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Adjusting Sails in Stormy Seas for Better Mental Health

June 1, 2022September 12, 2022 Tim Corkran 40s–60s, adjust sail, behavioral health service, charity child 's peace, deliberate view, effective way, emotional wellness, good chance, good idea, holistic approach, integration, integration of medication, interdisciplinary way, interplay of structure, isolation, kid, knowledge of the biology of mental illness, Kosair, Kosair charity child, Kosair charity child 's peace center, Louisville Stephen Taylor, medical director, medication, mental illness, Multi-Disciplinary, multi-disciplinary perspective, musician 's sensibility, nation 's large private provider, nation 's large private provider of youth inpatient, need of post-pandemic youth, pandemic, peace center, peace center serve child, peace hospital, peace hospital 's kosair, peace hospital 's population, post-pandemic, post-pandemic era, post-pandemic youth, private music teacher, psychoanalytic train, psychoanalytic work, responsive combination, responsive combination of tool, Stephen Taylor, Taylor, Taylor 's attentiveness, Taylor 's patient range, therapy, therapy serve adolescent, understand of the complexity of lived experience, UofL, UofL health, young patient, young people, youth inpatient

LOUISVILLE Stephen Taylor, MD, medical director at UofL Health – Peace Hospital, has a holistic approach to mental and emotional

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Women’s Health Warrior

June 1, 2022September 12, 2022 Jim Kelsey Bardstown, Bardstown chi saint, blood pressure, care of people, care physician, Carmen Folmar, chi, chi saint, close-knit group of physician, entire Bardstown chi saint, FACOG, gynecological aspect, gynecological care, gynecology, hall 's passion, hall 's patient, hall 's typical week, Hannah, Hannah hall, health care, image001 photo, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, Louisville, Louisville school, mom, OB, OB patient, OB rotation, OB/ GYN, obstetrics, obstetrics appointment, obstetrics component, obstetrics rotation, patient concern, pediatric rotation, physician, pregnancy care, pregnant woman, primary care physician, psychiatric health, right direction, rotation, rural area, small town patient, telehealth, timely care, town patient, treatment of abnormal bleed, ultimate benefit of patient, university of Louisville school of medicine, usual parameter, woman 's health

BARDSTOWN A few people actually know what they want to be when they grow up. They dream about it and

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Healthy Numbers for Kentucky Children

June 1, 2022September 12, 2022 Brian Boisseau, CHFS, DPH, DPQI activity educator, added calorie, added fiber, age-appropriate guidance, beverage, calorie, CHFS, child 's diet, DPQI, eat low amount, eat low amount of fresh fruit, excess calorie, feel of satisfaction, Frankfort, fresh fruit, fruit, fruit cup, fun hobby, good health, good live pattern, guidelines/activestart.aspx, healthful eat pattern, healthy number, image001 Brian Boisseau, impromptu game of tag, Kyshape.org, lifetime of good health, nutritious option, obesity, physical activity, physical activity educator, recreational screen time, rest rate, risk of dental decay, screen time, set child, shapeamer-ica.org/standards, side of vegetable, smartphones, society of health, structured play, sugar-sweetened, sugar-sweetened beverage, syrup, time watch electronic screen, vegetable, vegetable child

FRANKFORT Today’s children are faced with many challenges that contribute to overweight and obesity. These include eating low amounts of

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Providing the Highest Quality Care to the Highest Risk Pregnancies

June 1, 2022September 12, 2022 Donna Ison 17-year-old type 1, advanced image, California play sport, cordocentesis, disproportionate outcome, diversity, division director, division director of maternal-fetal medicine, door of an orthopedic surgeon, Edward Miller, entire health history, equity work, fast change field, fast change field of medicine, great Louisville area, high risk, high-risk obstetrics, high-risk pregnancy, high-risk run, Howard, Howard university, hypertension, image001 photo, incredible relationship, inequitable treatment, insulin pump option, intrauterine intravascular transfusion, Latinx, loud voice, management of hypertension, Maternal-Fetal, Maternal-Fetal medicine, medicine, Miller, Miller 's goal, Miller 's patient population, Miller 's patient range, Miller 's practice, moment of profound sadness, mother battle addiction, multifetal, multifetal gestation, named miller, orthopedic surgeon, patient 's voice, patient relationship, physician, preexist maternal condition, pregnancy, proper specialist, realm of advanced image, refer doctor, require cesarean section, spectrum of medicine, transgender patient, ultrasound, UofL, UofL health, UofL physician, woman battle obesity

