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Providing the Highest Quality Care to the Highest Risk Pregnancies

June 1, 2022June 22, 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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Adjusting Sails in Stormy Seas for Better Mental Health

June 1, 2022June 22, 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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Cover Story 

Infectious Enthusiasm

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Jim Kelsey about, about 5 years old grow, advanced classroom work, animal coronaviruses, area of medicine deal, burn call, Burns, Burns 's eye, Burns credit, community speaker, comorbidity, coronaviruses, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, dangerous infection, disease specialist, diverse patient, division of infectious disease, Dr. Mark Burns, duPont manual high school, established patient, FACP, field of infectious disease, former infectious disease specialist, former nurse 's aide, great impact, high risk, HIV, HIV clinic, image001 photo, image002 photo, immune system, importance of infectious disease, infection, infection clinic, infectious disease, infectious disease specialist, infectious enthusiasm, joint infection clinic, Julio Ramirez, junior varsity basketball, large group of diverse patient, little boy, little boy of about 5 years old grow, local laundromat, long white coat, Louisville, Louisville Mark Burns, Louisville school, Mark Burns, Mark Mahan, medicine, medicine deal, mom, open wound, pandemic, photo, physician, potential career, pulmonary critical care, solid organ, specialist, stem cell transplant patient, type of medical field, university of Louisville school of medicine, UofL, UofL health, vaccine, virus, wide patient population

LOUISVILLE Mark Burns, MD, FACP, has a passion for infectious disease that could be called, well, contagious. It’s one that

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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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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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Finding Purpose After Prognosis

December 1, 2021February 15, 2022 Donna Ison American spinal injury association, Asia 's americas committee, Asia 's americas committee target sci education, bowel, Camillo Castillo, Camilo Castillo, Castillo, Castillo serve, Castillo state, cervical injury, challenge disease, combination of compassion, cord, cord injury, cord injury medicine, cord injury program, Corpas, director of spinal cord injury program, E., Federico Montero, find purpose, Frazier Rehab, Frazier Rehab institute, Frazier rehabilitation institute, image001 photo, image002 photo, image003 photo, improve sci care, injury, injury association, inpatient, interdisciplinary approach, Isaac Hernandez Jimenez, level of compassion, limb, limb functionality, medicine, member of the American spinal injury association, N., native Colombia, new potential, nurse, outpatient, outpatient therapy, pediatrician father, photo, physical medicine, physician, PMR, prognosis, rehab, rehabilitation, rehabilitation doctor, rehabilitation technology, sci, sci care, sci education, Spanish translation of material, spinal cord injury, spinal cord injury medicine, spinal cord injury program, thoracic injury, traumatic spinal cord injury, type of spinal cord injury, understand people, Universidad Juan, Universidad Juan N., UofL, UofL health, UofL physician, Virginia commonwealth university school of medicine

LOUISVILLE Despite spending a decade as a physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor specializing in spinal cord injury (SCI), Camilo Castillo,

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News News & Events 

News – Dec 2021

December 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff $36, 36 year healthcare veteran, 373-bed, 434-bed, 434-bed hospital, Agarwala, American college, American pathologist, Antonio Lopez, APRN, baptist health, breast, breed, Brown, brown cancer center, cancer, Care, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief operate officer, Chris Roty, clinic, day-to-day leadership, diagnostics, diagnostics center, Dunlap, Emily Volk, family medicine, FCAP, fellowship, healthcare veteran, Hejazi, hospital 's leadership, ICU, image001 photo, inpatient, internal medicine, J., Jessamine, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, Kamran Hejazi Kenari, Kentucky, Kiltinen, Kyaw, LA Grange, laboratory medicine, leadership, Leslye Jones, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Louisville, Louisville school, lung, lung cancer, lung disease, management of the 434-bed hospital, Matt Bailey, medical degree, medicine, Neal Dunlap, neck, neck cancer, Nessa Timoney, News, nurse, nurse practitioner, oncology, osteopathic medicine, Paducah, Paducah hospital, pathologist, pathology, pediatrics, photo, physician, post-graduate, president of baptist health, preventative, provider, Pulmonology, radiation, radiation oncology, radiology, residency, Roty, Roty 's leadership, S., Sanjay Agarwala, Siddiqui, Staten, Tennessee, treatment of lung, UofL, UofL health, Valerie, Valerie breed, vice president, Volk

Roty Named Chief Operating Officer at Baptist Health Lexington LEXINGTON After serving as president of Baptist Health Paducah, Chris Roty

