stroke – MD Update

The CARE Collaborative and Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring Program

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Natalie Littlefield $2, additional support, behavior, blood pressure, blood pressure education awareness program, blood pressure monitor, blood pressure zone, BS, burden, cardiovascular assessment, cardiovascular disease risk, Care, Care collaborative education, Care SMBP, Care SMBP coach, Care SMBP combine, Care SMBP program, classes.4, coach, dementia.1, dementia.1 heart disease, diastolic blood pressure, disease control, DrPH, educational classes.4, engagement, FQHCs, Frankfort, FRANKFORT hypertension, free blood pressure education awareness program, free blood pressure monitor, healthcare provider, heart disease, high blood pressure, high burden of hypertension, home blood pressure monitor, home visit program, hypertension, hypertension education, Kentucky, Kentucky heart disease, Kentucky man, Kentucky patient, KY department, KY heart disease, Ky., lifestyle, lifestyle modification, lifestyle modification goal, maintenance decision, measurement, meta-analysis, modification, monitor, MS, one-on-one counsel, out-of-office, out-of-office blood pressure measurement, participant, participant 's blood, participant 's engagement, participant tool, prevention, provider, public health, qualified health center, regular measurement, regular measurement of blood pressure, regular one-on-one counsel, regular out-of-office blood pressure measurement, reliable measurement, respectively, risk-reduction, self-measured, self-measured blood pressure monitor, Self-Measured blood pressure monitor program, simple hypertension education, SMBP, SMBP clinical service use, SMBP program, stroke, stroke prevention program, systolic blood pressure, telephonic support tool, university of Kentucky, usual care

FRANKFORT Hypertension or high blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, chronic kidney disease, and dementia.1

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Stroke of Genius

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 Jim Kelsey address sleep apnea, amulet, amulet procedure, anticoagulation, appendage, artery, atrial fibrillation, atrium, attractive field, bedside evaluation, bedside evaluation of the patient, big philosophical growth, cardiac rhythm problem, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiovascular care, chi saint, chronic health condition, clot, clot formation, common patient presentation, complicated patient, consequence of hypertension, course of care, data-driven, data-driven decision help, data-driven decision make, director of the structural heart program, Falluji, fibrillation, good understand of the patient, heart 's left atrial appendage, heart program, image001 photo, image002 photo, intervention, interventional cardiologist, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph hospital, left atrial appendage, left atrium, less-scientific, less-scientific information, majority of the condition, Mark Mahan Erin Caldwell, Mark Mahan Nezar Falluji, medicine, MitraClip, Nezar Falluji, non-surgical option, normal contraction, one-half of the arrhythmia, paternal approach, perception, peripheral vascular artery, photo, procedural medicine, procedure, reward realization, rhythm problem, rigid guideline, risk of stroke, source of less-scientific information, stroke, stroke of genius, structural cardiovascular care, structural heart program, TAVR, use of non-invasive test, valvular abnormality, watchman, WATCHMAN™ coordinator

LEXINGTON Trusting the science comes naturally to Nezar Falluji, MD, MPH. As an interventional cardiologist at CHI Saint Joseph Health

