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Topics include:
In the Hurricane Zone
Vivek
Ahya, MD, and Daniel Sterman, MD, were
among the six critical-care doctors and nurses from the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania who boarded a privately-chartered
plane to Baton Rouge, LA, in order to help relieve their over-worked
colleagues in the Intensive-Care Units at Ochsner Health Care
Center and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
“Our goal is to help provide relief to the physicians
at those facilities because they’ve had no opportunity
to attend to their personal affairs since the hurricane,”
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Vivek Ahya, MD <bio>
Medical Director, Lung Transplantation Program
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Daniel Sterman, MD <bio>
Director, Interventional Pulmonary |
Contaminated Water &
Infectious Agents
Experts believe
it could take years for the water supply in New Orleans to
be healthy to drink, and much of the city was surrounded by
contaminated water. What will be the long-term health issues
that hurricane victims will have to face? Paul H.
Edelstein, MD, is the Director of the Clinical Microbiology
Laboratory and his current areas of interest include Legionnaires
disease, molecular pathogenesis of bacterial infections, and
pneumonia. Neil O. Fishman, MD, is Director
of the Department of Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection
Control; his research interests include models to improve
the use of antibiotics, risk factors for the emergence of
resistance, the relationship between antimicrobial use and
the emergence of resistance, and interventions to prevent
healthcare-associated infections. |
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Paul H. Edelstein, MD <bio>
Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
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Neil O. Fishman, MD
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Director, Department of Healthcare Epidemiology and
Infection Control
Director, Antimicrobial Management Program
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Pulmonary Diseases
| With the approach of Hurricane Rita,
the number of evacuees living under one roof in shelters across
the Gulf Coast will continue to rise...what is the risk of common
lung diseases, such as TB and whooping cough? And how will these
diseases effect the survivors' long-term health? Milton
D. Rossman, MD, is an expert in tuberculosis, sarcoidosis,
chronic beryllium disease and the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. |
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Milton D. Rossman, MD
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Medical Coordinator Bronchoscopy Service
Director, Pulmonary Clinical Immunology Lab
Director Interstitial Lung Disease Program
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Effects of Mold
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Many evacuees from the Gulf Coast are longing to return home. When the clean-up
begins, how will these people be effected by the level of
mold in their homes and communities? S. Michael Phillips,
MD's, expertise is in immunology and response to
infectious, biologic or chemical agents in the environment
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S. Michael Phillips, MD
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Chief, Clinical Immunology Service, Penn Presbyterian Medical
Center
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Psychological Effects
| As Director of the
Center for the Study & Treatment of Anxiety, Edna
B. Foa, PhD, leads a team of ten psychologists at
Penn who specialize in the identification and treatment of
post-traumatic stress disorders. Foa estimates that 15-20%
of Hurricane Katrina victims will need counseling and treatment
for chronic traumatic stress. To that end, she has offered
to share the expertise of her faculty with local relief-agency
officials. Mark Salzer, PhD has written on
the short- and long-term psychological effects of disasters
and has identified resource and social support losses as two
key areas that people need in order to return to normalcy
and psychological health. He helped develop a "community
self-help" program in Philadelphia in response to future
local disasters and is consulting with a group that is using
this approach in the gulf region in response to Katrina. |
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Edna B. Foa, PhD
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Director, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety |
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Mark Salzer, PhD <bio>
Director, University of Pennsylvania Collaborative on Community
Integration: The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
Assistant Professor of Psychology |
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