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A Gift of Life and Friendship After a Family’s Loss

May 17, 2013

The weekly StoryCorps segment on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition is a highlight for the show’s listeners. Today’s StoryCorps interview was very special to staff at UMMC. Rick Bounds received a lifesaving liver and kidney transplant here in 2007. Today, he’s a healthy triathlete with four competitions and a 100-mile bike ride to his name. [...]

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Man Celebrates Six-Year Anniversary of Heart Transplant during April’s Donate Life Month

April 30, 2013

When I first found out that I needed a heart transplant, I didn’t believe it. I was in denial since I was in such good shape all of my life. I hardly even got a cold. I couldn’t believe that my heart was giving out. Ten years ago after years of being an avid runner, [...]

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Spreading Love and Unity in The Breast Center at UMMC

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By Tiesha Dove, CMA Certified Medical Assistant, The Breast Center Here at The Breast Center at UMMC, many of our patients come in once a year or so for a screening mammogram and soon receive a letter confirming everything looks normal. But others find themselves dealing with the harsh reality of cancer, and we do [...]

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Young Accountant Reaches Professional Milestone One Year After Living Donor Liver Transplant

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By Jennifer Dietrick Baltimore, MD FEBRUARY 18, 2013 — As of today, I am officially one year post-op! One year ago, Dr. Barth and Dr. LaMattina had finished the living donor liver transplantation that saved my life!  When the doctors returned to the waiting room to update my family, the entire room erupted in applause! [...]

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Keep the Beat: UMMC Hosts Dance Party for Baltimore City Senior Citizens

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By Sharon Boston Media Relations Manager for University of Maryland Medical System More than 300 Baltimore seniors got their feet moving and their heart rates up at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s third annual “Dance for the Heart” event at the Virginia S. Baker Recreation Center in PattersonPark. The participants came from senior centers [...]

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Occupational Therapist Shares Joy of Watching Lives Change

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Lila Nappi, OTR/L, an occupational therapist in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Maryland Medical Center, wrote a moving letter to her colleagues after the culmination of a project they had worked on for more than three years. Last November, 14 adults became the first graduating class of the Academy of Independent Living, a unique [...]

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Life Lessons for Independence Within a Community

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By Anne Haddad UMMC Publications Editor A brass ensemble played “Pomp and Circumstance” as the 14 graduates proceeded up the aisle. Family and friends wiped away tears of joy. One graduate, Richard Turnage, 31, spotted his mother, Tangera Keene, and stopped just long enough for her to snap a picture. The proud moment was the [...]

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Taking Control of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: UMMC IBD experts to be featured on House Calls with WMAR–TV–Channel 2

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On Mondays and Wednesdays between January 21 and 30, UMMC Inflammatory Bowel Disease experts will be featured throughout the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts on WMAR-TV ABC-2 News. On each of those days, our IBD physicians will be interviewed twice – at the beginning of the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. news hours. Viewers [...]

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“These Presents are Unbelievable!”

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A mother of a patient in the  University of Maryland Children’s Hospital said to her husband at the child’s bedside, “Honey, you’ve got to go down and see Snow Pile. These presents are unbelievable!” Imagine spending Christmas in the hospital with your sick child. Perhaps you are separated from your other children who are at home [...]

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Free Holiday Concerts at UMMC

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Three different groups will be performing holiday music at the University of Maryland Medical Center the week of December 17, most members of which are University of Maryland doctors or medical students. The concerts, which are from noon to 1 p.m. through Dec. 21, are on UMMC’s first floor, feature the following groups: The Not2 Cool [...]

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