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Special Section

Searching for Answers

December 1, 2021February 15, 2022 Gil Dunn absence seizure, adjunct clinical associate professor, adjunct clinical associate professor of neurology, adult grand mal seizure, answer, baptist health, Bill Robertson, brain, brain malfunction, brain play, broad combination, cafeteria, clinical neurophysiology fellowship, comfortable treat, dementia, disorder, diverse patient population, doctor, EEG, Elliott Sherr, epilepsy, epileptic person, FAAN, fellow of the American academy of neurology, focal epilepsy, frontal lobe seizure, gratis clinical faculty, group neurology, Henry Clay high school, hospital cafeteria, image001 photo, Indiana, Indiana university methodist hospital, Indiana university school, Indiana university school of medicine, Jeffery Winer, lab mouse, Louisville, Louisville school, medical degree, medical group neurology, medical knowledge of epilepsy, medication, medicine, Mehrizi, Mehrizi 's EEG, Mehyar Mehrizi, member of the gratis clinical faculty, midst of the lengthy interview, migraine, migraine increase, Morton middle school, Mrs. Jacobs, multiple little absence seizure, nerve, nervous system, neuralgia, neurological disorder, neurologist, neurology, neurology residency, neurology student, Neurophysiologist, neurophysiology, neurophysiology fellowship, neurophysiology monitor, pathway of nerve stimulation, patient started yell profanity, profanity, scream profanity, seizure, small shock wave, social creature, specific neurological disorder, stimulator, stroke, study of epilepsy, subspecialty, subspecialty fellowship, surgical neurophysiology monitor, test nerve pathway use electroencephalography, treatment of epilepsy, trigeminal, trigeminal neuralgia, uncontrollable episode, underperforming student, understand brain seizure, university of Kentucky college of medicine, university of Louisville school of medicine department, UofL, UofL school, UofL school of medicine, visual evoked potential, VNS

LOUISVILLE Every doctor has had an unusual case, right? A good story to tell. Mehyar Mehrizi, MD, FAAN, neurologist at

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Special Section

Speak It into Existence

December 1, 2021February 15, 2022 Jim Kelsey abnormal blood vessel, ALS, Alzheimer, American host family, Berea, Berea college, biomarkers, biomedical science course, blood vessel, cardinal Hill rehabilitation hospital, catastrophic stroke, chi, chi saint, clinic follow-up visit, clinical neurologist, dementia, disable impact, disable impact of severe migraine, Doc, Dr. David Blake, eventual interest, existence, Fred Odago, Gil Dunn Fred Odago, Hill rehabilitation hospital, host family program, image001 photo, impression of neurology, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, lateral sclerosis, Lexington, make neurology, medical school, medication, midst of an environment, migraine, migraine treatment, neurological condition, neurologist, neurology, Odago, Odago 's family, Odago point, risk of subsequent neurological disease, sclerosis, shadowed neurologist, significant cause of disability, significant practical implication, stroke, subsequent neurological disease, UK college of medicine, underlie abnormality

LEXINGTON When he was a child growing up in Kenya, Fred Odago, MD, was never pressured to become a physician,

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News News & Events

News – Aug 2021

August 1, 2021October 18, 2021 MD-Update Staff $, $10.6 million partnership, 10.6, accreditation, American college, Aslam, Bahasa Indonesia, baptist health, baptist health team, Bardstown, Behnke, board-certified, cancer, cancer program, cardiology, Care, Care center, Care clinic, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief executive officer, Cleveland, clinic, CoC, De La Cruz, Dimeling, Elizabeth, Elizabeth hospital, emergency, emergency room, ER, Flaget, Flaget memorial, Floyd, formal groundbreaking, freestanding ER, good care, group practice, gynecology, heart procedure, hospice, hospice center, hybrid emergency room, image001 image, innovation, intensive program, internal medicine, intuitive health, invasive heart procedure, J., Jefferson ridge development, JEFFERSONVILLE, Jewish hospital, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, Kentucky, large group practice, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Louisville, Mary, MBA, medical degree, medical school, medicine, MedOne, MedOne hospital physician, Neltner, News, NSLI-Y, obstetrics, Ohio, onsite, patient care, photo, physician, primary care, procedure, provider, residency, Southern Indiana, Stephen J., stroke, stroke center, surgeon, surgery, TAVR, thoracic surgeon, thoracic surgery, transcatheter, undergraduate education, underserved, university of Virginia, UofL, UofL health, urgent care, urgent care clinic, Vasdev Lohano, year of experience

Baptist Health Teams Up with Intuitive Health, Breaks Ground on Southern Indiana’s First Freestanding ER and Urgent Care JEFFERSONVILLE, IN

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One Heart, A Team of Doctors

