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Gender Gap in Academic Surgery: Disparities in Early-Career Scholarly Productivity Sets the Stage for Unequal Academic Advancement.

J Surg Res

December 2024

Division of Surgical Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Department of Health, Behavior and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey. Electronic address:

Introduction: Gender disparities exist in academic surgery despite advances in the field. This study aimed to examine the extent of gender disparities in career advancement and promotion among academic faculty in surgery and understand the influence of academic productivity.

Methods: Cross-sectional study using publicly available information from online faculty profiles of 18 large academic US general surgery residency programs.

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Background: Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) has been established as a leading treatment of obesity. Surgical site infections (SSIs) remain the most common complication.

Objective: To compare the incidence of SSIs before and after the implementation of our technique.

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A retrospective study was conducted of 797 patients receiving renal transplants from January 1985 to March 1997. Patient and graft survival was compared for patients above and below the age of 60. Sixty-nine patients < or =60 years old received 73 kidneys.

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