Studio 2 Medical Edition sponsored by UBMD sat down with Dr. John Ortolani to discuss colorectal health. Dr. Ortolani joined the faculty at UBMD Surgery in 2017, specializing in Colorectal Surgery. Dr. Ortolani treats a variety of conditions from benign to malignant. This includes anal fissures, anal fistulas, and hemorrhoids to more complex conditions like…
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Date: March 23, 2023 Time: 5:00 PM – 8:45 PM Location: Salvatore’s Venetian Ballroom6461 Transit Rd, Buffalo, NY 14043 This program has been approved for 3.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. UBMD Surgery is honored to work with the American Lung Association in Western New York to bring Buffalo a Community Connections, Lung Cancer Screening…
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Studio 2 Medical Edition sponsored by UBMD sat down with Dr. Linda Harris to discuss Peripheral Arterial Disease, also known as Vascular PAD. Dr. Harris is the Program Director for the Vascular Fellowship and Vascular Residency Programs at UBMD Surgery. She is board certified by the American Board of Surgery in vascular and general surgery,…
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Studio 2 Medical Edition sponsored by UBMD sat down with Dr. John Ortolani to discuss Colorectal Awareness Month. Dr. Ortolani joined the faculty at UBMD Colorectal Surgery in 2017, he specializes in colon and rectal surgery. March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer is the third-most common cancer diagnosed and the second leading cause…
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Spend a Bariatric Surgery Medical Minute with Kaleida Health. Christina Sanders, DO, FACS, FACOS is a bariatric surgeon with ECMC’s Bariatric Surgery program. Dr. Sanders is a board-certified general and bariatric surgeon who performs laparoscopic gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy. Obesity is a national epidemic that affects over one-third of adults in the United States.…
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Preventing Unnecessary Surgeon Holds on Ingestion for Tracheostomy PUSH IT (Preventing Unnecessary Surgeon Holds on Ingestion for Tracheostomy) is an EAST (Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Sponsored multicenter randomized controlled trial. Erie County Medical Center (University at Buffalo) is the primary site and Dr. Eden Nohra is the Principal Investigator. Dr. Michael Chopko,…
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Ahead of the 2023 Women’s Vascular Summit, held in Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. Linda Harris was featured on the cover of Vascular Specialists, a national magazine. Dr. Harris is the founder and Director of the Women’s Vascular Summit. She found the summit for two main reasons: delving deeper into the issues that surround women’s vascular…
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UBMD Surgeons Dr. Gene Yang, General Surgeon; Chairman of the Department of Surgery Dr. Steven Schwaitzberg, General Surgeon; and Dr. Mark Falvo, Colorectal Surgeon, are visiting with surgical innovators in Korea. Together they are working on launching a clinical trial that will be conducted at the University of Buffalo to prevent the need for ileostomy…
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The 3rd annual Beyond the Knife event, presented by the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Department of Surgery, will be held Thursday, Feb. 2 from 5-8 pm at the M&T Lecture Hall. The event, examining gun violence and its causes, begins with a panel discussion moderated by Buffalo News editor and columnist Rod Watson. Brian H.…
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UBMD Surgery would like to formally announce and congratulate Ashley McGowan, our Director of Clinical Operations, along with the WGRZ Creative team for being awarded a Gold Telly Award for her role in producing the UBMD Surgery award-winning TV commercial which aired during the last Olympics. The Telly Award is the world’s largest honor for…
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