Lynne Hayes-Freeland featured guest Steven Evans, MD, on her show on KDKA-TV for a discussion on breast cancer awareness in the African American community.
This past summer, a new surgical oncology clinic opened at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Erie under the leadership of Amer H. Zureikat, MD, FACS and was spotlighted on page 2 of the Fall 2020 issue of UPMC Hamot’s Healthy Living (PDF).
An article published in the October 2, 2020 edition of Trib Live tells the story of Freddye Stover, an outpatient nurse coordinator in our surgical oncology division, an accomplished singer, and a breast cancer survivor.
Congratulations to Amer H. Zureikat, MD, FACS, who was appointed Vice Chair for Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery. Read more
Congratulations to Steven Evans, MD, whose appointment as alternate delegate for the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) House of Delegates (HOD) has been upgraded to full delegate to the PAMED Virtual HOD in 2020, currently scheduled October 23-25, 2020. Serving as a delegate at the HOD helps PAMED develop meaningful policy that benefits Pennsylvania physicians and patients. Each year, delegates and alternate delegates are selected by their county medical societies and medical specialty societies.
A June 4 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article tells the remarkable story of John Cleary, who underwent two lifesaving surgeries exactly 50 years apart - first in 1970 to survive the Kent State University shootings, and second in 2020 when he underwent pancreatic cancer surgery performed by our surgical oncologist Amer H. Zureikat, MD, FACS.
Congratulations to Drs. Louis Alarcon, Kelly Austin, Timothy Billiar, Geoff Bond, Sally Carty, Rabih Chaer, Randall Draper, Barbara Gaines, Kevin Garrett, David Geller, George Gittes, Giselle Hamad, Matthew Holtzman, Christopher Hughes, Abhinav Humar, Ronald Johnson, Donald Keenan, Kenneth Lee, Steven Leers, Michel Makaroun, Marcus Malek, George Mazariegos, David Medich, Kevin Mollen, Andrew Peitzman, Joshua Rubin, Harry Sell, Rakesh Sindhi, Michael J.
During the current era of COVID-19 and social distancing, our Grand Rounds lecture series has adapted by temporarily transitioning to a virtual format. On April 8, 2020, we hosted our first virtual lecture via Microsoft Teams, the Master Surgeon Lecture “Peritoneal Surgery: The Evolution of a New Surgical Subspecialty” presented by David L. Bartlett, MD.
Our surgical oncologist Dr. Steven Evans gave the keynote address at a January 25 event addressing the disproportionate prevalence of mental illness in African American patients, which is covered in “A Serious Conversation about Mental Health, Autism, Chronic Diseases” in the New Pittsburgh Courier (Volume 11, No. 7).