Surgery News
Awards
Kareem AbdelFattah, M.D., the director our general surgery residency program, received an Early Career Achievement Award in Academics from his alma mater, the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida.
Announcements
Emily Arner, a graduate student in the Brekken lab, is the first-ever UT Southwestern trainee to receive an F99 grant from the National Cancer Institute. She won the grant for Deciphering Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cellular Plasticity and Metastasis, and it will fund her work through to her post-doctoral years.
Ryan Dumas, M.D., became an associate member of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and was elected as vice chair of its associate member council.
Presentations
Caroline Park, M.D.
(Coauthors: Kuhlenschmidt K, Black GE, Bhat S, Dumas RP, Abdelfattah KR, Cripps MW, Grant J)
Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta: Simulation Improves Performance But May Require Interval Training to Prevent Skill Degradation
Military Health System Research Symposium
August 20-24, 2020, virtual presentation
Thomas Schlieve, D.D.S., M.D.
Oral Cancer in Young People and the Role of HPV
Dallas County Dental Society, Southwest Dental Conference
August 22, 2020 Dallas, Texas
View recent publications for the Department of Surgery here.