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Making the Impossible Possible

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Tim Corkran associate professor, basic science colleague, bedside, bedside approach, blood cell, brand-new drug, Brown, brown cancer center, Brown cancer center 's Rebecca Redman, cancer, cancer cell, cancer patient, cancer treatment, care of cancer patient, checkpoint, checkpoint inhibitor, chemotherapy, chief administrative officer of UofL health, clinic, clinical research, clinical trial, clinical trial office, combination of exist drug, dedicated research coordinator, deputy director, deputy director of clinical research, devoted team, diagnosis, dietician, director of medical oncology service, ENT physician, entire team of dedicated research coordinator, first-time study, first-time study of the agent, fortuitous work study placement, function life, function treatment, gland cancer, HPV case, image001 photo, image002 photo, immune system, immunotherapy, informed bench, inhibitor, internal medicine residency, Jason Chesney, Kentuckian, lab, lab practice, life-giving tissue, lymphocyte, medical oncologist, medical oncology fellowship, medical oncology service, medicine, medicine residency, mix of lab work, multidisciplinary clinic, neck, neck cancer, neck cancer patient, neck cancer treatment, neck patient, oncologist, oncologist 's lab, oncology, oncology fellowship, oncology service, pediatric oncologist 's lab, phase 1, phase 1 trial, PhD, photo, possibility of a home run, quality of life-giving tissue, radiation, Rebecca Redman, Redman, Redman 's research, research coordinator, salivary gland cancer, science colleague, see patient, smart treatment, thoughtful way, throat cancer issue, tissue, treatment of head, trial offer two, trial offer two level, trial offer two level of hope, trial office, tumor, tumor infiltrate lymphocyte, UofL, UofL health, UofL school, UofL school of medicine, work study placement

LOUISVILLE The treatment of head and neck cancers has long had the potential to damage sensitive, quality of life-giving tissues.

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First-in-World Heart Implant at UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff –third, –third implantation, aeson, Aeson device, Aeson® bioprosthetic, artificial heart, bioprosthetic, biventricular, cardiothoracic, CARMAT, clinical trial procedure, early feasibility study, female patient, First-in-World heart, French medical device company, heart implantation, heart organ transplant, heart transplant, hospital team, image001 photo, implantation, investigational device, Jewish hospital, Jewish hospital team, Mark slaughter, novel type of artificial heart, Pahwa, pump blood, Siddharth Pahwa, slaughter, surgery, surgical director, surgical director of heart transplant, thoracic surgery, Tom round, total artificial heart, total artificial heart implantation, Trager transplant center, transplant, UofL, UofL health, UofL physician, UofL school, UofL school of medicine, world-class

LOUISVILLE The cardiothoracic surgical team at UofL Health – Jewish Hospital performed the world’s first Aeson® bioprosthetic total artificial heart

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News – Oct 2021

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff $, $1 million investment, 1, Adele, Adele amine, amine, Arun Ummat, baptist health, cardiology, cardiovascular service, Care, Care 11600, care transport nurse, Care welcome, cath, cath lab, catheterization, central baptist hospital, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief flight nurse, clinic, community health system, critical care transport nurse, disorder, doctor, Elizabeth, Elizabeth hospital, endocrinology, executive director, executive director of cardiovascular service, family medicine, guild, GYN, gynecology, health maintenance, healthcare leadership role, image001 photo, image002 photo, Jeevanjot Virk, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph hospital volunteer guild, Joseph medical group, Kentucky, KY 40243, lab, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Lexington Marc Manley, life-saving, life-saving care, local student, Louisville, Louisville Jeevanjot Virk, Louisville primary Care medical group, Manley, Marc Manley, Marina Saad, Mary, medical degree, medical director, medical director of cardiology, medical field, medical group, medical school, medicine, MSN, NE-BC, neurology, new physician, News, north Texas, nurse, Nwagbara, OB, obstetrics, Odago, osteopathic medicine, photo, physician, primary Care 11600 main street, primary Care welcome, Rebekah McDaniel, residency, Sarah Burress, scholarship, school graduate attend, south Louisville, STEMI, STEMI coverage, university of Kentucky, university of north Texas, UofL, UofL health, urgent condition, Virk, Virk 's practice, Virk 's service, volunteer

Baptist Health Primary Care Welcomes Jeevanjot Virk, MD, Family Medicine LOUISVILLE Jeevanjot Virk, MD, has joined Baptist Health Louisville Primary

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