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Benjamin Phillips, MD, FACS, has joined the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Dr. Phillips completed residency training in 2005 at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville and fellowship training in colorectal surgery in 2009 at Jefferson. He is dual- certified in General Surgery and Colon and Rectal Surgery and will practice in Center City and at Methodist Hospital.
Kudos: Drs. Paul J. DiMuzio and Scott D. Goldstein have been promoted to Professor of Surgery, Drs. Scott Cowan and Harish Lavu have been promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery, and Dr. Gurjyot Bajwa has been promoted to Assistant Professor …
Recent Residency Program Graduate Pledges Ongoing Support
Recent Residency Program Graduate Pledges Ongoing Support
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After graduating from Jefferson’s surgical residency program in 2008, Negar Golesorkhi, MD, went on to complete a prestigious breast surgical oncology fellowship at Allegheny Medical Center. She has since returned to her native Virginia where she is in private practice at the National Breast Center in Lorton. Just a few years into her practice, Dr. Golesorkhi has already pledged to support the surgical residency program that trained and prepared her so well.
Dr. Golesorkhi’s commitment to the newly established Surgical Alumni for Education Fund will support academic enrichment for a surgical resident each year. “Surgical residency education is dual-faceted,” she …
Plant Biologist Shruti Lal, Phd, Identifies New Molecule That Could Prove Key In Treating Pancreatic Cancer
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When Shruti Lal, PhD, joined the Division of Surgical Research as a post-doctoral researcher, she brought an intriguing blend of experience to the lab.
A veritable Renaissance woman, Dr. Lal has earned Master’s degrees in both Botany and Computational Biosciences. She holds a two-year diploma in e-commerce and web design, and has more than six years of professional experience in software development, teaching and research. She also studied Molecular Biology techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute and explored microarray printing, scanning and hybridization at the University of California, San Francisco.
As a doctoral student at the …
Faculty Profile: Herbert E. Cohn, Md, Facs
Faculty Profile: Herbert E. Cohn, Md, Facs
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One might say if you don’t know Dr. Herbert Cohn, you don’t really know Jefferson. Dr. Cohn arrived at Jefferson Medical College in 1951 as a medical student (JMC ’55). Since that time, he has left only for his intern year at Atlantic City Hospital and two years of service in the U.S. Air Force. After graduating from the medical school, he completed his residency training on the service of John H. Gibbon, Jr., MD and his fellowship training in cardiovascular surgery. He was appointed to the faculty in 1962 and that was just the beginning.
In the following decades, …
Jefferson Vascular Center Among The First To Implant Fenestrated Aortic Grafts
Jefferson Vascular Center Among The First To Implant Fenestrated Aortic Grafts
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The Jefferson Vascular Center brings together surgical and medical specialties to provide comprehensive care to patients with vascular diseases (diseases of blood vessels) and thrombotic (blood-clotting) disorders, as well as care of complex vascular wounds.
The multidisciplinary center, launched in July 2009, is co-directed by Paul J. DiMuzio, MD, FACS, the William M. Measey Professor of Surgery and Director of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery; Geno Merli, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital; and Laurence Needleman, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of the Division of Abdominal Imaging. In the …
60 Years Of Cardiothoracic Surgery At Jefferson: From The Heart-Lung Machine To The ‘Portable’ Total Artificial Heart
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On May 6, 1953, John H. Gibbon, Jr., MD – the third Samuel D. Gross Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery (1946 –1967) and Director of Experimental Surgery at Jefferson – performed the first successful surgery with the groundbreaking heart-lung machine he developed. With this operation, Dr. Gibbon launched a new era in cardiac surgery.
As we commemorate the 60th anniversary of Dr. Gibbon’s milestone, patients of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery continue to benefit from Jefferson’s commitment to continual innovation under the leadership of James Diehl, MD, FACS, and two highly specialized programs.
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