The Division of Urology, with support from the Center for Global Surgery, launched the Global Urology Initiative and Multinational Partnership for Advancing Capacity and Training in Surgery (GU-IMPACTS) in 2023.
Dr. Johnson was a pioneer in children’s surgery in Utah and on a global scale. He made indelible contributions to pediatric surgery over his decades of service to the patients...
Listen to the Behind the Knife podcast featuring Sudha Jayaraman MD, MSC, FACS, and colleagues as they discuss discuss the definition of global surgery today and how health infrastructure interacts...
University of Utah Health’s Department of Surgery is thrilled to announce that Thomas Varghese Jr, MS, MD, MBA, FACS, MAMSE, was installed as the 85th President of the Society of...
The University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine and Primary Children’s Hospital are launching an innovative multi-center study, under the leadership of Katie Russell, MD, to build a...
The Meaningful Use Committee has approved funding for University of Utah’s Bariatric Surgery program to implement an innovative chatbot program, inspired by the success in orthopedics, to support and enhance...
Ariel Rodgers, MD, is a surgical critical care fellow in the Division of General Surgery. Her work in critical care helps ensure trauma patients receive the care they need when...
Jeffrey Saffle, MD, recounts his journey from the beginning of his education in 1968 at the University of Chicago, through his fulfilling career in burn surgery, to semi-retirement in 2012...
A long-standing collaboration between the Center for Global Surgery at University of Utah Health and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana, is helping fill a much-needed gap in...
On the first episode of Huntsman Cancer Institute's Talks with Docs, Brian Mitzman, MD, a skilled general thoracic surgeon, discusses what inspired him to specialize in robotic surgery, and what...
Updated guidelines released in 2021 have expanded on which patients should be screened for lung cancer. Thomas Varghese Jr., MD, discusses the new guidelines, explains who should consider getting screened...
Meet Nicolas Contreras, MD, a fellowship-trained cardiothoracic surgeon with a special interest in robotic thoracic surgery, thoracic oncology, esophageal surgery, complex esophageal reconstruction, and lung transplantation.
Welcome Jessica Liu McMullin, MD, MS, to the division of General Surgery. Dr. McMullin is a fellowship-trained endocrine surgeon specializing in thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal diseases.
The Center for Global Surgery at University of Utah Health, directed by Sudha Jayaraman, MD, MSc, led a team of 62 experts from 22 different countries to establish the first...
