Author: Jim Kelsey

“Teaming” with Potential

Joshua David Harman, DO, the new medical director of orthopedic oncology at Norton Cancer Institute and Norton Orthopedic Institute, on building a referral pathway, the weekly tumor board, and limb-saving surgery.

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“The Best Job Ever”

Shriners Children’s Lexington celebrates 100 years of pediatric orthopedic care — from a 20-bed wing at Good Samaritan Hospital in 1926 to a nationally ranked ambulatory center on the UK HealthCare campus, and the four surgeons who call it the best job they could hope to have.

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A Ray of Sunshine

Audrey Summers Farooqui, MD, UofL Health, helps women maintain their mental health through reproductive psychiatry — and directs KyCOMPASS, Kentucky’s new statewide perinatal mental health access program.

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Tipping the Scales in Their Favor

Elizabeth Bruenderman, MD, medical director of the Advanced Bariatric Surgery and Weight Loss Center at UofL Health, is the only female bariatric surgeon in Louisville — and she’s changing how patients and physicians think about obesity as a chronic disease.

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My Brain Is Me

Akshitkumar Mistry, MD, employs research and hands-on procedures to aid brain cancer patients at UofL Health LOUISVILLE When someone hears the words “You might have

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Call It a Gut Feeling

Choosing to treat cancer patients was a clear choice for UofL Health’s surgical oncologist Michael Egger, MD LOUISVILLE Some people know at a very early

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As He Builds It, They Will Come

Omar M. El Kawkgi, MD, leads the building of UK Healthcare’s Markey Cancer Center’s thyroid cancer program LEXINGTON Endocrinologist Omar M. El Kawkgi, MD, joined

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Thumbs Up!

Antony Hazel, MD, hand specialist at Norton Arm & Hand Institute, specializes in unique thumb surgery LOUISVILLE People commonly ask a friend or neighbor if

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Craftsmanship and Compassion

Carter Cassidy, MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and department chair, leads the UK HealthCare Orthopedics team LEXINGTON Ryan Carter Cassidy, MD, says leading the UK HealthCare

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