Patient Care URMC Providers Join Forces for Relief Efforts in Puerto Rico By Karin Gaffney Christensen Oct. 23, 2017 Eleven providers left Oct. 24 for Puerto Rico, deploying as part of a larger Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) team that will spend two weeks on the hurricane-ravaged island that is ...
Patient Care Kessler Trauma Center Earns National Re-Verification as Level I Center By Christine Roth Apr. 26, 2017 Strong Memorial Hospital’s Kessler Trauma Center has earned re-verification as a Level I Trauma Center from the American College of Surgeons (ACS), signifying that its people, technology and ...
Patient Care Singers from “The Voice” to Lead Harbor House Rocks April 21 By Leslie White Apr. 5, 2017 Nick Hagelin and Bryan Bautista, who competed on “The Voice,” and local musicians will come together Friday, April 21, to support Harbor House, a home-away-from-home for families of patients ...
Patient Care UR Medical Center Board Honors Top Staff with 2016 Excellence Awards By Karin Gaffney Christensen Jan. 25, 2017 Ten individuals and four teams were honored for their dedication, service and outstanding patient care, with numerous examples cited of their extraordinary efforts.
Research Brain Protein Predicts Recovery Time Following Concussion By Emily Boynton Jan. 9, 2017 Elevated levels of the brain protein tau following concussion are associated with a longer recovery period and may serve as a marker to help physicians determine an athlete’s readiness to return to ...
Education Nobay Named School of Medicine and Dentistry Associate Dean for Admissions By Christine Roth Dec. 7, 2016 Associate professor of Emergency Medicine Flavia Nobay, M.D., has been named the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s new associate dean for Admissions. She succeeds professor of Neuroscience John ...
Patient Care Rotondo Chosen as President-Elect of Leading National Trauma Society By Jim Miller Oct. 20, 2016 Michael F. Rotondo, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Surgery and CEO of the University of Rochester’s Medical Faculty Group, was recently voted president-elect of The American Association for the Surgery ...
Research New Grants Explore Role of Brain’s “Garbage Truck” in Mini-Strokes and Trauma By Mark Michaud Oct. 4, 2016 More than $4.5 million in new grants to the lab of University of Rochester Medical Center scientist Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc., underscore the important role the brain’s waste disposal system ...
Research DOD Grant Explores New Drugs to Thwart Impact of Trauma, Stroke, and Cardiac Arrest By Mark Michaud Sep. 7, 2016 A $2.3 million Department of Defense grant will help neuroscientists develop new treatments for the emergency room and the battlefield. The research will focus on the development of new therapies ...
Patient Care Organ Donation Highlights Benefit for Harbor House Sept. 10 By Leslie White Aug. 11, 2016 The 10th annual “And the Beat Goes On…,” benefit dinner for Rochester’s Harbor House will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Doubletree by Hilton in Henrietta. Harbor House is a ...
