PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Dr. Inessa Parkansky of Churchville, Pennsylvania, now calls her daughter, ‘doctor,’ as well.<\/p>\n
27-year-old Phyllis followed her mother’s medical footsteps and graduated from Temple University today.<\/p>\n
Inessa was born in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States with her parents in the 1980s. She followed her dreams of becoming a physician by studying at Temple University.<\/p>\n
When she graduated in 1999, 6-month-old Phyllis was by her side.<\/p>\n
Phyllis, ever inspired by her mother’s immigrant story and medical journey, knew what kind of path she wanted to follow.<\/p>\n
Phyllis will specialize in urology, while her mother specializes in nephrology.<\/p>\n
She and fellow graduates of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University enjoyed a ceremony today at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n
There, Phyllis chose her mother to place the ceremonial hood on her shoulders.<\/p>\n
Watch the video above to see the special moments from the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Dr. Inessa Parkansky of Churchville, Pennsylvania, now calls her daughter, ‘doctor,’ as well. 27-year-old Phyllis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6899,21292,89426,22947,42338,14119,83889,69,71,70,53373,10869],"class_list":["post-202632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-daughter","tag-doctors","tag-full-circle","tag-graduation","tag-moment","tag-mother","tag-parkansky","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-share","tag-temple-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}