William E. Stansfield, M.D. Congratulations to William E. Stansfield, M.D., who received the “Physician Teacher of the Year” award from residents in the UNC Department of Anesthesiology at a resident graduation dinner on June 22, 2013. Dr. Stansfield is a cardiac surgeon and an assistant professor of surgery in the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Andy C. Kiser, MD Andy C. Kiser, MD, chief of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, presented an abstract, “Evaluation of integrated bipolar and unipolar epicardial ablation,” at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (ISMICS) meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, on June 13, 2013. Co-authors on the abstract were Hayden Pappas, MD, Kelly … Read more

Brett Sheridan, MD, was chief editor of an article, “Emergency bedside thoracotomy,” on eMedicine from WebMD (Medscape). The article is available here. Dr. Sheridan is a cardiac surgeon at UNC and is associate professor of surgery in the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. He is director of Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation at UNC … Read more

Mark Joseph, MD, a fellow in the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Andy C. Kiser, MD, a professor of surgery and chief of the division, are authors of two chapters in the recently published TSRA Clinical Scenarios in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Their chapters are “Cardiac Trauma” and “Management of the Porcelain Aorta.” The TRSA Clinical … Read more

An article in EMS World, an online publication for EMS workers, features the lung transplant research of Thomas M. Egan, M.D., of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Egan has studied the use of lungs for transplant from people who have died outside the hospital of sudden cardiac arrest. In a recent project, Dr. … Read more

Benjamin E. Haithcock, M.D. Benjamin Haithcock, M.D., was honored May 10 as a “Friend of Nursing” at UNC Hospitals in a ceremony marking the 2013 Nursing Staff Recognition Week. Dr. Haithcock is a thoracic surgeon and is surgical director of UNC Hospitals’ Lung Transplant Program and a physician in the UNC Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program, … Read more

  Richard H. Feins, M.D., professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is one of three 2013 winners of the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. The award, recognizing outstanding scientific or academic achievement, was presented May 31, … Read more

Faculty, resident physicians and staff of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery are authors on five abstracts that were presented in poster sessions at the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation meeting, April 24-26, 2013, in Montréal. Four faculty members, Thomas Egan, Andy Kiser, Brett Sheridan and William Stansfield, two residents, Staci Beamer and … Read more

Dr. James L. Cox will be unable to present Surgery Grand Rounds on May 1; his travel has recently been limited and he will not be able to come to Chapel Hill.The UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery hopes to reschedule Dr. Cox’s visit at a later date. Dr. Cox, a cardiac surgeon and emeritus chief … Read more

Rex Healthcare, owned by UNC Health Care, will move forward with building a new heart and stroke hospital in Raleigh.