/PRNewswire/ Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, today announced that its clinical validation study1 on its donor-derived.
May 21, 2021
Tariq Ahmad MD, MPH and John K. Forrest, MD
After more than a year, COVID-19 has changed the practice of medicine. Effective health care executives rely on empathy to create an inclusive work environment and deliver high-quality health care.
Tariq Ahmad MD, MPH and John K. Forrest, MD discuss their experiences with the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) leadership development programs and how academic medical centers can navigate the global pandemic. They offer practical advice to inspire and motivate teams such as incorporating soft skills into medical training and the value of getting feedback from direct reports. The conversation has been edited for clarity.
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For Rupa, discovering healthy meant finding a world-class heart surgeon at Sacramento’s #1 hospital who took time to listen and genuinely consider her needs. Together, they built a personalized plan that gave her the confidence to get through surgery and back to her active life.
World-class heart care, close to home
Our patients are at the center of everything we do – and their stories help illustrate the wide range of care we’re proud to provide our region.
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Through heart failure, stroke and transplant, a young mother powered on
Tiffany Dunn of Westbrook will celebrate this Mother s Day like none other.
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This is the Mother’s Day Tiffany Dunn has been living for.
“I’m excited to have some steaks on the grill, play in the yard,” Tiffany, 33, said with a happy laugh during an interview on Friday. “It’s going to be my first time untethered to anything. All the pictures that I’ve had in the last two years, I’ve had a bag strapped around me.”
Tiffany and her husband, Mike, have a little girl name Isla, who will turn 3 in July. Someday when she’s older, little Isla will come to understand the full story of how she came into this world. At the center of the tale, she’ll find a superhero – also known as Momma.
In 1989, a congenital heart condition called Marfan syndrome hospitalized Cook at just 25 years old. His only chance of survival was a heart transplant.
A fatal motorcycle accident made a heart available, but it was on its way to someone else, when, Cook says, a miracle happened. The heart was a perfect match for him.
“I was literally on the heart-lung bypass machine with no hope for survival at all when this beautiful heart that was scheduled to go somewhere else was turned around in the middle of this trip and given to me to last all these years,” he said.