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From the President A publication for members of the Henry Ford Medical Group Alumni Association, Henry Ford physicians, residents and alumni RoundsSpring 2017 • VOLUME 30 NO. 1 PEOPLE FEATURE: Achievements ALUMNI FEATURE: Innovation FEATURE: New Beginnings n this issue of ROUNDS we take the and the Graduate Education Committee. During opportunity to acknowledge, thank, and the presentation we had the opportunity to meet From the honor our residents and fellows who provide each of the nominees on an individual basis and Iexemplary care to our patients at HFHS, both hear from them about their experience at HFHS President on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Included in and some of their future plans. I’m sure every this edition is a list of all graduating house staff member of the Alumni Association joins me in from 2016, and the recipients of the four awards expressing thanks and congratulations to each presented at the Outstanding Resident Award nominee for their accomplishments in continuing Banquet held at the Detroit Athletic Club last the tradition of excellence we have come to spring. The awards program was established 26 expect and recognize in our physician training years ago through the efforts of Drs. Jan Rival, program. Roger Smith, and Mike Benninger. Three of the I want to acknowledge and apologize for awards are named after these 3 individuals, and the delay in the publication of this issue; we the fourth award for teaching is endowed and are currently in the process of restructuring named after Dr. Peter Coggan, the former head of the Alumni Association to better enhance medical education. communication and services between HFHS This year there were 24 individuals colleagues and external alumni. Our goal is to nominated by their Department Chair or provide more targeted services and programs Program Director to receive one of these four based on our mutual mission to serve as awards. As you can imagine, attempting to select a continuing resource to HFMG alumni from such a talented group of nominees is almost throughout your careers and beyond. More about Lawrence Mitchell, M.D. an impossible task. The choices were made by the these changes will be highlighted in upcoming President, Henry Ford Medical Association Executive Committee of the Alumni Association issues. PEOPLE collaboration I’m talking about—everyone you research; he always figures out how to get it firsthand how orthopedic practices could ask is willing to participate.” done. Frisch acknowledges Bartol for pushing change his life, and today, he thoroughly In 2014, Frisch worked with Dr. Robert him to design and develop his business enjoys being able to help others experience Keller, former orthopedic resident and interests outside of clinical. He also recognizes that feeling as well. “Being able to take people M.D., and Dr. Stephen Bartol, chief medical Dr. Michael Mott, M.D., as another key who are in pain, suffering, and are having Rounds officer of Henry Ford Innovations (HFII), to mentor. “Dr. Mott is one of the smartest guys difficulty walking, and then see them come develop digital wearable sensors that utilized I’ll ever work with. He made sure that at the out of surgery and be able to move without smartphone technology to limit range of end of the day, my clinical growth as a surgeon pain within hours or days, well, it’s incredibly PROFILE: Dr. Nicholas Frisch motion and encourage healthy recovery after remained a top priority.” rewarding.” orthopedic surgeries. The design won second 2016 Outstanding Resident place in the Innovation Institute’s Digital Health Challenge and led to provisional patent Last spring, Nicholas Frisch filing in collaboration with HFII. Development received the Outstanding of this tool could help prevent common Resident Award, which recognizes dislocations after surgery and reduce avoidable exceptional patient care, academic readmission. and research excellence and Frisch presented four projects at the commitment to community service. International Society for Technology in Residency Program Director, Arthroplasty (ISTA) in Vienna, Austria. One Bill Matzouros, M.D., wrote in a has been accepted for publication in the recommendation letter for the Journal of Arthroplasty and another has been award, “I can’t express enough in accepted in Orthopedics. a letter how good a person Nick “The incredible thing about Ford is that Frisch really is. He is professional it is a resident-driven program. Residents and kind and has been a leader in a are given a lot of autonomy and encouraged fantastic class of residents.” to pursue their specific areas of interest. Throughout the process our staff maintain AWARD RECIPIENTS Nicholas Frisch, M.D. Dr. Nicholas Frisch sought to strike a balance Orthopaedic Surgery between research and clinical care during his Michael S. Benninger, M.D. Outstanding Resident Award THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT residency at HFHS. Jesse Sammon, D.O. Urology