12/06/2010: Dr. Heena Santry was recently awarded the UMass Center for Clinical & Translational Science 2010 Clinical Research Scholar (K12) Award. Over the next 5 years, she will focus her research on "Acute Care Surgery Practice Patterns: Impact on Quality, Accessibility and Costs of Care for Surgical Emergencies". 

 

4/13/2010: Dr. Elizaveta Ragulin-Coyne, UMass Surgical Research Resident, was appointed in the inaugural class of UMMS Clinical Translational Scholars for 2010-2012.

3/15/2010: The Society of Surgical Oncology selected Surgery Resident Jillian Smith’s entry, Adjuvant Therapy for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: A Simple Prediction Rule, as the “Best Poster” submitted to the SSO’s Resident/Fellow Essay Contest at the  63rd Annual Cancer Symposium in St. Louis, MO.

2/9/2010: Jillian Smith, UMass Surgical Resident, had her abstract "Potential Benefit of Resection for Stage IV Gastric Cancer" judged to be one of the top 23 submitted abstracts for the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract meeting in New Orleans, May 2010. She will present both at the Plenary Session and compete at the Resident and Fellows Conference. Melissa Murphy, UMass Surgical Resident, won the top prize for her Short Oral talk in 2009.

1/6/2010: Shimul Shah, Assistant Professor of Surgery and SOAR researcher, was featured by in a wire story from ABC news/Reuters regarding acute pancreatitis and outcomes. Read More

11/24/2009: UMass Neurosurgery has won the American Association of Neurological Surgeons medical student award for the second year in a row.  Congratulations to Gina Deck and her mentor, Dr. Julie Pilitsis, who will be presenting her work on subdural hematomas in May 2010.

11/23/2009: Congratulations to Zheng (Frank) Zhou, MD, internal medicine resident, who received the first place award in the resident research poster competition at the American College of Physician's Massachusetts Medical Society Annual Meeting recently. His presentation, “Anti-VEGF and Anti-EGFR Monoclonal Antibodies in the First-line Therapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer - A Meta-analysis,” is coauthored by oncologists Drs. William Walsh, Venu Bathini and Bilal Piperdi. Dr. Zhou will compete at the national level at the American College of Physician's Internal Medicine Conference in Toronto in April.

9/14/2009: Dr. Jessica Simons, UMass resident, received 2nd place at the New England Surgical Society Resident Essay Competition, on September 12, 2009, for "Surgery and Radiation Therapy for Abdominal and Retroperitoneal Sarcoma: Both Necessary and Sufficient?"

6/26/209: Dr Jessica Simons, UMass surgical resident, will be competing at the New England Surgical Society Resident Essay Competition in Newport, Rhode Island, September 10-12, 2009.

6/1/2009: Melissa Murphy, UMass surgery resident, won the Resident and Fellows Award at the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Chicago, June 1st 2009 for her project "Major complications after laparoscopic cholecystectomy-a simple risk score". This prestigious award carries a $1000 prize.

3/17/2009: Thanks to efforts by Laura Lambert, MD, our newest surgical oncologist, Governor Patrick declared the last day of February as Rare Disease Day in Massachusetts. The proclamation calls attention to the public health issues associated with rare diseases. According to the National Institutes of Health, there are nearly 7,000 such diseases affecting nearly 30 million Americans. Dr. Lambert notes she will now wk toward permanently establishing February 28 as Rare Disease Day in Massachusetts.

2/3//2009: Dr. Stanley Tam, MD, has been appointed Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UMass Memorial and UMass Medical School as of January 12, 2009.

We welcome:
    •    Adel Bozorgzadeh, Chief, Organ Transplantation
    •    Geoffrey Graeber, Section Chief, Thoracic Surgery
    •    Laura Lambert, Surgical Oncology
    •    Nilima Patwardhan, Surgical Oncology