Laura Nanka Purcell, MD $$

Pediatric Surgeon

Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Medical School: University of Nebraska College of Medicine (2015)
Residency: University of North Carolina Hospitals (2022), General Surgery
Fellowship: UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2024), Pediatric Surgery
Graduate School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School (2019)
Board Certification: American Board of Surgery/Pediatric Surgery

Research Interests
- Global pediatric and general surgery
- Pediatric surgical workforce
- Pediatric surgical outcomes
Publications
- Traumatic spinal cord injury and outcomes in low-resource settings in Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury. Yohann A, Purcell LN, Charles A (2022), Academic Press
- Molecular genetics of thyroid cancer in Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Purcell LN, Yeh JJ (2017), Cham, Switzerland, Springer
- Molecular diagnostic approaches and their clinical utility in Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Purcell LN, Strassle P, Yeh JJ (2017), Cham, Switzerland, Springer
- I am a surgery resident now, 10 things I wish I had learned as a medical student in Success in Academic Surgery: A How to Guide for Medical Students. Gallaher J, Purcell LN (2017), Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Professional Activities
- American College of Surgeons
- Association for Academic Surgery
- American Pediatric Surgical Association
Awards and Honors
- Herbert J. Proctor Award for Excellence in Surgical Research (2021), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Administrative Chief Resident (2021-2022), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Surgery
- Fogarty Global Health Fellowship (2019-2020), National Institutes of Health