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More than Willpower: Obesity’s Many Causes & Factors
… Dr. Tirissa J. Reid is an endocrinologist and expert in obesity medicine. She is assistant professor of medicine … 19 pounds” right? Which is very true. Patients have come in whether they had an issue or concern about weight before … eating. I actually did a talk, part of a panel earlier in the year for the National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, …
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Columbia Thyroid Center
… get blood work completed and even have a procedure all in a single appointment. For added convenience, we have both … take on more thyroid-related cases than any other surgeons in the region, giving them a level of experience that’s been … year and have each performed thousands of neck operations in their careers. As experts in minimally invasive thyroid …
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State of the Union: Kidney Transplantation Today
… these changes and what they mean for transplant today and in the future. Policy, Access, and the Future of Organ … to about 48,000. But since the government decided to bring in multiple contractors instead of one, they blew up the … knows what’s going on, quite frankly. What does it mean in practice when they restructure it like that? Historically, …
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State of the Union: Liver Transplantation Today
… a single breakthrough, but through incremental shifts in technology, end-of-life decision-making, oncology care , … of timing, eligibility, and equity remain central. In this interview, Dr. Kato reflects on how these changes are … More Donations, More Time to Donate What has changed in liver donation and preservation since we last spoke? The …
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What It Takes to Treat Liver Cancer Today
… “The goal is to remove the tumor, or transplant a patient in some cases, especially when there’s underlying chronic … of the reasons transplant now plays such a central role in liver cancer care. It’s also why treating this disease … Phipps, MD , a transplant hepatologist who specializes in liver cancer. “We review their case ahead of time, then …
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State of the Union: Vascular Surgery Today
… you describe the current state of vascular surgery, both in general and at Columbia? I think overall, we’re still in what’s been called the endovascular revolution. That’s … toward treating things like leg blockages or aneurysms in the belly or chest using catheters and stents rather than …
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What We’re Reading: 04/09/21
… JAMA editors (for Continuing Medical Education credit!) in which they dismiss and deny the existence of racism in medicine only shined a light on what has been a driving … been status quo. There is much work to do. ( From statnews.com ) Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the …
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What is Gender Affirmation Care? On Treating the Whole Person
… it can also be social, that arises from an incongruence in someone's gender—how or what they know their gender to be, … When a patient makes an appointment with a physician in the Gender Identity Program, where does the process begin? … what they're looking for. Oftentimes, again, because we're in the Department of Psychiatry, it's not just related to …
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Gender Affirmation Surgery: A Discussion About MTF, FTM and N Top Surgery Techniques
… least not yet. Is that something you plan to provide in the future? Yes. What I'd like to do is hire someone who specializes in gender affirmation surgery. But part of it is that in order to do bottom surgery well, you need an integrated …
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From NYP’s Health Matters: Saving Two Babies’ Lives With One Pioneering Approach to Heart Valve Transplantation
… Video By Emily Driscoll, Katie Garrett and Rick Brown In a sunny playroom on the sixth floor of … Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, two baby girls, clad in pink and wearing white headbands, pose for a photo together in their mothers’ arms, although they spend more time looking …
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On Changing the Standard of Care for Children: What the Evolution of ECMO Can Teach Us
… demands a special kind of hope and resolve. Treating them in children is work unto itself—an unwavering commitment of … oxygen. “When I was a pediatric surgery fellow in Washington [DC] from ‘80 to ‘82, I was probably involved … diagnosis,” said Charles J. Stolar, MD, former surgeon-in-chief and chief of pediatric surgery at Columbia/New …
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Nobility in Small Things: A Look Back at The Leadership of Craig Smith, MD
… Craig Smith, MD , has never been particularly interested in spectacle. If you’ve spent time around him, what stands … and deciding what actually matters. His memoir, “ Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon’s Path ,” demonstrates that attunement throughout all stages of life. Innovation, in Dr. Smith’s world, has rarely announced itself loudly. It …
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State of the Union Conversation: The Columbia Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery & IBD Interventional Endoscopy
… worries, and you get the same level of treatment. Patients in our community have a tough situation. Most of these people … things that I had found out. So, if as a seasoned warhorse in the department, I can serve a role as a mentor, I’m happy … still does, because there are very few gray haired people in the department now. So, that's my role, as I see it: to …
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Our Super Specialty: Outcomes Research at the Global Center
… Center Outcomes Research Group (GCORG) is a world leader in Outcomes Research. The surgeons and gastroenterologists in the Center have led studies that have advanced the … needed, researchers within the center have vast experience in evaluating outcomes of both novel and established …
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Utility vs. Equity: Transplantation in America Has Changed but A Lot of Work Still Needs to Be Done
… as possible. Yet modern needs have outgrown the systems in place time and time again. So much has changed over the … to computers, to the internet, to the advancements in research that allow for less-than-perfect organs to be … hold. When the National Organ Transplant Act was passed in 1984, they established the contract for the OPTN, and then …
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