Hospital Medicine and the Hospitialist

Anita Dhople, MD, FACP, is a board certified internist specializing in Hospitalist Medicine.  She is a graduate of Satellite High School, received her BS in Human Nutrition, and then went on to medical school at the University of Florida on a full scholarship.  She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.  After residency, she worked at a Community Health Center in Albany, Georgia and then started a Hospitalist program at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.  Dr. Dhople then moved to Atlanta where she was in private practice with the Piedmont Physicians Group.  In July 2008, with her husband Rick and two kids in tow, she moved back to her hometown to be closer to her family.  She is currently the Medical Director of the Health First Hospitalist Program at Holmes Regional Medical Center.  When she is not seeing patients or chasing kids, she enjoys playing tennis, running marathons, participating in triathlons, and experimenting in the kitchen.

Q&A With Dr. Anita Dhople If you have recently been admitted to a hospital, chances are that you were not seen by your primary care physician in the hospital, but admitted by and cared for by a Hospitalist – a physician trained in and focused primarily on hospital medicine and care management.  This change in [...]

Q&A: Inside Emergency Response

Joe Sunday RPM, RN is the Assistant Fire Chief, EMS Division, of the Melbourne Fire Department. He has 29 years experience in the fire service and started with the Rockledge Fire Department in 1980. Joe then moved to Brevard County Fire Department in 1981, and was hired by the Melbourne Fire Department in 1984.  His career with the MFD began as a Firefighter, and he was subsequently promoted to Driver/Engineer, Lieutenant and then to Assistant Fire Chief supervising the Emergency Medical Services Division. In addition to being a paramedic, Joe has 13 years experience as a registered nurse specializing in cardiac telemetry, and also in special procedures.

Americans make more than 200 million calls to 911 every year to summon the police, the fire department or an ambulance. In a medical crisis, some people panic and call unnecessarily, while others postpone getting help because they’re not sure if the symptoms are serious enough.

Nurses In High Demand, Experts Predict Shortages

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SPACECOASTMEDICINE.COM sat down with nursing leaders at hospitals located from Titusville to Sebastian, Florida and found a group excited about the opportunities within their profession.

‘Boomers’ Driven By Higher Expectations For Healthy Living

DR. MICHELLE HENDERSON, MD is a board certified orthopedic surgeon at Cape Canaveral Hospital.  She specializes in hip and knee surgery.  A native of Michigan, she attended Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.  She practiced in Michigan for 10 freezing years before she came to her senses and moved to Florida four years ago.  Ad avid sports enthusiast (running, biking, surfing, scuba, hunting, fishing, yoga. kiteboarding), she takes personal as well as professional interest in the aging athlete.Chester, PA and has been with Health First for 14 years.

BABY BOOMERS are not like their parents or grandparents. Being tired or suffering from a little bit of pain is not accepted as a natural part of aging. “Boomers” are driven by higher expectations for healthy living and the means to be able to attain a healthier life style.

Misconceptions About Autism

DR. IVY M. CHONG has worked in the area of developmental disabilities and autism for the past 12 years.  Her research interests focus on language acquisition, skill acquisition, and the assessment and treatment of problem behavior. A Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Dr. Chong is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Michigan where she spent the last four years supervising an outpatient treatment program for preschoolers diagnosed with ASDs in metro-Detroit. Dr. Chong has substantial clinical experience in supervising intensive treatment programs for children diagnosed with autism and related disabilities, and training students at the graduate and undergraduate level.  Dr. Chong has taught courses in Applied Behavior Analysis at Oakland University, which prepares her well for similar teaching responsibilities at Florida Tech. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada, Dr. Chong was delighted to re-locate to sunny Florida to serve as the Program Director for the Scott Center for Autism Treatment, which will officially open its doors in a brand new 18,000 square foot building in this summer.

Q&A with Dr. Ivy M. Chong, Florida Tech School Of Psychology.

Frequently Asked Questions Related to Diabetes

VINCENT MARINO, MD, is a graduate of Cocoa Beach High School in Florida and the University of South Florida  in Tampa.  Dr. Marino attended medical school at the American University of the Caribbean and completed his family practice residency at East Tennessee State University. Returning to Brevard County to open his own office in 1984, Dr. Marino is board certified in Family Practice. You can contact Dr. Marino at his office in Cocoa Beach at 321-868-7170.  He continues to see patients in his office, and rounding on personal patients daily at Cape Canaveral Hospital.

THE NUMBER of people diagnosed with diabetes in North America has increased substantially over the past two decades. In 2008 there were about 24 million people with diabetes in the United States alone, but 5.7 million of those don’t even know it because they remain undiagnosed.

New Stroke Drugs are Life Saving for Stern, Soucy

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Clot-busting ‘Thrombolytic’ Drug Reverses Stroke Symptoms.

STROKE: New Medicines Offer Victims Hope

DR. BO DANDAPANI completed medical school in India and then did research in Parkinson’s disease at the University of Miami, followed by her residency in Neurology and Fellowship in Stroke and Cerebrovascular diseases. She was on the faculty of the Cleveland Clinic in Fort Lauderdale for six years until she joined Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates in Melbourne, Florida.

EVERY 53 SECONDS, someone in the United States suffers a stroke and 70 percent of these occur in people over the age of 65. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the US and one of the leading causes of long term disability.

MRSA Transmitted By Direct Skin-to-Skin Contact

JENNIE WILLIAMS, RN, received her Bachelors Degree in Nursing in 1974 from Roberts Wesleyan College in North Chili, NY; her Masters in Health Service Administration from St. Francis University in 2003; and obtained certification in Infection Control in 2005.  She has spent the past 31 years at Wuesthoff, working in the ICU, Med/Surg, Hemodialysis, Recovery Room, education, and since 2003, as the Infection Prevention Control Coordinator.  In February of this year she was elected to the Florida Professionals in Infection Control (FPIC) Board, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting infection prevention and control through education, networking, and consultation.

INFECTIONS CAUSED by a bacteria called Methicillin-Resistant Stahylococcus Aureus (MRSA) have recently commanded considerable attention in the media, and you’ve more than likely heard the recent news that potentially deadly, drug-resistant staph infections are on the rise.

Brevard Healthcare Systems Go Smoke Free

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JIM KENDIG Chairman of the Brevard Tobacco Free Hospitals Task Force addresses questions about the “Smoke Out” as it relates to patients, visitors and healthcare employees.

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