With more than three decades of experience as a nurse, most of it in emergency rooms and trauma units, Katie Ryan recently settled into a director role at UMC where she oversees more than 200 emergency room nurses and other staff. It’s not something the self-professed adrenaline junkie ever saw herself doing, but she has brought efficiency, better outcomes and better overall care to Southern Nevada’s only Level-1 trauma center and one of the country’s busiest emergency rooms.
As a boy in his native Mumbai, India, Dhiraj Narula was inspired by his physician father, who committed his mornings to the local teaching hospital working with students and treating indigent patients on a pro bono basis, then spent his afternoons and evenings running his own medical practice.
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Las Vegas, NV – When it comes to fighting the war on cancer, the volunteers at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) — an affiliate of the American Cancer Society — are tireless in their efforts to ensure that this dreaded disease remains in the national spotlight, pounding the pavement and meeting with lawmakers at the state and federal levels.
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As executive director of Immunize Nevada, Heidi Parker leads and engages a diverse coalition — staff, volunteers, member organizations and funders – who share a common passion: providing access to vaccines and preventive healthcare across Nevada’s rural, urban and frontier communities. Under Parker’s leadership, Immunize Nevada has been deeply involved in community outreach, collaborative projects and fundraising efforts aimed at helping close the ‘vaccination gap’ in Nevada.
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Joyce Malaskovitz inspires people. Throughout her 34 years as a nurse, she has accomplished much, collected many awards and remained passionate about education, research and knowledge-sharing.
She is a member of the American Association of Diabetes Educators, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Preventative Cardiovascular Nurses Association, Nevada Educational Associates for Diabetes, IDO committee (Diabetes and Obesity), and the Clark County Diabetes Group.
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Las Vegas, NV – At the time of this writing Dr. John Anson is at the base of Mount Everest. No, he’s not playing the role of adventurer (although he loves the outdoors and hiking) trying to make a historic climb. Instead, he’s sharpening his skills with other Wilderness Medicine Society members on how to best tend to outdoorsmen and women who injure themselves in the wild.
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By all accounts, Kimball Anderson inherited a headache when he took on the role of Southern Hills Hospital CEO in December 2009. But he had been a chief operations officer at two Utah hospitals prior to arriving in Las Vegas and was ready for the CEO test. Southern Hills was relatively new, opening its doors in 2004, but it had gone through three CEOs before Anderson arrived and the fledgling enterprise was clearly struggling through the Great Recession.
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The contributions of Charles Perry to improving health care — in particular, post-acute health care in Nevada — are numerous. Perry has lived a life dedicated to health care and Nevada. He has been closely involved with the long-term care profession in Nevada since 1975 when he came to Las Vegas as a founding partner of Quality Care Inc. to oversee operations at the Vegas Valley Convalescent Hospital from 1975 to 1984.
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