Friday, May 15, 2015 Two members of the Department of Surgery education team have recently been named officers to national organizations. Billie Ruden, surgical education program assistant, has been elected president of the Association of Vascular Surgery Coordinators, a division of the Association...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Thoracic surgeons at University of Iowa Heart and Vascular Center report achieving excellent outcomes for achalasia patients who have received an innovative therapy, the per-oral endoscopic myotomy, or POEM procedure. One of the most difficult to treat and rarest of the...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 A rise in the use of thymectomies for management of auto immune related thymic cancers has spurred an increase in the use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. “Thymoma and thymic cancer are usually identified...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Jay K. Bhama, MD , UI cardiac surgeon and surgical director of the UI Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, has successfully implanted several minimally invasive left ventricular assist devices, (LVADs) in advanced heart failure patients. Dr. Bhama was the first in the...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 In response to the increasing demand for less invasive surgical options, UI cardiac surgeons are expanding their minimal access treatment arsenal. In addition to performing robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with the daVinci® Surgical System, the UI...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Kalpaj Parekh, MBBS , associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery has recently been published in CHEST, the official publication of the American College of Chest Physicians. Parekh's contribution, " Starting a Lung Transplant Program: A Roadmap for Long-term Excellence ,"...
Monday, May 04, 2015 The trauma centers at UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Children's Hospital have been verified as Level I Trauma Centers by the Verification Review Committee (VRC), an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). This achievement...
Monday, May 04, 2015 Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBA , professor of surgical oncology and endocrine surgery has been selected to receive a 2015 Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. The award recognizes a tenured faculty member with a sustained record of excellence across the spectrum of teaching...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Imran Hassan, MD, FACS, FASCRS , clinical associate professor of surgery has been named the 2015 recipient of the Carol and Tom R. DeMeester Traveling Fellowship, presented by the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. The fellowship will support Hassan to travel to an...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015 Thomas Granchi, MD, MBA , medical director of the UI Hospitals and Clinics Burn Treatment Center and clinical associate professor of surgery has been named the Clara L. Smith Associate Professor of Burn Treatment. Clara Smith of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was a lifelong resident...