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The U.S. News and World Report has ranked the Duke University School of Medicine 2nd in surgery among the best medical schools in the country. This 2nd place ranking is up considerably from the department’s 5th place ranking last year.

The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research has released its 2018 rankings of NIH funding for basic and clinical science departments, revealing that Duke Surgery ranks highest nationwide with more than $30 million in funding committed to research.

Please join the department in congratulating Laura Horst Rosenberger, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology, whose abstract has been accepted by the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) for presentation at the 72nd Annual Cancer Symposium. Dr. Rosenberger will present her abstract, “Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Node-Positive Breast Cancer: Are 10-Nodes Adequate and When is Enough, Enough?” during the Breast Parallel Session of the symposium. Abstracts were reviewed and accepted by a blind peer-review program committee.  

Photo: Dara Schoffner (Women of Spirit), Margie Scott (Cancer Survivor Support Ministry), Gayathri Devi (Duke), and Gwendolyn Villines (Women of Spirit)

Even well-insured women experienced financial toxicity associated with cancer care Even when they had good health insurance coverage, women with breast cancer reported having financial worries related to their care, and the vast majority said they preferred to know about treatment costs at the time of diagnosis. The findings from a study by Duke Cancer Institute researchers highlight the importance of considering medical costs as women face breast cancer treatment decisions.

Congratulations to Anjuli Gupta, MD, Breast Surgery Fellow, who will be presenting on "Breast Surgery: Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer" during the 2018 Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) Annual Conference. Dr. Gupta will be presenting during the Landmark Papers in Surgery Scientific Session, in which participants discuss not their own original research, but instead influential works in surgery that have been published in the last year. Dr. Gupta is mentored by Oluwadamilola Fayanju, MD, MA.

Dr. Nina Tamirisa, Fellow in Breast Surgical Oncology, has been awarded a Conquer Cancer Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH, Vice Chair of Research and Chief of Breast Surgery, has been accepted as a member of the 2018–2019 class of fellows in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program.

The Section of Breast Surgery in the Division of Advanced Oncologic and Gastrointestinal Surgery has 5 abstracts accepted for oral or poster presentation at the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) Annual Meeting next month in Chicago. The abstracts materialized from the Duke Breast Clinical Outcomes Meeting, a weekly meeting created by Dr.

For Rachel A. Greenup, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Advanced Oncologic and Gastrointestinal Surgery, understanding how the cost of treatment impacts women with breast cancer is paramount to her research. Dr. Greenup has been selected to present her latest research abstract, “The Financial Burden of Breast Cancer Treatment,” at the annual Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) meeting in October.