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I Need a… Bariatric Surgeon
… Our "I need a" series is a helpful guide to finding the care you … on weight loss surgeries. What Credentials Should I Look For? It can be hard to find a surgeon by looking at … your search, make sure that's only part of your criteria. Am I a Candidate for Bariatric Surgery? Bariatric surgeons …
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Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery
… Weight loss surgery is now recognized as the most effective treatment available for adolescents suffering from severe obesity. Through our … up with you soon. Resources Planning and Preparing Am I a Candidate for Weight Loss Surgery? Weight Loss Surgery … Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery …
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Courage to Share: The Importance of Publishing Adverse Surgical Outcomes
… This is a conversation with Paul Kurlansky, MD , Associate Director of Columbia’s Center for Innovation and Outcomes Research , and a boarded … about why publishing a study like this is so important? I had the pleasure and honor of working with Dr. Takayama on …
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Overcoming Parathyroid Cancer
… daughter Greer’s herculean efforts to help her mother (who is deaf and relies on lip reading to communicate) during a … full recovery, but the lessons from her story are crucial for all of us to understand. Jump to a Section: Background … Post-Surgery Recovery Conclusions & Lessons BACKGROUND I was hoping you could start by telling us a bit about …
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healthpoints Spring 2014
… Atresia: New program provides long-term coordinated care for children with EA-TEF Events and Announcements: The events and announcements …
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Toddler Thriving a Year After Heart Transplant
… Dr. Jan M. Quaegebeur . Exactly a year later, on January 26, 2006, Jordan was back at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia … University Medical Center, where Dr. Quaegebeur, who is Professor of Surgery and Director, Pediatric Cardiac … Jordan was placed on a special heart-lung machine for infants, known as ECMO, to help support his heart while a …
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Walking through the Pain: One Woman’s Battle with Claudication
… By Cale Li, MD “I was experiencing claudication, but I didn’t know what that … Instead, she called her cardiologist whom she had known for years. “He put a couple of dopplers on my feet and said, … up in Dr. Morrissey’s office.” Dr. Nicholas Morrissey is a vascular surgeon at New-York Presbyterian …
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Richard's LVAD: A Destination Therapy
… A pilot for Pan AM and United Airlines, Richard Stowe took a leave of absence … that he would benefit from an LVAD. Richard's response? "I thought a device like that would be as big as an oven or a …
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Alive at 65: Three-time Transplant Recipient Jerry Cahill Appreciates Every Day
… with cystic fibrosis (CF) at age 10, he’s advocated for his own health and reinvented himself through each … to empowering others to succeed. Now 65 years old, Jerry is decades beyond the median survival rate for CF patients. … summer, for the first time in his life, he wondered: “Am I going to make it through this?” Nine years ago, Jerry …
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Lung Transplantation
… Lung Transplantation is a surgical procedure that replaces a person’s damaged lung with a healthier one from a donor. Key Info Lung Transplants … inserted to drain air, fluid, and blood out of the chest for several days to allow the lungs to fully re-expand. The …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 4/16/20
… directional vector it implies, but it’s the wrong word, for several reasons. For one, we haven’t crashed. Nor are … like cardioverting atrial fibrillation. What awaits us is not a clean screensaver asking politely for login. We’re … from the Chair: 3/27/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/26/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/25/20 COVID-19 …
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State of the Union Conversation: The Columbia Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery & IBD Interventional Endoscopy
… spoke with the co-directors of the Columbia Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery & IBD Interventional … Our center manages all types of complex situations; it is our bread and butter. I think we could be called the last … I'll just tell a story. Some time ago, I looked after a 26-year-old lady who was pregnant and was thought to have …
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Spotlight on Graduating Chief Resident Dr. Jonathan Yang
… Jonathan Yang, MD, is a recently graduated member of the 2013 class at Columbia … Columbia? What was the focus of your residency? Dr. Yang: I was a resident at Columbia for seven years. I did three straight years in the general …
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