“Athletes are simply not the same as the general population from a cardiac perspective. Symptoms such as chest pain may mean something very different in an athlete. Intense exercise also causes normal changes in the…
“REAL TALK: Fuel to Keep the Fire From Burning Out” By: Julie Jackson-Murphy, MD Excerpt from “Not Enough Said,” a monthly communication to the Emory University Division of Hospital Medicine When my issue of JAMA…
Is it possible to stop the opioid epidemic? Leading public health, law enforcement, and clinical experts recently met at Emory University Hospital to discuss the national opioid epidemic from a multidisciplinary perspective–from its causes to…
Preceptors needed! The South Georgia Farmworkers Health Project is in need of physician supervisors for their weekend Fall Project. Spend the weekend teaching in Bainbridge, GA, which is about four hours south of Atlanta, accommodations…
Cascade Users, For the past few months, Emory LITS Web Hosting Group and University Communications & Public Affairs have been preparing for the upgrade to a new version of Cascade Server. We have reached the…
Ihab Hajjar, MD, MS first noticed a connection between hypertension and cognitive impairment when he was in private practice in South Carolina. “I noticed that a lot of my hypertension patients had a difficult time…
Scott C. Litin, MD (Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic) will present Emory’s third annual Paul W. Seavey Distinguished Lecture, “Presentation Skills for Physicians,” on Tuesday, October 17 at noon in the Emory University Hospital auditorium (2E). “I am…
What is your professional background? I majored in religion at Emory, went to medical school at Duke, then trained in internal medicine and cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. I completed a cardiac electrophysiology…
What is your professional background? I am an Emory “lifer,” having received my MD from the School of Medicine in 2004, then staying on for internal medicine residency (’04-’07), chief residency (’07-’08), cardiology fellowship (’08-’11),…
Please join us in New Orleans for the 18th annual Southern Hospital Medicine Conference (SHMC) on October 19-21, 2017. This conference provides practicing physicians, pharmacists, and other health care providers with the newest concepts in advancing…