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Monday, May 16, 2011 Hoag President and CEO Named Among Fifty Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare Newport Beach, Calif. – Hoag today announced that Richard Afable, M.D., M.P.H., president and chief executive officer of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, was named to Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician’s “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.” The … Read More

Monday, April 11, 2011 New Analytical Approach Using Hierarchical Bayesian Cognitive Processing Models Provides More Precise Measurement of Cognitive Changes Honolulu, Hawaii – Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute (HNI) announced encouraging study results for a new analytical approach that can ultimately improve the analysis of clinical trials’ data for Alzheimer’s disease at the American Academy of … Read More

Monday, April 11, 2011 Honolulu, Hawaii -Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute (HNI)announced encouraging study results for a new analytical approach that can ultimately improve the analysis of clinical trials’ data for Alzheimer’s disease at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting in Honolulu, HI. The study results concluded that the hierarchical Bayesian cognitive processing models (HBCP) … Read More

Tuesday, April 05, 2011  Newport Beach, Calif.  – The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons has granted its Outstanding Achievement Award to Hoag Family Cancer Institute as a result of surveys performed during 2010. Hoag is one of a select group of 90 currently accredited and newly accredited cancer programs across the … Read More

Friday, April 01, 2011 Dipti Itchhaporia, MD., Elected to American College of Cardiology’s Chair of the Board of Governors Newport Beach, Calif. – Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian today announced that Dipti Itchhaporia, M.D., F.A.C.C., Robert and Georgia Roth Chair for Excellence in Cardiac Care and director of disease management at the Hoag Heart & Vascular … Read More

*Fee for in-person screenings: The screenings were offered during an introductory period free of charge through a grant from The UniHealth Foundation. The screenings are now generously subsidized by Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute and offered at a cost of $45. When you first meet Laguna Beach resident, David Johnson (DJ), his upbeat personality and positive … Read More

For more than 20 years, Hoag Cancer Institute has been a pioneer in vaccine research and is one of only a few medical centers in the world to utilize a patient’s own tumor cells to develop personalized melanoma vaccines.   Cancer survivor Linda Rieser has become a self-proclaimed “poster-child” for the potential life-saving impact of … Read More

Acute pain is the pain that develops as a result of an injury or surgery and tends to improve with the healing of the injury or surgery. On the other hand, chronic pain persists beyond the healing of the injury, surgery or removal of the cause of the tissue damage that caused the acute pain. … Read More

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Hoag Launches Orange County Vital Aging Program *Fee for in-person screenings: The screenings were offered during an introductory period free of charge through a grant from The UniHealth Foundation. The screenings are now generously subsidized by Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute and offered at a cost of $45. Newport Beach, CA – … Read More

Superficial radiation is a non-invasive radiation therapy option for certain individuals with skin cancers or benign conditions. As opposed to other traditional methods of skin cancer treatment, which include surgically removing the cancerous/ benign area, superficial radiation treatment is administered through low-energy X-ray technology. This treatment type is optimal for lesions on the face, since … Read More