General Surgery
General Surgery
The UNLV Health General Surgery Clinic provides excellent patient-centered surgical care in an environment that is focused on the unique surgical needs of every patient. We strive to provide every doctor to patient interaction with empathy, compassion, humility, integrity, and respect.
General Surgery
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Military Surgery Resident Becomes Two-Time Teaching Award Winner
There are many reasons why someone goes into medicine. Family connections, a desire to serve, an interest in science. And then there are those who become interested in medicine through their time as a patient.
Healthcare Heroes
For nearly 20 years Nevada Business Magazine has been recognizing Healthcare Heroes in the Silver State.The program began as a way to recognize individuals in this important industry for their efforts and contributions. Each of the honorees on the following pages has had a tremendous impact on Nevada’s communities and are working to improve quality and access to care for all.
Leading the Largest Military-Civilian Partnership in the Country
Air Force Lt. Col. Jeremy Kilburn, a doctor specializing in pulmonary and critical care medicine, is an associate professor of medicine at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV as well as the school’s director of the Office of Military Medicine. Here, he provides insight into a unique military-civilian partnership that he says is the most complex in the United States.
Dr. John Fildes’ Lifelong Commitment to Serving Southern Nevada Continues After Retirement
Even if Ben Franklin, one of the nation’s Founding Fathers who seemed capable of doing almost everything to enhance the common good – from helping draft the Declaration of Independence to inventing the flexible catheter – could have broken the time barrier to share his wisdom with Americans of every generation, there would have been no need for him to share one of his most important observations with John Fildes: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Former UNLV Medicine Fellow Joins Faculty
Dr. Joseph Carroll says the opportunity to be part of the
medical
school’s team at the UMC Trauma Center was too good to pass up.
It was when he was in the seventh grade that Dr. Joseph Carroll, now an assistant professor in the UNLV School of Medicine’s department of surgery, first thought about becoming a physician.
Internationally Known Trauma Surgeon Begins Work as School of Medicine Dean
Dr. John Fildes continues the vision for establishing UNLV’s academic medical center.
In August, just days after being named interim dean of the UNLV School of Medicine, Dr. John Fildes was before a gathering of the world’s best surgeons, delivering a keynote address on handling mass casualty situations. It’s a topic with which he is all too familiar.
Surgeon Encourages Minority Students to Pursue Medical Careers
The story that ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal last May was compelling. Mary Kay Duda’s life was saved by UNLV Medicine’s Dr. Charles St. Hill.
St. Hill, one of only three fellowship-trained surgical oncologists in Nevada, performed a complex 10-hour surgery known as a Whipple procedure to remove a large tumor that enveloped her pancreas.
“I’ve been given the gift of life,” a grateful Duda would later tell St. Hill and reporter Jessie Bekker.
Inspirational Goals
Dr. Deborah Kuhls Reflects on Mass Shooting
They sought a carefree weekend out on the town.
Some were from Vegas, many drove in from Southern California, and others journeyed on a plane to escape the worries of their everyday lives.
That’s what set the evening apart from so many others that Dr. Deborah Kuhls has spent in UMC’s trauma center.
Dr. Joseph Thornton on Overcoming Obstacles
Dr. Joseph Thornton’s road to becoming a physician makes you realize yet again that where there’s a will, there’s a way.
He grew up in a single parent household on the south side of Chicago, the son of an African American bartender who wanted the best for her son. His two aunts, both maids, also lived in the home.
“Combining incomes made the housing affordable,” says the 72-year-old colorectal surgeon who now is an associate professor in the UNLV School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. “For good times they loved to go to the racetrack and watch the horses run.”
Dr. Jennifer Baynosa, Surgical Oncologist
From her extended family what Dr. Jennifer Baynosa often heard as a child was that one day she would find a nice man, fall in love, get married, and have a family.
Taking care of her children and her husband, preparing their meals and washing their clothes, was the future that would be hers.
Groundbreaking Robotic Surgery
UNLV Medicine Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu, successfully performed a breakthrough surgical procedure using a new robotic device that required no incision through the skin, significantly shortened recovery time, and lessened the chances of infection.
UNLV Medicine Surgeon Leads State’s Only Organ Transplant Program
Dr. John Ham, professor of surgery at UNLV School of Medicine, leads UMC’s kidney transplantation program – which has one of the best 3-year survival rates in the nation.
Read the full story here.
UNLV Surgical Oncologist Performs 10-Hour Whipple Procedure
As doctors wheeled 75-year-old Mary Kay Duda into surgery for a pancreatic tumor, she turned to her daughter, Katie, and said, “See you on the flip side.”
Katie Duda, 36, rolled her eyes at the memory, humorous now that her mother is nearing two years cancer-free. At the time, though, the thought of losing her mother was unbearably real.
Mary Kay Duda says she’s one of the lucky unlucky ones. Unlucky in that the tumor growing inside her enveloped the head of her pancreas. Unlucky in that one Las Vegas surgeon declined to operate because the tumor was so large.