Surgeons In the News 2007

• The December 17, 2007 issue of People magazine featured Dr. Jeffrey Zitzman and the Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital as part of a profile of a 17-year-old New Jersey girl, Amanda Baron, who underwent a LAP-Band procedure at the center. The result of the surgery was a loss of 54 pounds, lower blood pressure and reduced risk for diabetes. Dr. Zitsman also appeared together with Ms. Baron on the December 13 Today show and the December 14 Neil Cavuto Your World on Fox/5 discussing bariatric surgery. The NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia adolescent bariatric program was also mentioned in a Crain's New York Business article about soaring rates of weight loss surgery.
• On December 25, 2007, The New York Post published an article featuring two kidney transplant recipients, Jodi Kule-Nagel, 46, and Maria Quinones, 62, who met their donors following their surgeries to receive kidneys through NYP's kidney swap program where two unrelated donors swap kidneys in order for their family members to receive a compatible organ. Dr. Lloyd Ratner, among others on his team, was interviewed. Dr. Ratner, Dr. Roman Nowyrod, and transplant coordinator Maureen Carroll were featured in additional media coverage, including on ABC Good Morning America, ABC World News Now, NY1, WINS Radio, plus an additional 21 affiliate and local television stations.
• On December 18, 2007, Crain's Health Pulse healthcare newsletter ran an article highlighting the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia NOTES conference, which was held December 10-11, 2007 and attracted nearly 200 people from eight countries. The Crain's article also mentioned the first U.S. transvaginal colecystectomy, performed in March by Marc Bessler, MD, Dennis L. Fowler, MD, and Peter Stevens, MD.
  
  Read the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital press release regarding the NOTES conference.
• An earlier NY1 profile of Kathie Ann Joseph was part of a year-end "One-on-1 with Budd Mishkin" special on the station.
• WIN-R, a multicenter study of over 5,000 patients with hepatitis C virus, published during 2007 in the journal Hepatology, determined that weight-based dosing with REBETOL (ribavirin, USP) (RBV) in combination with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) alfa-2b is key to optimal treatments, particularly in African-Americans with most difficult-to-treat form of disease. Robert S. Brown Jr., MD, was co-principal investigator of the study; Ira M. Jacobson, MD, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center was principal investigator. The study was the largest U.S. hepatitis trial to date.
  
  Read the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital press release.
• During the week of Dec 10, Drs. Jean Emond and Steven Lobritto appeared on CBS Evening News in a discussion of Columbia's doctorate nursing program.
• Dr. Oz was cited in a December 11, 2007 article in the Irish news site independent.ie on how moods affect our health. The story was picked up by the Belfast Telegraph and the Irish Independent.
• On November 29, 2007, Healthpulse/Crain's New York business.com ran an article announcing the opening of the Columbia University Pancreas Center in the Columbia University Medical Center Herbert Irving Pavilion.
• In December, 2007, Health Radio Network ran a segment on the subject of staying safe during plastic surgery featuring Dr. Robert Grant.
• Dr. Oz appeared in several segments on News Channel 8/Washington, D.C. during November, 2007, including a profile and a segment on colon cancer as a serious health threat for women.
• K. Craig Kent, MD is lead author of a recent article published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery about underdiagnosis and undertreatment of arterial vascular disease in older American women. The article received attention from United Press International, Sciencedaily.com, Women's Health News, Medical News Today, and Medicexchange, UK.
• A discussion about the warning signs and treatment of inflammatory breast cancer by Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, MD, MPH, appeared in the December, 2007 issue of Essence magazine, as part of an article entitled "Five Symptoms You Should Never Ignore."
• Dr. Dennis Fowler provided a comment in a November 28, 2007 HealthcareITNews.com article on advanced technology providing complete real time information about the patient's medical status in the operating room.
• On November 16, 2007, HealthDay News ran an article about a study conducted by Division of Vascular Surgery investigators showing that Hispanics in the U.S. receive fewer surgeries for vascular disease and often have less favorable outcomes. The study suggested that socioeconomic factors, and insurance status are likely players in the disparity. The study, whose principal investigator is Nicholas J. Morrissey, MD was published in the November 2007 Journal of Vascular Surgery. The story was picked up by US News and World Report, Forbes, the Washington Post, Dental Plans.Com (Fl), Wfie-Tv (In), Lex 18 (Ky), and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
  
  Read the NYP press release regarding this research.
• The NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia lung disease programs were prominently featured in a three-page spread in the November 28, 2007 New York Times about lung disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
  
  The Section of General Thoracic Surgery's lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) program took center stage in an article on surgical treatments for COPD. The article included photographs of a recent lung volume reduction surgery performed by Mark Ginsburg, MD and an NYPH/Columbia surgical team. Patricia A. Jellen, a nurse at the Center for Chest Disease at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, was also interviewed andphotographed.
  
