Ronald A. Goodsite, M.D.,
FAAP
Dr.
Goodsite received his M.D. from Albany Medical College in 1968, and
completed his Internship and Pediatric Residency at Albany Medical
Center Hospital in 1971. He established his private practice in Tucson
in July 1971, and has provided pediatric care to thousands of children
in Southern Arizona. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of
Pediatrics and is Board Certified in Pediatrics.
Dr.
Goodsite grew up in Watertown, N.Y. and graduated from Syracuse
University with a Bachelor of Science degree. He served for two years
and 9 months in the US Army before beginning his medical training. He is
married and has four adult children and eight grandchildren.
During
his years of pediatric practice he has had privileges at University
Medical Center, Tucson Medical Center, St. Joseph’s and El Dorado
Hospital. He has headed Pediatric Committees at most of these hospitals,
served as Chief of Staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital, and on the Board of
Directors of Carondelet Health Network.
He
is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the U of A College of Medicine,
Department of Pediatrics. He has also been President of the Arizona
Medical Association and an alternate delegate to the AMA.
PATRICIA R.
HALPÉ, M.D., FAAP
Patricia R.
Halpé, M.D. joined Dr. Goodsite’s practice after treating patients in
private practice in Phoenix since 1980. She served as the Director of
the State Health Department Neonatal Follow-up Program from 1978 to
1988.
Born in Sri
Lanka, Dr. Halpé was educated in her home country and London, England.
She received her doctor of medicine degree from the University of Ceylon
in 1969, completed her pediatric internship and residency at Springfield
Massachusetts Medical Center Hospital, and Fellowship in Neonatology at
Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix.
She is
married to a pediatric cardiologist, and they have adult children and
grandchildren. Her hobbies include teaching her grandchildren to cook
and bake, and travel.
