August 24, 2011 – Doctors Aaron Garrison and Trista Reid have been awarded the 2011 Kaiser Permanent Excellence in Teaching Award.

Dr. Samuel Jones, was recently accepted into the KL2 program run by the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS).

August 18, 2011 — Of the five UNC Health Care nurses named to the list of North Carolina’s “Great 100 Nurses” for 2011, two are affiliated with the Dept. of Surgery.

August 18, 2011 – Surgery Services is proud to announce that the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) received the Beacon Award for Excellence at the bronze level by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

August 11, 2011– Several surgery physicians are featured in a set of commercials promoting UNC Cancer Care that will air across North Carolina beginning Monday, August 15th.

August 11, 2011– Karyn Stitzenberg, MD, MPH, is quoted in an article entitled “Tracking the Rise of Robotic Surgery for Prostate Cancer” in the August 9th issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin.

August 10, 2011 — The Department of Surgery would like to welcome the following new Attendings to our faculty:

July 21, 2010 — Sixteen-year-old Jakeina Sutton receives a second heart as well as a new kidney.