Dr. Clara Angeles, Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellow, recently received the Carolyn E. Reed Traveling Fellowship Award from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation.
This fellowship awards up to $10,000 for a woman cardiothoracic surgeon to travel to another institution for the purpose of learning a new technology, fostering collaboration between surgical investigators and providing a new innovation to her home institution.
Dr. Angeles will spend a month with Dr. Tracey Weigel at Westchester Medical Center in New York. Dr. Weigel did her cardiothoracic surgery residency at UW-Madison. In 2001, Dr. Weigel returned to UW-Madison as Chief of the Thoracic Surgery section and as one of the first women surgeons in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. She worked at Wisconsin Surgery until 2012. Dr. Weigel’s clinical interests focus on thoracic oncology, minimally invasive lung, esophageal, and mediastinal surgical procedures, and the use of robotic surgery for treating patients.
“I am truly honored and humbled to have received the 2025 TSF Carolyn Reed Traveling Fellowship to visit Dr. Tracey Weigel (former UW-Madison Chief of Thoracic Surgery) at Westchester Medical Center-NYMC for advanced thoracic robotic training,” Dr. Angeles said. “This experience will allow me to build on the excellent surgical training I’ve gained at the University of Wisconsin and will provide me with a marketable skill set that will make me an asset to any thoracic surgery practice in the country. I am thrilled to take advantage of this unique opportunity and I am thankful for my mentors at UW-Madison who have supported me along the way.”
The Carolyn E. Reed Traveling Fellowship Award is named for Carolyn E. Reed, MD, a thoracic surgeon, educator, and successful researcher who died while in the prime years of her career.