Page 16 - Southern Exposure - March '23

Page 16, Southern Exposure

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Palm Beach County Resident Experiences The Academic

Medicine Advantage Of Tampa General Hospital

Tampa General Hospital Is Bringing World-Class Academic Medicine

And Research To Florida’s East Coast

Cilette Morris, a West Palm Beach resident, had been “Our sustained rise in national rankings reflects the
on a kidney transplant list with a local hospital and the rapidly increasing strength of our educational, research
process was dragging. “A family member in Tampa and clinical mission,” said Dr. Charles Lockwood,
suggested I try Tampa General Hospital (TGH). It was a executive vice president of USF Health and dean of the
fast and straightforward process compared to the other Morsani College of Medicine. “We are now competing
hospital,” Morris said. “TGH was very caring and very with the nation’s most storied and respected programs.
efficient; there’s a whole institute dedicated to transplants. These outstanding metrics also position us to attract the
The team keeps in touch and keeps you up to date, making highest caliber students and faculty, further advancing
sure you’re doing what you’re supposed to do when you’re our program into the national spotlight for its outstanding
supposed to. They almost put more interest into everything education, exceptional research and world-class clinical
than the patients do!” care.”
Since the transplant procedure, Morris has been TGH has created a framework of state-of-the-art
participating in an observational research study, thanks to services for patients on Florida’s East Coast, with the
the academic medical institution. The study uses a mailed expertise and innovation of a preeminent academic
blood test to analyze how well patients are receiving their Palm Beach County physicians, like Dr. David Amrose of medical center. The initiative began with an alliance with
donor organs and to detect early signs of possible organ TGH Advanced Kidney Care, connect patients in need of the Cancer Center of South Florida, which is now the TGH
rejection. transplants, with experts like Dr. Kiran Dhanireddy, vice Cancer Institute. Since then, TGH has also established
“I decided to take part in the research not only because president and chief of the TGH Transplant Institute. TGH Concierge Health, TGH Digestive Health Center
I stood to benefit, but also because I was grateful and saw (formerly TGH Gastro Group of the Palm Beaches), TGH
an opportunity to help other people,” explained Morris. TGH is one of the highest-ranked hospitals in Florida General Surgeons of the Palm Beaches, TGH Advanced
“The testing tracked my bloodwork and let the team by U.S. News & World Report for 2022/23 and the USF Kidney Care and TGH Imaging.
correct anything wrong very early. Fortunately, everything Health Morsani College of Medicine is ranked among the “We are the state of Florida’s hospital. We want to
went well for me, so most of my follow-up care has been best graduate schools in medical research for 2023. The support, complement and augment current care in the
through telehealth appointments.” college is committed to converting discoveries into best- community, so patients can get what they need without
When patients need care for rare or complex medical practice clinical care by building meaningful, applicable leaving the state,” Couris added. “TGH is building a
conditions, they look for the latest treatments and research programs. It has made significant strides in patient-centered system to deliver world-class care.”
technologies and highly experienced doctors. Those are increasing the quality and diversity of research, helping To learn more, please visit TGH.org/ThePalmBeaches.
often found at academic medical institutions and TGH is drive USF’s record growth in federally sponsored research
bringing that level of care and service to Florida’s East and recruiting preeminent scientists who secure funding
Coast. Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast patients from the National Institutes of Health.
who need a higher level of care now have a direct
connection to TGH’s academic and research resources;
they don’t have to leave the state to receive world-class
medical care.
TGH has been the primary teaching hospital of the USF
Health Morsani College of Medicine since the school was
created in the early 1970s. TGH patients have access to
cutting-edge academic medicine and resources, which
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