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New faculty join UF department of surgery. January 12, 2009 Two surgeons – one specializing in surgical critical care the other in heart surgery – have joined the University of Florida College of Medicine. Philip A. Efron, M.D., joined the department of surgery last month as an assistant professor of surgery specializing in surgical critical care. He also will serve as co-director of the Laboratory of Inflammation Biology and Surgical Science. Efron, who trained in general surgery at UF, just completed a year-long surgical critical care fellowship at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. During his general surgery residency, he spent an additional three years at UF to focus on basic science research in the lab. His previous research work involved determining the role of specific types of white blood cells during sepsis, as well as studying the local and systemic responses in murine and primate models of inflammation. He now plans to expand his research interests in both sepsis and inflammation, working in collaboration with his mentor, Lyle L. Moldawer, Ph.D., professor and vice chairman of research for the department of surgery, as well as his clinical partners. Efron earned his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Throughout his education and training he has received multiple honors for his surgical and research initiatives. Sunil P. Malhotra, M.D., who joined UF in the fall, is an assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics. His clinical focus is on the surgical management of congenital heart disease in children and adults, with an emphasis on neonatal cardiac surgery, pediatric heart transplantation, and the management of single ventricle physiology. His research interests include the development of engineered cardiac tissue and reducing the injury impact on the right ventricle following surgery to repair tetralogy of Fallot, a complex condition in which several congenital heart defects occur. Malhotra completed both his medical degree and general surgery residency at New York University School of Medicine. While training in general surgery, he took two years off to work as a cardiothoracic research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. He later completed his cardiothoracic residency training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Prior to joining UF, Malhotra served as a clinical instructor of pediatric cardiac surgery at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. |
