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SBAS logo on the big screen in the Dean Dome Basketball legend Charlie Scott speaks before the SBAS members The UNC Department of Surgery hosted the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) from April 9-12. … Continued

In recognition of this achievement, each of these providers will receive the 2015 UNC Health Care and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence. We thank each of these individuals for their leadership in helping to create an exceptional … Continued

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Drs. Thomas Caranasos, John Vavalle and Michael Yeung, surgeons from UNC’s TAVR Program. The theme of the conversation will be The Aorta and Its Valves. Please listen here: … Continued

Kiser is chief of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. He provides cardiac surgery for adults at UNC Hospitals and is a professor of surgery in the UNC School of Medicine. Kiser has expertise in minimally-invasive valve and coronary artery … Continued

David Gerber, MD, had completed his general surgery internship and was beginning his second year of residency at Emory University when he met a recruiter from the United States Air Force. It was 1990, and the Gulf War had just … Continued

The AAMC- The Association of Medical Colleges, interviewed Transplant’s Dr. Robert Watson at the Department of Surgery. The article, which can be viewed here, is titled “Technology in Academic Medicine: Using Algorithms to Hone Students’ Surgical Techniques”. An excerpt below … Continued

Mansi Shah, MD Sara Kim, MD Two UNC residents in General Surgery – Mansi Shah, M.D., and Sara Kim, M.D. – have won scholarships from Women in Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Kim is a graduate of the University of Florida School … Continued

The paper is the culmination of the largest single-center study of the Ross operation in children to date and was done in collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Congenital Heart Center. The award winning manuscript is expected to be published … Continued