Health Connect South announced that Dr. Erica Schwartz, newly confirmed Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will participate in a fireside chat along with Samantha Brown-Parks, MD, MPH Regional Director HHS during the healthcare conference taking place on September 16 at the Georgia Aquarium. Dr. Schwartz will be one of the 45 healthcare leaders to ... Continue Reading

Piedmont Atlanta Hospital has successfully treated the first patients in the Southeast in the PIANO IDE Trial. The study is testing two devices used to help treat brain aneurysms. Piedmont is the third site in the United States to join the PIANO Trial and the first in the Southeast to perform these procedures. The first two cases were led by Michael F. Stiefel, MD, PhD, ... Continue Reading

Zachary Senders, MD, a fellowship-trained surgical oncologist, has joined Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG). Dr. Senders provides surgical care for patients with a wide range of cancers, including those affecting the liver, pancreas, biliary system, gastrointestinal tract, skin and soft tissue. Dr. Senders most recently worked with Penn Highlands Healthcare, caring ... Continue Reading

Georgians and those living in the Southeast now have access to a new surgical option for advanced thumb arthritis through Emory Healthcare, the first health system in the region to offer total thumb arthroplasty. Thumb arthritis is the second most common site of arthritis in the hand, according to the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. The condition typically affects ... Continue Reading

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a major public health challenge in the United States.1 Approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV, and an estimated 13% do not know they have it.2 The Atlanta metro area had the third-highest rate of new HIV diagnosis among U.S. metro areas in 2021, accounting for more than half of all new HIV diagnoses in Georgia ... Continue Reading

  Dr. Shamie Das, an emergency physician, educator, and policy leader, was installed as President of the Medical Association of Atlanta (MAA) for 2026 – 2027 at the MAA Summer Gala at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Dr. Das received a Bachelor of Science from Emory University, a Master of Public Health from Rollins School of Public Health, and both ... Continue Reading

Northside Hospital and Georgia Perinatal Consultants announce expanded access to highly specialized care for high-risk pregnancies through the Northside Hospital Center for Advanced Fetal Intervention, in partnership with Georgia Perinatal Consultants. The program brings together nationally recognized expertise in maternal-fetal medicine to care for some of the most complex ... Continue Reading

The lung cancer treatment program at Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) has added renowned expert thoracic surgeon Matthew Schuchert, MD, who recently joined Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery to see patients in Gainesville. Dr. Schuchert joins NGPG after a distinguished career in academic and clinical practice at the ... Continue Reading

Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) and Flow Therapy have established a joint venture to expand access to advanced noninvasive cardiovascular care in Gainesville and the surrounding region. The partnership introduces counterpulsation therapy (also known as external counterpulsation, ECP), a noninvasive outpatient treatment for patients living with persistent symptoms of ... Continue Reading

Morgan Medical Center now offers advanced cardiology services led by board-certified cardiologist Dr. John Layher and his team. With nearly 30 years of cardiovascular expertise, Dr. Layher has practiced in Georgia’s Piedmont region since 1999. He is perhaps best known for co-establishing the Oconee Heart & Vascular Center in 2008, which was founded in partnership with ... Continue Reading

On June 26, 2026, a team of sixty-five Atlanta area medical professionals traveled to Antigua, Guatemala in conjunction with “Operation Walk,” a volunteer medical humanitarian organization that provides joint replacement surgeries to impoverished patients in the U.S. and developing countries. The team was led by doctors George N. Guild, III and Thomas L. Bradbury, Jr., ... Continue Reading

Wellstar Health System and Mountain Lakes Medical Center (MLMC) announced that they have finalized an agreement for Wellstar to acquire the northeast Georgia-based hospital. The transaction is expected to close August 1, pending the conclusion of regulatory requirements and customary closing conditions. Mountain Lakes Medical Center is a 25-bed critical access hospital ... Continue Reading

Christian P. Larsen, MD, DPhil, FACS, an Emory kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon and immunologist, internationally recognized for transforming organ rejection prevention, is the recipient of this year's American College of Surgeons Jacobson Innovation Award. The award honors living surgeons who have innovated a new development or technique in any field of surgery. “It's ... Continue Reading

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta reached a historic milestone with its 2,000th pediatric solid organ transplant, underscoring more than four decades of life-saving care for children throughout Georgia and the Southeast. Two-year-old John Miller became Children’s 2,000th solid organ transplant recipient on June 3 when he received a kidney transplant. Diagnosed in utero with ... Continue Reading

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta today opens a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial to study the safety and tolerability of a microneedle stamp applied to the skin, with the eventual goal of determining whether it might prevent peanut allergy reactions through desensitization in future studies. The stamp was developed by Moonlight Therapeutics, Inc., an Atlanta-based biotech ... Continue Reading