February 1, 2021April 14, 2021 Donna Ison access technique, Ahmad, Ahmad khan, Alexandra Rogers, aortic valve replacement, aortic valve stenosis, baptist health, biophysics, Brian Kaebnick, cardiac anesthesiologist, cardiac catherization lab, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiothoracic, cardiothoracic surgeon, catherization, catherization lab, Christopher Semder, combined skill, coordinator, critical component of the team, director of the cardiac catherization lab, diverse train, ECMO, Emory, Emory university, fellowship, Flaherty, general surgery residency, good outcome, graduate of new York medical college, heart nurse coordinator, heart program, heart team, image001 photography, image002 Christopher Semder, image003 Sebastian Pagni, image004 William Dillon, individual skill set, interventional cardiologist, join physician, Kaebnick, khan, knowledge of a team of talented cardiac specialist, La Plata medical school, lead patient, leaflet, Louisville, Louisville 's structural heart team, medical degree, medicine, Michael Flaherty, Michael P., modality, necessary test, new York medical college, option, outcome, oxygenation, P., Pagni, physician, physician function, procedure, regurgitation, replacement, residency, Sebastian Pagni, Semder, service interaction, stenosis, stroke, structural heart nurse coordinator, structural heart program, structural heart team, structural heart team 's medical director, sub-team of cardiac anesthesiologist, surgeon, surgery, surgery residency, surgical director, surgical director of structural heart program, surgical director of the structural heart team, talented cardiac specialist, TAVR, TAVR-based, TAVR-based modality, team 's medical director, team approach, team of doctor, therapy, trained set, trained set of people, transcatheter, UofL, Valhalla, valve, valve repair, valve replacement, valve stenosis, William Dillon

LOUISVILLE Each Monday, the Structural Heart Team at Baptist Health Louisville brings its diverse training, accumulated experience, and individual skill

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Special Section

UofL Health’s Ding Modestly Fills a Vital and Patient-Centered Role

December 1, 2020February 17, 2021 Tim Corkran abnormal tangle, abnormal tangle of blood vessel, aneurysm, Artemis, blood vessel, brain, catheter, catheter work, catheter-based, catheter-based endovascular procedure day, catheter-based procedure, cerebrovascular concern, clot, combination of clinical practice, common pathology, COVID-19, COVID-19 diagnosis, Dale, Dale ding, decision-making capacity, detailed catheter work, diagnostic angiograms, ding, ding estimate, ding note, disperse stroke induce clot, Dr. Dale, Dr. Dale ding, ease, educate patient, emergent care, emergent care of cerebrovascular concern, emergent stroke, ever-advancing technology, general neurosurgery call, go-to guy, good mentorship, hands-on element, image001 photo, IR, Joseph Neimat, malformed blood vessel, mastery of ever-advancing technology, member of the stroke team, neurologist, neurosurgeon, neurosurgeon appeal, neurosurgery, neurosurgery call, new device, new interventional radiology suite, non-emergent need, one-year catheter-based procedure, personality of the neurosurgeon appeal, prestigious barrow, procedure, prospect of good mentorship, putt patient, quality of the picture, radiology, radiology suite, sole practitioner, sole practitioner of vascular neurosurgery, spectrum of treatment, spectrum of vascular disorder, state-of-the-art stroke care, stroke, stroke neurologist, stroke program, stroke team, suite, surgical acumen, university 's valuable commitment, UofL, UofL health, UofL health 's ding, vascular abnormality, vascular abnormality of the brain, vascular neurosurgeon, vascular neurosurgery, vascular situation

LOUISVILLE As the only vascular neurosurgeon on staff at UofL Health, neurosurgeon Dale Ding, MD, is the go-to guy for

