UMMS, Maryland, focus on mental health aspect of pandemic
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As someone who initially struggled to accept his own bipolar disorder diagnosis years ago and now works to help others, Sean Driscoll knows how hard it can be for someone to recognize they are suffering.
With the pandemic aggravating mental health concerns, the peer support specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center s Department of Psychiatry says he focuses on steering people to resources that can help. It s OK to talk about your problems, said Driscoll, who also writes songs to raise awareness about mental health issues under his stage name, Driscoe. It s OK to confide in people and to trust, and it s OK to feel.
By Rick Dandes rdandes@thedanvillenews.com Dec 23, 2020
Dec 23, 2020
DANVILLE â Cardiac surgeon John Conte has joined Geisinger as chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery and vice chair of the Geisinger Heart Institute, Geisinger announced on Wednesday.
Conte specializes in minimally invasive aortic and mitral valve surgery, is an expert in valve repair and replacement, and â in patients with abnormalities of the aorta, such as aortic aneurysms â valve-sparing aortic root surgery.Â
Before coming to Geisinger, Conte was a professor of surgery and held leadership roles at the University of Maryland Medical Center, The Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Â
DANVILLE â Dr. John Conte recently joined Geisinger as chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery and vice chair of the Geisinger Heart Institute.
Conte brings more than 25 years of clinical practice to the team at Geisinger and he provides surgical care in addition to serving in leadership. Geisinger announced he currently cares for adult patients at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre and Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton.
Conte specializes in minimally invasive aortic and mitral-valve surgery and other complex procedures. He is also an expert in valve repair and replacement and aortic root surgery. The latter can spare the heart valves in patients with abnormalities of the aorta, such as aortic aneurysms.
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December 23, 2020
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a greater risk of dying if they are men or if they are obese or have complications from diabetes or hypertension, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers.
Study lead author Katherine E. Goodman, JD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UMSOM, and right, study corresponding author Anthony D. Harris, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UMSOM.
In a study published in the journal
Clinical Infectious Diseases, the researchers evaluated nearly 67,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 613 hospitals across the country to determine the link between certain common patient characteristics and the risk of dying from COVID-19.