Practicing to Practice
Though clean-cut and scholarly in bearing, James Gordon, MD, MPA, is an agitator of sorts. As director of the MGH Learning Laboratory, the veteran emergency-medicine physician is in the forefront of an effort to fundamentally change the way medicine is practiced and taught at Massachusetts General Hospital, an institution mindful of its reputation for world-class care and education.
Designed for Change
When Massachusetts General Hospital’s new Lunder Building opens in a few weeks, one of its most advanced features will be a fourth-floor surgical suite with a powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device mounted on a ceiling track. The movable MRI will allow surgeons in two operating rooms to perform delicate procedures, such as the removal of brain tumors, with unprecedented accuracy, safety and efficiency.
Smart Tech Revolution
In the rapidly evolving field of medical technology, breakthrough therapies and surgical techniques make headlines. Medical devices such as artificial heart valves and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment are marvels of the modern era, making it possible for clinicians to diagnose and treat disease or injury more effectively than ever before.
Mass General celebrates its bicentennial and makes ready for 21st-century health care with the Building for the Third Century of MGH Medicine
The expansion of Mass General facilities will serve to extend the hospital’s exceptional care to many more patients in need. The new Sumner M. Redstone Department of Emergency Medicine, a cutting-edge Surgical Center, the expanded James M. and Ruth P. Clark Center for Radiation Oncology and the five-floor W. Gerald Austen, MD, Inpatient Pavilion for medical oncology, neurology and neurosurgery will comprise the visionary, 14-floor facility.
