Faculty Honors and Awards
Recent Honors, Awards, Appointments and Publications |
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Benjamin O. Anderson, MD >> • (March 2013) Dr. Anderson will receive the National Consortium of Breast Centers' Inspiration Award during the 2013 National Interdisciplinary Breast Conference. This award is given annually to the individual who embodies the spirit of selfless leadership and provides the inspiration for all other providers of breast health care. The recipient has gone above and beyond the typical expectation for their profession. They become a symbol and example of "how to do it right." The individual may be a professional or a lay person who has contributed to the field of breast care. Through their actions these individuals have demonstrated their commitment to those with breast health issues. • (August 2012) Dr. Anderson was chosen by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) electorate to serve on the International Cancer Control Congress (UICC) Board for a two-year term (2012–2014). This governing position will provide a broader venue for his continuing work in the Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI). |
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Leah M. Backhus, MD >> (January 2013) Dr. Backhus is senior author of a study published in the January 2013 issue of JAMA Surgery. The study suggests lung cancer mortality appears to be higher in black persons and highest in blacks living in the most segregated counties in the United States, regardless of socioeconomic status. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and blacks are disproportionately affected with the highest incidence and mortality rates. The study’s first author, Awori J. Hayanga, MD, MPH, of the University of Washington, Seattle, (who was the Department of Surgery’s Cardiothoracic Fellow in 2012) and colleagues examined the relationship between race and lung cancer mortality and the association with residential segregation by using data obtained from the 2009 Area Resource File and Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program to conduct a population-based study. To read the entire article, the JAMA citation is: (JAMA Surg. Published online January 16, 2013. 2013;148(1):37-. In addition, the NY Times published an article about this study. Please follow this link to read the NY Times article: http://nyti.ms/WeMYeg |
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Joseph Cuschieri, MD >> (January 2013) Dr. Cuschieri co-authored a study entited “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The study reports evidence that the mouse model in research for human disease has been totally misleading for at least three major killers — sepsis, burns and trauma. As a result, years and billions of dollars have been wasted following false leads. Read the abstract >> |
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Andre A.S. Dick, MD >> • (May 2013) The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) appointed Dr. Dick to their Fellowship Training Committee through 2016. The American Society of Transplant Surgeons is dedicated to fostering and advancing the practice and science of transplantation for the benefit of patients and society. A large amount of the work of the Society is carried out by its twenty-two standing committees, each of which provides important support to the Society. • (July 2012) Dr. Dick has been selected as the recipient of the UW School of Medicine Committee on Minority Faculty Affairs Scholarship Award to attend the 2012 AAMC Minority Development Seminar to be held in Chicago, IL, September 7-10, 2012. |
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Hugh M. Foy, MD >> Dr. Foy received the 2012 UW Distinguished Teaching Award, given to individuals who show "a mastery of their subject matter, intellectual rigor and a passion for teaching." |
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Jeffrey B. Friedrich, MD >> (December 2012) Dr. Friedrich has been selected as a 2013 visiting professor by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH). ASSH established the Plastic Surgery Visiting Professorship Program in 2004 to encourage plastic surgery residents to pursue a career in hand surgery and to increase involvement with the ASSH. Each year, 6-8 plastic surgery programs are selected to host an ASSH visiting professor--an accomplished plastic hand surgeon who may serve as a "role model" for trainees and students. |
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Nicole S. Gibran, MD, FACS >> • (January 2013) Dr. Gibran co-authored a study entited “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The study reports evidence that the mouse model in research for human disease has been totally misleading for at least three major killers — sepsis, burns and trauma. As a result, years and billions of dollars have been wasted following false leads. Read the abstract >> • (January 2013) Dr. Gibran was recently named the David and Nancy Auth –Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Endowed Chair for Restorative Burn Surgery. The purpose of the Chair is to “enhance the University’s ability to recruit and retain distinguished faculty in restorative burn surgery at the UW Medicine Burn Center at Harborview Medical Center (HMC).” Several internationally known candidates, including Dr. Gibran, were reviewed as potential recipients. The Committee came to the strong conclusion that Dr. Gibran was the “ideal candidate and most appropriate individual” to be the recipient of this endowed chair. She is an outstanding and internationally recognized burn surgeon. She is the immediate past-president and the first woman to hold the position of President of the American Burn Association, the leading academic society in the field. She is also an internationally recognized scientist and researcher with investigations that are unraveling the mechanisms involved in healing of thermal wounds. Her educational efforts are no less stellar: she has mentored over forty clinical and research burn fellows who are now assuming leadership roles in the field of burn surgery. |
