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MEMBER NEWS
MSD Member News
RAY A. BLACKWELL, MD was named the W. Samuel Carpenter,
III, Distinguished Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery and appointed Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Center for Heart and Vascular Health at Christiana Care Health System. Dr. Blackwell joined Christiana Care in 1996. In 2011 he became the Surgical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Jefferson University and is pursuing a Master of Jurisprudence in health care compliance and ethics from Widener Law School.
Hospital News BEEBE HEALTHCARE
BEEBE HEALTHCARE’S pulmonary rehabilitation program has been certified by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Certified programs are recognized
as leaders in the field and offer the most advanced practices available. The certification is valid for three years.
CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM
The “Best Hospitals” ratings by U.S. News & World Report ranked CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM No. 1 in Delaware and No. 3
in the greater Philadelphia region. The magazine’s 28th annual analysis of American hospitals also named Christiana Care as among the top 50 hospitals nationwide in three specialties: Nephrology, Diabetes and Endocrinology, and Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Surgery. Christiana Care was cited as a high-performing hospital in four additional specialties: Geriatrics, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, and Pulmonology.
CHRISTIANA CARE earned the Get with the Guidelines, Heart Failure; Mission: Lifeline Gold STEMI Award; Gold Plus Achievement status in Get with the Guidelines, Stroke; and Elite Plus status on the Target: Stroke Honor Roll from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Assocation.
Coming Events
OCTOBER 17 & 18
University of Delaware’s Population Health Informatics
for Healthcare Leaders Seminar, Newark
Learn more and register: https://reg.pcs.udel.edu/search/ publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=24222
OCTOBER 25-27
Cerebral Palsy and Gait Treatment
AI duPont Hospital for Children. Learn more and register: http://cmetracker.net/NEMOURS/Catalog.
OCTOBER 26
Cancer Symposium – Embracing Palliative Care: A Physician’s Role 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., John Ammon Medical Education Center, Christiana Hospital. Learn more and register: http://www.planetreg.com/CancerSymposium2017
OCTOBER 27
Dr. Margaret I. Handy Memorial Lectureship
7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., John Ammon Medical Education Center, Christiana Hospital. Learn more and register: http://www.planetreg.com/MargaretHandyLectureship2017
OCTOBER 28
10th Annual Delaware Orthopaedic Symposium
7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., John Ammon Medical Education Center, Christiana Hospital. Learn more and register: http://www.delawareorthopaedicsymposium.org/
OCTOBER 28
Delaware Health Sciences Alliance’s 2017 Global Health Symposium: Refugee and Immigrant Access to Care Locally
and Globally
8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Bluemle Life Sciences Building, Philadelphia. Learn more and register: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/ event?llr=pgcxumfab&oeidk=a07eegptw161b6f7a40
NOVEMBER 18 – SAVE THE DATE
MSD Annual Meeting and Educational Sessions
7:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., MSD Conference Center, Newark.
DECEMBER 2 – SAVE THE DATE MSD Inaugural Gala
DuPont Country Club, Wilmington
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