Sentences with phrase «surgery at»

«The first level of treatment for a patient with concussion is always to remove the athlete from participation,» said Brian Sennett, MD, chief of Sports Medicine and vice-chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Penn Medicine.

In addition he completed a Master of Science in Molecular Pathology from the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto and completed a fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC.

From 1996 to 2001, she was Chief of the Department of Surgery at Santa Teresa.

John Strasswimmer, MD, PhD, of the department of dermatology and cutaneous surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida, and colleagues conducted the survey to identify gaps in education on sun protection and find ways to spread awareness among these populations.

Hospital officials said the operation was successful and that Miles and Wolodkiewicz, who underwent surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, are in recovery.

This study is really a wake - up call to the medical community that a relatively large number of colorectal cancers are occurring in people under 50,» says study author Samantha Hendren, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School.

She completed her surgical residency at the University of Miami Hospital and a Society of Surgical Oncology approved fellowship in breast surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Hisao Asamura, MD, is chief of thoracic surgery at the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan.

Frances E. Rosato, MD, has joined the Penn Medicine Department of Surgery at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

Charles H. Lang, PhD, distinguished professor of cellular and molecular physiology and surgery at Penn State College of Medicine, has accepted the appointment of Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the College.

«His complex genetic syndrome and pulmonary insufficiency made a pectus repair imperative,» said pediatric surgeon Donald Liu, MD, chief of surgery at Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago.

Fat also «turns out to be a readily available, great natural resource,» says Michael Longaker, a professor of plastic surgery at Stanford.

August 2, 2006 Jeffrey Matthews appointed chairman of surgery at the University of Chicago Gastrointestinal surgeon Jeffrey Matthews, MD, a leading authority on the surgical treatment of diseases of the pancreas, bile ducts and liver, and a prominent scientist known for his fundamental research on defects in chloride transport in epithelial tissue, has been appointed chairman of surgery at the University of Chicago, effective October 1, 2006.

An assistant professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Yeh adds, «Because our study is retrospective, it can only point to the need for further research.

May 26, 2006 Cardiac surgeon Robert Karp, 1934 - 2006 A pioneer in heart surgery and transplantation, Robert B. Karp, MD, professor emeritus of surgery and the former section chief of cardiac surgery at the University of Chicago, and his wife, Sondra, died May 18, 2006, in a motor vehicle accident on a highway near the village of Chateauroux, about 100 miles south of Paris, France.

«While there is no single ideal bariatric procedure that can be applied to all severely obese patients, we have generally recommended the duodenal switch for those with a BMI greater than 50,» said study author Vivek Prachand, MD, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Chicago.

This study involved 350 consecutive super-obese patients who underwent weight - loss surgery at the University of Chicago Hospitals between Aug. 5, 2002, and Nov. 10, 2005.

The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery Wendy Moore; Broadway Books, $ 26 A dedicated anatomist, ruthless vivisectionist, and rigorous experimentalist, John Hunter (1728 — 1793) transformed surgery at a time when most practitioners were little more than tooth - pulling barbers.

Robin Pourzal, PhD, a research scientist in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center, examines a retrieved implant.

The clip was developed as a collaboration between the Division of Mechanics and Physics of Materials at the Kobe University Graduate School of Engineering and the Division of Hepato - Biliary - Pancreatic Surgery at the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine.

«Adults are living longer, and many are maintaining a very active lifestyle, creating the need for long - lasting joint replacements,» says Robin Pourzal, PhD, a research scientist in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center.

One example: In 2000, NASA recruited Scott Dulchavsky, the chairman of surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, to study how a portable ultrasound machine could be used to diagnose possible health problems that could occur on the ISS.

«The hope behind something like this capsule is that the surgeon will be able to place it inside the body through an existing incision and leave it in a position where it can be easily grasped and used to map out the stiffness or density of the tissue when needed, much like he or she would palpate it with by hand in open surgery,» said collaborator S. Duke Herrell, associate professor of urologic surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Additional testing and biomechanical analysis of results have been performed in collaboration with graduate student Levin Sliker, Assistant Professor Mark Rentschler at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Jonathan Schoen, associate professor of surgery at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Steven Reiken, a research fellow in the department of surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, believes that antibody - targeted photolysis (ATPL), a technique based on a procedure used to treat some cancerous tumours, could cure infections caused by P. aeruginosa.

