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APRIL 1, 2003 Jeffwww.Jefferson.edu NEWS www.JeffersonHospital.org Jefferson Medical College Initiates ‘Hugs’ for Transplant Patients Landmark Study to Help Close Minority Physician Gap Students from Downingtown Middle School presented liver and kidney Five prominent faculty members of Research Activities,” the study is The study compared 148 living transplant recipients with brightly colored “hug” pillows. Jefferson Medical College (JMC) scheduled for publication in the African American alumni who At right: William Kerr, who received a donor kidney from his wife have joined in a landmark research Spring 2003 issue of Teaching and graduated from JMC between 1960 Cheryl, seated next to Lauren Hedrick, 11. study comparing like numbers of Learning in Medicine. An and 1995 with a matched control Below: Patricia Wallace, Director, white and African-American JMC International Journal. To date, no group of 148 white JMC alumni. Community, Pastoral and Volunteer Services, alumni. such comparison studies have been Both groups were found to be and the students’ faculty adviser, Sue Lackovic, The study is seen as a first step in published in the research literature. comparable as to satisfaction with who has been organizing the annual visits to comparing similar categories of data The five JMC authors are: their medical education, careers hospitals ever about minority and white physicians John J. Gartland, MD, University and professional and research since she received so that eventually the numbers of Medical Editor; Mohammadreza activities. No significant differences a kidney transplant under-represented minority Hojat, PhD, Research Professor of were noted between the two 10 years ago. physicians nationally will increase to Psychiatry and Human Behavior; groups, including satisfaction with match minority population numbers Edward B. Christian, PhD, their medical practice incomes. more realistically. Associate Dean for Diversity Entitled “African Americans and and Minority Affairs; One Major Difference White Physicians: A Comparison of Clara A. Callahan, MD, Vice However, one major difference Satisfaction with Medical Dean for Academic Affairs; and emerged. African American Education, Professional Careers and Thomas J. Nasca, MD, Dean. Continues on page 3 disruption, increased stress, high blood pressure Hospital ‘Noise and fatigue. Don Walker Photography Out Day’ Tips to Reduce Noise Returns • Consciously lower your voice and others will follow. Jefferson Surgeons Perform Region’s April 16 • Put your beeper on vibrate mode. • Respond quickly to alarm and call bells and phones First Incompatible Kidney Transplant Thomas Jefferson – especially at night. University Hospital’s 2nd • Laughter is healthy, but it’s loud, too. Take it to a Surgeons at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have completed what Annual place away from patients. its transplant team believes to be the first known crossmatch “Noise Out Day” • Avoid shouting in the halls. incompatible kidney transplant in the Philadelphia tri-state region. will be held on • Wear soft-soled shoes on patient floors. Crossmatch incompatible transplantation can allow transplant Wednesday, April 16, in both The Atrium and Gibbon • Report noisy equipment. recipients to receive kidneys from living donors who are incompatible Building lobbies and the Jefferson Hospital for • Close doors when appropriate. because of antibodies directed against the donor. Previously such Neuroscience lobby at various times during the day. • When you work at night, be aware that your incompatibility would cause immediate and irreversible rejection. Noise makes it difficult for our patients to rest and “daytime” is the patient’s time to sleep. Transplant Surgeon Lloyd Ratner, MD, Director of Transplantation at for employees to concentrate. In fact, noise can Think creatively! Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, performed the kidney transplant. seriously impact our health by causing sleep The procedure involved a 55-year-old woman who received a kidney from her adult son despite incompatible antibodies. Both live in Hammonton, NJ, and are doing well. Jefferson Center City Imaging Dr. Ratner said this type of transplant has been shown to be very Breaking New Ground in Diagnostic Imaging successful. “Studies indicate that crossmatch incompatible and blood type In full operation since mid- environment for health care, diseases well before other imaging incompatible kidney transplants work as well as conventional transplants December, Jefferson Center City thanks to the combination of modalities do. and last as long.” Imaging (JCCI) is breaking new clinical expertise, leading edge Dr. Rao explains: More than one-third of willing donors are turned down because their ground in diagnostic imaging technology