Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Nationally Recognized
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis has been nationally recognized in the 2008 Aster Awards Program for excellence in medical marketing. They were honored with 1 gold award for ”The Center for Surgical Weight Loss” advertising and 1 silver award for Managed Care campaign ”You can Choose Us!” G Design produced all entries.
The Aster Awards, one of the largest competitions of it’s kind, is hosted by Marketing Healthcare Today and Creative Images, Inc. This elite national program recognizes outstanding healthcare professionals for excellence in their advertising/marketing efforts.
Cole, joins Cole Pain Therapy Group
Bartlett — Bradford J. Cole, DC, CSCS has joined the team of chiropractic physicians at Cole Pain Therapy Group. A proud Memphis native, Dr. Bradford Cole returns to the Memphis area from St. Louis, where he graduated cum laude from Logan College of Chiropractic. His areas of interest include spinal rehabilitation, sports injury rehabilitation, exercise prescription, and anti-inflammatory nutrition. While in private practice, Dr. Cole is completing a Master's of Sports Science and Rehabilitation, working with a team investigating exercise, diet, and oxidative stress. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and certified provider of Active Release Technique, a popular treatment for muscular and soft tissue injury. Dr. Cole earned a Bachelor's of Life Science and a Bachelor's of Business Administration from Mississippi State University.
He graduated from Evangelical Christian School in Cordova.
Church Health Center UPCOMING EVENTS:
The second-annual Rock for Love benefit concert for the Church Health Center is set for Aug. 22nd and 23rd at the Hi-Tone. Bands include Lord T and Eloise, Snowglobe, Two Way Radio, Antenna Shoes, J.D. Reager and the Cold Blooded
Three, Vending Machine, the Coach and Four, Oh No Oh My and The Royal Bangs. For information, call (901) 272-7170 or visit http://www.churchhealthcenter.org.
Commit to Quit: The Church Health Center is offering Commit to Quit, a six-week course in smoking cessation, at Hope & Healing, 1115 Union Avenue. The upcoming start date is Tuesday, August 12 at 6:00 p.m. The course is free to Hope & Healing members and Church Health Center patients and is open to the community for a $60 fee. To sign up call Sheila Kernan at (901) 259-4673 ext. 1604, or visit http://www.churchhealthcenter.org.
UT Medical Group Physicians Named Among America's Top Doctors®
A national survey of physicians and medical leadership of leading hospitals has recognized 18 physicians from UT Medical Group, Inc. as Top Doctors in their fields. The survey was conducted by a physician-led team from the independent research firm, Castle Connolly Medical Limited, which publishes a number of regional and national guides to help consumers locate leading doctors in their communities. Using mail and telephone surveys as well as electronic ballots, the firm asked physicians and the medical leadership of leading hospitals to identify highly skilled, exceptional doctors. Careful screening of doctors’ educational and professional experience was performed before final selection was made among those physicians most highly regarded by their peers. Physicians cannot pay to be included in the guides. Doctors selected for inclusion on the Top Doctors list may also appear as Regional Top Doctors online at www.castleconnolly.com or in one of Castle Connolly’s national Top Doctors guides. The following UT Medical Group physicians, listed by specialty, are included in the Top Doctors 2008 list:
Cardiovascular Disease-Judith Soberman,Karl Weber;
Child Neurology-James Wheless;
Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism-Beverly Williams-Cleaves;
Gastroenterology-Rene Davila, Jaquelyn Fleckenstein;
Internal Medicine-James Bailey,Robert Morrison;
Neurology-Mark S. LeDoux;
OB/GYN-Veronica Mallett, Owen Phillips;
Ophthalmology-Matthew Wilson;
Pediatric Nephrology-Robert Wyatt;
Surgery-Stephen W. Behrman,Guy R. Voeller;
Thoracic Surgery-Mathew Ninan;
Urology-Anthony Lynn Patterson, Robert Wake
Aguillard & Lester Author Article
Neal Aguillard, M.D., medical director of the Methodist Healthcare Sleep Disorders Center, and Kristi Lester, manager of the Methodist Healthcare Sleep Disorders Center, have authored an article that was published in the journal Sleep Medicine.
The article, Psychological treatment of insomnia in hypnotic-dependant older adults, examines the question as to whether cognitive-behavior therapy would benefit older insomniacs who chronically use sleep medication.
