Only one other surgeon in the United States has reached this milestone for this procedure.
Scientists at Jefferson Medical College have received a four-year, $3 million National Institutes of Health grant funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study variations of platelet function, specifically, the genetics of platelet gene expression.
The Celiac Center will offer treatment from the area's most experienced celiac gastroenterologists, as well as provide patients and their families with extensive support personnel, consultations with a registered dietitian and more.
The Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) has started a live donor liver transplant program. Live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a procedure in which a living person donates a portion of his or her liver to another person.
Cataldo Doria, M.D., Ph.D., is the first surgeon at Jefferson to perform a robotically-assisted liver resection. He is only one of a handful of surgeons across the country certified to do so.
Serge A. Jabbour, M.D., has been named the Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disease in the Department of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Jabbour has been on the faculty at Jefferson Medical College since 1999 and is currently a professor of Medicine.
Four key studies now propose a new theory about how cancer cells grow and survive, allowing researchers to design better diagnostics and therapies to target high-risk cancer patients. These studies were conducted by a large team of researchers at Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center.
The medical textbook is geared toward medical students, residents and fellows, internists and cardiologists, offering a concise guide of cardiac disorders and how to treat them. The book will be available in September 2010.
Dr. Robert Rosenwasser, chair, neurological surgery at Jefferson and Toby Mazer, founder and executive director of the Delaware Valley Stroke Council, were featured on the NBC 10! Show to talk about stroke awareness.
Andrew B. Newberg, M.D., has been named the Director of Research at the Jefferson – Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine. He joins Jefferson after having spent the past seven years as an associate professor of Psychiatry and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Physicians at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals' Digestive Disease Institute are offering a pair of new pill capsule tests to help better diagnose and treat digestive tract disorders.
Physicians, scientists and research professionals at Thomas Jefferson University have created the Jefferson Coordinating Center for Clinical Research (JCCCR) in an effort to foster and promote excellence in clinical research.
At Jefferson, we take preventing infections seriously. Our latest effort to boost our hand washing – Jefferson's "Wash 'Em" video – is a great example.