To celebrate #DonateLifeMonth, team members from UVA Health’s Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center installed the 6th Annual Pinwheel Garden outside the West Complex—honoring organ donors and the lives they’ve touched. On display now through April 30! UVA Transplant Center UVA School of Medicine

Fun catching up with past and present UVA Surgery folks at Intuitive Connect 2025. Always great to see familiar faces and talk about the future of surgery together! #IntuitiveConnect2025 ⁦UVA Surgery⁩

Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Schirmer on receiving the George Berci Lifetime Achievement Award from SAGES—recognizing his groundbreaking contributions to endoscopic surgery and a lifetime of innovation in the field. SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! UVA School of Medicine UVA Health #HoosUVASurgery

Day 2 of the #AmerSurg25 morning session continues with Dr. El Moheb UVA Surgery presenting: "Development, Validation, and Prospective Testing of a Novel Open Architecture AI Model for Automated Surgical Coding" 🧑‍💻

UVA Health has been named one of America's Best Weight-Loss Centers by Newsweek! Our bariatric surgery team is proud to be part of this dedicated, multidisciplinary team helping patients achieve healthy, sustainable weight loss. Learn more: med.virginia.edu/surgery/2025/0…

Just wrapped up the 24th ⁦UVA Surgery⁩ Department Resident Research Day! Grateful to Dr. Tim Pritts for joining us as Visiting Professor. Outstanding presentations all day—thank you to our talented residents and dedicated organizers! ⁦⁦UC General Surgery⁩ ⁦⁦

Congratulations to Drs. Lian-Wang Guo and Ken Brayman on receiving a $100K Ivy Foundation grant to study the prevention of vein graft stenosis! Dr. Guo impressed the committee with tenacity and vision as the team aims to translate findings to human care. Lian-Wang Guo UVA School of Medicine

The 24th Annual Resident Research Day was a success! The day featured many thought-provoking oral abstract and poster presentations and an insightful lecture by Dr. Timothy Pritts. Thank you to all who made it possible and to our residents for their incredible work! UVA School of Medicine

We're excited to announce that Anthony De Gregorio, DO has matched to our Vascular Surgery Fellowship program! Dr. De Gregorio brings strong clinical experience and a passion for vascular care. We’re thrilled to welcome him to the team. UVA Vascular Surgery #HoosUVASurgery

Dr. Linda Martin (Linda Martin) presented the surgical outcomes of the Alliance AFT-46 trial at #AATS2025. AFT-46 is chemo / durva followed by surgery for stage IIIA/IIIB N2 NSCLC. This is a really special study for our field — the rare investigator-initiated multi-center

UVA Health first in Virginia to use new tool helping surgeons spot lung cancer! 🫁 Learn more: 29news.com/2025/04/11/uva… UVA Health

Congratulations to Dr. Samantha M. Ruff, MD, from the University of Virginia, on being named the 2025–2027 Career Development Award Recipient! Samantha Ruff UVA Surgery #SSAT #SSATAWARDS

We are thrilled to welcome thoracic surgeon, Walker Julliard, MD (Walker Julliard) back to the UVA family! A UVA Cardiothoracic Fellowship alum, he returns with expertise in lung transplant, robotic surgery, complex airway procedures, and clinical research! UVA Cardiothoracic Surgery

Big congratulations to Resident Adishesh Narahari, MD, PhD, on receiving the prestigious David J. Sugarbaker Surgical Resident Investigator Award from AATS! Dr. Narahari's work is focused on lung ischemia-reperfusion injury. We're excited to see what's to come!

This morning was our annual Kenneth J. Cherry, MD Lecture on Vascular Surgery. Thank you to our speaker, Dr. Sean Lyden (Sean Lyden), Chairman of Cleveland Clinic Vascular Surgery (Cleveland Clinic Vascular Surgery), for giving an insightful talk on "The Evolution of Carotid Disease Management"!

Just 2 days away! Don’t miss the First Annual UVA Aortic Symposium—Sat, May 31 at Pinn Hall Auditorium & on Zoom. Join experts in aortic & endovascular surgery to explore new frontiers in care. 🔗Register here: uva.cloud-cme.com/course/courseo…

Drs. Craig Slingluff (Surgery) and Elizabeth Gaughan (Hem/Onc) have led UVA Cancer Center into the Melanoma Research Foundation Breakthrough Consortium—joining 30 top centers advancing therapies for this deadly form of skin cancer. Craig Slingluff UVA Cancer Center Melanoma Research Foundation

Behzad S. Farivar, MD has us off and running! You go UVA Vascular Surgery UVA Surgery UVA Interventional Radiology UVA Cardiothoracic Surgery

Orientation and picture day with the UVA Surgery intern class! Viknesh Kasthuri Ashley Barry MD MS

A (delayed) but HUGE congratulations to one of our chief residents Dr. August Schaeffer for matching to MIS/Abdominal Wall Reconstruction fellowship at UVA Surgery! 😷🤖🔪