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2018

Date	Description
DEC 08	The system for reporting conflicts of interest "is broken," Dr. Mehraneh Dorna Jafari, co-author of a UCI study on physician compensation, tells the New York Times and ProPublica.

2017

Date	Description
JUL 10	Colorectal surgeon Michael J. Stamos, MD, former Department of Surgery chair, is appointed dean of the UC Irvine School of Medicine.

2016

Date	Description
MAR 01	Dr. Joseph Carmichael is named interim chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery.
JAN 25	Colorectal surgeon Dr. Michael J. Stamos, chair of the Department of Surgery, is named interim dean of the School of Medicine, effective Feb. 1.

2014

Date	Description
APR 21	Surgeons Michael Stamos, MD, and Alessio Pigazzi, MD, discuss colorectal cancer treatment for the public television series "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind.

2012

Date	Description
JUL 06	Dr. Michael J. Stamos has been chosen president-elect of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, and will serve as president in 2013.
MAR 05	Colorectal cancer is both preventable and curable if caught early, says UC Irvine colorectal surgeon Dr. Michael Stamos.
MAR 12	Not sure when to get a colonoscopy? National Colorectal Cancer Month is a good time to ask your doctor this and other questions, says UC Irvine's Dr. Michael Stamos.

2011

Date	Description
SEP 22	Colorectal surgeon Dr. Michael J. Stamos, chair of UC Irvine's Department of Surgery, has been elected president of the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery.
JUN 20	Patients who undergo laparascopic colorectal surgery have fewer clotting complications, UC Irvine surgeon Dr. Michael J. Stamos and colleagues report in the Archives of Surgery.
MAY 03	Diverticulitis emergencies jumped 9.5 percent over a five-year period, with 12 percent of those patients needing urgent surgery, a UC Irvine Department of Surgery study found.
MAR 17	Regular colonoscopies can prevent 60 percent of colorectal cancer deaths, UC Irvine surgeon Dr. Michael Stamos tells CBS Healthwatch.

2009

Date	Description
DEC 15	UC Irvine colorectal surgeons are among the few in the nation who perform minimally invasive rectal cancer surgeries.
OCT 01	Laparoscopic colorectal surgery proves successful in patients who have undergone open abdominal surgery.