October 24, 2019
Thoracic Surgeon, Co-Director of the UNC Lung Cancer Screening Clinic and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dr. Jason Long, talks about his journey to becoming a surgeon, his firm belief in informed consent and speaking with his patients like a family member or friend.
October 24, 2019
On Wednesday, September 25, 2019, Andrea Anita Hayes-Jordan, MD, FACS, FAAP, was honored with the Byah Thomason Doxey-Sanford Doxey Distinguished Professorship.
October 10, 2019
Michael LeCompte, MD, is the new assistant professor in the Department Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology at UNC/REX. He sat down to discuss how his childhood growing up in Africa inspired him to pursue medicine and how the need for Surgical Oncologists not just in the United States but oversees influenced his decision to focus on hepatobiliary surgery.
October 10, 2019
John Ikonomids, MD, PhD, Cardiothoracic surgeon, professor of surgery, and Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UNC.
October 3, 2019
Welcome to the Department of Surgery at UNC. Our Department is made up of over 350 people dedicated to providing outstanding care to the patients of North Carolina and beyond. We are excited to share our Department video highlighting who we are and showcases our commitment to patients, education, and advancing medicine.
October 2, 2019
Adesola Akinkuotu, MD, is the new assistant professor at UNC Surgery in the division of pediatric surgery. She sat down to discuss her journey from Nigeria to North Carolina, her childhood aspirations to be a neurosurgeon and how she decided to focus on pediatric surgery.
June 26, 2019
JAMA Surgery journal receives a record high impact factor of 10.668 making it the #1 surgery journal in the world and the distinction of being the 1st surgery journal to achieve a double-digit impact factor.
May 15, 2019
Deanna Williams was a 27-year-old mother of two, pregnant with her third child, and a ticking time bomb. She had no idea she was born with a rare congenital heart defect and that her pregnancy could unexpectedly put too much pressure on her heart, leading to possibly fatal consequences. Luckily, her story takes a much different path, one that includes a 3D-printed heart.
April 25, 2019
Pastor John Hedgepeth has spent over 50 years providing advice and guidance to members of his Northwood Temple Church. When it came to his own medical needs, he turned to the doctors at UNC Health Care for support. Read about his story and how he connected with Dr. Karyn Stitzenberg, Surgical Oncologist, at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
March 13, 2019
Melina Kibbe, MD, Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, was honored with the 12th Annual Women Leaders in Medicine Award from the American Medical Student Association. Kibbe was nominated by Perry Tsai, MD, PhD, National President of the American Medical Student Association and recent MD and PhD graduate from the UNC School of Medicine.
February 28, 2019
Carter Mae Kennedy is a cancer survivor, a fighter and a lover of Elsa – the Disney Princess from “Frozen.” She has already undergone open heart surgery to remove a rare tumor from her kidney that had climbed into her heart. She is only 5-years-old. Read about her story and how the doctors, nurses, and staff at UNC Health Care along with her community rallied around a family facing a devastating diagnosis.
February 21, 2019
The newest study conducted by a team at UNC Surgery finds that 58 percent of women surgeons experience sexual harassment. The currently unpublished project, presented at the recent Academic Surgical Congress, examines the scope of sexual harassment experienced by surgeons.