Stanford Surgery News

Dr. Matias Bruzoni has been elected to the LPCHS Medical Executive Committee.

Researchers have discovered how changes in aging skeletal stem cells may be an underlying cause of poor fracture healing, osteoporosis and various blood disorders as well as generalized inflammation and aging (sometimes called “inflammaging”) of cells and systems throughout the body. However, the researchers are also discovering how they might reinvigorate aging skeletal stem cell so that they start acting younger again, potentially reversing these changes.

Lingfeng Luo, PhD has been named a finalist for the Society of Vascular Medicine's (SVM) Young Investigator Award. The top three abstracts submitted to SVM's annual conference are invited to make oral presentations. Dr. Luo will present "Efficient suppression of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and intimal hyperplasia by targeting phosphodiesterase 10A."

Dr. Amanda Kirane will join the Department's Surgical Oncology Section effective September 1, 2021. Dr. Kirane will be the Director of Cutaneous Surgical Oncology.

Dr. Joe Forrester received the Surgical Infection Society (SIS) Foundation's Junior Faculty Clinical Research Fellowship Award. The grant will fund his proposal “Using species distribution models to predict the distribution of infection with MRSA and C.difficile in the United States."

Vascular Surgeon Dr. Elsie Ross has been selected to receive a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award (CSDA) from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The $495,000 of funding over three years will support the work described in her proposal: "The application of deep learning for automated vascular imaging analysis."

Dr. Daniel Delitto will join the Division of General Surgery Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) team as an Assistant Professor (UML) effective September 1.

Dr. Nicholas Leeper was selected to receive the 2021 Jeffrey M. Hoeg Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Award. The Hoeg Award is sponsored by the American Heart Association’s Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.

Dr. Jordan Stern has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery effect August 7, 2021.

Dr. Mary Hawn has been elected to serve as vice-chair of the American Board of Surgery (ABS) for the 2021-2022 term. She will succeed the current chair, Dr. Joe Hines, in 2022.

Kate McGurk received the 2020-2021 Graduate Medical Education (GME) Coordinators Award. McGurk is the Program Coordinator for the Division of Vascular Surgery's Residency and Fellowship programs.

A team of Stanford CVI-affiliated researchers identified a protein associated with increased inflammation that could be used to indicate healthy versus unhealthy aging.

Dr. Elsie Ross, along with her colleagues at Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, evaluate machine learning algorithms to identify patients at risk for PAD

Dr. Venita Chandra received the 2021 Vascular Career Advancement (VCA) Award.

Drs. James Dunn and Jeong Hyun received grants from the Maternal and Child Health Research Institute.

11 new surgeons join the ranks this June after completing their residency training at Stanford Surgery. See where they're headed!

The average cost of initial hospitalization to treat pediatric gun injuries is about $13,000 per patient and has risen in recent decades, a Stanford Medicine study found. Pediatric Surgery's Dr. Stephanie Chao is interviewed.

Compared with current practices, routine screening could prevent 23,000 deaths from liver disease. Asian Liver Center's Dr. Samuel So is interviewed.

While plenty of medications are designed to improve cardiovascular health, certain antacids can actually raise your heart attack risk. Vascular Surgery's Dr. Nicholas Leeper is interviewed.

In this episode of "The Future of Everything" presented by Stanford Engineering, Dr. Tina Hernandez-Boussard describes how data improves the quality of health care