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The 2022 Nathan A. Research Day was a huge success! Thanks to Distinguished Visiting Professor Dr. Jayme Locke, MD, MPH. Award winners recognized: Jaclyn Portelli Tremont, MD: George F. Sheldon, MD Surgical Research Award for best oral presentation Hannah Trembath, MD: Best Clinical Science Poster Presentation Joe Kearney, MD: Best...

  Please join us in welcoming Caprice C. Greenberg, MD, MPH as the next UNC Department of Surgery Chair. She will join the Department on August 15. Dr. Greenberg is a world-renowned health services researcher and surgical oncologist, and she most recently served as chair of the Department of Surgery...

Please join us in congratulating the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) team as they received a Gold Designation as a Beacon Unit from the American Association of Critical-Care Nursing! The UNC SICU was one of only 30 ICUs in the nation to receive this recognition. Despite two years of the...

North Carolina Cancer Hospital at the UNC Medical Center is the only organization in North Carolina accredited by the Commission on Cancer’s National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer. The story was first posted on UNC Health Newsroom January 20, 2022 North Carolina Cancer Hospital at the UNC Medical Center has...

Congratulations Dr. Mary Kate Bryant for receiving the Best Clinical Paper in the Raymond Alexander Resident Paper Competition at the 35th Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Scientific Assembly! The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) provides a forum for the exchange of knowledge to advance...

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gita Mody for receiving a K23 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for her project entitled “Improving Thoracic Surgical Care using electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes (ePROs)”. The grant is from 1/1/2022-12/31/2026 for a total of $1,010,785.

We are pleased to announce that Jessica Phillips has been recognized as an outstanding team member and leader in our department! As such, she has been invited to participate in the 2022 Emerging Leader Academy. This is a highly selective program designed for individuals who have been identified as outstanding...

Lead Author: Thomas Egan, MD | Journal of Thoracic Disease Transplantation of any organ into a recipient requires a donor. Lung transplant has a long history of an inadequate number of suitable donors to meet demand, leading to deaths on the waiting list annually since national data was collected, and...