Stories by Tom Corwin

New recruit brings personalized touch to cancer

She came to establish a new Department of Radiation Oncology at Georgia Regents University but Dr. Feng-Ming Kong believes it could soon become part of a therapy at GRU Cancer Center that is not ...
By Tom Corwin

Thursday, May 16, 2013

University CEO see future cuts, changes

University Hospital CEO Jim Davis said at a Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce luncheon that big reductions in funding will lead to further cost-cutting and drive hospital consolidating and ...
By Tom Corwin

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Group pushing for smoking ban

Advocates for a smoke-free environment for all workers are once again pushing an ordinance that would seek to ban smoking in public places in Augusta.
By Tom Corwin

Friday, May 10, 2013

Nearly 900 first to get GRU degree

Erica was the first of 875 graduates who received their degrees from the university that arose from the consolidation of Augusta State and Georgia Health Sciences universities earlier this year.
By Tom Corwin

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Top award for compassion goes to GRU student

When her classmates, instructors and patients want to pull out an example of Elizabeth Prince-Coleman's compassionate care, there are so many to choose from.
By Tom Corwin

MCG grads urged to focus on disease prevention

Speaking Thursday at the Medical College of Georgia's Hooding Ceremony, Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, said that for too long medicine has focused on ...
By Tom Corwin

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

GRU grad follows parents' paths

At the Hooding Ceremony for Medical College of Georgia on Thursday, Preethi Ganapathy will receive the rare honor of receiving the hood from both her mother and father, both doctors at GRU.
By Tom Corwin

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Budget includes funds for building, services at GRU

The money includes $45 million to help build a new building that could garner an important national designation but also funds to establish outreach and prevention and fund clinical trials in new ...
By Tom Corwin

Friday, May 3, 2013

Doctor praised at annual address

Dr. Anand Jillella, the chief of hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplant at GRU, was honored with the Medical College of Georgia faculty Professionalism Award during Dean Peter F. Buckley's ...
By Tom Corwin

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Augustans help guide federal research

Of the 84 people serving on advisory panels for a new institute designed to make sure federal research is addressing issues important to patients, two are from Augusta.
By Tom Corwin

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Graniteville event to focus on aftermath of train wreck

The effects in the aftermath of the wreck have been studied for the last couple of years by researchers, and their findings will be presented Saturday at a community forum in Graniteville.
By Tom Corwin

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Mill campuses are 'city effort,' Azziz says

While he calls the early plans to convert former Augusta mills into campuses for Georgia Regents University a potential "game-changer," President Ricardo Azziz said it is still a "city effort" ...
By Tom Corwin

New programs, scholarships key growth at GRU

In his annual State of the University address, Georgia Regents University President Ricardo Azziz outlined ambitious plans to grow programs, sports and especially student enrollment and research ...
By Tom Corwin

Monday, April 29, 2013

New GRU Center strengthens pharmacy tie with UGA

An old antibiotic could prove to be a new treatment for a devastating type of stroke that has no good remedies, said researchers at Georgia Regents University and the University of Georgia College ...
By Tom Corwin

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Programs help woman get first home

Pensola Parsons was literally on the edge of throwing her life away Oct. 17, 2001, her daughter's birthday, deep in the throes of drug and alcohol abuse before she had an epiphany.
By Tom Corwin

Saturday, April 27, 2013

MCG Foundation gets $66 million

After giving $10 million last year to help fund a building that bears his name, the late Dr. J. Harold Harrison and his family topped that by giving $66 million, believed to be the largest gift ...
By Tom Corwin

Friday, April 26, 2013

CEO sees more clinics banding together

As health care has been changing, the Cleveland Clinic, with salaried physicians and physician leadership, is often upheld as a model for future hospital design and was cited by both President ...
By Tom Corwin

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Finances improve for GRU health system

The health system of Geor­gia Regents University had a healthier financial quarter but faces many challenges ahead, including increasing numbers of patients who must be watched for little or ...
By Tom Corwin

University Hospital seeks savings from IT deal

Facing a $17 million reduction in Medicare payments alone this year, University Hospital is seeking an alliance with a North Carolina health company to get a better deal on supplies and services.
By Tom Corwin

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

More than 1,000 in first GRU graduation

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal will speak at the first graduation for Georgia Regents University where more than 1,000 students will be receiving a diploma at 2 p.m. May 10 at James Brown Arena.
By Tom Corwin
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