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New Specialty Center will 'officially' open Aug. 31
The event will be hosted by Wills Memorial Hospital on Thursday, August 31, from 4-6 p.m. at the newly renovated Outpatient Specialty Center located on Hospital Drive. The Wills Memorial Hospital Specialty Center consists of a growing partnership between Wills Memorial and the Medical College of Georgia. In their first seven months of seeing patients in Washington, the MCG-affiliated surgeons have treated 230 men, women, and children in their surgery and urology clinics. Also, the surgeons have performed 135 surgical procedures in the Wills Memorial Hospital Operating Room. The addition of the MCG physicians to the WMH medical staff has spurred a significant increase in surgical services offered through the hospital.. The Outpatient Center is currently staffed with three physicians, one nurse and one administrative support team member. Dr. Scott Lind, Dr. Ronald Lewis, and Dr. Patrick Sizemore are the attending physicians assisted by Lisa Eskew, R.N., and Vickie Wang. D. Scott Lind, M.D. is Professor Section of Surgical Oncology within the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Lind is a fellowship-trained oncologic surgeon with clinical and academic interests in melanoma, breast cancer, and sarcoma. Lind also has a strong interest in medical education and a scientific approach to the study of educational problems. His educational research focus is the development and evaluation of new learning technologies, particularly simulation, in medical education. He is part of a collaboaffidavit rative effort involving the Medical College of Georgia and the University of Florida to develop and evaluate virtual patients as educational tools for teaching and testing communication skills. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984. He completed his residency in 1989 at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a fellowship Lind holds a general surgery clinic and performs surgical procedures at WMH each Thursday afternoon. Ronald Lewis, M.D. is currently the Witherington Chair in Urology and Professor of Surgery (Urology) and Physiology at the Medical College of Georgia. Prior to this position, Dr. Lewis was Professor of Urology at the Mayo Clinic Medical School and Associate Professor As an expert in the field of sexual dysfunction, Lewis presides on several medical and scientific committees and has received numerous research and training grants for his involvement as an investigator of male sexual dysfunction and treatment. He has also been an invited participant at many national, regional, and local meetings. He has published articles in many medical journals focusing on specific areas of male sexual dysfunction including hormonal influence on the prostate and impotence evaluation and therapy. From 1992-1997, Lewis was the co-editor-in-chief for the Journal of Andrology. Lewis holds executive positions within numerous medical and educational facilities and is a member of several scientific and professional societies such as the American College of Surgeons (Fellow), American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American Society of Andrology, American Urological Association and International Society for Impotence Research. He is a founding member and past-president of the International Society for Impotence Research, now the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM). He is currently chairman of the publication committee of the ISSM and historian for that society. He received his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1968 and completed his residency in the United States Navy from 1968 through 1974. He completed a NIH fellowship at Tulane University School of Medicine in Basic Research in 1977. Lewis holds a urology clinic and performs surgical procedures at WMH the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Patrick E. Sizemore, M.D. is Assistant Professor of the GI Surgery Department at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Sizemore received his M.D. from Medical College of Georgia in 1995. He completed an internship in 1996, and his residency in 2002, both at the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Sizemore is board certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is a member of several scientific and professional societies. He received an Award for Excellence in teaching by the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine Class of 2000. Dr. Sizemore has held many administrative positions over the past several years including Chief of Surgery, Springs Memorial Hospital in Lancaster, South Carolina. His surgical passion has led him to additional training in laparoscopic colectomy and endosurgery. Sizemore holds a general surgery clinic at WMH the first and third Tuesdays of each month and performs surgical procedures each Tuesday. Prospective patients for the Specialty Center may make their own appointment, or may be referred by their primary care physician. To schedule an appointment at the Wills Memorial Hospital Specialty Center, phone 706-678-3247, MondayFriday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The community is encouraged to attend the Wills Memorial Hospital Specialty Center open house, Thursday, August 31, from 4-6 p.m. Parking is available in the rear parking lot of the hospital, facing the corner of Spring Street and Hospital Drive. Local contractor, Lannae Construction, was hired to construct the new outside entrance to the Center. The administration of Wills Memorial is grateful for the opportunity to continue to find further ways to offer "quality hometown healthcare to our community." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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