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Lawton Committed to Promoting Awareness of Heart Disease in Women 
April 2, 2009 

Dr. Litle's "Thoracoscopic (VATS) Enucleation of a Proximal Esophageal Leiomyoma" Makes CTSNet Video of the Month
By Virginia R. Litle, MD, Scott J. Swanson, MD, Todd Scott Weiser, MD and Jaime Yun, MD
Minimally invasive VATS enucleation of a proximal esophageal leiomyoma is a safe approach to treat this unusual benign esophageal tumor.

Research Grant Awarded to Yolonda Colson, MD

Yolonda Colson, MD, director of the Women's Lung Surgery Program in Thoracic Surgery, and Utkan Demirci, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the Renal Division and the HST-BWH Center for Bioengineering in the Department of Medicine, were individually awarded a $500,000 grant from The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT). Dr. Colson will use the grant to study treatment using nanotechnology in metastatic breast cancer. Dr. Demirci will be developing technology for monitoring HIV in resource-limited settings such as medical facilities in emerging countries. CIMIT provided this grant as part of their initiative to sponsor 26 Massachusetts research teams in early-stage projects that are focused on blood infections, HIV and breast cancer.