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After releasing news about Department of Surgery providers featured in the “Making the Rounds” series of video featurettes produced by UK HealthCare marketing, two additional videos were found on the YouTube social media channel featuring transplant surgeon Michael Dailey, MD and plastic surgery division chief Henry Vasconez.
On Match Day last Friday, the names of the 2017-18 categorical and surgical interns were announced along with the new residents and fellows in plastic surgery and CT surgery.
General Surgery Categorical Interns
Robbie Aru – Mississippi Zeta Chow – Colorado Travis Hughes – Texas
Katie Kraft – Kentucky Amy Tefft – Vermont Sam Walling – Louisville
Nationally acclaimed vascular surgeon, Jack Cronenwett, MD, will be the featured speaker at the second annual Gordon Hyde Lectureship in Vascular Surgery on Wednesday morning, April 19, from 7 – 8 am in the Pavilion A Auditorium of the UK Chandler Medical Center.
There will be a breakfast reception about 30 minutes prior to the lecture just outside the auditorium, so attendees are advised to come early.
The University of Kentucky selected Stuart Tobin, MD, Division of Dermatology, and Sam Carmichael, MD, PGY4 in General Surgery, to be among its latest faculty and resident inductees into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society. Dr. Tobin and Dr. Carmichael were notified of their high honor on Saturday morning, March 11, from Dr. Charles “Chipper” Griffith, Vice Dean for Education in the UK College of Medicine.
By Laura Dawahare / Photos by Mark Cornelison
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Mar. 16, 2017) — By his 13th birthday, Jason Conn had undergone three open heart surgeries to repair his deformed bicuspid valve.
By Allison Perry (Photos by Mark Cornelison)
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 14, 2017) – While battling a cold and trying to prepare for her daughter's college graduation party the next day, Claudia Hall considered bailing out of her annual checkup with her gynecologist in early May 2014.
By Josh Shepherd
Each year in the life of UK HealthCare, there are moments in which physicians and staff exemplify the very best aspects of patient and family-centered care. Dr. Sibu Saha, division chief of UK Cardiothoracic Surgery, wants to do more than just recognize those exceptional moments – he wants to reward them. In that spirit, he has created an endowment to fund a set of annual awards called The Saha Patient-Centered Care Awards.
“Making the Rounds” is an innovative series of short videos produced by UK HealthCare marketing to profile physicians, nurses, and allied health providers at work with the University of Kentucky. The project has been ongoing since September 2016.
Among the profiles are four surgeons affiliated with the UK Department of Surgery.
To access the entire archive of “Making the Rounds” videos, visit the UK HealthCare blog.
By Josh Shepherd
The United States Patent Office granted inventors Dr. Dongfong Wang and Dr. Jay Zwischenberger their fifth patent for a medical device in October of 2016.
Dr. Wang, Director of the Artificial Organ Laboratory at the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Zwischenberger, chair of the UK Department of Surgery, have collaborated on the invention of a number of medical devices in the course of their long professional association.
By Josh Shepherd
The UK Surgery Shenanigans team increased its participation and fundraising to Kentucky Special Olympics for the annual 2017 Polar Plunge on Saturday morning, February 18. Three team members raised over $400 in charitable contributions, but only two went the distance and jumped into the pool.
The UK Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery is pleased to welcome thoracic surgeon Dr. Jordan Miller as the newest member of its faculty. He began his clinical and academic work in February 2017.
“Dr. Miller is a bright young man with energy, ideas, and advanced surgical skill,” said Dr. Sibu Saha, division chief of UK CT Surgery. “In addition to his thoracic fellowship, he also completed a minimally invasive thoracic surgery fellowship with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Please join me and welcome Jordan to our family at UK HealthCare.”
The Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery recently named Melissa Banks as its new residency and fellowship coordinator. Though she had already been handling some of the job duties of the position as a STEPS employee, Banks assumed the position officially on Friday evening, January 20.
Dr. Anil Duggal begins his practice as a specialist in hand and plastic surgery with the UK Division of Plastic Surgery in February 2017.
“We’re very glad to welcome such an accomplished plastic and hand surgeon to UK HealthCare,” said Dr. Henry Vasconez, division chief of the UK Department of Plastic Surgery. “Dr. Duggal brings a wealth of experience to central Kentucky that will be a great benefit to our patients and residents.”
The University of Kentucky Wound Care Clinic and Department of Surgery recently added a new full time provider, Sharon Pelfrey, APRN, to its roster of specialized professional caregivers.
Thanks to the adoption of new video-conferencing technology at UK, a record number of Kentucky high schools were able to participate in the annual interactive broadcast of a live surgery at UK Hospital last November.
Team Surgery Shenanigans at the University of Kentucky will once again take the Polar Plunge this February in support of Special Olympics Kentucky.
Pete Rogers, team captain of Surgery Shenanigans, is recruiting members throughout the UK surgery departments and divisions to join him for the annual fund raiser. It will be Pete’s fourth year of participation in the event, his third plunge, the second for Team Surgery Shenanigans, and the first to feature more than one “plunger.”
In a panel presentation at the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons last October, two UK medical students talked about how their generation values immediate and constructive feedback and a “sense of belonging” in the surgery clerkship experience.
By Josh Shepherd, UK Department of Surgery
Click this link to go to a Soundcloud presentation of Dr. Dunnington's Lecture and review the Powerpoint presentation
By Josh Shepherd
University of Kentucky Department of Surgery
The 2016 Greater Bluegrass Signature Chefs Auction set a new fundraising record for this event on Friday night, Nov. 4, at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort, according to Dr. Joe Iocono, division chief of UK Pediatric Surgery, who served as the event chair this year.