Stanford Surgery News

General Surgery Resident Dr. Chloe Nobuhara talks about her work quantifying and improving surgical performance with AI. The Surgical Objective Assessment and Review (SOAR) webapp is a collaboration with the SAVE program for Wellcome Leap and uses computer vision to segment surgical operations into steps for efficient video review and quantify performance.

A Stanford Medicine-led trial found that a few weeks of personalized prehab improved patients’ physical and cognitive resilience before surgery, with noticeable changes in their immune system.

A surgeon-scientist returns to Stanford to advance cancer research by connecting surgical care with lab discoveries.

Dr. W. Paul Brown's accidental thumb injury led to a transformative career in anatomy education, leveraging 3D technology to revolutionize teaching methods. His collaboration with Stanford and former NASA scientists resulted in multiple NIH grants and the development of innovative digital anatomy resources.

Dr. Jeong Hyun, an assistant professor in the division of pediatric surgery at Stanford University, discusses his research on Crohn's disease and how his journey to becoming a surgeon scientist.

Alexxandra Hurtado is an HBCU MD Student from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science working in Dr. Amanda Kirane's lab.

The Stanford-HBMC Program celebrates the awardees of the 2025 Recognizing Individuals for Support and Empowerment (RISE) Awards, recognizing faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars, and residents who demonstrated exceptional mentorship to visiting medical students from Historically Black Medical Colleges (HBMCs) including our own Dr. Amanda Kirane.

The Division of Vascular Surgery announces new leadership of its training programs. Dr. Michael Sgroi has been appointed Program Director of the Stanford Vascular Surgery Residency and Fellowship Programs. Dr. Elizabeth George has been appointed Associate Program Director.

Dr. Abdourahmane Ndong is a visiting scholar participating in the Stanford African Scholars in Global Health Program (SASH), organized by the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH). He spent six weeks on campus focusing on laparoscopic surgery training and how he might scale this work in his native Senegal.

Dr. Palca Shibale, a general surgery resident from the University of Wisconsin currently conducting research in Dr. Michael Longaker’s laboratory at Stanford, has been awarded the SUS Karl Storz Resident Research Scholar Award, which provides $40,000 in funding to support her project titled “Fibroblast Subpopulations and the Foreign Body Response to Implanted Materials.”