More than 10,000 patients served since session opening connected UMass Chan field past year
By Pat Sargent
UMass Chan Medical School Communications
November 02, 2022
From L to R: Duane Gill; Kristin Mattocks, PhD, MPH; Sen. Edward Markey; Michael F. Collins; A.M. Barrett, MD; authorities Rep. David LeBoeuf; Mayor Joseph M. Petty; authorities Sen. Anne Gobi; and Terence R. Flotte, MD.
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey toured the Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient session connected the field of UMass Chan Medical School successful Worcester connected Tuesday.
The clinic, operated by the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, opened successful precocious 2021 and provides veterans with entree to superior and specialty wellness attraction successful a abstraction designed for patient-aligned attraction teams. Since it opened, the session has served much than 10,000 patients during much than 44,000 aesculapian visits.
“It’s a glorious concern betwixt the VA and UMass Chan, which has physicians and different unit moving unneurotic to supply attraction and helping the vets get overmuch better,” Markey said.
Markey was joined by Chancellor Michael F. Collins; Terence R. Flotte, MD, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor, enforcement lawman chancellor, provost and dean of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine; authorities Sen. Anne M. Gobi; Worcester Mayor Joseph M. Petty; and authorities Rep. David LeBoeuf.
Markey praised the efforts of the VA enactment team, including VA aesculapian manager Duane Gill; subordinate manager Jonathan Kerr; A.M. Barrett, MD, seat and prof of neurology astatine UMass Chan and main of the Neurology Service astatine the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System; and Kristin Mattocks, PhD, MPH, prof of colonisation & quantitative wellness sciences and subordinate dean for veterans affairs astatine UMass Chan.
“One of the things that we greatly payment from is the longstanding narration that aesculapian schools had with the portion with this team, and we felt that the veterans of Central Massachusetts could beryllium amended served by a person concern betwixt the Medical School and the VA,” said Chancellor Collins. “I deliberation present what’s happening is that radical person seen however good specified a concern tin work. And present the thought is this could beryllium expanded successful different places, which we’re delighted that it’s got the attraction that we thought it could.”
Markey besides met with Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, the Donna M. and Robert J. Manning Chair successful Neurosciences and prof of neurology, and Douglas Golenbock, MD, the Neil and Margery Blacklow Chair successful Infectious Diseases and Immunology and prof of medicine, touring labs successful the Department of Neurology.
Markey spoke with Dr. Brown and Dr. Golenbock astir Alzheimer’s and ALS probe and the interaction that NIH backing is having astatine UMass Chan.
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