Education UR Medicine Boosts Women’s Heart Health with New, Larger Team By Leslie White Jan. 28, 2018 UR Medicine is tackling the growing, life-threatening problem of heart disease in women with Upstate New York’s largest team of female cardiovascular experts dedicated to the unique health challenges ...
Patient Care Jamestown Man Raises Awareness of Organ Donation, Awaits New Heart By Leslie White Dec. 26, 2017 Jamestown sportswriter Cody Crandall hopes sharing a personal story can change a life, rather than one he writes. The 24-year-old former baseball standout at Jamestown High School has a failing heart ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Helps Genesee County Family Embrace Heart of Holidays By Leslie White Dec. 21, 2017 Carrie Thornley Fisher was in heart failure near the end of her second pregnancy. After giving birth to a healthy boy, the 32-year-old spent nearly two months on life-saving mechanical support until ...
Patient Care Entrepreneurs Fund Cardiac Surgery Professorship at University of Rochester By Leslie White Nov. 30, 2017 The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry has received a $2 million gift from Jude S. Sauer, M.D. and his family to establish a distinguished professorship to be held by the chief ...
Patient Care Genesee Vascular Lab Joins UR Medicine Heart & Vascular By Leslie White Nov. 9, 2017 UR Medicine has acquired Genesee Vascular Lab expanding its Heart and Vascular expertise, care and locations. Vascular surgeon Thomas Penn, M.D., who formed the practice in 1977, will continue to ...
Patient Care Erie County Woman Running Again After Heart, Lung Failure By Leslie White Oct. 30, 2017 Jennifer Bardrof was the picture of health: a young mother of two, schoolteacher and avid runner. Yet when she experienced flu-like symptoms, no one expected it would lead to heart and lung failure ...
People UR’s Seymour Schwartz, Surgery Icon, Honored on National Stage By Leslie Orr Oct. 24, 2017 Fifty years ago when Seymour I. Schwartz, M.D., finished writing the first-edition manuscript of a textbook that’s known as the “surgeon’s Bible,” there were no CT scans, no biomarkers, and the most ...
Resident Rock Star: Facing Rare Diagnosis, Jack Scaramuzzino Fights Through Adversity to Thrive By URochester Medicine Communications Aug. 28, 2017 Jack Scaramuzzino was born with hypoplastic right heart syndrome, one of the rarest cardiac defects seen in newborns. He underwent his first open heart surgery when he was just five days old, and ...
Dr. Vorrasi Promoted to Associate Program Director By URochester Medicine Communications Aug. 14, 2017 Dr. John Vorrasi has been named associate program director in Eastman Institute for Oral Health's Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department.
Patient Care UR Medicine Provides 3 Heart Transplants in 5 Days By Leslie White Aug. 9, 2017 UR Medicine’s Advanced Heart Failure team recently performed three heart transplant surgeries in a span of just five days at Strong Memorial Hospital, providing the Gift of Life for three men from ...