LOUISVILLE The phrase “When one door closes, another opens,” most definitely applies to Edward Miller, MD. Growing up in California

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BiFocal: The Dual Preoccupations of the COVID Era Pulmonologist

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Tim Corkran acute respiratory issue, advocate of early screen, bifocal attention, biopsy, bronchoscopy, cancer, Care medicine, career-long focus, cat scan, chi, chi saint, clot, colon, COVID, COVID-19, critical Care medicine, detection, develop clarity, develop clarity of the dynamics of long COVID-19, distant region, distant region of the lung, dual preoccupation of the COVID era, early screen, eastern half of the commonwealth, Eliseo, Eliseo colon, emphysema, endo-bronchial, evolve field of long COVID, FDA, gas trap, high risk, high-risk patient, hyperinflation, illness, image001 endo-bronchial valve, joined chi saint, Joseph, Joseph medical group, lesion, long COVID, long COVID-19, lung, lung cancer, native of Puerto Rico, new set of preoccupation, nodule, pandemic, patient population, point of concern, practice leader, pre-pandemic, pre-pandemic practice, pulmonologist, pulmonologists, scan, screen, severe emphysema, severe respiratory illness, sufferer of severe respiratory illness, suite of symptom, symptom, time of COVID-19, valve

LEXINGTON As a pulmonologist in the time of COVID-19, Eliseo Colon, MD, has had a busy two years. The practice

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Serving the Underserved

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Pat Henderson acute visit, ben Neltner, broad cross-section of patient, bud pediatrician, Caitlyn, chain 's tagline, Charlottesville, chi, chi saint, chronic disease management, clinic, commonwealth pediatrics, couple match, Covington catholic high school, dependable transportation, first-time dad, general practitioner, Gil Dunn ben Neltner, great train, hard Rock café, image001 photo, implementation of telemedicine, Joseph, Joseph health, Kentucky, Lexington, Louisville school, medical group, motto of the hard Rock café, Neltner, new Job, northern Kentucky native, popular chain 's tagline, practitioner, primary care, primary care practice, primary thing, refugee clinic, see patient, St. Elizabeth 's hospice center, teamwork, telehealth, telehealth visit, time talk shop, underserved, underserved population, uninsured patient, university of Louisville school of medicine, UofL, way doctor, wellness exam, wide scope of patient, wide variety of patient

LEXINGTON If you spend very much time talking shop with Ben Neltner, MD, the word “under-served” is likely to come

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Bringing Pioneering Procedures to Kentucky

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Donna Ison abnormal liver test, advanced procedure, advanced therapeutic endoscopy, age 45, Alexandra Rogers Nathan Liu, bile, bile duct, bowel, camera visualization, camera visualization of lesion, cancer, colon, colon cancer, colonoscopies, colonoscopy, complex condition, complicated colon polyp, curative resection, duct, Emily Billingsly, endoscopic, endoscopic procedure, endoscopic submucosal dissection, endoscopic therapy, endoscopy, ERCP, ESD, esophagus, extensive higher-risk polyp, field of gastroenterology, full range of gastrointestinal cancer, gastroenterologist, gastroenterologist arsenal, gastroenterologists, gastroenterology, gastrointestinal cancer, GI, GI wall, high-risk procedure, higher-risk polyp, image001 photography, intermittent right upper quadrant pain, interventional gastroenterologist, invasive surgery, Kawasaki 's disease, late therapeutic agent, Liu, Louisville, medical movement, myotomy, Nathan Liu, natural GI wall, new tool, obesity, ongoing treatment, pancreatography, pediatric surgeon, Peter Draganov, pioneer procedure, polyp, pre-oral, pre-oral endoscopic myotomy, procedure, quadrant pain, quick diagnosis, remove stone, required open surgery, retrograde pancreatography, revolutionary endoscopic therapy, screen colonoscopies, single layer of the colon, small bowel, submucosal, submucosal fellowship, surgery, suture, third-space endoscopy, three year fellowship, university of Florida, UofL, UofL health

LOUISVILLE In the field of gastroenterology, innovations in endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery have led to much improved results and

