Stanford Surgery News

The International Rotation at the University of Zimbabwe is, in fact, a popular elective for PGY3s in Stanford’s General Surgery Residency Program.

Ronald Dalman, MD, the Walter Clifford Chidester and Elsa Rooney Chidester Professor of Surgery, Chief of Vasculary Surgery, has been appointed to serve as associate dean for market development.

Six Surgeon Scientists have been awarded funds as part of the Department of Surgery’s new Seed Grant Program. Drs. Dan Azagury (General Surgery), Paige Fox (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery), Jason Lee (Vascular Surgery), Olivia Martinez (Abdominal Transplantation), Marc Melcher (General Surgery), and Claudia Mueller (Pediatric Surgery) were each given between $10,000 and $50,000 to fund their research for the next 12 months.

Thanks to a $6.7 million grant, the newly named UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium can focus on the development of revolutionary, low-cost gadgets to diagnose and cure pediatric health conditions.

Each Saturday, Stanford Medicine's Instagram gives followers a peek into the OR.

Ana Mezynski, the administrative associate III at the Stanford-Surgery Policy Improvement, Research, and Education (S-SPIRE) Center, recently had her work accepted by the journal Surgery.

Stanford’s Department of Surgery now offers three programs for high school students: the Clinical Anatomy Summer Program (CASP), Stanford Science Technology and Reconstructive Surgery (StaRS) Internship Program, and—new this summer—the Summer Math and Science Honors (SMASH) Academy.

This year’s intern boot camp is unlike any before it, with instructors employing a flipped- classroom model to accommodate all learning styles and expand instruction time.

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Electron Kebebew, MD, professor of surgery, was appointed the Harry A. Oberhelman Jr. and Mark L. Welton Professor, effective Feb. 13. He is the chief of general surgery. He specializes in endocrine surgery with a research focus on identifying the genomic drivers of endocrine cancers, and on the development of precision methods to treat endocrine tumors based on genetics and imaging.

Faculty members from Stanford’s Department of Surgery will come together for a two-day retreat focused on research in May.

General Surgery Resident Dr. Ashley Titan was awarded a Resident Research Scholarship from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The scholarship will support Titan during her two professional development years, which she plans to spend working with Drs. Michael Longaker and Charles Chan.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Stanford's Division of Abdominal Transplantation two U01 grants to perform innovative studies on samples from pediatric transplant recipients. The total awarded for these grants is more than $1,200,000 each year for the next three years.