PSV’s Chief Strategy Officer, Rupa Dainer, MD, Speaks at Cleveland Clinic Summit on Technology in Healthcare

​Rupa Dainer, MD, PSV’s Chief Strategy Officer and Medical Director for the Ambulatory Surgery Center, was a panelist at the Cleveland Summit: Healthcare Transformation in the Digital Era at the Global Center for Health Innovation (Cleveland, OH) on September 29.

The summit raised awareness about the critical need to upgrade America’s digital infrastructure with the promise and peril of patients becoming more “connected” than ever.  The current 3 billion internet users and 2.6 billion smart phone subscriptions could quadruple by 2020.  A third of consumers have at least one health, medical or fitness app on their mobile devices. This transformation raises many IT healthcare issues around patient information, e-visits, wearable electronics and other policy and practice implications.     

On the panel, “The Connected Patient: Implications of Care in the Palm of Your Hand”, Dr. Dainer represented the perspective of the clinician/patient team. Together with representatives from The Cleveland Clinic, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, and HealthCelerate, Dr. Dainer explored the ways that patients can be better connected and informed about their own health.  She says, “Technology can help re-engineer the healthcare system toward a focus on wellness, preventive care, genomic risk factors, managing rising risk and optimizing chronic disease rather than just sick care. However, transformation of healthcare IT is a complex and sometimes daunting journey for both the physician and the patient that will require considerable attention and patience over the next decade.“

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PSV patient, Yaalah Gilliam, was featured in a Fairfax County Government/Channel 16 video in recognition of Sickle Cell Awareness Month.  Gilliam, 4-years-old, has been under the care of Dr. Elizabeth Yang (PSV Hematology/Oncology) and our clinical and administrative team at our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.

To see the video, please visit Fairfax County Government’s YouTube Channel.

Pediatric Specialists of Virginia received a special visit from Zeus and Too Tall of The Harlem Globetrotters at our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders (Falls Church, VA).  

Zeus and Too Tall presented a special patient and family with tickets and autographs and also signed autographs and posed for pictures with our other patients in families in the clinic.  PSV would to thank Zeus, Too Tall, and The Harlem Globetrotters for visiting our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders and putting a smile on our patients’ faces!  We all truly enjoved seeing your tricks, learning about the team’s history, and watching how great you were with our patients and families, staff. 

Thank you so much!

PSV would like to congratulate and recognize the 19 PSV physicians who were selected as “Top Docs” in Northern Virginia Magazine’s Top Doctors of 2016 issue (February, 2016), which is out on newsstands now.

Eight of our specialties were represented among the chosen providers.  The 19 PSV doctors featured are representative of the high-quality care all of our clinicians provide to our patients and families on a daily basis.  Our physicians commitment to PSV’s mission and dedication to serving children in Virginia and nearby communities is truly remarkable.  

Thank you all again for your efforts and the exemplary specialty service you provide, and thanks to all of our PSV team members who helped make this possible.

Here is the list of PSV physicians selected as Northern Virginia Magazine’s Top Doctors of 2016 (by specialty):

• Endocrinology
  • Kathleen Link, MD
  • Rinku Mehra, MD
  • Priya Vaidyanathan, MD
     
• Gastroenterology
  • Lynn Duffy, MD
  • Muhammad Khan, MD
  • Peter Lee, MD
  • Ian Leibowitz
  • Jaime Liou-Wolfe
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• Hematology & Oncology
  • Jennifer Dean, MD
  • Christopher Lawlor, MD
  • Carly Varela, MD
     
• Infectious Disease
  • Daniel Keim, MD
  • Rebecca Levorson, MD
     
• Neurology
  • Bennett Lavenstein, MD
  • William McClintock, MD
  • Terry Watkin, MD
     
• Nephrology
  • Robert Fildes, MD
     
• Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Jeffrey Hanway, MD
  • Emily Hattwick, MD
     
• Sports Medicine
  • Jeffrey Hanway, MD

Pediatric Specialists of Virginia (PSV) would like to thank Cakes Against Cancer for facilitating a gingerbread house building workshop for our patients and families in our Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Many thanks also to Kyshoen Jarrett (Washington Redskins’ Defensive Back) and his fiancée Chantel, the Washington Redskins’ Charitable Foundation, and Amphora Bakery for participating in the workshop and providing our patients with fun holiday goodie bags!