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Is It Possible To Lower High Blood Pressure Without Medication?
… medications have a FOUR TIMES higher risk of dying from a stroke. Yikes. But what’s the alternative? What can … pressure medications and have high blood pressure ranging from 140 and 180 depending on how many medications they take. …
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Dr. AI: Is Minimally Invasive Living Donor Liver Surgery Better than Open Surgery?
… Surgery, Jason Hawksworth, MD , asks a common question from patients who need a liver transplant: "Is Minimally … liver and replaces it with a portion of a healthy liver from a living donor. Due to the liver’s unique ability to …
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Spotlight on Graduating Chief Resident Dr. Jonathan Yang
… their hospital. During this time, I was on call anywhere from once every six days to almost every day. It is not the … treading water, trying to figure out everything from the hospital computer system to the patient management … self-sufficient more quickly and might also save you from making a mistake. Q: What do you do to keep balance in …
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New Peer Support Program Helps Surgeons Process Adverse Events and Improve
… attendings and five residents, including participants from each department—and invited them to a 2.5 hour training … department analyzes what happened and how to prevent it from happening again, the clinicians involved are identified … we can be.” Don’t miss an update on news and content from Healthpoints, the blog from the Department of Surgery at …
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Learn About Our Clinical Trials
… care. Open Clinical Trials at RecruitMe Additional Trials From Our Team What Are They | How Do They Work? | … is translational research, which builds off the findings from basic research and determines which interventions are … a successful method for preventing a disease or condition from developing. Diagnosis : Measuring the effectiveness of …
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State of the Union: Pediatric Surgery Today
… pediatric surgery is how many exciting aspects there are—from the doctoring and educating to the technological and … wonderful and amazing is just the gratification that comes from taking care of somebody's child. I really embrace the … honesty, candor, all those things I think come from the top of a smaller organization like an academic …
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Weight Loss Surgery for Kids with Severe Obesity Is Now Part of the American Academy of Pediatrics Treatment Guidelines. Here’s Why.
… in addressing obesity, with treatment options ranging from lifestyle changes to medications and surgical … in underserved communities. The ongoing pressure from the food industry for people to consume not only large … In light of these guidelines, has there been reticence from pediatricians to recommend bariatric surgery? In 2010, a …
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People Are Everything: Dr. Emile Bacha on Culture, Leadership, and the Next Chapter of Columbia Surgery
… same time, I recognize that the future is always different from the past. We have to move forward and think about what … learning. You have to have an open mind. You want to learn from other people, and you want to apply what you learn about … to say that I noticed those mistakes myself and learned from them. Nobody is born a perfect leader, I can assure you …
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The Complicated Reality of Weight Gain, Weight Loss, and Weight Stigma
… Dr. Bessler has led the evolution of weight loss surgery from open procedures with a mortality rate of 1 to 2 percent, … the risk of a long list of serious medical conditions, from heart disease and hypertension to cancers and mental … BMI and BRI: A Q&A with Columbia’s Bariatric NP Gio Dugay From Surgery to Social Media: How Dani Found Strength, …
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Clinical Trials and Innovative Research At the Pancreas Center
… we choose the clinical trials we offer to our patients from promising national studies because they seem likely to … cancer are tackling the challenges of this disease from many different angles, it is critical that eligible … maximum effectiveness requires working with tissue samples from that tumor. These samples can be used to create models …
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Princy Daniel, FNP-BC
… in the Division of Colorectal Surgery who graduated from Dominican College. Princy worked as Nurse Practitioner … Attending Gastroenterologists in the outpatient setting from their initial consult examination through their entire …
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Weight Loss Surgery Q & A: Ask the Experts
… Surgery. Looking into bariatric surgery? Get info straight from the experts! Thursday, Feb 11th 5pm EST Join by Zoom: … answering some of the most common questions they receive from their patients. Our Experts Marc Bessler, MD | Bariatric …
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Jason Solomon Hawksworth, MD
… Dr. Hawksworth received his undergraduate degree from The United States Military Academy at West point and his medical degree from Wake Forest University Bowman Gray School of Medicine. …
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2014: A Year in Review
… and sutures. According to Dr. Bacha, “the baby went from having a limited life expectancy to normal life … of determined researchers and significant funding from the National Institutes of Health , that barrier may … of Surgery’s broad mission to tackle pancreatic cancer from every angle, which includes initiatives in early …
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An Interview with Dr. Craig Smith, Heart Surgeon, Chair of Surgery, and Author of Nobility in Small Things
… that descriptor? That’s a good question. It's a phrase from one of my [Covid] updates where I mentioned a member of … of 2020, but I also relied on them. I derived comfort from them. You have been a leader for a very long time, and … left you in the hospital for 10 days, an ankle fracture from practicing the long jump in high school that easily …
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