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Diana L. Farmer, Chair of the Department of Surgery

Message from the chair,
Diana L. Farmer, M.D.

Appointments & Referrals

Monday-Friday:
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Physician Referral Center

Specialty referrals
and phone consultations:

1-800-4-UCDAVIS

1-800-482-3284 (choose option #2)

Consumer Resource Center

1-800-2-UCDAVIS

1-800-282-3284

Robotic Surgery at UC Davis

Research in the Department of Surgery

Patient story

Robert Canter, M.D. A long way from home, sarcoma patient seeks a cure

Highlights

Richard Perez, M.D. Thanking organ donor families for the gift of life

learn Technology assures deaf student learns surgery at UC Davis School of Medicine

W. Douglas Boyd, M.D. UC Davis Health System physicians and surgeons discuss innovative, life saving surgical procedures

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March — Young selected for national surgery education advisory board

Giving to Surgery

A donation to the Department of Surgery is a gift to the community, enabling UC Davis to provide the most advanced acute medical and surgical care to our growing region. Read more

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Welcome to the UC Davis Department of Surgery

A welcome message from Diana Farmer, chair of the Department of Surgery.

The Department of Surgery encompasses a wide variety of surgical specialties. These include bariatric surgery, burn surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, plastic surgery, transplant surgery, trauma and emergency surgery, vascular surgery, and oncologic surgery. The department's extensive surgical expertise, in combination with ongoing teaching and research activities, provide ample resources and advanced surgical techniques for patient care.