NEWS
By Stephanie Desmon and Stephanie Desmon,stephanie.desmon@baltsun.com | January 25, 2009
After less than 30 minutes of surgery, Dr. Gina Massoglia removed Caren Eckwerth's gallbladder by squeezing it out through a tiny incision in her belly button. A colleague followed up with three small stitches in the navel, covering the wound with a Band-Aid. In a week, no one but her doctors will know the 57-year-old Annapolis woman even had surgery. An operation that once required a six-inch cut under the rib cage and went on, with the spread of laparoscopy, to be a less-invasive surgery involving three or four small slits is now becoming a practically scarless procedure in the hands of a tiny but growing group of surgeons like Massoglia.
NEWS
September 17, 2002
Surgeon joins staff at Md. Vascular Center Vascular surgeon Dr. Vasana Cheanvechai of Baltimore was joined the Maryland Vascular Center at North Arundel Hospital. A graduate of Princeton University, Cheanvechai received her medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. She completed a fellowships in vascular surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and Northwestern. Cheanvechai is an assistant professor of vascular surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is board certified in general surgery.
NEWS
October 18, 1993
Dr. Barry S. Tatar, a partner in the Ear, Nose and Throat Specialty Group, has been named chief of otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) at Greater Laurel Beltsville Hospital.Dr. Tatar is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery internship at the University of Pittsburgh and his residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and clinics.The Ear, Nose and Throat Specialty Group has offices in Laurel, Columbia and Glen Burnie.
NEWS
March 13, 2005
Dr. Thomas E. Jordan has joined the board of directors of Upper Chesapeake Health System as medical staff representative from Harford Memorial Hospital. Jordan is certified in otolaryngology and plastic surgery, according to the health system. He received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency in general surgery and otolaryngology at Duke University Medical Center, then a residency in plastic surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center.
NEWS
June 24, 2007
Upper Chesapeake HealthLink's new medical mobile van will be in the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center's parking lot M, MacPhail and Tollgate roads, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Free blood pressure, sleep disorder and body fat analysis screenings will be offered. Also available are: cholesterol screenings for $10; osteoporosis screenings for $15; and cardiac risk assessments for $20 (cash or check only). Please note that osteoporosis screenings require a scan of the bare foot. Information: 800-515-0044.
FEATURES
September 6, 2007
Dr. Phuong X. Nguyen has joined the surgical department at Mercy Medical Center, where he will focus on general surgery. Nguyen graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned his medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Bonnie Eareckson has been appointed the chief of human resource management service for the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System. Eareckson earned her undergraduate degree in 1983 from Southern Career Institute. Dr. Deepak Kashyap has joined the Endocrine and Diabetes Center at Franklin Square Hospital Center.