Stanford Surgery News

Drs. Paige Fox and Arash Momeni have been appointed Ryan-Upson Scholars in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University.

13 members of the Stanford Department of Surgery were featured in San Francisco Magazine's annual list of the Bay Area's top doctors.

While some prefer to leave work at the office, after a long day in the OR, many health care professionals choose to decompress with a good medical drama. Despite soap-operatic plotlines and glamorized versions of hospital life …everyone—from the attendings down to the interns—has seen the latest episodes. Thus, it should have come as no surprise when about halfway through the Season 14 premier of Grey’s Anatomy Plastic Surgery Professional Development (PD) Resident Danielle Rochlin, MD, appeared behind Dr. Jackson Avery, played by Jesse Williams.

Carla Pugh, MD PhD, FACS will join Stanford University’s Department of Surgery as a Professor of General Surgery (UTL) effective March 1, 2018.

The new Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (LPCH) is slated to open its doors to patients on Saturday, December 9, 2017. The $1.2 billion project, which broke ground in 2012, adds 521,000 square feet of building and 3.5 acres of open space and gardens.

John M. Morton, MD, MPH, FACS, FASMBS, chief of bariatric and minimally invasive surgery, has been named clinical editor of Bariatric Times beginning January 2018.

The Stanford University Department of Surgery has announced that Dr. Electron Kebebew will be the next chief of general surgery effective March 1, 2018.

The Stanford University Department of Surgery has named James R. Korndorffer Jr., MD, MPHE, FACS, vice chair of education effective December 1, 2017. Vice chair of education is a new position in the Department of Surgery.

According to an article in The American Journal of Surgery, surgeons play an essential role in improving health outcomes for low‐income populations, but they comprise only a small fraction of their community. Marin Nevarez and fellow medical student Jecca Steinberg wish to change that.

The room is dark except for the small section of abdomen illuminated by the surgical lights overhead. The steady chirp of the heart monitor fills your ears, and you glance up to see the anesthesiologist monitoring your patient’s vitals before holding out your hand for the scrub nurse to place the scalpel. But the sensation of cold, hard surgical steel in your hand never comes. Because you aren’t performing surgery. You aren’t even in an operating room (OR). This is virtual reality (VR).

Stanford University Chief of Pediatric Surgery James Dunn, MD, is applying to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to start human trials on his distraction enterogenesis-inducing endoluminal coils.

Stanford University Professor of General Surgery Dr. Sherry Wren will receive the International Surgical Volunteerism Award from the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

Stanford Hospital today was named to the top 10 on the U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of the best hospitals in the nation.

The Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health has awarded almost $50,000 in seed funding to Sherry Wren, MD, FACS, professor of surgery, and Paul Wise, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics. The grant will support their project Improving the humanitarian response to civilians injured on the modern battlefront.