HJBR Mar-Apr 2019

58 MAR / APR 2019  I  Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge   Hospital Rounds from the comfort of their homes to the provider via the cloud. These transmissions allow providers to monitor their patients proactively for both rou- tine device follow-up and alerts regarding device issues or clinical events, like atrial fibrillation and other indicators of heart failure. The GHS pat- ent-pending platform aggregates cardiac device data from all major device manufacturers’ remote monitoring portal, in-office checks, and ER visits. The GHS remote monitoring service helps pro- viders manage the incoming data in an outpa- tient setting. “We are honored to be selected by Ochsner to deliver a high caliber remote monitoring service to their patients and help become an extension of Ochsner’s hardworking device clinic team,” said Yuri Sudhakar, CEO of GHS. “The data deluge from these devices can overwhelm cardiac prac- tices, physicians, and staff. With our platform and service, cardiology practices can focus on their patients, not data management.” GHS’s service and platform is being used in more than 60 cardiology practices nation- wide, improving workflow for physicians and staff, increasing patient compliance, identifying issues about patient’s devices or critical cardiac condi- tions in advance, and helping reduce costs from hospitalizations. Dr. Trey Dunbar Named President of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health Trey Dunbar, MD, has been named president of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health, Louisiana’s largest provider of pediatric services. “Dr. Dunbar is a well-respected physician throughout Louisi- ana whose extensive experience in pediatric care is a perfect fit for Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health,” said K. Scott Wester, president and CEO of Our Lady of the Lake. “I look forward to work- ing with him as we continue to grow our state- wide network of pediatric care and open our new freestanding children’s hospital in October 2019.” Dunbar’s responsibility will be to build an iconic care system for children across Louisiana and the surrounding region. His duties will include over- seeing the strategic and operational leadership of the children’s hospital and the regional strat- egy for children’s health across the Franciscan Mis- sionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS). “I am excited by what the future holds for chil- dren’s health across our region as we build Louisi- ana’s children’s hospital and strengthen the state- wide network of pediatric care,” said Dunbar. “I am humbled to accept this position and look for- ward to working with the sisters and their incredi- ble team to make Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health the preferred destination for exceptional pediatric care.” Dunbar has been a practicing neonatologist in Louisiana since 2001 and was the pediatric resi- dency program director at Our Lady of the Lake from 2011 to 2016. His extensive resume includes serving as the Elsie Schaefer Chair and section chief of neonatology as well the vice chair for patient safety and quality in the Department of Pediatrics at Tulane School of Medicine. He cur- rently serves as the chief medical officer for Tulane Health System. “Dr. Dunbar is a terrific leader, physician, and teacher. His true north is caring for people and growing gifted teams,” said Dr. William Lunn, president and CEO of Tulane Health System. “Dr. Dunbar has truly helped Tulane Health System live up to our mission of providing world-class patient care, education, and research.”  A 1994 graduate of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Dunbar is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in general pediat- rics and in neonatal-perinatal medicine. He com- pleted a pediatrics residency at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in 1997 and com- pleted a neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 2000. In 2007, Dun- bar graduated from the Louisiana State University Ourso College of Business with a Masters of Busi- ness Administration.  State’s First Endovascular Procedure for Dialysis Patients Performed at Baton Rouge General Vascular surgeon Dr. Joseph Griffin was the first physician in Louisiana, and the second in the country, to perform a new endovascular proce- dure for patients with chronic kidney disease. Per- formed at Baton Rouge General, the procedure gives surgeons a minimally invasive way to cre- ate access to the bloodstream, which is critical for dialysis treatment.