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MUSC’s Dr. Ray Greenberg will become the executive vice chancellor for health affairs at The University of Texas System.

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MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA

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For the sixth summer in a row, Matthew Whaley spent five days in late June with fellow burn-injured children at Camp ‘Can’ Do at Seabrook Island.

The 10-year-old James Simons Elementary School student burned his arm while trying to make a cup of hot chocolate when he was just 5 years old and was introduced to the camp by one of his MUSC nurses. Matthew spent just a night at the MUSC Children’s Hospital, but he had to go back multiple times for about six months to make sure his wound was healing properly.

With just a small scar near the bend of his elbow now, Matthew said he learned his lesson about dealing with hot beverages.

“I still drink hot chocolate,” he said.

“I’m just careful.”

Jill Evans, R.N., the coordinator of Pediatric Burn Services and administrator for Camp ‘Can’ Do, has been a nurse since 1989 and at MUSC for 22 years. She met Matthew shortly after his burn and spent a lot of time with the Whaley family as he recovered.

“Our No. 1 goal is to save the patient’s life. After that, our long-term goal is functionality, but you have to talk about scar management from the beginning with families,” she said. “With a burn over a joint like his, it’s ideal to be seen at MUSC because we can help prevent contractions and scarring.”

Evans has been planning each summer camp for the past 16 years – coming up with a budget and sticking to it, reviewing and accepting applications, performing background checks on

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“I feel like camp is a group effort, and I really just organize and pull together the great work that the volunteers are doing,” said Evans.

She works closely with an eightmember board of directors of the South Carolina Burned Children’s Fund, which provides funding for Camp ‘Can’ Do. Much of the funding comes from the almost 100 fire departments in

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0CJLH ]LCI -)`)JCL?)A GH)O[)LC LHH!;)CALC[ X=H) ,K W ith the installation of new handforged gates by local artisan Sean Ahearn, all the components were in place for the dedication and one-year anniversary party of the MUSC Urban Farm.

The festivities, held June 20 in the Drug Discovery Building lobby, included remarks made by MUSC President Ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., and Susan Johnson, Ph.D., director of the Urban Farm. They traced the evolution of the project from its earliest kernel of an idea to fruition, recognizing the key players along the way and the contributions of the current leadership team.

With an initial donation of $10,000 in seed money, Brad Masteller, general manager of Sodexo, set in motion events that led to the existence of the project.

Sodexo also was the caterer for the party, offering up farm-inspired healthy cuisine.

The relaxed atmosphere was punctuated with music by Yeehaw Junction, a local bluegrass band.

Guests ventured outdoors to tour the Urban Farm, and afterward, a friend of the farm, Rick Malaspina, wrote a letter to the editor of The Post and Courier describing the farm as “a place of solace and relaxation for MUSC patients, employees, visitors and neighbors.”

_IF`G[)) /)``H)AA ! Farmers markets: Fresh fruit and vegetables are available from local farmers from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday at Ashley River Tower, and from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday at the Horseshoe.

Editorial of fice MUSC Office of Public Relations 135 Cannon Street, Suite 403C, Charleston, SC 29425.

843-792-4107 Fax: 843-792-6723 Editor: Kim Draughn catalyst@musc.edu Catalyst staff: Cindy Abole, aboleca@musc.edu Ashley Barker, barkera@musc.edu

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This free class will be led by fitness expert Katie Blaylock from the MUSC Human Performance Lab. Participants should check in at the Wellness Center membership desk for directions to the class and will receive a free one-day pass to the center. E-mail musc-empwell@ musc.edu to register. ! Worksite screening: The screening will take place July 17 in the 2West The Catalyst is published once a week.

Paid adver tisements, which do not represent an endorsement by MUSC or the State of South Carolina, are handled by Island Publications Inc., Moultrie News, 134 Columbus St., Charleston, S.C., 843-849-1778 or 843-958-7490. E-mail: sales@moultrienews.com.

classroom of the university hospital.

Valued at about $350, the screening is available to employees and their spouses who have the State Health Plan for $15 each. Employees and spouses without this insurance can participate for $42.

