Hackensack Meridian’s Dr. Mary Sedarous wins ALS United Mid-Atlantic’s Flame of Hope Award

Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore College Medical Heart’s Mary Sedarous, M.D., medical director of the ALS Heart, was honored at ALS United Mid-Atlantic’s 2023 Annual Celebration with the group’s Flame of Hope Award, recognizing analysis and innovation.

Dr. Sedarous is just wonderful. She has that excellent mixture of being extraordinarily competent and clever, compassionate, and engaged together with her and the staff’s mission to look after these with ALS and their family members. Honoring Dr. Sedarous and the ALS Heart at Jersey Shore with the Flame of Hope Award was our distinct pleasure.”

Steve Spaulding, Director of Care Providers, ALS United Mid-Atlantic

ALS, also called Lou Gehrig’s Illness, is a progressive, debilitating illness that assaults nerve cells within the mind and spinal cord, leading to muscle weak spot and atrophy. ALS typically results in whole paralysis and loss of life inside two to 5 years of analysis.

In 2015, Dr. Sedarous and her staff created a multidisciplinary ALS remedy middle with an intention to supply high-quality care to people with the illness, in central and southern New Jersey. Since its launch, Dr. Sedarous has searched for tactics to innovate and broaden her look after sufferers, and the exploration of the situation.

“As a nationwide chief within the combat towards ALS, I am unable to think about a greater recipient of the Flame of Hope Award than Dr. Sedarous,” mentioned Alan Colicchio, M.D., chair of Neurology, Jersey Shore College Medical Heart and medical director, Neuroscience Care Transformation Service, Hackensack Meridian Health, Southern Market. “Her staff is furthering vital analysis associated to assistive expertise to optimize high quality of life for these with ALS, and was the primary middle in New Jersey to supply Relyvrio, an FDA-approved ALS remedy, when it was launched in 2022.”

Jersey Shore College Medical Heart’s ALS Heart collaborates with ALS United Mid-Atlantic, ALS Affiliation and the Northeast ALS consortium (NEALS), permitting the change of analysis and greatest care practices with the nation’s main ALS consultants and clinics.

“Dr. Sedarous is so deserving of the Flame of Hope Award, she and the ALS Heart staff proceed to pioneer scientific interventions and supply the newest medicines for his or her sufferers,” mentioned Kenneth N. Sable, M.D., MBA, FACEP, regional president, Southern Market, Hackensack Meridian Health. “She is exceedingly devoted to these sufferers and their households.”

The ALS Heart is one among solely two nationally Licensed Remedy Facilities of Excellence in New Jersey, as designated by the ALS Affiliation. The middle’s multidisciplinary staff supplies sufferers recognized with ALS with the distinctive, complete care they require.

“Dr. Sedarous and her staff have come to be thought to be prestigious leaders inside their subject and staunch supporters of the ALS neighborhood,” mentioned Vito Buccellato, MPA, LNHA, president and chief hospital government, Jersey Shore College Medical Heart (JSUMC). “I am extraordinarily happy with their work, offering hope to their sufferers with their large dedication to combating this lethal illness.”

People can view this video for extra details about the ALS Heart and Dr. Sedarous’ efforts; www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQjnywUKOP4.

The ALS Heart is supported by the Joan Dancy and PALS Basis, offering useful suggestions, schooling and in-service coaching to reinforce the care expertise. It’s situated within the Dr. Robert H. Harris Neuroscience Remedy Heart, house to specialists in quite a few neurological ailments and situations. They supply diagnostic, medical and surgical therapies at JSUMC for a number of sclerosis (MS), stroke, epilepsy and different motion problems, pediatric neurology, complications and migraines, sleep medication and neuro-oncology, amongst others.

Neuroscience providers additionally embody the Heart for Reminiscence and Wholesome Growing older, Heart for Paralysis and Reconstructive Nerve Surgical procedure, Heart for Superior Cranium Base Surgical procedure, the Craniofacial Heart, which is licensed as an American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Affiliation, and a Normal Neurosurgery Program, together with spine surgical procedure.