Surgery embraces diversity training
Faculty and staff in the plastic and reconstructive surgery, urologic surgery and public health sciences divisions in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have completed all four levels of training offered by the medical school’s diversity and inclusion team.
Mackinnon advises TV drama on nerve injuries
Actor Patrick Dempsey plays Dr. Derek Shepherd, a surgeon on the ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy. Washington University surgeon Susan E. Mackinnon advised the show on scenarios involving a hand injury suffered by the character.
Skilled hands
Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Thomas H. Tung, MD, skillfully moves tissues from other parts of the body to create form and function in cases of cancer or trauma in children and adults.