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Your Guide to the Health System at Briarwood

Sure, you can get the latest summer fashions at Briarwood mall, but here at the Health System we’re excited about Briarwood for a different reason. The Briarwood buildings surrounding the mall offer a wide range of health services and clinics, from audiology to Integrative Medicine to Speech. Take our tour of what Briarwood has to offer … and you don’t even have to try on bathing suits.

Briarwood 1Casey Stach, M.A., audiologist, performs
an audiometric assessment in one of two
soundproof booths used by the Briarwood
Hearing Rehabilitation and Cochlear
Implant Program clinics.

 

Hearing Rehabilitation Center
Cochlear Implant Program
Audiology
Center for Reproductive Medicine

“Our program is one of the largest in the country; we’ve implanted more than 1,400 [cochlear implant] devices in adults and children. Being deaf isn’t just a personal issue, it’s a family issue. We work closely with the family to involve parents, audiologists, patients and doctors—an entire team to help educate and support the family.”

— TERRY ZWOLAN, PH.D., CCC-A, DIRECTOR, COCHLEAR IMPLANT PROGRAM

 

Briarwood 1Technician Deborah Horn performs an
echocardiogram at the Center for Cardiology
and Diabetes at Briarwood. Clinicians at the Center
also perform stress tests and offer nutritional
counseling to cardiac patients.

 

Center for Cardiology & Diabetes

Internal Medicine

“Health System cardiologists at Briarwood see patients with suspected acute or chronic cardiovascular disorders and work closely with other specialists within the medical group to treat diabetic patients who are at high risk or have cardiovascular disease.”

— WILLIAM F. ARMSTRONG, M.D., DIRECTOR, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY LABORATORY

 

 

Briarwood 1David Marzano, M.D., consults with a patient and
her daughter during a routine prenatal checkup
at the Briarwood Medical Group.

 

Briarwood Medical Group
General Medicine
Obstetrics & Gynecology
MLabs

“Our obstetricians believe in a family-centered approach to care. we specialize in women’s health care and offer general and preventive medicine, routine gynecological exams, premarital exams, pregnancy and childbirth care, and family planning, menopause and perimenopause counseling.”

— DAVID MARZANO, M.D., DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY.

Briarwood 1Occupational therapist Anne Chadwick works with
a patient on the “Tricky Tree” to help improve his
fine motor skills.

 

Medrehab
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Speech
Neurorehabilitation

“We offer innovative clinical programs designed to help individuals with disabilities become healthier, stronger and more independent.”

— EDWARD A. HURVITZ, M.D., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

 

Briarwood 1

 

General Pediatrics

Internal medicine Specialists

Pediatric Specialists

Ophthalmology

“The comprehensive ophthalmology clinic at Briarwood provides refractive, medical and surgical care for all types of conditions of the eye and surrounding structures, whether routine, urgent or emergent. this service also provides the basic evaluation for patients who may require subspecialty ophthalmological care or other services of the Kellogg Eye Center.”

— REBECCA WU, M.D. , DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCES

Briarwood 1Radiologic technologist Lyn C. Hansen
reviews a patient’s chest X-ray. The clinic
also offers scheduled ultrasound services
and screening mammography, as well as
walkin X-rays.

 

Radiology

“Radiology at Building 9 supports outpatient services for the Health System. imaging services at the site include general imaging, ultrasound and breast imaging.”

— GERI WILL, M.D., DIRECTOR OF RADIOLOGY CLINICAL OPERATIONS

 

 

 

 

 

Briarwood 1Andrew H. Heyman, M.D.,
M.H.S.A., performs
acupuncture. U-M Integrative
Medicine often serves as a
bridge between
complementary/alternative
and conventional medicines.

 

Briarwood Family Medicine
Family Medicine
Integrative Medicine
MLabs

“As a healing-oriented approach to medical care, integrative family medicine takes into account the whole person—body, mind, spirit and emotion—including all aspects of lifestyle.”

— SARA L. WARBER, M.D., CO-DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

 

 

 

 

 

 


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