Screening includes: height, weight, blood pressure and a blood draw for a blood chemistry profile, hemogram, and a blood lipid profile. Note that the thyroid 4-panel is now a $10 optional test. To register, go to www.musc.edu/ employeewellness and click “Worksite Screening Appointment.” ! MUSC Healthy Challenge Tuesdays with the RiverDogs: Tuesday night games

are geared toward promoting a healthy lifestyle and feature a sponsorship from the MUSC Wellness Center, Healthy Charleston Challenge and Urban Farm. Healthy concessions are available throughout the season, featuring the Urban Farm Veggie Taco, which is made from crops grown on the farm.

Discounted tickets to all Tuesday games, with reserved group seating for MUSC, are available online. Tickets must be purchased by noon the day of the game. Gates open at 6 p.m., and the game time is 7:05 p.m.

To purchase discounted tickets, visit http://cr1.glitnirticketing.com/crticket/ web/gpcaptcha.php. When prompted to enter the group password, type “healthy.” Stop by the MUSC table to enter a drawing for free Wellness Center passes.

0CJLH ]LCI ! Early-bird maintenance: Get your day started with a little tender loving care on the farm from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., July 17. ! Work and Learn with child friendly activities: On July 20 from 9 to 11 a.m., bring a plastic bag, and take home some fresh produce in return for work efforts on the farm or help gather for donations on certain days. Wear closed-toe shoes.

No experience or prior knowledge is necessary. The event is open to everyone.

Email johnsusa@musc.edu for information on the Office of Health Promotion, and email Suzan Benenson Whelan, at whela@musc.edu, for information on MUSC Employee Wellness.

/L`ILC? -=A?GI)CA CL!A) e.fcW 'GC >#!`+C)H4A ZGAF!?L` The MUSC Children’s Hospital, a member of the Children’s Miracle Network, received nearly $190,000 from area Walmart customers.

Walmart, the largest CMN corporate sponsor, holds a six-week campaign each year to raise money for children’s hospitals. The 13 Walmart stores in the Charleston region held their campaigns May 7 - June 21 and raised $189,065.

Goose Creek Walmart store No. 2928 raised $45,961.90, which put the store in 16th place nationally for CMN

fundraising in 2013.

The Goose Creek store and its customers will be thanked during a celebration at 11:15 a.m. on July 12.

“The donations ultimately come from the Walmart customers. We want to make sure the community is aware of how generous they were and how their donations make a difference in the lives of more than 200,000 children that walk through the doors of MUSC every year,” said MUSC Office of Development’s Mimi Dorman.

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USC President Ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., will depart the university at the end of August in order to assume the position of executive vice chancellor for health affairs at The University of Texas System.

Greenberg, president of MUSC since 2000, led the institution through a period of unprecedented growth \C))HJ)C% and development. During his tenure, more than a million square feet of new space was constructed on the campus, including Ashley River Tower, new facilities for the Hollings Cancer Center, the College of Health Professions, and the College of Dental Medicine, as well as research laboratory buildings for the Darby Children’s Research Institute, Drug Discovery and Bioengineering.

During Greenberg’s presidency, the programmatic growth at MUSC paralleled the physical expansion of the campus, with annual research funding more than doubling to $243 million and total operating budgets approaching $2 billion per year. The Hollings Cancer

Center’s contributions to cancer research, education and patient care were recognized with designation by the National Cancer Institute. The university’s ability to move discoveries from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside was recognized with a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health.

“Ray Greenberg has transformed the medical university during his years in office,” said Thomas Stephenson, chairman of the MUSC board of trustees.

“He led us through challenging financial times, yet still was able to expand our contributions to the state.

He will be missed on campus, but equally important, throughout the state of South Carolina. We will always think of Ray and his wife, Leah, as part of the MUSC family.”

Stephenson said that the board of trustees would meet soon to discuss the transition in leadership, selecting an interim president and proceeding quickly to launch a national search for a permanent successor.

“We are confident that there will be a lot of interest in this position and that we will be able to attract an outstanding candidate to lead MUSC to even greater heights in the years ahead,” Stephenson said.

