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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Friday, July 4, 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, July 4, 2008
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There are 2.7 million registered nurses in the United States, and rather than celebrate for a week NetWellness celebrates the work they do all year long. Nurses are experts for NetWellness in Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Breast Cancer, Breastfeeding, Diabetes, Newborn Care, Inherited Disorders, and Smoking Cessation. The colleges of nursing at the Case Western Reserve University, the Ohio State University, and the University of Cincinnati are well known nationally for the quality of their programs at the undergraduate and the graduate level. The faculty of these institutions can provide you, the consumer, with answers to many of your health care questions.
Has all the news about the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus left you confused and concerned? Do you need the straight facts so you can make informed decisions? NetWellness can provide you with the answers. Benita Jackson, MD, MPH, FACPM, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Public Health, Assistant Professor-Clinical, Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean for Community Affairs for the School of Public Health at the Ohio State University, has written a NetWellness "Exclusive" on this topic. See what Dr. Jackson has to say to help you understand and make informed decisions.
The newest addition to the Ask an Expert area of NetWellness is the topic Rehabilitation. NetWellness experts will provide information concerning rehabilitation and restoration of function as well as issues related to quality of life for most acute and chronic diseases and injuries. In particular, they cover diseases and injuries of the brain, spinal cord, and limbs including amputation as well as management of pain based on these diseases or injuries.
New experts in this area are David W Chow, MD, Assistant Professor, Benjamin N. Nguyen, MD, Assistant Professor, Austin Nobunaga, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Stephen J Page, PhD, Director of Research, Assistant Professor, and Thomas Watanabe, MD, Assistant Professor. All are from the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine and the Drake Center which provides neurological, cardiopulmonary, and musculoskeletal inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services in Cincinnati. Existing experts providing service in this area include Mark Goddard, MD, Assistant Professor, from the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University Of Cincinnati College Of Medicine and the Drake Center, Brian L. Bowyer, MD, Associate Professor from the Sports Medicine Center, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine at The Ohio State University, Tammy S. Wadsworth, LPT, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine at The Ohio State University, and Rhonda R. Napier, MS,
Exercise Physiologist, Center for Wellness and Prevention, College of Medicine at The Ohio State University.
NetWellness would like to welcome back participating faculty from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry. Carl M. Allen, DDS, MSD, Professor & Director, Oral Pathology and John R. Kalmar, DMD, PhD, Associate Professor who will be answering questions regarding Mouth Diseases; Dennis J. McTigue, D.D.S., Professor and Ann A. Griffen, D.D.S., M.S., Associate Professor who will be answering questions concerning Children's Dentistry; and Daniel E. Jolly, BA, DDS, FAAHD, FACD, FAGD, Professor; Janet L. Bolina, D.D.S., Assistant Professor; David Lee Hall, D.D.S., Assistant Professor; Dale S. Kanner, D.D.S., Assistant Professor; Robert G. Rashid, D.D.S., M.A.S., Associate Professor; and Daniel N. Reed, D.D.S, Assistant Professor who will be answering questions in the area of General Dentistry. Watch for further additions to our dentistry Ask an Expert areas in the coming months.
NetWellness would like to welcome Miriam Rosenthal, MD, CWRU Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Rosenthal's Research interests include women's health, especially mental health related to menses, pregnancy, the post partum period, infertility, menopause, and aging. Dr. Rosenthal has an interest in women's mental health and its preservation by early intervention. She will be answering questions in the following Ask an Expert areas: Pregnancy, Infertility, Breastfeeding, and Menopause.
We are always trying to improve to meet your needs. What do we do well? What can we do to better fit your needs? Please send your comments through our "Feedback" feature and we'll get them into the right hands. Thanks again for using NetWellness!
NetWellness is a non-profit consumer health Web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by health professions faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University, and The Ohio State University. Started in June 1995, NetWellness was one of the first health sites on the Internet.
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