Sleep Medicine is the official journal of the World Association of Sleep Medicine and International Pediatric Sleep Association.
St. Jude gains two new faculty members
Deepa Bhojwani, M.D., has joined the St. Jude Department of Oncology as an assistant member in its Leukemia/Lymphoma Division. Bhojwani's research interest is pediatric leukemias and non-Hodgkin lymphoma as well as the genomic profiling of childhood leukemia. She received her medical training at M.S. Ramaiah Medical College in Bangalore, India, and at New York University Medical Center.
Maureen McGargill, Ph.D., has joined the St. Jude Department of Immunology as an assistant member. McGargill's research focus is to understand how self-reactive T cells induce autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis-with the goal of identifying a means to specifically target the harmful T cells, while sparing the useful T cells that are important for eliminating infectious pathogens. She completed her undergraduate studies at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., earned a doctorate from the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities, Minn. And completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego.
National journal highlights Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's successes on journey to nursing excellence
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's nursing leadership initiatives were featured in the June issue of Nurse Leader: From Management to Leadership, an official journal of the American Organization of Nurse Executives. In addition, Donna Herrin, MLH senior vice president and chief nurse executive, was selected by the journal as the „Leader to Watch‰ and was featured on the cover. MLH authors participated in writing four articles:‰Opportunities and Strategies for Nurse Leader Development: Assessing Competencies‰ˇ by Leigh Ann Bradley , Ayn Maddox, Paula Spears highlighted a methodology for leader assessment and development. This work at MLH is part of the grant-funded Nurse Leader Institute which aims to improve patient outcomes and nurse retention. “Connecting the Dots: Responding to the Challenges of Budget and Finance Education” by Teresa Golden emphasized the importance for nurse leader understanding of the connection between what they do at the cost center level and the effect on an organization‚s financial outcomes.
Examples included incremental nurse overtime and length of stay. “Breaking the Boundaries: Standardization of a Competency Assessment Model for all Clinical Disciplines” by Kelly Cook, Carol Cox, and Sarah Henning described Methodist’s redesign of a leader-accountable approach to competency assessment of clinical staff, making the process more relevant, meaningful and predictable while reducing regulatory risk. “Journey to Nursing Excellence: Building Partnerships for Success” by Paula Spears, Denise Thornton, and Laura Long, highlighted the MLH Center for Nursing Excellence (CNE) and the importance of partnerships between nurse leaders, frontline staff and academic colleagues. This article featured the CNE's approach to student nurse recruitment, a newly redesigned Student Nurse Extern program and a targeted promotion of board certification, advanced degree attainment and career planning.
UTMG Welcomes Infectious Disease Specialist
Memphis — Dr. Mack A. Land has joined UT Medical Group Inc. as an infectious disease specialist in the Department of Medicine. Land earned his medical degree from the UT College of Medicine in 1973 and completed his internal medicine residency with The Regional Medical Center (The MED) and the Veterans Administration Medical Center.
After completing a fellowship in infectious disease at the university, he joined the UT faculty as an instructor in the Department of Medicine. He went on to serve the department as clinical assistant professor and later as clinical associate professor of medicine. Since 1995, he has held the position of professor of medicine. Named among the Best Doctors in America®, Land is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease.
He also has a special interest in travel medicine.
Baptist awards third annual Nursing Administrative Fellowship
Nancy Sellers, a University of Memphis nursing student, recently earned the third Baptist Memorial Nursing Administration Fellowship award.
During the fellowship, Sellers will work closely with the nursing executive staff at Baptist Memorial Health Care to more fully understand the responsibility and importance of nursing administration within a large health care organization. Her special project will be developing tactics to support nurse recruitment and retention efforts.
Sellers will graduate from the University of Memphis in August with a master’s degree in nursing administration.
The fellowship is part of Baptist’s $1 million grant made to the University of Memphis in 2005 that honors students pursuing an advanced degree in nursing administration and who excel in both leadership and academics.
Dennis D. Black, MD, Appointed Buckman Chair at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Medicine has appointed Dennis D. Black, MD, to the John Dustin Buckman Endowed Professorship in Pediatrics. Since 1998, Dr. Black, a professor of pediatrics, has been the scientific director of the Children’s Foundation Research Center (CFRC) located at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center of Memphis. The CFRC represents a unique partnership between Le Bonheur, the Children’s Foundation of Memphis and UTHSC. The professorship is earmarked to support the scientific director of the CFRC. Dr. Black is also a professor of physiology at UTHSC and associate director of the UTHSC Clinical and Translational Science Institute. As vice president for Research at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, he is also a member of the hospital’s Senior Leadership Council.
