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5 Best Eating For Heart Health

If you’ve been touched by a story or stories in this issue of Emory Medicine, these windows can open up ways for you to turn your inspiration into action. Here you’ll see how you can invest in the people, places, and programs you’re reading about. Gifts to Emory produce powerful, lasting returns: they help create knowledge, advance research, strengthen communities, improve health, and much more.

Of Opportunity

Pinning Down Difficult Diagnoses

Emory Special Diagnostic Services attracts patients with unusual and uncommon diseases that are difficult to diagnose or easy to misdiagnose. The clinical group also determines when typical diseases present in a way that is atypical.

To find out more about supporting this detective work, contact Vicki J. Riedel, executive director of development, at 404.778.5939 or vriedel@emory.edu.

Supporting Breakthrough Technology

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), which stimulates nerve cells in the brain with small bursts of MRI-strength magnetic energy, is helping patients with treatment-resistant depression find their way back to health. Neurologist Charles Epstein, founder/director of the Laboratory for Magnetic Stimulation at Emory, co-invented the core technology for NeuroStar TMS Therapy, the only TMS therapy approved by the FDA for treatment of depression.

To find out more about supporting this project, contact Gayathri Srinivasan, director of public and private partnerships, at 404.727.9843 or gayathris@emory.edu.

As demonstrated by the leadership of Emory Heart and Vascular Center cardiologist Laurence Sperling in the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Diets rankings, the Emory Division of Cardiology is known for its expertise in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Research by the internationally recognized faculty has contributed to understanding new approaches to precision medicine, population-based health promotion, and disease prevention. To support exciting breakthroughs in heart health, contact Gabrielle Stearns, director of development for cardiology, at 404.727.2512 or gabrielle.stearns@emory.edu.

Battling Zika And Beyond

When the Zika virus spread, attention turned to the Emory Division of Infectious Diseases and its research, education, and clinical care. Gifts to the Emory Infectious Diseases Fund for Excellence support the division’s national leadership role in the development of safe and effective methods to treat serious contagious diseases. The Division of Infectious Diseases subspecialty training program has graduated more than 125 physicians and, over the last decade, 83 percent of the fellows completing the Emory infectious diseases fellowship training program have pursued careers in academic medicine or public health.

To support this critical work, contact Steven Wagner, senior director of development, at 404.727.9110 or steven.wagner@emory.edu.

Training The Responders

A health care team of dozens, from a Grady trauma surgeon to an Emory plastic surgeon, saved Sylvia Ennis’s life and got her back on her feet after a near-fatal impalement. The School of Medicine is training the next generation of physicians and specialists to provide team-based care that saves and improves lives.

To give to medical education, contact Andrew Christopherson, director of development, at 404.727.8253 or andrew.christopherson@emory.edu.