Winter 2016

Rebecca English, PT, DPT  Bringing Sense of Balance to the Peninsula as New Director of Tidewater Physical Therapy’s Denbigh Clinic Balance Center Program By Amanda Kerr, Freelance Writer, Consociate Media Technically speaking, balance is the even distribution of weight that enables someone or something to remain upright and steady. But in reality, in life, balance is … [Read more...] about Tidewater Physical Therapy, Inc

Honoring the Expanding Role of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Janine Brown’s career has been a series of firsts.  Her first job after completing her NP training in 1997 was at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where she was an outpatient heart transplant nurse practitioner – the first NP ever hired at Sentara in this role.  It wasn’t her first choice, she says … [Read more...] about Janine Brown MS, RN, CFNP

Recognizing physicians who are doing community service locally or outside the state or nation Physicians for Peace, the international non-profit organization founded by Charles E. Horton, Sr., MD, was officially incorporated in 1989.  Dedicated to delivering medical training and support to local healthcare teams across the developing world, Physicians for Peace has operated … [Read more...] about Charles E. Horton, JR., MD

Medical Director, EVMS/SNGH Sleep Disorders Center Dr. Robert Vorona likes to say he approached his career in sleep medicine backwards. After graduating with a degree in psychology at Duke in 1977, he earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1981. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and a pulmonary … [Read more...] about Robert D. Vorona, MD

The Sleep Center at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare By the time Soham Sheth was a high school student in Ahmedabad, India, he already knew he wanted to become a physician.  He had relatives who were doctors, and he had gone with them to volunteer at the Bhansali Trust in Radhanpur, one of the peripheral areas of the Gujarat state of India.  He worked with the Trust in some of … [Read more...] about Soham Sheth, MD, MPH