2024 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Jill Donaldson
Most common in people age 40 or older, essential tremor can cause involuntary shaking in pretty much any part of the body.
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2024 Health Care Heroes: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Multidisciplinary teams composed of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, pharmacists and others have worked to develop best practices for quick recovery from everything from open-heart procedures to gall bladder removal to bariatric surgery.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Riley Children’s Health/ Indiana University School of Medicine
For almost a century, it’s been possible to ameliorate the ravages of diabetes using insulin, but this is the first time it’s been stopped in its tracks—at least for a while.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Doctors Laurie Ackerman, Matthew Partain, Mitesh Shah and Satyan Sreenath
Obviously, there was no playbook for such a freak injury.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds
As chief health equity officer, Edmonds established IU Health’s Office of Health Equity Research and Engagement.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Joseph Smucker
A big proponent of education and mentorship, Smucker is a leader in the Indiana Spine Group Fellowship program and teaches physician assistant students from local and regional programs.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Debbie Murphy
Murphy has managed more than 100 pediatric transplants since Riley Children’s Health opened its Heart Transplant Center 24 years ago.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Kayla Weaver and Laura Mason
Weaver credited the rescue to the one-on-one attention she and Mason can give to patients at Avon Rehab Services, part of Hendricks Regional Health.
2024 Health Care Heroes: The Center for Hope
Forensic nurses are certified to treat violence comprehensively, but there aren’t nearly enough of them.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Community Farm
In 2018, the hospital’s foundation had the idea to grow the garden into a resource for Madison County residents.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Community Weavers
Dog-sitting might not seem like a priority for someone struggling to find food, but the “weavers” understand why it can be.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Fatema Amro
She first encountered the Cancer Art Therapy Studio in 2013, as she was struggling with her first breast cancer diagnosis.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Jerry Flynn
He has logged more than 2,000 hours providing “unmatched care and comfort,” according to the staff.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Paul Looney
Looney learned about cuddlers when his newborn grandson spent three days in a neonatal intensive care unit in St. Louis.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Tina Hoffmann
Hoffmann spends 75% of her time on the road traveling across Indiana leading classes with community partners, including the state chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
2023 Health Care Heroes: Center fights physician burnout
The center operates with four goals: Reduce and alleviate the stress of practicing medicine, improve work/life balance, bring joy to the practice of medicine and develop, coach and mentor physicians at each stage of their career.
2023 Health Care Heroes: Fetal Center at Riley now performs in-utero surgeries
And last year, the center became the first and only fetal surgery program in the state when it performed the first in-utero surgery in Indiana for a complicated twin pregnancy last November.
2023 Health Care Heroes: Doctor creates tools to measure pain, anxiety
Dr. Kurt Kroenke has developed multiple brief questionnaires for patients to report a range of symptoms and concerns to
their physician.
2023 Health Care Heroes: Doctor volunteers at free clinic
As medical director of the clinic, Dr. Robert Cater spends three Saturdays a month voluntarily treating uninsured and underinsured Pike Township residents.
2023 Health Care Heroes: Physician works toward life-span care for patients
Sickle cell disease lasts a patient’s entire life. Many people end up dying from it. So their care needs to follow their life span, Dr. Andrew O’Brien said.