Highlights from 2024
The Duke Department of Surgery is proud to reflect on another year full of thrilling advancements, successes, and accomplishments by all of our teams. Our department's commitment to exemplary patient care, education, and research has resulted in growth like never before. And with new infrastructural investments that support groundbreaking innovation and equity, diversity, and inclusion, our teams of faculty, staff, trainees are reaffirming our commitment to being better tomorrow than we are today, in all facets of our mission.
Indeed, it is this multi-faceted approach to surgical care that uniquely elevates Duke Surgery--we recognize that effectively and thoughtfully caring for all of our patients extends well beyond surgical technique, and that interdisciplinary collaborations are our superpower.
Here, we take a look into how our department has implemented this philosophy in four key areas over the past year: expanding options for transplant patients; addressing peri-operative factors to improve patient outcomes; building better surgeons inside and out of the OR; and strategically investigating how we deliver care to all patients in need.
Addressing Barriers to Care Through Strategic, Data-Based Solutions
Optimizing Delivery of Care
Duke Surgery is investing in the future in impactful ways, with innovative infrastructures being implemented within and outside the walls of the hospital with aims of optimizing how—and to whom—we deliver care.
Paramount to that success is an awareness of the way that care is delivered, and the recognition that exceptional surgical care is inconsequential unless patients are able to access it.
Data scientists, health systems operations managers, surgeon–scientists, and a host of experts in other fields are working closer than ever to methodically and systematically identify, address, and rectify issues that limit how patients seek and receive surgical care.
Together, Duke Surgery teams are driving change in health services.
Creating Community for Shared Growth and Learning
Optimizing Our Surgeons
At Duke Surgery, ‘community’ means more than just our surroundings.
By creating safe spaces in which to share experiences with colleagues and garner support through commonalities, our Duke surgeons are strengthening each other more than ever before.
Recognizing the Value of Individualized, Perioperative Care
Optimizing Patient Outcomes
While surgical care may culminate in the operating room, our surgeon–scientists recognize factors contributing to successful patient outcomes extend beyond this singular step of our patient's health care journey.
Expanding the Donor Pool in Transplantation
Optimizing Patient Options
From deep biological insights to innovative therapeutic strategies, Duke Surgery consistently expands the limits of what is possible for patient care through a culture of multidisciplinary collaboration.
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