Lymflo Therapies

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Consulting Physicians

Dr. Yasmine Heater MD
Dr. Heater is very excited about her collaboration with Lymflo Therapies. She completed her Internal Medicine training at Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio. Her Lymphedema Mentor was Dr. Chester Plotkin who is director of the Lymphedema Center at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio-this was one of the first programs in the country.

Dr. Heater developed an interest in Lymphedema while working in the Division of Radiation Oncology in Akron. When the hospital initiated a Lymphedema Program to serve its patients, they asked her to become its Medical Director. The program was large with multiple Physical Therapists, PTAs, Occupational Therapists and OTAs. The program progressed such that both inpatient consultation and management as well as outpatient consultation and ongoing therapy was performed. The Lymphedema Program was also involved with postoperative joint inpatient management and the wound care center. The program had a large monthly support group and was fortunate to have an onsite unused dormitory where patients could come from far distances and reside as daily therapy was performed.

As an Internist, Dr. Heater has a solo private practice in Nashville, NC. Her special medicine interests, in addition to lymphedema, include: sleep disorders, hypertension, diabetes and lipid disorders.

Though she never had the opportunity to meet Lymflo's former physician consultant, Dr. Carol Kirschenbaum, Dr. Heater shares the same philosophy and looks forward to carrying on her passion and commitment to the patients.