News & Recognition

Last month, the Duke Department of Surgery was honored to host Dr. Patricia Turner, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, as a guest Grand Rounds speaker. Dr. Turner’s Grand Rounds talk focused on leadership for surgeons, including strategies to incorporate different models of leadership that play to individual strengths.Read more

The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract ( SSAT ) elected Ranjan Sudan, MD , Vice Chair of Education and Professor, Division of Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery, to serve on the Board of Trustees May 2017–2020. The SSAT is passionate about improving the treatment of digestive diseases...Read more

The Duke and UNC Chapters of the Association of Women Surgeons held the inaugural Southeast Exchange Conference on September 22, 2018, at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Melinda Kibbe, Chair of UNC Department of Surgery. Eighty attendees at various...Read more

Congratulations to Wei Phin Tan, MD , Urologic Oncology Fellow, for receiving a T32 training grant from the National Institutes of Health. Under the mentorship of Associate Professor of Surgery Brant Inman, MD, MS , Dr. Tan is currently conducting research in two major areas. The first project...Read more

The prevalence of kidney stones has steadily increased in the United States. According to the National Kidney Foundation, more than half a million people go to the emergency room each year for kidney stone problems, a number that has increased threefold in the last 30 years. The most common type of...Read more

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...Read more

Smartphone technology could predict how well chronic wounds will heal More than 6.5 million Americans with diabetes are affected by foot ulcers, which are the leading cause of lower extremity amputation. Of those patients who develop a foot ulcer, 6% will be hospitalized and approximately 14–24%...Read more