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At the Hospitals
n Novant Health Is First in the Carolinas This new technology is offered at in nursing with a concentration in nurse-
Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center midwifery from East Carolina University.
to Offer Incisionless Brain Surgery for and is led by a team of expert neurologists
and neurosurgeons, including the head of Waller is accepting new patients and
Treatment of Essential and functional and restorative neurosurgery for will be helping to deliver patients at Novant
Novant Health, Charles Munyon, MD. Health Huntersville Medical Center. For
Parkinson’s Tremor more information, call 704-316-4830 or
“Our team is very excited to bring this visit nhharborpointeobgyn.org.
Novant Health is the first in the Carolinas technology to the region and to open up
and one of only 23 hospital systems in the n Novant Health NoDa OB/GYN
country to offer a scalpel-free treatment for access to potentially life-
essential tremor and medication-refractory changing treatment that Celebrates One Year of
tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease. The until now has required long
new option — MR-guided focused ultrasound wait times and significant Serving Patients
— uses sound wave energy to treat brain tissue travel for patients in the
that is the source of the tremor. No surgical Carolinas,” says Dr. Munyon. Stephanie Barbardora-Froelich, DO, and
incision or anesthesia is necessary, and many CharlesMunyon,MD “Many tremor patients
patients experience immediate and significant have suffered for years or even decades Elizabeth Montague-Farwell, DO, love
reduction in hand tremors. with this debilitating and progressive
condition, and helping them regain the being a part of the NoDa community and
Novant Health has partnered with ability to dress and feed themselves, or
INSIGHTEC, a global medical technology just live a more active and independent growing with their patients through every
innovator to bring this breakthrough lifestyle, is extremely rewarding.”
technology to Charlotte. It is the only hospital For more information about this innovative stage of their lives. Their
system between central Virginia and Florida to procedure, visit NovantHealth.org/Tremor or
offer this new incisionless treatment of tremor. if you have a patient who may be a candidate, practice recently celebrated
call 888-976-5451 for a consult.
“With MR-guided focused ultrasound, one year of serving patients.
we are able to perform a procedure on the
brain — without a scalpel or making a Dr. Barbadora-Froelich
single incision,” says Eric Deshaies, MD,
neurosurgeon and system physician executive grew up in Pittsburg and
of the Novant Health Neuroscience &
Psychiatry Institute. “We are proud to be the graduated from Philadelphia
only hospital system in this region to offer
this innovative solution to treat tremors.” CollegeStephanieBarbardora- of Osteopathic
Froelich, DO Medicine. She completed her
MR-guided focused ultrasound combines
two technologies: magnetic resonance residency at Crozer-Chester Medical Center
imaging (MRI), which pinpoints the exact
location in the brain responsible for the in Philadelphia and is board-certified in
tremor, and ultrasound, which precisely
delivers more than 1,000 highly focused n Novant Health Named to obstetrics and gynecology.
beams of acoustic energy at that exact
location without damaging any surrounding Forbes 2020 List of Best Dr. Montague-Farwell
brain tissue.
Employers for Women received her medical degree
Benefits of MR-guided focused ultrasound
Forbes recently released its annual from Edward Via College
include: ranking of the 300 best employers for
women in the United States. Novant of Osteopathic Medicine in
• No surgical incisions resulting in reduced Health was named to the list, and the
risk of infection. recognition would not be possible without Blacksburg, Virginia and
the effort of many groups within the
• Quick recovery time, allowing a return to organization working in accordance with completed her residency at
daily activities within days. Novant Health’s core value of diversity
and inclusion. Elizabeth Palmetto Health/University
• Performed as an outpatient procedure — Montague-Farwell, DO of South Carolina in
most patients go home within 23 hours.
Columbia, South Carolina.
• Immediate and significant reduction in
hand tremors. NoDa OB/GYN is at 416 E. 36 St., Ste. 200
• Minimal side effects. and is accepting new patients. Learn more at
nhnodaobgyn.org.
n Harbor Pointe OB/GYN Welcomes n Novant Health Publishes Cancer
Carly Waller, CNM Survivor Book
Certified nurse midwife, Carly Waller, Novant Health is pleased to announce
the launch of the book, “The Unexpected
has joined Novant Health Harbor Pointe Gift: Profiles in Courage from Cancer
Survivorship.” The book features 21 first-
OB/GYN in Huntersville. person essays, including a forward by Carl
S. Armato, president and CEO of Novant
Waller graduated from Health, and an introduction by Ophelia
Garmon-Brown, MD, a Novant Health
Emory University in 2003 physician executive and cancer survivor.
Copies of the book may be purchased on
with a bachelor’s of science Amazon, or at any of the Novant Health
hospital gift shops. Proceeds benefit the
degree in nursing. She Novant Health Foundation.
started her career as a labor
Carly Waller, CNM and delivery nurse in Atlanta
before moving to Concord to work in public
health nursing where she became a Lamaze
childbirth educator and nurse manager. In
2018, she completed her master’s degree
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