Daren Kest, DO, Northwest ENT Consultants, used the da Vinci robotic surgery system on June 19, 2012, to perform the Hospital’s first Trans Oral Robotic Surgery (TORS), with a radical tonsillectomy that successfully treated a case of throat cancer.

The College of American Pathologists (CAP) awarded the highest level of accreditation to the Christian Hospital and Northwest HealthCare laboratory based on the results of recent on-site inspections.

Washington University cardiothoracic surgeons Sunil Prasad, MD; Nabil Munfakh, MD; and Travis Crabtree, MD, performed the St. Louis region’s first full-lung lobectomy to effectively treat lung cancer.