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Linda Cendales, MD; Mitchell Cox, MD; Gayathri Devi, PhD; Guido Ferrari, MD; Michael Lidsky, MD; Chandler Long, MD; Kevin Southerland, MD; Julie Thacker, MD; Brent Theiling, MD

Dan G. Blazer III, MD; Daniel Buckland, MD, PhD; Laura H. Rosenberger, MD

Krista L. Haines, MA, DO; E. Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH; Jeffrey R. Marcus, MD

Alexander C. Allori, MD; Joseph S. Fernandez-Moure, MD; Andrew C. Peterson, MD, MPH; Laura H. Rosenberger, MD; Jonathan C. Routh, MD, MPH​

Lola Fayanju, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, has been selected to serve on the Editorial Board for the Breast Oncology Section of the Annals of Surgical Oncology (ASO).

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Lidsky, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, for being selected to receive the Duke Strong Start Physician-Scientist Award.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked Duke Children’s Hospital among the top 50 children’s medical centers nationally and the only hospital in North Carolina with nine of 10 specialties ranked in the magazine’s analysis.

When Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH, is in the operating room performing surgery on a patient with breast cancer, she focuses all of her considerable experience, skill, and knowledge on the task at hand: giving this individual patient the best possible outcome. At the same time, she recognizes that every operation is an opportunity to learn just a little bit more about the disease she battles every day. Every patient and every procedure add to the store of knowledge that guides research and ultimately informs the advances that improve care.

How can a surgical program define and measure growth? The number of incoming patients? Surgical outcomes? Or is it the perioperative experience of the patient? For the section of hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology, program growth is considered secondary to their main goal: improving overall patient care.