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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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The mission of the Ohio State Department of Family Medicine is to advance family medicine as a medical specialty locally, statewide, even nationally and internationally. The Department's goal is to improve people's lives through innovation in patient care, education, and research.
Patient care is rendered locally through the extensive Ohio State Primary Care Network. Comprised primarily of family medicine sites, other health care offerings are behavioral, geriatric, integrative, and occupational, along with sports medicine. Multiple free clinics provide access through a Student-Sponsored Free Clinic, a Latino Free Clinic, and an Asian Free Clinic to assure maximum access for all. to the Department of Family Medicine averages over 250,000 patient care visits each year!
The medical student educational programs focus on teaching future physicians to be more patient-centered. At the residency level, every effort is made to train future family physicians for settings where needs are greatest, for example, rural and urban. Much of their research recognizes basic needs of people whether through clinical trials or through researcher-driven initiatives in such areas as cancer, diabetes, cardiopulmonary conditions, and genetics.
Many of the faculty members are very involved in professional leadership as another means to advance family medicine. At the national level, this includes the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, and the National Board of Medical Examiners.
OSU Family Medicine faculty who participate with NetWellness include Glen F. Aukerman, MD, Edna M. Jones, MD, Allison Macerollo, MD, Charles J. Manfresca, MD, Kendra L. McCamey, MD, W. Fred Miser, MD and Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, PhD, Adjunct Professor.
Find out why you needn't worry that bird flu might eliminate turkey from your holiday menu by reading our new article, Can a Person Catch Bird Flu from Eating Poultry? Y. Mohamed Saif, DVM, MS, PhD, Professor & Program Head of the Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), College of Veterinary Medicine at The Ohio State University, puts your fears to rest and provides some helpful hints for properly cooking poultry.
NetWellness welcomes Elma D. Baron, MD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Skin Study Center at the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Baron also does clinical care with the Dermatology Department of University Hospitals of Cleveland. Working with Dr. Baron is Janine Miller, MD, Photobiology and Photomedicine Clinical Research Fellow. They join our other Experts on this topic who are answering questions in the area of Skin Care and Diseases.
Just because the winter months are upon us, that doesn't mean you can forget about sun protection. For days out on the slopes or making snowmen in the backyard, check out these tips for full protection from the sun's harmful rays. Written by NetWellness experts Elma D. Baron, MD and Janine Miller, MD this information applies all year round.
NetWellness welcomes Thomas Murphy, MD, FACP, FACE, Director of the Division of Endocrinology at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Murphy is also an Associate Professor at the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. His area of interest is in thyroid disorders. Currently, he joins NetWellness' other Experts, answering questions in the Diabetes health topic area.
NetWellness welcomes Mildred Lam, MD, Associate Professor and Thomas Zipp, MD, Assistant Professor. Both are faculty in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and the Division of Nephrology at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. They join other NetWellness Experts in this area, answering questions on Kidney Diseases.
NetWellness welcomes D. Stanley Sharples, DDS, Assistant Professor, Section of Primary Care, College of Dentistry at The Ohio State University. He has joined colleagues of the Dental and Oral Health Ask an Expert Team in answering questions of a general dentistry nature.
NetWellness welcomes two new experts to the new topic, Tuberculosis. Shu-Hua Wang, MD, MPH&TM, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Larry S. Schlesinger, MD, Professor, Division Director, Division of Infectious Diseases. Both are faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine at The Ohio State University. Dr. Schlesinger has conducted extensive research on the organism that causes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and heads the Center for Microbial Interface Biology at OSU. Dr. Wang also serves as Medical Director of the Ben Franklin TB Control Program at the Columbus Health Department.
In response to requests from our NetWellness has added a new help feature on the homepage. Click on "Ask an Expert" in the top menu and get full instructions on how to use the Ask an Expert feature. And don't forget, we are always trying to improve to meet your needs. What do we do well? What can we do to better fit your needs? Send your comments through our Feedback and our team will give them prompt consideration.
As we near our tenth year on the internet, we are gathering anecdotes about how NetWellness is helping our users meet their health information needs. Do you have any stories or experiences you would like to share? If so, please use our Feedback feature to tell us about them.
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