News Roundup

 Read the latest news stories in The Catalyst: 

T-VEC offers promising treatment for melanoma (May 21, 2019) 

MUSC researchers awarded patent on nanoparticle that delivers transplant drug December 2019

Pancreatectomy patient counts her blessings for winding path that brought her to MUSC November 2019

NCI awards $3M grant to Hollings Cancer Center immunotherapy team June 2019

Cancer patient warms up to hot chemo treatment July 2019

Natural antioxidant helps improve immune-based therapies by modulating T-cells June 2019

MUSC grads grow family to four, thanks to collaboration that saves lives of moms-to-be August 2019

Announcements in the MUSC Department of Surgery

Fall 2019

• Katherine Morgan, M.D. confirmed by the American College of Surgeons as the SESC Representative to the ACS Advisory Council for General Surgery. 
• Jean Marie Ruddy, M.D. selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Leadership Development Program, a collaborative effort between the Society for Vascular Surgery, Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, and the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society. 
• Dr. Ruddy was also selected to attend the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Mid-Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar. 
• Aaron Lesher, M.D. named IDeA Fellow 2019. The NIH IDeA fellowship was launched in 2015 under the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). 
• Cynthia Talley, M.D. appointed Chair of the Member Service Committee of the Young Fellows Association (YFA) of the American College of Surgeons for a two-year term

Summer 2019

• Heart Center Continues to Earn Three-Star Rating for Congenital Heart Surgery
• Nancy DeMore, M.D. received notification her manuscript titled “Development of a Novel Humanized Monoclonal Antibody to Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein-2 that Inhibits Triple Negative Breast Cancer and Angiosarcoma Growth in vivo” was accepted in Annals of Surgical Oncology.
• Stephen Fann, M.D. is currently serving as President of the South Carolina Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.
• Mark Lockett, M.D. received the 2019 Outstanding Federal Manager of the Year Award from the Federal Executive Association of the Greater Charleston Area. 
• Andrea Abbott, M.D., MSCR was elected as State Chair to the Commission on Cancer Liaison Program for the American College of Surgeons.
• Nancy DeMore, M.D. has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, SC Chapter. 
• Virgilio George, M.D. and Ramsay Camp, M.D. lead the multidisciplinary team that performs HIPEC for peritoneal surface malignancies at MUSC Health. 
• Cynthia Talley, M.D. Selected to Inaugural Cohort of the ACS Certificate in Applied Surgical Education Leadership Program
• Mathew Wooster, M.D. Named Department of Surgery Clerkship Director
• Steve Kahn, M.D. joins Department of Surgery; named Burn Director
• Cynthia Talley, M.D. Named Vice Chair of EducationMark Rubinstein, Ph.D. Receives $1.98M NIH Funding to Expand Immunotherapy Research for Lung Cancer
• Jean Marie Ruddy, M.D. Receives Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award from the NIH
• Nancy DeMore, M.D. and Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D. Receive HCC Funding
• Mahsa Javid, M.D. Ph.D. Receives the Paul LoGerfo Research Award
• Robert Sade, M.D. was honored with the naming of the ethics debate during the annual Southern Thoracic Meeting
• Marc R. Katz, M.D., MPH elected to Active Membership in the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)
• Evert Eriksson, M.D. voted in for membership to the Western Trauma Association
• Stuart Leon, M.D. recipient of the 2019 MUSC Foundation Outstanding Clinician Award
• Thomas Brothers, M.D. recipient of the 2019 MUSC Foundation Distinguished Faculty Service Award
• Satish Nadig, M.D. named Division Director, Academic Affairs in the Department of Surgery 
• Milton Armstrong, M.D. elected to the Board of Directors for the American Association for Hand Surgery
• Jared White, M.D. Joins Division of Transplant Surgery; Named Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program
• Hongun Wang, Ph.D. receives  $2,154,880 National Institutes of Health Grant to Explore Novel Treatments for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

Fall 2018 | Spring 2019

• Heather Evans, M.D., vice chair of Clinical Research and Applied Informatics, is co-author on Evaluation of Wound Photography for Remote Postoperative Assessment of Surgical Site Infections published online in JAMA Surgery
• David B. Adams, M.D. honored with Order of the Palmetto, State's Highest Honor
• David Mahvi, M.D. appointed Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the MUSC Department of Surgery
• Jean Marie Ruddy, M.D. named Associate Program Director for Resident Research in the MUSC Department of Surgery
• Alicia R. Privette, M.D. and Ken R. Catchpole, Ph.D., S.C. SmartStateTM Endowed Chair in Clinical Practice and Human Factors at MUSC designed a Smartphone app to improve teamwork and communication in trauma care  
• MUSC Surgical Oncologist Dr. Andrea Abbott Earns Certification for Hidden Scar™ Breast Cancer Surgery 
• Minoo Kavarana, M.D. honored with 2018 MUSC Foundation Outstanding Clinician Award
• Mark Lockett, M.D. surgeon lead for the South Carolina Surgical Quality Collaborative (SCSQC), secured a $650,000 Duke Endowment
• Rochelle Ringer, M.D. recognized for Top Quality Care |  named Hilton Head Hospital’s 2018 Physician of the Year
• Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D. received a 2018 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Careers in Immunology Fellowship
• Nancy DeMore, M.D. selected to the Top 10 Medtech Women in Southeast  
• Aaron Lesher, M.D. received the ABA-Shriners Best Pediatric Burn Paper Award 
• Derek DuBay, M.D. received a $335,000 Duke Endowment