Patient Care Medical Center Adds Five Portable X-ray Units from Carestream By Leslie White Oct. 18, 2012 The University of Rochester Medical Center has added five new portable digital x-ray units to improve care for critically ill patients who need imaging tests that can be provided quickly at the ...
Education School of Nursing Names Pamela Herendeen Associate Dean for Education and Student Affairs By Christine Roth Oct. 18, 2012 School of Nursing Dean Kathy H. Rideout announced this week the appointment of Pamela A. Herendeen as the School’s new associate dean for education and student affairs. Herendeen is a senior ...
Patient Care Golisano Foundation Honors 5 URMC Employees By Karin Gaffney Christensen Oct. 17, 2012 The Golisano Foundation presented its 2012 Leadership Awards for Exemplary Healthcare Services on Thursday to five Medical Center health care professionals who have demonstrated extraordinary work to ...
Education Jack Hall, Influential Statistics Expert and Former University Chair, Dies By Leslie Orr Oct. 17, 2012 W. Jackson “Jack” Hall, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, and an international authority on statistical designs for ...
Research Safety Harnesses Key to Prevent Falls while Deer Hunting By Leslie White Oct. 16, 2012 Tree stands give hunters a bird’s-eye view of wild game, but some hunters continue to suffer serious injuries after failing to wear a safety harness, according to doctors at University of Rochester ...
Patient Care Allegany County Man Gets New Aortic Valve without Open Heart Surgery By Leslie White Oct. 16, 2012 A 91-year-old Belmont man was the first in the area to undergo a less invasive heart-valve replacement procedure at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The valve replacement technique is ...
Research URMC, Lucifics Partner to Develop New Oral Cancer Treatment By Mark Michaud Oct. 15, 2012 The University of Rochester Medical Center and Lucifics, a photomedical technology start-up company, have been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and test ...
Education Nursing Home Project Receives $800,000 HRSA Grant to Expand Impact and Provide Gerontology Traineeships to Graduate Nurses By Christine Roth Oct. 15, 2012 The Greater Rochester Nursing Home Quality Consortium (GRNHQC), established in 2009 by University of Rochester School of Nursing associate professor of clinical nursing Tobie Olsan, Ph.D., M.P.A., ...
Research Musculoskeletal Research Lab Earns Spotlight at National Meeting By Leslie Orr Oct. 12, 2012 The URMC laboratory of Matthew J. Hilton, which studies the molecular gatekeepers for cartilage development and disease, has an inordinate number of researchers receiving awards and making ...
Patient Care Strong Fertility Center Welcomes Wendy Vitek By Lori Barrette Oct. 11, 2012 Strong Fertility Center of the University of Rochester Medical Center recently welcomed reproductive endocrinologist Wendy Vitek, M.D., to its team.
