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Washington University surgeons deliver up-to-the-minute patient care in five divisions - General Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Urologic Surgery. Performing procedures ranging from coronary artery bypass to kidney transplantation, our surgeons are committed to delivering the highest quality of care and devoted to treating patients with respect.
The Department of Surgery's 108 full-time faculty members also work to provide the best educational experiences possible to more than 100 residents and fellows (clinical and research). The Department is funded by almost $20 million in annual NIH, non-federal and corporate-supported grants, as well as $2 million in clinical trial grants.
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Graham Colditz
Associate Director, Prevention and Control, Siteman Cancer Center
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Dr. Colditz is an Epidemiologist and Associate Director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the Niess-Gain Family Professor in Medicine, Department of Surgery, at Washington ...
Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu
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William Chapman
Professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Transplantation
Chapman, also chief of the abdominal transplantation section, is a highly respected liver transplant specialist. He researches image-guided liver surgery and minimizing the effects of liver injury.
Expertise: liver transplant, abdominal transplant, hepatobiliary surgery
Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu
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David Gray
Associate professor in the Program in Occupational Therapy
Gray studies how environmental enhancers and barriers affect people with disabling conditions. He also is examining how surgery influences the mobility of children and adults with cerebral palsy. Additionally, he is looking at how disabling conditions affect the spouses of people with multiple sclerosis ...
Expertise: environmental enhancers and barriers, disabling conditions, mobility of children with cerebal palsy, disabling conditions and spouses
Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu
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Matthew Dobbs
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Sugery
Dobbs has expertise in surgery and care for all pediatric orthopaedic conditions, but his primary interests involve the treatment of clubfoot and other foot deformities, as well as pelvic reconstructive surgery, pediatric spinal surgery and treatment of pediatric trauma.
Expertise: pediatric orthopaedics, clubfoot, trauma, scoliosis, leg length disorders, congenital and developmental foot anomalies, congenital pelvic and hip disorders, …
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu
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K. Daniel Riew
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
A cervical spine specialist, K. Daniel Riew, M.D. performs between 250 and 350 cervical spine operations each year. The associate professor of orthopaedic surgery also studies the use of synthetic, cervical discs as a potential alternative to spinal fusion surgery.
Expertise: cervical spine surgery for treatment of degenerative, traumatic and inflammatory spine problems, including spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu
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Quiet killer
WUSM clinic devoted to treating deadly, silent heart condition
April 9,
2008 -- Every so often we read a news report in which a young athlete collapses and dies during a competition — it's rare, but it happens. And when it does, often the cause is a silent heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic at the School of Medicine is devoted to diagnosis and treatment of HCM.
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Simple, significant improvement
Surgeons announce advance in atrial fibrillation surgery
April 7,
2008 -- Heart surgeons at the School of Medicine report that by adding a simple 10-20 second step to an operative procedure they achieved a significant improvement in the outcome for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). The surgeons redirected wayward electrical impulses that cause AF by creating precisely placed scars, or ablations, in the heart muscle.
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Research network
School of Medicine to lead international pediatric lung transplant research trials
March 14,
2008 -- The School of Medicine has received a five-year, $3.9 million grant to lead an international research effort designed to improve outcomes for children undergoing lung transplants. Lung-transplant patients are subject to more frequent infections, organ rejection and other complications than patients with other transplanted organs.
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New Study Raises Questions on Anesthesia Monitoring System
The Washington Post
and 1 others
March 14,
2008 -- The horrifying experience of anesthesia awareness happens to between 20,000 and 40,000 Americans every year. A WUSTL study in the New England Journal of Medicine led by WUSTL anesthesiology professor Michael Avidan is raising questions about a monitor used by about 60 percent of U.S. operating rooms in an effort to prevent these frightening cases.
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Monitors Don't Stop Patients From Waking
Associated Press
and 138 others
March 13,
2008 -- Article on anesthesia awareness.
Patients say they wake up during surgery, unable to move or scream.
Some experts have said special brain-wave monitors were the best way to prevent anesthesia awareness. Now, in a big setback for efforts to prevent it, the first large, independent test of the monitors shows they are no better than older technology.
WUSTL medical school researchers led by anesthesiology professor Michael Avidan comments.
The study was published in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Clot-Busting Drug Offers New Approach to DVT
U.S. News & World Report online
and 5 others
Jan. 29,
2008 -- When it comes to treating deep vein thrombosis, injecting the clot-busting drug alteplase (rTPA) directly into clots in the legs reduces the risk of complications and recurrence, a small U.S. study suggests. WUSTL radiology and surgery professor Suresh Vedantham thinks that this method of dissolving clots could eventually become an outpatient procedure.
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Women who undergo breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are twice as likely to develop an infection
The Times (London)
Jan. 29,
2008 -- News item on WUSTL medical research -- Women who undergo breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are twice as likely to develop an infection at the surgical site if they are given a prosthetic implant instead of their own tissue.
The study appeared in the January issue of Archives of Surgery.
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Study Says Implants Double Risk of Infection After Breast Reconstructive Surgery
The New York Times
and 27 others
Jan. 22,
2008 -- More than one in 20 patients undergoing breast surgery later developed infections at incision sites, according to a new study, a complication that was more common than thought. Study co-authors WUSTL infectious diseases professor Margaret Olsen and WUSTL plastic and reconstructive surgery professor Keith Brandt comment.
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