The American Heart Association® and the American Medical Association recognized 15 Loyola Medicine primary care practices for their commitment to achieving better blood pressure control by awarding them Gold Status though their national initiative, Target: BP™.
The Gottlieb Center for Fitness is set to reopen on October 1. After closing during the pandemic, the fitness center was remodeled to bring new and improved facilities to members.
Loyola Medicine is pleased to welcome Wesam El Ramahi, MD to our distinguished group of family medicine physicians.
On Saturday, August 20, 2022, qualified women who make an appointment can receive free cervical and breast cancer screenings as part of Loyola Medicine's seventh annual See, Test and Treat® event.
On Friday, July 29, Grace Troko Schilder visited Loyola University Medical Center with her mother and cousin to reunite with Douglas Anderson, MD, the neurosurgeon who performed a life-saving operation to remove a brain abscess when she was just three years old.
The American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) named Alexander J. Ghanayem, MD, FAOA, department chair, orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation at Loyola University Medical Center and chief medical officer of Loyola Medicine, as second president-elect during the 2022 Annual Leadership Meeting on June 16, 2022. Dr. Ghanayem will serve as president of the organization from 2024-2025. The second president-elect serves as part of the AOA's Executive Committee, which oversees the organization's strategic direction and is comprised of the nation's top orthopaedic surgeons.
Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) has received a 2022 Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke GOLD Plus Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association. The AHA also named LUMC to its Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
Chicago magazine's Top Cancer Doctors list for 2022 includes 29 Loyola Medicine physicians.
Every Fourth of July weekend, millions gather to enjoy fireworks in cities and towns across the country, but for those who create their own displays, the holiday can be dangerous. "Emergency rooms and burn centers see a significant increase in patients presenting with firework injuries in the month around July 4," said Mark Cichon, DO, chair of emergency medicine at Loyola Medicine. According to Dr. Cichon, eye injuries, hearing issues and finger and hand injuries are the most common.
Earlier this week, members of the Loyola Medicine community celebrated the graduation of the inaugural class of the Emergency Medicine Residency program at Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC). Loyola’s Emergency Medicine Residency program was launched in 2019 thanks, in part, to a gift from the Keeley Family Foundation. The Keeley family’s involvement with Loyola spans three generations, and their longstanding support has established the John L. Keeley, MD Medical Student Scholarship Fund, the John L. Keeley, MD Surgical Fellowship Award, the John L. Keeley, MD Emergency Department, and now the Barbara G. and John L. Keeley, Jr. Center for Emergency Medicine Education.
Internist Dr. James Bobllick is retiring this week after more than 30 years of practicing medicine with his brothers, Dr. John Boblick and Dr. William Boblick. As he looks forward to retirement, he says, "I have mixed emotions. I've got a tear in one eye and a smile on my face."
Christopher M. Gonzalez, MD, MBA, FACS, chair of the urology department at Loyola University Medical Center, has been awarded the Barringer Medal from the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. Dr. Gonzalez was also recently elected Trustee to the American Board of Urology (ABU). His six-year term began on April 2, 2022.
Kathy S. Albain, MD, FACP, FASCO, will receive the 2022 Gianni Bonadonna Breast Cancer Award in recognition of her pioneering work in research and patient care and for her dedication to mentoring the researchers of tomorrow. Dr. Albain, the Huizenga Family Endowed Chair in Oncology Research, professor of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, and Loyola Medicine medical oncologist, will receive the award and deliver a lecture at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), the leading professional organization for cancer researchers, through June 7 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Loyola Medicine recently opened the Loyola Medicine Asylum Clinic at MacNeal Hospital. Founded by Yessenia Castro-Caballero, MD, FAAP, and Amy Blair, MD, FAAFP, the clinic provides evidence-based medical examinations for asylum seekers.
As part of Loyola Medicine's commitment to making health care accessible to all, Loyola has added American Sign Language (ASL) to the translation services available for individuals making telehealth appointments.
For more than 20 years, Loyola Medicine has provided the Chicago area with allergy counts every weekday via Twitter during the allergy season. The Loyola Medicine Allergy Count will begin 2022 reporting on April 1.
Loyola Medicine was recently named a Clinical Care Center for patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease by the VHL Alliance.
The Donor Care Network has designated Loyola University Medical Center as a Center of Excellence. The Donor Care Network helps ensure living kidney donors are treated with the utmost courtesy and respect by implementing best practices and recognizing facilities that adhere to their guiding principles. The designation will help Loyola improve patient access to living kidney donor transplants through the National Kidney Registry.
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