Grand Rounds, February 29, 2024
Presentation Title: At the intersection of health equity and inclusive excellence. Strategies to eliminate health care disparities within surgery Speaker: Cherisse Berry, MD Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024 Time: 7:00 AM ‐ 8:00 AM Location: Medical School Building Learning Format:…
At the Bedside: Infant born with arm malformation comes home after life-changing surgery
When Isabella Halligan was born in late October 2023, the delivery nurse noticed a big red lump on the baby’s forearm. Doctors quickly diagnosed the lump as a large arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a tangle of blood vessels that irregularly connects…
SurgeON Newsletter – February 2024
Read the February 2024 Issue of SurgeON… Research: Progesterone Study Offers Insights into Inguinal Hernia Development Eisenberg Presents Research at STS 2024 ASRM Annual Conference Moore Presents Innovative Trauma Solutions at Hokkaido Conference Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma…
SurgeON Newsletter – January 2024
Read the January 2024 Issue of SurgeON… Awards: Cox Appointed Director of Center for Translational Injury Research DaVee Elected Chairman of Gastroenterology at Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital Canfield Earns AUA’s Presidential Citation for Urology Excellence Harris Health Surgery Faculty…
Canfield Earns AUA’s Presidential Citation for Urology Excellence
In a proud moment for our department, we are delighted to announce that Steven E. Canfield, MD, professor and chief of the Division of Urology in the Department of Surgery, has been selected as one of the recipients of the…
SurgeON Newsletter – December 2023
Read the December 2023 Issue of SurgeON… HAPPY HOLIDAYS Wishing you and your families joy, peace, and happiness this holiday season. Thank you for your dedication, enthusiasm, and partnership in everything you do for the department and for our patients….
SurgeON Newsletter – November 2023
Read the November 2023 Issue of SurgeON… Awards: ACS Annual Clinical Congress 2023: Dr. Lillian Kao Elected Chair of Board of Governors, Faculty Inducted as FACS, and Exciting Surgical Advancements Unveiled Research: Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Meeting Wadhwa Leads AGA Advocacy…
At the Bedside: Pancreatic cancer patient ‘back on track’ after UTHealth Houston clinical trial therapy shrinks tumor
Demetrios Stroubakis, 55, thought he was having a gallbladder attack when he arrived at the emergency room in August 2021 with jaundice. Instead, he was shocked to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “I was floored. I consider myself to be…
SurgeON Newsletter – October 2023
Read the October 2023 Issue of SurgeON… Awards: Houstonia Magazine Unveils its 2023 Top Doctors American College of Surgeons Names Chamely as Resident & Associate Society Liaison Education: Bridging Divides Celebrating Learning Healthcare Research: Saif Wins Award to Attend Society…
At the Bedside: New focal therapies at UTHealth Houston make prostate cancer treatment easier on patients
One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime and 11 years ago, Morton McPhail, now 73, became one of them. Fortunately, time was on his side. The prostate gland, found only in men, produces seminal…