Sharon Brangman, MD: Does your loved one need a feeding tube?
Frederick Sengstacke, MD: Does losing weight help overweight women conceive?
Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up: Finding work/life balance for runners’ burnout
Patrick Basile, MD: Upstate medical graduate performs high profile double arm transplant
Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up: Who, What, Where, When, How, or… what I learned on my vacation to China
Richard Cantor, MD: PEDS to Parents – How to keep kids safe in summer
Harold Smulyan, MD: What killed Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum?
Deirdre Neilen, PhD: The Healing Muse – ‘Snow’ and ‘Things My Daughter Lost in Hospitals’
Internist Apurv Khanna, director of the Hypertension Clinic at Upstate, talks about ‘resistant hypertension’, or high blood pressure that is difficult to control. Dr. Khanna will discuss the reasons for this condition and the testing and treatment the clinic provides.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call Upstate Connect 1-800-464-8668
Dr. Lubna Wani is a clinical investigator and internist treating acute and chronic diseases and conditions such as heart disease and diabetes in adult patients, and an advocate for women and heart disease. Dr. Wani will address the impact heart disease has on women and how the disease is different in women than in men.
Cardiovascular nurses Alicia Taylor and Elizabeth Urban talk about a new health event in Syracuse called Strong Women, Strong Hearts. The day will feature special presentations by Upstate Cardiologist Luna Bhatta and Upstate’s Heart Failure Coordinator Lorri Langdon, among others. The event will also provide free health screenings, nutritional information with heart-healthy tastings, exercise information and classes, and stress-management presentations that will incorporate therapeutic massage, yoga, and meditation classes, as well as Reiki therapy.
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The Upstate Heart and Vascular Center at Upstate University Hospital
Strong Women, Strong Hearts, a free day of education, entertainment and indulgence.
Bruce Searles, director of the Cardiovascular Perfusion program in Upstate’s College of Health Professions, will speak about the job of a perfusionist (they operate the heart-lung machine in the operating room) and how his program goes about training them, what sorts of background they have coming into the program and how long the training lasts and whats involved.
Learn more about the Cardiovascular Perfusion Program at Upstate’s College of Health Professions.
Cardiologist Tamas Szombathy performed the first tricuspid annulus VT ablation with stereotaxis magnetic navigation system in the world on Dec. 6 here at Upstate.
Resources:
The Upstate Heart & Vascular Center in Syracuse
Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation System
Video -Stereotaxis Magnetic Navigation
Website – Stereotaxis.com
Dr. Randolph Chitwood, Jr. is one of the world leaders in minimally invasive and robotic mitral valve surgery, and recognized as the first heart surgeon to perform robot-assisted heart valve surgery in North America. Chitwood currently serves as Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Sr. Vice Chancellor at East Carolina University.
Nurse Practitioner and Upstate’s Stroke Program Coordinator Maria Lumbrazo shares how collaboration is the key to better stroke outcomes.
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Registered nurses Meg Boynton and James Fitzgerald explain what to expect when you have a heart catheterization – preparing for the procedure, what happens during, and what the catheterization is able to reveal.
