Surgery Update
NEWS AND RECOGNITION
Congratulations General Surgery Residents - Class of 2021
Ariella Altman, MD, MS, Kaustav Majumder, MD, Maxwell H Busch, MD, Phillip Mercier, MD, Amro Wafi, MD, Keith M. Wirth, MD, MS
Air Force Reserve pilot, grounded after diagnosis, returns to the sky: “Everyone can be resilient.’
Dr. Wolfgang Gaertner – WCCO
Minnesota pilot is first to return to Air Force flight duty after losing colon.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minnesota makes progress in closing gap on COVID-19 vaccine disparities
Dr. Nick Ingraham shares retrospective study with Star Tribune The Medical News, and Medical Xpress and Fox 9 on how, regardless of socioeconomic status, non-English speaking and race or ethnicity remain the highest risk factors for severe COVID-19.
Tinen Iles, PhD was appointed as a member of the graduate faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and was just voted in as a contributing member to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers VVUQ 40 subcommittee.
2021 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Chris Tignanelli uses big data to improve health care for all Tignanelli also launched two clinical trials to determine if a commonly used high blood pressure medication could prevent hospitalization or lung injury. Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
Surgery Update is an official bi-weekly newsletter of the Department of Surgery for faculty, staff, trainees, colleagues and friends.
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Editor: Amanda Brower, DOS Communications Director, atbrower@umn.edu.
