August 11, 2011– Several surgery physicians are featured in a set of commercials promoting UNC Cancer Care that will air across North Carolina beginning Monday, August 15th.

August 11, 2011– Karyn Stitzenberg, MD, MPH, is quoted in an article entitled “Tracking the Rise of Robotic Surgery for Prostate Cancer” in the August 9th issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin.

August 10, 2011 — The Department of Surgery would like to welcome the following new Attendings to our faculty:

July 18, 2011 — The Department of Surgery would like to welcome the following new Attending to our faculty:

July 13, 2011 — Dr. Ian Udell, a resident in urological surgery at UNC Hospitals, is also an accomplished wakeboarder sponsored by O’Brien Watersports.

July 1, 2011 — Dr. Andy Kiser, recognized as an international leader in arrhythmia surgery, has been named the new Chief of UNC’s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. He succeeds Dr. Micheal Mill, who led the division as interim chief from 1998 to 1999 and as chief from 2000 to 2011.

June 17, 2011 — Thirty UNC Health Care physicians, including eight from the Department of Surgery, have been recognized as “top regional doctors” by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

May 27, 2011 – A UNC laboratory study led by Dr. Nancy DeMore has found that Tacrolimus, a drug commonly used to prevent a patient’s body from rejecting organs following a transplant, also inhibits breast cancer growth in pre-clinical studies. The findings of the study were reported in the May 26 Public Library of Science.