Author: JENNIFER AMATO

By Fiola Sowemimo, MD   Several health disparities exist between African Americans and white Americans. Doctors are seeing diseases that you’d expect to see in older patients—heart disease, diabetes, stroke—in relatively young African Americans. While genetics may play a role in certain instances, socioeconomic factors have a significant impact on how African Americans are able…

Moustafa Shafey, MD, LFAPA, medical director of psychiatric services at CentraState Medical Center, has been awarded Distinguished Life Fellowship by The American Psychiatric Association (APA). Distinguished Fellowship is awarded to outstanding psychiatrists who have made significant contributions to the psychiatric profession in at least five of the following areas, including administration, teaching, scientific and scholarly publications,…

  CentraState Medical Center has named urogynocologist Martin P. Michalewski, MD, FACOG, the new medical director of its Urogynecology and Pelvic Medicine Program. Michalewski earned his medical degree from the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland, where he also trained and worked as an attending urogynecologist. Since his arrival to the United States in the early 1990s,…

  The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has recognized CentraState Medical Center for developing and sharing quality practices that optimize the care and outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndrome. CentraState was awarded ACC Chest Pain Center Accreditation in December 2018 based on a rigorous onsite evaluation of the staff’s ability to evaluate, diagnose and…

By Martin P. Michalewski, MD, FACOG, FPMRS Urinary incontinence—also known as bladder leakage—affects millions of women. While it becomes more prevalent as you age, it’s not a normal side effect of the aging process and you don’t have to accept its symptoms and live with it. The Basics of Bladder Leakage Most women begin to…