Dr. Catalana is a graduate of Bates College, earning his bachelor's degree in Biology,
and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned his medical degree.
After finishing a pediatric residency at Prisma Health–Upstate, formerly Greenville
Health System, Dr. Catalana served in the National Health Service Corps as medical
director of a community health center in Louisville, Ky., receiving a Regional Health
Administrator's Award for achievement above and beyond normal duty.
After two years of service in the Corps, he completed a general academic pediatric
fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and earned his M.P.H. in health
services administration from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Catalana returned to
Prisma Health–Upstate, joining the pediatric residency program as director of the
newborn nursery. He later served as the director of pediatric ambulatory care and
associate director of the Pediatric Residency program before being named program director
in 2001.
In addition to his responsibilities in graduate medical education, Dr. Catalana has,
since its establishment in 1991, supervised third- and fourth-year medical student
education for the Greenville campus of the University of South Carolina School of
Medicine. He served as director of student services from 1991 to 2006 when he stepped
down as the Pediatric Residency program director and was named assistant dean of medical
education, UofSC School of Medicine.
Dr. Catalana is currently a clinical professor of pediatrics and board certified
in both pediatrics and adolescent medicine. He is a member of the American Academy
of Pediatrics and the South Carolina chapter of the academy. He was a member of the
Institutional Self Study Task Force for the developing medical school in Greenville,
chaired the medical student subcommittee and served on several other subcommittees.
He has delivered multiple invited lectureships and serves as a contributor to pediatric
board review publications and courses. An honorary member of the Alpha Omega Alpha
Honor Medical Society, Dr. Catalana has been the recipient of the O'Neill Barrett
Excellence in Teaching Award from the UofSC School of Medicine on six occasions. He
has also received the Faculty Member of the Year Award six times and, in 2008, was
the recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.
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