Speaking of his years at MUSC, Greenberg said: “It has been an extraordinary privilege for me, both

personally and professionally, to be part of such a wonderful organization. The decision to leave behind so many good friends and colleagues has been difficult, but MUSC will always remain in my heart.”

A principal point of emphasis for Greenberg at MUSC was building statewide collaboration. These efforts helped to foster the creation of Health Sciences South Carolina – a partnership involving the state’s research universities and teaching hospitals, the Carolina e-Health Alliance – a cooperative effort of all Charleston hospitals to share data between emergency departments, a Bioengineering Alliance with Clemson University and a merger of pharmacy schools with the University of South Carolina.

In Texas, Greenberg will be responsible for administrative and strategic oversight of the six academic health science institutions within The University of Texas System – The UT System educates more than two-thirds of the state’s health care professionals annually and is composed of four medical schools, and numerous other professional schools in nursing, dentistry, public health and more. Two new medical schools are under development now.

Greenberg will be succeeding Kenneth Shine, M.D., who served in this role for a decade and prior to that

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By Allyson Bird Office of Development & Alumni Affairs Rachel Edwards went to the prom and the beach this spring but, more significantly, she went to the prom and the beach without a port in her chest.

For years, the implant provided a way for doctors to administer Rachel’s chemotherapy drugs without using painful needles each time. The port meant convenient treatment, but it also represented a troubling truth: Cancer kept returning to Rachel’s young body, diminishing her chances of survival with each reoccurrence.

Rachel’s port removal in April marked her 11th surgery and the beginning of a better outlook for the 17-year-old Mount Pleasant girl. Her father, Gary Edwards, explained that, until then, Rachel’s doctors delivered good news cautiously.

“We would hear things like ‘grossly unremarkable,’” he said. “‘Remission’ is a word we had never heard -until now.”

Rachel lost her hair twice, relied on home schooling for much of middle and high school and spent several summers indoors and in a hospital bed. But even after beating the cancer inside her own body four times, she wants to keep fighting for other young patients.

“I don’t want to see any other kids going through it,” Rachel said. “I want to be an advocate to bring enough money for cancer research at MUSC.” With one more year at Wando High School and then college ahead, she works toward her goal now by sharing her story with other patients and people who can help them. Most recently, she traveled to Washington to tell lawmakers on Capitol Hill why they should support funding for pediatric medicine.

Rachel’s first cancer diagnosis came when she was only 10 years old. Her parents took her to see a pediatrician after her knee hurt during gymnastics training. For the next two years, she spent 159 nights in the hospital undergoing treatment for osteosarcoma, a solid tumor bone cancer.

While most cancers travel from tissue to bone, this disease takes a reverse path. Rachel’s illness required a shinbone replacement and then more chemotherapy, only to have a tumor appear in her lung.

More than a year passed, but the disease returned again in January 2011. By then, Rachel’s chance of survival had dropped to about 10 percent.

Her doctors enrolled her in a drug study, and the treatments successfully staved off the cancer. But just months later, doctors found a tumor in Rachel’s upper lung and lymph nodes and, yet again, Rachel traded school for treatment and kept her tears to herself. She only broke down once, on a phone call with a counselor

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Her father, managing director at the regional Kraveka stays in touch with the Edwards family, and marketing organization Coastal South Carolina, Rachel’s parents invite her to violin concerts and school calls his daughter’s recovery a combination of “Godmusicals. Kraveka recently watched Rachel perform in ordained miracle and wonderful, wonderful science.” her high school’s production of “Grease.”

“As a parent, I can’t tell you how cool it is that I “To see her up on stage singing and dancing,” work in the shadows of MUSC,” Gary Edwards said.

Kraveka said, “was amazing.”

“We didn’t throw in the towel and say there’s nothing else we can offer.”

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ince 2004, the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium Summer Careers Academy has provided the opportunity for college students who are pursuing careers in health care to participate in a health professions education immersion program.

