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At the Hospitals
n Carolinas HealthCare System and
YMCA Partner to Improve
Community Health
Carolinas HealthCare System has
become the official community health
partner of the YMCA with a focus
on five key areas: preventing and
managing chronic disease, improving
behavioral health, improving access to
care, reducing violence and eliminating
health disparities.
The partnership is evolving from
placing nurses in YMCA facilities, to
creating health solutions that ensure
each community has programs that
directly address its unique issues and are • Make the center’s research available to
specifically tailored to the community.
Unique to this next-generation
partnership is a commitment to social
innovation. Together, the YMCA and
Carolinas HealthCare System are well-
positioned to innovate novel solutions
for some of the most challenging
problems citizens face and to create a
national example for social innovation
in health.
To effectively address community
health issues, the organizations will
create a joint internal Health and
Wellness Advisory Board, led by
Alisahah Cole, MD, vice president and
system medical director of community
health at Carolinas HealthCare
System, to establish strategy around
the five targeted areas and to guide the
partnership’s programs alongside the Y’s
evidence-based, licensed programming.
The partnership also will include a
clinical presence at the Dowd YMCA
and a jointly sponsored mobile unit to
extend healthcare services to urban
and rural communities where access
currently is absent or difficult.
Both Carolinas HealthCare System
and the YMCA believe that by doing this
work purposefully and thoughtfully, in
lockstep with others in the community,
significant and long-lasting impact can be the Department of Urology and was cited
made in the lives of Charlotte’s citizens.
n Anonymous Donor Boosts Kidney
Research
An anonymous $1 million donation
will help advance children’s kidney
disease research and support Carolinas
HealthCare System’s development
of a Pediatric Nephrology Center of
Excellence at Levine Children’s Hospital.
The donation will help:
• Raise awareness about pediatric kidney
disease, which is hard to detect and is a
life-changing illness.
• Develop child-friendly tools that involve
patients and caregivers in decisions
around care and ease the burden of living
with a chronic disease.
medical professionals locally, regionally
and nationwide, as pediatric kidney
disease receives limited federal funding.
• Develop specialized clinical trials for
patients, as well as connect them to other
resources and treatment options.
n Peter Clark, MD, to Fill Urology Posts
Peter Clark, MD, has been named
chair of the CHS Department of Urology,
specialty medical director for urology in
the Surgery Care Division of director of Carolinas HealthCare
CHSMG Division, and chair
of Urologic Oncology for
Levine Cancer Institute.
Chris Teigland, MD,
previous chief for the
Peter Clark,MD Division of Urology, will
remain as an active clinical urologist in
for his more than 20 years of leadership
of CHS/McKay Urology, recruitment
of outstanding urologic faculty, and the
development of a urology residency.
Dr. Clark received his undergraduate
degree in biology from Cornell
University and medical degree at
Harvard Medical School. He completed
a urologic residency at the Cleveland
Clinic Foundation and urologic oncology
fellowship at the University of Southern
California. He was recruited to CHS
from the Department of Urology at
Vanderbilt University, where he also was
the residency program director.
Clark has an active clinical practice
focused primarily on bladder and kidney
cancer, as well as an active interest in the
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basic sciences, particularly the role of Ras
and Wnt signaling on kidney and bladder
oncogenesis. Until recently, he was chair
of the Bladder/Penile Cancer Guidelines
panel for the National Comprehensive
Cancer Network (NCCN).
Clark is a member of non-muscle
invasive bladder cancer and small renal
mass guidelines panels for the American
Urologic Association (AUA), serves as the
representative for the Southeast Section
of the AUA to the AUA Foundation
Research Council, the Judicial and Ethics
Committee, and chairs the Practice
Guidelines Committee.
He is on the editorial boards for the
Journal of Urology, BJUI, Urologic
Oncology, and UROLOGY and serves
on the Examination Committee for
the American Board of Urology. He
is an active member of the Society
of Urologic Oncology, Society of
Academic Urologists, and Society of
Basic Urologic Research. He has more
than 170 publications in both the clinical
and basic sciences.
n Douglas Kirsch, MD, Joins American
Academy of Sleep Medicine Board
Douglas B. Kirsch, MD, medical
Sleep Medicine, has been
elected to serve on the
board of directors of The
American Academy of
Sleep Medicine. Dr. Kirsch
is president-elect of the
DouglasB.Kirsch,MD Academy and will serve as
president in 2018-2019.
“I congratulate Dr. Kirsch, who is
widely respected as a sleep physician and
is well-prepared to serve our members as
president-elect of the American Academy
of Sleep Medicine,” says AASM President
Dr. Ronald D. Chervin.
Kirsch, who has been a member of
the AASM since 2004, has participated
on several AASM committees and
served as chair of both the Maintenance
of Certification Committee and the
Program Committee for the SLEEP
annual meeting. He is an associate
professor in the department of medicine
at the University of North Carolina
School of Medicine.