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Surgery
The Department of Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine has a long history of preparing its graduates for careers in academic surgery. The primary emphasis of the Department is superb patient care. There is an abundance of clinical material through rotations at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children's Hospital and the John Cochran Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Residents have access to almost 25,000 cases annually at these institutions.
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Bone density benefit
Bone drug could help prevent the spread of breast cancer
May 15,
2008 -- Maintaining bone density could be a key to decreasing the spread of cancer in women with locally advanced breast cancer, according to research at the School of Medicine. Bones are common sites for the spread, or metastasis, of breast cancer. Scientists here found that women treated for stage II/III breast cancer who also received a bone strengthening drug were less likely to have breast tumor cells growing in their bones after three months.
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Cancer prevention
Girls, young women can cut risk of early breast cancer through regular exercise
May 13,
2008 -- Mothers, here's another reason to encourage your daughters to be physically active: Girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause compared to those who are less active, new research shows.
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Quincy Jones among recipients
Washington University to award six honorary degrees at 147th Commencement
May 1,
2008 -- Six distinguished individuals, including a pioneer of women in medicine and a multimedia entrepreneur, will receive honorary degrees May 16 during Washington University's 147th Commencement ceremony. The university also will bestow academic degrees on more than 2,500 students during the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.
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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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Marc Hammerman
Chromalloy Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine
Hammerman is a leader in the emerging field of organogenesis, which focuses on growing organs from stem cells and other embryonic cell clusters known as organ primordia. Unlike stem cells, which can become virtually any cell type, primordia are locked into becoming a particular cell type or one of ...
Expertise: Organogenesis, organ, transplant, kidney, pancreas, diabetes, kidney failure, …
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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Ira Kodner
Director of the Center for the Study of Human Values and Ethics
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Kodner directs one of the only comprehensive programs in ethics and human values at a university in the United States. While other centers study human values, most are located in a particular school and address particular topics. The Center for the Study of Human Values and Ethics supports the study, ...
Expertise: Ethics, health care policy
Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu
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Frank Yin
Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...
Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics
Direct contact: (314) 935-6164
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yin@biomed.wustl.edu
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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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Speedy Athletic Hernia Repair Is Possible
The Washington Post
and 5 others
July 17,
2007 -- Surgical repair of sports hernias using a special tension-free mesh, combined with a well-structured rehabilitation program, helps hasten injured athletes' return to competition, according to a U.S. study of more than 60 athletic hernia repair surgeries.
WUSTL surgery professor and principal investigator Michael Brunt comments.
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Going out on a limb
U.S. News & World Report
May 8,
2006 -- Don't count on most orthopedic surgeons for help--they'll fix broken bones but not broken nerves. Neurosurgeons? They like to work on the brain and spinal cord. "Peripheral nerves, the ones in the extremities, are orphans in medicine," says Susan Mackinnon, chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the School of Medicine at WUSTL. "A lot of specialists dabble, but nerves belong to no one." Actually, they belong to Mackinnon. The 56-year-old surgeon performed the first nerve transplant in 1988, using nerves from a cadaver to restore feeling and movement to a boy's crippled leg, and has devoted her career to nerve repair.
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Employers push White House to disclose Medicare data
The New York Times
April 11,
2006 -- The White House is clashing with the nation's largest employers over their request for huge amounts of government data on the cost and quality of health care provided by doctors around the country. Even among surgeons performing similar procedures on the same kinds of patients at the same hospital, costs often vary widely. Dr. Bruce L. Hall, assistant professor of surgery at WUSTL, suggested one reason: Doctors treating the sickest patients seem to develop ''costly practice habits,'' which show up even when they are caring for healthier patients.
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