Congratulations to Scott LeMaire, M.D., professor of surgery and vice chair for research, who was elected president-elect of the Texas Surgical Society.
Did you hear that Dr. Joseph L. Mills Sr was named the 2022 Distinguished Alumnus by the Department of Surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. Mills completed his vascular surgery fellowship at OHSU in 1987.
@jmills1955
@DrRosengart
@DFCon
#DeBakeySurgeon
And here it is!
We would like to welcome
@MarcMoon_AATS
as the new Chief in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery! It does not stop there thoughโฆ Dr. Moon joins us also as the Chief of adult cardiac surgery at
@Texas_Heart
AND
@StLukesHealthTX
.
We are excited to announce the arrival of
@ZielinskiTrauma
as our chief in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery!
Dr. Zielinski joins us most recently from Mayo Clinic. We are looking forward to working alongside our newest
#DeBakeySurgeon
.
Have you met Dr. Joseph Coselli? He and his team have performed over 3,600 repairs of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms, making Dr. Coselli the world's most experienced aortic surgeon.
Hear how he got started!
@JCoselli_MD
@bcmhouston
Congratulations are in order for
@youmnasheriff
as she has been presented with the Golden Scalpel Award by the Department of Emergency Medicine.
The Golden Scalpel Award is given to a single resident in recognition of excellent communication, efficiency, and patient care!
Congratulations to
@NealBarshes
as he has been selected to serve as the chief for the vascular surgery service line at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in the Operative Care Line.
Thank you for all of your hard work and showing what it means to be a
#DebakeySurgeon
.
Dr. Vicente Orozco, a triple-board certified general, vascular, and cardiac surgeon at Baylor Medicine, highlights his favorite aspects of being a part of this team.
@vicenteorozco2
10 year anniversary of the death of Michael E. DeBakey, father of cardiovascular surgery, DeBakey contributed trailblazing discoveries in surgical science and developed techniques that still serve as the basis of modern day surgery.
@DrRosengart
It is with the utmost sadness that we must share with you the news of the unfortunate passing of our dear friend and colleague Dr. David J. Sugarbaker, founder and chief of the Div. of General Thoracic Surgery.
@BrighamWomens
@STS_CTsurgery
@DrRosengart
We wanted to take this time to congratulate our very own
@DrShawnGroth
for completing his 500th robotic thoracic surgery procedure.
The division of
@BCM_Thoracic
alongside the Department as a whole could not be more proud of this accomplishment.
#DeBakeySurgeon
Congrats! Lubna Khan, M.D., general surgery resident in the global surgery track, has been awarded the 2023 Operation Giving Back Resident Scholarship from the American College of Surgeons.
@BCMGSRes
@DrRosengart
@RachelWDavis
Kicking off heart month featuring Dr. Vicente Orozco-Sevilla one of our outstanding heart surgeons. To book an appointment visit:
@vicenteorozco2
@Texas_Heart
Please welcome Derek Erstad, M.D. as an assistant professor of surgery with Baylor College of Medicine. He will serve as a surgical oncologist at the Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center.
"I want to be a surgeon" - Jose Chavez. The world's youngest COVID double lung transplant patient is a Texas teen, and
@GloorLoor
and his team performed the transplant.
Read about it:
@LungAssociation
@BCM_ALD
@Texas_Heart
Congratulations Dr. Preventza!
Ourania Preventza, M.D., professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has won the 2023 Socrates Award from the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association.
Way to go Dr. Lily Cheng on your NIH Grant. The project looks at how biomechanical forces affect gastrointestinal function, particularly in the context of Hirschsprung disease.
@TxChildrensATX
@DrRosengart
@sgkeswani
Dr. Joseph Coselli was given the Leader of Distinction Award from the Marfan Foundation at their 35th annual conference. At the same conference, Alan Stolz and Dr. Irina V Volguina were each given the Heart of the Matter Award.
@CHI_StLukes
@Texas_Heart
@scottlemaire
@DrRosengart
Dr.
@OPreventzaMD
professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named President Elect of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists
@ISEVSonline
Welcome Dr. Shanda H. Blackmon to the Department of Surgery. Dr. Blackmon is a leading expert in minimally invasive thoracic surgery with more than 20-years of experience. We are very lucky she has joined the team here in Houston!
@ShandaBlackmon
#Thoracicsurgery
#DeBakeySurgeon
CONGRATS! Dr. Joseph S. Coselli was recently elected as a new Director on the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS). His appointment to the board is from 2018-2024.
