Paul Jerome Kovalcik

Background

Kovalcik, Paul Jerome was born on April 16, 1943 in Buffalo. Son of Jerome G. and Dorothy I. (Kalinowski) Kovalcik.

Education

Bachelor, CUNY, Flushing, 1965; Doctor of Medicine, Georgetown University, 1969.

Career

Commissioned ensign, United States Navy, 1969; advanced through grades to captain, United States Navy, 1984; retired Medical Corps, United States Navy, 1989; intern medicine and surgery, Naval Hospital, Boston, 1969-1970; resident general surgery, Naval Hospital, Boston, 1970-1973; resident general surgery, Naval Regional Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1973-1974; fellow colon and rectal surgery, Lahey Clinic, Boston, 1974-1975; associate professor surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, since 1980; associate professor surgery, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U. Health Sciences, since 1986; head department general surgery, Naval Hospital Portsmouth, 1985-1987. Consultant Naval Hospital Portsmouth. Chairman Chicago Mercantile Exchange committee Portsmouth General Hospital.

Chairman ethics committee Maryview Hospital, Portsmouth. Chairman surgical endoscopy committee Chesapeake (Virginia) General Hospital. Associate examiner American Board Colon and Rectal Surgery.

Visiting professor Greenville (South Carolina.) Hospital System, 1984, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1984, West Virginia University Medical Center, Charleston, 1986, East CarolinaU., Greenville, 1991, 93. Lecturer Georgetown University, Washington, 1985, United States Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1986, United States Naval Hospital, Roosevelt Roads, P.R., 1987, U.O.A. Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, 1987, AcuteCombat Symposium Tidewater chapter AMSUS, Norfolk, 1987, Trauma Symposium Naval Hospital, Roosevelt Roads, 1988, Thomas Jefferson U. Medical School, 1988, 90, Acute Combat Trauma Symposium, Norfolk, 1988, Piedmont Society Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1990, Sardestin, Florida, 1992, Kiawah Island, South Carolina., 1993, Joseph F. Mulach Medical Lecturer Series St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, 1991, Student Cancer Conference Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, 1994. Thordur Thordarson Memorial lecturer, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1987.

President Portsmouth Academy Medicine, since 1998.

Achievements

• Paul Jerome Kovalcik has been listed as a noteworthy Surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American College Surgeons, American Society Colon and Rectal Surgery. Member American Medical Association, American Society Colon and Rectal Surgeons (chairman self-assessment committee 1988-1992, recertification committee, member-at-large to executive county since 1992), Society American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (founder), Virginia Surgical Society, Lahey Clinical Alumni Association.

Interests

• Avocations: fishing, tennis, gardening, traveling.

Connections

Married Janet I. Howe, January 13, 1968. Children: Julia, Peter, John, Matthew, Andrew.

Father:

Jerome G. Kovalcik

Mother:

Dorothy I. (Kalinowski) Kovalcik

Spouse:

Janet I. Howe

child:

Matthew Kovalcik

child:

John Kovalcik

child:

Andrew Kovalcik

child:

Julia Kovalcik

child:

Peter Kovalcik