News & Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our faculty’s latest achievements, awards and honors.
03.01.2021Sydney Olson, a second-year medical student, is the lead author of a study published in JAMA Surgery which found a linear growth pattern for 70 percent of patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
01.08.2021Certificate of need laws — regulations intended to control hospital capacity expansion and improve quality of care — may not be having their intended effects, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.
12.28.2020Listen to the year's most popular episodes of the Breakthroughs podcast, featuring Northwestern Medicine experts discussing COVID-19 research.
12.08.2020Double lung transplants performed by Northwestern Medicine surgeons in patients with irreversible lung damage from COVID-19 helped save lives, according to a recent study.
10.08.2020A nationwide clinical trial has found that patients taking antibiotics for appendicitis reported the same quality of life measures as those who underwent surgery.
06.19.2020A Northwestern Medicine survey found that nearly one in five surgical surgical residents have experienced frequent bullying and that women and racial or ethnic minorities were more likely to report frequent bullying in surgical residency programs.
06.12.2020For the first time, Northwestern Medicine surgeons performed a double-lung transplant on a patient whose lungs were irreversibly damaged by COVID-19.
05.28.2020James Hill, '74 MD, '79 GME, has dedicated much of his career to advocating for diversity in medicine and orthopaedic surgery.
04.28.2020Association for Academic Surgery Presidential Address by Karl Bilimora, MD, MS at the 2020 Academic Surgical Congress in Orlando, FL.
10.26.2019Bobbie Moore, patient procedure scheduler for Vascular Surgery, is the recipient of the 2019 Davis Award for Exemplary Care. Along with her award, Northwestern celebrates her 40 years of service. Congratulations, Bobbie!
09.13.2019Dr. Ashley Vavra presented, “IVC Filter Removal For all? How I approach my IVC filter patients,” during the 2019 Midwestern Vascular Annual Meeting, in Chicago, IL.
08.15.2019We are pleased to announce the arrival of Samuel Kim, M.D., FACS to the Department of Surgery and Division of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Kim joined Northwestern Medicine as an Associate Professor of Surgery as of August 1st, 2019.Dr. Kim received his M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2002. He completed his residency in General Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in 2009 and residency in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2012. Dr. Kim completed his fellowship in Minimally Invasive Esophageal Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mayo Clinic in 2010. As a clinician-educator, Dr. Kim will be involved with our medical students, residents and fellows' education as well as the development of our robotic thoracic surgery practice.
08.15.2019We are pleased to announce the arrival of Anne Stey, MD, M.Sc. to the Department of Surgery and Division of Trauma and Critical Care. Dr. Stey joins Northwestern Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Surgery as of August 1st, 2019.
Dr. Stey received her M.D. degree in 2009 from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She took time during medical school to complete an M.Sc. degree in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2008). She completed General Surgery Residency in 2016 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. During residency, Dr. Stey completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Research Fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles in 2014. After residency she completed a Pediatric Surgical Oncology Clinical Fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Stey joins us after completing a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Stey has a strong interest in patient care quality, outcomes and value. In addition to her clinical work in Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency Surgery she will continue this work as part of SOQIC's research team.
- 07.15.2019
Jenna Little, Education Coordinator for the Vascular Surgery Training Programs at Northwestern, has been appointed to serve as Co-Chair on the Association of Vascular Surgery Coordinator's (AVSC) Mentorship Sub-Committee. The goal for the new sub-committee is to connect, educate, and empower vascular coordinators across the country.
- 07.11.2019
On behalf of the Department of Surgery’s Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee I am very happy to announce that Northwestern University has conferred and awarded tenure/promotions effective September 1, 2019 to the following faculty:
Jason Wertheim, MD, PhD – Award of tenure at rank of Associate Professor of Surgery
Swati Kulkarni, MD – Promoted to Professor of Surgery
Chris Malaisrie, MD – Promoted to Professor of Surgery
Michael McGee, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery
David Odell, MD, MMSc – Promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery
Andrew Hoel, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery
- 07.02.2019
The vascular team welcomes Calvin Chao, from the University of Massachusetts, as the newest vascular integrated resident.
Calvin was first introduced to the team as a visiting medical student in September. He quickly connected with the service and became a valued member of the group. He has a strong background in research and engaged in community service throughout medical school. Calvin plans to pursue a career in academic surgery after residency.
- 07.01.2019
The Department of Surgery has awarded vascular fellow, Gabe Wallace, and vascular resident, Michael Nooromid, with the 2018-2019 Teaching Award. The award is based on the evaluation scores given by the residents and medical students throughout the year. Congratulations, Gabe and Michael!
- 06.28.2019
Neel Mansukhani, M.D., was the fourth integrated vascular resident to graduate from the Northwestern Vascular 0+5 Training Program since the program's start, in 2009. Dr. Mansukhani will begin independent academic practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- 06.21.2019
The first William H. Pearce Research Symposium was a success!
Surgical residents and fellows presented their research in basic science and clinical research. This event is partnered with the General Surgery Eldlestone-Bendix Day. Dr. Pearce, and the EB Visiting Professor, Dr. Melina Kibbe were in attendance.
- 06.21.2019
Below are the listed award recipients from the first William H. Pearce, M.D. Research Symposium. Congratulations to all the winners and presenters, including the great work from the vascular division!
Medical student category: Benjamin Yu, Katherine Shapiro, Linh Ngo Khanh
Junior Resident category: Andre Son, Andres Guerra
Senior Resident category: Courtney Furlough, Rhami Khorfan, Tarik Yuce
Fellow category: Gabe Wallace, Shivangi Yadav, Pieter Norden
- 06.17.2019
Dr. Mark Eskandari led the Vascular Surgery edition of the Coffee with MD series this morning.
The BCVI staff learned all about the specialty and about Dr. Eskandari. The event is sponsored by the BCVI LTR committee.
Special thanks to our vascular APP, Lauren for organizing!
- 06.14.2019
Dr. William H. Pearce, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Northwestern, was awarded the Society for Vascular Surgery's (SVS) Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2019 Vascular Annual Meeting.
The award is highest honor that the SVS bestows on one of its members, and it recognizes an individual’s outstanding and sustained contributions in leadership and professional practice.
Dr. Pearce has been an invaluable mentor to many vascular surgeons throughout the years, and we congratulate him on his much deserved award.
05.29.2019Dr. Sumanas Jordan receives The Plastic Surgery Foundation Award for her work titled "Chest Dysphoria in Transmasculine Adolescents".
05.28.2019Dr. Ezra Teiltelbaum was awarded the NMF Alvin H. Baum Simulation Award for his research "A Simulator-Based Mastery Learning Resident Curriculum for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy".
