Dr. Maxine Rachel Ames and Dr. Alan Jeremy Gandler were married Nov. 3 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Rabbi Joshua S. Taub, an uncle of the bride, officiated.
The couple met at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University (now known as the Zucker School of Medicine), from which each received a medical degree.
Dr. Ames, 31, is a pediatrician at Torresdale Pediatrics, a private pediatric practice in Bensalem, Pa. She graduated from Cornell. She is the daughter of Sylvia T. Ames and Steven A. Ames of New York. The bride’s father is a project manager at Pfizer in Peapack, N.J. Her mother is a manager of data and reporting for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
Dr. Gandler, also 31, is a first-year fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the son of Marlene Gandler and Dr. Joseph R. Gandler of Fresno, Calif. The groom’s father is a professor emeritus of chemistry at California State University, Fresno.
