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Congratulations Audrey Khoury, MD, CT Surgery Resident, Class of 2000 Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient

August 10, 2020
Audrey Khoury, MD, CT Surgery Resident, has been selected by the Class of 2021 as this year’s Surgery Intern recipient of The Class of 2000 Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award. This award honors the interns and residents deemed by the third year class to be the most outstanding in each...

Hayes-Jordan Elected to American Pediatric Surgical Association Board of Directors

August 4, 2020
Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD, Byah Thomason Doxey-Sanford Doxey Distinguished Professor, Chief of the division of general pediatric surgery, has been elected a governor of the board of directors for the American Pediatric Surgical Association. Originally posted in ºÚÁÏÍø Health and ºÚÁÏÍø Newsroom Contact: Carleigh Gabryel, 919-864-0580, carleigh.gabryel@unchealth.unc.edu August 4,...

Shunjay Patel Talks About Joining ºÚÁÏÍø Surgery as the Newest Addition to the Podiatry Team

July 17, 2020
Shrunjay Patel, DPM, AACFAS, joins the ºÚÁÏÍø Department of Surgery as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery. He sat down to discuss what inspired him to become a podiatric surgeon, his goals while at ºÚÁÏÍø Surgery, and letting go of his dreams of one day being a...

ºÚÁÏÍø Medical Center’s ECMO Program Wins Gold ELSO Award

July 15, 2020
The ELSO Excellence in Life Support Award recognizes those centers that demonstrate an exceptional commitment to evidence-based processes and quality measures, staff training and continuing education, patient satisfaction and ongoing clinical care. ºÚÁÏÍø’s ECMO Director is Anthony Charles, MD, MPH. Congratulations to the ECMO program at ºÚÁÏÍø Medical Center. It...

Philip Spanheimer, MD Wins SUS Junior Faculty Award

July 10, 2020
Congratulations to Philip Spanheimer, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Spanheimer has been selected for the 2020-2021 SUS Junior Faculty Award, sponsored by the SUS Foundation, for his research project titled “TFAP2C Regulates Estrogen Responsive Transcriptomic States in Luminal Breast Cancer!” The Society of...

Customized Stent-Graft to Treat Aortic Aneurysm Saved the Life of Former ºÚÁÏÍø Professor Harvey Jeffries

June 24, 2020
Who is Harvey Jeffries? A former professor in the ºÚÁÏÍø Gilling’s School of Public Health, Harvey Jeffries is no stranger to the ºÚÁÏÍø system. Born in Virginia, raised on a small farm in Fayetteville, Harvey spent his childhood days exploring the woods around his home, collecting specimens, and cataloging them...

Community pulls together for mask donations

June 12, 2020
Motivated by the increasing incidence of COVID-19 cases in North Carolina and the CDC's modified recommendation for individuals to wear protective face coverings, Dr. Kathleen Marulanda (PGY-5, Dept. of Surgery) quickly acknowledged the challenge this would pose for some in the community, particularly African American men.

Meet Our New Congenital Cardiac Surgeon Sandeep Sainathan, MD

June 9, 2020
Sandeep Sainathan, MD, joins ºÚÁÏÍø Surgery as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. He sat down to discuss what inspired him to become a surgeon, why he chose to focus on the heart, and what brought him to ºÚÁÏÍø Surgery. Dr. Sainathan received his medical degree from...