Participants are selected through a highly competitive application process and must have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Applicants must be South Carolina residents or be enrolled in a South Carolina school, college or university. In addition to a completed application form, a 700-word essay is required along with two letters of recommendation and official transcripts.

The one-week program, held at MUSC, includes activities that are designed to increase the acceptance and graduation rates of under-represented minority and disadvantaged students in dental, medicine, pharmacy and occupational therapy education training programs in South Carolina.

A large percentage of Summer Careers Academy fellows, who often attend during their freshman year, remain in the health professions matriculation pipeline.

The academy is sponsored and facilitated in collaboration with the MUSC library, Southeastern Virtual Institute for Health Equity and Wellness, and the MUSC colleges of Dental Medicine, Health Professions, Medicine, and Pharmacy.

The 2013 Summer Careers Academy was held June 2-7 and included students from the College of Charleston, University of South Carolina, Clemson University, Duke University, Francis Marion University, Wofford College, Coastal Carolina University, Webster University and others.

Jamine Butler, who attended the 2013 academy, reported immediate benefits.

“Because of the wonderful opportunity to be a part of the program, I was awarded a position at the veteran’s hospital as a summer intern in the outpatient pharmacy,” Butler said.

For more information about the academy, call 792-4443 or visit https:// www.scahec.net/hcp/hcp.html.

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U)+!-L` >)H?)C >GII=H!-L?!GHA >GCH)C 1G^H #L`` I))?!H% A)C!)A b!-bA G'' The MUSC medical center Town halls kicked off July 8. Town hall meetings are an important part of the medical centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to make sure that employees are well informed and involved. The meetings are not only an opportunity to hear directly from senior leaders but also to ask questions and share ideas.

Additional days and times have been added to increase the options for staff who work evenings, nights and weekends to attend. Webinars also are scheduled, particularly for staff that work at off-site locations but are open for everyone who wants to participate in that format. The schedule reflects the dates, times and locations for live and TV broadcast meetings as well as

your ATTendAnCe required Town hall participation is now expected of all Medical University Hospital Authority employees. scheduled webinars.

The schedule also may be accessed at http://mcintranet.musc.edu/ muscexcellence/communications/townhall/townhallschedule.htm.

Questions and comments may be directed to Ashley Bode at 792-0820 or emailed to bode@musc.edu.

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Date

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Time

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July 17

Wednesday

12:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 8

Monday

2:00 P.M.

2 West Amp

July 17

Wednesday

6:00 P.M.

2 West Amp

July 9

Tuesday

10:00 A.M.

ART Auditorium

July 17

Wednesday

10:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 9

Tuesday

6:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 17

Wednesday

11:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 9

Tuesday

10:00 P.M.

2 West Amp

July 18

Thursday

7:30 A.M.

ART Auditorium

July 9

Tuesday

11:00 P.M.

2 West Amp

July 18

Thursday

12:00 P.M.

July 10

Wednesday

11:00 A.M.

IOP Auditorium

Drug Discovery Auditorium

July 10

Wednesday

12:00 P.M.

Webinar***

July 18

Thursday

12:00 P.M.

July 10

Wednesday

6:00 P.M.

2 West Amp

2 West Amp Simulcast

July 11

Thursday

7:30 A.M.

ART Auditorium

July 18

Thursday

6:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 11

Thursday

2:00 P.M.

Drug Discovery

July 19

Friday

12:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 11

Thursday

2:00 P.M.

2 West Amp Simulcast

July 20

Saturday

6:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 21

Sunday

7:30 A.M.

2 West Amp

July 12

Friday

7:30 A.M.

2 West Amp

July 21

Sunday

12:00 P.M.

Webinar***

July 12

Friday

11:00 A.M.

ART Auditorium

July 22

Monday

10:00 A.M.

2 West Amp

July 13

Saturday

6:00 P.M.

2 West Amp

July 22

Monday

2:00 P.M.

2 West Amp

July 14

Sunday

7:30 A.M.

ART Auditorium

July 23

Tuesday

10:00 A.M.

ART Auditorium

July 14

Sunday

12:00 P.M.

Webinar***

July 23

Tuesday

6:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 15

Monday

12:00 P.M.

