2nd Annual Surgeons as Educational Scholars Symposium
On February 23, 2020, the General Surgery Residency Program held its 2nd annual Surgeons as Educational Scholars Symposium. The event serves as a formal training course to prepare residents for their role as educators in surgery.
A Portal Into Cancer Care: Growing a Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Program Through New Treatments
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?
Giving Life: Duke Surgeons Perform First Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplant in the United States
Approximately 6 million patients in the United States live with heart failure. Of those, 10% will progress to end-stage heart failure. While there is no cure, heart transplantation can bring hope to patients when other treatments no longer can.
Making Leaders: A Formal Soft Skills Curriculum for the Duke Plastic Surgery Residency Program
Recently, Duke’s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program has pioneered a formal “soft skills” curriculum that aggressively expands professional development and training that is broadly applicable outside the OR and clinic.
Dress Blues & Green Scrubs: Navy Surgeons at Duke
Photo: (Left) Dr. Robert Strange in a U.S Army Air Ambulance, 2010. (Right) Dr. J Chad Johnson while deployed, 2019.
Dr. Henry Rice Leads Study to Improve Surgical Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Under the leadership of Dr. Henry Rice, Duke Surgery will participate in two global health studies to improve surgical outcomes in patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Duke Joins First National Effort to Test a Potential COVID-19 Therapy
Duke University Hospital has joined the first national study to test a potential therapy for COVID-19, giving hospitalized adult patients with significant symptoms an option to participate.
Dr. Anna Carlson Elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Dr. Anna Carlson, Integrated Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Resident, one of two residents from the Section of Surgical Disciplines, has been inducted into the Duke University School of Medicine chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society.
It's a Match! Welcome New Duke Surgery Residents
We are excited to welcome our new residents to the Department of Surgery. Congratulations to all those who matched with us! We look forward to meeting you this summer.
Duke University Archives Collection of Dr. Onyekwere E. Akwari Papers
The Duke University Medical Center Archives has acquired the papers of Dr. Onyekwere E. Akwari, the first African-American surgeon at Duke University. Dr.