Tumor Board

 Monday, May 23, 2011 

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. – Lunch will be provided

Classrooms A & B

Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center invites you to attend Tumor Board, a forum for multidisciplinary discussion and consultation, promoting physician education.  The seminar contributes to the education of health care providers of all disciplines, encourages precision in screening, diagnosis and staging of patients as well as educating the physician in providing the patient with alternatives. We hope you will join us!  

• Dr. Sudeep Menachery, Hematology Oncology Associates of Fredericksburg

 22 year old female newly diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease

• Dr. Christopher Vaughn, Hematology Oncology Associates of Fredericksburg

74 year old male newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

Directions on spotsrmc.com

Contact AnnMarie Simmons at 540-498-4381 for further information.

On-site Neurology Services at SRMC

We are pleased to announce the addition of on-site Neurology services as one of our newest service lines at Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center.  SRMC is currently offering both inpatient and outpatient neurology services, including:  emergent and inpatient consults, EEGs (electroencephalogram), EMGs (electromyography), and nerve conduction studies.  For outpatient visits and follow-up appointments, we are accepting new patients at the Multispecialty Health Group office in the Pogonia Medical Arts Building.

• To schedule an EEG or EMG, please contact diagnostic scheduling at:  866-841-2355
• To schedule an outpatient visit at the Multispecialty Health Group, please call:  540-423-6600
• To directly admit a patient to the hospital, please call:  540-498-4655

Meet Dr. Aiken – Hospitalist

Dr. Matthew Aiken is an Adult Hospitalist at SRMC who graduated from Fairfield University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology.  He earned his degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Aiken serves on the Medical Executive Committee, MEC, as a hospital representative.  In this role Dr. Aiken hopes to help foster an open relationship between SRMC administration and its medical staff, while developing policies and procedures to maintain and improve the quality of our patient care.  In addition, he hopes to help communicate the availability of the wonderful services we have at SRMC to the community physicians. 

In the next few years, Dr. Aiken hopes to be continuing in his role providing excellent inpatient care, while developing strategies to help create a solid foundation for growth of our inpatient services.

New Practitioners at SRMC

Practitioners who have joined the staff in May 2011:

 Robert McMahon, MD (eNeurology)

Diep Nguyen, MD (Family Medicine)

Barbara Head, MD (Maternal and Fetal Medicine)

Robert Petres, MD (Maternal and Fetal Medicine)

James Christmas, MD (Maternal and Fetal Medicine)

Jennifer Clark, MD (Pediatrics)

Janelle Coughlin, NP (Women’s & Children’s Services)

Dany Dalencourt, NP (Internal Medicine/Hospitalists)

Committee and Training Update

Operating Room Committee – SRMC now has an Operating Room Committee.  With representation from each surgical specialty, this Committee monitors compliance with medical staff by-laws, makes recommendations to improve efficiency of surgical service and provides input on capital equipment and instrumentation needs.  Any surgeon is welcome to attend.  (RSVPs would be appreciated for catering purposes) and the next meeting is scheduled for 6:45am on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, in the Administration Boardroom.

 Total Parenteral Nutrition – SRMC will be holding TPN training during the day on Friday, June 17, 2011.  Seating is limited and physicians interested in attending should contact Helen Scott in the Medical Staff Services Office (tel: 498-4061, email: Helen.scott@HCAHealthcare.com).