A surgeon goes Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) has received the highest distinction for health services researchers goes during the award ceremony for national research week is 2025.
Dr. Daniel Hall has accepted the price of the under-security for an exceptional success in research on health systems on behalf of his team for their work by developing vital innovation The surgical break.
Innovation identifies fragile patients at high risk at bedside bedside bedside so that surgeons and patients can make informed decisions on the patient’s surgical treatment plan. It is proven to increase survival rates, reduce complications and reduce costs, while providing the best care centered on the patient.
By accepting the prize at the May 13 ceremony in Washington, DC, Hall said that VES was only positioned to ensure the success of medical innovations such as the surgical break.
“This work would not be possible in any other environment than VA,” said Hall. “He relied on collaboration with the private sector, in which I also work, but it is only in the VA which shares a unified mission towards the veteran that the incentives are properly aligned with the type of leadership and the type of resources that could have taken this idea at the national level in such a short period of time. VA is a precious jewelry and protected in sight, and risking practicing the choir, continuing to feed.
Yale educated and an ordered priest in the episcopal church, Room is also a surgeon at UPMC and professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Vaphs director Donald Koenig said the health system is honored to help investigators such as Hall to find innovative means to improve the health of veterans.
“The work of Dr. Hall and his team with the surgical break is only one of the many ways in which our suppliers, investigators and the support staff of VA Pittsburgh work together to develop health care innovations to improve the lives of those who served,” said Koenig. “This particular innovation has not only improved care for veterans, but also helps Americans on a national scale, and citizens around the world, because more and more health care organizations adopt it for themselves.”
Forty-two medical centers range from the country, as well as 33 in progress, and many private health care entities in the world have adopted the surgical break.
Innovation is one of the many credited to VA Pittsburgh, which welcomes four centers of excellence goes for research:
Hall’s price includes $ 50,000 per year up to three years to complete its current research. In addition to hall, five other investigators go from all over the country to have been recognized for revolutionary research aimed at helping veterans – and all Americans – live longer and more significant lives.
The award ceremony started VA Research from May 13 to 16which this famous 100 years of research is going this year.
The main president of the Honorable Paul R. Lawrence, Ph.D., assistant secretary to the veterans and veteran of the army, said that research is one of the most powerful means “, will carry out its mission to take care of veterans and their families” by transforming science, innovation into action and discovery into results “.
Lawrence said that research will resulted in some of the most important medical breakthroughs in modern history, including the discovery of the bond between smoking and lung cancer, the invention of the cardiac stimulator, proving the efficiency of the shingle vaccine, the development of a prosthetic arm controlled by thought and the dissemination of coastal treatments “from concept to concept in care.”
Dr. Steven L. Lieberman, an acting under secretary of VA, has credited researchers and VA veterans who volunteer for studies to bring these innovations and other medical innovations from concept to reality.
“We have the most dedicated researchers with the best mission of the government, to take care of the veterans in our country,” said Lieberman. “This, combined with the engagement of veterans in the service of their veteran colleagues and the nation, feeds the legacy of VA innovation.”