Atlanta Cancer Care recently announced the addition of Dr. S. Tariq Mahmood to its Alpharetta and Sandy Springs offices. Dr. Mahmood is a board-certified physician in hematology, medical oncology and internal medicine. He joins Atlanta Cancer Care from Panama City, Florida, where he served as chair of the cancer committee and chief of medicine at his local hospital. Dr. ... Continue Reading
Drs. Jeremy Statton and Robert Wood join Arthritis & Total Joint Specialists
Arthritis &Total Joint Specialists is expanding into Midtown Atlanta and Gwinnett County with its newest locations in the Northside Medical building and in Lawrenceville. Dr. Jeremy Statton joins the medical practice’s team of orthopedic and joint replacement experts in Midtown, and Dr. Robert Wood began seeing patients in Lawrenceville in January. Dr. Statton is a ... Continue Reading
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Hires Orthopedists Robert Bruce and Nicholas Fletcher
Robert Bruce, MD, and Nicholas Fletcher, MD, two pediatric orthopedic surgeons, have joined Children’s Physician Group–Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as of February 1. Dr. Bruce and Dr. Fletcher previously practiced at Emory Pediatric Orthopaedics for 24 years and 9 years, respectively. Dr. Bruce, who specializes in pediatric ... Continue Reading
Emory Appoints Dr. Daneshmand as New Director of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support and ECMO
Mani Daneshmand, MD, has been appointed director of the Emory Heart & Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support programs, effective June 3, 2019. He will also serve as director of the Emory ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) Program. Daneshmand is currently an assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Duke University in Durham, NC, where he ... Continue Reading
Emory First in U.S. to Treat Epilepsy with Deep Brain Stimulation Since Commercial Approval
The Emory Brain Health Center has treated the nation’s first patient with deep brain stimulation (DBS) for medically refractory, or drug-resistant, epilepsy since commercialization of the procedure was approved last year. DBS is a minimally-invasive surgical therapy that uses an implanted medical device, similar to a cardiac pacemaker, to deliver electrical stimulation to ... Continue Reading
Emory Johns Creek Hospital Appoints Adedapo Odetoyinbo, MD as New Medical Director of Care Coordination
Adedapo Odetoyinbo, MD, hospitalist at Emory Johns Creek Hospital (EJCH) and assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine has been tapped as the hospital’s new medical director of care coordination. Odetoyinbo previously worked as EJCH’s chief medical officer and has served patients in Johns Creek since 2008. In this new role, Odetoyinbo will act ... Continue Reading
Northside Hospital and Gwinnett Health System cleared to merge in 2019; final approvals granted
Northside Hospital and Gwinnett Health System (the parent of Gwinnett Medical Center) announced that they have cleared the final regulatory hurdle toward combining operations. “We are excited to move forward on the merging of our two health systems,” said Bob Quattrocchi, president and CEO, Northside Hospital. “Leaders from both systems are already meeting to develop a ... Continue Reading
Samsky Family Pledges $11 Million Gift to Piedmont Heart
Local philanthropists Brett and Louise Samsky and their son Connor Samsky, whose $6 million gift established the Samsky Advanced Heart Failure Center at Piedmont Heart in 2015, are making an additional $11 million donation to establish the Samsky Invasive Cardiovascular Services Center. The Center will be located within Piedmont Atlanta Hospital’s Piedmont Atlanta Tower, the ... Continue Reading
Georgia Cancer Specialists Welcomes Dr. Mary Ninan
Georgia Cancer Specialists recently announced the addition of Dr. Mary Ninan as a physician at the Alpharetta and Johns Creek offices. Dr. Ninan is the newest physician to join Georgia Cancer Specialists’ network of experts. Board-certified in medical oncology, hematology and internal medicine, she specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of lymphoma, myeloma and breast ... Continue Reading
Tritt named chief medical officer of Emory Johns Creek Hospital
Shawn Tritt, MD, vice chair of anesthesiology at Emory Johns Creek Hospital, has been named chief medical officer of the facility. Tritt has served patients and the community of Johns Creek as a physician since 2009. He has worked in a variety of medical staff leadership roles including: interim chair and vice chair of the Professional Practice Evaluation Committee; vice ... Continue Reading
Piedmont Healthcare Completes Purchase of Three South Metro Radiation Oncology Services Centers
Piedmont Healthcare recently completed the purchase of three Radiation Oncology Services (ROS) centers on the south side of metro Atlanta that became part of Piedmont Henry Hospital as of Jan. 1. The centers are Piedmont Henry Radiation Oncology at Griffin, Piedmont Henry Radiation Oncology at Riverdale and Piedmont Henry Radiation Oncology, which began as a joint venture ... Continue Reading
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Receives Prestigious Trauma Designation from American College of Surgeons
The trauma center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston has been verified as a Level 1 Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee (VRC), an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The three-year verification means Egleston hospital is now the first and only ACS-verified level 1 pediatric trauma center in ... Continue Reading
Piedmont Atlanta Hospital Home to One of Six U.S. Sites for Transplant Study
Piedmont Transplant Institute, which is based at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, is one of only six sites in the United States for the potentially ground-breaking Pro-Act Study, which has been made possible by pharmacological advances that have achieved cure rates of greater than 95 percent for Hepatitis C virus (HCV). In the study, patients who do not have HCV and are on the ... Continue Reading
Greenbaum and Grubb to lead Emory Structural Heart & Valve Center
The Emory Structural Heart & Valve Center has been selected as the inaugural member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Structural Heart Intervention Network. Membership comes as Emory names new leadership to its nationally renowned program. The NHLBI Structural Heart Intervention Network, a program of the Cardiovascular Branch within the NHLBI’s ... Continue Reading
Opioid Epidemic & Fighting Addiction Stigma to be Topics of Medical Association of Atlanta’s Town Hall Symposium: New Hope for the Opioid Epidemic
Leaders of the Medical Association of Atlanta have announced that the nation’s opioid epidemic, its impact on the people of Georgia, fighting addiction stigma and offering hope to both patients and physicians will be the subject of a town hall meeting in February. Patrice Harris, M.D., president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA) and chair of the AMA Opioid Task ... Continue Reading
