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A Night Honoring Healers is set for Thursday, Oct. 13, while USA Health Game Day will follow a week later on Thursday, Oct. 20.

September, which is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, came to a close with more than a dozen patients completing their cancer treatment at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital.

Prior to joining USA Health, Sumit Chhetri, M.D., was an assistant professor at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.

The focus of the presentation was to explore the idea that trauma centers can feasibly lead community-based initiatives that aim to curb gun violence and positively impact the community.

Jennifer Young Pierce, M.D., M.P.H., will give an oral presentation outlining the results of a study that looked at positive results of cancer survivors who participated in culinary medicine classes.

Each week, we capture images from construction, expansion and renovations occurring across USA Health.

USA Health regularly recognizes employees for going above and beyond in caring for patients and providing high quality customer service.

USA Health clinicians are experts in their fields, making them trusted sources on a variety of healthcare-related news topics.

Face masks are not required in USA Health areas in which direct patient care is not provided.

“His dedication to this community is unsurpassed. It is an honor to name the center that means so much to so many after him,” said John V. Marymont, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine.

Volume 19 Issue 1 of the newsletter features “The End of an Era,” an article about the center and the legacy of retiring director Johnson Haynes, Jr., M.D.

Janel Lowman helped design a digital toolkit to encourage African American women to get screened for cervical cancer.