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Ronald V. Maier, MD, FACS—American College of Surgeons’ 2017–2018 President-Elect

CLINICAL CONGRESS 2017 NEWS | OCTOBER 2017 Ronald. V. Maier, MD, FACS, the Jane and Donald D. Trunkey Endowed Chair in Trauma Surgery, vice-chairman, department of surgery, and professor of surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, was elected President-Elect of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) at the Annual Business Meeting of the…

A Healthy Future After Kidney Failure

UW Today | Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Wade Washington was just 15 years old when he got a phone call that changed his life: He was going to receive a kidney transplant. At birth, Washington was diagnosed with bilateral cystic kidney disease, a genetic disorder that caused one kidney not to function properly and prevented…

Test Transport Device Creates Hope for Liver Transplants

UW Medicine | Newsroom | Brian Donohue: bdonohue@uw.edu, 206.543.7856 UW Medicine is one of seven U.S. sites testing whether a warm-preservation system is as effective as puting organs on ice for travel. In 2015, UW Medicine in Seattle was first in a national study to transplant a heart that had traveled between donor and recipient in a blood-circulation machine instead…

Long-term Weight-Loss Seen with Gastric Bypass

UW Medicine Newsroom / October 3, 2017 12 years – that’s how long benefits persist from the Roux-en-Y gastric-bypass weight-loss surgery, according to results of a multi-site U.S. study published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. The procedure reduced diabetes, lowered blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and, most importantly, helped patients keep the weight off: 27 percent,…