Sarah Ludwig Rausch

Most military kids move from base to base. Natalia Findley didn’t. Her father’s work in missiles kept the family in Knob Noster, Missouri, near Whiteman Air Force Base — the place she would spend her entire childhood.
“It’s rare in the military to stay in one school district,” she says. “But there weren’t many missile bases that my dad could be stationed at for his particular variant.” Whiteman would later become even more special — it’s where she met her husband, then on active duty.

Walking home from school one day in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley town of Staunton, VA, 12-year-old Colin “Pappy” Boynton heard a loud noise. Looking up, he saw a Navy F-4 Phantom jet flying right above him at low altitude. “I remember time seemed to freeze for a moment as I looked up, and I could see the back seater looking down at me. Then, the entire world turned into thunder as they went by,” Pappy recalls. “I decided then and there that’s what I wanted to do.”

As a self-proclaimed Air Force brat, Erik “Burns” Hess can’t remember ever wanting to do anything but fly. “It’s funny because I never really associated it with the fact that my dad was an instructor pilot in the Air Force,” Burns says.

As the youngest of four boys growing up mostly in Texas, Bryan “Cinco” Simpson had what he describes as a “relatively standard” childhood. “We were not a military family, but my dad was in the oil business, so we did move around a lot,” he says.

As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, Molly Wimbiscus, MD, has had an interest in education since before medical school. She was even part of a group of families that started a charter school in Cleveland years ago. That venture required heavy involvement in the governance and operations of the school, which only deepened Dr. Wimbiscus’ enthusiasm for the educational realm.

Losartan, an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) II receptor antagonist, is one of the most commonly used oral medications for hypertension. It’s also known to inhibit transforming growth factor (TGF) beta signaling, a process behind the development of corneal myofibroblasts, the main cause of severe, persistent corneal scarring after infection, injury or refractive surgery.

Peyronie’s disease comes in a wide variety of forms. Most men present for evaluation of a penile curvature, but there are other related characteristics as well, such as loss of length, loss of girth, and, in some men, erectile dysfunction. “It affects one in 10 men at some point in their life, so it’s quite common, although most cases probably go undiagnosed,” says Petar Bajic, MD.

Patients with renal disease routinely receive dialysis treatments in Fairview Hospital’s five-bed dialysis unit between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. After hours, providers can request the aid of an on-call dialysis nurse when managing a patient with more emergent needs.

The prevalence of myopia, the most common refractive error, is rising quickly. Often first detected in children between ages 8 and 12, myopia is predicted to affect 50% of the global population by 2050. Ten percent of that group is anticipated to have high myopia, which increases the risk of cataracts, retinal damage and glaucoma. That risk rises as the patient ages.

Psoriasis is the second most common chronic pediatric skin disorder, affecting around 1% of children, according to Laura Nedorezov, MD, a pediatric rheumatologist at Cleveland Clinic.

Cleveland Clinic Children’s has been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for a three-year fellowship in pediatric rheumatology. The new program is funded through Cleveland Clinic Children’s with the support of a workforce expansion grant from the Rheumatology Research Foundation.

With the U.S. presidential election looming, the political divisiveness facing the nation is at an all-time high. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to prevent political discussions from spilling over into the workplace, and physical security teams are no exception.

Twenty years ago, few patients presented for cataract surgery after corneal refractive surgery. “Now, we typically have two or three of these patients per week on our surgery schedule,” says J. Bradley Randleman, MD, a cornea and refractive surgery specialist at Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute.