Department of Surgery Chair Diana Farmer received the Robert E. Gross Award for Excellence in Pediatric Research and Achievement from the American Pediatric Surgical Association.
Read MoreFive UC Davis Health surgery residents were recently promoted to the rank of major in the United States Air Force during a ceremony.
Read MoreUC Davis Health welcomes Ankit Sarin as division chief of colorectal surgery within the Department of Surgery.
Read MoreThe first annual limb loss and limb difference celebration hosted by UC Davis Health brought together experts, local organizations, limb loss survivors and their families.
Read MoreDuring Limb Loss Awareness Month, UC Davis Health is hosting an event that features the latest developments, services, and research related to limb loss.
Read MoreMost people don’t think about the carbon footprint of surgery, but anesthetic gases are greenhouse gases. UC Davis is using a less-polluting gas—and less of it.
Read MoreOrgan donors responsible for an eight-way ‘chain’ kidney transplant meet with recipients for the first time at a celebration held at the Transplant Center.
Read MoreGravely injured in a car accident and left in an irrevocable coma, Kyle Brandt's family decided to donate his organs, which save four lives.
Read MoreTransplant surgeons have performed the first fully robotic nephrectomy, a surgery to remove a healthy kidney from a living donor, in the Sacramento region.
Read MoreGina Tudela donated a kidney to her identical twin Victoria Sargee, giving her the rare opportunity to live as if her new kidney was her own.
Read MoreWhen their son was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, the Gomez-Flores family held onto hope and put their trust in UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
Read MoreThe UC Davis Transplantation Health Equity Summit will include discussions about health disparities in transplantation and strategies for changing the transplant system.
Read MoreUC Davis Health is one of 30 health systems in the U.S. to take part in new clinical study of a minimally treatment for thoracic aortic arch disease.
Read MoreUC Davis Health’s Department of Surgery appoints new chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery, Sophoclis Alexopoulos.
Read MoreThe UC Davis Cleft Palate and Craniofacial team has received approval from the American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association.
Read MoreProfessor Aijun Wang won a $2 million grant from California’s Stem Cell Agency to develop a cure to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) using an in-utero gene editing formula.
Read MoreThe robotic neurosurgery program at UC Davis Health provides treatment for spine, cranial and endovascular conditions while increasing safety, shortening recovery times and improving treatment outcomes.
Read MoreMilitary veteran undergoes robotic-assisted bronchoscopy procedure to remove two suspicious lung nodules during single anesthetic procedure and is discharged within 24 hours after his treatment.
Read MoreTim Stottlemyer is one of 13 patients who have received life-saving surgical procedures thanks to vascular surgery's new abdominal aortic aneurysm surveillance program.
Read MoreWhen Adelyn Katzakian was diagnosed with the heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot, her parents chose the team at UC Davis Children’s Hospital … and won.
Read MoreUC Davis Health’s Department of Surgery has received a multimillion dollar grant to establish a National Center for Metabolic Phenotyping of Mouse Models of Obesity and Diabetes.
Read MoreA new outpatient endoscopy suite is now open on the second floor of UC Davis Medical Center. It serves patients from gastroenterology, interventional pulmonology and colorectal surgery.
Read MoreUC Davis Medical Center’s heart team has performed the institution’s first transfemoral transseptal mitral valve replacement procedure – the first hospital on the West Coast to do so.
Read MoreThe UC Davis Health Spine Center is leading a clinical trial seeking treatments that could give people disabled by severe spinal cord injuries more independence.
Read MoreAn American College of Surgeons quality improvement program reduced surgical wait times and cut hospital stays by more than a day.
Read MoreThe Interventional Pulmonology Program has completed its 100th robotic-assisted bronchoscopy procedure for minimally invasive peripheral lung biopsy, becoming the first hospital in the Sacramento region to reach this milestone.
Read MoreThe Department of Surgery now offers patients an advanced option for hip and knee replacements, thanks to the addition of the Stryker Mako SmartRobotics system to its collection of innovative technology.
Read MoreThe UC Davis Health team used a new catheterization procedure to buy some time for a newborn baby with a congenital heart defect. Doctors want the baby to grow and develop before a major open-heart surgery.
Read MoreUC Davis Health has a new CT scanner that allows patients to bear weight during imaging, leading to more accurate diagnoses and treatment options.
Read MoreUC Davis Health is the first multi-site health system in the nation to implement a low-pressure insufflation systemwide for laparoscopic surgeries.
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