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2017 FALL When Delivery Time Comes Ensuring Moms-to-Be Get the Care They Need Novel Treatments for Complex Conditions Patients With Advanced Liver Cancer Among Those Benefitting Keeping Athletes in the Game Athletic Trainers Play a Key Role in Preventing and Managing Injuries [CONTENTS] FALL 2017 INTRODUCING OUR NEW PRESIDENT AND CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER FEATURES Stuart M. Levine, MD, FACP, was recently named president and Novel Treatments for chief medical officer of MedStar 4 Complex Conditions Harbor Hospital and a senior vice Patients With Advanced Liver Cancer president of MedStar Health. He succeeds Dennis W. Pullin, Among Those Benefitting FACHE, the former president, who left MedStar Harbor after When Delivery Time Comes Stuart M. Levine, eight years of strong leadership. 8 Ensuring Moms-to-Be Get the MD, FACP Care They Need “My excitement at being appointed to this new role is beyond words,” says Dr. Levine. “What a privilege Keeping Athletes in the Game and responsibility it is to lead a phenomenal 10 Athletic Trainers Play a Key Role in organization committed to being on the forefront Preventing and Managing Injuries of healthcare delivery. I am overjoyed to continue working with all of the talented and dedicated Seasonal Depression individuals who make MedStar Harbor the vibrant 14 It’s Not Just in Your Head ... place that it is today. Together, we are one big Treatment Can Help family collectively focused on providing the highest quality and safest care possible. I am grateful for this opportunity to help write the next chapter of MedStar Harbor’s history as we move full steam DEPARTMENTS ahead on our journey of continued success.” 3 WHAT’S NEW Most recently, Dr. Levine served as the vice president of Medical Affairs for MedStar Franklin Square 7 HEALTHY HABITS Medical Center and MedStar Harbor. Prior to that, he served as vice chairman of Strategic Growth and 12 EATING WELL Research in the Department of Medicine at both MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital and MedStar 13 CARING FOR YOU Union Memorial Hospital, and as medical director of On the cover: Wael Bitar, MD, medical director of MedStar the Good Health Center at MedStar Good Samaritan. Harbor Women’s Care, and David Ghadisha, MD, OB hospitalist and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at MedStar Harbor Hospital, are part of the Before joining MedStar, Dr. Levine served as a faculty team that collaborates in caring for moms-to-be. member and assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also served After more than a century of healing, MedStar Harbor Hospital is a mainstay in the community, serving patients from Baltimore City as codirector of the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center. and Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Howard counties. Our convenient waterside location combines the services of a large, regional medical center with a smaller, more personal environment. From general Dr. Levine received his medical degree from medicine and surgery, obstetrics, orthopaedics and geriatrics, to behavioral health, cardiology, gastroenterology and urology, our team Columbia University’s College of Physicians of caring physicians and associates professionally serves the unique and Surgeons. He completed his internship and needs of every patient. residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a fellowship Waterfront is published by the Marketing and Communications department of MedStar Harbor Hospital. The information provided in this publication is intended in rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University to educate readers about subjects pertinent to their health and is not a substitute for consultation with a personal physician. For more information, call 855-546-0862. School of Medicine. Printed in the U.S.A. Copyright 2017. MedStar Harbor Hospital complies with applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex. 2 Waterfront • MedStar Harbor Hospital | FALL 2017 [WHAT’S new] Meet MedStar Harbor Hospital’s Newest Medical Staff edStar Harbor Hospital is pleased to introduce the newest members M of our medical team. REENA ARDESHNA, MD Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; as The newest physician to join the well as a fellowship in neuroradiology Behavioral Health team, Dr. Ardeshna has at SUNY Upstate Medical University a wide range of experience in treating Hospital in Syracuse, New York. Dr. various anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, Jawed has been an active member of depression, schizophrenia, and other the Society of Interventional Radiology psychotic and substance use disorders. for a decade. He has authored more than Dr. Ardeshna received her training in 25 scientific presentations and peer- psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University reviewed publications and holds academic Reena Ardeshna, MD School of Medicine in Baltimore and appointments as associate professor of earned her medical degree at Drexel Radiology, Department of Vascular and University College of Medicine in Interventional Radiology, at SUNY Upstate Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds a Medical University Hospital and Golisano bachelor’s degree in psychology from Children’s Hospital in New York as well as New York University, New York, and a senior instructor, Department of Radiology master’s degree in biomedical science and Imaging at Liaquat National Hospital in from the University of Medicine and Karachi, Pakistan. Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark. JAIME ROWE, LCPC Mohammed Jawed, MD MOHAMMED JAWED, MD Rowe, a member of our Behavioral Health Dr. Jawed, a vascular and interventional team, comes to MedStar Harbor with radiologist, is certified by the American experience working with all age groups, Board of Radiology with a specialty although her primary focus is adults. certification in vascular and interventional She has worked in both inpatient and radiology. Dr. Jawed completed his outpatient settings as well as in schools in residency in radiology and imaging at Maryland and Pennsylvania. Rowe received Liaquat National Hospital in Karachi, her bachelor’s degree in psychology and Pakistan. He continued his training with a a master’s degree in community mental fellowship in vascular and interventional health counseling, both from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. She is radiology at Emory University Hospital Jaime Rowe, LCPC in Atlanta, Georgia; a fellowship in a licensed professional counselor and is pediatric vascular and interventional certified by the State of Maryland Board of radiology at Emory University Hospital/ Professional Counselors and Therapists. To be connected to the physician offices mentioned in this issue ofWaterfront , please call 855-546-0862 or visit MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront to learn more. MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront • 855-546-0862 3 Novel Treatments for Complex Conditions Patients With Advanced Liver Cancer Among Those Benefitting ADVANCES IN MEDICINE “Interventional radiology (IR) is a inside the body and treat complex have created a wide range of specialty that gives us the ability conditions less invasively and with new treatment options for a to treat nearly every organ in the unprecedented precision. As a variety of conditions in recent body with minimally invasive, result, IR can reduce the length of years. Leading the way in targeted approaches,” explains hospital stays, minimize potential the development of many of Adnaan Moin, MD, a vascular complications and save lives.” these groundbreaking tools, and interventional radiologist technologies, and techniques at MedStar Harbor Hospital. At MedStar Harbor, Dr. Moin is have been interventional “By harnessing the power of now collaborating with medical radiologists. advanced imaging, we can see and surgical oncologists FAST throughout MedStar Health in the FACT: use of image-guided technology Interventional As a vascular and interventional to treat cancer. “Interventional radiologist, Dr. Moin uses many oncology advanced imaging techniques. oncology is a growing field is a rapidly offering new minimally invasive evolving treatment options for a variety specialty of primary and metastatic solid driven by tumors,” Dr. Moin says. technological innovations Today, the Interventional that is now Oncology program at MedStar making a Harbor is one of the few in the difference region to offer patients with in the lives liver cancer a treatment option of cancer called Y-90 radioembolization, an patients on a alternative to surgery. daily basis. “The surgical removal of liver tumors offers the best chance for a 4 Waterfront • MedStar Harbor Hospital | FALL 2017 Dr. Moin is one of the few specialists in the region performing Y-90 radioembolization. FAST FACT: Interventional oncology DID YOU is a rapidly KNOW? cure but they are often inoperable catheter is inserted through a tiny evolving Most minimally specialty because they are too large or have incision in the femoral or radial invasive driven by grown into major blood vessels artery until it reaches the hepatic technological or other vital structures,” Dr. Moin artery, one of two blood vessels procedures, innovations explains. “Sometimes, many small feeding the liver. such as that is now tumors are spread throughout the those used in making a liver, making surgery too risky When the catheter is in place, interventional or impractical.” millions of microscopic beads difference radiology, containing the radioactive in the lives result in of cancer Y-90 radioembolization, an isotope Yttrium-90 are released.