Dr. Zeev Kain

Making surgery less scary for kids

Pediatric surgery can be traumatic for children – and their parents. To guide families through the experience, Dr. Zeev Kain, chair of UC Irvine’s Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, is creating a unique Internet site to help parents ease children’s anxiety (and their own), properly manage postsurgical pain and, ultimately, facilitate healing.

Hormone treatment lessens surgery-related stress in kids

Dr. Zeev Kain, anesthesiology & perioperative care professor and chair at UC Irvine, has found that treating children with the…

Hand surgery pioneer addresses national microsurgery conference

Dr. Neil Jones, orthopedic surgery professor at UC Irvine, presided over the 25th annual meeting of the American Society for…

Dr. Neil Jones

UCI recruits new director for hand surgery center

Dr. Neil Jones, orthopedic surgeon, talks about his pioneering work in toe-to-hand transfer surgeries

Acupressure bead applied before surgery decreases anxiety in children.

Calming children before surgery

Surgery is stressful for even the calmest patient, but for children it can be particularly traumatic and frightening. For anesthesiologists, soothing anxious children about to enter surgery is a critical part of the job, and Dr. Zeev Kain, anesthesiology & perioperative care chair at UC Irvine, is turning to ancient Chinese medicine for new methods.

UCI's Department of Neurolgical Surgery receives full accreditation

UC Irvine’s Department of Neurological Surgery received full accreditation for its neurosurgery residency training program by the American Council on…

Chair of surgery honored with distinguished service award

Dr. David B. Hoyt, the John E. Connolly M.D. Professor and Chair of Surgery, has been awarded with the American…

Orthopaedic surgery chair wins top award for hand surgery

Dr. Ranjan Gupta, professor and chair of orthopaedic surgery in the UC Irvine School of Medicine, has won the Sterling…

Bariatric surgery program earns highest accreditation from ACS

The Bariatric Surgery Program at UC Irvine has been accredited as a Level 1a Bariatric Center by the American College…

UC Irvine urologists develop minimally invasive kidney surgery technique

UC Irvine urologists have successfully performed in the laboratory the first minimally invasive kidney surgery technique using a specially designed…