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Former Air Force officer calls Washington’s approach to veteran health care ‘short-sighted’
The HILL.com Feb. 14, 2019 Washington is often disconnected from the veterans communities, and that division can lead to ineffective policies, former Air Force officer Michael Haynie told Hill.TV. “The extent to which we have conversations in D.C. about the social, economic, wellness concerns of this community without connecting those conversations back to the communities…
Read MoreOutlook Newsletter – March 2018
Click link below to view the 2018 meeting highlights ! https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://govurology.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sgsu-2018-meeting-newsletter.pdf
Read MoreCongratulations 2018 Kimbrough Award Winners
HG Stevenson Award for outstanding support and dedicated service to the SGSU and urology residency programs. Presented to: Gerald Jordan, MD . Honorary Lifetime Membership Award for lifetime dedication and service to the SGSU. Presented to: John M. Barry, MD . Prince Beach Award for best paper (#65) presented by a society member staff physician…
Read MoreUSAV – President’s Report 2018
Urological Society for American Veterans Success at the AUA San Francisco! I would like to personally thank all of this year’s USAV annual meeting organizers and sponsors for their contributions in producing an outstanding meeting at the AUA. We were able to complete our business objectives for the organization, have professional interactions with our meeting…
Read MoreVA Rep to SGSU 2018 Report
SGSU 2018 Kimbrough Meeting VA Representative Report by Jeffrey Jones, MD – USAV President Dr. Jones thanked SGSU for the opportunity to become a Chapter of the SGSU and for their support. USAV was financially successful in the past year, having a gain of over $3,300 in its fund. He said they are gaining new…
Read MoreOutlook Newsletter – March 2017
Click link below to view the 2017 meeting highlights ! https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://govurology.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SGSU-newsletter-2017.pdf
Read MoreCongratulations to Kimbrough 2017 Award Winners
HG Stevenson Award for outstanding support and dedicated service to the SGSU and urology residency programs. Presented to: George Kaplan, MD Honorary Lifetime Membership Award for lifetime dedication and service to the SGSU. Presented to: Mitchell Edson, MD Prince Beach Award for best paper (#65) presented by a society member staff physician as judged by…
Read MoreKimbrough Meeting “take aways” – 2017 San Diego
Dr. Tim Brand Take Home Points Enzalutamide is easy to prescribe but causes fatigue. – Ray Lance, MD Corynebacteria are bad for prosthetics. -Jesse N. Mills, MD Primary care should refer everyone with psa >1.5 ng/dl to urology for risk assessment (using sophisticated biomarkers) for clinically significant prostate cancer. -E. David Crawford, MD “If you…
Read MoreSGSU and USAV Affiliation Approved in San Diego
SOCIETY OF GOVERNMENT SERVICE UROLOGISTS (SGSU) AND UROLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN VETERANS (USAV) FORMALLY AGREE TO JOIN TOGETHER At its Annual Business Meeting in San Diego on January 14, 2017, the SGSU membership voted to approve an affiliation arrangement with the newly established USAV – which represents VA urologists nationwide. SGSU President, Dr. Hal Frazier…
Read MoreWhat the military can teach physician leaders
Editor’s corner: What the military can teach physician leaders by Joanne Finnegan |Fierce Healthcare Jul 27, 2016 1:38pm Like me, the national political conventions taking place these last two weeks might have you thinking more about leadership and the kind of leader the country so desperately needs right now. But it’s not just the country…
Read MoreIBM’s Watson Supercomputer Is Going to Help 10,000 Veterans
FORTUNE by Laura Lorenzetti June 29, 2016, 6:15 AM EDT A a big leap forward for cancer treatment. IBM is teaming up with the federal government to bring Watson technology into America’s largest hospital and healthcare network. The initiative is one of the first public-private partnerships setup as part of Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer…
Read MoreNew VA Physicians Wanted
Wanted: 1,800 New VA Physicians HealthLeaders Media News, June 28, 2016 Making the Department of Veterans Affairs health system an attractive place to work is a key priority in the wake of negative reports about wait times and reimbursements to physicians in the private sector. click here to read full article
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