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Princeton High School inducts Dr. Greg Tester into Hall of Fame · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Princeton High School inducts doctor Greg Tester into Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Kate Santalan, This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Princeton High
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  Speaker 1: School recently selected Greg Tester, Maryland as the latest member
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  Speaker 1: of its Academic and Career Hall of Fame. Tester will
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  Speaker 1: be honored and address the school's student body at a
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  Speaker 1: ceremony Friday, September eleventh. He also will participate in the
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  Speaker 1: Homestead Festival Parade Saturday, September twelfth. Tester graduated from Princeton
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  Speaker 1: High School and was named one of ten valedictorians in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one. He earned a biology degree from
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Wesley University in two thousand and five. Tester also
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  Speaker 1: graduated from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. In
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. He was inducted into the Alpha
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  Speaker 1: Omega Alpha National Medical Honors Society. Tester complete. He did
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  Speaker 1: a three year internal medicine residency program at the Mayo
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  Speaker 1: Clinic and a three year cardiovascular medicine fellowship at the
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  Speaker 1: University of Wisconsin Health System in Madison. He also finished
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  Speaker 1: a year of specialty fellowship training in interventional cardiology at
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  Speaker 1: the University of Wisconsin Health System. Tester worked as an
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  Speaker 1: interventional cardiologist at SSM Health. He treated heart disease with
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  Speaker 1: minimally invasive procedural techniques, developed a clinical practice, was the
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  Speaker 1: Structural Heart Program co director and Saint Mary's Hospital Cardiology Director.
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  Speaker 1: Tester also served as an SSM Leadership Conference keynote speaker.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, he was named to the Top Doctor's
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  Speaker 1: List in Madison. Tester began working as an interventional cardiologist
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  Speaker 1: at the University of Wisconsin Health System in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: He specializes in structural heart procedures and high risk percutaneous
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  Speaker 1: coronary interventions. Tester also serves as an Associate Professor of
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  Speaker 1: Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Health System. He is
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  Speaker 1: part of the core Education faculty for the Cardiology Division.
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  Speaker 1: Tester became the director of the university's Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
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  Speaker 1: Program in twenty twenty five. He has appeared on television
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  Speaker 1: and radio, earned several awards, and participates in cardiac charities.
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  Speaker 1: Tester currently lives with his wife, Jill, and children in Madison, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: For more information, visit PH's dashill dot org, slash Hall,
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