After an extensive national search, Denver Health is pleased to announce that Dr. Edward P. Havranek has been selected as our new Director of Medicine, effective immediately.

Dr. Havranek has been with Denver Health since 1991, first as the director of the cardiac catheterization lab and then as Acting Chief of Cardiology from 1994-1998.  In his tenure at Denver Health, he has chaired various committees, served as a Medical Staff officer and has been the Director of Health Services Research since 2010. He has been the interim Director of Medicine since September 2015. 

Dr. Kathy Wells, a pediatrician at Denver Health and the medical director for the Family Crisis Center, was named to Governor Hickenlooper’s Task Force on the Collection and Security of Digital Images of Child Abuse or Neglect earlier this month. 

Denver Health Medical Center and the University of Colorado School of Medicine announced today that Mitchell Jay Cohen, MD, will join the hospital as the Director of Surgery and the School of Medicine as a professor in the Department of Surgery.

The Denver School-Based Health Center (SBHC) Program—sponsored by Denver Health—was recently awarded $1.26 million to support comprehensive and integrated health services for the 2016-2017 school year from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE).

'Don’t forget the “medical” in eating disorder patients'. International Journal of Eating Disorders.

ABSTRACT: Anorexia nervosa portends the highest mortality among psychiatric diseases, despite primarily being a disease of adolescents and younger adults. Although some of this mortality risk is attributable to suicide, many deaths are likely cardiovascular in etiology. Recent studies suggest that adverse myocardial structural changes occur in this condition, which could underlie the increased mortality.