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Hayes-Jordan Elected to American Pediatric Surgical Association Board of Directors

Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD, Byah Thomason Doxey-Sanford Doxey Distinguished Professor, Chief of the division of general pediatric surgery, has been elected a governor of the board of directors for the American Pediatric Surgical Association. Originally posted in UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Contact: Carleigh Gabryel, 919-864-0580, carleigh.gabryel@unchealth.unc.edu August 4,...

Shunjay Patel Talks About Joining UNC Surgery as the Newest Addition to the Podiatry Team

Shrunjay Patel, DPM, AACFAS, joins the UNC Department of Surgery as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery. He sat down to discuss what inspired him to become a podiatric surgeon, his goals while at UNC Surgery, and letting go of his dreams of one day being a...

UNC Medical Center’s ECMO Program Wins Gold ELSO Award

The ELSO Excellence in Life Support Award recognizes those centers that demonstrate an exceptional commitment to evidence-based processes and quality measures, staff training and continuing education, patient satisfaction and ongoing clinical care. UNC’s ECMO Director is Anthony Charles, MD, MPH. Congratulations to the ECMO program at UNC Medical Center. It...

Philip Spanheimer, MD Wins SUS Junior Faculty Award

Congratulations to Philip Spanheimer, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Spanheimer has been selected for the 2020-2021 SUS Junior Faculty Award, sponsored by the SUS Foundation, for his research project titled “TFAP2C Regulates Estrogen Responsive Transcriptomic States in Luminal Breast Cancer!” The Society of...

Customized Stent-Graft to Treat Aortic Aneurysm Saved the Life of Former UNC Professor Harvey Jeffries

Who is Harvey Jeffries? A former professor in the UNC Gilling’s School of Public Health, Harvey Jeffries is no stranger to the UNC system. Born in Virginia, raised on a small farm in Fayetteville, Harvey spent his childhood days exploring the woods around his home, collecting specimens, and cataloging them...

Community pulls together for mask donations

Motivated by the increasing incidence of COVID-19 cases in North Carolina and the CDC's modified recommendation for individuals to wear protective face coverings, Dr. Kathleen Marulanda (PGY-5, Dept. of Surgery) quickly acknowledged the challenge this would pose for some in the community, particularly African American men.

Meet Our New Congenital Cardiac Surgeon Sandeep Sainathan, MD

Sandeep Sainathan, MD, joins UNC Surgery as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. He sat down to discuss what inspired him to become a surgeon, why he chose to focus on the heart, and what brought him to UNC Surgery. Dr. Sainathan received his medical degree from...

Daniel Kindell, Kevin Chen, & Staci Aubry Nominated as Friends of the SICU

Congratulations to Daniel Kindell, MD, PGY2, Kevin Chen, MD, PGY2, along with Staci Aubry, PGY 4 General Surgery Residents. They have been nominated as Friends of the SICU at UNC Health. Daniel Kindell’s nominator remarked, “Dan has great rapport with patients, families, and staff. He has a dedicated work ethic...