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MONS. HILARY FRANCO RICEVE IL “LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT NYS COMPTROLLER THOMAS DINAPOLI
AWARD DALL’ OMRI DEL NEW JERSEY “ UNA VITA DI SERVIZIO A CELEBRATES ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH
DIO E AL POPOLO DI DIO” di Alfonso Panico

At NYS Comptroller DiNapoli’s Italian Heritage Month
Celebration in the Italian American Museum is where NYS
Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli was presented with an
Italian American Sash by (l to r) James C. Lisa, Chairman and
Founding Member of the Petrosino Association in America;
Robert Fonti, President Lt. Det. Joseph Petrosino Association
in America; Karen Persichilli Keogh, Secretary to Governor
Hochul; and Dr Joseph Scelsa, Founder and President of the
Italian American Museum NYC.

Da sinistra: Giulio Picolli; Roberto Caiaro; Giuseppina Maietta; la dott.ssa Alessandra Oliva,
Deputato Console Generale d’Italia a New York; Mico Licastro; la Senatrice Francesca La WORLD'S FIRST PULMONARY ARTERY
Marca e Alfonso Panico.
TRANSPLANT PERFORMED IN ROME

Doctors at Rome's and Beatrice Trabalza Marinucci,
Sant'Andrea hospital have took place on July 17.
performed a pulmonary artery It was performed by a
transplant on a patient in their 70s team led by Erino A.
with lung cancer in world first. Rendina, the director of
A neoplasm had infil- thoracic surgery at Sant'Andrea
Il ritratto di Mons. Franco dipinto dalla pittrice Tatiana Horoshko. trated the pulmonary artery after and dean of the Faculty of Medi-
cine and Psychology at Rome's La
the patient had the entire left lung
removed. Sapienza University.
The hospital said the The donor artery came
surgery, the idea of two young from Barcelona, where it had
thoracic surgeons, Cecilia Menna been cryopreserved.
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Da sinistra Dominic Caruso, ex Console Stato del New Jersey,
Gina Lia, Presidente dell’ Associazione Ieri Oggi e Domani e
Alfonso Panico, ex Console del Connecticut.
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