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Miami Cancer Institute Takes Action To Address Inequities in Cancer Care with Expanded COTA, Inc. Collaboration
Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, will leverage COTA’s Real-World Analytics to drive standardization of care across all cancer patients
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Identifying, Treating Hypertension During Pregnancy, Postpartum Can Reduce Maternal Mortality, Study Finds
Addressing high blood pressure during and after pregnancy can significantly reduce maternal mortality rates and improve women's heart health even after child-bearing years, according to insights gained from a longitudinal study of pregnant women.
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Study by Miami Cancer Institute Physician Researchers Promises to Change Way Metastatic Brain Cancer is Treated
For patients with cancer that has metastasized to the brain, the standard treatment for years has been to resect, or surgically remove, the lesion and follow that with radiation therapy (RT) to the whole brain, which prevents relapse by destroying any remaining cancer cells.
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Study Shows iTSA Surgery Improves Function, Reduces Pain Among Patients with Advanced Glenohumeral Arthritis
Baptist Health Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute found anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty with a nonspherical humeral head and inlay glenoid replacement results in improved function and less pain for patients with advanced glenohumeral arthritis.
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Khurram Nasir, MD
Dr. Nasir received his MD from Pakistan, followed by a MPH at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Nasir completed his internal medicine residency at Boston Medical Center and a cardiology fellowship at Yale University.
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Baptist Health Foundation Receives $3M Gift to Establish Endowed Chair at Miami Neuroscience Institute
Baptist Health Foundation announced today that it has received a $3 million donation that has been designated to establish the first endowed chair at Baptist Health’s Miami Neuroscience Institute.
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Michael W. McDermott, M.D.
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Sports Cardiology: Advances in Diagnosing, Treating the Most Athletic Among Us
Sports cardiology is advancing quite rapidly, covering the specialized care of both professional and amateur athletes — and the very athletic person who is absolutely committed to running, cycling or other physically challenging and recurring activity.
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Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute named as 2022 Recipient of Warren E. Weaver/Richard P. Penna Award
The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) is pleased to announce the two Warren E. Weaver/Richard P. Penna award winners in the patient care organization and individual category. Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute Pharmacy Program in Miami, FL has been named the 2022 recipient of the Warren E. Weaver/Richard P. Penna Award in the organization category.
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Beating the Odds: Pancreatic Cancer Survivor is Living Life to the Fullest
At the start of 2019, Bob Dickinson got a diagnosis no one wants - pancreatic cancer. Until very recently, pancreatic cancer cases rarely have had a happy ending, with a traditionally quoted survival rate of just 10 percent. But Mr. Dickinson says he was determined to “make lemonade out of lemons” and was prepared to travel anywhere in the country for the best care.
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Timothy O'Connor, MD
Timothy O’Connor, M.D., is a neurological surgeon and the director of minimally invasive surgery and robotic spine surgery at Marcus Neuroscience Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, part of Baptist Health.
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Award-Winning Research Questions the Rationale of Nickel-Free Total Knee Arthroplasty
Baptist Health Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute's Orthopedic surgeon, Charles M. Lawrie, MD, MSc, won the 2021 James A. Rand, MD Young Investigator’s Award presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) on November 13, 2021, in Dallas. His research project entitled, “Questioning the ‘Nickel-Free’ Total Knee Arthroplasty,” was selected for the award from more than 1,000 submissions.