Ming C. Chiou and Ching H. Huang to be honored at Spring Ball

Warwick — Held in esteem by peers for medical excellence. Contributes to the advancement of quality medical care within the hospital. Maintains high standards of medical practice and ethics. Demonstrates a high level of compassion and respect for patient. What do these attributes all have in common? They are the qualities and characteristics recipients of St. Anthony Community Hospital’s Lifetime Achievement Award must possess. Apart from raising funds for the hospital, the highlight of the hospital’s Spring Ball is honoring the recipients of this award. This year, the Warwick Healthcare Campus of St. Anthony Community Hospital, Schervier Pavilion, and Mount Alverno Center, will pay tribute to anesthesiologists Ming C. Chiou, M.D., and Ching H. Huang, M.D., by presenting each distinguished doctor with the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award. They are being honored for exemplifying Bon Secours’ mission, “Good help to those in need.” Chiou and his wife, Helena, who was a licensed pharmacist, immigrated to the United States from Taiwan, Republic of China, in 1965. Chiou, however, was actually born in Japan in 1938, where his mother had gone to study medicine. His father was an engineer for a Japanese company at that time, and the family could not return to Taiwan until after the war. After graduating from Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan, in 1964, Chiou interned at the university’s hospital, and later at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, N.Y. He served his residency in general practice at Good Samaritan Hospital in Pottsville, Pa., in radiology at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, Pa., and in anesthesiology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. From 1971 to 1972, he was an anesthesiology research fellow at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and served in the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Department of Anesthesia until 1974. Chiou has enjoyed full privileges at St. Anthony Community Hospital since 1976, when he founded his current practice, Warwick Anesthesia and Pain Management. He and his wife, Helena, have raised three daughters, Angela Portia, Pauline, and Victoria Sutton. Victoria and her husband Matthew are the parents of grandson Lachlan. Huang was born in Tainan, a southern city in Taiwan, in 1948. He was the third of five children raised by his father, a music teacher, and his mother, a seamstress. He graduated from National Taiwan University Medical College in 1973. In 1974, he married his childhood sweetheart Elaine, and by 1978 he had completed his residency training in general surgery at National Taiwan University Hospital, where he was voted the best chief resident. While working there as an attending surgeon, he joined the department of surgery at Taiwan Miner’s General Hospital. After two years, at the age of 30, he became the chairman of surgery and administrator and president, the youngest person to ever attain that position. In 1982, Huang and his family decided to leave Taiwan. He entered the surgical residency program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-University Hospital, and elected to complete his residency training in anesthesiology and a fellowship in pain management. For fourteen years, he served as clinical assistant professor in the department of anesthesiology at New Jersey Medical School. He is board certified in both anesthesiology and pain management. Twenty years ago, Huang joined Chiou as a partner in Warwick. Their practice has grown to include four physicians and two registered nurse anesthetists. Approximately four years ago, the practice expanded to 70 Hatfield Lane in Goshen. Huang and his wife Elaine, have raised two children, a daughter Jennifer, and a son, Jay. “From all my experience as a surgeon, I can safely say that they are by far the best anesthesiologists in the entire country,” said Jerome Quint, M.D., who serves as president of the hospital’s board of directors. “Their humanity is extraordinary, and we are so proud to have them on our staff.” The annual St. Anthony Community Hospital Spring Ball on Saturday, April 29, will also offer sponsorship and journal advertising opportunities for individuals and businesses. Also receiving awards will be Mary Renfrew Bradner, Jr., and Laurie Motejl, R.N., who will be presented with the “Caring for Life Award” and the “Dedicated Employee Award” respectively. To make reservations or for sponsorship and journal opportunities, call 987-5677.