Recent News

Dr. Timothy Trotter, Postdoctoral scholar, has received the Elena Baltacha Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the American Cancer Society.

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.

Dr. John Creasy, Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellow, presented on the rapid growth and promising results of the Duke hepatic artery infusion (HAI) program at the Society of Surgical Oncology Advanced Cancer Therapies conference in Orlando, FL on February 15, 2020.

The Duke Department of Surgery now ranks third among surgery departments nationwide in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding received in 2019 according to the newly released Blue Ridge rankin

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 Linda Cendales, MD, on her election to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Board of Directors as an at-large representative in surgery.

Congratulations to General Surgery Resident Harold Leraas, MD, MHS, on his acceptance to the 2020-2021 Surgical Education Research Fellowship (SERF) program.

Dr. Jeffrey Marcus, Professor and Chief, Division of Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery, and Dr.

Congratulations to Jennifer K Plichta, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, and Laura H Rosenberger, MD,

Donald D. Glower Jr., MD, had a roundabout entry into the field of robotics and minimally invasive surgery.