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Curious what the inside of our new Mobile Stroke Unit looks like?! Take a look inside! 👀 Since early May, we've been operating two Mobile Stroke Units, bringing specialized stroke care directly to patients when every minute matters.

As artificial intelligence rapidly changes healthcare, we are joining with partners across the healthcare ecosystem to give health systems and technology companies practical tools for responsible AI deployment. University of Rochester Medicine is joining Operationalizing AI Governance in Healthcare, a new initiative led by the Connected Health Collaborative Community at the Digital Medicine Society. It is a movement to building practical, responsible approaches for how AI is evaluated, implemented and governed across real-world care environments. We look forward to contributing our experience, learning alongside others and bringing those insights back to our teams as we continue building the future of healthcare.

A full-circle moment in the Cath Lab. 💙 After 28 years of saving lives at Strong Memorial Hospital, interventional cardiologist Christopher Cove, MD, is scaling back his duties and recently performed his final case in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab. The moment was even more special because he was able to share it with his son Alexander Cove, MD, a new Cardiology fellow, who scrubbed in for the procedure. “It was an ideal way to step away from a big part of my career, and I’m glad to be handing it down to the next generation,” said the proud father!

Our nurses have been making an impact for a century...one that's impossible to capture in just a few words. Hear from three retired Strong nurses about the lessons they learned and what made being part of Strong so special. 💙🩺 Nursing Careers: https://urmed.info/nursing

It’s like Google Maps, but for the brain 🧠 📍 Our Translational Brain Mapping Program uses advanced MRI and MindTrace technologies to identify critical areas of the brain before surgery. These innovations are driving meaningful impact for surgeons across the nation!

For 100 years, URochester Medicine scientific breakthroughs have been shaping the future of healthcare. In the 1990s, cardiologist Dr. Arthur J. Moss led groundbreaking research demonstrating that implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) prevent sudden death in high-risk heart patients. Since then, hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved worldwide from ICDs. https://lnkd.in/dt7YmGuc

The connection between walking and brain health keeps getting more interesting. 🧠 👣 A new study found that adults in their 80s who maintained a faster walking pace were less likely to experience cognitive decline. And our researchers have found walking reveals super-agers (AKA people whose brains appear to stay younger than expected). While the studies ask different questions, both are helping us understand the relationship between movement and healthy brain aging: https://urmed.info/4p8aKMS

Getting gene therapies to the brain has long been one of the biggest challenges in treating neurological disease. The blood-brain barrier blocks many therapies, and those that do reach the brain often affect cells and organs they weren't intended to target.   Researchers at University of Rochester Medicine have developed a new approach that could help change that.   Led by Steve Goldman, MD, PhD, the team combined engineered gene therapy vectors with the brain's own glymphatic transport system to deliver therapeutic genes broadly throughout the brain while preferentially targeting human glial cells—the support cells increasingly recognized as key players in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, and age-related white matter disorders.   The work builds on decades of pioneering research at URochester Medicine into glial biology and the glymphatic system, offering a promising new platform for developing safer, more effective gene therapies for neurological disease. Newsroom article: https://lnkd.in/eu7AMCtY Study link: https://lnkd.in/eC8CvTGC #URochesterResearch