Surgery News
Dr. David Miranda, second-year general surgery resident, received the first Surgical Infection Society’s (SIS) Sawyer Award. This new award is to recognize trainees for their outstanding abstract submissions, network with members of the society and to provide the means for trainees to attend the SIS Annual Meeting. Dr. Miranda will be accepting the award and…
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Department of Surgery residents Drs. Jay Zhu (PGY-5), Kate Stadeli (PGY-4), and Andrew Ludwig (PGY-5), as well as Surgical ARNP Kathryn Harris (ARNP), received a high score for their Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) conference abstract submission. Their project is summarized below: Improving Interdisciplinary Communication: Standardizing Nightly Huddles Between Surgery Night Float…
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“My surgeon, Dr. Nahush Mokadam, is phenomenal,” said Danny. “He put the Total Artificial Heart in and when I woke up, I felt a lot better immediately.” When Danny started experiencing fatigue and nausea around age 33, he knew something wasn’t right. He went to several doctors over the next few years, but was told…
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Seattle Business | Story by Teresa Kenney and Leslie Helm | March 2018 The chief medical officer of UW Medicine and the VP for medical affairs at University of Washington is this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Dr. Carlos Pellegrini grew up in a small, agricultural town in Argentina. It was there that he developed…
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