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Community advisory committee to help guide planning at Gibson Cancer Center welcomes Duke Fellows
Dr. A.J. Robinson Community Health and Wellness Center J J

As a member of the Duke Cancer Network, Southeastern Health’s Gibson Cancer
Front row, from left, are CHS Coalition and Taskforce Operations Center offers access to the latest cancer research and the most current training and
Assistant Shareen Lawson, SeHealth VP of Post Acute Care Services staff education. All of this adds up to an enhanced quality of cancer care, right here
Lori Dove, RHCC Substance Abuse Prevention Program Manager in Robeson County.
Latasha Murray, and RHCC VP Chief Behavioral Health Officer
Bart Grimes. Back row, from left, are Pastor T. Shedrick Byrd,
RHCC CEO Tim Hall, Lumberton Police Chief Michael McNeill, K Because of this strong affiliation, Gibson Cancer Center is proud to welcome two
& K Automotive Representative DeWayne Hunt, RCCCC Director Hematology-Oncology Fellows, Dr. Laura Musselwhite and Dr. Ko Ko Maung to
Andrew Collier, Lumberton Housing Authority Asset Manager its medical staff. Dr. Musselwhite completed her residency at Duke University and
Monica Troy and SeHealth Community Health Services Director
Lekisha Hammonds. is interested in global public health. She will continue her fellowship program until
2019. Dr. Maung completed his residency at Dartmouth University and is interested
A new advisory committee has been formed to help the future Dr. A.J. Robinson Community Health and Wellness in non-malignant hematology. He will continue his fellowship program until 2020.
Center better serve the community. In May, it was announced that Southeastern Health’s Dr. A.J. Robinson Medical Dr. Laura Musselwhite
Clinic would be reopening in partnership with Robeson Health Care Corporation and with the new name. The clinic The Duke Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program trains fellows to provide out-
at 800 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive closed after 2016’s Hurricane Matthew flooded the facility, but it thankfully did standing clinical training in all areas of hematology and medical oncology.
not flood after Hurricane Florence and is expected to reopen next year.
SeHealth President and CEO Joann Anderson said reopening the clinic will be an opportunity to start a revitalization The first year of the Hematology/Oncology training program develops fellows’ skills
of the community. and experience in the comprehensive care of cancer patients and in the diagnosis and
management of hematologic diseases. During their second and third years, fellows
“As RHCC and Southeastern Health leaders worked on the plan to reopen the clinical services in the community, we continue learning the scientific basis of hematology, hematopoiesis, and cancer patho-
realized it was not our place to define what the community could become after all the challenges it has faced,” genesis, diagnosis and management. SR
Anderson said. “We realized others have a stake in that community and have visions of what it can be. We want to be
a part of creating that vision, with the advisory committee. We look forward to working with the community to make All the Duke oncologists understand the special needs of cancer patients and their M By Roxana Ross
it the best it can be.”
families, and strive to translate clinical research findings into the most advanced ther-
RHCC CEO Tim Hall said he is excited to see the great things that he knows will come from the committee. apies. C The field of neonatal
therapy is relatively
“When we, in partnership with Southeastern Health, came up with the idea for the advisory committee, there was so Dr. Ko Ko Maung The Hematology/Oncology Fellows that are being trained at Duke are the cream of the NI new, and Southeastern
much energy and excitement about what this gathering of community leaders could do once they put their collective crop of the next generation of oncologists. All the fellows are highly experienced in Health’s Southeastern
heads together,” Hall said. “I believe that this committee will passionately drive efforts that will, both directly and research, motivated and accomplished and are seeking the best educational experience Regional Medical
indirectly, positively affect the health and wellbeing of the people living in the community.” CU Center is very proud to
for their Hematology/Oncology expertise. have two therapists
A recent meeting at the Robeson County Church and Community Center included several community leaders who off who can work in the
had gathered to hear updates on the clinic, give input and help plan the future of the facility, before and beyond when “Having these fellows come to Gibson Cancer Center to offer care in our community is fantastic for the caliber of care we highly specialized
it reopens next year. The current plan is for the clinic to initially offer primary care and behavioral health care. are able to give, but also speaks volumes for the quality this cancer center already offers,” said Dr. Linda Sutton, who is both ers environment of the

“You could feel the enthusiasm in the room,” said SeHealth Community Health Services Director Lekisha the Medical Director and a provider at Gibson Cancer Center. Neonatal Intensive
Hammonds. “We are very eager and excited to work hand in hand along with this group of very knowledgeable and rar Care Unit (NICU).
passionate people who are vested in the south Lumberton community.” At Gibson Cancer Center, both chemotherapy and radiotherapy are delivered through outstanding partnerships with Since 2016,
Southeastern Health, Duke Cancer Network and Southeastern Radiation Oncology. Please call GCC at (910) 671-5730 Occupational Therapist
Hammonds said the health administrators left the first meeting with homework to consider how to implement several with any questions you may have about treatment, the facility or the fellowship program. e and Inpatient Rehab
ideas the group brought up, as well as input for getting a few more community residents on the committee. Services Coordinator

SeHealth Vice President of Post Acute Care Services Lori Dove said the conversation at the meeting quickly moved ne Jyutika Zope and
past celebrating the reopening to planning how to bring needed services and hope back to the community. on Physical Therapist
William Hunt have
“There were many ideas brought forward to develop paths to serve the mental health, food insecurity and housing been working with
needs in the community,” Dove said. “It’s a diverse group that has joined together with a clear focus on how we can ata full-term and
meld our various backgrounds and talents into becoming one community, full of hope, and in the knowledge that we premature babies at
as a community can make a difference.” SRMC. Their work is
ek l aided by upgrades

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the unit, which can care

rap for babies born up to
10 weeks early.
work “Not a lot of therapists
in the y go into the NICU,”
highly Hunt said. “It requires
special
ized additional training and
enviro mentorship, and
nment because it’s so
of the specialized, it can be
hard to find people to
Neona mentor you in this
tal area. We conduct
Intensi evaluations, develop
ve treatment plans, and
SeHe Care as they gress to go
Unit
home, we integrate the
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clin Coordi in
nator
Jyutika clin
Zope
and
Physic
al
Thera
pist
Willia
m
Hunt
have
been
workin
g with
full-
term
and
premat
ure
babies
at
SRMC.
Their
work is
aided
by
upgrad
es
made
in
2017
to the
unit,
which
can
care
for
babies
born
up to
10
weeks
early.

“Not a
lot of
therapi
sts go
into
the
NICU,
” Hunt
said.
“It
require
s
additio
nal
trainin
g and
mentor
ship,
and
becaus
e it’s so
special
ized, it
can be
hard
to find
people
to
mentor
you in
this
area.
We
conduc
t
evalua
tions,
develo
p
treatm
ent
plans,
and as
they
progre
ss to go
home,
we
integra
te the
family
into
that
plan.”

Kayla
White,
of
Lumbe
rton, is
a nurse
at
SRMC
who is
also a
parent
of a
child
who
went
throug
h the
NICU.
Her
son,
Harris
on,
who
turns 1
this
weeken
d, was
born
six
weeks
early
but is
now
thrivin
g.