Dr. Ikonomidis will be the new chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UNC
December 19, 2016
John S. Ikonomidis, M.D, Ph.D., will become the new chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UNC on March 1
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Dr. Pulikal wins Best Thoracic Poster award at Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society meeting
November 21, 2016
Ashish Pulikal, M.D. Congratulations to Ashish Pulikal, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgery resident at UNC, who won the Best Thoracic Poster award at the Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society meeting in St. Pete Beach, FL, Oct. 19-22, 2016. The abstract was “Intralobar pulmonary sequestration in adults over 50. A case report...
An Asheville man’s path to a lung transplant at UNC
November 7, 2016
Bryan Parker after his lung transplant surgery. (Courtesy of WLOS-TV in Asheville) Dr. Jason Long talks about the transplant surgery. Nov. 7, 2016 In September, Bryan Parker received a life-saving double lung transplant at UNC Hospitals. Parker, 30, of Asheville, was born with cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that affects...
UNC thoracic surgeons’ project with UNC/NC State biomedical engineers leads to a Medical Innovators Collaborative
September 6, 2016
Andrew DiMeo, PhD, a professor in the UNC/NC State biomedical engineering program. Drs. Haithcock, left, and Long, 2nd from let, talk to Richard Goldberg, Ph.D., at the “speed dating” event in summer 2015. The surgeons ended up working with Andrew DiMeo of the UNC/NC State biomedical engineering program. It all...
Heart valve via TAVR gives Fayetteville man a new life
September 2, 2016
Sept. 1, 2016 Last fall, Charles Records’ chest felt pinched when he tried to breathe. He couldn’t walk from room to room in his house without leaning on his wife to rest every few steps. His doctor in Fayetteville found that he had aortic valve stenosis, a life-threatening heart...
“I don’t want to forget what a gift it is to breathe …” – a lung transplant patient of Dr. Egan’s works to help others
August 19, 2016
Tiffany Christensen Thomas M. Egan, M.D. Patients and doctors work together to get the best results for recovery from illnesses. A story from UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Now” features interviews with UNC cardiothoracic surgon Thomas Egan and a former patient of his, two-time lung transplant recipient Tiffany Christensen, who now uses...
UNC’s TAVR program grows, with cooperation with cardiologists across state
July 21, 2016
UNC’s TAVR team (left to right): John Vavalle, M.D., M.H.S.; Thomas Caranasos, M.D.; Michael Yeung, M.D.; Cassie Ramm, M.S.N. Physicians performed UNC Hospitals’ first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement procedure in November 2014. In 2016, the number of TAVR cases may be triple the number performed in 2015. Much of...
Research collaborative studies best treatment of congenital heart disease
July 21, 2016
Jennifer Nelson, M.D. (middle), a congenital cardiac surgeon, and Jennifer Whitham, M.D., a UNC pediatric cardiologist, watch as a baby gets an echocardiogram from sonographer Jeff Jewell. Jennifer S. Nelson, M.D., M.S., a pediatric heart surgeon at UNC, started a multidisciplinary research program at UNC that brings people...
Dr. Egan participates in national symposium on organ preservation
June 26, 2016
Thomas M. Egan, MD, MSc., was invited to participate in a symposium and roundtable discussion on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 29, 2016. The symposium, “Emerging Technologies in Organ Preservation,” followed the June 13 White House Organ Summit and was intended to shape national policy and priorities surrounding innovations...
Dr. Egan presents research at the Aspen Lung Conference
June 26, 2016
Thomas M. Egan, MD, MSc, made three presentations at the 59th Annual Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference in Aspen, CO, June 8-11, 2016. The Aspen conference is one of the most respected meetings for study of clinical problems affecting the lung. This year’s conference theme was Lung Transplantation: Opportunities...