{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2010-12-22-pt1-PgE2238-2", "2010-12-22", 111, 2, null, null, "TRIBUTE TO FERRARO MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, P.A.", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "TRIBUTETO", "E2238", "E2238", "[{\"name\": \"Bill Pascrell, Jr.\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "156 Cong. Rec. E2238", "Congressional Record, Volume 156 Issue 173 (Wednesday, December 22, 2010)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 173 (Wednesday, December 22, 2010)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2238]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n              TRIBUTE TO FERRARO MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, P.A.\n\n                                 ______\n\n                        HON. BILL PASCRELL, JR.\n\n                             of new jersey\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                      Wednesday, December 22, 2010\n\n  Mr. PASCRELL. Madam Speaker, I would like to call to your attenion\nthe work of an outstanding medical practice Ferraro Medical Associates,\nP.A., which is celebrating its 65th Anniversary of dedicated service to\nits patients, and by extension, the greater community. It is only\nfitting that Ferraro Medical Associates, and its late founder Dr.\nStephen P. Ferraro, be honored in this permanent record of the greatest\ndemocracy ever known, for the comfort and care that it has provided to\nso many Paterson families.\n  Dr. Stephen P. Ferraro was born in 1920 in Paterson, NJ to Angelo and\nNatalizia who emigrated from Sicily to the United States. They had four\nchildren, two of whom died untimely deaths leaving Stephen and Joseph.\nStephen's parents ingrained in their sons the importance of education,\nand became successful themselves, owning multiple properties in\nPaterson.\n  Dr. Ferraro attended School No. 15 and graduated Eastside High School\nin 1937. In high school he was very athletic but music intrigued him\nmost and he played the violin for the Eastside orchestra. After\ngraduation he earned a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University in\n1941. Stephen developed a passion for medicine and flying which lasted\na lifetime.\n  In 1946 Dr. Ferraro obtained his degree of Doctor of Medicine from\nGeorgetown University Medical School. He graduated in the top of his\nclass. He returned to Paterson to pursue his career. He did a rotating\ninternship at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson. In\n1947 he was certified and passed the State of New Jersey Board as\nDoctor in Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Ferraro then decided to join the\nUnited States Air Force University School of Medicine in Randolf, Texas\nand became a USAF Flight Surgeon, spending three years in Okinawa. In\nthe Air Force he saw many in great need and he was determined to always\nbe a ``people doctor'' and provide his service where the need was\ngreatest.\n  By 1950, when he returned from spending four years at Boston City\nHospital, becoming Chief Surgical Resident, he had met a nurse named\nBetty. He went to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and became Chief\nSurgical Resident from 1954-1956. Betty followed him and worked\nalongside him as his operating room nurse. They later married at St.\nAnthony Church in Paterson and had six children-- Stephen Jr., Natalie,\nAngelo, Lisa, Lucia and Barbara.\n  Dr. Ferraro never forgot the city he came from. In 1957 he became\nattending surgeon of St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center in\nPaterson. He soon decided to open his own practice at 414 Broadway.\nBetty was always by his side and was his nurse at the practice.\nTogether they were the perfect ``team.'' The office was on the first\nfloor and their apartment was on the upper levels. He became the Co-\nChief of Department of Surgery at Fairlawn Memorial Hospital, attending\nsurgeon at Saddle Brook Hospital, Police Surgeon and City of Paterson\nphysician, Medical Director of Nabisco Brands, Inc., assistant\nprofessor at Seton Hall University Department of Surgery and also\nbecame Medical Examiner for Federal Aviation-Class A, and USCIS Civil\nSurgeon. Dr. Ferraro was a distinguished and respected physician who\nwith all his qualities provided the best to his patients and left a\nremarkable legacy to his children.\n  Dr. Ferraro's children admired their father for instilling the\nimportance of education in them. When his children were very young he\nwould always encourage them to read. They spent time with their father\naround the office. Dr. Ferraro was a great role model, allowing them to\nsee the medical world in his office as one of the choices for their\nlives.\n  Lisa Ferraro followed her father's footsteps and graduated from Ross\nUniversity Medical School. In 1984-1987 she completed her internship\nand residency in Internal Medicine at St. Joseph's Regional Medical\nCenter in Paterson and immediately went to work with her father. Dr.\nLisa Ferraro was Board Certified in Internal Medicine in 1987 and\njoined attending staff Internal Medicine at SJHMC.\n  She has worked as school physician for Public Schools Nos. 5, 8, 28\nand Kilpatrick School. She was assistant Medical Director at Nabisco\nfrom 1987-1992 and has taught first year medical students from UMDNJ,\nas well as forth year foreign medical students. In 2000 she was\nappointed as Civil Surgeon for USCIS. In February 2010 she became\nCertified in Aesthetic Medicine.\n  Dr. Ferraro left a truly wonderful legacy in Paterson. In April 1996\nDr. Stephen and Dr. Lisa Ferraro registered the office as a\ncorporation, Ferraro Medical Associates, P.A. Despite the challenges,\nthe office still serves our community at 414 Broadway. Presently the\npractice provides medical care to approximately five hundred patients a\nmonth. It is estimated that close to half a million patients have\npassed through the doors at 414 Broadway.\n  Although Dr. Stephen P. Ferraro departed from this earth in 2002, he\nleft a legacy of perseverance as well as a well recognized practice,\nwhich continues to thrive under the leadership of Dr. Lisa Ferraro. Her\nsiblings are all successful professionals in their fields. Stephen P.\nFerraro, Jr. M.D., is an orthopaeadic surgeon in Redding, California,\nAngelo Ferraro, M.D., a cardiologist, Spokane, Washington, Lucia\nFerraro, M.D., an anesthesiologist and Critical Care, Sherman Oaks,\nCalifornia, Natalia Ferraro is a homemaker and professional\nphotographer and Barbara Tabano is a homemaker and operates a family\nbusiness, The Sock Company, with her husband Jim.\n  The job of a United States Congressman involves much that is\nrewarding, yet nothing compares to recognizing the efforts of wonderful\npeople in my District. Madam Speaker, I ask that you join all of the\npatients and friends of the Ferraro family, all those who have been\nhelped throughout the years, and me in recognizing the outstanding\ncontributions they have made to the community in Paterson and beyond.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2010-12-22-pt1-PgE2238-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 34.49044190347195, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}