His lab was the first to prove that an important role of a protein called apolipoprotein A-IV is to enhance fat absorption in a newborn’s small intestine. In his 19th year of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, Dr. Black’s ultimate goal is to understand what type of fat is best handled by the apo A-IV system and how the apo A-IV gene is regulated in a newborn’s intestine. This may lead to therapeutic strategies for up-regulating the gene to improve fat absorption in sick infants and possibly down-regulating the gene in older children and adults who are obese.
Dr. Black has been nationally recognized throughout his career. He has served on the Executive Councils of the Society for Pediatric Research and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN). While serving as chair of the NASPGHAN Research Committee, he received the Award of Appreciation from Mead Johnson Nutritionals for serving as director of the Annual North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition/Mead Johnson Research Forum for Pediatric Gastroenterologists. He has been listed in Woodward/White's Best Doctors in America from 1998 through the present. In 2005, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mid-South Chapter of the American Liver Foundation. He has served on numerous NIH review panels and is currently a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. Most recently, he was appointed as merit professor of Beijing Children’s Hospital and Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
A 1978 graduate of the UTHSC College of Medicine, Dr. Black completed his pediatric residency and a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center. He is an active member in a wide variety of professional organizations including the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the Southern Society for Pediatric Research, the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and the American Pediatric Society.
St. Jude Biomedical Research Symposium to Address Advances in Genetics
A who's who" of leading experts in genetics research will gather for a one-day conference Wednesday, December 3 at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
The 4th annual St. Jude Biomedical Research Symposium, themed "It's ALL about Genetics," is co-hosted by Alessandra d'Azzo, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology department and holder of the Jewelers For Children Endowed Chair in Genetics and Gene Therapy, and Erin Schuetz, Ph.D., member of the St. Jude Pharmaceutical Sciences department.
The symposium will feature leading experts who will discuss the advances in genetic science throughout the decade, the latest findings from the researchers' laboratories and the future direction of the field. Topics include development, protein structure and function, regulation of gene expression and genome structure and evolution.
According to d'Azzo and Schuetz, genetics research has greatly enhanced the understanding of the molecular and genetic basis of human diseases, including childhood cancers and other catastrophic diseases treated at St. Jude.
The goal of the symposium is to provide a comprehensive review of the key areas within the genetics field and to foster an in-depth understanding of the current state of genetics research. Each person-from basic scientists and medical researchers to clinical investigators and health care providers-who attends the symposium should also acquire an appreciation of the medical significance of the latest discoveries in the field of genetics.
Scheduled speakers include Frank Grosveld, Ph.D., Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Douglas Higgs, Ph.D., FRS, Oxford University; Marcy E. MacDonald, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Center for Human Genetic Research; Jamey D. Marth, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, University of California San Diego; Elizabeth Neufeld, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles; Svante Pääbo, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Ph.D., HHMI, University of Utah; Stephen W. Scherer, Ph.D., HHMI investigator, University of Toronto; and Richard A. Young, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Registration is open now through Wednesday, Nov. 26. For more information, visit
http://www.stjude.org/seminars<http://www.stjude.org/seminars
The symposium has been approved for 6.75 CME credit hours.
St. Jude Karimova, Award
Evguenia Karimova, M.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the St. Jude Department of Radiological Sciences, was recently honored with the 2008 Research and Education Foundation Roentgen Fellow Award from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The award recognizes her imaging research focusing on skeletal toxicities in survivors of childhood cancer and, in particular, her contributions to the diagnosis and understanding of osteonecrosis as a significant adverse effect of therapy. The RSNA is a professional membership society of more than 40,000 medical imaging professionals committed to excellence in patient care through education and research.
Wolf River Plastic Surgery Website Gets A Facelift
Wolf River Plastic Surgery unveiled its new website today that can be found at www.cosmedex.com. The redesign of the existing site makes for a more user-friendly and informative site and has been enhanced with a fresh look.
