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5/16/2007
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Rachel Sparrow
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email: rsparrow@drexelmed.edu
In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a surgeon at Drexel University College of Medicine successfully removed a woman’s gallbladder through a single incision in the patient’s belly button (click here to watch a video of the procedure). The single port access (SPA) surgery was performed by Paul G. Curcillo II, M.D., FACS, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine and Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery. Dr. Curcillo performed the surgery at Hahnemann University Hospital. The entire procedure was done with only one incision and left the patient with a hidden scar. It is believed to be the world’s first single port laparoscopic gallbladder removal procedure.
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5/15/2007
Faculty physician helped diagnose medical mystery
Katherine Sherif, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and Director of the Drexel Center for Women’s Health, will be featured in an upcoming episode of the hit show “Mystery Diagnosis.”
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5/3/2007
Drexel University College of Medicine will present 351 degrees to the graduating class of 2007 on May 18 at 10:00 a.m. at the Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad Street.
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4/16/2007
Drexel University College of Medicine’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership is presenting the fifth annual WOMAN ONE award to Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest health care philanthropy. The ceremony will take place at the Rittenhouse Hotel located at 210 West Rittenhouse Square beginning at 5:30 p.m., on Monday, April 23.
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4/4/2007
Paul G. Curcillo II, M.D., FACS, associate professor and vice chairman of the department of surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine, has been elected president of the Metropolitan Philadelphia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Curcillo, of Flourtown, PA, is nationally recognized in minimally invasive surgery. He specializes in gastrointestinal malignancies and breast disease.
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