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Advance Planning a Must when Starting a New Medical Practice
As with any new business, the start up of a private medical practice takes a lot of planning that should begin months before the office opens. “Many physicians think starting a practice should happen automatically — you just get your license and walk into a practice,” said Gerry Kassouf, CPA, director of Healthcare Services Group of Kassouf & Co.
ANN B. DEBELLIS |
Agenta’s Drug Platform Poises Company for Future Growth
Dr. Arthur DeCarlo, president and science director of Agenta Biotechnologies, has seen enough clinical cases of bone degeneration in oral and periodontal cases to be aware of what an impact bone regeneration would have in restoring health to a multitude of patients.
CARA CLARK |
Alabama’s CON Laws Undergo Examination
Debate over Alabama’s certificate of need (CON) laws came to the forefront with the release of a recent study by the Alabama Policy Institute (API) that calls the laws “a bureaucratic hindrance to a dynamic 21st-century health system.”
Roy Cordato, vice president for research and a resident scholar with the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina, is author of the report, “Certificate of Need Laws: Why It’s Time for Repeal.”
ELLA ROBINSON |
Brookwood Pharmaceuticals Thrives in Birmingham after SurModics Buy-out
Small towns are great places to grow up, but they tend to nurture their young only until the fledglings fly the coop for exciting new places. Brookwood Pharmaceuticals, a company that supplies formulation technologies to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, is no such fledgling. After a $40 million buyout by SurModics, a Minnesota-based industry leader in polymer-based drug delivery, Brookwood is staying put in the community where its potential was first realized.
CARA CLARK |
Brookwood Pharmaceuticals’ Funding Model
The biotech industry is steadily growing worldwide, but the challenge business start-ups face, even those with the most innovative ideas, is having the funding to see the idea through from soup to nuts. It’s a pricey menu of research and development costs long before a venture faces the financially draining phases of clinical testing.
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Grand Rounds March
Trinity Medical Center Adds to Management Team
Trinity Medical Center Receives Performance Achievement Award
UAB Hospital CFO Named to National Chair Position
Children’s Hospital Earns National Recognition
Health Care Heroes Honored
Birmingham Heart Clinic Accredited by ICAEL
Mount Royal Towers Launches Senior Seminar Series
DCH Regional Medical Center Employees Awarded
Three Honored as UAB Emeritus Faculty
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Getting the children moving to the Electric Slide are (from left): Candi Cole, Marsha Folsom, First Lady Patsy Riley, |
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HEAL© Alabama Fights Childhood Obesity with Nutrition and Activity
When Christy Swaid, a former professional athlete and world champion in extreme sports, left her busy life in Los Angeles to move to Alabama with her physician husband, Dr. Swaid Swaid, she began looking for a meaningful way to use what she knew about exercise and healthy living.
ANN B. DEBELLIS |
Physician Spotlight: John F. Amos, OD
UAB School of Optometry Dean John F. Amos, OD, is one busy man. When he’s not overseeing the development of the School of Optometry, he’s likely to be pursuing his goals as president of the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO).
SUSAN ROBINSON |
Physicians Face “Perfect Storm” of Events in Retirement Planning
We all want to be able to retire and continue the same standard of living to which we have become accustomed during our working years. Physicians are no different, but because of issues that are unique to these healthcare professionals, starting retirement planning early is even more important for them.
ANN B. DEBELLIS |
Procris Targets Source with New Platform
When Italian chemist Ascanio Sobero discovered nitroglycerin, he could never have envisioned a promising future for an explosive chemical that left him badly scarred. Even when Alfred Nobel stabilized the glycerin compound and created a silica, dynamite, Sobero was convinced no good could come of it. Almost two centuries later, nitroglycerin is known for its pain relief properties.
CARA CLARK |
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