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By Josh Shepherd
Drs. Peter Stafford and Sam Carmichael, 5th year General Surgery residents from the UK Department of Surgery, made it to the finals of the Surgical Jeopardy competition at the 2017 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Diego at the end of October. The duo defeated the 2016 champions in the opening elimination round, but came just short of winning the whole thing, according to Dr. Cynthia Talley, the team’s sponsor.
By Josh Shepherd
On November 1, the UK Department of Surgery welcomed Dr. Kant Y.K. Lin as the new chief of the UK division of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Lin succeeds Dr. Henry Vasconez, who held the chief’s position for over 22 years. Accepting this new opportunity, Dr. Lin expressed a great deal of optimism about working with faculty and residents and continuing the division’s progress forward.
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David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, a senior fellow from the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics in Philadelphia, will be a special guest lecturer at the 2017 edition of the Bruce Lucas Hepatology and Liver Transplant Symposium on Friday, October 13 at the Kroger Field Recruitment Room. Dr. Goldberg will present findings from studies he has published on two controversial issues in organ transplantation: the impact of the opioid epidemic on organ donations and the risk level posed by hepatitis-C infected organ donors.
To illustrate advanced standards of stroke care in America, Dr. Sibu Saha presented an overview of UK HealthCare’s Stroke Program at the 59th Annual Congress of the International College of Angiology (ICA) on Thursday, September 7, in Vienna, Austria,
Dr. John Draus, pediatric surgeon with the UK Department of Surgery, accepted appointment earlier this September as the interim Associate Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) for the Kentucky Children’s Hospital (KCH).
Dr. Draus was asked to step in to the position when the former ACMO, Dr. Scottie Day, agreed to serve as interim chair of the UK Department of Pediatrics. Day is taking the place of Dr. Carmel Wallace who retired as pediatrics chair this year.
On September 1, the UK College of Medicine Dean's Office announced eight new administrative appointments, which included Dr. Jing Li, an associate professor in the UK Department of Surgery.
The appointment of Jing Li, MD, MS, to Associate Director of the Center for Health Services Research and as the new Director of the Office of Value and Innovation in Healthcare Delivery (OVIHD) actually became effective on July 1, 2017.
By Allison Perry
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Glenda Brown used to wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, starved for breath. Seeking relief, she'd race to throw open her bedroom window just to inhale a rush of cold air to soothe her cramping chest.
The University of Kentucky’s Department of Surgery will be welcoming several new surgeons to its faculty throughout most of the summer and fall of 2017. One of the most recent to join is Dr. Reese W. Randle, a general surgeon with a specialty interest in endocrine surgery. Dr. Randle commenced his practicing on August 1.
Dr. Randle is originally from Houston, Texas. His father works in the oil industry “like nearly everyone else in Houston.” His mother is a long time school teacher.
Faculty promotions for 2017 at the University of Kentucky Department of Surgery were announced on Thursday, July 27 by department chair Dr. Jay Zwischenberger. They included the following:
Dr. Sandra Beck
Professor
Dr. Joseph Bobadilla
Associate Professor
Dr. William Cavatassi
Associate Professor
Dr. Phillip Chang
Professor
Dr. Roberto Gedaly
Professor
By Kristi Lopez
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Lee Carol Greenwell dedicated 15 years of service to the University of Kentucky’s Division of General Surgery, and nearly two decades to the University of Kentucky; she has accepted a position outside the University as an Executive Administrative Assistant. Though l
During the annual General Surgery Resident Roast last June, the resident classes named the following faculty and residents for 2017 awards.
Dr. Tessa Cartwright, chief fellow in the University of Kentucky’s division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, took second place honors in the 2017 Research Scholarship Competition sponsored by the International College of Surgeons – US Section (ICS-US) on Saturday, June 17 in Seattle.
The competition was one of several events held during the ICS-US’ Annual Surgical Update over the weekend.
In late July, Dr. Michael J. Cavnar commenced his clinical practice in Surgical Oncology and General Surgery as a faculty member with the University of Kentucky’s Markey Cancer Center and the Department of Surgery.
The University of Kentucky’s Department of Surgery is pleased to welcome a new surgeon, Sam Tyagi, MD, to its vascular and endovascular surgery faculty beginning in late July 2017.
Though born in Canada, by the time Sam Tyagi had reached age 7, his family had lived in Stony Brook, New York and Columbia, Missouri before finally settling in Jackson, Mississippi to accommodate his father’s, Suresh Tyagi, Ph.D., various appointments as an NIH-funded researcher and professor in physiology and biophysics .
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By Elizabeth Adams
UKnow
The 20-week ultrasound appointment privileges parents to a sneak-peek of their baby growing inside the womb.
First-time parents Anna (Seitz) and Evan Ciannello went into their 20-week appointment expecting to see their baby’s physical features taking perfect form — 10 tiny fingers, one wrinkled nose, two eyes yet to open and a complete mouth, perhaps sucking a thumb. But the 20-week ultrasound appointment brought unwelcome news to the couple.
The University of Kentucky Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinic earned the Patient Experience Award for the third quarter of 2017. It is the fourth time the clinic has won the award.
The award, which is determined from the results of national patient satisfaction surveys, placed the clinic among the highest rated in the United States, according to the UK Office of Patient Experience.