Department of Surgery

Transplant Program Gets Time-out Focus at Rupp Arena

Members of the UK HealthCare Transplant Team were recognized Jan. 7 during the men’s basketball game at Rupp Arena. Pictured (L to R): double-lung transplant patient Steven Hamilton; Michael Karpf, MD, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs; Jay Zwischenberger, MD, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Director of the UK Transplant Center; double-lung transplant patient Lucas Bailey; Enrique Diaz, Medical Director, UK Transplant Center; Navin Rajagopalan, MD, Medical Director, Heart Transplantation; and Rho Yanagida, MD, a newcomer to UK HealthCare whose personnel announcement will appear in next month’s Vital Signs.

Surgery Chair Performs at Fosson Spring Humanities Festival

On Tuesday, April 5, 2011, the University of Kentucky's medical community came together for this annual showcase of musical entertainment and poetry reading by students, faculty and staff, including Surgery Chairman, Dr. Jay Zwischenberger, performing in Dr. Jim Norton's band, the Rotations. The Festival was sponsored by the UK Medical Center Humanities Project, College of Medicine Office of Student Affairs.

SURGERY DEPARTMENT FUN

To wrap up Leadership Week, October 29-November 2, UK Healthcare hosted an ice cream social followed by a thoroughly entertaining, often hilarious, talent contest. Like the TV show, American Idol, judges critiqued the talent, but the final vote was left to the audience. The Surgery Department was well represented.

Photos to the right start with Paul Kearney, MD (Trauma/Critical Care Section), one of the judges, scratching his head in wonderment.

Mark Bonnell, MD (CT Division) triumphantly won first place for a flawless piano rendition of Chopin’s Posthumous Etude in A Flat Major.

Jay Zwischenberger, MD, Chairman of the Department, and Carl Hatmaker, Sr. Health Data Analyst in the General Surgery Division, won second place for a rollicking performance of Mary Jane’s Last Dance and Sweet Home Chicago.