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Serge Voronoff and the History of Wound Care at the New York Academy of Medicine
Join me at the New York Academy of Medicine for the Tenth Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night on Wednesday, January 30th, when I present my paper entitled Organotherapy, Gilded Manhattan, and Wound Healing Research in the Early 20th Century. This presentation will explore the unrecognized and forgotten contribution of Serge Voronoff (1866-1951) to wound healing research – a story that evolves against the backdrop of medical science and mansions of early 20th Century Manhattan.  Seeing the suffering of injured soldiers during World War 1, Voronoff realized the importance of hastening wound healing and it...
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Serge Voronoff and the History of Wound Care at the New York Academy of Medicine
Join me at the New York Academy of Medicine for the Tenth Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night on Wednesday, January 30th, when I present my paper entitled Organotherapy, Gilded Manhattan, and Wound Healing Research in the Early 20th Century. This presentation will explore the unrecognized and forgotten contribution of Serge Voronoff (1866-1951) to wound healing research – a story that evolves against the backdrop of medical science and mansions of early 20th Century Manhattan.  Serge Voronoff attained notoriety for his theories of human rejuvenation, accomplished through transplantation of testicles fro...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 10, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Medical History Pressure Injuries & Wound Care Publications pressure ulcers Source Type: blogs

Wound Care Webinar Sponsored by The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
On Wednesday, October 24th I had the honor of delivering a webinar entitled Wound Care: Maximizing Quality While Controlling Costs, sponsored by The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.  The webinar will begin at 7:00 EST and last 1.5 hours.  I will be giving Part 1 which will include the following didactic material: •  Importance of wound care in PA/LTC •  What’s new in the wound world?•  Regulatory update •  Types of wounds in PA/LTC •  Principles of wound management •  System considerations •  Risk Management considerations My co-presenter is Dr. Scott Bolhack who will give Part 2...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - September 29, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pocket Guide to Pressure Ulcers Pressure Injuries & Wound Care Risk Management federal regulations geriatrics gerontology Nursing Homes Source Type: blogs

Wound Care in the Geriatrics Review Syllabus
The 10th Edition of the Geriatrics Review Syllabus is soon going to press, and I am pleased to announce that I authored the revised Pressure Injury and Wound Care chapter.  This chapter covers much of the material I wrote in the 9th Edition, but has critical updates including greater emphasis on palliative care for wounds and changes in nomenclature recommended by the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP), where I recently completed a three year term as a board member.  The full title of the publication is Geriatrics Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine, 10th Edition (GRS10).  It is publishe...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - September 24, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: Geriatric Medicine Pressure Injuries & Wound Care bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer Improving Medical Care pressure sores pressure ulcers Source Type: blogs

Pressure Injuries and the Human Warranty
In this post I will discuss two recent articles that together make the case that pressure injuries might be a manifestation of a human biological warranty. The first is Unavoidable Pressure Injury: State of the Science and Consensus Outcomes, published in the Journal of Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing (JWOCN), and the second is How Long Must Humans Live? from the Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences. These articles come from widely divergent sources but when placed side by side there are insights about pressure injuries and the burning question of avoidability.   The JWOCN article is a literature review that p...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - September 16, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: An Aging World Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Pressure Injuries & Wound Care geriatrics gerontology human mortality long life longevity pressure sores pressure ulcers wound healing Source Type: blogs

Prime Time Television, Disease, and Death
I recently experienced the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance during a commercial on the evening world news.  It was an advertisement promoting a diabetes medicine that showed people with diabetes at a barbecue, cooking and dancing.  How different this was from my day in the wound clinic where I saw patient after patient with obesity and diabetes suffering from nonhealing wounds and other complications. So I tucked this into the back of my mind until another commercial caught my attention.  As a litany of awful side effects was delivered by an offscreen announcer, the scene on TV lingered over a young couple enjoying a ...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - June 23, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: An Aging World Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care advertising death end-of-life care Healthcare Quality hospice illness Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD Nursing Homes pressure sores pressure ulcers ter Source Type: blogs

Prime Time Television, Disease, and Death
I recently experienced the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance during a commercial on the evening world news.  It was an advertisement promoting a diabetes medicine that showed overweight people at a barbecue, cooking and dancing.  How different this was from my day in the wound clinic where I saw patient after patient with obesity and diabetes suffering from nonhealing wounds and other complications. So I tucked this into the back of my mind until another commercial caught my attention.  As a litany of awful side effects was delivered by an offscreen announcer, the scene on TV lingered over a young couple enjoying a wal...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - June 23, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: An Aging World Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care advertising death end-of-life care Healthcare Quality hospice illness Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD Nursing Homes pressure sores pressure ulcers ter Source Type: blogs

Upcoming Talks at SAWC
I am thrilled to announce that I will be presenting in two sessions at the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) which is going on from April 25 to 29, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina.  SAWC is a leading educational forum for interdisciplinary wound care with an extremely diverse panel of speakers, and it (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 25, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pocket Guide to Pressure Ulcers Pressure Ulcers & Wound Care bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD Source Type: blogs

Upcoming Talks at SAWC
I am thrilled to announce that I will be presenting in two sessions at the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) which is going on from April 25 to 29, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina.  SAWC is a leading educational forum for interdisciplinary wound care with an extremely diverse panel of speakers, and it is an honor to speak for this group. For the session on Thursday, April 26th at 10:45 AM I have the pleasure of sharing the podium with Karen Lou Kennedy-Evans who is the principal speaker.  Karen is a Family Nurse Practitioner who has decades of experience in the nursing home environment. Our topic is Woun...
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Belated Victory for Artists at 5Pointz
Three years ago I biked across the Queensboro Bridge to admire and photograph the spraypainted graffiti murals at the fabled location in Long Island City known as 5Pointz.  Painted on the walls of a 200,000 square foot factory building, 5Pointz had a reputation as the epicenter of the graffiti scene, and featured works by artist (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - December 1, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine Featured Art & Photography 5pointz art and medicine gentrification graffitti grafitti Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD streetart Source Type: blogs

A Sketch of My Nobel Prize Winning Professor
As an undergraduate ‘pre-med’ student at Brandeis University, my major was molecular biology.  I completed my senior thesis with a brilliant professor named Mike Rosbash who taught my genetics class.  After graduation, I stayed in his lab, taking a year off doing experiments while applying to medical school.  The work wasn’t glamorous – aside from (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - November 11, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine Featured Art & Photography art and medicine Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD medicine and art sketchbook Source Type: blogs

Talking About My Art Teachers
  In recent years I’ve devoted considerable time to developing my artistic skills.  To do this I’ve sought out teachers who inspire and help hone my ability to convey line, form, and emotion with pen, ink, and paint.  This post will present a few of those teachers who left a deep impression on me and (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - November 4, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M. Levine MD Tags: Art & Medicine City Diary Featured Art & Photography Source Type: blogs