FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 25, 2007
Contact: Ellen Beth Levitt eblevitt@umm.edu 410-328-8919

STAFF AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER AND KERNAN HOSPITAL EAGERLY AWAIT CBS SPECIAL ON KIMBERLY DOZIER

CBS correspondent had two surgeries and extensive rehabilitation in Baltimore

Doctors, nurses, therapists and other health care professionals at two Baltimore hospitals--the University of Maryland Medical Center and Kernan Hospital, are eagerly awaiting the special CBS program, Flashpoint: A War Chronicle. The prime-time special program, which is scheduled to air at 10 p.m. on May 29, will tell the story of CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier's year-long journey to recover from multiple critical injuries from a car bomb blast in Iraq.

After the bomb blast on May 29, 2006, Dozier was flown to a specialty hospital in Balad, Iraq. She was then transferred to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany and later went to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. After her discharge from Bethesda, she chose to have further care in Baltimore at the two hospitals, which are both part of the University of Maryland Medical System.

Dozier spent two weeks at Kernan Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital last July to help her regain her ability to walk. In February, she had two operations at the University of Maryland Medical Center—one to create a new eardrum to restore hearing in one ear and another operation to remove an outgrowth of bone in her leg that resulted from the blast injuries.

Andrew Pollak, MD, the chief of orthopaedic trauma surgery at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, part of the University of Maryland Medical Center, operated on Dozier’s leg. That same day, David Eisenman, MD, an otorhinolaryngologist/ head and neck surgeon who specializes in ear surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center, performed delicate surgery on Dozier’s ear drum. Both Dr. Pollak and Dr. Eisenman are on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dozier continues to have physical therapy with Rebecca Shakespeare of Kernan Physical Therapy in Timonium, Md.

Many staff members at the University of Maryland Medical Center and at Kernan Hospital said that they were very impressed with Dozier’s extraordinary determination to rapidly recover from her injuries and the phenomenal progress she has made. A CBS TV crew spent many hours with Dozier at both hospitals, videotaping her as she underwent physical therapy, pre-surgical testing and imaging, and surgery, so the video could be used in her prime time special with Katie Couric on May 29.

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