Artist Casey Downing Jr. was commissioned to create the piece that depicts Fairhope philanthropist Louis Mapp and Cullen Potter, a patient Mapp met while volunteering to rock newborns in the NICU at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital.
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“This is an incredible honor, and no other facility in Alabama outside of one private cardiology office has met this standard,” said Jamie Creel, RN, BSN.
C.J. Gaston, M.D., completed an independent residency in interventional radiology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and two residencies – one for early specialization in interventional radiology and the other in diagnostic radiology – at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Santanu Dasgupta, Ph.D., was awarded $423,500 from the NIMHD, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study mitochondrial DNA mutations in the blood of patients diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer.
The opportunity to learn about clinical research deeply influenced Escobar’s decision to stay in the university’s health system for her residency and fellowship as she was able to offer hope to patients and be a part of a field where research is transforming lives.
“We believe part of our mission as healthcare providers is to help keep children, their families and everyone in our community as safe as possible,” said Deborah Browning, MSN, RN, CENP.
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“I enjoy the procedural aspect of pulmonary and critical care medicine, and I wanted to learn all the cutting-edge procedures,” he said, “so I did an extra fellowship in interventional pulmonology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. I am excited to bring all these new procedures to South Alabama.”