  In a separate article, on women and lung disease, Dr. Byron Thomashow, director of the Chest Disease Center, was quoted about how COPD, while often-overlooked, can be properly managed through the appropriate use of medications and exercise. He was featured in an accompanying article offering advice on symptoms of COPD, and also answered reader questions on NYTimes.com.
• Dr. Marc Bessler's comments appeared in a November 18, 2007 New York Times Magazine article on the rise in obesity surgery in the U.S. Despite some risk of complications, he said, risks are greatly outweighed by benefits that can include ending such obesity-related conditions such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
• Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, MD appeared on Lifetime/Health Corner with Leeza Gibbons discussing these BRCA1/2 genetic mutations and their association with breast cancer November 4, 2007. Click here to view a video of the segment.
• Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, provided comments for a November 14, 2007 New York Times article about four transplant recipients in Chicago who contracted H.I.V. from an organ donor, the first known cases in more than a decade of the virus being spread by organ transplants. The organs also gave all four patients hepatitis C, in the first reported instance of the two viruses being spread simultaneously by a transplant. "It still remains that the biggest risk for patients on the transplant list is being on the list and not receiving an organ," Dr. Brown said, "there is always a drive toward better testing, but if it leads to more organ wastage, we'll probably hurt more people than we help...what I tell my patients is, the likelihood of being infected with HIV or hepatitis in that small window of time is incredibly small, and the risk of dying on the waiting list is not incredibly small." The story was picked up by the Akron Beacon Journal.
• On November 4, 2007 Dr. Joseph appeared on "Lifetime/Health Corner with Leeza Gibbons," discussing the BRCA1/2 genetic mutations and its association with breast cancer.
• During the week of November 2, 2007, Erin Olivo, PhD, MPH, Director of the Columbia Integrative Medicine Program, appeared on the NBC Today Show discussing pain management at the Columbia Center for Integrative Medicine.
• An interview with Dr. Keith A. Kuenzler aired on NY1-TV on August 1, 2007. The interview featured Dr. Kuenzler's minimally invasive pediatric surgeries. Two thoracoscopic procedures performed by Dr. Kuenzler were discussed. One operation involved removing a lung mass from a baby girl, the other correcting a congenital malformation of the esophagus in a two-day old boy. Both went smoothly, and the children were out of the hospital within two days, bearing only the tiniest of chest incisions. An additional interview on the procedures ran on WCBS-TV during October 2007.
• November, 2007 Media for Mehmet C. Oz, MD, FACS
  
