Lehigh Valley Health Network

Bereavement event April 25

The Littner Memorial Lecture Series for Bereavement and St. Luke’s Health Network community event: “Grief Is A Journey: Finding Your Path Through Grief” with Dr. Kenneth J. Doka. 7:30 p.m. Central Moravian Church sanctuary, 73 W. Church St. A limited number of free tickets are available at the church office. Visit: www.sluhn.org/littnerlectureseries.

Networked recognized for innovation

Lehigh Valley Health Network was awarded the 2018 AMGA–Optum Award Innovation in Population Health 2018 during the American Medical Group Association’s annual conference recently in Phoenix, Ariz.

Populytics Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of LVHN and a regional population health management and analytics firm, spearheads the pioneering work for which LVHN won the award.

Working with LVHN for more than five years, Populytics uses its proprietary data analytics system to derive insights that positively impact quality of care, efficiency of resources, and care delivery at the multi-campus health system. The data has been instrumental in making measurable improvements at LVHN, and in creating higher quality and value for patients and medical providers. For more information, visit www.lvhn.org and www.populytics.com.

Therapist speaks on Women’s Health panel

Dr. Alexandra Milspaw, founder and clinical director of 4Directions Counseling, LLC, in Bethlehem, and a local licensed professional counselor and AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, spoke on policy issues regarding endometriosis on April 10 in Washington, D.C.

Her presentation highlighted the importance of multidisciplinary care and training for all health care providers as well as the overlap of chronic stress, trauma, and chronic pain; and encouraged research for the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions, including Emotional Freedom Techniques.

The event was hosted by the Society for Women’s Health Research at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. For information on the public panel, visit: www.swhr.org; or for the practice, visit: www.4DCounseling.com.

St. Luke’s University Health Network

Walk with a Doc on Thursdays

St. Luke’s Walks with a Doc (with different physicians) will be held at 5:30 pm on Thursdays, at least until Thursday, Sept. 27, rain or shine, at the Anderson Campus trail.

Participants are able to walk at their own pace. There are rest/stop benches along the trail. Low impact walking engages many muscle groups all at once. By varying walking speed, walkers may easily get the heart rate variability that is needed to condition the heart.

LV Cancer Institute

Advances in kidney cancer care presented

The Lehigh Valley Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discussed the latest advances in care, treatment and management of kidney cancer on April 5 at Lehigh Country Club, 2319 S. Cedar Crest Blvd., Allentown. The event was sponsored by the Andy Derr Foundation for Kidney Cancer Research.

The “Advances in Kidney Cancer Care” event featured five speakers, including Robert J. Motzer, M.D., attending physician, Medical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Suresh Nair, M.D., Physician-in-Chief, Lehigh Valley Cancer Institute.

Dr. Motzer discussed two new renal cell cancer clinical trials that are available at MSK and L.V.C.I. for stage 3 and stage 4 kidney cancer. He was the first author of a major breakthrough in advanced kidney cancer with immunotherapy. For information, visit: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1712126.