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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 4/18/20
… Each day during the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of the Department of Surgery, sends an update to faculty and … Serologic testing for antibody to the SARS-CoV-2 virus is now available for health care personnel. Those eligible …
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Susan E. Bates, MD
… Dr. Susan Bates received her M.D. degree from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. She completed her clinical … continues to impact how the NCI-60 cell line panel is used in drug discovery, and helped her identify a novel …
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Reduce Your Colorectal Cancer Risk through Lifestyle Modification
… Staub, MS, RD, CDN Registered Dietitian, Division of Digestive Disease Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/25/20
… Each day during the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of the Department of Surgery, sends an update to faculty and … Colleagues, It may be obvious that writing these Updates is a daily struggle to balance terror with reassurance. Today …
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Endocrine Surgery Fellowship Program
… The goal of the Endocrine Surgery Fellowship Program at Columbia University is to help educate the future leaders of endocrine surgery. …
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Pancreatitis
… Reviewed by the physicians of Columbia’s Pancreatic Surgery Team , October 2024 … | Auto Islet Transplants | Diet | Prognosis | FAQ What is Pancreatitis? Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas that occurs when pancreatic enzyme secretions …
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NYP/Columbia Joins National Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT)
… As a new member of the PERT Consortium, inaugurated in 2015, NYP/Columbia is in the vanguard of treating pulmonary embolism with a …
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Resident Education: Simulation
… With the combination of rapidly advancing surgical technologies as well as … hours regulations, mastering new surgical skills outside the OR, prior to working with a patient, is imperative for surgeons at all levels of training. The …
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Mini-Sternotomy for a Tortuous Aortic Aneurysm
… with a mini-sternotomy, with a less than three-inch scar. The patient had a displaced heart and a twisted ascending … aorta, requiring Dr. Borger to work from the opposite side of the operating table, as well as through a very small … and the Aortic Surgery program at NYP/Columbia. "This is why we have seen such an explosion of TAVR (transcatheter …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 4/23/20
… Each day during the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of the Department of Surgery, sends an update to faculty and … operation. But I am not complaining! All of that stuff is to heart surgery as commanding an aircraft carrier is to …
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Heart Attacks & Cardiovascular Care
… bypass grafting (or CABG—pronounced like “cabbage”), the procedure that redirects blocked arteries to get blood … be equipped to handle. The Latest Technologies Columbia is a proven leader for surgical innovation. We offer access … available, and we’re consistently exploring the treatments of tomorrow through research and clinical trials. Areas of …
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Dina Podolsky, MD
… Dina Podolsky, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Columbia University … Medical Center, where she worked closely with one of the world’s leading hernia surgeons, Dr. Novitsky. She is a …
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Preceptor Sessions
… Midpoint Self-Assessment and Feedback Each student is required to receive explicit feedback midway through the clerkship. Prior to receiving feedback, you must complete … with the blank Mid-Clerkship Feedback during the 3rd week of the rotation. The feedback should be given to you in an …
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Immunosuppression Withdrawal for Stable Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients (iWITH)2
… to organ transplant recipients to prevent rejection of the new organ. Long-term use of these medicines places … types of cancer. This study seeks to: Find out if it is safe to slowly reduce and then completely stop the …
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