Date: Fri 22-Nov-1996

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDREA

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Todd-Gunzy-health-podiatrist

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with cut: Dr Gunzy Will Relocate To Arizona

Dr Todd Gunzy, a podiatrist with offices in New Haven and Newtown, will

relocate to Mesa, Arizona, this January. There, the surgeon will become a

partner in a busy podiatry practice, teach at a hospital residency program,

and be a co-director of a wound care center.

"It's exciting, but a little bit scary," said Dr Gunzy, who has lived in this

area all his life. "It was great [working at Advanced Foot Care Specialists of

Connecticut] - establishing relationships with people in the practice. I'm

very sad and sorry to leave them behind."

His future partner, Louis Freed, was a fellow resident at the hospital in New

Jersey where Mr Gunzy trained. Both surgeons trained under residency director

Dr Paul Quintavalle.

"[Louis] has been after me for two years to come to Arizona. He got me to go

and do a club foot surgery with him in May," said Dr Gunzy, and that decided

it. "He has an extremely busy practice, and we know we can work well

together."

Dr Gunzy also plans on expanding his medical philanthropy. He will continue to

join the volunteer medical team which visits Guatamala each year through

Healing The Children. After relocating, he hopes to join his partner in

working with Native Americans on reservations, as well as making monthly trips

to operate on those in need in the Mexican border town of Nogales.

Although the surgeon calls the change "bittersweet," he is characteristically

optimistic about the future. And he doesn't intend to cut all ties with former

patients. In fact, he has arranged for a 75-year-old woman under his care to

pay a social visit in Arizona.