Salute to Physicians – Palmetto General Hospital

 

 

Dr. Adrian Legaspi is a surgical oncologist at Palmetto General Hospital. His areas of interest include esophageal cancer, primary and secondary liver cancers and pancreatic cancer. Dr. Legaspi completed a clinical fellowship in surgical oncology from Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center and clinical research fellowship in the department of surgery at The New York Hospital Cornell University Medical Center. Dr. Legaspi has also published numerous scientific publications relating to oncology and surgery in peer reviewed journals. He has written numerous abstracts on his surgical oncology research and participated as an invited lecturer at several conferences during his professional medical career.

 

 

Dr. Ritesh Kaushal, interventional neurologist, serves as the medical director of Palmetto General Hospital’s Comprehensive Stroke Center. In his role, he oversees a team of interventional neurologist, neurosurgeons, clinical neurologist and other medical staff who care for Palmetto’s stroke patients. Dr. Kaushal completed his internship in internal medicine at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois and his residency in neurology at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He completed his fellowships in stroke-neurocritical care and endovascular interventional neurology at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Kaushal is a member of the American Heart/Stroke Association, American Neurology Association, and Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology.