Stanford Surgery News

Dr. Berhe will be at Stanford April 23-27 for a mixed methods research training and hopes to connect with colleagues in global health research, pharmacology, and noncommunicable diseases. His trip is sponsored by Stanford Surgery's Office of Global Engagement.

Although National Doctor’s Day officially took place on March 30, Stanford Surgery celebrated department faculty all month-long with a series of events.

Jaxon was diagnosed with nephronophthisis, a genetic disorder of the kidneys. Children who have this disease need a kidney transplant by the time they’re teenagers, as it eventually leads to kidney failure.

“Ocean was in dire need of a liver transplant,” says Carlos Esquivel, MD, pediatric transplant surgeon. “He was very ill and running out of time to wait for a compatible pediatric donor. We rarely get a pediatric donor. We had an offer for him from an adult donor that was his only chance for survival. We were able to use a small segment of the donated liver to save his life.”

A team comprised of Linda Thomas, Co-Lead Carmen LoCascio as well as Robin Cohen, Amos Lam, Kevin Lee, Ana Mezynski, and Jackie Stahl participated in SHC's RITE (Realizing Improvement through Team Empowerment) Program and successfully reduced reimbursement rejections from 25 to 17%.

In this episode of Scrubcast, host Rachel Baker interviews Dr. HyeRan Choo, a clinical associate professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Choo is doing innovative work treating Pierre Robin Sequence—a rare congenital condition—using a non-surgical method.

A team including Dr. Amanda Kirane has been awarded the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) Team Science Award for their translational therapy-predictive organoid model.

Carlie Arbaugh (32) talks about her experience as a general surgery resident living with a rare diagnosis that has caused hearing impairment. Carlie shares how her personal experience undergoing has influenced the way she communicates with and cares for her patients.

Dr. Jim Korndorffer created a fellowship program linking Stanford's School of Medicine with its Graduate School of Education in an effort to improve medical education (and, by extension, patient care.) The fellows are currently wrapping up the first-year pilot.

Dr. Martin Bronk recently visited UGHE in Rwanda for three weeks to teach senior medical students during their surgery clerkship.