General Surgery

Juliet Lee, MD, associate professor of surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received the 2022 Philip J. Wolfson Outstanding Teacher Award from the Association for Surgical Education at its national meeting in May 2022.

Surgery resident Cheralyn Hendrix, MD, authored an essay in the January 2019 edition of Academic Medicine.

Babak Sarani, MD, director of the Center for Trauma and Critical Care and associate professor of surgery, spoke to EMS World for a Q&A about fatalities following a shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Florida.

Karim Trad, MD, clinical professor of surgery, was quoted by Bariatric News in an article about recently published data on control of gastroesophageal reflux disease symptoms and health care economics after a Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication 2.0 procedure from the TIF EsophyX vs Medical PPI…

Karim Trad, M.D., assistant clinical professor of surgery, was featured in Medscape Medical News for a study suggesting that patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease might benefit more from transoral incisionless fundoplication than from continued treatment with proton-pump inhibitors.

Lawrence Singer, D.M.D., assistant clinical professor of surgery, spoke with The Washingtonian about new, cutting-edge technology, called SoundBite, that can restore hearing using two small devices: one in the ear and one in the upper, back teeth.

Barbara Walters recounts her recent health issues on The View, thanking Michael Olding, M.D., professor of surgery, and Bruce Abell, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, for their remarkable work. 

Anton Sidawy, an internationally renowned vascular surgeon, former chief of surgical services at the D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center, immediate past president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, and current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vascular Surgery, has his own vision: “to take what…