Faculty & Staff
Mercy Catholic Medical Center’s faculty members bring their day-to-day experience of caring for patients into their approach to teaching. Their commitment is reflected in their willingness to share the knowledge and skills they have developed over their professional lifetime. Transitional year residents work side-by-side with physicians in general surgery, internal medicine, radiology, emergency medicine, and primary care among other disciplines to develop the clinical skills they need. Each faculty member, a board-certified physician in his or her specialty, strives to provide a quality and productive experience for residents during the transitional year.
Michael Becker, MD
- Chairman of Emergency Medicine, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
- Specialty: Emergency Medicine
- Specialty: Emergency Medicine
- Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
- Specialty: Critical Care & Emergency Medicine
- Director, Hospitalists Program, Mercy Philadelphia
- Specialty: Internal Medicine
- Specialty: Nephrology
- Internal Medicine Residency Assistant Director, Mercy Catholic Medical Center
- Specialties: Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine
- Recognized as a 2018 Top Doc in Philadelphia magazine.
- Program Director, Transitional Year Program
- Director, Osteopathic Medical Education
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Specialty: Critical Care Medicine
- Section Chief, Gastroenterology, Mercy Fitzgerald
- Specialty: Gastroenterology
- Recognized as a 2018 Top Doc in Philadelphia magazine.
- Specialty: Critical Care Medicine
- Program Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency
- Section Head, Body Imaging
- Graduate of New York Medical College
- Internship at Greenwich Hospital
- Radiology Residency at North Shore University Hospital
- Body Imaging and MRI Fellowship at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Specialty: Internal Medicine
- Specialty: Geriatric Medicine
- Academic Hospitalist, Mercy Fitzgerald
- Student Advisor, Physician Assistant Students
- Specialty: Internal Medicine
- Section Chief, Cardiology, Mercy Fitzgerald
- Specialty: Cardiovascular Disease
- Recognized as a 2018 Top Doc in Philadelphia magazine.
- Medical Director, Sleep Disorders Centers, Mercy Fitzgerald
- Specialties: Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
oshua Pregnar, DO
- Chair, Department of Surgery, Mercy Catholic Medical Center
- Director, Mercy Bariatrics
- Specialty: General Surgery and Bariatric Surgery
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine
- Internal Medicine Residency Associate Director, Mercy Catholic Medical Center
- Director, Hospitalist Program, Mercy Fitzgerald
- Specialty: Internal Medicine
- Section Chief, Endocrinology, Mercy Fitzgerald
- Specialty: Endocrinology
- Chairman, Diagnostic Radiology Residency
- Section Head, Nuclear Medicine
- Graduate of University of Michigan Medical School
- Internship at Harbor Hospital
- Radiology Residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Nuclear Medicine Residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Nuclear Medicine Fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital