News & Announcements

Yale's third annual Global Surgery Symposium features speakers from war-torn, limited-resource and remote areas of the world.

Dr. John Morton will join the Yale Community as Vice Chair of Quality, and Division Chief of Bariatric & Minimally Invasive Surgery for the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale New Haven Health System.

Dr. Raul Guzman will be joining the team as Division Chief of Vascular Surgery, effective June 3, 2019. Additionally, Dr. Guzman will be appointed as Surgeon-in-Chief, Vascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Center for the Yale New Haven Health System, and Chief of Vascular Surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital.

Dr. David Mulligan, Chief of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, has been elected Vice President, President-Elect of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) Board of Directors. The OPTN/UNOS manages the nation’s organ transplant network under federal contract.

The YSM Department of Surgery's second annual Research Day will be held Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

Nita Ahuja, MD, chairwoman of the department of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine and surgeon-in-chief at Yale New Haven Hospital comments on Liposarcomas (Fat Tumors).

Dr. Alan Dardik gave the 29th Annual Conrad Jobst Lecture in Toledo, OH, on September 7, 2018. His presentation titled "Improving the outcome of vein grafts and fistulae: Should surgeons turn veins into arteries?" received high accolades and a standing ovation.

Walter E. Longo, MD, MBA, FACS, FASCRS was honored with the inaugural Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D., Graduate Medical Education (GME) Leadership Award

Read how a Yale Medicine team, including John Elefteriades, MD, a heart surgeon and director of the Yale Center for Advanced Thoracic Aortic Disease at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Aortic Institute helped get Robert Palmer back to his life (and into his race car) again.