2011 Annual Report - Summa Health System

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<strong>Summa</strong> will maintain a leadership position for the education of, and research by, physicians and other health professionals. W e ’ r e u n l o c k i n g m e d i c a l m y s t e r i e s 8
“The orchestra is in place, but there is Through clinical trials and extensive no conductor.” research, Dr. Penn and his associates set out to find that conductor and a decade Ten years ago, Marc Penn, M.D., later, they identified one known as Ph.D., FACC, renowned cardiologist, SDF1 and completed the director of research at <strong>Summa</strong> first clinical trial studying Cardiovascular Institute and professor its effects in patients with of medicine and integrative medical heart failure. He and his sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical team conducted further University (NEOMED) and his team research to determine how of researchers hypothesized the human that conductor can repair body tries to repair itself with stem the damage caused by f o r o u r p h y s i c i a n s a n d p a t i e n t s . cells when it’s injured. The challenge myocardial infarction and minimize or is that it is clinically inefficient. Many eradicate the long-term effects of heart in the medical community argued the failure for patients who may live with inefficiency was due to a lack of stem this condition for many years. cells. Dr. Penn argued it was clinically inefficient because the body lacked the The type of research Dr. Penn and signals that trigger stem cells to start his team are conducting is known as the healing process – thus the analogy regenerative medicine, broadly defined of an orchestra (the stem cells) with no as medical therapies that enable the conductor (the trigger). body to repair, replace and/or restore damaged or diseased cells, tissues and organs. He and his colleagues are undertaking a number of studies to determine if and/or how the heart can heal after a major acute incident such as a myocardial infarction. They also are adding to the body of work that addresses the issues of chronic disease management for cardiac conditions. “Medicine has become very good at treating acute diseases,” said Dr. Penn. “The 30-day mortality rate for an acute heart attack dropped from about 15 percent 20 years ago to under five percent. The good news is people live. The challenge is they live to have more heart attacks and chronic heart failure. Medicine has transitioned from acute illness to chronic disease management. Heart failure is burgeoning because patients survive those acute incidents and now have weak or damaged hearts for the rest of their lives. The goal of 9
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