UTMB Department of Surgery News

Isabella Faria, MD was awarded 2024 Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao Emerging Liver Scholar Award, awarded by the AASLD Foundation- American Association of Studies for Liver Disease.

General Surgery 2024 graduation ceremony was on Saturday June 22nd.

Dr. Hisham Marwan has been appointed as an examiner for the 2025 Oral Certifying Examination by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS).

Dr. Carmen Mora (Pediatrics), Dr. Jacqueline Meyer (NEAR), Jourdan Pea (Pediatrics), Victor Luciano (Pathology) and John Carstens (Surgery) collaborated and produced a video called, Gastrostomy Tubes, for the patients. It was awarded 2024 gold Hermes Award.

Brian Amburn, an MD/PhD student in Dr. Fagg's lab, has been awarded the UTMB ITS T32 Pre-doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Brian!