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Today is
Surgery Grand Rounds
More about Grand Rounds | All Surgery Grand Rounds are Mondays at 7:30 a.m. in Room 309L.
Grand Rounds will resume on Monday, July 6, 2009
MONDAY JULY 6, 2009
Speaker: Carlos Pestana, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus
UT School of Medicine at San Antonio, Department of Surgery |
More about Dr. Pestana
Topic: The History of Surgery
Children and Guns don't mix! - KENS-5 Great Day SA:
Learn how to protect your children from gun accidents. Ronald Stewart, MD,
Chief of Trauma, Department of Surgery, and Trauma Medical Director of
University Hospital, is interviewed regarding the tragic consequences of
gun accidents in the home. Sunday June 21 2009, is National ASK day —
Asking Saves Kids. Get involved
right now, and learn more about this lifesaving message. |
View the KENS-5 video of Dr.
Stewart's interview (6-18-09)
Congratulations to George M. Layton, MD, South Texas Poison Center
Specialist in Poison Information, whose
abstract, 'Increasing Poison Center Case Reports of Male Enhancement
Supplements in Texas' (Fernandez MC, Forrester MB) has been accepted
by the Special Interest Group on Herbs & Dietary Supplements for
presentation at the 2009 North American College of Clinical
Toxicology Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX.
More about South
Texas Poison Center faculty and staff |
South Texas Poison
Center (6-16-09)
Is there a gun in your home? National Ask Day is Sunday June 21:
Did you know that Nearly 1.7 million children in the U.S. under the age of 18 live
in homes with firearms that are both loaded and unlocked.
"They don't think it will happen to them. Car crashes, unintentional shootings,
those are tragedies that involve other peoples' children,"
says Ronald M. Stewart, MD, Chief of Trauma and Interim Chair of the
Department of Surgery.
View KENS-5 story |
More about National ASK Day |
More about Dr. Stewart | (6-16-09)
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University news 
Congratulations to the 2009 recipients of the Department of Surgery individual teaching
awards, given for dedication and excellence in teaching residents and medical students.
For excellence in teaching medical students: Robert M. Esterl, Jr., MD (Transplant), and
Patrick Nguyen, MD (General and Laparoendoscopic Surgery).
For excellence in teaching residents: Ashraf A. Hilmy, MD (RAHC General Surgery), and
Kent R. Van Sickle, MD (General and Laparoendoscopic Surgery). (6-22-09)
Congratulations to Gustavo Guajardo, MD, General Surgery Resident, whose
abstract, 'The use of Fibrospect II score avoids liver biopsy in gastric
bypass patients with NASH' (Guajardo G, Hilmy AA), has been accepted by the Committee for the
Forum on Fundamental Surgical Problems for presentation at the 2009
95th Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago, IL. (5-15-09)
Additional congratulations are in order for Dr. Guajardo, whose case report, 'Intermittent gastrointestinal bleeding from left gastric artery pseudoaneurysm successfully treated with coil embolization' (Guajardo G, Van Sickle K), has been accepted for publication in one of the upcoming issues of the Internet Journal of Surgery. More about Dr. Guajardo (5-15-09)
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Congratulations to Steven Wolf, MD, Vice Chair for Surgery Research, who has
been awarded a $100,000 research grant by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Maddux Foundation.
The Foundation, named in honor of Elizabeth Huth Coates Maddux, a well-known
San Antonio philanthropist, has been a positive force for Health Science Center
research since 2002. The grant will fund a Fellowship Program in Surgery/Regenerative Medicine.
More about the Elizabeth Huth Coates Maddux Charitable Foundation |
More about Dr. Wolf |
Surgery Research (5-26-09)
More Research News | Recent research awards | Faculty Funding Opportunities | Research Residents Funding Opportunities
City-Wide Thoracic Grand Rounds: Thursdays, 5-6 pm Room 211L, School of Medicine
Schedule | CME-accredited for physicians. |
Division of Thoracic Surgery
No Cardiothoracic Grand Rounds June 25, 2009.
Cardiothoracic Grand Rounds will resume on July 2 from 5-6 pm in room 211L.
Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds: Thursdays, 5-6 pm, Room 444B, School of Medicine
Surgery Tumor Board: Thursdays, 5-6 pm CTRC 4th Floor, Room G406, Mabee Conference Room
Sarcoma Tumor Board: 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month, 2:30 pm CTRC 4th Floor, Room G406, Mabee Conference Room
June 26, 2009 Sarcoma Tumor Board CANCELLED
Next Sarcoma Tumor Board will meet July 10, 2009
Transplant Grand Rounds: Fridays, 8 am Room 444B, School of Medicine | More about Transplant Grand Rounds
Vascular Surgery Grand Rounds: No Vascular Grand Rounds June 30-July 14, 2009.
Vascular Surgery Grand Rounds will resume on Tuesday, July 21, 2009.
Patrick Nguyen, MD, Assistant Professor (General Surgery)
The Department of Surgery is very pleased to welcome Patrick Nguyen, MD, to our faculty.
Dr. Nguyen graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Microbiology in 2000. He completed medical school in San Antonio in 2004 and was an intern in General Surgery in San Antonio from 2004 to 2005. He completed his General Surgery training in 2009, and was awarded numerous teaching awards during his five years of training. He will join our faculty July 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery where he will lead the expansion of the General Surgery Service at UT Medicine Westover Hills. Dr. Nguyen is fluent in French, Vietnamese, and some Spanish.
More info (6-22-09)
Faculty Positions Available | Welcome New Surgery Faculty & Staff
Salazar CI, Sunil T, Villarreal CL, Guerra CM. (2009). Evaluation of a community-driven program to reduce underage drinking and driving. Texas Public Health Association Journal, 61(2):36-39.
Price MA, Cohn SM, Love J, Dent DL, Esterl R. Educational debt of physicians-in-training: determining the level of interest in a loan repayment program for service in a medically underserved area. J Surg Educ. 2009 Jan-Feb;66(1):8-13.
Safety, feasibility, and short-term outcomes of laparoscopically assisted primary ileocolic resection for Crohn's disease. Soop M, Larson DW, Malireddy K, Cima RR, Young-Fadok TM, Dozois EJ. Surg Endosc. 2009 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]
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Faculty Positions Available | Welcome New Surgery Faculty & Staff
Surgery's Employee of the Month for April 2009:
Congratulations to Khalilah Harmon, Surgery Residency Education, on her
selection as the Surgery Employee
of the Month. Read more ... | (Surgery's Employee of the Month program is
sponsored and funded by the J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society.)
