2024 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the Department of Surgery winners of the 2024 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards. Sasha Adams, MD Mohin Bhadkamkar, MD John Cowling, MD Casey Duncan, MD Ekatarina Elliott, DO Melissa Felinski, DO Daniel Freet, MD Ryan Hall, MD Todd Huzar,…
Harris Health breaks ground on new hospital project on LBJ campus
UTHealth Houston celebrated alongside its hospital partner as Harris Health System broke ground for a new $1.6 billion hospital on the Lyndon B. Johnson campus in Northeast Harris County that will enhance health care in one of the county’s most…
Sharing a long endometriosis journey to help others
From the day her period started at age 13, Catherine Gray experienced daily (often excruciating) pain that interfered with school, work, and her life as a young adult. She later had issues with her bladder, intestines, and bowel. What she…
SurgeON Newsletter – May 2024
Read the May 2024 Issue of SurgeON… Awards: McNutt Named Chief Medical Officer for Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Thosani & Wadhwa Named Among Top 1% of GI Surgeons Nationally Stewart Appointed Co-Medical Director of LBJ SICU Education: Surgeons Discuss the…
Thosani & Wadhwa Named Among Top 1% of GI Surgeons Nationally
We are thrilled to announce that two of our distinguished surgeons, Nirav C. Thosani, MD, MHA, Atilla Ertan, MD, Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology and Professor in the Department of Surgery, along with Vaibhav Wadhwa, MD, Assistant Professor in the Department…
Real-world Utilization of Active Surveillance After GPS Testing for Localized Prostate Cancer
Steven Canfield, MD, of UTHealth Houston shares the results of his recent study looking at the real-world utilization of active surveillance among men with localized prostate cancer who were tested with the genomic prostate score assay. Dr. Canfield presented his…
SurgeON Newsletter – April 2024
Read the April 2024 Issue of SurgeON… It’s a Match – Match Day 2024 / Incoming Residents Awards: UTHealth Houston Physicians Successfully Complete Intensive Leadership Development Course Moore Graduates with Honors from Harvard Medical School Leadership Program Research: Medical Students…
Smiling through a colon cancer journey to inspire others
A stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis completely shocked Michelle Nasser in 2023 as a 46-year-old mom with two young girls. She purposely changed her habits to keep cancer at bay, after her father’s colon cancer diagnosis at age 59. “I…
SurgeON Newsletter – March 2024
Read the March 2024 Issue of SurgeON… Colon Cancer Awareness Month Awards: Congratulations to our 2023 Star Awardees Scerbo Achieves Board Certification in Clinical Informatics Research: Impressive Representation at 19th Annual Academic Surgical Congress UTHealth Houston Leads in Transformative Trauma…
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…