico to do surgery on underprivileged children with cleft lips and palates.
Aside from operating a grand, successful plastic surgery practice, he also has an active interest in patient safety. Over the class of his work, he witnessed an increasing number of surgical procedures moving from hospital settings to ambulatory and outpatient facilities. He noticed that while cost efficient, this trend also raised a number of patient safety questions. This lead him to form a long and fruitful relationship with the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAASF), subsequently becoming an inspector for that body and helping establish what is now the gold standard for outpatient facility accreditation. He is well certified to confer with such facilities to help them attain certification.
In addition to operating a busy plastic surgery practice specializing in body enhancements, Dr. Joel Roskind also developed a second specialty in facilities accreditation, eventually becoming an inspector for the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAASF), and is now lecturing with clinics to help them achieve certification. He also took a keen interest in practice management and now consults with doctors in the areas of hiring and training faculty, setting up electronic systems, error prevention and patient relations.
Joel Roskind has always trusted that because patients put so much trust in their physicians, doctors have a special obligation to make sure patients get the best possible care, and he has worked throughout his career to make sure they are protected by stringent safety standards. He trusts to continue to contribute to the medical domain in this area as a teacher. In what promises to be a very active retirement, Dr. Joel Roskind also plans to follow a personal interest in Judaic spirituality.
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