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What Is the HEART Force?We built Luminis Health's HEART Force as a diverse group of trustees, managers, medical staff, community stakeholders and public health partners. Together, the HEART Force is developing a plan to build a more equitable and just health system.The HEART Force's goal is to help Luminis Health address systemic inequities in health care. We do this by evaluating our processes, policies and practices. Our objective is to eliminate inequities from health care operations., The HEART Force will continue to guide Luminis HealthThe recommendations of the HEART Force help us recognize injustices. The recommendations also help us address these inequities directly, intentionally and relentlessly through the staff's daily work.We're incorporating these recommendations into Luminis Health's Vision 2030. This ensures we integrate JEDI into what we do each and every day., How will the HEART Force help Luminis Health become an inclusive organization?The HEART Force's recommendations fall into three major categories:1. Lead as an inclusive organization, confront and eradicate inequities in health care. Recommendations include:Confronting inequities and embodying principles of an inclusive organization in policy, culture and performance.Eliminating health disparities and improving health outcomes of diverse communities.2. Enhance culturally informed communications and community collaboration. Recommendations include:Becoming a trusted partner in diverse communities through a formalized community network.Becoming a JEDI thought leader in Maryland and in health care nationally by hiring and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the community we serve.Establishing culturally customized care as the formal standard of quality.Sharing our JEDI journey with diverse populations by incorporating it into the Luminis Health brand.3. Measure and integrate accountability. Recommendations include:Extending current JEDI reporting and programs effectively across the health system.Establishing minority business enterprise/supplier diversity goals and partnering with local minority businesses, vendors and suppliers.Developing a sustainable accountability model.Integrating a specific JEDI focus into the board governance structure., Luminis Health is making strides to end inequitiesThe HEART Force began its work in 2020, and Luminis Health is already being recognized for its efforts to end inequities in health care:
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Thank you for your interest in our Bariatric Fellowship Program at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center. Our curriculum provides ongoing educational and research activities to give you the experience, resources and mentorship needed to meet your individual advancement goals.
Our dedicated faculty are committed to your education. All training activities are appropriately supervised to ensure your competency and progressive autonomy throughout the program. One of the key quality features of our program is the Simulation to Advance Innovation and Learning (SAIL) Center that is located onsite at LHAAMC. SAIL is a 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that offers dynamic simulation, research and educational opportunities. As the third busiest hospital in Maryland, fellows will be exposed to a breath of experience in a welcoming, modern environment.
As a fellow your training will prepare you to provide the highest quality surgical care to patients with morbid obesity and obesity-related diseases. You will perform operative procedures and provide all aspects of care, including pre-, peri- and post-operative care, to your patients.
Please explore our website to get more details on the fellowship opportunities that are available to you at LHAAMC. I wish you success in your career and hope to meet you in Annapolis.
Alex Gandsas, MD, MBA, FACSProgram Director, Bariatric Fellowship
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MISSION
As a fellow in our Bariatric Fellowship program you will:
Understand morbid obesity and its related diseases to include epidemiology of obesity in adolescent and geriatric populations
Apply non-operative management of morbid obesity to identify options without surgery
Manage primary operative cases of morbid obesity to refine your surgical skills through experience with bariatric operations
Manage revision surgical operations and understand the benefits and risks of each
Understand and manage complications of obesity-related conditions
Faculty
Alex Gandsas, MD, FAC Program Director, Bariatric Fellowship and Director, Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery
Courtney Doyle, MD Associate Program Director, Attending Surgeon, Surgical Specialists
Igor Belyansky, MD Program Director, Advanced GI MIS Fellowship, Attending Surgeon, Surgical Specialists
Kevin Stitely, MD Attending Surgeon, Surgical Specialists
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The Abdominal Wall Reconstruction (AWR) Fellowship program at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (LHAAMC) is designed for graduates of an accredited general surgery residency who are ready to progress their training in the areas of hernia repair and abdominal wall reconstruction.
As a fellow in our program, you will gain extensive exposure and experience in hernia surgery from robotic interventions as well as minimally invasive laparoscopic solutions to open abdominal wall reconstruction for more complex hernia cases. This experience will include unique opportunity to master the latest minimally invasive reconstructive techniques, laparoscopically and robotically, in a center with the highest MIS reconstructive series in the world to-date. In addition, you will also get extensive experience with open reconstructive techniques.
Our fellowship opportunity will prepare you for a life-long career in abdominal wall reconstruction. Our curriculum provides ongoing educational and research activities to ensure you the experience, resources and mentorship needed to meet your individual advancement goals. Our dedicated faculty are committed to your education. All training activities are appropriately supervised to ensure your competency and progressive autonomy throughout the program. One of the key quality features of our program is the Simulation to Advance Innovation and Learning (SAIL) Center that is located onsite at LHAAMC. SAIL is a 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that offers dynamic simulation, research and educational opportunities. As the third busiest hospital in Maryland, fellows will be exposed to a breath of experience in a welcoming, modern environment.
