Surgery News

By – Patrick K. Kim MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Trauma Program Director, Trauma Center at Penn Ronald V. Maier, MD, FACS, FRCS Ed (Hon.) presented the 43rd William T. Fitts, Jr, MD, Lecture at the 76th Annual Meeting of American Association for the Surgery…

Dr. Jeff Avansino, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric General Surgery, UW School of Medicine was recently named vice president and medical director of Surgical Services and Associate Surgeon-in-Chief at Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH). In this new role, Jeff will provide medical leadership and oversight for Surgical Services. He will also be responsible…

The National Trauma Institute (NTI), a nonprofit organization that advocates for increased federal funding for trauma research and research infrastructure to reduce death and disability, elected five new members to its Board of Directors this month, including Dr. Eileen Bulger. Dr. Bulger is Chief of Trauma at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. She has previously…

Ronald V. Maier, MD, FACS, FRCSEd(Hon), Past-First Vice-President of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), received the prestigious International Society of Surgery’s (ISS) prize of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie at the 47th Annual World Congress of Surgery in Basel, Switzerland. The prize is awarded to “the surgeon who has published work which has made the most…