The LifeLink Foundation  announced the appointment of Dr. Clark Kensinger as Chief Medical Officer. A nationally respected multi-organ transplant surgeon and board-certified intensivist, Dr. Kensinger specializes in liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation and currently serves as Surgical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at the Piedmont Transplant ... Continue Reading

On April 16, Northside Hospital Forsyth celebrated the groundbreaking of a major campus expansion that will include a new six-story patient tower and a significantly expanded Emergency Department. The project includes a six-story patient tower with 96 new patient rooms, more than 260,000 square feet of new construction and 57,000 square feet of renovations to existing space. ... Continue Reading

Bruce Ziran, MD joined Shepherd Center’s medical staff as the medical director of orthopedics, providing comprehensive orthopedic services, including surgical procedures. Before coming to Shepherd Center, Dr. Ziran was involved in orthopedic trauma program salvage and development and helped take Atlanta Medical Center to Level I status. He then went to Gwinnett Medical ... Continue Reading

A collaboration between Emory Healthcare, Emory School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has led clinicians to perform the world’s first minimally invasive coronary artery bypass technique without open-heart surgery. The collective medical team included Emory cardiovascular surgeons Adam Greenbaum, MD and Vasilis Babliaros, MD as well as Christopher ... Continue Reading

After 15 years leading Grady as its President and CEO, John Haupert announced his retirement at the end of 2026. Effective immediately, Anthony Saul, Grady’s current Chief Operating Officer, will assume the role of President and COO, and take the helm as President and CEO on January 1, 2027. Saul is a seasoned healthcare executive with more than 25 years of experience ... Continue Reading

Grady Health System announced plans for a new medical center campus in South Fulton County – a major investment designed to expand access to high-quality care, relieve capacity constraints, and strengthen community health in one of metro Atlanta’s fastest growing communities. The campus will open in phases, beginning with a new medical office building, followed by an acute ... Continue Reading

Northside Hospital is introducing a new test to help diagnose leukemia faster and more accurately, giving patients quicker answers and helping doctors choose the most effective treatments sooner. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and related blood cancers are not all the same. They can look similar but behave differently based on specific genetic changes inside the cancer cells. ... Continue Reading

In October, Emory Healthcare performed Georgia's first innovative dual organ procedure known as HALT, heart-after-liver transplant. Monica McFarlan was diagnosed with congestive heart failure at the age of 37. For the past 15 years, she has lived with two separate left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) to keep her alive. During that time, she experienced a heart attack, a ... Continue Reading

As trauma-informed care becomes a guiding principle across healthcare, pediatric feeding disorder treatment is undergoing a long-overdue ethical reexamination. In response, Feeding Matters, in collaboration with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, has launched the Center for Feeding Ethics, a first-of-its-kind national initiative dedicated to ethical exploration and standards in ... Continue Reading

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