{"id":1988,"date":"2012-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/liveblogging-from-chicago-himss-health-it-whats-next-in-digital-health\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:00:00","slug":"liveblogging-from-chicago-himss-health-it-whats-next-in-digital-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/liveblogging-from-chicago-himss-health-it-whats-next-in-digital-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblogging from Chicago HIMSS! 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He is Chief and Program Director of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. He is professor of surgery, with adjunct appointments as professor in neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery. He lectures nationally on repair of the abdominal wall. His groundbreaking work on the bionic arm procedure for arm amputees was featured on the cover of the prestigious journal Lancet and in the New Yorker Magazine. His specialties include state of the art reconstructive breast surgery after cancer treatment (DIEP flaps), aesthetic surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction, peripheral nerve surgery, hand surgery, and reconstructive microsurgery.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gregory Dumanian, a native Chicagoan, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, and trained at the finest medical programs in the country. After graduating with honors from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, he completed a five-year residency in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He followed this with three years of plastic surgery training at the University of Pittsburgh, one of the premier plastic surgery programs in the country. He then completed a fellowship in hand surgery at the Curtis Hand Center in Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7521\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7521 \" title=\"Chicago Northwest Memorial Hospital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MemorialHospital.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago Northwest Memorial Hospital\" width=\"386\" height=\"685\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago Northwest Memorial Hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m liveblogging from the Greater Chicago HIMSS Annual Chapter Business Meeting &amp; Summer Social, Health IT: What&#8217;s Next in Digital Health? Stay tuned for updates! Find out more about Greater Chicago HIMSS events by viewing their Calendar of Events. Chicago Skyline: Heading into Chicago Northwest Memorial Hospital for an interview with Dr. Dumanian! More about Dr. Gregory Dumanian, M.D.: Dr. Dumanian combines excellent training with a caring and attentive bedside manner. He is Chief and Program Director of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. He is professor of surgery, with adjunct appointments as professor in neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery. He lectures nationally on repair of the abdominal wall. His groundbreaking work on the bionic arm procedure for arm amputees was featured on the cover of the prestigious journal Lancet and in the New Yorker Magazine. His specialties include state of the art reconstructive breast surgery after cancer treatment (DIEP flaps), aesthetic surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction, peripheral nerve surgery, hand surgery, and reconstructive microsurgery. Dr. Gregory Dumanian, a native Chicagoan, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, and trained at the finest medical programs in the country. After graduating with honors from the University of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"other_category":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liveblogging from Chicago HIMSS! 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