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More than 65 faculty and
150 staff members in the UK Department of Surgery are committed to
caring for patients, training the next generation of doctors and
researchers, and seeking a better understanding of disease and injury.
The UK Department of Surgery comprises six divisions and one section.
Faculty in a number of these specialties also play a role in
multidisciplinary centers, which draw together faculty and staff from
several departments to enhance patient care and research. For
example, Surgery's Section of Transplantation, which handles
kidney, liver, and pancreas transplants, and the Division of Cardiothoracic
Surgery play essential roles in UK Hospital's Transplant Center. In the
Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), faculty who specialize in laparoscopic surgery collaborate with engineers and specialists from other
disciplines to improve instruments and training
techniques.
In 2007-2008, Department faculty participated in 15,114 surgical
procedures in the UK Hospital. They saw many patients during emergency
service and in specialty, multidisciplinary, and regional office visits.
They helped train 105 third-year and 69 fourth-year medical students and graduated 19 surgical specialists. And finally, some were devoted to basic research and many carried out clinical trials to
improve current methods of treatment.
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Departmental News
Zwischenberger and Wang Score Another Patent
Women Found Vulnerable After EVAR Surgery
Minimally Invasive Treatment for Craniosynostosis
An Interview with Zwisch
Chairman of the Surgery Department, Dr. Joseph Zwischenberger was recently featured in the WUKY public radio segment, "Dr. Greg Davis On Medicine". He spoke about his research on the artificial lung. Click here to hear the interview.
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