Recent News

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.

Gayathri Devi, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Sciences, was an invited speaker at the Annual Geographic

The American Transplant Congress (ATC) has awarded Dr. Brian Ezekian, General Surgery Resident, and Qimeng Gao, third-year Duke-NUS medical student, ATC Young Investigator Awards for their excellent abstracts.

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Georgia Tomaras, PhD, Professor in Surgery, Division of Surgical Sciences, has been elected to Fellowship in the