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Simulation Center Dedication Ceremony

… simulation experience that will be available to clinicians at this state-of-the-art simulation center and serve as one … other life-support technology. ECMO education and training at the Mary and Michael Jaharis Simulation Center will … improve the high-quality care that ECMO patients receive at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. …

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Living Donation Liver Transplant - The Donor Process

… Darby Santamour, the Living Donor Coordinator at the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation explains … and procedures for becoming a living liver donor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hosptial. …

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Follow-Up Care After Lung Transplantation

… your surgery. These may be reduced to biweekly visits at the discretion of your transplant team if your recovery is … your medications list and your handbook. You need to be at the clinic to have your blood drawn one hour before your … will have chest x-rays and blood tests every week and then at regular intervals as necessary. The outpatient center has …

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Columbia Center for Translational Immunology Sample Repository

… To establish a sample repository for the transplant center at Columbia University Medical Center by collecting blood and … as other specimens, from patients who receive a transplant at CUMC. …

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Ruth Leff Siegel Award Winners

… , is an Associate Professor in the Human Biology Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Dr. Kugel received her … in Vancouver, Canada and her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University … she joined the laboratory of Dr. Raul Mostoslavsky at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and …

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Kazuki Sugahara, MD, PHD

… Science in Japan, Dr. Sugahara underwent surgery residency at Tazuke Kofukai Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan, received a … Medicine, Japan, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La … as a categorical resident and a research faculty at the Department of Surgery. He now continues to pursue his …

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Curing a Rare Cancer

… this, showing a mass in her abdomen. The oncologist at Danielle’s local hospital had only seen one other patient … six rounds of combination chemotherapy to shrink her tumor at a medical center near Washington, DC. She lost over 35 … , who had done groundbreaking research on this condition at the National Institutes of Health.   “We found Dr. Fojo at …

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Compassion in Action, Across the Miles

… the expertise of the living donor liver transplant team at NYP/Columbia. Yitzchok Pinkesz (the donor) is now known as … Lipschutz, who explained that she could donate an organ – at that time, only a kidney — while alive. Deceased-donor … a patient on Chaya’s list in 2010. However upon evaluation at another NY hospital, she was found ineligible due to a …

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Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis to the Liver

… Benjamin Samstein, M.D., the Surgical Director at the Living Donor Liver Transplant Program and an Attending Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical …

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A New Approach to Surgery of the Adrenal Gland: Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Adrenalectomy

… glands (adrenalectomy) can put various abdominal organs at risk. However, a technique known as retroperitoneal … for a safer and less complex procedure. Learn more at http://adrenalcenter.org/ …

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During your Stay

… on admission and one is available, there is a deposit due at that time which can be made by check, cash or major credit … Bedside rails are for your protection. They may be raised at night or during the day while resting. A call … by playing your TV softly and by turning off your set at bedtime. Earphones are at the nurses station. Telephone …

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Adolescent Obesity Surgery

… Director of the Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center, addresses questions …

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Liver Disease – An Introduction

… video Dr. Robert Brown, Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Columbia, discusses the basics of liver disease. Topics … most common types of liver disease, as well as who is most at risk for developing liver disease. Learn more about liver …

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Dr. Brown – Hepatitis C

… video, Dr. Robert Brown, Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Columbia University, discusses Hepatitis C. Dr. Brown discusses who is at greatest risk for hepatitis C, and the latest on the …

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Evaluation for Lung Transplant Surgery

… Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Transplantation at Columbia University Medical Center. The first goal of the … other significant organ dysfunction No active cancer for at least two years Abstinent from all tobacco/nicotine, alcohol, and drug use for at least 6 months History of compliance with follow-up visits …

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