  • Dr. Oz provided comments for a November 15, 2007 press release from the Royal Thai Embassy Office of Commercial Affairs. The release was titled "Six Fresh Fruits From Thailand Enter the United States for the First Time." The release appeared on Marketwire.com. The list of fruits is mangosteen, rambutan, longan, lychee, mango, and pineapple. In his comments, Dr. Oz cited mangosteen as one of the "ancient healing tools that have strong antioxidants to promote everything from sexuality to longevity."
  • In the November 15, 2007 issue of Forbes, which ran a special report on food, Dr. Oz was interviewed for in a section called "Two Meals," featuring short interviews with a variety of different personalities about what would be their last meal and what was their most memorable meal.
  • Dr. Oz was cited in a November 13, 2007 Chicago Tribune article about a beneficial property of allicin, a chemical found in garlic. Allicin has been shown to effectively kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). "We believe garlic is effective against MRSA and other resistant bugs," he said. "[Allicin] is a fascinating mechanism that plants use to protect themselves."
  • On November 8, 2007, Dr. Oz appeared as a participant in an integrative medicine roundtable on ABC's Good Morning America, an event honoring Dr. Andrew Weill. The roundtable included four physicians termed "titans of integrative medicine": Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Rachel Remen and Dr. Oz.
  • During the week of November 5, 2007, Dr. Oz was featured on two Washington, D.C., television stations—WJLA-TV and News Channel 8—talking about research showing some developing countries have an average lifespan longer than the average American's.
• October, 2007, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Media for Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, MD, MPH
  • The October 28, 2007 Record and Herald News published an in-depth profile of Dr. Oz, from his childhood in Turkey to through his marriage and his career in medicine, covering his work with integrative medicine, his transplantation of Frank Torre's heart, and his friendship with Oprah.
  • Dr. Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, was quoted in an article on the rise in women having voluntary, prophylactic mastectomies, which ran in Newsday and AM New York on October 23, 2007. Of women choosing to have the procedure, many carry the mutated BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes or have already had breast cancer in one breast.
  • During the same week, Dr. Joseph appeared in a foxnews.com interview on women in their 20s with breast cancer.
  • Dr. Joseph was interviewed about breast surgery for the nationally syndicated National Public Radio program The Health Show. The episode aired the week of October 22, 2007 and ran on the program's website.
  • Dr. Joseph's comments appeared in an article in a New York Sun special issue on breast cancer. The article focused on management of breast cancer in high risk patients.
  • Dr. Joseph appeared on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends on October 12, 2007 in a segment about breast cancer awareness.
• In an October 29, 2007 special episode of Oprah with Dr. Mehmet Oz as a guest, several Columbia faculty members were featured performing procedures in their specialties. In one of the segments, Dr. Joseph performed a breast screening on a 43-year-old woman with a family history of breast cancer who was having her first mammogram.
• Dr. Mehmet Oz appeared on the October 19, 2007 CNN "Larry King Live," providing commentary regarding Gary Taubes' controversial new book Good Calories: Bad Calories. Dr. Oz is best-selling author of You on a Diet.
• September-October Media for Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, MD, MPH
  
  • "The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet" on Sept 10, 2007: discussion of special issues surrounding breast cancer in young women.
  • The October issue of Black Enterprise magazine: Interview emphasizing the importance of early detection, especially in the black community, with special focus on Rene Syler, the former CBS news anchor who had prophylactic mastectomies.
  • The October, 2007 issue of More magazine: feature on what a women should do when she finds a breast lump.
  • A segment on WNYW-TV Channel 5 (NYC FOX affiliate) about breast cancer and last weekend's Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in New York City. The segment was picked up by FOX affiliates in Oakland and Las Vegas.
• Judith Korner, MD, director of the Columbia Weight Control Center, was cited in an article in the September 24, 2007 U.S. News and World Report regarding types of fat tissue and body shape. "Fat is now thought to be an endocrine organ," like the thyroid and pituitary glands, which secrete important hormones" she said. The article was picked up by the Chicago Daily Herald.
• September Media for Mehmet C. Oz, MD
  • Comments regarding the appetite stimulating hormone ghrelin in an article about hunger that appeared on Oprah.com on September 29, 2007. The article was picked up by CNN.com.
  • During the month of September, 2007 Dr. Oz hosted a three-part series on Discovery Health, and was jointed by Drs. Anthony LaBruna and Jaclyn Mucaria on the Oprah and Friends radio program.
  • Dr. Oz was cited in a September 25, 2007 New York Post article about Biophysical 250, a test that uses biomarkers, to screen for more than 200 early signs of disease.
  • Liz Smith's September 27, 2007 column in the New York Post noted that Dr. Oz would be honored at the October 1, 2007 "Heart On!" fundraiser Jazz at Lincoln Center in support of fighting heart disease in women.
  • Dr. Oz was profiled for the October, 2007 Avenue Magazine's "A-List" of influential New Yorkers.
• The September 13, 2007 San Diego Union Tribune ran a story about a San Diego woman who has become the third U.S. patient to have her gallbladder removed transvaginally. The article made reference to Dr. Marc Bessler, who performed the first U.S. vaginal gallbladder surgery in March, 2007.
• Dr. Jean Emond, Vice Chair and Chief of Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Columbia, and Dr. Robert S. Brown, Jr., Chief of the Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation, were quoted in a September 5, 2007 New York Sun article about NewYork-Presbyterian hospital’s emerging status as the largest transplant center nationwide due to its extended criteria organ donor program. The article cited data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients showing a statistically higher survival for kidney and lung transplant patients at the Hospital. "[Transplant is] a personal, medical, scientific, and business priority for the hospital," said Dr. Emond.
• NPR’s September 2, 2007 "Speaking of Faith" radio program featured an interview with Dr. Oz. The focused on Dr. Oz’s views regarding the intersection of Western medicine, human spirituality, and the physiology of the human heart.
• On August 30, 2007, the Associated Press reported that NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia performed another triple kidney swap. Forty-year-old John Feal donated one of his kidneys to another person. That person's spouse gave a kidney to yet another person. That person's spouse donated a kidney to 56-year-old Paul Grossfeld, who has suffered from kidney disease for years. Feal was originally planning to give his kidney to Grossfield, but he was found to be a better match for someone else, and so the transplant chain was set up. The story was picked up by amNew York, the Staten Island Advance, Fox-5 News, and 1010-WINS radio. Coverage included stories on 32 NBC and CBS affiliate stations nationwide.
  Dr. Robert Brown's comments on new United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) volunteer guidelines that aim to better screen potential living donors were published in a Wall Street Journal article that ran the week of September 14, 2007.
• On August 24, 2007 the Associated Press covered the story of 8-month-old Elijah Moulton, who received a five-organ transplant—liver, small bowel, pancreas, colon and stomach—in a seven-hour procedure on July 10 at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Dominique Jan, the head surgeon for the operation, said as many as seven organs can safely be transplanted at the same time. "By transplanting several organs at once, we can give children with serious intestinal malformations or infections hope for a healthy future," he said.
  
