News & Announcements
The Yale School of Medicine Department of Surgery is pleased to announce the faculty promotions of Drs. Henry Hsia, Sanjay Kulkarni, and Kevin Schuster as approved by the Board of Permanent Officers at its June 22, 2022 meeting.
- June 10, 2022
Dr. Gabriele Di Luozzo, a leader and expert in the practice and research of complex aortic surgery, has been named Medical Director and Section Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Bridgeport Hospital, where he will be responsible for expanding the portfolio of heart and vascular services, exponentially, in partnership with department and health system leadership. He joins the Yale community on July 1.
- June 09, 2022
Michael G. Caty, MD, MMM, is the recipient of the 2022 David J. Leffell Prize for Clinical Excellence.
- June 07, 2022
Yale Corporation has named Dr. Benjamin Judson the Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology), effective immediately. Dr. Judson currently serves as Division Chief of Otolaryngology for the Department of Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine.
- June 07, 2022
Dr. Henry Hsia has been appointed Executive Director and Director of Wound Research for the Yale New Haven Health System’s Executive Committee for Wound Services. The newly established committee officially integrates Yale’s leading wound experts, toward the goal of developing a nation-leading program for comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and personalized wound care.
- June 07, 2022
Dr. Preston Phillips, a former surgical resident at the Yale School of Medicine, was among the four victims killed last week in a mass shooting in Tulsa, Okla. He is remembered by Yale colleagues as a superb physician with a beaming smile and “a handshake that felt like a hug.”
- May 12, 2022
The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) has selected Dr. Melanie Sion as a 2022 recipient of the YIGH Global Health Spark Award to advance her research on the disproportionate share of global surgical disease burden shouldered by low-income countries.
- May 12, 2022
The Yale School of Medicine Department of Surgery is pleased to announce the faculty promotions of Michael Alperovich, MD, MSc, FACS and Matthew Williams, MD, as approved by the Board of Permanent Officers at its April 20, 2022 meeting.
- April 13, 2022
Fifty students signed up for the vascular surgery interest group's surgical skills event in March 2022 — the first in-person rendition since pre-COVID.
- April 12, 2022
You have seen birds charting the sky in synchronized patterns, often in a V shape that shifts and swoops effortlessly. At the point of the “V” you’ll find the leader bird, whose role it is to reduce air resistance for the rest of the flock, so that followers can cruise in the aerodynamic wake, without burning as much energy.