and patient amenable “While imaging modalities like CT blood types are not compatible with the person to whom they wish to because of its forward-looking environment. and MRI focus on structural detail donate their kidney. Another 10 percent of patients have antibodies blend of leading edge technology, “Our facility is designed so that and changes, PET evaluates the against potential donors making them incompatible. staff expertise and comfortable patient comfort is of paramount chemical and physiological changes “This procedure will increase the availability of living donor organs,” environment for patients. importance.” related to metabolism. Since these he predicts, stressing that receiving a kidney from a living donor is far Occupying a newly constructed JCCI is a partnership with functional changes occur long preferable than from a cadaver. modern site at Walnut Towers, 850 Thomas Jefferson University before the structural damage is Since Dr. Ratner came to Jefferson in July 2001 from Johns Hopkins Walnut Street, the new facility Hospital and a privately owned done to tissues, PET allows earlier University in Baltimore, Jefferson’s kidney transplant program has grown provides services for noninvasive company, Outpatient Imaging detection of diseases.” significantly, from 59 in 2000 to 123 in 2001 and 145 in 2002. imaging diagnosis for a range of Affiliates (OIA). Jefferson The PET scanner is the first diseases, especially cancer and University Radiology Associates such unit on the Jefferson campus. neurologic diseases. provide the clinical staff and JCCI also houses an MRI unit, a Budget Actual Prior Year Says Vijay M. Rao, MD, expertise, among the best in the CT scanner, a DEXA scanner, two VITAL SIGNS: Admissions 3,113 2,916 3,219 Professor and Chair, Department Delaware Valley. ultrasound rooms and a FEBRUARY 2003 Length of Stay 5.76 6.89 6.60 TJUH, Methodist, of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson An innovative service offered by radiography room with digital Patient Days 17,943 19,632 19,313 Geriatric Psychiatry, TJUH, Methodist University Hospital: JCCI is a PET (Positron Emission acquisition. Jefferson Hospital for Outpatient Visits 38,468 31,368 37,997 Neuroscience “Our comprehensive imaging Tomography) scanner. The PET For more information, call Patient Satisfaction Overall Mean Score (Oct–Dec) 80.3 center provides a new, dynamic scanner allows detection of 215-503-4900. Jefferson Celebrating Ignazio R. Marino, MD, Directing Liver In Memoriam 2 3 3 In This Issue: Nurses’ Week April 21-25 Transplant and Surgery at Hospital 2 JeffNEWS April 1, 2003 Ralph J. Marino, MD, JMC ’82, Named Clinical Director, In Memoriam Jefferson’s Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center The Jefferson community mourns the deaths of four of our members. Ralph J. Marino, from Mount Sinai Hospital, New organizations. He serves as MD, JMC ’82, York, where he was Program Associate Editor of the American Benjamin Bacharach, MD, JMC ’56, on March 20 has been named Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Journal of Physical Medicine and Dr. Bacharach spent a long and illustrious career at Jefferson. Clinical Director Medicine Fellowship Program at Rehabilitation and is author of Following his internship at Atlantic City Hospital, he served as a of the Regional the Mount Sinai School of more than 50 peer-reviewed Lieutenant in the United States Navy, and then completed his Spinal Cord Medicine. His research interests papers, chapters and abstracts. surgical residency at Jefferson Hospital and a thoracic fellowship Injury Center, include the course of neurological Dr. Marino received his MD in at Pennsylvania Hospital. After being appointed Professor of Thomas recovery in spinal cord injury and 1982 from Jefferson Medical Surgery, for the next 22 years he practiced cardiac and thoracic Jefferson functional outcome measures. College. He completed a residency surgery at Jefferson in partnership with John Y. Templeton III, University Hospital, and Associate Dr. Marino is Chair of the in Physical Medicine and MD, and Stanton M. Smullens, MD, and served as Vice Chair of Professor of Rehabilitation Neurological Standards Committee Rehabilitation at Thomas Jefferson Surgery. Dr. Bacharach retired from clinical practice in 1983 and Medicine, Jefferson Medical for the American Spinal Injury University Hospital in 1987 and served as Dean of Admissions, Jefferson Medical College, for the College (JMC). He also serves as Association, Treasurer for the earned an MS in Clinical next 17 years. In 1990 he became the first Dean for Alumni Associate Director of Research in American Congress of Epidemiology from the University Relations, JMC. His portrait was presented by the JMC Class of the Department of Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Medicine, and of Pennsylvania