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Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski and U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo to visit Packard Children’s Hospital Monday (3)

For Release: July 31, 2009

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- How do broadband communications and new technologies play a role in the care of patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford? Can these tools help reduce health care costs? Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski and U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo  will find out during a two-hour tour and demonstration at the hospital Monday (3).
 
Highlights

• Pediatric surgeon Sanjeev Dutta, MD, will narrate video of a surgery in progress at Packard Children’s and discuss how broadband technologies provide surgical advancements in Packard’s new pediatric operating rooms, which are considered the most advanced on the West Coast.

• Daniel Murphy, MD, director of the pediatric cardiac clinical program, will discuss and demonstrate how transmitting echocardiograms via broadband from remote hospital locations can help us quickly determine the severity of a newborn’s heart condition.

• Darius Moshfeghi, MD, will present his Stanford University Network for Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (SUNDROP) network. SUNDROP utilizes fiber optic cameras to deliver remote screening of retinopathy of prematurity among preemies at locations such as Dominican Hospital, Washington Hospital, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and O'Connor Hospital.

Interviews and photos with Chairman Genachowski, Congresswoman Eshoo, Packard Children’s President-CEO Christopher Dawes, and hospital and physician leaders will be available.

 
WHEN:         
Monday, August 3, 2009, 10a-12n
 
WHO:
Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski
U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo
Hospital leaders, health IT innovators and entrepreneurs
 
WHERE:       
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto, CA (map)
 
About Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Ranked as one of the nation's best pediatric hospitals by U.S.News & World Report, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is a 312-bed hospital devoted to the care of children and expectant mothers. Providing pediatric and obstetric medical and surgical services and associated with the Stanford University School of Medicine, Packard Children's offers patients locally, regionally and nationally the full range of health care programs and services, from preventive and routine care to the diagnosis and treatment of serious illness and injury. For more information, visit www.lpch.org.

Media Contact

Robert Dicks
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