Physician
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Curriculum Vitae
Ronald K. Herb, DO, FACP
PERSONAL INFORMATION
**** ****** **** ********** ** Medicine
Wyomissing, PA 19610 Reading Hospital, Tower Health
610-***-**** 420 S. Fifth Avenue
*******@******.*** West Reading, Pennsylvania 19611
******.****@***********.***
EDUCATION
Residency, Internal Medicine
The Reading Hospital and Medical Center (1989-1992)
Internship, Osteopathic Medicine
Metropolitan Springfield Hospital (1988-1989)
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (1984-1988)
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
West Chester University (1976-1980)
BS Public Health
CERTIFICATION
American Board of Internal Medicine
1992-Present
American Board of Osteopathic Internal Medicine
2010-2020
Basic Life Support, American Heart Association
Current
LICENSURE AND REGISTRATION
Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons
OS-006945-L (Pennsylvania)
OS-15681 (Florida)
Controlled Substance Registration, DEA Practitioner
BH2828791 Valid until-10/31/2024
EMPLOYMENT
Tower Health System 2008-Present
(Reading Health System)
Faculty, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Reading Health Physician Network 2007-2008
Internal Medicine
Berks Internal Medicine 1992-2007
Private Practice
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Tower Health System
(Reading Health System)
Director, Osteopathic Medical Education 2017-2020
Site Director, Primary Care Track 2011-Present
RHPN Internal Medicine, Berkshire Heights
Program Director, Osteopathic Internal Medicine 2009-2017
Preceptor, Nurse Practitioners/Physicians Assistants 2004-2015
Preceptor, Medical Students 1992-Present
Preceptor, Residents 1992-Present
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Clinical Instructor 2009-2020
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine 2020-Present
Drexel University College of Medicine
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American College of Physicians (1992-Present)
COMMITTEES
Tower Health Medical Group
(Reading Health Physician Network)
Population Health Pain Management Committee, Co-Chair 2017-2018
Clinical Practice Committee, Chair 2015-2018
RHPN Board Member 2015-2017
Tower Health System
(Reading Health System)
Clinical Guidelines Committee 2017-2020
Heart Failure Committee 2017- 2020
Reading Hospital
Heart Failure Committee 2010-2015
Peer Review Committee 2009-2015
Critical Care Committee 2000-2009
Credentialing Committee 1999-2000
PUBLICATIONS
“A Case of Neurologic Amyotrophy with Contralateral Recurrence.”
Kimberly Aderhold, Lisa H. Carpenter, Krysta L. Brown, Ronald K. Herb.
Case Reports in Internal Medicine, Volume 3, No. 4, December 2016, Page 50-54
(Case Reports in Internal Medicine ISSN2332-7243i, E-ISSN 2332-7251 9/29/2016)
“Recurrent Painful Calcium Pyrophosphate Arthropathy.” Carpenter, L., Juliano, N., Herb, R. The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, March 2017, Vol 117, No. 3, doi 7556/SADA 2017.036
“Primary thyroid Maltoma- a rare diagnosis of an unassuming thyroid nodule”
Pragya Shrestha, Kimberly Aderhold, Sharon Swierczynski, Catherine Lin and
Ronald Herb. Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
2018 VOL.8, NO.1,42-45
“A case of Essential Thrombocythemia and IgA Nephropathy with Literature
Review of the Concurrence” Shoja Rahimian, Timothy Johnson, and Ronald Herb
Case Reports in Oncological Medicine. Volume 2019 ID 5086963
“A rare case of Whipple’s disease with endocarditis in a patient in a patient
With dextrocardia” Abigayle Sullivan, Pragya Shrestha, Sijan Basnet, Ronald Herb
and Emily Zagorski. SAGE Open Case Reports 2020 Jun 30
“Right Ovarian Vein Thrombosis in the setting of COVID-19 Infection
Rebecca DeBoer, Olubunmi O Oladunjoye, Ronald Herb. Cureus 2021 Jan 20;13 (1): e12796
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Increase Compliance with Diabetic Retinal and Foot Exams in Flom, J., Carpenter L., Herb, R. Presented at ACP Regional Meeting 2016
Implementing Hepatitis C Screening in a Primary Care Practice. Aderhold, K., Ansari, S., Brandt, P., Carpenter, L., Khanal, R., Herb, R., Lauchner, J., Nesfeder, J., Potteiger, S., Romero, B., Zimmerman, D., Rutter, D., Schwartz, J. Presented at ACP Regional Meeting 2014.
POSTERS
Music for the Ears: Auditory Hallucinations Associated with Hearing Loss. Shrestha, P., Herb, R. Winner, Resident/Fellow Clinical Vignette; ACP National Meeting 2017
Does He Have Diabetes Mellitus? Khanal, R., Melnick, S., Herb, R.
Presented at Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting May 2016.
Chronic Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fractions: An Unappreciated Contributor. Khanal, R., Melnick, S., Herb, R. Presented at Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting May 2016.
Evans Syndrome: A Diagnosis Years in the Making. Brown, K., Aderhold, K., Carpenter, L., Herb, R. ACP Regional Meeting 2015
Coumadin and Cranberry Juice Don’t Mix. Carpenter, L., Brown, K., Aderhold, K., Herb, R. Reading Health System, Department of Medicine Research Day, December 2015.
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