Surgery News

Dr. Andre Dick Appointed Seattle Children’s Hospital Senior Vice President and Surgeon-in-Chief

Dr. Andre Dick

Monday, February 7, 2022 Seattle Children’s Hospital announced Dr. Andre Dick was appointed Seattle Children’s senior vice president (SVP) and surgeon-in- chief. Dr. Dick has served at Seattle Children’s since 2008, first as a surgeon in the Division of Transplant Surgery, then in 2016 as surgical director of Kidney Transplantation. In 2017 he became clinical…

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Dr. Farhood Farjah Receives NIH Grant for Project “Comparative-Effectiveness of Pretreatment Lung Cancer Nodal Staging”

Dr. Farhood Farjah Receives NIH Grant for Project “Comparative-Effectiveness of Pretreatment Lung Cancer Nodal Staging”

Monday, February 7, 2022 Dr. Farhood Farjah, Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research, Associate Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, received an NIH grant award for his project “Comparative-Effectiveness of Pretreatment Lung Cancer Nodal Staging.” “Our team’s goal is to reduce diagnostic and treatment errors, improve survival, and increase the value of care for lung cancer…

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UW Department of Surgery Welcomes Dr. Jay Pal

Welcome Dr. Jay Pal
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Dr. Tam Pham Named David and Nancy Auth–Washington Research Foundation Endowed Chair for Restorative Burn Surgery

Dr. Tam Pham

Tuesday, December 28, 2021 Dr. Tam Pham, Professor & Chief, UW Medicine Regional Burn Center, Harborview Medical Center, was recently named the David and Nancy Auth –Washington Research Foundation Endowed Chair for Restorative Burn Surgery. Dr. David Auth, an innovator who helped countless lives by successfully devising minimally invasive surgical technologies, created this endowment in…

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