Breast Fellowship News

The Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) on the Breast Surgical Oncology Team have received a Presidential Award from Duke University President Vincent E. Price, one of the highest honors awarded to faculty and staff at Duke.

Ipshita Prakash, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Breast Surgery Oncology Fellow, has been selected to present her case topic at the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) Annual Meeting for the SSO Case Presentations with Fellows and Professors session.

Congratulations to Jennifer K. Plichta, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, on being appointed to the editorial board for Breast Cancer Research, one of the most widely read journals in breast cancer research and treatment.

Lola Fayanju, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, recently received a K08 award from the National Institutes of Health for her proposal "Using Modifiable Risk Factors to Predict Inferior Care and Survival After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Novel Approach to Addressing Health Disparities." With this grant, Dr. Fayanju and her team will develop a prediction model to identify women with mutable risk factors for compromised breast cancer care, providing a novel approach to addressing disparities in oncologic care.

But doctors seldom discuss financial differences between similarly effective treatments
 

Even among well-educated women with health insurance coverage, a significant proportion said the costs of cancer treatment influenced the type of surgery they chose for breast cancer treatment, a study led by the Duke Cancer Institute found.

The Department of Surgery held its 4th Annual Research Day April 17. The department holds this event annually to advance its mission of improving patient care through research and training the next generation of surgeon–scientists. The event recognizes the accomplishments of fellows, residents, and students engaged in clinical or basic and translational research through the department.

Three faculty members from the Duke Department of Surgery have received distinguished professorships from Duke University. Distinguished professorships are awarded to the most distinguished faculty who have demonstrated extraordinary scholarship in advancing science and improving human health.

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.

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.