Webinar***

July 24

Wednesday

11:00 A.M.

IOP Auditorium

July 15

Monday

2:00 P.M.

ART Auditorium

July 24

Wednesday

12:00 P.M.

Webinar***

July 16

Tuesday

2:30 P.M.

Drug Discovery Auditorium

July 25

Thursday

7:30 A.M.

ART Auditorium

July 25

Thursday

11:00 A.M.

ART Auditorium

July 16

Tuesday

2:30 P.M.

2 West Amp Simulcast

July 25

Thursday

2:00 P.M.

2 West Amp

***Link will be emailed on the day of the webinar.

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By Cindy ABole Public Relations There’s no mistaking the clanging of a ship’s bell echoing down the halls of MUSC’s transplant unit on 6 East.

The bell has tolled at least 30 times in the past year to recognize the success of the program’s kidney and liver transplant patients. And as recipients, donors and their families depart, they can remember this part of their transplant journey by leaving behind a token on the unit’s Tree of Life display.

Last summer, the bell rang to commemorate the miracle shared by Lowcountry kidney transplant patient Dean Quade and his altruistic living donor and friend, Tracy Peabody. After the surgeries, Peabody took a symbolic leaf, wrote Dean’s and her own name and transplant date on it, and placed it on one of the many branches of a framed Southern live oak tree marking the success of another living kidney transplant.

Peabody didn’t think twice when it came to helping out her friends during their time of need. After all, she and Dean’s wife, Stacey, were childhood friends in Waldorf, Md. Stacey later married Dean and moved to Summerville to raise their three children. Peabody learned that Dean’s quality of life was deteriorating after being diagnosed in 2005 with IgA nephropathy, a disease that severely damaged his kidneys. After years on dialysis, he was desperately in need of a transplant.

By April 2012, Peabody decided to place her name on the potential living donor list.

After completing the pre-testing and months of waiting, Peabody received news that she was a positive match for Dean. By late June 2012, the friends worked it out to schedule a surgery date originally set for midJuly. Less than 24 hours after Peabody left to travel to Charleston, she received news from her doctor of a suspicious lump in her right breast. MUSC’s transplant team advised her to remove it to rule out cancer.

On July 18, the original day set for Dean’s transplant surgery, Peabody underwent surgery to remove the lump from her breast, which was later confirmed negative. Once that was done, they set a new transplant surgery date for Aug. 15. She didn’t fully realize the scope of her donation until she awoke later that day in recovery and asked about Dean’s progress. The nurses pointed to where Dean rested across the room, and they both waved to each other.

“That was a moment I will never forget,” Peabody said.

As both recipient and donor’s health progressed in their recovery on 6 East, they eventually were invited by the transplant team and Living Donor coordinator Stacy Sipple, R.N., to ring the transplant bell. For years, it’s been a tradition for MUSC kidney and

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“We wanted to do something to give our living transplant donors some recognition and make them feel special while honoring them as the heroes that they really are. Charleston’s Angel Oak, a symbol of Charleston, was the perfect inspiration. I liked its reference to angels as that’s what these donors represent: true angels to others,” Smit said.

Donors also receive a certificate of appreciation, a cake and goody bag filled with a T-shirt, cup, pin and commemorative photo of the patient and donor.

The day after surgery, both Peabody and Dean made the long, slow walk from their rooms to the 6 East nurses’ station to ring the transplant bell.

“At the moment we rang the bell together, it didn’t make me feel any different or special. My moment came after I woke up after surgery and knew that Dean was OK that I fully realized what I had done. There is nothing more self-satisfying than improving another person’s quality of life,” Peabody said.

Interim nurse manager Debra Cassidy, R.N., confirmed that both the transplant bell and Tree of Life projects provide a positive affirmation of her team’s roles in the transplant process.

“The project has given our staff an opportunity to acknowledge the living transplant donor in a consistent way, which donors always appreciate. It also encourages

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_IF`G[))A LAb)+ ?G C)FC)A)H? U02> !H L FGA!?!;) ILHH)C The smoking policy, which went into effect March 1, 2012, has since extended into a non-smoking zone area around the MUSC campus.

