Surgery News

Surgery News

Dr. Nicole Gibran to Serve as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education at Harborview Medical Center

Dr. Nicole Gibran

Dear Colleagues, “I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Nicole Gibran, Professor, Burn Center, Division of Trauma, Burn & Critical Care, has agreed to serve as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Harborview Medical Center. In this capacity, Dr. Gibran will succeed Dr. Sheila Lukehart in that part of Dr. Lukehart’s former portfolio that…

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Dr. Joseph Gruss, Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Retires

Like those great, iconic athletes who only require one name (e.g., Lebron, Tiger, Kobe), we all know him simply as, “Joe.”  Incredibly, he is retiring from clinical surgery. For those who have had the pleasure to operate with Joe or watch him operate, we can all attest that he really is a world-class craniofacial and…

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Heart-transplant program opens access to Hep C-positive donors

UW Medicine | Newsroom | June 13, 2018 | By, Brian Donahue, 206-543-7856, bdonohue@uw.edu UW Medicine patients can opt in for suitable donor hearts and must complete an 8- to 12-week postoperative drug regimen to clear the virus. UW Medicine’s heart-transplant team this month began giving all of its patients access to suitable donor hearts from decedents…

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Have you been screened? Learn about UW/SCCA’s lung cancer screening program

UW Medicine | The Huddle | June 8, 2018 | By, Karen Peck It may not come as a surprise to those of us in healthcare that lung cancer kills more people in the U.S. than any other cancer. A lesser known fact, though, is that it causes more deaths than breast, prostate and pancreatic…

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