Okla HO HO ma greetings

" Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget." With this thought, the Department of Surgery wishes all of  you a very Merry Christmas and all the luck the New Year could possibly bring to you.

Welcome aboard

Dr. Dunn is a colon and rectal surgeon and a native of Oklahoma City. He is Board Certified in Colon and Rectal surgery as well as general surgery. Dr. Dunn received his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University and his medical degree from New York Medical College. He completed both his residency in general surgery and his residency in  colon and rectal surgery at LSUHSC in Shreveport, Louisiana where he has practiced for the last 10 years. He serves on several national committees and has numerous publications with his main focus being rectal cancer, complex anorectal disease and surgical education. He is retired from the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps. He joined our faculty as an Associate Professor in Surgery in December of 2009.

Oklahoma's first thorascopic surgery for esophageal atresia

In November, a team of OU pediatric surgeons performed the state’s first thoracoscopic surgery to repair esophageal atresia. The surgical team included Nikola K. Puffinbarger, M.D., pediatric surgery, and chief residents Beth Terry, M.D., and Nate Kreykes, M.D. It is estimated that worldwide, the procedure has been performed by fewer than 200 surgeons. Esophageal atresia is a lethal condition that occurs when a baby’s esophagus has not developed properly and does not connect to the baby’s stomach. As a result, the baby has no way to receive adequate nourishment. The condition occurs in about one in 4,000 babies. According to David W. Tuggle, M.D., section chief, Pediatric Surgery, about eight cases are seen here annually.