Department of Surgery Archive — Page 8 of 15
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July 14, 2022
Pediatric ECMO program founder Pietsch retires
John Pietsch, MD, the recently retired founder of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, didn’t grow up wanting to be a doctor. -
June 23, 2022
Study reveals how gastric cancer forms, suggests preventive treatment
Eunyoung Choi, PhD, assistant professor of Surgery, and colleagues identified for the first time that Trop2+/CD133+/CD166+ dysplastic stem cells are a key source of clonal evolution of dysplasia to multiple types of gastric cancer. -
June 15, 2022
Dolly Parton donates $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to help in the fight against serious infectious diseases such as coronavirus that have worldwide ramifications. -
June 2, 2022
VUMC’s Solórzano elected president-elect of AAES
Vanderbilt's Carmen Solórzano, MD, has been elected president-elect of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. -
June 2, 2022
Choi, Short receive AGA Research Foundation Awards
Two Vanderbilt researchers have received awards from the AGA Foundation, the charitable arm of the American Gastroenterological Association. -
May 19, 2022
Molecular ‘switch’ may illuminate stomach disorders
An international team that included researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center has discovered a molecular switch that induces rapid proliferation of zymogen granule-secreting chief cells in the stomach to regenerate damaged tissue. -
April 21, 2022
Shumway Lecture
Ashish Shah, MD, chair of Cardiac Surgery, Carmen Solórzano, MD, chair of Surgery, and Seth Karp, MD, chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences and director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, welcome Sara Shumway, MD, (second from left), prior to her delivering the 2022 Shumway Lecture in Transplantation at Vanderbilt.