@kmattox1
@bcmhouston
@DrRosengart
FULL ARTICLE:
Shout out to Dr. Vivek Patel, assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery! He has performed the first robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) at
@StLukes_Health
-The Woodlands Hospital.
#roboticsurgery
#heart
The Department is proud to announce that the ACGME has officially approved a 6-year Thoracic Surgery Integrated Residency Program
@bcmhouston
Our selection through the NRMP of our first resident, starting in July 2021.
@OPreventzaMD
@DrRosengart
@scottlemaire
Dr. Kenneth K. Liao, a renowned heart surgeon, achieved a significant milestone by completing his 600th robotic heart surgery! "This is a significant milestone for us and, most importantly, for our patients,โ -Liao
@DrKenLiao
Way to go
@bwtrautner
on your 2 grants.
- an AHRQ R18 grant for $2.5 million for Strategies to Disseminate a Successful Antibiotic Stewardship
- Neilsen Foundation grant for $800k for a clinical phase 1 trial of phage to treat UTI in persons with SCI.
@scottlemaire
@DrRosengart
.
@DrRosengart
professor of surgery and chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, has been named to a new American College of Surgeons National Surgeon Scientist Program (ACS NSSP), and asked to serve as chair of its grant review committee.
We are honored looking back at our long history of excellence- building upon the groundbreaking work in cardiothoracic surgery of Drs. Michael E. DeBakey, Denton A. Cooley, E. Stanley Crawford and George P. Noon.
#USNWR
#RANKINGS
#TOPRANKED
#BESTHOSPITAL
#USNEWS
#CARDIO
Congratulations Dr. Kenneth Mattox for receiving the prestigious 2023 John P. McGovern Compleat Physician Award. He joins an elite group of physicians, who have been recognized by the Houston Academy of Medicine for enriching the field of medicine.
Atif Iqbal, M.D., colorectal surgeon, has received a Professional Educator Appreciation and Recognition Award. The PEAR awards recognizes instructors and faculty for excellence in teaching, mentorship, and/or for outstanding general assistance and inspiration.
Researchers Drs.
@scottlemaire
Ketan Ghaghada, Ying Shen (Baylor) and project leader Diana Milewicz (UTHealth) received a grant of $7.6M from the Leducq Foundation for their collaborative project, โCellular and Molecular Drivers of Acute Aortic Dissections.โ
@Scott_A_Weldon
Dr. Loor, associate professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, has been named president elect of the lung transplant section of the American College of Chest Physicians CHEST, Diffuse Lung Disease and Transplant Network.
Dr. Rosengart was inducted into the
@AmCollSurgeons
Academy of Master Surgeon Educators, an honorary distinction that recognized preeminent surgical educators who have devoted their careers to surgical education and are considered premier leaders in their respective fields.
Global Surgery Track Residents Youmna Sherif, M.D.; Sukriti Bansal, M.D.; and Lubna Khan, M.D. won second place in the 2022 History of Surgery Poster Competition,
The Department of Surgery was honored to have Lars G. Svensson, M.D., Ph.D., as our grand rounds guest speaker for the Michael E. DeBakey Lectureship in Cardiac Surgery.
This job requires attention to detail, incredible precision, and immense focus. We couldn't think of a better team.
We are the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery.
Learn More:
Did you know Dr. James Suliburk
@jsuliburk
and Dr. Livia S. Eberlin
@EberlinLab
and Dr. Rongrong Huang, have been awarded $1.6 million in NIH funding to validate a mass spectrometry-based test for diagnosis of thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies.
Congratulations Dr. Gao!
Dr. Gao was chosen to receive the AAS Outstanding Resident Research Award - Basic Science for his work entitled, โS1P Signaling Inhibition in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Induces Immune Remodeling."
Exciting News! Dr. N. Thao N. Galvรกn was awarded the James IV Association of Surgeons Traveling Fellowship! The award allows recipients to complete an international, educational exchange of their choosing. We look forward to learning where she will go!
@DrThaoGalvan
Exciting News!!! Sophia Williams-Perez, M.D., PGY-3 general surgery resident in research, received a 2024 Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) 2024 Writers Workshop Scholarship.
@SophWPerez
Congratulations Dr. Carter and Dr. Huang!
