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Best Patient Gift Ever??
A patient HAND CRAFTED this amazing wooden castle — complete with ticking clock — it took her two years to complete and is absolutely amazing! This makes you appreciate coming to work everyday and it’s a reminder that being able to take care of patients is a privilege and an honor. Here’s to all the wonderful patients!
Dr. Sam Atallah - Travels the World to Train and Teach Surgeons
Dr. Sam B. Atallah (left) trains surgeons in advanced rectal cancer surgery at The Center For The Future of Surgery (University of California, SD) at La Jolla, CA in May, 2014
Orlando's very own Dr. Sam Atallah, MD (colorectal surgeon) has been busy traveling the globe as an invited lecturer on new, minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of rectal cancer – many of which he invented, including TAMIS an d robotic transanal surgery. In the past year he has been an invited speaker for the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (Paris, France), The Natural Orifice Surgery Consorium for Assessment and Research (Chicago, IL), The Society of Robotic Surgeons (Lake Beuana Vista, FL), The American College of Surgeons (Washington, D.C.). He has also served as a panelist for the National Advisory Board for Colon Cancer Screeing on the implementation of sDNA as a screening modality, and has recently served as lead faculty to train surgical subspecialists on new techniques for rectal cancer surgery at the Center For The Future of Surgery, UCSD (La Jolla, CA) [photograph]. Dr. Atallah has also published 16 research papers in peer-reviewed journals over the last one year alone, and has been the lead author of more publications in the past year than any other doctor at Florida Hospital. He has recently received IRB approval for a rectal and colon cancer research study in collaboration with Sanford & Burnham Labs which is designed to better understand tumor biology.
Dr. Atallah: Training of physicians 2007-2009
During the first three years of practice at Florida Hospital, Dr. Sam Atallah would become involved in the training of Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellows as part of the MIS Fellowship Faculty. During this time, Florida Hospital develops a General Surgery Program to train 2 residents/per year through the department of Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Atallah also becomes part of the faculty to train these residents in colon and rectal surgery. The first 2 general surgeons from this program graduated in July, 2012. The graduates were both female; one went on to persue further training in cardiothoracic surgery while the other chose to specialize in colon & rectal surgery.
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Dateline: June 30, 2007
This is the first blog entry. On This day (June 30, 2007), Dr. Sam B. Atallah completed his one-year fellowship training in colorectal surgery at The Texas Medical Center in Houston. As a footnote, this was the same day the first iPhone was released.
Dr. Atallah accepted a position as staff colorectal surgeon at Florida Hospital and joinded Dr. Matthew R. Albert's growing practice at what was at that time known as The Colon & Rectal Clinic of Central Florida. Dr. Atallah settled in at the Winter Park Campus. Dr. Atallah relocated to Florida with his wife, Michelle, and [then] three children Olivia, Sidney, and Andrew. Three years later, in 2010, they would have there fourth child, Addyson, completing their family.
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