  The story was picked up by Fox News, WNBC-TV (NBC, New York), WNYW-TV (Fox, New York), and NY1. Additional stories about the transplant appeared in The Washington Post and Newsday, as well as on KABC-TV (ABC Los Angeles), WBZ News (CBS Boston) and KFSM-TV (CBS Arkansas).
• The August 21, 2001 New York Daily News profiled Dr. Mehmet Oz's Health Corps, a program he founded with the goal of reducing medical intervention by changing the attitudes and lifestyles of young people. Dr. Oz says he founded HealthCorps because, as a cardiac surgeon, he is seeing more and more young people with heart problems.
  
  Health Corps, modeled after the Peace Corps, aims to enlist dedicated, health-conscious youth and train them to go into their schools and communities and generate genuine grass-roots health activism. During fall, 2007, the program will also be helping New York City promote its "Healthy Bodega" initiative to assist bodega owners in carrying healthful food. HealthCorps programs currently exist in 28 New York City high schools, seven of them in the Bronx, and the initiative is now turning its sights on other parts of the U.S.
• The August Edition of New York Newsday's Wellness magazine ran an article on belly fat, eating habits and the biochemistry of hunger, featuring Dr. Mehmet Oz and his book YOU: On a Diet.
• The August 14, 2007 New York Observer ran a lengthy profile of Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, touching on subjects that included his books, his public lectures, his media appearances, his views on health and medicine, and his friendship with Oprah Winfrey.
• On August 7, 2007, Marketwire.com ran an article about Heartfelt for Life, a fitness program created for heart attack survivors. Dr. Mehmet Oz helped launch the program, which will feature a fitness program aimed at helping people at risk avoid future cardiac events.
• Marc Bessler, MD, was quoted in an August 6, 2007 USA Today article on NOTES, or Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery, a new method of performing minimally invasive surgery through the mouth, anus, or vagina. Dr. Bessler conducted the first transvaginal gall bladder removal operation in the U.S. on March 20, 2007. Click here to read more.
• Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, MD, MPH was featured on NY1's New York Tonight "One-on-1 with Budd Mishkin" on August 6, 2007. The segment ran nine times during August 6-7.
• On July 31, 2007, Kathie-Ann P. Joseph, MD, MPH, was interviewed by Channel 7 Eyewitness News about importance of early detection for breast cancer. The interview followed immediately after Good Morning America news anchor Robin Roberts disclosed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer that was likely detected at the early stages.
• An interview with Dr. Keith A. Kuenzler aired on NY1-TV on August 1, 2007. The interview featured Dr. Kuenzler's minimally invasive pediatric surgeries. Two thoracoscopic procedures performed by Dr. Kuenzler were discussed. One operation involved removing a lung mass from a baby girl, the other correcting a congenital malformation of the esophagus in a two-day old boy. Both went smoothly, and the children were out of the hospital within two days, bearing only the tiniest of chest incisions.
• The July 25, 2007 Charlie Rose Show featured an interview with Dr. Mehmet C. Oz regarding his latest book, You: On a Diet, which he co-wrote with Dr. Michael Roizen.
• The July 22, 2007 New York Times cited Dr. Mehmet C. Oz in an article about Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine the Cleveland Clinic, who is pioneering the use of ultrasound to measure fatty plaque in the walls of coronary arteries, a technique known as intravascular ultrasound, or IVUS.
  
