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Douglas Simon, President & CEO of D S Simon Productions vlogs with Ellen Beth Levitt, the Director of Public Affairs & Media Relations at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore at the PRSA Health Academy Conference in Chicago.

Some of Ellen Beth’s VlogViews:

Ellen Beth told Doug about how a man from Buffalo, N.Y. found an alternative to traditional heart bypass surgery by searching on the Internet. He discovered Ellen Beth’s video podcast with a surgeon who performs minimally invasive heart bypass surgery using a robot. The man decided that was what he needed and he booked a flight to Baltimore.

“With a Google search, he found our video with our heart surgeon who was doing minimally invasive heart bypass surgery using The DaVinci surgical robot. The interview showed him that there was another option to have bypass surgery with a much faster recovery compared to traditional heart bypass.”

“About the same time he was watching this interview, an email from Southwest Airlines popped up on his computer that advertised special $49 flights from Buffalo to Baltimore. He thought this was a sign–and he decided to book a flight.”

Here is the follow up video Ellen Beth’s colleagues at the University of Maryland Medical Center made with this patient, Ronald Bress, telling his story: http://www.umm.edu/videos/heart/pss_bress.htm.

UMM’s hospital Web site: www.umm.edu
UMM’s YouTube site: http://www.youtube.com/user/ummcvideos
UMM’shospital Blog site: http://medcenterblog.org/
UMM’s twitter site: http://twitter.com/ummc
UMM’s Facebook site: www.umm.edu/fb

PRSA Health Academy Conference Series:

Dr. Peter Salgo

Leigh Fazzina

Linda Donlin & Warren Harmon

Ellen Beth Levitt