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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from Allegheny Health Network, AHN announced Friday that Dr. Anthony X. Baron, DO, has been appointed chief medical officer of AHN West Penn Hospital. He will be in this position at the hospital in Pittsburgh effective immediately. Dr. Baroni will help to uphold high patient care standards by driving clinical operations, services and programs. Dr. Baroni currently serves in several roles: as the co-medical director of the West Penn Hospital stroke program, the West Penn Hospital Hospitalist Program medical site director, the medical director of the West Penn Hospital Observation Unit, the associate program director for the combined Allegheny General Hospital and West Penn Hospital Hospitalist Program and as an Allegheny Health Network and West Penn Hospital Physician Advisor. 2001 was the first year that Dr. Baroni started to be an affiliate with Allegheny Health Network and he has been affiliated swith them since then. Dr. Baroni also works as an associate professor of Internal Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. This college has a clinical campus at Allegheny Health Network. He is also a teaching attending physician at Allegheny General Hospital and at West Penn Hospital. He got his undergraduate pharmacy degree from the Duquesne University School of Pharmacy and got his degree in osteopathic medicine from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and finished his residency in internal medicine at West Penn Hospital.