Three Stanford Surgery Faculty Recognized at 2024 ME Awards

Congratulations to Dr. Arash Fereydooni for taking home the Robert Hye Memorial Best Resident Presentation Award (2nd place) plus more about Stanford Vascular at the 2024 Western Vascular Society Meeting.

Congratulations to Dr. Maria Korah, who is a recipient of the 2024 AAS Fall Courses Travel Award! The AAS Fall Courses will take place on Friday, October 18, 2024, in San Francisco, California.

Congratulations to Dr. Taylor Anderson, who won best presentation at the Chest Wall Injury Society-International in Berlin. Her presentation was titled "Post-Discharge Complications and Follow-up Timing After Hospitalization for Traumatic Rib Fractures."View all comments

The fourth annual Fellows' Balance in Life Retreat took place at Chaminade Resort and Spa on Friday, August 23rd. After a morning of ice breakers and group discussion the 20+ surgical fellows hiked down a long trail to the high ropes course.

In this special 'Women in Medicine Month' episode of Scrubcast, host Rachel Baker sits down with Dr. Mary Hawn, the Chair of Stanford University's Department of Surgery. Dr. Hawn discusses her multifaceted role overseeing research, education, and clinical care, while still practicing minimally invasive foregut surgery. She shares her journey from basic science research to becoming an acclaimed health services researcher, her thoughts on surgical training reforms, and the complexities of achieving work-life balance in medicine.

Lisa Knowlton, MD, MPH, is the co-recipient of up to $22.3 million award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to improve intraoperative anatomy visualization and critical structure identification. The prestigious five-year award will be led by Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Knowlton and Zhongming (Jeremy) Li, PhD, founding CEO of CisionVision, a medical device company in Mountain View, CA.

Drs. Lakshika Tennakoon and Lisa Knowlton have received a grant from the California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis. Almost $100k will fund their research project: “Leveraging natural language processing for identifying intimate partner violence using unstructured healthcare data.”

Dr. Amanda Kirane’s proposal, “Functional Oncology Mapping (FuncOMap) to deliver cutting-edge biomarkers for precision immunotherapy application,” was selected for funding as one of the Stanford Cancer Institute’s October 2024 SCI Innovation Awards.

Dr. HyeRan Choo was recognized with the David Precious Memorial Science Award at the 16th World Congress of the International Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation.

Dr. Dung Nguyen, a clinical professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, has received an R01 grant in the amount of $2.7M from the National Institutes of Health for her research project, “Development of a Bioengineered Therapeutic Device for the Prevention of Lymphedema.”