Curriculum Vitae

Ronald K. Herb, DO, FACP

PERSONAL INFORMATION

**** ****** **** ********** ** Medicine

Wyomissing, PA 19610 Reading Hospital, Tower Health

610-***-**** 420 S. Fifth Avenue

adqqwb@r.postjobfree.com West Reading, Pennsylvania 19611

484-***-****

adqqwb@r.postjobfree.com

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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