Ask the Expert Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, is surgeon-in-chief at the University of Chicago Medicine and chair of the Department of Surgery. He is a leading authority on the surgical treatment of diseases of the pancreas, bile ducts and liver. Q: wHAT wILL THE NEw FACILITY BRING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE?
The new facility will provide a technologically advanced platform for M AT T H E W S the delivery of compassionate, personalized care to patients with complex clinical problems. The Center for Care and Discovery will allow the University of Chicago Medicine to continue to recruit and retain top doctors and researchers to bring the most innovative treatments and technology to more patients. A:
Q: HOw IS THE CENTER FOR CARE AND DISCOVERY A HOSPITAL FOR THE FUTURE?
The design of the hospital creates a high-tech environment for advanced care and new therapies, while at the same time meeting modern expectations of patients and families for warm, friendly and easily accessible accommodations and amenities.
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Q: CAN YOU DESCRIBE SOME OF THESE NEwER TREATMENTS?
Personalized cancer treatment regimens based on genomic data and molecular fingerprinting, robotic surgery and other forms
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of advanced minimally invasive interventions, hybrid heart procedures that combine innovative endovascular and off-pump techniques, imageguided surgery and other types of innovative emerging technologies.
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Family members will be given pagers to carry while their loved one is undergoing a procedure, so they can get something to eat or go to a different floor but return quickly when it’s time to talk with the physician.
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Q: HOw wILL THE NEw HOSPITAL FOSTER COLLABORATION AND INTERACTIONS AMONG STAFF?
The new space is truly transformational in that it was specifically designed to increase interactions across different disciplines. Advanced care for such complex conditions as cancer and cardiovascular disease in the future increasingly will require such collaboration among surgery, medicine, radiology, pathology and other specialties.
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| A B O V E | Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, an expert on the treatment of acute and chronic pancreatitis, is the president of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.
The Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence was created to improve patient care, to strengthen the doctor-patient relationship, and to enhance communication and decision making between patients and physicians. The Bucksbaum Institute supports training and career development at three levels: medical students, junior faculty and senior faculty. Senior faculty will serve as master clinician role models for the students and junior faculty.
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Q: wHAT ExCITES YOU MOST ABOUT THE DESIGN OF THE CENTER FOR CARE AND DISCOVERY?
The flexible design of the building. Its modular configuration anticipates the need for future reconfiguration to keep pace with rapid changes in medicine and science, and to accommodate tomorrow’s technology.
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HIGH TECH, HIGH TOUCH
Every patient room is equipped for advanced monitoring. A computer at each bedside will allow nurses to document information immediately.
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics examines ethical issues related to clinical medicine with the goal of improving the process and outcome of patient care. The first such program in the country, the center has gained national and international attention for its groundbreaking research and training in medical ethics. During the past 25 years, the MacLean Center has trained more than 300 ethics fellows, many of whom are now leaders in the field. AT THE FOREFRONT
SMART BEDS
“Smart” beds connected to a network send a signal if a patient who is a fall risk gets up.
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associated with the University of Chicago, including 12 Nobel laureates who won for discoveries related to physiology or medicine
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