Marshall Health adds pulmonary-critical care medicine providers
December 29, 2020 |
Marshall Health, Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center expand their pulmonary-critical care team of providers with the addition of Tarake Aljarod, M.D., and Jodi H. Biller, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC.
Aljarod, a board-certified, fellowship-trained pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine specialist, has been named an assistant professor of medicine at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Aljarod specializes in interstitial lung diseases and pulmonary procedures. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty certification in pulmonary disease.
Aljarod earned his medical degree at the University of Benghazi Faculty of Medicine in Benghazi, Libya, followed by an internal medicine residency at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Aljarod then went on to complete a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellow
AUSTIN, TEXAS The American Association of Nurse Practitioners
® (AANP) applauds the U.S. Surgeon General’s selection of Loretta C. Ford, EdD, RN, PNP, NP-C, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, as the recipient of the Surgeon General’s Medallion. The Medallion, the third highest honor granted by the Public Health Service and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps , is awarded by the Surgeon General for actions of exceptional achievement to the cause of public health and medicine. Dr. Ford, who will celebrate her 100th birthday on December 28, 2020, co-founded the first NP program at the University of Colorado and created a profession that is integral to our nation’s health care infrastructure.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) applauds the U.S. Surgeon General’s selection of Loretta C. Ford, EdD, RN, PNP, NP-C, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, as the recipient of the Surgeon General’s Medallion. The Medallion, the highest honor granted to a civilian by the Public Health Service and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, is awarded by the Surgeon General for actions of exceptional achievement to the cause of public health and medicine. Dr. Ford, who will celebrate her 100
th birthday on December 28, 2020, co-founded the first NP program at the University of Colorado and created a profession that is integral to our nation s health care infrastructure.
Proponents of independent non-physician practice make a dangerous assumption
On a sunny Tuesday in March 2015, the steps of Capitol Hill were draped in white as nurse practitioners from across the United States descended on the nation’s capital. Their long white coats flapping, and stethoscopes draped around their necks, the lobbyists marched with determined steps.
The organizer of the event, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, called it a record day. Nurse practitioners had scheduled more than 250 visits with legislators. Their message to lawmakers was clear: Nurse practitioners are just as good or better than physicians. Further, if it were legal for nurse practitioners to practice autonomously, the country would save money while also increasing access to health care in physician shortage areas a promise with tremendous appeal to those in public office.
Lobbying world Alex Gangitano
American Association of Nurse Practitioners named
Jon Fanning as its new CEO, effective March 1. He is currently chief strategy officer at the American Psychiatric Association, where he has worked for more than seven years. Before that, he spent over 13 years at the American Medical Association.
Laura Dove was promoted to manager of federal affairs at
Ford Motor Co. She joined Ford in May as director of transportation policy and previously was U.S. Senate secretary for the majority under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Ford also promoted
Rachel McCleery to a director position on the government relations team. She previously was Ford s government and public policy communications manager and before that was chief communications adviser and deputy policy director for Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee. During the Obama administration, she was a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department.