Drawn to docs - To meet the need associated with its Vision 2010 plan, UH continues rapid hiring across campus
Dr. Michael Nochomovitz is always on the lookout for a new recruit. After all, it’s been his job to oversee the hiring of numerous physicians and scientists as University Hospitals nears the end of its $1.2 billion renovation and expansion project known as Vision 2010 — and he still has a long way to go. Assisting with that enormous task is Dr. Anthony Furlan, who was hired in January 2008 as chairman of the Neurology Department and co-director of UH’s Neurological Institute… In just 16 months, Dr. Furlan has recruited more than 25 doctors to the Neurological Institute and has created centers of excellence within the institute in an effort to align care along disease lines, Dr. Furlan said. Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (142 reads) |
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Puzzling Out 10 Alzheimer's Myths: Experts Try to Remove Foggy Information from a Confusing Illness
According to the National Institutes of Health, 2.4 to 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia in the elderly. While we know Alzheimer's disease gradually destroys a person's ability to think, reason or recall memories, there is no way to diagnose it without performing an autopsy, clearly too late to help doctors trying to help the person live with the ailment...Dr. Peter Whitehouse, founder of the University Memory and Aging Center at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University, and author of "The Myth of Alzheimer's," approaches Alzheimer's as one of many natural courses of aging, rather than as a disease that requires immediate diagnosis... Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (124 reads) |
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University Hospitals Case Medical Center Doctors Author Book on Neurosurgery
Nicholas C. Bambakidis, M.D., Director of the Cerebrovascular Center, and Cliff A. Megerian, M.D., Vice Chairman of Otolaryngology-HNS, both of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, have co-authored a book with Robert E. Spetzler, M.D., Chairman of Neurological Surgery at the University of Arizona, called Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle. Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (136 reads) |
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Dealing With Visitors and Alzheimer's?
Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., Neurologist, University Hospitals Case Medical Center...How one prepares visitors to visit with somebody who has a memory problem varies, of course, on the circumstance, on the person, on the visitor themselves... Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (122 reads) |
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How Do I Deal With Hallucinations In My Loved One With Alzheimer's?
Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., Neurologist, University Hospitals Case Medical Center… Hallucinations -- that is seeing things that aren't there, that other people don't see -- are not uncommon, they're not found in everybody. But, as the illness progresses, many people are disturbed by those kinds of things. However, I said disturbed, and it's important to realize that some people are not anxious and disturbed... Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (118 reads) |
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Transdermal Methylphenidate Appears Safe, Effective for Adolescents With ADHD: Presented at APA
Methylphenidate transdermal system (MTS) appears safe and effective in adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers reported here at the 162nd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)...Robert Findling, MD, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, presented the results of the phase 3b trial at a poster presentation on May 18... Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (119 reads) |
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New thermal system helps doctors treat brain tumors: Company that makes the technology has Kalamazoo office
Technology being developed by a company with a Kalamazoo office is helping to foster a new way to attack brain tumors. The AutoLITT...technology is undergoing clinical trials on 10 patients at the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals at Case Western Medical Center in Cleveland
...Traditionally, brain tumors are treated by either surgical removal or noninvasive stereotactic radiosurgery, in which the tumor is treated with a precise dose of radiation that destroys it, said Dr. Andrew Sloan, a neurosurgeon at University Hospitals who, along with neurosurgeon Dr. Gene Barnett of Cleveland Clinic, is leading the investigation.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (132 reads) |
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Increased cuts to Ohio's mental health services will bring grave consequences
Posted by Robert J. Ronis, M.D., Cleveland- Ronis is the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. Ohio faces challenges reconciling a state budget "held together with bubble gum and Scotch tape" ("Ohio's budget is moving faster toward disaster," May 7) with critical needs of our citizens. While Thursday's paper characterizes a rally on the Statehouse lawn for mental health services as "business as usual," the previous day's edition highlights shortages of mental health providers "as state mental health budgets -- long under-funded -- are further threatened." ("Finding mental-illness treatment is hard," May 6). Read More
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 (113 reads) |
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