  Dr. Mehmet C. Oz was interviewed on CNN's Paula Zahn Now on July 18, 2007 regarding the state of American health care. Dr. Oz said that, from his vantage point as a physician, he sees a "deep-seated lack of confidence" in America's ability to address the challenges it faces in health care.
• A July 6, 2007 South Florida Business Journal article announced that the Foundation for the Advancement of Cardiac Therapies (FACT) has decided against moving its headquarters to Palm Beach County from New York City. Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, the leader of the foundation, was quoted, "Terminating the integrative health institute project was a difficult decision for the board to reach."
• Dr. Howard L. Kaufman, was cited in a July 10, 2007 New York Times article about a contentious American Cancer Society advertisement inferring that those who die of skin cancer have themselves to blame. In the article, he estimated that only 20 percent of melanomas are related to sun exposure, but said "It's the one risk factor that we can control."
• The June 10 Daily News featured a story entitled "The Ultimate Brotherly Love" about Anthony Crocilla, a 26-year-old Staten Island man, who donated his kidney to his ailing older sister, age 31. Drs. Mark A. Hardy and Lloyd E. Ratner performed the transplant surgeries.
• On May 2, 2007, the Associated Press reported that Frank Torre, older brother of Yankees manager Joe Torre, was recovering after kidney transplant surgery performed at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Mr. Torre, 75, received the kidney from his daughter, Liz. Doctors reported that both were recovering well after the procedure. Other media venues picking up the story included WNBC-TV, Fox 5, My 9, NY1, Daily News, New York Post, and NY1News.com.
  
  Drs. Lloyd Ratner, MD, and Mark Bessler, MD performed the surgeries for the transplant.
• An April 20, 2007 New York Times article about the surgical technique natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery, or NOTES, featured a transvaginal gall bladder removal operation performed on a 66-year-old-woman by Drs. Marc Bessler, Peter Stevens and Dennis Fowler on March 20, 2007. The operation was the first of its kind in the U.S. The groundbreaking operation was featured in United Press International (April 20) and ABCNews.com (April 23). The operation was also mentioned in a May 8 New York Newsday article about NOTES procedures.
• An April 11 Newsday article reported on a blood test that can be used to avoid painful tissue biopsies conducted routinely on heart transplant patients as a means of predicting organ rejection. The blood test was developed through the research of a team of heart transplant investigators at eight universities around the country. Mario C. Deng, MD, director of cardiac transplant at NYPH/CUMC is one of the lead investigators in the development of the test. He presented his research at the American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans last month. The story was also picked up by AM NewYork.
  
  Click here to read the press release from XDx, the biomedical company that helped develop and is marketing the test as AlloMap®.
  
