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Seattle Children’s Reaches a Medical Milestone: Its 250th Living Donor Kidney Transplant Surgery

Seattle Children’s performs a complex transplant surgery involving two sisters and the gift of life. SEATTLE, WA. — Seattle Children’s is honored to announce that it recently performed its 250th living donor kidney transplant surgery. Like the first transplant surgery performed at Children’s more than 30 years ago, the milestone surgery involved two sisters. In…

Department of Surgery – American College of Surgeons Washington/Oregon Chapters Annual Meeting

Department of Surgery – American College of Surgeons Washington/Oregon Chapters Annual Meeting We had an incredible meeting of the Washington/Oregon Chapters of the American College of Surgeons this past weekend at Campbell’s Resort in Chelan. Dr. Judy Chen led a great meeting from the presentations to the social functions and the invited speakers. Congratulations to…

Surgery Synopsis | Summer 2025

Welcome to the summer issue of Surgery Synopsis. We typically showcase our education programs in t h i s issue. In the Spring 2025 issue we described the program’s match results. In this issue, we focus on who these trainees are, and we honor and celebrate our graduating residents and fellows.

Harnessing New Tools to Support Our Teams and Advance Our Mission

VITALS – UW Medicine – July 30, 2025   We are excited to announce two new initiatives to help support our people, expand patient access, improve outcomes, increase efficiencies, produce cost savings, accelerate research and position UW Medicine for the future. As an integrated learning health system, one of the things that sets us apart…