Northside Hospital held a groundbreaking event and ceremonial cran christening on June 7 to mark the construction of a new patient tower on its Northside Gwinnett campus in Lawrenceville. Hospital leadership joined representatives from the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation, Hospital Authority of Gwinnett County, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and the local community to ... Continue Reading
Study Shows Promise in Treating Kids’ Untreatable Cancer
A new observational study, led by Dr. Kelly Goldsmith and pediatric oncologists with the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, shows that the majority of high-risk pediatric cancer patients had a genetic alteration in their tumor which could influence how they're treated. The study looks at how DNA and RNA whole exome sequencing can be ... Continue Reading
Emory, Georgia Tech & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Facilitate the NIH’s RADx Program
With the help of a $15.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Emory, Georgia Tech and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta have come together to facilitate the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program. The program selects and tests the most promising COVID diagnostic tools and helps them move quickly through the development and ... Continue Reading
Emory Scientists Discover Warped Protein Interactions in Cancer
Scientists at Emory University led by Winship Cancer Institute researcher Haian Fu, PhD, have revealed widespread distortions of a cell's protein interaction machinery resulting from cancer-causing mutations. They developed a process resembling ground-penetrating radar, for its ability to map the hidden landscape of anticancer drug opportunities. "One reason why a mutation ... Continue Reading
Wellstar Consolidates AMCS Inpatient Services and Introduces New Health Model
Wellstar Health System announced a transition at Atlanta Medical Center South (AMCS) to consolidate the location's inpatient hospital services to Atlanta Medical Center. In addition, AMC South will transition to a new model of care facility, providing outpatient services (rehabilitative and primary care) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Currently, the majority of patient ... Continue Reading
Georgia Urology’s Alpharetta and Roswell Locations Combine
Georgia Urology has announced its Roswell and Alpharetta Ambulatory Surgery Center locations will be combining and moving into a new office in the Roswell area. The new 15,000 square-foot Roswell location features equipment upgrades, including CAT scan and X-ray machines. In addition to receiving general urological evaluations at this office, patients can schedule surgery ... Continue Reading
Piedmont Opens New Medical Office for Oncology Services in Kennesaw
Piedmont has opened its newest medical office building in Kennesaw at Chastain Road and Chastain Meadows Parkway. The nearly 40,000 square-foot building houses comprehensive oncology services as well as primary and specialty care offices. The new location is home to Piedmont Physicians Medical Oncology Kennesaw as well as an infusion center, radiation oncology office and an ... Continue Reading
Gainesville Eye Associates & Prevent Blindness Georgia Partner for Clinic
Gainesville Eye Associates partnered with Prevent Blindness Georgia for the third time to provide 58 children throughout Hall County with free eye exams and 47 glasses to help them succeed in the classroom. When Gainesville Eye Associates and Prevent Blindness Georgia hosted their first clinic in Hall County, the eye screening team found that the vision testing failure rate ... Continue Reading
The Medical Association of Georgia Selects Sawyer Direct to Publish the Association’s Journal
The Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) has announced Sawyer Direct LLC as the new publishing company for the Association’s Journal. Under the direction of the Journal’s editorial board, led by editor Dr. Stan Sherman, MAG has delivered the Journal to members for one hundred and eleven years. “We are excited to have John Sawyer and his team come on board to ... Continue Reading
Winship Opens First Immediate Cancer Care Center in Georgia
The Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has opened the first immediate cancer care center in Georgia, the Rollins Immediate Care Center of Winship. This new center provides cancer patients with immediate care from oncology-trained experts as opposed to visiting an emergency room. The Rollins Immediate Care Center patients see oncologists, oncology nurses and nurse ... Continue Reading
$350K Grant to Help Add Addiction Services into Primary Care Clinics
With support from a $350,000 grant from the John and Polly Sparks Foundation, the Addiction Alliance of Georgia will work with the Grady Health System and other community partners to integrate additional substance use disorder services into Grady’s primary care clinics. Previously, the foundation funded the Integrated Care Program for Behavioral Health in the Grady Health ... Continue Reading
Georgia Dermatology Center merges with Olansky Dermatology & Aesthetics
This month, Olansky Dermatology & Aesthetics merged with Georgia Dermatology Center in Cumming. Located in the same complex as Northside Hospital Forsyth, Georgia Dermatology Center's providers, staff, and service will remain the same with Dr. Alexander Gross continuing to lead the charge. His leadership experience includes serving as a fellow of the American Academy of ... Continue Reading
Georgia Urology Pediatrics Honored at North American Robotic Urology Symposium
Georgia Urology's efforts in pediatric robotic surgery were honored at the North American Robotic Urology Symposium (NARUS), February 10-12 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Georgia Urology fellow Dr. Maggie Lovin received a NARUS award for best pediatric reconstruction video, which was presented at the event. This was based on a research paper entitled “Two is Company, Three’s a ... Continue Reading
General Adult Medicine & Pathology Practice Open in Conyers
Dr. Jackson L. Gates, MD opens the first general medical and pathology practice in Conyers, GA, Primary Care and Pathology. The practice aims to serve families with or without insurance to reduce human suffering and. prevent complications from chronic diseases. Dr. Gates is a board-certified medical doctor with expertise in laboratory medicine. He received his Doctor of ... Continue Reading
Northside’s Dr. Medepalli Becomes Board-Certified in Cardio-Oncology
Northside’s Dr. Lalitha C. Medepalli, noninvasive cardiology, has become board certified in cardio-oncology and serves as chair of the cardio-oncology task force at Northside Hospital. She is just the second in Georgia, to receive board certification in cardio-oncology. Medepalli brings 20 years of experience to her practice, with clinical interests such as noninvasive ... Continue Reading
