Next UCSD Academic Senate: 2:00 P.M., October 15, 2008
NIH Unsolicited New Applications: R01 - October 5, 2008; K-Series- October 12, 2008; R21- October 16, 2008
NIH Resubmissions: R01 - November 5, 2008; K-Series- November 12, 2008; R21- November 16, 2008
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Dr. Talamini has recently been elected president of SAGES (The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeon), the largest professional organization of gastrointestinal surgeons in the United States and the leading international society for modern minimally invasive and endoscopic surgery.
To read the the full news release, click here.
Dr. Ludwig R. Cebelli, medical director of the San Gregorio Memorial Hospital emergency services wrote this note to Dr. Niren Angle, Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery:
Thank you for helping us at San Gregorio Memorial Hospital ER last week in managing the safe transfer of our patient. On behalf of the entire ER staff you were most helpful and we are very appreciative of your efforts. We have no vascular/interns visit services at our small community hospital and were unable to safely provide care for our patient. We called all hospitals in a 100 mile radius and the larger medical centers were "too full" to receive our patient for this complex level of care. Our sincere thanks for coming to bat for him!
After leaving his homeland of Zimbabwe due to a civil war, Stuart Jamieson waited tables in London, England to save enough money to put himself through medical school. He then secured a rare fellowship position with prominent heart surgeon Norman Shumway, M.D. of Stanford University, who performed the nation’s first heart transplant. Today, Dr. Jamieson is internationally known for his contributions to the field of heart and lung transplantation. He was honored to accept the Ellis Island Medal of Honor with fellow recipients at Ellis Island on Saturday, May 10, 2008.
The Ellis Island Medal of Honor was established in 1986 by the National Coalition of Organizations (NECO) “to pay tribute to the ancestry groups that make up America’s unique cultural mosaic. Each year the ceremony celebrates the immigrant experience on Ellis Island, through which millions of immigrants passed on their way to a new life in America.
Another successful surgery utilizing the NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery) technique at the UCSD Medical Center has caught the media's attention once again from magazines like BusinessWeek and news stations such as Channel 10.
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One Tiny Incision UCSD Surgeons Perform New Ultra-Minimally Invasive Gallbladder Removal
A pioneering surgery took place at UCSD on September 11 when Drs. Santiago Horgan and Mark A. Talamini removed a patient’s gallbladder using only one tiny incision. It was the first such procedure to be performed in the Southwestern United States.
Dr. Horgan is Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Director of the Center for Treatment of Obesity at UCSD. Dr. Talamini is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery.
Drs. Horgan and Talamini used a new, ultra-minimally invasive technique called NOTES, or Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery. In a NOTES procedure, surgeons insert surgical instruments into the abdomen through a natural orifice, such as the navel or the mouth and esophagus.
In this case, the gallbladder was removed through the patient’s vagina via a small incision in the patient’s navel. The successful surgery was part of a UCSD clinical trial of NOTES techniques.
“This is a very exciting prospect,” said Dr. Talamini. “We are taking minimally invasive surgery one step further in terms of reducing pain, scarring, and recovery time.”
Drs. Talamini and Horgan are among the world’s leaders in refining and testing NOTES techniques. Dr. Horgan, also a Professor of Surgery at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, recently performed four groundbreaking NOTES procedures there.
Both surgeons are conducting the UCSD clinical trial of the procedure, which is funded by the new Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research (NOSCAR™).
If further studies confirm that NOTES is effective and safe, surgeons may soon offer NOTES surgeries to their patients.
For more information about this pioneering surgery by Drs. Horgan and Talamini, see the UCSD Medical Center news release.
In other NOTES news, the UCSD Department of Surgery and the UCSD Center for the Future of Surgery are presenting the second UCSD hands-on NOTES course in October 2008.
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Welcome to the UCSD Department of Surgery. We are dedicated to providing excellent, compassionate care for our patients, conducting breakthrough research, and educating the top doctors of the future.
2nd Annual UCSD Hands-On NOTES Course
October 30 - November 1, 2008
Omni San Diego Hotel
675 L Street
San Diego, CA 92101
The UCSD Hands-On NOTES Course will feature state of the art lectures, hands-on cadaver labs, and internationally renowned faculty. Designed for minimally invasive surgeons and gastroenterologists, this CME activity will offer an extensive update on recent advances in technology and clinical applications of NOTES and provide a unique opportunity to perform NOTES procedures in a lab environment.
For more information, click here.
Questions?Email Christina Baker at c1baker@ucsd.edu