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Dr. Reshma Bholah
“The kidneys are amongst the most vital organs in the body—they help regulate your hormones, growth, and blood pressure.” Dr. Reshma Bholah is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) and a Consultant Pediatric nephrologist at Sidra Medicine. She received her medical degree from WCM-Q in 2011 and then spent a year researching reactive airways at Cornell…
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UChicago Medicine adds music therapy option for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients
Because he has frontotemporal dementia, Ted Oppenheimer can sometimes be apathetic and disoriented. That isn’t the case, though, during his in-home music therapy sessions offered through The Memory Center — part of the University of Chicago Medicine’s Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorder. Oppenheimer’s wife, Susan, calls music therapy his “best hour of the week” because Ted is engaged,…
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Patients with diabetes insulin-free for years after islet transplantation
Many people with type 1 diabetes live in fear of their blood sugar levels suddenly getting too low. If untreated, this hypoglycemia can cause confusion, loss of consciousness and even death. While most diabetics can control their glucose levels with insulin, some are considered “brittle” – their glucose levels can swing wildly, often dropping without the usual warning signs of…
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How effective assessment of medical learners can dramatically improve the quality and safety of patient care
A two-day faculty development program co-directed by Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) and the US-based Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education provides highly effective tools for enhancing the performance of medical learners by optimizing assessment and feedback processes. Dr. Thurayya Arayssi, Vice Dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs at WCM-Q, spoke to “Hospitals” magazine to explain the importance of this approach.…
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WCM-Q symposium discusses the future of healthcare
The symposium was designed to enable healthcare practitioners to look to the future of healthcare and sustainability, understand what equitable culturally competent patient care means, and become ‘change agents’ who can promote physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Topics under discussion included population health challenges and the emerging paradigm of health and disease, sustainability of the global lifestyle medicine movement, perspectives…
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WCM-Q and Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine sign Clinical Training and Education Agreement
A Clinical Training and Education Agreement has been signed between leading healthcare facility Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine (AMNM) and elite medical college Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). The agreement will provide clinical training sites and experience of the private healthcare sector for a number of WCM-Q students each year, at an early stage in their medical education, while also advancing…
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UChicago Medicine transabdominal cerclage team helps prevent pregnancy losses for hundreds of families each year
For Laura Douglass, MD, the retirement of her mentor, the renowned reproductive endocrinologist Arthur Haney, MD, didn’t come as a surprise. “I was a resident with him during my medical training from 2009 to 2013,” said Laura Douglass, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Chicago Medicine. “And he recruited me to come back to UChicago after my residency because he…
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Dr. Aicha Hind Rifai
“The Certificate in Health Humanities is open to all healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists and dentists, but also to allied health professionals and medical students.” Dr. Aicha Hind Rifai is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). A firm believer in the healing potential of the arts, Dr. Rifai is a researcher and practitioner in the…
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Professor Muthanna G. Abdul Razzaq
“AUE has found the opportunity of rising to the challenge in a timely manner” Hospitals magazine had the chance to meet Professor Muthanna G. Abdul Razzaq, President and CEO of The American University in the Emirates (AUE) who shed light on the main achievements and lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic after life returned to normal this year. What are…
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Stem cell transplant team looks inward to improve survival rates for patients
When a car stops running, the cause usually turns out to be a broken part that needs to be replaced. Similarly, in the bone marrow of patients with blood diseases, the stem cells responsible for creating blood cells are not working as they should. Through a procedure known as stem cell transplant, sometimes referred to as bone marrow transplant, the…
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