The CHA Department of Surgery is delighted to announce the arrival of Jennifer Wilson, MD, who has joined us from the Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to direct our new CHA Division of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Wilson will be seeing patients at all CHA hospitals, doing a full range of procedures, surgeries and consultations in her field of thoracic surgery. With her skills, training and experience we will be able to greatly enhance the scope of services available to patients at CHA including a wide range of upper GI, lung, chest and surgical oncology evaluations and surgeries. She will work in close collaboration with the Pulmonary Medicine, GI Medicine and Medical Oncology services.

 

While Dr. Wilson will be primarily at CHA, she will be a fully integrated member of the Thoracic Surgery Division at BIDMC. Our division will include her three partners at BI - Sidharta Gangadharan, MD, Division Chief, Michael Kent, MD, and Richard Whyte, MD, who will be providing coverage at CHA on an ongoing basis.

 

As we look ahead to the fall, Dr. Wilson will be working collaboratively with our medical specialty services including Pulmonary, Oncology, Critical Care, and GI to serve our patients at CHA. In addition, the team is aiming to develop a lung cancer screening program. Please welcome Dr. Wilson when you see her!

 

While all our neurologists are highly trained and capable of handling most patient needs, our team does have individual clinical interests that may help inform a referral. 

	Rachel Nardin, MD Neuromuscular Disease		Lee Cranberg, MD  Behavioral Neurology
	Adam Drobnis, MD  Movement Disorders		Judy Fine-Edelstein, MD General Neurology
	Shruti Sonni, MD Cerebrovascular Disease		Hong Yu, MD Epilepsy

 

Some colleagues have asked us when a Neurology referral should be urgent. As the number of possible scenarios are large and varied, for general purposes, please reserve urgent consults for patients with subacute neurologic symptoms where you feel timely diagnosis and management is needed or for patients with significant neurologic deficits on examination. Examples might include new seizure or a patient with significant weakness in the extremities. For acute symptoms that may be life-threatening, emergency room care is usually best (TIA or recent stroke, suspected Guillain-Barre syndrome, cauda equina syndrome or cord compression).

 

If you have questions on urgency, you can always page or EPIC message the on-call neurologist. They can help determine the urgency, most appropriate site of care and whether there are helpful tests you can order in advance of the neurology visit.