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Nashville: For the second consecutive year, the UNC team won the Resident Jeopardy competition at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Surgical Congress.

Justin Dimick, MD, MPH, visited on Wednesday to give a lecture on “Innovative Approaches for Improving Surgical Quality”. He is the Chief of Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Associate Chair for Strategy and Finance at the University of … Continued

Sara Scarlet, MD, has been accepted as a one-year fellow at the American College of Surgeons-Maclean Center Surgical Ethics Fellowship at the University of Chicago for the 2017-18 fellowship year.

In 1990, Howell Graham was the first cystic fibrosis patient to receive a lung transplant at UNC Hospitals. At that time, Graham was 28. His cystic fibrosis had progressed to the point that it was difficult to walk across a … Continued

Dr. Edward Bahnson’s proposal “Development of a New Animal Model of Dyslipidemia, Atherosclerosis,and Diabetes in Obese Rats,” has been selected to receive a Pilot & Feasibility (P&F) grant award from the UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center.

For the first time, researchers have shown a concrete link between patient complaints and surgical complications. It has been widely understood that complaints are tied to malpractice suits. But with this research, institutions can study trends in complaints and step … Continued