  Click here to read more about the AlloMap® test.
• Dr. Mehmet Oz was cited regarding acupuncture as a complementary medicine treatment in a March 29, 2007, CNN.com article. "It's definitely effective in some cases," said Dr. Oz.
• Kathie-Ann Joseph, MD, MPH, was quoted in a March 23, 2007 New York Post article about Elizabeth Edwards' recurring breast cancer. Breast cancer metastasis to the bone "can be stable," said Dr. Joseph. "Unlike spreading to the liver or the lung, breast cancer that spreads to the bone can be a very slow, non-aggressive form."
• On March 22, 2007, Kathie-Ann Joseph, MD, MPH, weighed in with her expertise in a live, in-studio interview on Fox 5 News regarding Elizabeth Edwards' cancer diagnosis. The interview included discussion about breast cancer recurrence and metastasis, and the importance of follow-up.
• Howard S. Kaufman, MD, was interviewed by CW11-TV, providing expert commentary on cancer following the announcements by Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow of their recurrent cancers.
• Mehmet Oz, MD was interviewed for the March 12, 2007 LIFE magazine cover story, "Ready for the Reverse Diet?" which queried health experts about the secret of dieting and the larger meanings we attach to breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
• Nicholas J. Morrissey, MD, was interviewed on NBC Channel 4's Sunday Today in New York On March 11, 2007 together with ESPN sportscaster Bonnie Bernstein in the context of her personal experience with deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Dr. Morrissey explained that DVT is a blood clot that forms in the deep veins of the lower extremities, which can prove fatal if the clot breaks free and travels to the lungs. Dr. Morrissey also outlined the risk factors associated with DVT including immobility, surgery, long-haul flights and family history.
• K. Craig Kent, MD, was cited in a March 6, 2007 New York Times article regarding Vice President Cheney's deep vein thrombosis.
• On March 5, 2007, ABC News Online cited James McKinsey, MD in connection to the deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in Vice President Dick Cheney's left leg. "I assume he has a weakened heart, and may not withstand the strain of a blood clot that travels to the lung, if one did," said Dr. McKinsey.
• Mehmet C. Oz, MD was cited in a March 8, 2007 CNN/Health.com article, "Massage: It's Real Medicine," regarding massage therapy and its use as a therapy in hospitals.
• A March 7, 2007 Daily News article reported on lifesaving efforts of multiple individuals whose actions saved heart attack victim FDNY Deputy Chief Patrick Savage during February 16-24. One of these was Yoshifumi Naka, MD. After Savage had suffered multiple cardiac arrests and been resuscitated as many times, Dr. Naka was summoned by his colleagues at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He implanted a bi-ventricular assist device (BiVAD) to support Savage’s ailing heart temporarily, and four days later performed triple bypass surgery. Savage walked out of the Hospital on March 6, thanking staff for saving his life.
• The February 12, 2007 Daily News reported the story of 17-year-old heart-attack victim Daniel Walker, whose heart stopped beating and was revived by an NYPH medical team including Dr. Yoshifumi Naka. Daniel had been brought to NYPH for a heart transplant. After four days of depending on heart-support devices, the boy’s heart began functioning on its own, stunning the doctors. Dr. Naka and a surgical team subsequently fixed a flaw in the boy’s coronary artery.
• The February 16, 2007 New York Daily News reported that former major league baseball player Frank Torre needs a kidney transplant. Mehmet Oz, MD, who performed Torre's heart transplant over a decade ago, was quoted in the article.
• Dr. Mehmet Oz was quoted in a February 5, 2007 USA Today article about a Chicago woman who has suffered since birth from a rare heart condition, and who by being a proactive patient has thwarted several potentially dangerous medical mistakes. "If we can get just 10% of people to be smart patients," said Dr. Oz, "it will change the system. People will know that sloppiness won't be tolerated. And it will drive quality."
• On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, Reuters reported that SIGA Technologies Inc. said Eric A. Rose, MD, was elected chairman and will become the chief executive officer of the company on March 1.
• The November/December, 2006 issue of Columbia University Medical Center’s research newsletter, In Vivo, featured recent developments in bringing nearly two decades of Dr. Ann Marie Schmidt's bench research on the cell-surface receptor molecule RAGE toward the marketplace. A recent licensing agreement for RAGE-inhibiting compounds with Pfizer will put the research to the test, accelerating the pace of clinical trials in chronic diseases in which RAGE appears to play a key amplifying role.
• January 25, 2007 articles in South Florida's The Business Journal and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel detailed plans to move headquarters of the Foundation for the Advancement of Cardiac Therapies (FACT) to Palm Beach County from New York City. The foundation, led by Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, promotes and supports scientific research and cutting-edge treatments for heart failure. The foundation would also house Dr. Oz's HealthCorps program, which educates youngsters about diet, nutrition and exercise.
  
  During the week of January 22, 2007, Dr. Mehmet C. Oz appeared on ABC's 20/20 and Univision's "Aqui y Ahora" discussing You: the Smart Patient, which he co-authored with Dr. Michael Roizen.
• Dr. Mehmet Oz was a guest on the January 8, 2007 edition of NPR's Diane Rehm Show, where he discussed his new book, YOU ON A DIET: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management.