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Emory Surgery faculty honored as top educators
May 2021
Faculty nominated by students and peers for special recognition on Educator Appreciation Day included Department of Surgery members Olamide Alabi, Angela Cheng, Christopher Dente, Robert Fang, and Mark Walsh.
This honor is particularly meaningful this year due to the pandemic, as the conditions COVID-19 created made faculty have to work more intensively than usual to maintain their responsibilities as educators and mentors.
Constance Shreckengost awarded VECD Fellowship
April 2021
Emory surgical resident and global surgery fellow Constance Shreckengost, MD, PhD, is a 2021-2022 recipient of the prestigious VECD (Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke) Fogarty Global Health Fellowship, which will support her study of breast cancer pathology in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and her implementation of immunohistochemistry and low-cost, smartphone-based digital whole slide imaging to enhance capacity at the Oncology Institute of Eastern Bolivia.
New robot at ESJH to help diagnose and treat lung cancers earlier
March 2021
Intuitive's Ion robot can reach deep into the peripheral areas of the lung, enabling doctors to biopsy suspicious tissue. Now, doctors at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital will be the first in Georgia to use it to diagnose lung cancers earlier and less invasively. "When used in Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital's state-of-the-art hybrid operating room alongside Intuitive's da Vinci surgical robots, the Ion will allow us to diagnose early-stage lung cancers and treat them all in the same surgical session," says Manu Sancheti, MD, chief of thoracic surgery at ESJH, pictured with interventional pulmonologist Alejandro Sardi, MD.
Gary Bouloux to lead multi-center study of metal hypersensitivity following TMJR
February 2021
Gary F. Bouloux, DDS, MD, MDSc, interim chief of the Emory Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, has been awarded an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation Research Support Grant to study the development of metal hypersensitivity following temporomandibular total joint replacement (TMJR). The grant received the Stephen B. Milam Award for earning the highest score from the OMS Foundation Committee.
Toncred Styblo and Chris Dente honored with Emory awards
January 2021
Toncred Styblo, MD, who has dedicated herself to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer at Emory since 1988, has been recognized by the Center for Women at Emory with its Unsung Heroine Award. Christopher Dente, MD, chief of the general surgery service of Emory at Grady, is the recipient of the Emory at Grady Innovation Award. Dr. Dente's research focuses on the creation and use of biomarker and clinical data warehouse-based decision support tools for trauma surgery and critical care.
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Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital receives highest recognition from AHA and The Mitral Foundation for mitral valve repair excellence
January 2021
The American Heart Association (AHA) and The Mitral Foundation have designated Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital as a Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center, a recognition awarded to hospitals that have shown excellence in clinical outcomes and performance in mitral valve repairs. Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital is the first hospital in the southeast to receive the designation.
"This is a tribute to the teamwork of the cardiac surgical service at Emory Saint Joseph's hospital. Nurses, perfusionists, anesthesia team members, surgeons and clinical staff make results like these possible," says Douglas Murphy, MD, medical director of surgical robotics at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital. Dr. Murphy has performed thousands of mitral valve repairs over the years.
"This is a well-deserved recognition from The Mitral Foundation and the American Heart Association. We have developed highly specialized teams to provide the best care possible to patients with mitral valve disease," says Michael Halkos, MD, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Emory Healthcare, which operates one of the largest cardiothoracic surgery programs in the country and the largest in Georgia.
