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Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, and Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH, co-wrote a review article in the Journal of the American Medical Association on acute cholecystitis, a gallbladder condition diagnosed in approximately 200,000 people in the United States each year.


Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, the Oliver R. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Surgery, division chief of General and Acute Care Surgery, and director of the Adult Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program or ECMO, and Jared Gallaher, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Surgery, published a review article for JAMA on acute cholecystitis, a gallbladder condition typically due to gallstone obstruction of the cystic duct, which affects approximately 200,000 people in the United States annually. Dr. Charles is also Director of Global Surgery for the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.

You can read the article here.