News at USA Health

USA Health University Hospital is home to the only comprehensive stroke center in the region.

In the past few years, Allen Broome, Pharm.D., DPLA, has worked to improve the health system’s fiscal and clinical utilization of medications, developed culture and accountability for pharmacy, and worked to improve processes to provide safer pharmaceutical care.

Collins was among 10 Black healthcare leaders recognized for commitment to equity, inclusion, diversity and access by a national online magazine for medical professionals.

Providing this important medical resource is just another way for USA Health’s FED to serve the students in collaboration with the HEART Project and Student Health.

Menger presented research on spinal instrumentation. He discussed the safety of the freehand pedicle screw technique without the use of X-ray guidance, navigation or robotic surgery.

Pierce said the HPV test should be used as the primary method of screening, an approach that is being adopted by health organizations, including the ASCCP, the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology.

The unit is expected to begin accepting patients in March.

Vertebral body tethering allows for greater mobility and flexibility in the spine.

Scientists at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute are examining how pancreatic cancer cells adapt to live under low-oxygen environments, a state known as hypoxia.

Brittany Brown and Philip Almalouf, M.D., were selected from a pool of public nominations, which were chosen with their dedication to action, awareness and diversity in mind. They will be recognized at a luncheon in May.

Thakur won the Meningioma Research Gold Award amongst national and international research submissions after presenting the findings of this study at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) / Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Joint Section on Tumors meeting.

“Congrats to Dr. Sternberg for these important local positions that reflect both respect for him as a prominent local physician and his extensive history of service to our professional community,” said Edward A. Panacek, M.D., M.P.H.