According to Ronald J. Johnson MD, FACS, “with the increasing importance of online resources, a website revamp was just the next step in providing customer service to our clients. The redesigned website will educate our readers about our services, the latest procedures in cosmetic surgery, and give the option of scheduling an appointment or filling out paperwork online, saving valuable time.”
Maxim Staffing Solutions Awarded Certification From The Joint Commission
Maxim Staffing Solutions has achieved the Gold Seal of Approval™ for healthcare staffing services from The Joint Commission.
Maxim Staffing Solutions underwent an unannounced, on-site review of its compliance with national standards addressing how staffing firms determine the qualifications and competency of their staff, how they place their staff, and how they monitor staff’s performance.
The ongoing shortages of nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals have forced healthcare organizations to increasingly fill positions with temporary workers through contractual arrangements with staffing firms. The Joint Commission’s certification program, launched in October 2004, offers an independent, comprehensive evaluation of a staffing firm's abilities to provide competent staffing services.
Two Baptist Memorial hospitals named among Mid-South’s best values
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis and Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto recently were named Best in Value Hospitals by Data Advantage, a health care information company.
The list was part of Data Advantage’s Hospital Value Index™ study, the first comprehensive scorecard measuring the relative value of care provided by U.S. hospitals. The new measure studied more than 1,500 general acute-care hospitals in America’s 100 largest cities, serving approximately 180 million consumers. Data Advantage developed the study in anticipation of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Value-Based Purchasing initiative, which proposes to financially reward a hospital based on the value of its care beginning next year.
The Hospital Value Index™ was created to help consumers make sense of all the health care measurement and information available today. It defines a hospital’s value by its success in four areas: quality of care, including core processes and patient safety; efficiency of care and affordability; patient satisfaction; and local reputation.
Methodist South Hospital Awarded Cycle II Chest Pain Center Accreditation
The Society of Chest Pain Centers has granted the designation of Cycle II Accredited Chest Pain Center to Methodist South Hospital for receiving full accreditation from the Accreditation Review Committee on May 9, 2008. Methodist South is one of only 24 in the state and the only one in Memphis awarded Cycle II accreditation – the highest accreditation currently available.
Dr. Michael Ugwueke, CEO and administrator at Methodist South says that South’s recent accreditation is a major milestone and another seal of approval on our continued quest for excellence and dedication to improving the health of our community.
The Chest Pain Center’s protocol driven and systematic approach to patient management allows physicians to reduce time to treatment during the critical early stages of a heart attack, when treatments are most effective, and to better monitor patients when it is not clear whether they are having a coronary event. Such observation helps ensure that a patient is neither sent home too early nor needlessly admitted.
With the rise of Chest Pain Centers came the need to establish standards designed to improve the consistency and quality of care provided to patients. The Society’s accreditation process insures centers meet or exceed quality-of-care measures in acute cardiac medicine. The philosophy of accreditation is one of collaboration and process improvement. Every three years the facility is required to go through another accreditation cycle in which the expectations will increase and the facility must show continuous improvement in the care of the cardiac patient. Methodist South Hospital has now completed “Cycle II” accreditation.
Christ Community Featured in Report to Nation
Christ Community Health Services was recently featured in “The President’s Faith-Based Community Initiative in 50 States: A Report to the Nation,” a report issued by The White House.
The report was released during the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives National Conference in Washington, D.C., in late June. Organizations around the country were asked to submit patient, client and organizational stories, and one story from each state was selected to be featured as a White House success story. Selected organizations and the subjects of the stories were designated as recipients of the Honor of Hope Award.
A patient story submitted by Christ Community was selected as the recipient from Tennessee, and executive director Burt Waller was in Washington to sit on a panel at the conference when he was notified about the honor.
The patient featured in the story is the official recipient of the award and will receive a certificate and a letter of commendation from The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Christ Community will be honored along with the patient.
Sutherland Invitation to view Film
Arthur J. Sutherland, III M.D. FACC, Chairman of the Tennessee Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program would like to invite everyone to see the film, SICK AROUND THE WORLD. In the film, Washington Post reporter T. R. Reid takes a look at the health care systems of the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland, and shows how each has settled on different models that are simpler, fairer, cheaper, and include everyone. He contrasts these nations with the United States which is "unlike every other country because it maintains so many separate systems for separate classes of people."
To view "Sick Around the World" and for other resources:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld
August 2008
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