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We are very excited to announce our 2020 Faculty Education Awards!

Dr. Kirstyn Brownson Introduces Mentor Connection to the Department of Surgery and U of U Medical Students

Congratulations to Dr. Richard Gurgel (Associate Professor, Otolaryngology) for induction as a Fellow of the University of Utah Academy of Health Science Educators!

Utah dad Justin Christensen was 42, healthy and athletic when COVID-19 took him to the brink.

Dr. James Hotaling receives special 3i COVID 19 seed grant funding to study the economic and resource impact of cancelling elective surgical procedures.

Using single cell RNA sequencing they found that coronavirus was not able to infect the testis and COVID 19 was unlikely to be sexually transmitted.

The paper was recognized in the top 10% of downloaded papers by Wiley, the publisher of Neurourology and Urodynamics.

Finding evidence to change the status quo isn’t easy; thinking about evidence in terms of how it persuades—whether subjective or objective—can make it easier. Plastic surgery resident Dino Maglić and...

Dr. James Hotaling receives special 3i COVID 19 seed grant funding to study the economic and resource impact of cancelling elective surgical procedures.

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Surgical Breast Oncologist, Dr. Kirstyn Brownson worked with third-year medical student Jake Erickson, to find a unique way to provide education during COVID19 when students could no longer shadow surgeons...

Lead author, Heather Thiesset, PhD, MPH and Dr. Lyen Huang, MPH, FACS from the Department of Surgery recently published a paper titled Opioid Misuse and Dependence Screening Practices Prior to...

We are very excited to announce our 2020 Emergency Medicine Match applicants!

We are very excited to announce our 2020 General Surgery Match applicants!

The Division of Plastic Surgery would like to welcome our 2020 match applicants, Kaylee Scott and Laura Ormiston.

Division of Plastic Surgery faculty, Dr. Brad Rockwell, Dr. Alvin Kwok and resident Dr. Joshua Tieman traveled to Ghana, Africa. This is an annual trip for the Division to the...

Division grants awarded to Dr. James Willcockson and Dr. Jared Veith

This month, we feature Dr. George Rofaiel from our Division of Transplantation and Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery. Employing the latest in surgical technology, robotics in particular, Dr. Rofaiel brings minimally invasive...

Dr. Anthony Schaeffer receives funding through the NIH via a 5-year KO8 award to study hydronephrosis in children.

Visiting Professor and Chair of Surgery at Indiana University, Dr. Gary Dunnington, will present "Building Surgical Education Culture: the Flywheel Effect" on February 12th at 7:00 am in the Huntsman...

We are very excited to announce our 2020 Urology Match applicants!

The Academy of Health Science Educators (AHSE) is sponsoring a mini-course in educational scholarship this spring. The mini-course, a condensed version of AHSE's year-long introductory course on educational scholarship, will...

Board-certified pediatric surgeon and founder of the Pediatric Colorectal Center at Primary Children's Hospital, Dr. Michael Rollins, talks to us about why he chose his particular specialty and advice he...

Dr. Dan Vargo's medical school mentor joins him in the ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators