For this year's Year in Review presentation, we reflect & celebrate the countless accomplishments #DukeSurgery faculty, trainees, & staff have made since Dr. Allan D. Kirk became the Department Chair in 2014. Stay tuned for more highlights! #DecadeinReviewHighlights

We are excited to announce that Dr. Brian Gilmore will be joining our Vascular Surgery team this fall! Dr. Gilmore is a proud Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Surgery alumni, winner of all the awards, and recently completed fellowship training at UF Vascular. Welcome back, Happy!!

"I have a special place in my heart for transplantation, and not the least of which is because every single case starts w/somebody thinking of somebody else. And that's a good thing to foster in our organization." - Dr. Allan D. Kirk, #DukeSurgery Chair #DecadeinReviewHighlights

"Our ability to integrate—to work together—goes beyond just the inner digitations we have within our state. We are truly interdigitated across the world, making us a true global surgery department." — Dr. Allan D. Kirk, Department Chair #DecadeInReviewHighlights #MedTwitter

#DukeSurgery advances new research approaches to health equity within breast cancer, tx, & gun violence. "A lot of depts. of surgery focus solely on fixing the holes, & this Dept. of Surgery is looking into the community to try to fix the souls." — Dr. Allan D. Kirk, Dept. Chair

Extremely important new work from our very own Dr. Hadiza Kazaure, section of endocrine surgery. Postoperative PCP visit after cancer surgery are associated with decreased 90 day mortality. Duke Surgery Duke Surgical Oncology JAMA Surgery 🦀

The Depts. main pillars are Clinical Care, Research, Education, and Community. With the advancement of medical technology, specifically machine learning and AI, #DukeSurgery has introduced a new mission pillar—Innovation. #DecadeinReviewHighlights #MedTwitter

This past decade, #DukeSurgerys SEAL lab has gone through tremendous growth & innovations so that our residents are trained using the best & latest surgical technology. #DecadeInReviewHighlights #MedTwitter

David Montefiori, PhD, explains, “There’s very little difference among these variants [JN.1, KP.2, & KP.3], and that’s a good thing. However, all three have escaped [immunity] up to 5-10fold, compared to the XBB variant contained in last fall’s booster." Duke Surgery Duke Human Vaccine Institute

Since 2014, the Dept. has hired 23 faculty members who started as #DukeSurgery trainees. "I think that bringing in our trainees as faculty is the best signal of our confidence in the future surgeons that we train." — Dr. Allan D. Kirk, Dept. Chair #DecadeInReviewHighlights

Starting out on the right foot - our first coronary simulation session of the academic year! Duke Surgery #MedEd

Congratulations to Professor of #DukeSurgery Dr. Linda Cendales on this extraordinary honor of her upcoming induction into the National Academy of Medicine in her native Colombia!

From inspiring young minds to spreading lifesaving info, #DukeSurgery is partnered w/various community outreach programs. "We don't make money doing them, but it's the right thing to do & being part of the community is something we continue." — Dr. Allan D. Kirk, Dept. Chair

Congratulations Dr. DiLalla 🤩🤩🤩 Gayle DiLalla Duke Surgery Duke Surgical Oncology 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Third year medical student found that published reports of cases of skin cancers in tattooed skin have become more common over time, though the number of reported cases remains small. #skincancer #tattoos medschool.duke.edu/news/exploring…

Duke Surgery kicked off our fall grand rounds series with an inspirational visit from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Peter Kingham. 📣 Shout outs to long time friend/partner Prof Isaac Alatise + 🥇many examples ARGO Research moving the needle for global cancer equity. TY, Dr. Kingham!

Amazing job by Duke University School of Medicine Megan Happ presenting our work on surgical simulation and character formation Kern Nat'l Network for Flourishing in Medicine national meeting. Duke Surgery Duke General Surgery Residency #thegoodsurgeon

Kevin Ig-Izevbekhai sharing what we have been up to Duke General Surgery Residency with the Project on the Good Surgeon! Grateful for friends like Abraham Nussbaum helping to inspire and shape our curriculum. Kern Nat'l Network for Flourishing in Medicine Duke Surgery The Program for Leadership and Character

So proud of this team and all their hard work and teamwork! #SAAS2024 SocAsianAcadSurg #trauma #NutritionMatters Duke Surgery #ilooklikeasurgeon

Congratulations Jennifer Plichta MD (she/her) for being selected to serve on the Duke SOM Promotions Committee! 👏👏👏Duke Surgery Duke University