Three Stanford Surgery Faculty Recognized at 2024 ME Awards

Stanford Health Care (SHC) performed the first FDA-approved cell therapy for solid tumor case in the country. AMTAGVI (lifileucel) was administered to a patient with metastatic melanoma on Tuesday, February 20, 2024.

In this episode of Scrubcast, host Rachel Baker interviews Dr. Cindy Kin, an associate professor in Stanford University's Department of Surgery. Dr. Kin delves into her choice to specialize in colorectal surgery and shares insights on the increasing trend of colon cancer in younger patients.

Stephanie Chao, MD, pediatric surgeon and trauma medical director at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and associate professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric General Surgery at Stanford Medicine, has been named one of the 2024 Presidential Leadership Scholars (PLS).

Dr. Daniel Ahn is the recipient of a 2024 Young Investigator Award from the American Transplant Conference (ATC) for this abstract entitled “Adult Liver Transplant Candidates with Non-Standardized MELD Score Exceptions Have Lower Risk of Waitlist Mortality Than Standard Candidates.”

Stanford Surgery highlights from the 95th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, which took place February 9-12 in Rancho Mirage, CA.

Dr. Fred Dirbas has been invited to serve as the Vice Chair of the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) Breast Disease Site Work Group by Society President-Elect Dr. Ronald DeMatteo.

Stanford University Surgery ranked 7th in the country for NIH Funding in 2023. The rankings, compiled by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, include both the Departments of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery as well as the Cardiovascular Institute (CVI).

Stanford Surgery highlights from the 19th annual Academic Surgical Congress (ASC), which took place on February 6-8, 2024 in Washington D.C.

The 2024 Seed Grant and Instrument Funding winners have been announced by the Research and Innovation Committees. Six seed grants were awarded to researchers in General, Vascular, Transplantation, and Pediatric Surgery. Each received up to $50,000 towards their project.

A Q&A with Dr. Rejoice Fari Ngongoni, the first Stanford Surgery resident to participate in the international elective rotation in Zimbabwe since the COVID pandemic.