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Thomas S. Hatsukami, MD >> (June 2012) Awarded the Multicenter Clinical Studies Planning Grant from the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Foundation for his proposal entitled "MRI of High-Risk Carotid Plaque." Read the abstract >> The SVS Foundation Multicenter Clinical Studies Planning Grant is one component of a broad strategy to facilitate clinical research directed at solving high-impact questions in the care of patients with vascular diseases. SVS recognizes that members face significant gaps in knowledge in their day to day care of patients with vascular disease and acknowledges the challenge of designing and executing clinical studies of a scope necessary to provide concrete clinical guidance. Prospective multi-center studies are particularly challenging; yet these studies may be the only practical approach to recruit patient numbers and concomitantly achieve statistical power within a relevant time frame. A major hurdle for investigators planning such studies are the costs of developing compelling preliminary data, recruiting and training collaborators, and creating supporting tools necessary to write a competitive application. |
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Lorrie A. Langdale, MD >> (October 2012) Appointed to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Board of Directors in October 2012. |
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Sara Kim, PhD • (January 2013) Dr. Kim will lead a project entitled “Entrenched Conflict at Workplaces: Promoting Patient Safety Using an Experiential Training Model.” This project will address communication issues that impact patient safety using a novel relationship-based, conflict resolution simulation training program for healthcare team members. • (January 2013) Dr. Kim was named the inaugural George G. B. Bilsten Professor in the Art of Communication with Peers and Patients. A number of potential recipients were reviewed and there was unanimous agreement among the nominating committee members that Dr. Kim is the candidate of choice for this appointment. Dr. Kim was a pivotal faculty member at the University of Washington for 10 years prior to leaving for a position at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) where she was Associate Professor and Director of the Instructional Design and Technology Unit at the David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA). Dr. Kim is uniquely qualified to hold this endowed professorship. Her research, background and passion for educational innovation assure that she will be a strong leader in the development, implementation and evaluation of educational programs and projects that promote the highest quality education for learners. |
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Jason H. Ko, MD >> (January 2013) Dr. Ko was awarded funding from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) for his proposal entitled "Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) of the Elbow: A Study of Vascular Perfusion and Technical Feasibility." |
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Ronald V. Maier, MD >> • (January 2013) Dr. Maier co-authored a study entited “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The study reports evidence that the mouse model in research for human disease has been totally misleading for at least three major killers — sepsis, burns and trauma. As a result, years and billions of dollars have been wasted following false leads. Read the abstract >> • (August 2012) The University of Florida Department of Surgery held its eighth annual Research Day on April 20, 2012. Ronald V. Maier, MD, the Jane and Donald D. Trunkey Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery at the University of Washington and surgeon-in-chief at Harborview Medical Center, was the Lester R. Dragstedt Visiting Professor for this event. The day featured 33 research presentations by department researchers. Dr. Maier’s presentation was entitled “Resuscitation of the Injured Patient: The Enemy of Good is Better.” • (September 2012) Dr. Maier served as the President of the Halsted Society at the recent annual meeting hosted by the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, California, September 2012. The Halsted Society named after the Father of Modern American Surgery was founded in 1924 to perpetuate the memory of Dr. William Stuart Halsted to further the scientific principles and ideals for which he stood, to encourage the exchange of ideas, free and informal discussion, in a spirit of sociability and good fellowship among its members. |
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James O. Park, MD >> (June 2012) Received Royalty Research Fund Award for his proposal entitled “Nanoparticle-Based Gene-Silencing Therapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.” Read the abstract >> Royalty Research Fund Award >> |
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Carlos A. Pellegrini, MD >> (April 2012) Received the Andrew L. Warshaw Master Educator Award from the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Foundation (SSAT) for exemplifying excellence as a mentor, teacher, and educator. |