According to MUSC President Ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., MUSC has taken a leadership role when it comes to addressing the need for a non-smoking zone because of the significant negative impact of tobacco use on society.

“We have a strong stance against tobacco use, and there have been numerous success stories regarding the establishment of this zone,” he said.

Unfortunately there has been a downside to this new zone.

“Some MUSC employees, visitors and vendors have moved beyond the zone boundaries into the adjacent neighborhoods, and they are leaving large amounts of cigarette butts and other litter behind,” Greenberg said.

“To be good neighbors, and to continue to ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to our stance on smoking, the university and the medical center have revised the Tobacco Free Campus Policy.”

As an MUSC, Medical University Hospital Authority employee:

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! Remember MUSC standards of behavior, and littering is a sign of disrespect. Respect is one of the core values and as such, littering won’t be tolerated. ! Paid breaks are considered work time and are a privilege. Non-paid breaks, or meal periods, are given to all employees.

Any employee who abuses breaks may be denied future breaks and subject to counseling and disciplinary action. ! Employees are representatives of MUSC, and any employee who leaves the medical district to smoke and litters or otherwise represents MUSC in an unacceptable manner may be subject to disciplinary action.

MUSC has several resources to help employees and staff stop smoking. Free smoking cessation programs are still available. Visit http://mcintranet.musc. edu/employeewellness/smoking.htm.

For more information or to read the revised university policy in full, visit http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/ tobaccofree.

To read the revised medical center policy, visit https://www.musc.edu/ medcenter/policy/Med/A036.pdf.

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the state that collect aluminum cans to recycle. Several times between January and August of each year, Evans also meets with a camp planning committee, made up of volunteers from MUSC and the fire services, to make sure the week goes according to the plan.

“Wound and burn care is a good fit for me,” Evans said. “The best thing about my job is that I get to follow the patient from treatment to recovery and beyond when they come to camp.”

Campers and the more than 40 community volunteers, including area firefighters, spent time at the beach each day, went canoeing and kayaking, sat around a campfire, learned how to fish, tie-dye T-shirts, took shag lessons, had an ice cream social, scrapbooked, played flag football, learned to paint and participated in firefighter games.

Matthew said he saw three alligators

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He said his favorite part of the camp was seeing old friends and meeting new people, especially his bunkmate Eric Glover, a first-year camp counselor who

is a City of Charleston firefighter.

“Matthew has been showing me around a lot,” Glover said. “Each day is filled with fun activities. I’m exhausted by the end of the day.”

Camp ‘Can’ Do, sponsored by MUSC Children’s Hospital Pediatric Burn

“The best thing about my job is that I get to follow the patient from treatment to recovery and beyond when they come to camp.”

X!`` _;LHAP 3MTM Services and South Carolina Firefighters, is a free camp for children with a history of burn injury from throughout South Carolina. To find out more information, visit http://scburnedchildrensfund.org/ or call 792-3852.

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presidenT Continued from Page Three was the president of the Institute of Medicine.

“It is a special honor to follow in Dr. Shine’s footsteps,” said Greenberg, “and I am excited about the opportunity to work for Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., a distinguished physician-educator, who has elevated The University of Texas System to one of the preeminent higher education systems in the country. I look forward to becoming part of Chancellor Cigarroa’s team, to working with the Board of Regents, and to partnering with the outstanding presidents of all six health science institutions.”

Prior to becoming president of MUSC, Greenberg served as its vice president for academic affairs and before that, he was at Emory University where he held various administrative roles, including chairman of epidemiology and biostatistics in the College of Medicine, deputy director of the Winship Cancer Center, and founding dean of the Rollins School of Public Health.

life Continued from Page Eight Peabody now sports a small tattoo – a butterfly bearing a green ribbon and the transplant surgery date — on her left wrist, the same side her kidney was removed. It is the 43-year-old wife and mother of two teenagers’ daily reminder of her sacrifice and chance to save a person’s life.

