Hospital chooses noted doctor for empty board seat

SARASOTA — Dr. Richard Rehmeyer, a Sarasota physician for more than four decades, has been appointed to the volunteer, elected board that governs Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

Rehmeyer was named by the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board to fill a Northern District Seat 2 position vacated by Robert Strasser in September. The appointment to the nine-member panel runs until 2018, according to an announcement from the hospital.

Rehmeyer, a board-certified doctor who specializes in head and neck cancer surgery, was Sarasota Memorial's chief of staff in 1978 and 1979 and has been chairman of the hospital's Physician-Hospital Organization.