Stanford Surgery News

2020 Archive

  • – Vascular &
    Endovascular Surgery

    Dr. Sayed Joins Vascular Surgery, CVI

    Dr. Nazish Sayed will be an Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery and the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute starting January 16th.

  • – Surgery

    Dr. Bell Named CZ Biohub Physician-Scientist Fellow

    Caitlin Bell, MD, a clinical fellow in the Division of Vascular Surgery's Leeper Lab, has been chosen as a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Physician-Scientist Fellow.

  • – Surgery

    Weiser, Lifebox Awarded Gates Grand Challenge Award

    Lifebox, the international safer surgery nonprofit, has received a Gates Grand Challenge Award with Dr. Tom Weiser as Prinicpal Investigator.

  • – Surgery

    Dr. Tran Receives VESS/Medtronic Resident Research Award

    Dr. Kenneth Tran, a resident in the Division of Vascular Surgery, is the recipient of the 2021 Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS)/Medtronic Resident Research Award.

  • – Surgery

    Med Student Receives Boring Trust Award Under Guidance of Surgery Faculty

    Suleman Khan, a third-year Stanford medical student, has been awarded the 2020 Dorothy Dee and Marjorie Helene Boring Trust Award under the guidance of Surgery faculty: Drs. Oliver Aalami, Carla Pugh, and Ronald Dalman.

  • – Apple Podcasts

    ‎Dr. Fereydooni Featured on Audible Bleeding Podcast

    Dr. Arash Fereydooni, a vascular surgery resident, is interviewed on the Audible Bleeding podcast episode "Advice for Applicants to the Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency."

  • – Surgery

    Leeper Receives Falk Award

    Dr. Nicholas Leeper is the recipient of the 2020 Falk Medical Research Trust Transformational Award. The $1M in funding from Health Resources in Action will fund Leeper's project "Precision Nanotherapies for Cardiovascular Disease" through November 2022.

  • – Surgery

    HTTC: Dr. Lisa Knowlton, AAST Associate Members Council

    This article is part of a series of interviews with Stanford Surgery faculty who were, are, or will be presidents of surgical societies. Dr. Lisa Knowlton is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery’s trauma and acute care surgery section and a member of the S-SPIRE Center faculty. She was elected Chair of the Associate Member Council of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) earlier this year.

  • – Surgery

    Dr. Wren Elected ISS Fellow

    The International Society of Surgery (ISS/SIC) Council has elected Dr. Sherry Wren as Fellow of the International Society of Surgery.

  • – News Center

    John Gosling, anatomy researcher and teacher, dies at 81

    Gosling was the co-author of a popular anatomy textbook and a specialist in the neuroscience of the genitourinary system.

  • – Surgery

    Kidney Transplant Team Receives ISP Star Award

    Stanford's Kidney Transplant Team is a recipient of this year's Integrated Strategic Plan Star Awards. According to their website, "This honor recognizes individuals and teams from the Stanford Medicine community who, through their extraordinary efforts, embody the strategic priorities of our ISP: Value Focused, Digitally Driven, and Uniquely Stanford."

  • – Surgery

    OR Team Wins Patient Safety Star Award

    An OR team was the winner of Stanford Health Care's October 2020 Patient Safety Star Award. The team consisted of Dr. Sophia Turkmani-Bazzi, Dr. Will Watkins, Anne Marie Lycan RN, Don Williams RN, Monica Smith, and our own Drs. David Spain, Carlie Arbaugh, and Ioana Baiu.

  • – Surgery

    Dr. Manual Garcia-Toca Promoted to Professor

    Dr. Manuel Garcia-Toca has been promoted to the rank of Clinical Professor in Surgery in the School of Medicine. The promotion is effective November 1, 2020.

  • – News Center

    Educators will use virtual reality to teach anatomy

    This fall, Stanford Medicine educators will teach anatomy to medical students in Kenya using virtual reality. The effort is part of a pilot project to educate medical students in under-resourced schools.

  • – Modern Healthcare

    Artificial intelligence gets real in the OR

    AI-assisted surgery has been an area of gradual growth, laying the foundation for other possibilities including intra-operative clinical decision support and maybe even some automation. Dr. Carla Pugh is quoted.

  • – Pediatric General Surgery

    Diyaolu Wins AAP Special Child Abuse Award

    Dr. Modupeola Diyaolu is the winner of the American Academy of Pediatrics' 2020 Special Child Abuse Award for her work on “Black Children are Disproportionately Identified as Victims of Child Abuse: A National Trauma Data Bank Study.” Dr. Diyaolu is the Innovations in Pediatric Surgery Fellow in the Division of Pediatric Surgery.

  • – Surgery

    HTTC: Dr. David Spain, AAST

    This article is part of a series of interviews with Stanford Surgery faculty who were, are, or will be presidents of surgical societies. David Spain, MD, is a Professor in the Division of General Surgery, Chief of the Trauma Section, and Director of the General Surgery Residency Program. He was elected President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma in September 2019.

  • – Surgery

    Understanding and Treating Rib Fractures

    General Surgery Resident Dr. Jeff Choi’s talks about how rib fractures have transformed his professional development time from studies on intravenous lidocaine for pain management to learning how to use artificial intelligence in medical imaging.

  • – Surgery

    Dr. Chao to Participate in OFDD Leadership Bootcamp

    Dr. Stephanie Chao has been accepted to the 2020-2021 Office of Faculty Development and Diversity’s (OFDD) Junior Leadership Bootcamp Series.

  • – Scope

    Reducing surgical site infections in low-resource settings

    During a stint in Ethiopia, Stanford surgical resident Jared Forrester worked on a surgical infection prevention plan for low- and middle-income countries.