Gamma Knife Center to Debut in April
At Monmouth Medical Center's Leon Hess Cancer Center, the Gamma Knife Center is offering patients with brain metastases, brain dysfunctions and brain tumors a proven alternative to invasive surgery.
The only gold standard for non-invasive treatment of brain disorders and brain metastases, the Leksell Gamma KnifeŽ is not really a knife at all, but a technologically advanced device that can direct very precisely focused beams of radiation to the treatment area in the brain. There is no incision, no blood and virtually no pain.
The Gamma Knife Center at Monmouth Medical Center offers patients a multidisciplinary approach to care. The treatment team is led by medical co-directors Ty J. Olson, M.D., neurosurgeon and Sang E. Sim, M.D., radiation oncologist.
The program features close collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines, including radiologic physics and neuroradiology, to provide patients with a highly individualized treatment plan.
To learn more about the Gamma Knife Center at Monmouth Medical Center, call 732-923-6562.
Pictured here is the expert team Monmouth Medical Center has assembled to lead the Gamma Knife Center: seated from left, radiation oncologist Sang E. Sim, M.D., and neurosurgeon Ty Olson, M.D., medical co-directors for the center, and standing from left, Jack Yang, chief physicist for Radiation Oncology, chief therapist Rita Saible, Mitchell Weiss, M.D., chairman of radiation oncology, Stanley Lu, M.D., director of neuroradiology, and nurse Becky Kopke, the assistant clinical coordinator for radiation oncology.
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Monmouth Medical Center chairman of anesthesiology Matthew Klein, M.D., discusses the On-Q C-bloc, a new medical device used to alleviate post-operative pain, in joint replacement surgery patients, with from left, anesthesiologist Dan-Thuy Tran, M.D., and joint and spine clinical coordinator Jaclyn Conway.
A new pain management system at Monmouth Medical Center is redefining patient recovery from total joint replacement surgery.
The On-Q C-bloc is a medical device used to infuse local anesthetic into a catheter implanted in a patient's body during surgery to alleviate post-operative pain. The On Q Pump works by infusing pain medication directly into the nerve sheath through a catheter continuously for up to five days.
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Sipersteins Teams with Local Muralist to Create Soothing Seascapes on MMC's Psychiatric Units
The power of the creative process as a vehicle for healing, communication, self-expression and personal growth is a time-honored tradition.
Art and psychology are often uniquely combined in the treatment of children and adults with psychiatric disorders, and for a local artist, the two recently came together to provide a powerful means to give visual shape to soothing murals for Monmouth Medical Center's inpatient psychiatric units.
Bob Mataranglo, a video artist and muralist, recently donated his time and talent to create soothing waterscapes for the children's inpatient psychiatric unit at Monmouth Medical Center.
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Understanding and coping with a family member's mental illness can be painful and challenging, and while these families need information and support, this crucial help can be difficult to find.
The Acute Care Family Support Specialist Program of Monmouth Medical Center's Psychiatric Emergency Screening Service (PESS) has once again been recognized by the State Division of Mental Health Services as one of the very best in New Jersey in providing this key service to families.
In 2007, Monmouth was awarded a grant from the Intensive Family Support Services of the Mental Health Association in New Jersey - a program designed to help families with adult children who have mental illness learn to cope with the situation with the help of family support specialists (FSS). In 2009 and again this year, the NJ Division of Mental Health services visited to review this program and determined that PESS has met and/or exceeded all expectations in terms of successfully implementing this initiative.
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Monmouth Medical Center will present a special health event in April featuring a host of presentations by experts in the care of gastrointestinal disorders, obesity surgery and complex hernias.
On Wednesday, April 27, from 5 to 8:45 p.m., the specialized team of physicians at the Centers for Minimally Invasive Esophageal/Gastric and Complex Hernia Surgery at Monmouth Medical Center will host "The Who, What, Where and Why of GI Disorders." The event will be held at the Sheraton Eatontown Hotel on Industrial Way East, just off of Route 35 North.
These centers offer a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis, management and treatment of a host of digestive diseases and conditions and has introduced to central New Jersey the most advanced, state-of-the-art laparoscopic surgical and endoscopic treatment options.
Introducing the program will be Michael A. Goldfarb, M.D., FACS, Chair of the Department of Surgery at Monmouth Medical Center, and Program Director Debra LaRusso, R.N., B.S.N. The program will address conditions including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Barrett's esophagus, hiatus and paraesophageal hernias and complex hernias requiring abdominal wall reconstruction, esophageal motility (swallowing) problems, benign and malignant esophageal and gastric tumors and obesity.
Evening presentations will feature discussions by laparoscopic GI surgeons Frank Borao, M.D., and Steven Binenbaum, M.D., plastic and reconstructive surgeons Gregory Greco, M.D., and Andrew Elkwood, M.D., cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon Anthony J. Squillaro, M.D., and gastroenterologists Steven Alan Gorcey, M.D., and Ben Terrany, M.D.
The free event will offer beverages, light fare and giveaways, as well as information on other Monmouth Medical Center programs.
Registration is required to attend this event. To register or to learn more, or to learn more about the Centers for Minimally Invasive Esophageal/Gastric and Complex Hernia Surgery, call 888-SBHS-123, and select prompt 4.
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