Research

The Department of Surgery has demonstrated a strong commitment to research throughout its history.

In the early to middle 20th Century, Department researchers developed cholecystography for visualization of the gallbladder, performed the first surgical lung removal and made significant contributions to the understanding of bladder physiology. More recently, faculty members have created a surgical cure for atrial fibrillation and developed a genetic test that detects whether an individual will develop a form of thyroid cancer and thus benefit from thyroid removal.

The Department’s research breakthroughs continue to come from faculty members who work full-time in basic science research and from operating surgeons who devote considerable time to basic science or clinical investigations.

Since 1998, funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), non-federal and corporate-supported grants has tripled. Clinical study income also has grown, and the Department of Surgery continues to rank among the top academic departments of surgery in NIH support.

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