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Focus on Function First

August 1, 2020October 19, 2020 Donna Ison academic Physiatrists, acquired brain injury program, admirable accomplishment, Amantadine, association of academic Physiatrists, Atlanta 's shepherd center, brain, brain doctor, brain injury, brain injury program, brain injury research, Brian Bohannon Darryl Kaelin, chief resident, cord, cord injury, Darryl Kaelin, Dayton Ohio, devastate car accident, Dr. Darryl Kaelin, Dr. Darryl Kaelin help patient, effectiveness of the physical medicine, elevator speech, Emily Holmes, Emory university 's school, Emory university 's school of medicine, endowed chair, endowed chair of brain injury, Frazier Rehab, Frazier Rehab institute, Frazier rehabilitation institute, good program, image001 photo, image002 photo, individual 's physical, injury, inpatient, Kaelin, Kaelin 's word, Kettering medical center, Louisville, medical director, medical director of brain injury research, medical director of the acquired brain injury program, medical director of UofL health, medicine, medicine rehabilitation, miraculous story, multidisciplinary care, musculoskeletal perspective, neuro-rehabilitation, non-surgical treatment of disease, outpatient, perfect specialty, photo, physiatrist, physiatrists, physiatry, physiatry make, physical medicine, physical medicine rehabilitation, physician, PM&R specialist, PMR, power of the human spirit, practice of UofL health, quality of life, recovery, rehabilitation, specialist, specialty, spinal cord injury, stroke, stroke rehabilitation, TBI, telemedicine, telerehabilitation, therapist, time provide elevator speech, traumatic brain injury, university of Louisville, UofL, UofL health, UofL physician, UofL school, UofL school of medicine

LOUISVILLE Completing a 5K run is an admirable accomplishment for anyone. But, for someone who has suffered a traumatic brain

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Events News & Events

Events – Mar 2019

March 1, 2019May 13, 2019 MD-Update Staff American heart association, APRN, auction, ball, baptist health, Berea, Berea area, birth center, cardiology, care unit, central Kentucky, central Kentucky heart, CEO, CEO Andy Henderson, ceremonial ground-breaking, chi, chi saint, Churchill company, clinic, clinic 's new building, clinician, current Lexington clinic facility, Damian Cole, Edward Stanko, encore of Lexington, executive director, featured dinner, Floyd medical group, gala, Gil Dunn Mary, Gil Dunn Terry Deis, ground-breaking, heart association, heart disease, image001 photo, image002 photo, image003 photo, image004 photo, image005 photo, image006 photo, John Sartini, Joseph, Joseph Berea, Joseph Berea foundation, Joseph Berea foundation gala, Joseph Berea physician, Joseph Berea physician of the year, Joseph foundation, Joseph London, Joseph London foundation, Joseph London foundation gala, Joseph London foundation gala of hope, Joseph medical group, Kentucky, Kentucky heart, Ky., Leslie, Leslie smart, level II, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Lexington clinic board, Lexington clinic board of director, Lexington clinic break ground, Lexington clinic facility, Lexington mayor, life fund, Linda Gorton, live music, Louisville, low-income patient, Mary Ellen, Mary Ellen shield, member of Lexington clinic, need of the patient population, Neil Patil, neonatal intensive Care unit, new Lexington clinic, NICU, people of central Kentucky, photo, physician, physician of the year, physician service award, practice clinician, PsyD, Sandra Rose, Shelley Stanko, silent auction, smart, sponsor, Steve Umansky, stroke, successful gala, th year anniversary, th year anniversary of the found of Lexington clinic, UofL, VP, wonderful evening

Lexington Clinic Breaks Ground on New Building LEXINGTON Since 1920, Lexington Clinic has served the people of Central Kentucky, and

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Complementary Care

The Care Collaborative

March 1, 2019March 21, 2019 Allison Merritt, MPH adult, Allison Merritt, behavior, blood pressure, blood pressure zone, Care, Care coach, Care educational encounter, care patient, coach, DPH, easy-to-use tool, educational encounter, encounter, engagement tool, FQHCs, Graves Gilbert, Graves Gilbert clinic, health behavior, healthy behavior, heart disease, high burden of hypertension, home visit program, hypertension, hypertension 2, image001 photo, Kentucky, Kentucky department, Kentucky heart disease, Kentucky patient, kidney disease 1, lay health professional, lifestyle, lifestyle modification, modification, number five cause, number five cause of death, patient 's blood, patient 's engagement, prevention, risk-reduction, statewide education, stroke, stroke prevention program, tool

As a healthcare professional, you are most likely aware that hypertension is a serious medical condition that increases one’s risk

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