About Our Physicians
Phillip S. Kallen, M.D.
Dr. Kallen was born and raised in New York. He lived much of his first 18 years of life on Long Island, graduating from Roslyn High School. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh, Cum Laude. He went on to receive his M.D. degree at the Chicago Medical School in Chicago, Illinois. His internship and residency were completed at the North Shore University Hospital at Cornell University Medical Center in affiliation with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering, he also served as Assistant Chief Resident. He completed his fellowship at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Centers in Los Angeles, at which time he received the Southern California Arthritis Foundation Research Award. He then returned to New York where he began a very successful solo practice in adult and pediatric rheumatology. He was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cornell University Medical College and taught extensively at the North Shore University Hospital. He left New York in 1986, and along with Dr. Steven Croft, he formed Arthritis Associates of South Florida. Dr. Kallen is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology. He is one of the managing partners of DRA and is the clinical laboratory director for AASF. He is certified by the International Society for Clinical Densitometry and is the director of the Bone Densitometry department at AASF.
Philippe A. Saxe, M.D.
Dr. Saxe was raised in Melbourne, Florida. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Hamilton College. He subsequently received his M.D. degree at The University of Miami School of Medicine, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He subsequently completed his internship and first year of residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He completed his third year of medical residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, Florida. Dr. Saxe then completed his rheumatology fellowship at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. He joined Drs. Croft and Kallen at Arthritis Associates of South Florida in 1990. Dr. Saxe is Board Certified in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology. Dr. Saxe is the Medical Director of Delray Research Associates and started the Clinical Research Division at Arthritis Associates of South Florida in 1995. He is the current president of the Florida Society of Rheumatology. Dr. Saxe is fluent in French and Spanish.
Steven I. Goodman, M.D.
Dr. Goodman is originally from Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of the University of Maryland. He attended medical school at the George Washington University and went on to do his residency in both internal medicine and pediatrics through Columbia University. He then continued his training in Philadelphia where he completed a Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an Adult Rheumatology Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). Some of his honors include Scholar of the Year Award from the American College of Rheumatology, Fellow of the Year from both CHOP and HUP and membership in the William Beaumont Society. Furthermore, he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology. He is one of the managing partners of DRA. Dr. Goodman has been practicing with Arthritis Associates of South Florida since 1995 and provides rheumatological care to patients of all ages.
Marypat Clements, D.O.
Dr. Clements was raised in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Biochemistry and then received her degree in osteopathic medicine from NOVA Southeastern University here in South Florida. She completed her residency at the Medical College of Virginia where she served on the faculty for one year as Chief Medical Resident, the first osteopathic chief resident in Virginia history. Dr. Clements then continued to complete her fellowship training also at VCU-MCV under the tutelage of Dr. Shaun Ruddy. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology. She is one of the managing partners of DRA. Dr. Clements joined Arthritis Associates of South Florida in 1999, and with osteopathic training, she has a special interest in medical and holistic management of regional pain syndromes and the spine, which includes osteoarthritis and problems in the shoulder, knee or back.
