Medical aeon from above the nation called Bart Barlogie, M.D., Ph.D., administrator of the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), as a National Physician of the Year in the aboriginal awards accustomed by the alignment amenable for the anniversary America’s Top Doctors publication.
Little Rock, AK -- Medical aeon from above the nation called Bart Barlogie, M.D., Ph.D., administrator of the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy (http://myeloma.uams.edu) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS -- http://www.uams.edu), as a National Physician of the Year in the aboriginal awards accustomed by the alignment amenable for the anniversary America’s Top Doctors (http://www.americastopdoctors.com)publication.
Receiving awards in added categories were Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., a avant-garde in the acreage of cardiovascular surgery; and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, babe of the backward added Rita Hayworth, for her plan against award a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
Barlogie and two added physicians accustomed the accolade for analytic arete from Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. during a celebration March 15 at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. Honored with Barlogie were Marilyn Bull, M.D., of Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis, and Michael J. Zinner, M.D., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
The physician of the year recipients were called from nominations submitted by physicians profiled in America’s Top Doctors.
"It is absolutely an account for our campus and our accompaniment to accept one of our physicians called to accept this aboriginal anniversary accolade for analytic arete from all the doctors in the country," said UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D.
Barlogie is one of the world's arch experts in the analysis and analysis of assorted myeloma (http://myeloma.uams.edu/about-myeloma), one of the atomic curable cancers. Research led by Barlogie at the MIRT (http://myeloma.uams.edu) has added than angled the anniversary adaptation amount of a myeloma accommodating aloft analysis from three years to seven years and beyond.
Nearly 60 percent of anew diagnosed myeloma patients at the MIRT amid 1995 and 2001 survived at atomic 5 years compared to about 34 percent appear to the National Cancer Institute through its SEER affairs for the aforementioned time period.
"I am captivated by this acceptance by my adolescent physicians and Castle Connolly for our continuing plan at the Myeloma Institute to acquisition a cure for assorted myeloma," said Barlogie, who in 2004 accustomed the Robert A. Kyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Myeloma Foundation in acceptance of his 20-year career in the analysis of assorted myeloma.
Myeloma is a blazon of blight that involves claret beef -- white claret beef that aftermath antibodies. When claret beef become cancerous, they carbon berserk and army out advantageous red and white claret cells, preventing them from angry infection and accustomed oxygen throughout the body. Bone abolition is a accepted appearance of myeloma. The cancerous beef aswell aftermath a blazon of protein that can could cause branch failure.
In 2004, the NCI appear its third five-year face-lifting -- for about $18 actor – of admission abutment for the MIRT. Those funds are appropriate for advancing translational analysis at the MIRT, the aboriginal ability in the apple created accurately to abstraction and amusement this attenuate anatomy of cancer.
Castle Connolly accustomed DeBakey with a lifetime accomplishment award. DeBakey’s accomplishments cover his plan in cardiovascular surgery, conception of the roller pump as able-bodied as the Dacron and Dacron-velour artificial arteries, developing the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals concepts for the military, and confined as an adviser for the President of the United States.
Aga Khan, architect of the Rita Hayworth Galas, accustomed the National Health Leadership Award for her 25 years of plan gluttonous to cure Alzheimer’s disease. The accident was hosted by Max Gomez, M.D., of NBC Television and Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., admiral and arch controlling administrator of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Physicians profiled in the Castle Connolly advertisement America’s Top Doctors and added guides were called afterward an all-encompassing nomination, analysis and screening process, which involves soliciting nominations from tens of bags of doctors above the United States anniversary year. Those aforementioned Castle Connolly “Top Doctors” were complex in the choice action to analyze the recipients for the Castle Connolly awards for analytic excellence.
About the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS):
UAMS is the state's alone absolute bookish bloom center, with 5 colleges, a alum school, a medical center, 5 centers of arete and a statewide arrangement of bounded centers. UAMS has about 2,320 acceptance and 690 medical residents. It is one of the state's better accessible administration with about 9,000 employees, including about 1,000 physicians who accommodate medical affliction to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the VA Medical Center. UAMS and its affiliates accept an bread-and-butter appulse in Arkansas of $4.3 billion a year. UAMS centers of arete are the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (http://www.acrc.uams.edu), Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute (http://www.uams.edu/jei), Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging( http://centeronaging.uams.edu), Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy (http://myeloma.uams.edu) and Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute (http://www.uams.edu/stephensinstitute).
Contact:
Leslie W. Taylor, 501-686-8998
Wireless phone: 501-951-7260
http://www.uams.edu | http://myeloma.uams.edu
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