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Meet Ezequiel Parodi, MD, the New Vascular Surgeon Joining Surgery

September 5, 2019
Ezequiel Parodi, MD, is the new Associate Professor with Surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery. He sat down to discuss what inspired him to become a surgeon, why he chose to pursue academic medicine, and his work with complex aortic disease.

Surgery Summer 2019 Newsletter

August 29, 2019
Check out the Surgery Summer 2019 newsletter. It includes exciting insights and updates from May through July 2019 about the Department of Surgery. Some of the stories include the 4th Annual Nathan. A Womack Surgical Society Research Day and Graduation as well as highlights and awards and new...

Philip Spanheimer, MD, Talks About Joining Surgery as the Newsest Addition to the Breast Surgical Oncology Team

August 28, 2019
Philip Spanheimer, MD, joins the Department of Surgery as an Assistant Professor, in the Division of Surgical Oncology...

Resident receives Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award

August 12, 2019
Dr. Brittany Williams received a Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award at the 2019 ’s Whitehead Lecture and Awards ceremony on August 7...

Meet Our New Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Adeyemi “Yemi” Ogunleye, MD

August 8, 2019
Adeyemi Ogunleye, MD, joins the Department of Surgery as an Assistant Professor, in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery...

Luigi Pascarella, MD, Clerkship Director, Wins The Best Application Course Award

August 7, 2019
Luigi Pascarella, MD, Clerkship Director, along with Drs. Barnhouse and Klipstein won The Whitehead Medical Society of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine award for Best Application Phase Course Award. The award acknowledges and recognizes the Hospital, Interventional, and Surgical Care among the courses in the Application Phase...

Dr. Ikonomidis Receives a NIH R21 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

August 1, 2019
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ikonomidis for receiving a NIH R21 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for the project entitled, “Exploration of key proteases and validation of biomarkers in genetically triggered thoracic aortic aneurysms”, in the amount of $233,250 for the period 8/1/2019 to 7/31/2021.

First Patient Receives Surgery in -Led International Pivotal Trial for Repair of Thoracoabdominal and Pararenal Aortic Aneurysms

July 30, 2019
Mark Farber, MD, chief of vascular surgery at the , is the national principal investigator for the study and performed the trial’s first implant of the GORE® EXCLUDER® Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis, an investigational device, at Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC.