{"id":86292,"date":"2013-11-22T16:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=86292"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:41:57","slug":"chief-of-surgery-expands-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/11\/chief-of-surgery-expands-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief of Surgery Expands Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons <a href=\"http:\/\/uconndocs.uchc.edu\/Home\/Physician?profileId=McFadden-David\">Dr. David McFadden<\/a>, chair of the Department of Surgery in the UConn School of Medicine and surgeon-in-chief at the UConn Health Center, became a surgeon is because he likes the idea of tackling a problem intellectually and fixing it manually.<\/p>\n<p>McFadden, who did his internship, residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, came to UConn because of the tremendous changes happening here. \u201cI saw an opportunity to develop a world class surgical program,\u201d says McFadden.<\/p>\n<p>Hear more of what Dr. McFadden plans for the future of the surgery department:<\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sqT03PVBdBw&#8217;]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David McFadden is recruiting doctors in key areas to help increase the types of surgical services available to patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":86384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-86292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 03:01:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88242,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86292\/revisions\/88242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/86384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86292"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=86292"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=86292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}