Volume 10, Issue 1, 2011-2012 - Department of Surgery - University ...

medical education is revolutionizing theway hospitals and medical schools traindoctors and nurses and is enhancingpatient safety at the same time.The new lab features a more openenvironment for training future surgeons,including additional space forlaparoscopic training for surgery residents.The center is equipped with fiveseparate training pods that can beindividualized for all College of Medicinedepartments and provide simultaneousinstruction intended to process an entireclass of medical students in one day.ASTEC offers training for all levelswithin the college and for regionalpre-hospital organizations. It now hasthe flexibility to transform the lab spaceto meet the needs of any size simulatedenvironment.“This is particularly beneficial forcritical trauma and/or OR simulatedevents that require multidisciplinaryteams, as well as for mass casualty exercisesthat occur in the field,” said AllanJ. Hamilton, MD, professor of surgeryin the Division of Neurosurgery andASTEC director.Twelve Residents and FellowsGraduate in 2011Former UA Surgery Chairman ReceivesDepartment’s Distinguished Leadership AwardThe UA Department of Surgeryhonored its former chairman,Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, with the 2011Distinguished Leadership Award. Theaward is presented annually to recognizeoutstanding leadership that has led toimproved surgical practices.Dr. Jarrell served as UA Departmentof Surgery chairman from 1990 to 1997.For four years he served as chair of theboard of the UA faculty practice plan. Hewas a founding member of the UA BiomedicalEngineering Program, a joint effortbetween the Department of Surgeryand the Department of Aerospace andMechanical Engineering that was fundedby a Whitaker Foundation SpecialOpportunity Award.Dr. Jarrell went to the University ofMaryland School of Medicine in 1997 asprofessor and chair of the Department ofSurgery and moved to the Dean’s Officein 2003 to serve as executive vice dean.General Surgery: James J.P. Rough, MD, accepted a fellowship in plasticand reconstructive surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles; BrianK. Madigan, MD, is staying at the UA to complete a cardiothoracic surgeryfellowship; Felipe Boff Maegawa, MD, is practicing general and hepatobiliarysurgery; Sarah M. Popek, MD, has begun a colorectal surgery fellowship at theUniversity of Southern California; Zachary C. Taylor, MD, is staying at the UA tocomplete a fellowship in vascular surgery; Norma T. Walks, MD, is now a generalsurgeon in Luverne, Minnesota.Neurosurgery: Benjamin J. Serxner, MD, started fellowship training in complexspine surgery in Colorado.Urology: Lipika R. McCauley, MD, entered private practice in Phoenix.Cardiothoracic Surgery: Aleem Siddique, MD, accepted a transplant fellowshipat Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, United Kingdom.Surgical Critical Care: Jorge Con, MD, is the first Acute Care Surgery fellow at theUniversity of Arizona.Vascular Surgery: Layla Corral Lucas, MD, is practicing vascular surgery inTucson with an emphasis on limb salvage.Podiatric Surgery: Brian D. Lepow, DPM, has joined his family’s private practicein Houston and plans to establish a limb salvage program at Texas Medical Center.Dr. Jarrellrecently was promotedto seniorvice president andchief academic andresearch officerat the Universityof Maryland. Healso is dean of theGraduate School.In his new role, Dr.Jarrell will be responsible for facilitatingthe research mission of the Universityof Maryland, as well as function as theuniversity’s provost in matters related tothe university’s Strategic Alliance.A graduate of the University of Delawarein chemical engineering, Dr. Jarrellreceived his medical degree from JeffersonMedical College in Philadelphia. Hecompleted residency training in generalsurgery at the Medical College of Virginiaand a fellowship in renal transplantationat McGuire Veterans Affairs Hospital.Since 1986, Dr. Jarrell has beenfunded by the National Institutes ofHealth, the National Science Foundation(NSF), the Department of Defense, andcorporate sources. He holds 22 patents.He served on the “Journey to Mars”committee cosponsored by the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration(NASA).He currently is a co-investigator onan NSF grant to develop a Web-basedhigh school curriculum to increase interestof women and minorities in science,technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM). The author of two populartextbooks in surgery, he has receivednumerous teaching and alumni awards.“We chose Dr. Jarrell for this year’saward because of his past leadershipas department chair at the UA and forhis academic excellence shown in hiscurrent position as the new senior vicepresident at the University of Maryland,”said Rainer W.G. Gruessner, MD, UADepartment of Surgery chairman.13