Stanford Surgery News

Dr. Carla Pugh has been named the new Vice Chair of Innovation in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Pugh has been an innovation council member since its inception in 2018 and is Director of the TECI Center.

As 2021 comes to a close, we look back on all we have accomplished in this year of ups and downs.

Dr. Jeong Hyun has received the American Surgical Association Foundation (ASAF) Fellowship Research Award for his research proposal titled, “Characterization of fibrosis in Crohn's disease through mesenteric adipose tissue”

After a dramatic drop in nonessential surgery rates early in the pandemic, U.S. hospitals quickly adapted to new safety protocols, and rates returned to normal, Stanford Medicine research shows.

Branden Dever, SCH kidney transplant patient will ride atop the Donate Life float at the upcoming Rose Bowl parade honoring organ donors.

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have created a computer game to better educate medical students diagnosing patients performing surgery.

Dr. Dung Nguyen has been promoted to Clinical Professor effective December 1, 2021. "Dr. Nguyen has done it all - from having an incredibly busy breast reconstruction practice, to directing the SHC Plastic Surgery Clinic, to performing cutting-edge research in lymphedema treatment, and to teaching microsurgery overseas in Vietnam," wrote Division Chief Dr. James Chang in his announcement. "She has been a phenomenal colleague, teacher, and physician."

Dr. Sam So, director of the Asian Liver Center, helped write and support legislation to enable free hepatitis B and C screenings for those who request it.

Transplant Surgeon Dr. Khoa Thomas Pham will be promoted to Clinical Associate Professor effective February 1, 2022.

Bruce Ling, PhD was awarded a grant from NIH to study right ventricle dysfunction in pediatric patients. The almost $200,000 in funding will support his project: An automated system to interpret echocardiography to predict adverse outcomes in patients with right ventricular dysfunction in daily hospital practice.

Plastic Surgery's Laksman Veeravagu talks about becoming a published author on a study with surgeons from Harvard looking at social media engagement.

Dr. Kristan Staudenmayer has been appointed Vice Chair of the Trauma Systems Evaluation and Planning Committee. The committee is part of the the American College of Surgeon's Committee on Trauma (ACS COT).

Dr. Amanda Kirane received a 2022 ACS IRG Pilot Grant from the Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI). The award will support her proposal, “Biomarker Analysis of Neoadjuvant Intralesional Therapy in High-Risk Melanoma."

Dr. Dyani Gaudilliere has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Dr. Geoff Gurtner has accepted the position of Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona.

Stanford Surgery’s Balance in Life Program (BIL) has been expanded to include all Department of Surgery trainees. Started in 2011, BIL was created to support the physical, psychological professional, and social wellbeing of physicians in the General Surgery Residency Program. Now in its 11th year, the Department has decided to extend the program’s offerings to residents in the Divisions of Vascular and Plastic Surgery, as well as all clinical fellows in the Department.

Drs. Mary Hawn and Carla Pugh have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Derek Klarin received a Career Development Award from the VA's Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Department. The funding will go towards his research project "Clonal hematopoiesis and risk of PAD."

Dr. James Dunn has received an R01 from the NIH. The more than $350,000 grant will find his project "Spring Mediated Enterogenesis" for the next year.

Researchers have found that a phenomenon tied to animal size helps determine whether animals heal without scarring after burn injury.