Dr. Michael Meyers recently published a manual for medical students. It features a chapter from UNC Plastic surgeon Michelle Roughton, as well. If you would like to order this book, you can do so at the following link below. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319428956

In this role, Dr. Gerber will oversee the multidisciplinary clinical operations for adult and pediatric programs in kidney, liver, heart, lung, and pancreas transplant. Gerber succeeds Dr. Ron Falk, who held the position since 2008. Gerber, an accomplished surgeon and researcher, is actively engaged in basic science research focusing on stem cell biology and tissue … Read more

Department of Surgery’s Sean Mclean, MD, made it on the front page of the January 2017 Journal of Surgical Research Cover. The title of the article is “A Method for Evaluating the Murine Pulmonary Vasculature Using Micro-Computed Tomography”.

Dr. McLean has been approved for a Junior Faculty Development Research Award from the Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves in the amount of $7,500. On behalf of the Committee on Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves and the Department of Surgery, we would like to congratulate you upon this award and wish you the best for … Read more

Michelle Brownstein, MD, assistant professor of surgery, was honored with the 2016 H. Fleming Fuller Award at a ceremony on Nov. 21. The Fuller Award is among the UNC School of Medicine’s highest honors and is presented annually to the … Continued

The Department of Surgery would like to congratulate the Plastic division for some new awards. Lynn Damitz, MD was promoted to Senior Examiner by the ABPS, and Loree Kalliainen, MD who remains a Director of the ABPS, is now an Evaluator for the ABPS (she observes the oral exam to ensure consistency of the examiners). … Read more

Jared Gallaher, MD won the 2016 Region IV COT (American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma) Resident Paper Competition. The Title of this paper is “The Independent Effect of a New Surgical Residency Program on Trauma Mortality at a Sub-Saharan Africa Tertiary Center.

Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors have awarded Mark, Koruda, MD with a 15 years of service award. We would like to congratulate Dr. Koruda on this achievement.