{"id":5687,"date":"2024-10-02T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T16:36:05","slug":"drs-caroline-kwon-and-gina-silverstein-receive-aagl-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2024\/10\/02\/drs-caroline-kwon-and-gina-silverstein-receive-aagl-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Drs. Caroline Kwon and Gina Silverstein receive AAGL Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\r\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-normal break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"0e26589f-2164-4a4e-a4b4-f32373076d2e\">\r\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\r\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_5025\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5025 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/01\/Kwon_Caroline_1-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/01\/Kwon_Caroline_1-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/01\/Kwon_Caroline_1-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/01\/Kwon_Caroline_1-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/01\/Kwon_Caroline_1-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/01\/Kwon_Caroline_1-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/01\/Kwon_Caroline_1-1-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/01\/Kwon_Caroline_1-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Dr. Caroline Kwon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The Department of ObGyn \u00a0is proud to announce the achievements of two outstanding fellows in the division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (MIGS). Second-year fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/people\/caroline-kwon\/\">Caroline Kwon, MD<\/a>, has been recognized by the Jerome Hoffman, MD Foundation of the AAGL Signature Award for the best abstract on MIGS submitted by a physician in training in 2024. Recent fellow graduate and newly appointed faculty member Gina Silverstein, MD, is recognized for the IRCAD Foundation of the AAGL Signature Award for the best abstract on MIGS research submitted by a FMIGS Fellow.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_5363\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 246px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/07\/Gina-Silverstein_2024-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Gina Silverstein portrait 2024\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Dr. Gina Silverstein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL) is the leading association promoting minimally invasive gynecologic surgery among surgeons worldwide. Both awards will be presented at the AAGL\u2019s \u201cCelebrating Achievements in MIGS\u201d Awards Ceremony &amp; Gala on November 18, 2024, at The Fillmore in New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;These are two of the highest awards that fellows can receive. We&#8217;re incredibly proud of our team and excited to celebrate their accomplishments,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/people\/erin-carey\/\">Erin Carey, MD, MSCR,<\/a> Division Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (MIGS).<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of ObGyn \u00a0is proud to announce the achievements of two outstanding fellows in the division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (MIGS). Second-year fellow Caroline Kwon, MD, has been recognized by the Jerome Hoffman, MD Foundation of the AAGL Signature Award for the best abstract on MIGS submitted by a physician in training in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2024\/10\/02\/drs-caroline-kwon-and-gina-silverstein-receive-aagl-awards\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Drs. Caroline Kwon and Gina Silverstein receive AAGL Awards\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116513,"featured_media":5693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[149,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minimally-invasive-gynecologic-surgery","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/09\/website-featured-image.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/09\/website-featured-image-300x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/09\/website-featured-image-768x768.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/09\/website-featured-image-1024x1024.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2024\/09\/website-featured-image-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"Caroline Kwon + Gina Silverstein","category_details":[{"name":"Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/minimally-invasive-gynecologic-surgery\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}