Surgery

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.

Walter Jean, MD, professor of neurological surgery, spoke to NBC4 about the Precision Virtual Reality technology in use at GW Hospital.

The Division of Thoracic Surgery at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences will evaluate the clinical and educational efficacy of a new interactive 360-degree virtual reality platform with funding from the 2018 Education Research Grant Award from the Center for Faculty Excellence.

Arjun Joshi, MD, associate professor of surgery, was featured in an article from OZY about his strategy for treating HPV-related oral cancer tumors.

Dimitri Sigounas, MD, assistant professor of neurological surgery, spoke to USA TODAY Sports about aneurysms following the one suffered by Chicago White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar.

Fourth-year medical student and kidney donor Jacob Lambdin honors mentor J. Keith Melancon, MD, by requesting the renowned transplant surgeon hood him at graduation.

Walter Jean, MD, professor of neurological surgery, spoke to NBC4 at the NBC4 Health & Fitness Expo for a segment about how the use of virtual reality is changing the way doctors perform surgery.

Babak Sarani, MD, director of trauma and acute care medicine and associate professor of surgery, spoke to The Washington Post for an article about civilians learning military techniques, like tourniquets, to save lives.

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…

Experts in orthopaedic surgery gathered at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 to learn from their colleagues in the field, and to honor one of their own.