Over the years, our fellow alumni have gone on to establish successful clinical careers and many have ascended to clinical, academic and surgical societal leadership roles.
Please explore our website to get more details on the fellowship opportunities that are available to you at LHAAMC. I wish you success in your career and hope to meet you in Annapolis.
Igor Belyansky, MDFellowship Program Director, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Mission
The goals of the Abdominal Wall Reconstruction (AWR) Fellowship program are to:
Promote patient centered care and develop individualized treatment plans for every patient to determine the best surgical option
Provide the latest in advanced medical and surgical care for patients with diseases through minimal access techniques
Provide comprehensive understanding of the robotic platform
Perform a wide variety of hernia surgeries and abdominal wall reconstructions
Provide continuity of care to include pre-operative, peri-operative and post-operative care
Complete a research project to be presented at a major meeting and written into a manuscript.
Participate in the planning and production of educational activities to enhance self-learning, scholarly activity and the education of the general surgery residents and medical students.
As a fellow in our Abdominal Wall Reconstruction (AWR) Fellowship program you will:
Provide the latest in advanced medical and surgical care for patients with diseases through minimal access techniques
Investigate, diagnose and recommend appropriate treatment options to patients and their families
Perform minimally invasive operative procedures
Provide pre-operative, peri-operative and post-operative care
Faculty
Igor Belyansky, MD Fellowship Program Director, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Paul Kim, MD Attending Surgeon, Surgical Specialists
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Places We Go Fellowship Matches Emory University SOM-GA - Medical Genetics George Washington University SOM and Health Sciences - Nephrology ISMMS Mount Sinai Morningside-West - Infectious Disease Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center - Preventative Cardiology Johns Hopkins Dept of Med - Cardiac Imaging Johns Hopkins Hospital - Gastroenterology Larkin Community Hospital - Rheumatology Mayo Clinic School of Grad Med Educ-MN - Critical Care Medicine SUNY HSC Brooklyn-NYC - Dermatology University of Kentucky Med Ctr - Rheumatology University of Maryland Med Ctr - Nephrology University of Missouri KC - Sports Medicine West Virginia University SOM - Sleep Medicine Practice Locations CentraCare - St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud, Minnesota Frederick Health Medical Group, Frederick, Maryland HCA Virginia Health System, Richmond, Virginia Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Pearland, Texas Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Allentown, Pennsylvannia Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annaplis, Maryland Luminis Health Primary Care Pasadena, Pasadena, Maryland Mace Medical LLC, Essex, Maryland Reading Hospital, Reading, Pennsylvannia Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, California Symphony Medical Associates, PA, Baltimore, Maryland TidalHealth Peninsula Regional, Salisbury, Maryland United Regional Hospital, Wichita Falls, Texas University of Maryland SOM Midtown Campus, Baltimore, Maryland UPMC Western Maryland, Cumberland, Maryland West Virginia University School of Medicine, Dept of Medicine
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Dear Applicant,
We are pleased to have your interest in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Anne Arundel Medical Center. In this short letter, we hope to share our vision for the program and demonstrate why training in Annapolis will provide a long-lasting platform for your career success and personal development.
We have started a new medicine residency program because we practice in a sophisticated medical center with a well-earned reputation for high patient satisfaction and high quality. The men and women of the Department of Medicine have a lot to offer young physicians and feel a responsibility to do our part in shaping the future of medicine through training the next generations of physicians.
This medical center — part of an accomplished, vibrant and growing medical system — remains deeply rooted in the community and was established from a donated farmhouse nearly 120 years ago. Residents will experience and feel that community connection every day as they interact with patients and family members who live nearby and regard our teams as their trusted guide for their wellness and medical care.
We have developed an extensive curriculum with emphasis on academics, research and evidence-based, high-value direct patient care. But, because no one practices medicine in isolation from society’s ills, we will learn about the ways in which medical outcomes are affected by societal conditions.
We will guide you toward higher precepts of professionalism, which is more than mere competence, knowledge and skill, but also a code of behavior and standards of conduct that will govern how your colleagues and patients view you for the rest of your career.
Through intra-mural resources, and our academic affiliations with George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and University of Maryland School of Medicine, you will enjoy interacting with medical students and have opportunities to rotate at nearby academic medical centers.
You will have the opportunity to learn research concepts and the science of performance improvement both here and with our academic partners.
New resident graduates can expect to experience rapid and substantial changes in the clinical science and in healthcare delivery models. You will want to train with a group of leaders who understand that and prepares its residents for that novel future.
We are committed to providing young physicians with the tools and training that will ensure long-term success and personal fulfillment.
With best wishes for your future success,
Barry Meisenberg, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Faculty, Internal Medicine
Nargiz Muganlinskaya, MD
Program Director, Internal Medicine