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A Conversation with Jeff Lindsay
CMN: Tell us a little about your background.
I was born in Huntsville, Alabama. My dad was an aerospace engineer with NASA and worked there his entire career. My mom was a kindergarten teacher. I went to undergraduate at Auburn, to graduate school at UAB and then did an administrative fellowship in Columbia, South Carolina. I moved to Pittsburgh and worked for a healthcare consulting company. I actually joined Forsyth Medical...
ROSIE MOLINARY
UNC Board of Governors Announces Expansion of the School of Medicine
Carlotte’s hospitals and medical community are known as superior throughout the country. However, Dr. James T. McDeavitt, senior vice president of education and research at Carolinas HealthCare System, believes there is one important feature missing from the city’s medical picture: “Charlotte is one of the largest cities in America that does not have a medical school.”
MARGUERITE O. WILLIAMS
Programs Working to Cover Local Uninsured
According to an annual report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly one in five adults in the United States — more than 40 million people — does not have adequate access to the healthcare they need. In fact, those people reported that they did not receive one or more of these services — medical care, prescription medicines, mental health care, dental care or eyeglasses — in the previous year because they could not afford them.
ROSIE MOLINARY
| Healthcare Recruiting Focus |
Looming Shortages in America’s Healthcare Workforce
The Business of Meeting a Community’s Healthcare Requirements
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) released a report in August 2007 that examined the predicted shortages in the country’s healthcare workforce.
Entitled “The Inadequacy of the U.S. Physician Supply” from the AAMC’s Center for Workforce Studies, the report summarized the situation in 15 states, including North Carolina, and concluded that the nation faces current or future shortages of healthcare workers to varying degrees among the states, ranging from moderate to critical.
MARGUERITE O. WILLIAMS
Physician Recruiters Offer Tips to Docs on the Market
If you’re a physician looking for a job and a recruiting firm asks for money to help you secure employment, walk the other way. That’s the first word of advice to doctors from two physician recruiters who collectively boast more than five decades of experience in the profession.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD
Charlotte Takes Action on Teen Health
Ater the successful Women’s Summit held March 6, Charlotteans are set to tackle some of the most critical health issues for teen girls. During the Women and Health breakout sessions at the summit, three panelists each presented a significant topic of concern identified from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data.
ERIN LANE BEAM
Life After the Women’s Health Initiative
Confusion over HT Remains
When the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial of estrogen plus progestin was halted based on findings that the combination carried significant health risks that outweighed its benefits, women and healthcare providers around the country were left to navigate menopausal symptom management in a strange new world.
CINDY SANDERS
Avastin Wins FDA Accelerated Approval for Advanced HER2-Negative Breast Cancer
Avastin® by Genentech, Inc. (NYSE: DNA), a therapeutic antibody that interferes with a tumor’s blood supply, recently received accelerated approval from the FDA for use in combination with paclitaxel chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer.
CINDY SANDERS
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