Latest Surgery News & Announcements

The gift will fund vital initiatives at YSM, focusing on advancing clinical care, research, and education in breast cancer treatment and reconstruction.

Lisa Kodadek, MD, and Zafar Sayed, MD, have been named co-chairs of the Surgery Care Signature Council for Yale New Haven Health.

Yan Lee, MD, hosted the 5th annual Yale Approaches to Facial Trauma Course on Jan. 31, bringing together residents and faculty from six New England training programs across multiple disciplines, including otolaryngology, plastic surgery, and oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Recent studies estimate that by 2035, one in 100 people in the United States will have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic inflammation of the digestive system. In response to this growing demand for IBD care, Yale School of Medicine faculty established the new Yale Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, which serves as a hub for research, clinical care, and medical education to improve the treatment of patients with IBD.

Yale cardiac and thoracic surgery faculty and trainees played a leading role at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) 62nd Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La., with Division Chief Marc Pelletier, MD, serving as program director for the conference. Under his leadership, the team contributed extensively to programming through research presentations, plenary sessions, and trainee-focused initiatives. Notable presentations included studies on failure-to-rescue after coronary artery bypass grafting, financial literacy among trainees, and the development of CORGI, a custom GPT model for automated operative reporting.

The Department of Surgery hosted its third annual Surgery Student Social on Jan. 30, bringing together medical students, faculty, and residents from across Yale School of Medicine. Led by Felix Lui, MD, and organized by Danette Morrison, the event provided an informal setting for students to engage with representatives from six departments and 16 surgical specialties.

Stephen Healy, MS, has been appointed associate director of faculty and staff affairs for the Integrated Business Office serving Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, and Anesthesiology, and Lisa Turner, MA, joins as manager of faculty and staff affairs supporting the Department of Surgery.

Joohyun Kim, MD, PhD, associate professor of surgery at Yale School of Medicine, has received pilot funding from the Yale Liver Center to develop a new form of life-support for patients with severe liver failure. The project is supported in part by the Yale Liver Center award NIH P30 DK034989 Clinical and Translational Core.

Faculty and staff gathered on Jan. 27 for an update on several projects proposed during last year’s inaugural Ideathon.