{"id":6413,"date":"2019-11-12T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T00:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2019-11-12T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T00:34:09","slug":"improving-the-lives-of-patients-inside-and-outside-the-icu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/2019\/11\/12\/improving-the-lives-of-patients-inside-and-outside-the-icu\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving the Lives of Patients, Inside and Outside the ICU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/neurology\/files\/2018\/07\/Ong-Charlene-184x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" class=\"wp-image-4678 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/files\/2018\/07\/Ong-Charlene-184x184.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/files\/2018\/07\/Ong-Charlene-184x184-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/files\/2018\/07\/Ong-Charlene-184x184-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/>Our own Dr Charlene Ong was recently featured prominently in Bostonia Magazine. Dr. Ong is on a mission\u00a0<span>to improve how doctors, like herself, detect life-threatening brain swelling that can occur after a head injury or stroke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI feel like I\u2019m always working toward improving the lives of my sick patients, whether I\u2019m in the ICU or doing research,\u201d says Ong, a School of Medicine assistant professor of neurology and a neurocritical care physician at Boston Medical Center. Ong is working to create personalized health assessments for high-risk patients using both meticulously collected data and a variety of machine-learning tools. She came to BU in July 2018, and that fall, she was awarded a Peter Paul Career Development Professorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2019\/campaign-for-boston-university-impact\/#ong\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Dr Charlene Ong was recently featured prominently in Bostonia Magazine. Dr. Ong is on a mission\u00a0to improve how doctors, like herself, detect life-threatening brain swelling that can occur after a head injury or stroke. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m always working toward improving the lives of my sick patients, whether I\u2019m in the ICU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":935,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2785],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/neurology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}