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These are a few of the many reasons we are... St. Luke's University Health Network: Our doctors practice teach what they What our "University" status means to you: • Lessens the future impact of the physician shortage in our community by training future doctors • Brings the latest clinical research to the Lehigh Valley • Keeps the best and brightest physicians by making it easier for them to learn and practice without leaving their home community • Utilizes the latest technological breakthroughs for your patients • Brings major, city-based, university-level care to your patients so they don't have to travel • St. Luke's was the only area hospital named one of the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in the country. • More than 100 of our physicians teach at prestigious medical schools such as Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. • We educate more than 150 physicians in 20 fully accredited internship, residency and fellowship programs. • Neurosurgeon Steven Falowski, MD performed the first Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery and RestoreSensor Neurostimulator® implant surgery in the Lehigh Valley. • With the Temple University School of Medicine, St. Luke's has created the first and only regional medical school campus in the Lehigh Valley. • St. Luke's is the first and only cancer program in Pennsylvania to earn the American College of Surgeons' highest quality cancer award for three consecutive survey cycles. • St. Luke's is one a few hospitals in the country to offer Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), a catheter-based heart valve replacement for patients who are not candidates for conventional surgery. • Vascular surgeons James Balshi, MD and Jay Fisher, MD recently completed vascular surgery fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic. • St. Luke's was the first hospital in the nation to offer patients surgical guarantees on robotic procedures, and has the most experienced robotic surgery team in Pennsylvania. InfoLink: 1-866-STLUKES • www.sluhn.org • Each year, more than 1,000 students receive clinical instruction at St. Luke's, making it the largest community-based teaching hospital in the area. Annually we educate more students than any other similar institution.