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Researchers at N.C. State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Chinese university have developed a synthetic version of a cardiac stem cell. These synthetic stem cells offer therapeutic benefits comparable to those from natural stem … Continued

John S. Ikonomidis, M.D, Ph.D., will become the new chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UNC on March 1. Dr. Ikonomidis, a cardiac surgeon, is Horace G. Smithy professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic … Continued

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has awarded UNC medical student Eric Jernigan a Looking to the Future scholarship to attend the STS annual meeting, to be held in Houston Jan. 21-25, 2017. Jernigan is finishing a research elective in … Continued

In December, the Kidney Transplant team hit #100 for the calendar year 2016. This breaks our current calendar year record of 92 kidney transplants in 2012. This achievement includes 55 KIDNEY transplants since July 1, 2016! The Department of Surgery would like to congratulate Dr. David Gerber and his team...

Dr. Michael Meyers recently published a manual for medical students. It features a chapter from UNC Plastic surgeon Michelle Roughton, as well. If you would like to order this book, you can do so at the following link below. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319428956

In this role, Dr. Gerber will oversee the multidisciplinary clinical operations for adult and pediatric programs in kidney, liver, heart, lung, and pancreas transplant. Gerber succeeds Dr. Ron Falk, who held the position since 2008. Gerber, an accomplished surgeon and researcher, is actively engaged in basic science research focusing on...

Department of Surgery’s Sean Mclean, MD, made it on the front page of the January 2017 Journal of Surgical Research Cover. The title of the article is “A Method for Evaluating the Murine Pulmonary Vasculature Using Micro-Computed Tomography”.

Dr. McLean has been approved for a Junior Faculty Development Research Award from the Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves in the amount of $7,500. On behalf of the Committee on Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves and the Department of Surgery, we would like to congratulate you upon this award and...