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Knowledge Is Power

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Jim Kelsey Ain sham university, artery, Baylor, blockage, blocked artery, cardiac catheterization, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiology fellowship, cardiovascular doctor, cath lab, catheterization, chest, chest pain, chief medical resident, clinic, clinical investigation science, duPont manual high school, El-Refai, environment reward, graduate of duPont manual high school, healthcare decision, heart attack, heart disease, image001 photo, internal medicine train, interventional cardiologist, interventional cardiology fellowship, investigation science, Louisville, Louisville school, medical train, medicine train, Mostafa Osman El-Refai, need procedure, nice perspective, Non-Invasive, non-invasive thing, Norton, Norton Healthcare, Norton Healthcare Mostafa Osman El-Refai, Norton heart, outpatient, outpatient clinic set, overall physician-patient, pain, physician, private suburban hospital, procedure, stable set, Texas heart institute, university of Louisville school of public health, VA, vascular institute, wide variety of clinical experience, young patient

LOUISVILLE To borrow from Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility. Another way to say that is, just because you

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Heart Care Takes a Multidisciplinary Village

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 MD-Update Staff administrative time, appointment, artery monitor, assistant chief of medicine, baptist health, baptist health 's Louisville heart failure, baptist heart failure clinic, battery, battery technology, big disease, blood clot, cardiologist, cardiology, CardioMEMS, cardiothoracic, cardiovascular disease fellowship, care of patient, catheterization, clinic, clinical trial, clot, COVID, CRT-P, disease fellowship, echocardiograms, ER, ER visit, excite option, FACC, failure, flare state, heart disease, heart failure, heart failure clinic, heart failure program, heart failure trial, heart transplant, Heatherly, HF, HF clinic, HF patient, Honor 's college, Honor 's college of western Carolina university, hypertension, hypertension clinic, implantable pulmonary artery monitor, inpatient hospital stay, J., Kentucky, life look, Louisville, Louisville heart failure, Louisville Steven, Louisville Steven J., lung, LVAD, LVADs, MD-UPDATE, MD-Update Q, MDU, MDU Kentucky, medical director, medical school, medication, misconception, monitor, multidisciplinary village, need defibrillator, new PAH clinic, new treatment plan, out-patient, out-patient arena, PAH, PAH clinic, PAH patient, patient population, PH, PH clinic, PhD, physician, principal investigator, procedure, professional life look, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension clinic, randomized clinical heart failure trial, religion major, remote patient monitor, research meet, solid schedule, special pacemaker, specialized area, STEP-HFpEF, Steven Heatherly, surgery, surgical procedure, Uber, valve, varied background, wake forest, WiFi scale

LOUISVILLE Steven J. Heatherly, MD, PhD, FACC, is the system medical director for heart failure and pulmonary hypertension for Baptist

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When Your Mission Is Healthy Hearts, Failure Is Not an Option

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Menisa Marshall advanced heart failure center, advanced heart failure program, advanced heart therapy program, advanced therapy, assist device, cardiologist, cardiology, cath lab procedure, clinic, collaboration drive, collaborative teamwork, coordinator, director of the program 's heart, effectiveness of advanced therapy, emerge information, excite prospect, expert work, failure, failure clinic, familial hyper-cholesterolemia, good quality life, hallmark of UofL health, healthy heart, heart disease, heart failure, heart failure center, heart failure hospitalization, heart failure program, heart pump, heart therapy program, human transplant, hyper-cholesterolemia, importance of prompt referral, innovative heart pump, invasive cath lab procedure, lifestyle, lifestyle choice, lot of option, Louisville NASA, Louisville NASA control director, max-imize, medicine, minimal need, mission of UofL health, modified pig heart, Moore, option, pacemaker-like, pacemaker-like device, pharmacist, pig heart, positive outlook, power of a positive outlook, prevention peg heart disease, program 's heart, program 's transplant, prompt referral, pump, quality life, recent news of a human transplant, referral, related department work, Stephanie Moore, therapy, transplant, transplant coordinator, transplant work team, treatment of valve disease, typical transplant work team, UofL, UofL health, Utah, valve disease, ventricular assist device

LOUISVILLE NASA control director Gene Kranz is often credited for saying, “Failure is not an option.” He claims those exact

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