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James D. Perkins, MD >> (April 2013) Appointed as a representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS). The purpose of the Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS) is to serve as a forum reflecting the diversity of medical school faculties represented by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Its members are drawn directly from the faculty rosters of each individual school as well as the academic professional societies that are populated with faculty from many schools. As such, the CFAS will identify critical issues facing faculty members of medical schools, provide a voice for faculty about those issues to the AAMC as they relate to creation and implementation of the AAMC’s programs, services, and policies, and serve as a communications conduit with faculty regarding matters related to the core missions of academic medicine. |
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Jorge D. Reyes, MD >> (May 2012) Appointed as the inaugural holder of the Roger K. Giesecke Distinguished Professorship in Transplant Surgery. The Roger K. Giesecke Distinguished Professorship in Transplant Surgery was established in 2011 by Mary Pigott to enhance the University’s ability to recruit and retain distinguished faculty in the Division of Transplant Surgery and to honor Roger K. Giesecke, Ms. Piggott’s late husband. |
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Erik G. Van Eaton, MD >> (January 2013) is the principal investigator of a newly funded project entitled "Improving Quality and Patient Safety with Online Clinical Care Algorithms & Messaging (OCCAM)." The proposal is to create to a more robust, UW Medicine-endorsed version of OCCAM. This will be accomplished by adding significantly more content from both medical centers, creating metrics to measure OCCAM’s impact on improving patient care, establishing an OCCAM editorial board to provide content oversight, and partnering with the offices of Graduate Medical Education and Continuing Medical Education to recognize the teaching and learning aspects of creating these protocols and algorithms. |
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Thomas K. Varghese, MD, FACS >> (January 2013) Dr. Varghese is the principal investigator of a newly funded project entitled “An Innovative Approach to Comprehensive Standardization of the Pre-Surgical Patient - The UW Strong for Surgery Program.” Strong for Surgery is issuing a set of checklists and tools available to all surgeons to use in their offices or by patients at home to ensure that the health of patients is optimized before surgery. The Strong for Surgery checklists assess whether patients have modifiable risks for surgery and then offers a set of interventions to reduce the risk before hospitalization. They address four target areas: nutritional support to prevent infections; reducing cigarette smoking; reviewing and coordinating potentially dangerous medications and, improving diabetes care before surgery. Nearly one-third of hospitalized patients experience adverse events related to their care, and far too often these events are preventable. While quality improvement initiatives have made surgery safer and have achieved improved outcomes, they usually focus on the care of patients once they enter the hospital. Strong for Surgery provides the opportunity for early intervention to reduce risks prior to hospitalization. |
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Edward D. Verrier, MD >> (February 2013) Dr. Verrier has been selected as the American Heart Association’s (AHA) “Golden Heart Honoree.” Each year, the AHA selects an individual that epitomizes the goals of the AHA and this year Dr. Verrier has stood out among his peers for all of his work in the community. These goals include: advancement of scientific knowledge, either basic or clinical research, that relates directly to clinical cardiology; teaching of cardiology at undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate levels; improvement in the practice of cardiology; and service to the mission of the AHA. The honor will be announced at the AHA Heart Ball in April 2013. |
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John H. Waldhausen, MD >> (January 2013) Elected to the pediatric surgery board of the American Board of Surgery (ABS) as the American Pediatric Surgical Association’s (APSA) representative. His term of office is June 2013 through 2019. |
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Douglas E. Wood, MD >> • (January 2013) Dr. Wood was elected by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' (STS) membership to serve as the Society's 2013-2014 President. • (July 2012) Dr. Wood was appointed to the Lung Cancer Alliance Medical & Professional Advisory Board. • Elected to serve a 3 year term as Councilor for the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Board of Directors. Every three years the EACTS nominating committee proposes one non-European cardiothoracic surgeon to serve as an international member of its Board. This nomination is then voted on at the General Assembly during the national meeting. This is the first time that EACTS has chosen a general thoracic surgeon for this position and the first time an American has been chosen outside of the eastern seaboard medical schools. This election is considered a significant honor amongst European CT surgeons and represents the positive impact Dr. Wood has had within the CT community at large, and his leadership role in cardiothoracic surgery internationally. • Dr. Wood will also serve as Chair for the newly created National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Lung Cancer Screening panel which is responsible for developing lung cancer screening guidelines. |
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