Items Tagged ‘gynecologic surgery’
August 7, 2019
Researcher challenges her team to develop solution for DRC health crisis
By Advancing the Science contributor 
Marina Walther-Antonio, Ph.D., has a full plate. An associate consultant in surgical research in the departments of Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, she studies the microbiome role in human health and disease, particularly endometrial and ovarian cancer. She also develops technology in her lab, including microbial single-cell technologies for point-of-care […]
Tags: cervical cancer, Deborah Rhodes, endometrial cancer, general internal medicine, gynecologic surgery, gynecology, Heidi Nelson, HPV, human papillomavirus, Marina Walther-Antonio, Mayo Clinic Ventures, obstetrics
December 27, 2016
Using the Discovery-Translation-Application cycle to enhance recovery after surgery
Seventeen years is the average amount of time it takes for research to reach the patient bedside. But this is not always the case, as a team of clinician researchers in gynecological surgery are showing. “It shouldn’t take 17 years for new discoveries to reach patients,” says Sean C. Dowdy, M.D., deputy director for practice […]
Tags: AHRQ, cancer, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, gynecologic surgery, opioids, Sean Dowdy