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Dr. Knechtle to Lead Emory Transplant Center Liver Team
Stuart Knechtle, MD, a leader in the field of liver transplantation, has joined the Emory Transplant Center as director of its clinical liver transplantation program. Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Knechtle was the ... FULL STORY

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Le Petit Elegance: Driving Away Breast Cancer
On Sunday, September 28, 2008, 3:00-8:00 pm, the Second Annual Le Petit Elegance will be held at Road Atlanta – Chalet Hospitality Village, thirty-five miles north of Atlanta in Braselton, GA. Many of the teams that will be racing in... FULL STORY

May 2008

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Emory Winship Named Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare Cancers
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia has named the Winship Cancer Institute as a Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare Cancers, focusing on complex inpatient and surgical care. Emory Winship is the only... FULL STORY

April 2008

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Emory Transplant Center and Georgia Research Alliance Establish Biorepository for Transplant Research
A new facility at Emory University, supported by the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), will help Emory Transplant Center researchers better link their discoveries in the laboratory to patient care in organ transplantation. Named the... FULL STORY

Dr. Kooby's Study Finds That Minimally Invasive Pancreas Surgery Leads to Fewer Complications
As reported in US News and World Report, the Washington Post, and Science Daily, Dr. David Kooby will present the data culled from his study of laparoscopic pancreactomy at the Annual Meeting of the American Surgical Association in... FULL STORY

Faculty Notes

Dr. Kamal Mansour was informed that he will receive the Emory Medal for 2008. Medalists are chosen by the Nominating and Leadership Committee of the Emory Alumni Board on the basis of distinguished service to Emory, distinguished public service and notable professional and academic achievement. Save for the Honorary Degree, this is the highest award given by the University. During his cardiothoracic surgery residency and subsequent 39-year career at Emory, Dr. Mansour perfected and taught thoracic surgery techniques to reconstruct the esophagus, trachea and chest wall following surgery for cancer and other diseases or injuries. He has trained physicians not only in the U.S. but also in his home country of Egypt. In gratitude to Emory for encouraging his life's work, he established the Mansour Professorship for Thoracic Surgery in 2004.

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March 2008

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500th Heart Transplant at Emory
Dr. Brian Kogan, surgical director of adult congenital cardiac surgery at Emory University Hospital, performed the hospital's 500th adult heart transplant on March 8, 2008. This amazing milestone coincided with Emory's celebration of the 20th anniversary of its heart transplant program — the largest and most comprehensive in the state of Georgia, with patient survival rates higher than the national average. As of March 2008, Emory Clinic cardiothoracic surgeons had also performed more than 200 pediatric heart transplants at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.

NIH Grant to Emory and Pediatric Partners Aims to Improve Kidney Transplants for Children
Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta are teaming up with UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, California, to find new ways to... FULL STORY

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Dr. Daniel Miller, codirector of the Emory Hyperhidrosis Center, was featured in a WebMD video about minimally invasive surgical treatment for hyperhidrosis. The video followed a patient of Dr. Miller's through the surgical process and presented Dr. Miller performing microthoracoscopic sympathectomy in the OR as he explained the procedure.

New Faculty Hire

Joining the division of general and GI surgery as an assistant professor, Dr. Jahnavi Srinivasan did her general surgery residency at Emory and specializes in open and laparoscopic GI surgery and hernia repair and the minimally invasive Lap Band system for weight management.

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February 2008

Faculty Notes

As of February 2008, Dr. Edward Lin was officially designated a Lap Band proctor by Allergen, the multi-specialty health care company that originally developed the Lap Band Adjustable Gastric Banding System. The Lap Band is the first adjustable medical device for individualized weight loss and the first minimally invasive surgical approach approved in the United States by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As a proctor, Dr. Lin will certify surgeons in the procedure by observing them performing the technique in the OR.

January 2008

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The Annual Ira A. Ferguson Lecture to be Inaugurated by Dr. Charles Ferguson
On January 3, 2008, 7:00 am – 8:00 am, Dr. Charles M. Ferguson will deliver the First Annual Ira A. Ferguson Lecture at Emory Surgical Grand Rounds in the Emory Hospital Auditorium. Entitled "Ira A. Ferguson, Sr., MD, and the Other Tuskegee... FULL STORY

Emory Bariatrics Program Receives Level 1 Accreditation from American College of Surgeons
The Emory Bariatric Center at Emory Crawford Long Hospital has been accredited as a Level 1 Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the Bariatric Surgery Center Network (BSCN) Accreditation Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Established by the ACS, the... FULL STORY

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