Cellular Medicine, The Third Pillar
April 8, 2025
At Medical Transformation Center, Carl Paige, MD, has found his model of healthcare LOUISVILLE Diagnosis isn’t always simple. Sometimes it takes time, experience, analysis, and
Finding your place and embracing your space is an underlying theme for the doctors we profile in this issue of MD-Update. In reading their stories, I think you’ll see that each of them talks about their medical practice as “a calling,” something they were drawn to, or led to, and are comfortable with, while serving others.
In our cover story, Dr. Carl Paige puts it simply that large healthcare wasn’t performing optimally for his patients or intellectually for him, so he set out to create his own space in cellular medicine at the Medical Transformation Center. Dr. Mahsa Javid says that she chose surgery because it was a specialty that was under-represented by women and that her mentor was an endocrine surgeon. Other mentors showed her the value of teaching and research and sharing that information with future generations.
Dr. Samantha Baah says that “finding a solution to extend patients’ quality of life is a calling,” which she experienced in multiple waves as a critical care pulmonologist during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Nickolas Capal says “fixing people who are sick, dealing with whatever comes through the door, is what I signed up for, it’s what I love to do.”
MD-Update Mental Wellness columnist Dr. Jan Anderson recounts her interesting journey from the corporate world to a professional career in counseling high achievers and parents estranged from adult children. One step at a time she found her way to a fulfilling practice helping others. I invite you to get to know your Kentuckiana colleagues by reading their stories inside.
Artificial intelligence is a hot topic. I’m grateful that one of Kentuckiana’s thought-leaders on the subject, Dr. Danesh Mazloomdoost, founder and medical director of Wellward Medical, has contributed his award-winning essay on AI to MD-Update on page 8. Contact me if you have a response or thoughts on a different subject.
It’s allergy and outdoor season, so Kentucky’s Department for Public Health reminds us of the importance of early lung cancer screening and the danger of tickborne disease. The American Heart Association’s annual Heart Balls in Lexington and Louisville were great events to attend. We have some photos for you in case you missed them.
The 2025 MD-Update editorial calendar is on the preceeding page. When you see your specialty, contact me. If your specialty isn’t included, and you have a story to tell, that’s another reason to reach out to me. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Until December, all the best,
Gil Dunn
Editor/Publisher MD-Update
At Medical Transformation Center, Carl Paige, MD, has found his model of healthcare LOUISVILLE Diagnosis isn’t always simple. Sometimes it takes time, experience, analysis, and
UofL Health endocrine surgeon Mahsa Javid, MB, has multiple roles and enjoys all of them LOUISVILLE For Mahsa Javid, MB, BChr, MA, DPhil, FRCS, FRCSC,
Pulmonologist at Norton Healthcare sees long-term COVID and environmental factors in her practice. LOUISVILLE The profound impact COVID-19 had on patients not only colored the
Using his total skill set and robotics brings satisfaction to CHI Saint Joseph Health surgeon in rural Kentucky LONDON Being pigeonholed into one surgical specialty
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