July 2, 2025
‘There’s Good in Every Day:’ Wife of Double Lung Transplant Recipient Shares Awe-Inspiring Medical Journey
Duane McKay, 40, receives life-saving double transplant at UNC Hospitals after battling leukemia five years prior.
Category: Surgery
May 14, 2025
UNC Researcher Presents First-in-Human Clinical Results for Clot-Breaking SonoThrombectomy™ Ultrasound System
A medical device company birthed from a collaboration between the School of Medicine and College of Engineering conducted its first human clinical trial for its clot-breaking ultrasound system.
April 4, 2025
AIBODY and North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Partner to Transform Burn Education with Simulation Technology
Innovative physiology platform allows clinicians to create interactive learning experiences, enhancing burn care training and improving patient outcomes
December 18, 2024
How UNC’s Chronic Pancreatitis and Autologous Islet Cell Transplant Program Provides Holistic, Life-Changing Care
The UNC Chronic Pancreatitis and Autologous Islet Cell Transplant Program, led by Chirag S. Desai, MD, FACS, professor of surgery, has performed its 100th case, cementing UNC Hospitals as one of the most significant centers for surgical therapy for chronic pancreatitis.
December 18, 2024
UNC School of Medicine’s Living Donor Liver Transplant Program Receives Full Approval
UNC School of Medicine’s Living Donor Liver Transplant program has been recognized by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) as a center with expertise to offer Living Donor Liver Transplants. Sorabh Kapoor, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, will serve as the Surgical Director of the program.
September 27, 2024
Hear From the Recipients of the First Domino Liver Transplant at UNC Hospitals in Decades
Seth Webb, a 30-year-old man from Macclesfield, NC, and Scott Owen, a 72-year-old man from Cameron, NC, were both in need of a new liver. Surgeons at UNC Hospitals made the most of the opportunity: performing a rare domino liver transplant at UNC Hospitals to save their lives with the least number of organs possible.
May 20, 2024
The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Celebrates 42 Years of Burn Camp
Created in 1982 by the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals, Camp Celebrate was the first camp for pediatric burn survivors of its kind in the United States.
February 8, 2024
The Path of Escape: How Breast Tumor Cells Avoid Common Cancer Therapy
An interdisciplinary team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers from computational medicine, genetics, biostatistics, and surgery investigated how cell cycle flexibility allows tumor cells to escape the effect of anti-cancer drugs that target cell division. UNC Lineberger members Jeremy Purvis, PhD, professor of genetics, and Phillip Spanheimer, MD, assistant professor of surgery, led this study.
January 30, 2024
UNC Hospitals Performs First Domino Liver Transplant in Decades
Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, an abdominal organ transplant and hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeon at UNC Hospitals, and his team at the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery performed a "domino" liver transplant which helped two patients from a single donor without splitting a liver.
November 14, 2023
UNC Peripheral Nerve Center Now Open
The UNC Peripheral Nerve Center is now open. The center is an integrated practice unit that seeks to improve the lives of patients dealing with peripheral nerve disorders. The center's work will focus on conditions that affect nerves transmitting signals from the brain and spinal cord to the body.
October 31, 2023
New Procedure at UNC Restores Eyesight, Sensation for Patients with Rare Eye Condition
Matthew Miller, MD, Daniel Rubinstein, MD, and Hussam Banna, MD, from the UNC School of Medicine joined forces to perform the first corneal neurotization procedure at UNC, a life-changing surgery for patients who have neurotrophic keratitis.
September 25, 2023
Researchers Develop AI Model to Improve Tumor Removal Accuracy During Breast Cancer Surgery
Kristalyn Gallagher, DO, Kevin Chen, MD, and Shawn Gomez, EngScD, in the UNC School of Medicine have developed an AI model that can predict whether or not cancerous tissue has been fully removed from the body during breast cancer surgery.