Stacey Carter, M.D., associate professor of surgery and Kevin Huang, M.D., liver transplant fellow, were accepted into Baylor College of Medicineโs Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Medical Students Receive ACS Travel Awards
The department awarded six medical students a 2023 Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery American College of Surgeons (ACS)
@AmCollSurgeons
.
So proud of our 2022 Women of Excellence Dr. Louisa Chiu, Holly Clayton, Dr. Alice King, Dr. Claire F. Ozaki, Dr. Yesenia Rojas-Khalil and Dr. Galina Toneva.
@DrRosengart
#debakeysurgeon
Youmna Sherif, M.D., global surgery resident at Baylor College of Medicine, was selected for an AMA Journal of Ethics Editorial Fellowship. She will develop and edit a complete issue for the AMA Journal of Ethics, which will focus on surgical care for incarcerated patients.
Dr. Kenneth Liao will receive over $3.5 million in funding from the Brockman Charitable Trust, for his study on Using Hearts from Donors after Circulatory Death.โ His team includes Co-Investigators, Drs. Harveen Lamba and Nandan Kumar Mondal.
@DrRosengart
@scottlemaire
Congratulations Dr. Henry on receiving the Outstanding Young Thomasian Physician Award from the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery's 150th year celebration.
A very special thank you to
@herbchen
for delivering our annual Michael E. DeBakey Distinguished Lectureship this morning during our grand rounds hour.
It was an honor to have you kick-off our in-person presentations again!
#DeBakeySurgeon
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jessie Z. Yu
@DrJessieYu
as an assistant professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Yu is a fellowship-trained reconstructive microsurgeon and provides a comprehensive spectrum of plastic surgical care.
@WinocourMD
@DrRosengart
@dredwardreece
Have you met
@monteromiguel
? He works in the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy and specializes in diabetic foot amputation prevention and limb salvage.
Request an appointment:
From the Independence Award, and a Forbes 30 under 30 listing in the Healthcare category, to a Moore Inventor Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2018, we are excited to welcome
@livia__se
to our team!
We cannot wait to see what you accomplish!
Congratulations Dr. Espinoza for being awarded an NIH F32 Grant
Andy Espinoza, M.D., pediatric surgical oncology research fellow, has received a $120,000 NIH F32 grant for his project โDefining Protein Signature of Vascular Invasion in Hepatoblastoma.โ
Dr. Ronald Cotton
@ronaldcottonmd
outlines three lessons from the operating room on how to change your mindโs mind and shift your perspective in a hugely impactful way during part of
@bcmhouston
first-ever TEDx event,
@DrRosengart
Dr. Joseph Coselli Awarded for Distinguished Service: Baylor College of Medicineโs Alumni Association is honoring Dr. Joseph S. Coselli with the Distinguished Service Award.
@bcmhouston
@DrRosengart
@JosephLamelas
@AortaSurg
"Dr. Moon's assumption of one of the most storied legacies in American Surgery, bringing together Drs. DeBakey, Cooley, Crawford &
@jcoselli
is a true watershed moment"
@drrosengart
, chair of
@BCM_Surgery
.
Dr. Moon will see patients at
@Texas_Heart
. For appts call 713-798-9910.
Legendary Houston Doctor to be Honored
Dr. Gabriel Loor is credited with performing the first "breathing lung transplantation" in the Midwest and Texas.
Read the release:
Learn more about Dr. Loor:
His poster displayed his research project โContemporary Midterm Outcomes of Chronic type A dissectionโ. Along with his co-authors, he presented the outcomes of over 200 patients with chronic type A dissection showing low postoperative morbidity and mortality.
Baylor College of Medicine won the Surgical Jeopardy challenge at the18th Annual Academic Surgical Congress. Surgery residents Dr. Samuel Creden and Dr. Jorge Portuondo challenged other teams from across the nation in a friendly game of Surgical Jeopardy and were victorious.
Looks like we will be needing a bigger boat as we welcome one of our largest groups of interns to join the
#DeBakeySurgeon
family.
We are looking forward to seeing every one of you shine this year!
*Not all interns pictured
Rachel W. Davis, M.D., Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon, has won the 2023 Humanitarian Award from Baylor College of Medicine. The Humanitarian Award is presented to alumni for outstanding service to mankind.
Visit the Center For Global Surgery :
Dr. Stephanie D. Gordy, associate professor of surgery was recently presented the Distinguished Consultant Award by
@BCMEmergencyMed
- for professionalism, communication, teaching and outstanding patient care.
@DrRosengart
@BgscottScott
@harrishealth