Bookmark and Share

News Releases by Subject and Date

Research
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Your Health
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Medical and Dental Education
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Miscellany
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
All Subjects
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

News Release

October 18, 2012

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
Email: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Medical School Graduate Returns to Direct General Surgery Division

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Dr. Brian Shames, a University of Connecticut School of Medicine graduate, has returned to the UConn Health Center as director of the Division of General Surgery. Shames brings a strong background in transplant surgery as well as complex hepatobiliary procedures and abdominal surgery. He was a transplant research fellow, then a clinical transplant fellow, at the University of Wisconsin. His residency training, in general surgery, was at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, where he also was a National Institutes of Health research fellow.

Shames is a resident of Avon.

More information about the UConn Health Center Department of Surgery is available at www.uchc.edu/patients/services/surgery.

High-resolution photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/shames_brian.jpg

Caption: Dr. Brian Shames, a general surgeon and transplant expert, is now seeing patients at the UConn Health Center.

UConn Health includes the schools of medicine and dental medicine, the UConn Medical Group, University Dentists, and John Dempsey Hospital. Home to Bioscience Connecticut, UConn Health pursues a mission of providing outstanding health care education in an environment of exemplary patient care, research and public service. More information about UConn Health is available at www.uchc.edu.

Note: News professionals are invited to visit the UConn Health Today news page (http://today.uchc.edu) for regularly updated news and feature stories, photos and media stories. News releases are archived at http://today.uchc.edu/newsreleases/2014. UConn Health news and information is also available on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.