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Full Issue: Volume 15, Number 1 - Summer 2020

Jefferson Surgical Solutions

In This Issue

Adapting a Teaching Hospital to a COVID Environment - Page 1

Overview

The Research Agenda - Page 2

Clinical Integration

The Doctor Is ‘On’: Telemedicine Takes Off During COVID-19 - Page 2

Please Welcome

Please Welcome - Page 2

Changing Lives Through Research

Researchers Adapt to Telework, Grant Recipients Announced - Page 3

On the Job

Elizabeth Mishler - Page 3

Those Who Give

30-Year Jefferson Patient Honors Vascular Surgeon - Page 4

News in Brief

Promotions - Page 4

The Doctor Is ‘On’: Telemedicine Takes Off During Covid-19

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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has offered telemedicine through the JeffConnect® service since 2015. Before the COVID-19 outbreak, the service averaged 40 to 60 scheduled daily visits. During the pandemic, it reached more than 3,000 per day system wide – giving patients and providers firsthand experience with this method of care delivery.

“Jefferson Health prepared for a worst-case scenario of a local pandemic that could leave our healthcare workers quarantined, sick or absent,” says Judd Hollander, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean for Strategic Health Initiatives, Sidney Kimmel Medical College. “By converting scheduled office visits to telemedicine visits, we …

The Research Agenda, Charles J. Yeo, Md, Facs

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This issue is dedicated to our Department’s response to the novel coronavirus. One of many positives to arise out of this pandemic was the focus of our faculty on their research projects. This Spring, we were able to fund the highest number of Saligman Pilot Grants – six (6), the most ever!

I just read the 2008 Nobel Laureate (in Economics), Paul Krugman’s latest book – Arguing with Zombies. I recommend it to those with an interest in basic (Keynesian) economics, public policy, and two decades of discourse regarding the U.S., Social Security, Obamacare, the Euro, the housing bubble of …

Adapting A Teaching Hospital To A Covid Environment

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The last ten days have been unlike any other we have known. People throughout the world are acting to slow the spread of a dangerous virus that threatens to strain the capacity of our hospitals and our caregivers; and its effects have already deeply impacted normal day to day life. I ask for your support and forbearance during this difficult time.

Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS, Enterprise Chair of Surgery, shared those words in a letter to the Department of Surgery on March 19, 2020. In the days and weeks following, the Department came together to meet the unprecedented challenges …