Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Transplant,Surgery)
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2024
March
20,
2024
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08:15 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Oprah Winfrey recently interviewed Amanda Velazquez, MD, director of Obesity Medicine in the Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, about the global impact new prescription weight loss medications are having on healthcare, the …
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March
13,
2024
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
For the fourth consecutive year, the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy at Cedars-Sinai has achieved higher than expected survival rates in patients receiving allogeneic stem cell …
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March
07,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As an on-the-go mother of two equally on-the-go preschoolers, Yessenia Paez was accustomed to dealing with common parenting stress. But when 24/7 anxiety, heart palpitations, hand tremors and chronic headaches became the norm for the better part of …
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February
02,
2024
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute together completed 652 solid organ transplants in 2023, far outpacing Cedars-Sinai’s internal record set just one year ago, when surgeons completed 583 transplants.Known for …
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2023
December
13,
2023
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07:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The winter holiday season is a time to slow down, relax, and enjoy time with family and friends. That is, unless you’re a trauma surgeon.As a Level I trauma center, Cedars-Sinai offers advanced resources and technologies to serve Los Angeles County …
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December
06,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
By the time cancer survivor Sydnee Meth found an effective treatment for the pain she had coped with for years, her right arm was so swollen and heavy that she could not lift it past her shoulder. She had trouble finding blouses that fit. Seemingly …
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December
04,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This holiday season, Valance Sams, Sr. hopes to finish the most important thank-you note he’s ever written—one he’s been pondering for months. It’s been challenging to get all that he wants to say down on paper, in just the right way. Most days, a …
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November
30,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Hailing from Park City, Utah, Riley Mulholland enjoyed an upbringing steeped in the vibrant active outdoor sports culture of his hometown. From an early age, Mulholland took to the slopes, played football and lacrosse; he was the definition of a …
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November
22,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This Thanksgiving marks a little more than 25 years since Christine Galan became the first person in the Western U.S. to have a combined organ transplant (heart and liver), and nearly five years since she returned to Cedars-Sinai for another organ …
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September
15,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai has selected Curtis L. Cetrulo Jr., MD, as the new vice chair of Research in the Department of Surgery, director of the Division of Plastic Surgery and director of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program Development.Known for …
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July
24,
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Valance Sams Sr.’s world was turned upside down 10 years ago when he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory disease that caused a buildup of scar tissue on his heart and left him unable to work, exercise or even walk.But today, Sams …
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July
19,
2023
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13:40 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Over the course of four decades, Randy Sherman, MD, earned a reputation as an internationally renowned surgical innovator who built premier plastic surgery programs in Los Angeles and traveled the world caring for children with hard-to-treat …
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July
17,
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Fiscal year 2023, which ended June 30, proved to be the busiest year yet for Cedars-Sinai’s Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute, with more than 600 organs transplanted.The kidney/pancreas transplant team completed 317 …
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June
16,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When do healthcare professionals stop learning new techniques?Never, according to Russell Metcalfe Smith, Cedars-Sinai’s executive director of Simulation and Interprofessional Education, who helped establish the Women’s Guild Simulation Center for …
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June
14,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Physicians at Cedars-Sinai Cancer are using a unique chemotherapy delivery system that offers hope to colorectal cancer patients whose disease has spread and who now have inoperable liver tumors. Cedars-Sinai is one of the few centers in the area to …
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May
02,
2023
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06:14 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Fred Tallaksen is a performer and choreographer with 35 years in the industry and four Emmy nominations under his belt. But for more than a decade, between dancing and drumming and teaching others to step to the beat, he hid terrible pain that …
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May
01,
2023
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06:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai recently appointed distinguished surgical oncologist Cristina Ferrone, MD, as chair of the Department of Surgery.Known as a collaborative and highly effective leader, Ferrone succeeds Bruce L. Gewertz, MD, surgeon-in-chief and vice dean …
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April
25,
2023
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09:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As the nation takes notice of the importance of organ donations during April, National Donate Life Month, Cedars-Sinai is reporting a record-setting year for calendar year 2022.Together, surgeons at the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center …
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April
21,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
MaryAshley Barbot waited 10 years for a new kidney, but the hospitals near her South Carolina home were unable to find a match. Now, the teenager is in the best health of her life, six months after receiving a kidney transplant at …
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April
11,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When he’s not in the operating room, Galinos Barmparas, MD, associate trauma medical director in the Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery, can often be found at the front of a classroom, demonstrating four simple steps that can help stop severe …
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March
28,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
For 30 local teens, an evening at the Women’s Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills at Cedars-Sinai was both fun-filled and educational.The local high schoolers, all part of the Los Angeles Clippers Mentorship Assist Zone, were able …
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March
08,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai has selected Bruce L. Gewertz, MD, the medical center’s surgeon-in-chief, to be the vice dean of Clinical System Development and Faculty Affairs. Gewertz, a highly respected vascular surgeon, is the former chair of the …
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March
01,
2023
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08:02 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Rowena Roque, 46, was having a problem that many people can relate to: doing everything in her power to lose weight and get healthy but never succeeding.From fad diets to two-hour workouts, there isn’t a diet or workout regimen that Roque didn’t …
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2022
November
22,
2022
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This Thanksgiving, when the Moraleses think about what they’re thankful for, the Thompsons are at the top of the list.That’s because the Thompsons have each donated a kidney to the Moraleses. Seven years ago, Debbie Thompson donated a kidney to her …
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October
25,
2022
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09:21 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Eugene Kim, MD, a leader in pediatric general surgery and neuroblastoma research, has been named director of the Division of Pediatric General Surgery and vice chair of Pediatric Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s.Established in December …
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October
14,
2022
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12:47 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Antonia “Toni” Perez is one in a million. She’s one of 1 million patients in the U.S. who have received an organ transplant, a milestone the nation celebrated last month.Perez recently celebrated her own individual victory: showing her …
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September
19,
2022
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Jeannea Jordan, who turns 80 in October, is a local sailing pioneer who began racing and cruising her 30-foot sailboat 25 years ago when few women were part of the sport. When a tumor on her spine ran her aground last year and her oncologist at …
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August
11,
2022
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Adelynn Garza knows a thing or two about beating the odds.Adelynn was born three months early, weighing just 2 pounds, 8 ounces, and was immediately diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that affects movement and muscle tone. …
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July
18,
2022
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06:05 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Russell Secker, now 67, was in Lake Tahoe in 2016 to run a series of ultra-distance races with his wife, Claire. The two had completed hundreds of marathons and races totaling thousands of miles. But this time was different. A terrible headache and …
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July
14,
2022
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai’s new director of Obesity Medicine in the Department of Surgery, Amanda Velazquez, MD, is determined to help prevent and treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity in the Latinx community."Our community is disproportionally affected by both …
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