Department of Surgery News Search

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded Professor and Chief in the Division of Computational Health Sciences, Rui Zhang, PhD, FAMCI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, a $1.5M U01 grant for his research on...

This year, we are honored to celebrate 26 University of Minnesota Surgery faculty members named among the top in their field!

Satoshi Miyairi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, has been awarded a $188,000 grant for his research on Autologous Thymus Re-transplantation: A Novel...

This award is granted annually to clinical faculty who have scored in the top ten on the standardized trainee evaluation of faculty performance administered by the Office of Graduate Medical...

We are excited to welcome these four new outstanding fellows to the University of Minnesota on August 1, 2026.

Arthur Matas, MD, Professor in the Division of Transplantation, has received a $380,466 NIH award to support the development of a five-year, multicenter prospective trial investigating whether a new...

The Department of Surgery is pleased to welcome Jocelyn Chi, PhD, as an Assistant Professor in Computational Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota.Dr. Chi completed her PhD...

The Department of Surgery is pleased to welcome Javier Navarro Rueda, PhD, as an Assistant Professor in the Visible Heart® Laboratories at the University of Minnesota.

Rui Zhang, PhD, FAMIA, and Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD, have been elected to the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) 2025 Class of Academy Fellows.

The General Surgery Residency Program hosted its graduation ceremony at the Club Cambria Room in Huntington Bank Stadium on June 27, 2025. The hybrid event featured speeches, awards, and recognition...

Get to know the ten students in this year’s MSTEPP Scholar Internship cohort!

Evan Roberts, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Medicine, has been selected as the 2025-2026 Fesler Lampert Chair in Aging Studies.

Dr. Elliot Arsoniadis, an assistant professor in the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, was recently featured on the 13th episode of the Going Viral – No One Should Die From Embarrassment podcast...

Each year, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine releases its list of Top Doctors, and this year, 200+ M Health Fairview physicians made the 28th edition of the list, including 27 of our exceptional surgical faculty...

Professor Emeritus of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Henry Buchwald, MD, PhD, is being honored with a Festschrift at the American Society for Metabolic and...

The Division of Vascular Surgery welcomes Daniel M. Ihnat, MD, as the new chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery.

The Department of Surgery has been awarded a translational research grant through the Office of Discovery and Translation (ODAT), part of the University of Minnesota's Clinical and Translational...

Three members of the Department of Surgery's Surgery Grants & Contracts (SGC) team, Hang McLaughlin, Sarah Nelson, and Mellani Lubuag, recently attended the NCURA (National Council of University...

The Department of Surgery honors Professor Emeritus David E. R. Sutherland, MD, PhD, who passed away on March 23 at age 84.

It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the news that one of our long-time faculty members, Professor John Foker, MD, PhD, passed away the morning of April 23rd.