Interim Chair's Welcome
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"The boundaries between the clinical, research, and training missions of the Department of Surgery of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, are permeable and fluid. The seamless blend of these three commitments is encouraged and facilitated by the department's culture and has direct benefit to our patients, faculty, trainees, and staff." MORE»»
Top Surgery News
The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network and United Network for Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) announced that Dr. Thomas Pearson, executive director of the Emory Transplant Center, has been elected incoming associate councillor of OPTN/UNOS Region 3 for a two-year term that will begin July 1. FULL STORY
The attending surgeon scans the trauma team gathered around the patient on the gurney. "Time is flying, people," she says. "Where do we start?" Two team members respond simultaneously. "One at a time," the surgeon says. This is a classroom, not a trauma bay. The patient is an actor encircled by a group of medical students, and the attending is Dr. Barbara Pettitt, director of medical student education for the Emory Department of Surgery. FULL STORY
The living donor paired kidney exchange program of the Emory Transplant Center has successfully matched and subsequently transplanted 100% of the donor/recipient pairs enrolled in the National Kidney Registry (NKR), a national organization formed in 2008 to facilitate living donor transplantation. FULL STORY
