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Project TICKER aims to improve care of pediatric heart patients

November 17, 2010
Pediatric congenital heart disease patients, a high‐risk group, receive care from many medical teams in a complex system of hospital units. UNC Hospitals provides excellent care of these patients, but is always looking for ways to improve.  A new research study aims to do just that. Tina Schade Willis, MD,...

Heart surgeon Andy C. Kiser joins UNC

November 1, 2010
Andy C. Kiser, M.D. The UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the UNC Center for Heart & Vascular Care welcome Andy C. Kiser, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon who joined UNC as professor of surgery on Nov. 1. At UNC, Dr. Kiser joins Brett C. Sheridan, MD, in providing heart surgery...

Early UNC transplant patient celebrates 20 years with good lungs

October 28, 2010
Howell Graham Twenty years ago, Howell Graham became the first cystic fibrosis patient to undergo a double-lung transplant surgery at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Lung transplantation was then a very new procedure, but the operation, done by UNC cardiothoracic surgeon Thomas M. Egan, MD, was a success. Now, Graham...

NPR report features Dr. Parsons

October 15, 2010
Dr. Alden Parsons, a Raleigh thoracic surgeon who completed a cardiothoracic surgery residency at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2009, was featured in a report on National Public Radio on Oct. 14, 2010, about the number of doctors who are working for hospitals instead of being in private practice. To hear the...

Health Sciences Library names room for Dr. Wilcox

August 30, 2010
  Dr. Wilcox in January 2010. The UNC Health Sciences Library plans to rename its Historical Collections Reading Room as “The Benson Reid Wilcox Historical Collections Reading Room” in recognition of Dr. Benson Wilcox. Dr. Wilcox, a heart surgeon and UNC School of Medicine graduate, served 29 years as chief...

Lung transplant research leaps forward

May 15, 2010
An article in UNC's Endeavors magazine, a publication about discoveries and creativity at the university, highlights the research of Dr. Thomas Egan and his collaborators.

Benson R. Wilcox, M.D., 1932-2010

May 12, 2010
Dr. Wilcox, January 2010. Benson Reid Wilcox, M.D., a heart surgeon who served 29 years as chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died May 11, 2010, at his home after a courageous battle with brain cancer. He was 77. Dr....

Cardiothoracic surgery simulators

February 17, 2010
The Center for Cardiothoracic Simulation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has developed two simulators which allow for a full operative experience with cardiac surgery and with lung surgery (both open and thoracoscopic) without the use of live animals.

Dr. Bowdish receives faculty development award

February 1, 2010
Michael E. Bowdish, M.D., of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has received a $7,500 UNC Junior Faculty Development Award for research. His project, "Evaluation of Partial Task Simulation and a High-Fidelity Cardiac Surgery Simulator in the Training of Cardiac Surgery Residents," is funded from Jan. 1, 2010 to Dec....

He hopes to help more lung patients breathe easier: News story features Dr. Egan and his transplant research

January 17, 2010
Thomas M. Egan, M.D., of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery is featured as the "Tar Heel of the Week" in a News & Observer story about Dr. Egan and his pioneering lung transplant research, which would make more donor lungs usable for transplant by treating the lungs ex-vivo (outside...