2019 -- S 0955

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

HONORING AND THANKING DR. MARK CLARK FOR HIS YEARS OF DEDICATED

SERVICE AS DIRECTOR OF THE BLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER

     Introduced By: Senator V. Susan Sosnowski

     Date Introduced: June 05, 2019

     Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar

     WHEREAS, Dr. Mark Clark earned his M.D. degree from the Warren Alpert School of

Medicine at Brown University and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at

the Mt. Sinai St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City where he served as Chief

Resident; and

     WHEREAS, Over the following twenty years, Dr. Clark served as a Board Certified

Emergency Medicine Attending Physician directing the emergency care of acutely ill and injured

adult and pediatric patients in the Emergency Departments of Roosevelt and St. Luke's Hospitals.

He also taught emergency medicine, medical ethics and physical diagnosis to medical students

and resident physicians from Columbia, Cornell, and Mount Sinai; and

     WHEREAS, In 1998, Dr. Clark was appointed Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency

Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and served in that capacity

until 2014; and

     WHEREAS, In addition, from 2010 through 2015, Dr. Clark served as the Emergency

Medicine Residency Program Director at Mt. Sinai St. Luke's Roosevelt and was nationally

recognized as the EMRA Residency Director of the Year in 2014; and

     WHEREAS, In 2015, Dr. Clark was named Director of the Block Island Medical Center,

which provides emergent and urgent care around the clock and also provides adult and pediatric

primary care; and

     WHEREAS, During his tenure, Dr. Clark is credited with improving the public image of

the Center and spearheading an expansion of services resulting in a four-year increase in patients

seeking primary care; and

     WHEREAS, With kindness, dedication, and generosity of spirit, Dr. Mark Clark has

improved the health care and touched the lives of many in the Block Island community, and he is

truly worthy of our gratitude and acknowledgement; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

hereby recognizes and thanks Dr. Mark Clark for his years of service to the people of Block

Island. We wish him good health, fulfillment, and much success in all his future endeavors; and

be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Dr. Mark Clark.

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