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Better Leaders, Better Care: A Dissertation Milestone Worth Celebrating

This past spring marked an exciting academic milestone as Jeanne completed her Doctor of Education (EdD) degree at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. She also successfully defended her dissertation on, Enhancing Clinical Leadership Skills: Impact of Rehabilitation Professionals’ Leadership Development. Read Jeanne’s publication on The Leadership Challenge. Jeanne described the journey as […]

PATMDTA 4th Annual Grand Rounds & Academic Symposium – June 11, 2025

Welcome to our 2025 Academic Symposium e-publication. We truly appreciate your support as we showcase the incredible work of our many Teaching Academy scholars, and continue this work proudly carrying the name of Dr. Patricia A. Tietjen. Dr. Tietjen is remembered as a lifelong learner and teacher, committed to helping Nuvance thrive by leveraging our […]

Visual Thinking Workshop – Feb 11, 2025

The Teaching Academy was thrilled to host Alexa Miller, visual artist, health humanities educator, and pioneer in integrating Visual Thinking Strategies into medical training, for our first ever VTS Workshop! Miller has spent over 20 years helping clinicians sharpen their observation, communication, and diagnostic skills through the arts—championing the art of doctoring as essential to the future of medicine.

Nuvance Health expands liver, bile duct & pancreatic cancer care

DANBURY, NORWALK, Connecticut, March 8, 2021 — Dr. Ramanathan Seshadri has joined Nuvance Health and is seeing patients and performing surgeries at Danbury Hospital and Norwalk Hospital. Dr. Seshadri specializes in treating liver, bile duct and pancreatic cancer, and other complex hepatobiliary conditions. Dr. Seshadri has extensive abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary surgery experience using open, laparoscopic, and […]

Inaugural Grand Rounds of Northwell Health’s Patricia A. Tietjen, MD Teaching Academy.

Dr. Patricia Rivera, a leading expert in the field of pulmonary medicine, presents on Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening to an in-person and virtual audience on June 30, 2022 at Danbury Hospital’s Creasy Auditorium. John M. Murphy, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, provides warm opening remarks for the event, held on the birthday of […]