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Nedra and Mark Oren
Nedra and Mark were born and raised in small cities in upstate New York (Schenectady and Catskill home phone 22), where our parents were active in local Jewish and community affairs. We went to northeastern colleges, and after being introduced by the same aunt who introduced Mark’s parents, were married in 1963 after Nedra graduated from college and Mark had finished his first year in medical school. We lived together in Boston for five years finishing medical school, internship and first year residency at Harvard (baby #1 Brad); then spent two years on active duty as a Commander in the United States Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health outside of Washington, DC (baby #2 Sara). Two years at Yale (baby #3 Jill) convinced us to move to Florida, where after a year at the University of Miami, Mark cofounded a hematology/oncology practice that now has 22 active members. Mark has been chief of the Department of Medicine at the Doctor’s Hospital and chair of numerous committees there and at Baptist and South Miami Hospitals. The first thing we did in Miami was join Temple Beth Am in 1972, a happy Jewish home for us. Mark served on the boards and executive committees of Beth Am and of the Union for Reform Judaism for 20 years. He was also President of the South Dade Branch of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and has
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