Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta announced Donna Hyland, Chief Executive Officer, will retire this year. Hyland will be succeeded by Patrick Frias, M.D., currently Co-President and CEO of Rady Children’s Health in Southern California. Frias returns to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where he previously served for 18 years as a cardiologist, Chief Physician Officer, and Chief ... Continue Reading

A case of severe blurry vision led 79-year-old Martin Calloway to the eye doctor. Thanks to his long-term ophthalmologist, Dr. J. Michael Roach of Eye Consultants of Atlanta, an exam helped uncover the heart of the matter: a cardiac issue that could’ve taken the patient’s life. The problem itself originally came into view on the golf course. After bending down to mark his ... Continue Reading

Northside Hospital has expanded the use of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) to treat select patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer, offering a noninvasive alternative to surgery. Dr. Bryan Whitfield, an endocrine surgeon with Chattahoochee Surgical Group, performed the health system’s first thyroid cancer RFA procedure on Jan. 29 at Northside Hospital Forsyth. He ... Continue Reading

Bernie Marcus and The Marcus Foundation granted $21.9 million to Marcus Autism Center, a subsidiary of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. The grant will provide for the largest-ever study of behavior, brain and genomic biomarkers in children across the autism spectrum and associated genetic neurodevelopmental conditions to better understand what causes autism severity and ... Continue Reading

CartiNova, an advanced regenerative medicine platform located in Buckhead, has launched and is offering minimally invasive, in-office knee and spine procedures as an alternative to traditional orthopedic surgery. Founded by regenerative orthopedics physician Dr. Trevor Turner, CartiNova integrates FDA-cleared fractional laser technology, regenerative biologics and ... Continue Reading

Tufts University School of Medicine is continuing the national expansion of its Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) programs with the launch of a new location in Atlanta, Georgia—marking the school’s fourth program nationwide. The Tufts DPT-Atlanta program will follow the school’s hybrid, accelerated curriculum model. Students complete a combination of synchronous and ... Continue Reading

City of Hope® Cancer Center Atlanta and Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston, Georgia, announced plans for a partnership to offer coordinated, advanced oncology care to residents of West Central Georgia. Upson Regional Medical Center (URMC) is a 115‑bed, DNV‑accredited community hospital serving Upson County and the surrounding region of middle Georgia. “Recognizing ... Continue Reading

Faculty and fellows from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University will present new research at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium in Jan. 2026. Winship presenters include: Udhayvir Singh Grewal, MD; Mosunmoluwa Oyenuga, MD, MPH; Oluwadunni Eunice Emiloju, MD; Olatunji B. Alese, MD, FWACS, FASCO; Gideon T. Dosunmu, MD, ... Continue Reading

Tom Golisano, founder of Paychex, and a leading healthcare philanthropist, announced a historic $50 million investment in the Wellstar Children’s Hospital of Georgia (WCHOG), which is affiliated with Augusta University’s Medical College of Georgia. This transformative gift, the largest in Wellstar and WCHOG’s history, is part of his longstanding commitment to children’s ... Continue Reading

Piedmont Heart Institute physicians Pradeep K. Yadav, MD, Director of Structural Interventions, and Vinod H. Thourani, MD, Marcus Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery, successfully performed a Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) using the commercial Sapien M3 valve system – a state of the art, fully-percutaneous, trans-septal valve replacement for the treatment of ... Continue Reading

Researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University helped lead a landmark, multi-institutional study published in Nature Cancer that created the largest-ever single-cell immune atlas of bone marrow in patients with multiple myeloma. The findings reveal that the state of a patient’s immune system at diagnosis, in addition to the genetics of their tumor, can predict how ... Continue Reading

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University is advancing its commitment to reducing lung cancer deaths across Georgia with the launch of the Emory Healthcare Lung Screening and Nodule Program on Dec. 15, 2025. This new program focuses on early detection and treatment of lung cancer through low-dose lung screening CT and AI-assisted recognition of incidentally found pulmonary ... Continue Reading

City of Hope Cancer Center Atlanta celebrated the opening of City of Hope Cancer Center Paces Ferry. The new facility marks a significant expansion of City of Hope’s footprint in Atlanta. The Paces Ferry location is the second City of Hope Cancer Center location in Atlanta. Both City of Hope facilities in Georgia are part of a national cancer research and treatment ... Continue Reading

Researchers and surgeons at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University and Georgia Tech led the first-ever Phase 1 clinical trial using patient-specific stem cells to help heal the hearts of babies born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a severe congenital heart defect. The stem cells, known as autologous neonatal cardiac progenitor stem cells, were ... Continue Reading

Researchers at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta conducted a first-in-child, Phase I clinical trial in recurring malignant brain tumor patients to test a treatment inhibiting STAT3, a cancer stem cell protein which regulates brain tumors in children. Led by pediatric oncologist Tobey MacDonald, MD, who discovered STAT3 is critical ... Continue Reading