Hampton Roads Physician

A comprehensive publication for and about he local medical community

Fall 2016

C. Delp Givens, Jr., MD

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Pulmonary Medicine/Sleep Center Riverside Health System   Delp Givens says he was accident prone as a kid.  “From the time I was four or five, I was always in the hospital or the doctor’s office for one reason or other,” he says.  “I’d run into something, break a bone or get a cut and need stitches. I developed a fascination with human physiology.” Luckily, he … [Read more...] about C. Delp Givens, Jr., MD

Melhem A. Imad, MD

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Chesapeake Regional Healthcare Interventional Pulmonology Bayview Physicians, Pulmonary Medicine of Virginia Beach   Had it not been for the fact that English medical textbooks cost less than French ones, Dr. Melhem Imad might be practicing pulmonary medicine today in France rather than the United States. Growing up in the small town of Batroun in Lebanon, he had … [Read more...] about Melhem A. Imad, MD

Paul E. Marik, MD

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Professor of Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School On the wall of Dr. Paul Marik’s office in Hofheimer Hall is a beautifully illuminated and calligraphed rendition of the Hippocratic Oath, a gift to the graduating students of the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Medical school was a foregone … [Read more...] about Paul E. Marik, MD

Medical Update

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Accountable Care Organizations… and the next incarnation: MACRA/MIPS “There’s a lot changing in health care.”  “There are all kinds of ways to describe it.” “It’s complex.” “This is a very confusing time, and most providers don’t understand the complexities.” “It’s very complicated.” These are just some of the comments we heard as we began researching this … [Read more...] about Medical Update

The New Hope Center for Reproductive Medicine… the perfect marriage of compassion and technology

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By: Tori Brown, New Hope Center for Reproductive Medicine Marketing Coordinator/Physician Liaison   All through life we are taught to dream; to shoot for the stars and never give up on what we really, truly want in life. The hope that one day our dreams will become reality is what gets a lot of people through their day-to-day lives, and pushes them to keep going … [Read more...] about The New Hope Center for Reproductive Medicine… the perfect marriage of compassion and technology