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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Friday, October 10, 2008
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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Friday, October 10, 2008
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According to the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), unintentional injuries are a leading cause of death for Americans of all ages, regardless of gender, race, or economic status. Many more of us sustain nonfatal unintentional injuries (more than 27 million people in 2003).The physical and emotional effects of these injuries can be extensive and sometimes life-changing. Visit our homepage feature this month and join NetWellness and the Home Safety Council in recognizing June as Home Safety Month. You'll find lots of ideas for reducing injuries and making your home a safer place.
The featured department for this month is the Department of Community Dentistry at the School of Dental Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Experts from Community Dentistry answer user questions and write original content for NetWellness health topic Preventive Dentistry.
The Department of Community Dentistry is the link between the School of Dental Medicine and the Cleveland Community. The department has several programs which involve health services, education, and research and are a resource for graduate students studying dental care systems. These programs have as their goal the protection and improvement of the oral health of individual patients and of the community at large. Faculty members of the department have research programs of their own and teach and serve on committees of graduate students from various departments of the University (Community Health Nursing, Epidemiology, Nutrition).
One of the major undertakings which the Department of Community Dentistry also has underway is an ongoing program involving all four years of dental students in the placement of dental sealants on all 2nd and 6th graders permanent molar teeth who attend the City of Cleveland Public Schools. This program involves referrals to dentists for additional care, education of teachers, public school students, parents, and dental students.
The School of Dental Medicine also provides a wide ranging clinical service program housed within the School. (It maintains its own "dental hospital"). This program provides service to 55,000 patients a year and includes all of the dental specialties. It provides a laboratory for study of all of the management issues that typify an ambulatory setting.
Current NetWellness experts from the Department of Community Dentistry include: James Lalumandier, DDS, MPH, Stephen Wotman, DDS, Suchitra Nelson, PhD, Kristin Victoroff, DDS, Kristin Williams, DDS, MPH, James Houston, DDS, and Catherine Demko, PhD.
Over 140,000 amputations are performed each year in the United States, and many are a result of vascular disease. The Amputation health topic addresses a wide variety of topics, such as how to lessen the chance of amputation, prosthetic devices, and rehabilitation after the surgery. NetWellness has four experts, all from the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University, who are participating in this forum: Brian L. Bowyer, MD, Sports Medicine Center, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Jean E. Starr, MD, Division of General Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery; Joel Mayerson, MD, Columbus Children's Hospital, Department of Orthopaedics; and Blair Vermilion, MD, Division of General Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery.
NetWellness welcomes Jean T. Stevenson, MD, FACE and Zeina Nahleh, MD to the breast cancer health topic area. Dr. Stevenson is a surgeon in the Division of Surgical Oncology at the Cancer Care Center at MetroHealth Medical Center, and is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Assistant Professor of General Medical Sciences (Oncology), both in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. In 2005, Dr. Stevenson received the Community Outreach Award from the Cancer Care Center at MetroHealth Medical Center. Her work in the community focuses on overcoming barriers to breast cancer screening among Latin American and African American women.
Dr. Nahleh is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. She is also the Director of the Breast Oncology Program at the university. Her clinical and research interests include breast cancer (including breast cancer in males), cancer prevention, and endocrine malignancies.
Dr. Stevenson and Dr. Nahleh join colleagues from The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati to answer your questions in the Breast Cancer topic area.
NetWellness welcomes Alfredo Hernandez, DDS, MS, who is an Associate Professor at the School of Dental Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Hernandez maintains a practice focused on cosmetic dentistry and fixed, removable and implant prosthodontics. His research interests include ceramics, polymers, and implants. He joins colleagues from the Ohio State University to answer your questions in various Dental and Oral Health topic areas.
NetWellness would like to welcome Jeffery M. Schafer, OD, from the College of Optometry at The Ohio State University to the Eye and Vision Care topic area. Dr. Shafer is an expert in contact lenses.
Women need to be aware of the different health and nutritional concerns that they face. Sharron Coplin, MS, RD, LD, from the Department of Human Nutrition, College of Human Ecology at The Ohio State University, addresses these important topics in an article called "What nutrition and health issues do women need to pay special attention to?"
Is chocolate really that bad for you? A new article by Bonnie J. Brehm, PhD, RD, from the College of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati, discusses how we can eat chocolate and still have a heart-healthy diet in her article "Chocolate: A Forbidden Food… Maybe Not!"
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