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Meyers elected to Medical Staff Executive Committee

June 21, 2012
June 21, 2012 — Michael Meyers, MD, Associate Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, was reelected to an at-large position on the Medical Staff Executive Committee.

TAVR Heart Valve Procedure Offers New Options

June 21, 2012
June 21, 2012 — Heart specialists at Rex Healthcare, part of UNC Health Care, are offering a new procedure to repair heart valves.

Farber Pioneers Use of Device in Treatment of Complex AAA

June 20, 2012
June 20, 2012 — UNC’s Aortic Disease Management Team, under the directorship of Dr. Mark Farber, became the first in the nation to successfully use the Zenith® Fenestrated AAA Endovascular Graft to treat a patient with a complex abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Boschini Awarded Fogarty Fellowship

June 15, 2012
June 15, 2012 — General Surgery resident Laura Boschini, MD, has been awarded a fellowship from the Fogarty Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars.

Gerber and Cairns Named ASA Fellows

June 15, 2012
June 15, 2012 — David Gerber, MD, chief of the Division of Abdominal Transplant, and Bruce Cairns, Director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, were elected as Fellows of the American Surgical Association.

New Pool of Lung Donors

June 6, 2012
Jun e 6, 2012 — Tom Egan, a professor of surgery at UNC, has spent years researching a solution to the shortage of lungs for transplant. He is now studying lungs from a previously-untapped pool of donors – people who have died suddenly, away from the hospital.

Egan Receives Grant for Transplant Research

June 6, 2012
June 6, 2012 — Thomas M. Egan, M.D., of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has received a $100,000 grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for his project “Is there NO solution to IRI? Nitric oxide to improve and expand lung transplant.”

Camp Celebrate Celebrates 30 Years

May 31, 2012
May 25, 2012 — Camp Celebrate, the flagship aftercare program of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals and the oldest pediatric burn survivor camp in the country, recently celebrated its 30th anniversary at Camp Kanata in Wake Forest.