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Debe Gash, vice president and chief information officer for Saint Luke’s Health System, has been named an IDG Computerworld 2011 Premier 100 IT Leader.

For her 35th birthday, Christina Faris gave herself a present that neither her husband nor her friends thought to give. Faris had her first mammogram. The cost of her $20 co-pay may have saved her life.

Plagued by seizures since childhood, Carol Salinas’ life had been a roller coaster. During her teens, Salinas often zoned out, hearing what was happening around her but not seeing. Doctors said she was hypoglycemic but never prescribed medication. Her condition worsened. By age 21, Salinas suffered her first grand mal seizure, blacking out and ending up in the hospital. Still, there was no official diagnosis.

Daniel Patterson had just about had it. For 11 years, the semi-retired cognitive engineer tried various hearing aids, but he struggled to find one that suited him just right.

Bill Zipf felt like he had the flu, he was so achy and weak. And winded—he could barely get a breath. But it was worse than flu.

Saint Luke’s cardiac transplant program – the only one of its kind in the region – set a new record in 2010 for transplants. On Dec. 27, Brenton Tiede, a 38-year-old father of three from the Wichita area, received the 43rd heart transplant in 2010 at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, the most ever performed in a single year at the center. This year, the program also celebrates its 25th anniversary of cardiac transplantation.

Oncologists at Saint Luke's Cancer Institute are experiencing great success treating lung cancer patients with an innovative treatment called Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT).

The new Women’s Center at Saint Luke’s Hospital opened in spring 2010 and recently received its finishing touch – a graceful new sculpture at the exterior entrance to welcome patients and visitors.

Kim Smolderen, M.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute who is supported by the American Heart Association Pharmaceutical Roundtable/Spina Outcomes Research Center, has been awarded a Veni-grant.