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February 4, 2020 / In Our People / By UK HealthCare
Cortney Y. Lee, MD, FACS, is a surgeon at UK HealthCare with advanced training in endocrine surgery. She has special expertise in thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery. Dr. Lee took some time to chat with us about the glands you might not even know you have as well as the peace of mind she’s after for her patients.
Dr. Sam Tyagi, a member of the Vascular Surgery faculty in the UK Department of Surgery, was named the recipient of the 2020 Early Career Faculty Research Award from the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) on February 1.
Dr. Tyagi’s research proposal, “The Effect of Phosphodiasterase Inhibitors on BAPN-Induced Aortic Dissection,” was recognized for its potential to “understand the influence of various medication effects on changes in the pathology of [aortic] aneurysms.”
Jan Mock, Administrator of the Plastic Surgery Residency program at the University of Kentucky, was selected as the Outstanding Program Administrator Award of 2020 from the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS). Mock is the second recipient of the annual award.
UK Department of Surgery colon and rectal surgeon, Dr. Avinash Bhakta, performed the first robotic-assisted Trans-Anal Minimally Invasive Surgery (R-TAMIS) at UK HealthCare in January to treat a patient with early onset of rectal cancer.
TAMIS, which is usually performed endoscopically, is a relatively common minimally invasive surgical procedure to remove T-1 polyps in the lower rectum that show no high-risk cancerous features. TAMIS is especially effective in reaching endoscopically unresectable polyps in the middle and lower rectum, Bhakta commented.
Three administrators from the UK Department of Surgery’s graduate and undergraduate medical education staff have been invited to make presentations during Surgical Education Week 2020 in Seattle, Washington this spring.
The Association of Residency Administrators in Surgery (ARAS) notified Sara Brown and Robin Riley, Graduate Medical Education program coordinators for the Division of General Surgery, that abstracts they submitted last fall were accepted for presentation.
Dr. Sibu Saha, a longstanding member of the Cardiothoracic Surgery faculty at the University of Kentucky, has established a scholarship with the Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF), the charitable arm of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), to enable aspiring CT Surgery residents to attend the society’s annual meeting.
Dr. Sam Tyagi, UK Vascular Surgeon, was the subject of a news story broadcast by WKYT television news in Lexington.
WKYT news anchor Miranda Combs interviewed Dr. Tyagi about a new surgical treatment for carotid artery disease, transcarotid artery revascularization (T-CAR). The surgeon has already performed the procedure for nearly two dozen patients in the Kentucky service area.
Dr. Cortney Lee presented several surgical residents Golden Apple pins following Department of Surgery Grand Rounds Wednesday morning, December 4. The Golden Apples were given in recognition of their excellent teaching as nominated by 3rd year medical students during this third surgical rotation block.
By Mallory Olson
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Lanny Evans is 71 years old, but you wouldn’t know it. She looks years younger and credits that to eating healthy and staying active – she loves swimming laps and doing yoga.
“I choose not to be an old person,” she said. “I’m happier that way.”
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For culinary author Maureen Cavanaugh Berry, food is life.
It is estimated that nearly 40 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer will require a mastectomy. For those patients, breast reconstruction surgery is a valuable part of comprehensive breast cancer care as studies show it improves quality of life, self-esteem and sexuality.
Despite the benefits of breast reconstruction, women from Appalachia are less likely to have the surgery than non-Appalachian Kentuckians, according to a new study by the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.
UK Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Tim Mullett, MD, FACS, was named Chair-Elect of the Commission on Cancer (CoC), a program of the American College of Surgeons, during a plenary session on Sunday, October 27 at the 2019 Clinical Congress in San Francisco.
Dr. Sandra Beck, section head of colorectal surgery at UK, is serving her first term as a member of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Board of Governors. She was officially confirmed at a national meeting of the ACS in March 2019. Dr. Beck joins Dr. Cynthia Downard, a Pediatric Surgeon with Norton Healthcare and UofL Health, as the two surgeons appointed to represent the Kentucky Chapter of the ACS on the board.
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An alumnus of the University of Kentucky General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency programs was honored by the American College of Surgeons with the International Surgical Volunteerism Award at the 2019 Clinical Congress in San Francisco.
Three endocrine surgeons from the University of Kentucky will be among the guest faculty at the 5th New York Masters Course in Comprehensive Endocrine Surgery this December. The UK Department of Surgery is partnering with the Department of Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the medical education company, Cine-Med, to host this 2-day educational event.
In mid-October, Dr. Kant Y.K. Lin journeyed to the Henan province of China to share clinical information with colleagues in Plastic Surgery and discuss the process of board certification in the United States.
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By Hilary Brown
University of Kentucky third-year medical students praised the work of several dozen residents and fellows for demonstrating teaching excellence during the students’ first two surgery rotations. Those residents were given official recognition before their peers during surgery Grand Rounds early Wednesday morning as part of a new program for the 2019-20 academic year.
The cascade of new faculty members joining the UK Department of Surgery continues in October with the addition of two surgeons. One is taking on her first professional faculty appointment. The other is returning to the University of Kentucky to continue his surgical practice.