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Harold Palevsky, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Chief of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center – Presbyterian.  He also heads the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program and Medical Co-Director of the Program in Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplantation.

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Patty FarrowPatty Farrow, 45, lives outside Philadelphia in Paulsboro, New Jersey with her husband. Patty is a member of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association’s Southern New Jersey PAH Support Group.  Most recently, she helped raise over $5,000 for PAH research through a one-mile Fun Walk called “Wild for a Cure” at the Cape May Zoo.

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Alethea Pergament, 32, lives just outside Philadelphia in Mantua, New Jersey with her 7-year-old daughter, Brianna. PAH treatments have improved Alethea’s condition, allowing her to enjoy being a mother, lead a PAH Support Group, and advocate for increased PAH awareness.

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Media Coverage

  • WPVI, local ABC affiliate - Alethea Pergament, Patty Farrow, & Dr. Palevsky, January 4, 2007
  • Gloucester County Times - Alethea Pergament, Patty Farrow, & Dr. Palevsky, October 9, 2006


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