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AdventHealth physician receives national award for his exceptional dedication to lifestyle medicine
American College of Lifestyle Medicine presented George Guthrie, M.D. with the 2022 President’s Award for exceptional dedication to lifestyle medicine. At AdventHealth, Guthrie’s special interest is...
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AdventHealth First in Central Florida to Implant Dual-Chamber Leadless Pacemaker as Part of AVEIR DR i2i Clinical Trial
In August 2022, AdventHealth Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute’s (HLVI) Chandra Bomma, MD, implanted Central Florida’s first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system as part of its participation in the...
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Sub-specialized Care for Pediatric Head and Neck Tumors Needed to Optimize Surgical Outcomes
On October 14, 2022, 13-year-old Zoe Rodriguez came into the AdventHealth for Children emergency room with severe neck pain. Upon evaluation, we found a rare 5 cm benign dermoid tumor with CTNNb1...
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Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapy — Providing New Hope for Pediatric Patients with Refractory or Relapsed B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer occurring in children in the United States, and the predominant type of ALL begins in B cells (B-ALL). Standard chemotherapy cures more...
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AdventHealth Altamonte One of Three Sites Worldwide Participating in Study on Use of the da Vinci SP Surgical System for Complex Colorectal Procedures
On July 19, 2022, AdventHealth Digestive Health Institute colorectal surgeon Mark Soliman, MD, completed the first complex colorectal surgical case in the Southeast U.S. using the da Vinci SP®...
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AdventHealth First in Florida to Successfully Implant Thoraflex™ Hybrid Device in Patient with Complex Aortic Arch Dissection
On October 3, 2022, an AdventHealth Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute (HLVI) team under the leadership of cardiothoracic surgeon Ahmad Zeeshan, MD,...
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AdventHealth Chief Science Officer receives national award related to obesity research
The Obesity Society awarded Steven R. Smith, M.D., chief scientific officer and senior vice president of AdventHealth, the TOPS Research Achievement Award for his research on obesity, diabetes and the...
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AdventHealth for Children Performs Florida’s First Alterra Adaptive Prestent and Valve Implant on a Patient with Congenital Heart Disease
In June, AdventHealth for Children pediatric interventional cardiologists were the first in Florida to implant a tetralogy of Fallout patient with the Alterra Adaptive Prestent and Valve Implant...
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Surfacing the inventor in all of us
Physicians are taught to solve problems, but what happens when a solution is not readily available? Chetan Patel, M.D., executive medical director of spine surgery at AdventHealth Neuroscience...
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Society of Thoracic Surgery Awards Three AdventHealth Campuses Highest Quality Rating for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgical Outcomes
AdventHealth’s Celebration, Daytona Beach and Orlando campuses recently earned three-star ratings from the Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS)...
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AdventHealth Among First in the U.S. to Use New MITRIS RESILIA Bioprosthetic Mitral Replacement Valve with Anti-calcification Technology
In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted...
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How AdventHealth Mission Control drives improved emergency department outcomes
AdventHealth Mission Control is proving to be a critical component in the emergency department by increasing success rates in several key areas, including connection, operational efficiency and...
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Circulating Tumor DNA Testing (ctDNA) Could Transform the Management of Colorectal Cancer
With the exception of some types of skin cancer, colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer diagnosed...