Frisch, Keller and Bartol teamed up again this spring to enter the HFII/Ford Motor Jan Rival, M.D. Outstanding Resident Award Company Health App Challenge. In collaboration with a talented group at Ford Motor Frisch is currently participating in a one- Company (Hussain Nassralah, Austin Kirk, Fuyi Wang) they won the challenge for Rafael Cabrera Salinas, M.D. year adult reconstruction fellowship at Rush Cardiology developing an app that will bridge the inherent gaps in delivering ambulatory care to Roger F. Smith, M.D. Outstanding Fellow Award passengers involved in motor vehicle accidents. The app, called Life SYNC, will provide University Medical Center in Chicago next emergency first responders with crucial health information via a mobile app synced year. After that he hopes to return to Michigan Robert Keller, M.D. with Ford vehicles at the time of purchase. The group is hoping to develop this product Orthopaedic Surgery with his wife Paige and two young children Peter Coggan, M.B., B.S. Outstanding Teaching Award further with Ford Motor Company. to settle permanently. “Practicing medicine was a long-term goal that would have been Dr. Nicholas Frisch values the opportunities active engagement and support,” said Frisch. Frisch’s desire to pursue research stems insurmountable without the unwavering he gained in learning and research at Projects Frisch has worked on include ones from his strong belief that through evidence- support of my wife,” said Frisch. Frisch’s time Henry Ford Health System. on trauma, chondrosarcoma, implant designs, based clinical practice, one can achieve at Henry Ford has allowed him to develop as anti-coagulation tools, and other topics. favorable patient outcomes in orthopedics. a clinician, a researcher and a person, and he In Praise of Collaboration Frisch accomplished all of this while Like many in the medical field, Frisch has a couldn’t be happier. “Henry Ford is leading hen someone asks “What makes “I did a rotation here in medical school (he excited about. “We were working on learning maintaining his regular clinical duties, and he story about how a personal injury led him the way in healthcare,” he said. “This is an Henry Ford Health System attended Tufts University), and I noticed the more about metal ion toxicity in patients credits his mentors with helping him balance to medicine. In high school he suffered a incredible work-hard, play-hard environment, different?,” camaraderie then. This was my first choice for as a result of the components used in hip responsibilities. “Chairman Dr. [Theodore] debilitating ski injury that required surgery, and the people here have become some of my WDr. Nicholas Frisch, M.D./MBA and former residency, and after being here, I sense it even replacements,” said Frisch. “We collaborated Parsons, (M.D.) is an incredible advocate for but just a few months later, he was back on the closest friends.” orthopedic surgery resident, believes he more. There are so many resources here, and with research cardiology to compare residents and the orthopedic department. He snow training in Mt. Hood, Oregon, with his knows the answer. “The truth is that it’s the people are willing and eager to work together.” echocardiogram findings in our patient was a really strong influence for me in coming team. “I was so grateful and truly amazed that camaraderie,” he said. “You can feel it; it’s In his five years at Henry Ford, Dr. Frisch population with large cardiac population data. here,” Frisch said. In addition, Dr. Craig it was possible for the physician to perform palpable.” had multiple opportunities to work with a We worked with musculoskeletal radiology Silverton, D.O., has “been the single best thing this surgery and for me to have such a rapid That sense of trust and friendship is what variety of people and departments to pursue to perform ultrasounds in asymptomatic that’s happened to me since I’ve been at Ford. recovery and be back on my feet in a short first drew Frisch to Henry Ford Health System. collaborative research—something he gets patients with pseudotumors. That’s the type of He is the senior author on the majority of my amount of time,” he said. He experienced NEW BEGINNINGS: Twice as Nice FEATURES INNOVATION: We Are All Heart “I put all my confidence in my doctors at Henry Ford, and they did an amazing job.” -Karen Haines Henry Ford Hospital and Henry Ford Macomb First Heart-liver Transplant named Top 50 U.S. Cardiovascular Centers Patient in Metro Detroit enry Ford Hospital and Henry Ford and specialists in congenital heart disease. attribute the award to fast, efficient and highly other of three Karen Haines, the first heart-liver transplant our surgeons are very experienced in both types of transplants. The Macomb Hospital have been named Henry Ford Hospital is a heart magnet effective treatment for everything from the patient in metro Detroit, said she was excited to go home just operation went very smoothly.” Top 50 Heart Hospitals for 2017.
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