Recent News

The Department of Surgery's Academic Success Through Surgical Education and Training (ASSET) program recently partnered with the Duke Health Career Academy (HCA) to provide an HCA Field Trip for high school students at the Surgical Education and Activities Lab (SEAL).

Thoracic surgery resident Muath Bishawi, MD, MPH, and third-year medical student Banafsheh Sharif-Askary have been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society in recognition of their commitment to medicine.

Duke Health introduces new research initiative to overcome hurdles of immunity.

Jonathan C. Routh, MD, MPH, Division of Urology, has been appointed the Paul H. Sherman, MD Associate Professor of Surgery by the Board of Trustees.

We are pleased to announce that Henry E. Rice, MD, Professor and Chief of Pediatric General Surgery, has received the 2018 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.

Traumatic injuries can have a devastating impact on patients and their loved ones.

The Duke Department of Surgery is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter J. Allen, MD, as the new Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery and Chief of Surgery for the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI).

Risa Gearhart-Serna, a predoctoral student in the lab of Gayathri Devi, PhD, Associate Professor in Surgical Sciences, has been selected to receive the Duke Environmental Health Scholars (EHS) award for her project "Identifying Aggressive Breast Cancer Outcome Correlations with Environmental Contaminant Exposure: A Geospatial Analysis Project Using North Carolina as a Model."

This year’s institution-wide Duke Quality and Safety Meeting brought over 600 participants and 150 abstracts.

Yash Avashia, MD, rising Chief Resident in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, matched for fellowship in Aesthetic Surgery at the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute, affiliated with UT Southwestern.