Robert S. Tomchik, M.D.
Robert Steven Tomchik, M.D. resides and practices in Miramar, Florida. He was married for over 30 years to Starley M. Tomchik. Starley passed away on Sunday, March 2, 2008. Robert and Starley are the parents of two grown sons, Seth M. Tomchik and Andrew J. Tomchik. Seth Tomchik resides in Houston, Texas where he is completing a post-doctoral fellowship in neurobiology at Baylor University. Andrew Tomchik resides in Miramar, Florida where he works at his father's office.
Doctor Robert Tomchik was raised in Lexington, Massachusetts near Boston. His father was a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctor Tomchik went on to study medicine himself at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. During his senior year of medical school he completed an externship in Herbertpur, India. Following graduation from medical school he completed his internship in Family Practice at the University of South Carolina, Richmond Memorial Hospital. He then served two years in the Public Health Service Corps, a branch of the United States Military, on the Crow Indian Reservation in Crow Agency Montana. He served as chief-of-staff at the Crow Agency Hospital. During his service there he became interested in Preventive Medicine. He then went on to complete a residency in Preventive Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Upon completion of his medical studies Doctor Tomchik served as Public Health Officer in county health departments, including: Kalamazoo, Michigan, Fort Myers, Florida, and Goshen, Indian. In Fort Myers, Florida, Doctor Tomchik was recognized for significantly increasing the rate of immunization of school children in Lee County. He later became Chief Epidemiologist in Broward County, Florida. During the time he was Chief Epidemiologist he conducted a research study to discover the cause of sea lice, a rash some people experience after swimming in the ocean. He discovered the causative agent was the sting of the larval stage of the thimble jellyfish. His results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and covered by USA Today newspaper and CNN. During Hurricane Andrew, August 1992, he served as medical liaison at the emergency center at Miami-Dade County, Florida. Following the storm he briefed the late Governor Lawton Chiles on the possibility of disease outbreak, and was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR).
Doctor Tomchik left government service in 1999 to enter private practice; he formed Health Circle at that time, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. His new, permanent office was built in Miramar, Florida in June 2000 where he practices to this day.
Penelope A. Cuoco, A.R.N.P., M.S.N.
Penelope Ann Cuoco, A.R.N.P., also known as Penny, resides in Davie, Florida with her husband, Dan, and their two sons. Dan is a Fire Chief with the Miami-Dade Fire-Rescue Department. Their lives are quite busy as they are actively involved in the Boy Scouts program.
Penny was raised in Miami, Florida. She attended the University of Florida for two years of her undergraduate studies and finished her baccalaureate of Science in Nursing at the University of Miami in 1983. She began her nursing career at Jackson Memorial Hospital where she worked for 13 years. She worked in the Emergency Room as a staff nurse and became a Trauma Nurse Specialist when JMH became established as a Level 1 Trauma Center and part of the Dade County Trauma Network. Penny worked diligently with the Trauma team and was promoted to Trauma Nurse Liaison, which was a role designed to bridge the care of patient and family with the physician and nursing services.
Penny decided to return to school for her Masters Degree while continuing to work as a Trauma Liaison. She graduated from Barry University in 1992 with a Masers Degree in Nursing - Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, specializing in Family Medicine.
After leaving JMH in 1996, Penny began working in Plantation, Florida at Bennett Family Practice. She established her practice with solid roots and a clientele willing to follow her wherever she went. After 7 years, she moved her practice to Coral Springs, Florida where she worked with Joseph Hadeed, M.D. This was an internal medicine practice with a specialty in geriatrics. The additional knowledge gained by working with the elderly enhanced Penny's practice. However, she longed to work closer to home and began working in a primary care office at Memorial Hospital West, where she remained for almost 2 years.
Having known Doctor Tomchik, M.D. for several years they agreed to establish a business partnership, and in January 2008, Penny joined Health Circle to help meet the demands of a growing primary care practice.