“The tattoo makes me very proud to explain to people what I have done. I think I’ve educated many people, and maybe some will be more willing to help others in the same way whenever their time comes,” she said.

Peabody stays in contact with her Lowcountry friends and regularly receives cards of appreciation from Stacey reminding her how much Dean and the family appreciate her gift.

“I don’t really ever think about it,” she said. “And I would do it again if I could.”

Smit, who is hoping to present the Tree of Life Living Donor project at September’s International Transplant Nurses Society Symposium in Washington D.C., summarizes it best.

“It’s a wonderful and positive thing that we have such a program in place and that it has evolved to what it is today. It provides a wonderful, positive effort that our unit can be involved with and supports the specialized care our patients need every day,” said Smit.

For information about transplant services, call 7921414 or visit http://www.muschealth.com/transplant/ programs/livingkidney.htm.

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Leslie Scott, 10E; Margaret Maynard, PAS; Darian Epps, ART 6W; Fabiana Squarize, Physical Therapy; Belinda Christy, Volunteer & Guest Services; Melvena Nelson, Environmental Services; Robert Chistenbery, 10W; Wendy Williams, 10W; Juan Calderon, Safety & Security; Danielle Nowakowski, 8E; Kate Padgett, 8E; Karen Miller, Ambulatory PACU; Ashley Harrison,7A; Terra Kirkwood, RT Children’s Services; Jennifer Tyler, Children’s Services; Ryan Butts, Pediatric Cardiology; Andrew Savage, Pediatric Cardiology; Edward Crosswell, Storm Eye Institute; Kellyanne Pennington, Digestive Disease Center; Donna Cohen, ART Prep Cath; Lori Langston, Anesthesia; Alison Meeks, Psychiatry; Erin O’Donnell, PICU; Michele Farthing, Pediatrics – Education; Cortney Herdon, 10W; Krystal Clark, 10W; Grea Durkee, Speech Pathology; Kate Miccichi, Revenue Cycle Operations; Jenna Byrd, Pharmacy; Shameika White, Pharmacy; Stehpanie Ketchens, Revenue Cycle Operations; Vernita Snider, RT Children’s Services Registration; Sharon Dupree-Capers, Revenue Cycle Operations; Sally Humphrey, RT ENT; Brenda Brown, Heart & Vascular Center; Harolyn Smith, Volunteer & Guest Services; Justin Carr, Volunteer & Guest Services; Eugenia Mathias, ART 6E; Nadirah Peterson, ART 4E;

Suzanne Ramage, Volunteer & Guest Services; L’Tanya Wright, Ashley Avenue Pharmacy; Julianne Walsh, 7C; Tina Hinkle, 5E; Sandra Shelley, 5E; Cassandra Payton, 8E; Katie Steidle, 8E; Sheila Gaines, Meduflex Team; Tyrone Vanish, STNICU; Lisa Keleher-Otto, RT Neurosurgery & Spine; Philip Schlabs, 7C; August Scott, Dietetic Services; Laurie Krafsig, Revenue Cycle Operations; Cagney Lauderman, 7A; Monterris Junes, Outpatient Registration; Deborah Cepeda, Revenue Cycle Operations; Catherine West, ART Pre-op Testing; Tamika Stephens, Environmental Services; Erica Singleton, Women & Infant Services; Victoria Flynn, ART OR; Jackie Jacobus, Newborn-Special Care Nursery; Krystena Coppola, Women & Infant Services;Vy Nguyen, 9W; Mary Scarborough, Respiratory Therapy; Charles Nadolski, 9E; Tolanda Henderson, 8W; Marguerite Lenahan, Physical Therapy; Latoya Nelson, Infection Control; Sandy Carpenter, ART 6E; Mary Heckel, HCC; Holli Hoagland, Radiology; and Lisa Foster, Revenue Cycle Operations.

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Allison Angert, College of Dental Medicine; VeLonda Dantzler, Human Resources Management; Kathleen Green, Human Resources Management; Siobhan Hansen, Human Resources Management; John Robinson, Public Safety; and Patrick (Eddie) Wellman, Engineering & Facilities.

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