Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Mark Your Calendar: Randall W. Powell Endowed Memorial Lectureship

The 2017 Randall W. Powell Endowed Memorial Lectureship in Pediatric Surgery hosted by the University of South Alabama Department of Pediatrics will feature Dr. Michael G. Caty, Robert Pritzker Professor and Interim Chair of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.

Dr. Caty will present his first lecture on Oct. 12, 2017, at 4:30 p.m. in the first floor conference room at the Strada Patient Care Center. His second lecture, titled “Management of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia,” will take place Oct. 13, 2017, at USA Medical Center in the second-floor conference room.

Dr. Caty also serves as the surgeon-in-chief at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. He completed his residency training in pediatric surgery at Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School, where he also served as chief resident.

Dr. Caty has contributed over 130 articles and chapters to pediatric surgical literature and is the editor of the multi-author textbook, Complications in Pediatric Surgery. He has been involved in the leadership of several pediatric surgical societies, including serving as president of the Pediatric Surgery Biology Club, chair of the Organization of Children’s Hospital Surgeons-in-Chief, and chair of the Surgical Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He also is a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Pediatric Surgical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Association for Academic Surgery, and the American Surgical Association.

Dr. Randall Powell, former professor of surgery and pediatrics at the USA College of Medicine, passed away in 2017. As a pediatric surgeon, Dr. Powell belonged to a very small group of surgeons who trained beyond general surgery residency in order to care for neonates and children with all the complex congenital defects and the different physiology of the growing child. While at USA, Dr. Powell was director of the division of pediatric surgery and professor of physician assistant studies. He touched the lives of countless medical students, residents and patients through his work as a faculty member and pediatric surgeon at the USA College of Medicine.

For more information on both lectures, contact the USA Department of Surgery at (251) 445-8230.