Surgery News

Ronald V. Maier, MD was selected President–Elect of the American Surgical Association (ASA) at their 136th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, April 2016. The ASA was founded in 1880 and is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious surgical organization. Its members include the nation’s most prominent surgeons from the country’s leading academic medical institutions, many…

Every year, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) honors a medical school faculty physician who exemplifies the qualities of a caring and compassionate mentor in the teaching and advising of medical students. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, administered through the Organization of Student Representatives (OSR), is awarded to one physician…

Congratulations to Dr. Lara Oyetunji, General Surgery Chief Resident, for winning the Dr. Claude H. Organ, Jr. Resident Award Competition from the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) at its recently concluded meeting in April, 2016. Her winning paper was entitled “Cigarette Smoke Induces MicroRNA-145 Dysregulation During Esophageal Carcinogenesis,” which included the results from her…

Congratulations to Dr. Damien Carter, recent graduate of the UW General Surgery Residency Program and 2015 UW Department of Surgery Critical Care Fellow, on being awarded the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Research and Education Scholarship for the 2016-2017 academic year. Dr. Carter, now Assistant Professor of Surgery at Tufts University and…