Planning for Greatness: Endowing the Resident Research Years
It is time to build an endowment that will fund the surgical residency research years in perpetuity.
It is time to build an endowment that will fund the surgical residency research years in perpetuity.
Fifty years ago, U-M surgeon Robert Bartlett helped invent a life-saving procedure called Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). Now researchers are using the next-generation of ECMO to give lungs a new life.
The goal of the MROC study is to provide patients and physicians with useable, relevant, up-to-date information on the relative pros and cons of various breast reconstruction operations.
U-M works with St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa.
I am happy to take a moment to share with you the latest edition of In The Loupes.
In October, the Frederick A. Coller Surgical Society gathered in Ann Arbor to celebrate its 59th annual meeting – and commemorated the event with a group portrait. The photograph was taken after a day of scientific lectures from physicians and researchers.
The University of Michigan surgeon and engineer who saved a baby’s life with a 3D-printed airway splint have won a Breakthrough Innovator Award from Popular Mechanics magazine.
In October, Mark B. Orringer, M.D., of the Department of Surgery was one of 25 University of Michigan professors — and the only one from the Health System — honored at the Distinguished University Professorships ceremony.
“I want to do all I can to help patients with this disease,” she says. “This is just such an important thing to be working on. I want to make an impact on improving survival.”
The RPNI is on track to revolutionize prosthetic technology and make life infinitely better for people who’ve lost limbs.
Paula Wiggins, of Cincinnati, lost her husband to esophageal cancer in 2008. Since then, not only has the family raised money for research into the early detection and treatment of the largely unknown disease, but their fundraising events may be helping to save lives more directly.
The Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System has a long tradition of supporting surgeon-scientists in shaping the future of medicine through discovery — and nowhere is that more evident than at U-M’s Conrad Jobst Vascular Surgery Research Laboratories.
The U-M’s new chief of general surgery seeks to extend the window of opportunity for treatment of traumatic injuries.
The University of Michigan Health System community is mourning the loss of Herbert E. Sloan, M.D., who passed away May 17 in Chelsea, Michigan, at the age of 98.
The yearly vascular surgery award, endowed by Martin and Marilyn Lindenauer, recognizes the body of research completed by a trainee during their time at Michigan.
For your reading pleasure, please also enjoy the spring issue of In The Loupes , the Department of Surgery’s regular newsletter.