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Who:
Bill Arnold, Chief Operating Officer, Monmouth Medical Center
Ty Olson, MD, Neurosurgeon and Co-Medical Director, Gamma Knife Center
Sang Sim, MD, Radiation Oncologist, Gamma Knife Center
What:
Monmouth Medical Center recently opened the Gamma Knife Center offering Leksell Gamma Knife, a high-tech non-invasive brain surgery tool, to treat conditions previously considered inaccessible or inoperable.
Monmouth Medical Center is the only hospital in Monmouth and Ocean Counties to offer Gamma Knife.
The Gamma Knife is not a knife, but a highly developed treatment system that directs multiple beams of gamma radiation, to converge, with pinpoint accuracy, on a targeted abnormality within the brain. The Gamma Knife’s precision makes it appropriate for both pediatric and adult patients. Supported by well-documented research, evaluation and clinical use, Gamma Knife surgery is ideal for treating deep-seated brain tumors, functional and neurological disorders and vascular malformations.
Photo Op:
Special Check Presentation by Skylar Steinberg, freshman student at St. John Vianney High School in Holmdel, New Jersey. Skylar helped raise money for the in support of cancer programs at Monmouth Medical Center. Skylar’s father passed away from brain cancer and she wanted to do something to help others with the disease. Skylar designed T-shirts and raised $1300 from the sales of the shirts. She will present the check to Monmouth Medical Center Administrators and Sumul Raval, MD, her father’s neuro-oncologist.
Where:
The Gamma Knife Center at Monmouth Medical Center, 300 Second Avenue, Long Branch, New Jersey
(Please note: Parking will be available in Lot B,(located just off 3rd Avenue and right after the Jacqueline M. Wilentz Breast Center)
When:
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 6 pm
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Dedication followed by reception
For further information, contact Carrie Cristello, Department of Public Relations at (732) 923-6552 or email at ccristello@barnabashealth.org.
May23, 2011
CONTACT: Carrie Cristello
(732) 923-6552
ccristello@barnabashealth.org
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