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Daryhl Jonson, MD Helps with Mass Casualty Training Exercise at UNC Hospitals

August 29, 2016
Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, was a typical weekend morning at UNC Hospitals – calm, with nothing out of the ordinary happening on the premises – until a man barged into the North Carolina Children’s Hospital lobby, yelling, “My friend’s in … Continued

Dr. Cairns speaks about the Burn Center in Chapel Hill Magazine

August 24, 2016
In a recent issue of the Chapel Hill Magazine, the UNC Department of Surgery’s Dr. Bruce A. Cairns spoke about the excellent work being done by the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center. To read the entire article, please click here.

Investigating the presence of sex bias in human surgical clinical research

August 18, 2016
Chair of UNC Surgery, Melina Kibbe, MD In a study published in JAMA Surgery, Melina Kibbe, MD, Zach D. Owens Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, and colleagues found that few human surgical clinical research studies included men and women … Continued

Congressman David Price Announces FEMA Grant for UNC Burn Center

August 18, 2016
Congressman David Price announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a $295,298 Fire Prevention and Safety Grant (FP&S) to the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center in the UNC School of Medicine’s Surgery Department.

Training a Nation with Anthony Charles, MD

August 4, 2016
By formal training, Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, is a trauma surgeon. By experience, he’s a diplomat. Charles leads the Malawian Surgical Initiative, a partnership between the UNC Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, and the Malawi College … Continued

Michelle Roughton, MD Involved in Study Highlighting More Barriers to Breast Reconstruction than Previously Thought

August 3, 2016
Women were less likely to have breast reconstruction surgery after mastectomy if they had Medicaid or Medicare rather than private insurance or if they lived 10 or more miles from a plastic surgeon’s office, a University of North Carolina Lineberger … Continued

Insurance, Distance to Care Can be Barriers to Breast Reconstruction

July 28, 2016
Women were less likely to have breast reconstruction surgery after mastectomy if they had Medicaid or Medicare rather than private insurance or if they lived 10 or more miles from a plastic surgeon’s office, a University of North Carolina Lineberger … Continued

UNC’s TAVR program grows, with cooperation with cardiologists across state

July 22, 2016
Physicians performed UNC Hospitals’ first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement procedure in November 2014. In 2016, the number of TAVR cases may be triple the number performed in 2015. Much of that increase can be attributed to good patient outcomes, coupled … Continued