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Gifts of new lungs, great friends: Transplant patient of Dr. Haithcock’s talks about her experience.

December 22, 2009
Kena Sawyers, 46, of Eden, N.C., received a double-lung transplant at UNC Hospitals on Sept. 20, after living 15 years with lungs scarred by pneumonia secondary to adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that she contracted when pregnant with her daughter, Kayla. Dr. Benjamin Haithcock of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic...

Drs. Egan, Feins and Mill listed in Best Doctors database

December 14, 2009
Dr. Thomas M. Egan, Richard H. Feins and Michael R. Mill of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery are among more than 200 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine physicians who are included in the latest The Best Doctors in America® database.

Dr. Egan receives $1.47 million NIH grant for lung transplant research

October 13, 2009
  Thomas M. Egan, M.D., M.Sc. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has awarded Thomas M. Egan, a professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina, a $1.47 million, two-year grant for research on perfusion and ventilation of lungs outside the body before transplant. The research could lead...

UNC begins new 6-year integrated cardiothoracic surgery residency

October 13, 2009
In July 2010, the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will begin a new six-year integrated residency program, which residents will enter directly from medical school. The Residency Review Committee for Thoracic Surgery, the national residency accrediting body, approved the program in July...

Heart transplant patient finds new enthusiasm for life

October 12, 2009
Lisa and Russell Ford at SECU Family House in Chapel Hill. Russell Ford received a heart transplant at UNC Hospitals in July 2009 after suffering from congestive heart failure for 10 years. Dr. Michael Bowdish of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery was his transplant surgeon.  In “Family House Diaries,”...

UNC team provides heart surgery for 10 more children in Uganda

October 8, 2009
  (Includes information from a blog by Keith Kocis, M.D., team leader for the Uganda mission.) A UNC medical team provided heart surgery for 10 children with complex congenital heart defects during this year’s two-week medical mission to Mulago Hospital, Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda. All of the children were...

Thoracic surgery directors name award in honor of Dr. Wilcox

October 1, 2009
Benson R. Wilcox, M.D. The Thoracic Surgery Directors Association has renamed its Resident Award the Benson Wilcox Award for Best Resident Paper in honor of Benson R. Wilcox, M.D., former president of the TSDA. Dr. Wilcox is a professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...

N.C. Biotechnology Center gives loan to biotech company founded by Dr. Egan

September 16, 2009
  Thomas M. Egan, M.D., M.Sc. The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has made a $30,000 loan to X-In8 Biologicals Corp., a new biotechnology company founded by Thomas M. Egan, M.D., M.Sc., a faculty member in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   The...

32 new residents attend Thoracic Surgery Resident Boot Camp at UNC

July 31, 2009
Thirty-two new cardiothoracic surgery resident physicians from across the nation attended the second annual Thoracic Surgery Resident Boot Camp July 31-Aug. 2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During 2½ days of intensive simulator-based training, the incoming residents learned and practiced basic cardiothoracic operating skills that will...

American Journal of Physiology publishes Egan lab’s article on lung injury

July 27, 2009
Thomas M. Egan   In its July 2009 issue, American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology published a paper, “Novel critical role of toll-like receptor 4 in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury and edema,” from the lab of Thomas M. Egan, M.D., M.Sc., of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic...