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“To all of the healthcare healers: You stand beside us at our worst times, holding our hands and our hearts as you help us through some of the most frightening moments of our lives,” said Owen Bailey, M.H.A., FACHE, chief executive officer for USA Health.
Their presentation – which highlights the breadth of capabilities at USA Health for burn patients – demonstrates the benefits of a collaborative care approach across the inpatient and outpatient setting.
It’s important to prepare, plan and practice fire safety drills at home and work.
M. Adeel Saleemi, M.D. specializes in endovascular treatments of cerebral aneurysms, acute stroke therapy, cerebral and spinal angiography, preoperative tumor embolization, intracranial and extracranial angioplasty and stenting, and cerebral vascular malformation embolization.
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.
Prior to joining USA Health, Sumit Chhetri, M.D., was an assistant professor at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.
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.
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.
Known as the GeneSwap approach, this new technology provides novel insights into mitochondrial diseases, which are often lethal and have only palliative treatments available.
Seema Singh, Ph.D., is a professor of pathology at the Whiddon College of Medicine and a senior member of the cancer biology program at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute.
USA Health uses Oracle Cerner technology to exceed care goals
The group won a $1,000 prize for their paper, “Starting Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Spine Program From Scratch at an Academic Institution.”