Professor Justin Cobb is the Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery at Imperial's Department of Medicine.

«I'm already changing my teaching slides» about the functions of bones, comments Jennifer Westendorf, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. «Now we can add that [the skeleton] affects energy metabolism as well,»

«Self - expanding TAVR widens advantage over surgery at two years.»

The study was led by Dr. Guido Eibl, JCCC member and professor - in - residence in the department of surgery at David Geffen School of Medicine.

The Cancer Institute's Associate Director for Education and Training Edmund Lattime, PhD, who is also a professor of surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Elizabeth Poplin, MD, co-director of the Cancer Institute's Gastrointestinal / Hepatobiliary Program and a professor of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School are the lead investigators of the study.

Dr. Oren Tessler, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, is part of a team of plastic and reconstructive surgeons who report a high success rate using a method to screen and select patients for a specific surgical migraine treatment technique.

Jindal is an instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

«When it comes to brain tumor research, I picture our Northwestern Medicine team climbing a mountain and with every new discovery that shows the potential to prolong survival, we are establishing a new base camp,» said Andrew Parsa, MD, corresponding author of the study and chair of neurological surgery at Northwestern Memorial and the Michael J. Marchese Professor and chair of the department of neurological surgery at the Feinberg School.

Rather, the donor's soft tissue will mold itself to the recipient's bone structure, says David Staffenberg, chairman of plastic surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y., who was not involved in the transplant.

«This is the first prospective study of any device that suggests TAVR is superior to [surgery] in a predefined population of patients, and that's a provocative finding,» said David H. Adams, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center and co-principal investigator of the study.

«There is limited research on the impact of this complication on breast reconstruction pathways and guidance for optimal management of these patients,» notes Professor Charles M. Malata, FRCS (Plast), who is Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon at the Cambridge Breast Unit (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) and Professor of Academic Plastic Surgery at the Postgraduate Medical Institute of Anglia Ruskin University.

In the Pediatrics study, the new model was used to analyze data on 46,281 patients under the age of 18 who underwent surgery at 43 participating institutions in 2011.

«The grim prognosis is exactly why new research is important,» said Bloch, who is an assistant professor of neurological surgery at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.

For their research, Godfried and Ayesha Rahman, MD, a fifth - year resident in the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU Langone, reviewed peer - reviewed literature on different options in imaging technology that may be used in pediatric orthopaedic injuries, including X-rays and CT scans of the spine, pelvis, hip, knees, shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist, and foot and ankle.

«Nomograms offer the ability to personalize survival estimates for patients based upon a host of factors that are clinically relevant when we meet patients,» stated Carole Fakhry, MD, the study's lead author and an associate professor in the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at John Hopkins University.

The result is an instant 3 - D model similar in quality to a CT scan or MRI, said Joshua Broder, M.D., an emergency physician and associate professor of surgery at Duke Health and one of the creators of the technology.

John Primrose, Professor of Surgery at the University of Southampton, comments: «These results were unexpected.

It's a proof - of - concept that the model works, said Jacqueline M. Saito, MD, MSCI, assistant professor of Surgery at Washington University and St. Louis Children's Hospital.

In fact, our study did show that people taking antacids are doing better,» says lead study author Silvana Papagerakis, M.D., Ph.D., research assistant professor of otolaryngology — head and neck surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School and an adjunct clinical assistant professor at the U-M School of Dentistry.

The study, published online May 1 in Nature Biotechnology, was led by Karl R. Koehler, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at IU School of Medicine, and Dr. Hashino in collaboration with Jeffrey Holt, PhD, professor of otology and laryngology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.

It also has the potential of allowing age - proportional growth of the airway,» explained Makoto Ando, MD, of the Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo (Japan).

A couple of years earlier, Garofolo had submitted to experimental surgery himself at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, during which a surgeon pulled chunks of ivory - colored fat out through small openings in his belly.

That mechanism protects cancer cells from destructing,» says Weiping Zou, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery at Michigan Medicine.

«This is a detailed analysis of thirty patients initially treated with surveillance for what was thought to be favorable disease, but which eventually progressed to metastatic disease,» explained Laurence Klotz, MD, FRCS (C), Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto.

«With increasing penalization for readmissions rates, hospitals need complete information to effectively target areas for quality improvement,» said study coauthor Andrew Gonzalez, MD, JD, MPH, a research fellow in vascular surgery at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.