Plastic Surgery - Integrated
Plastic Surgery - Integrated
Program Overview
About the Program
The goal of the UW Plastic Surgery program is to train plastic surgeons in all four parts of academic medicine: patient care, medical education, medical research and administration. The plastic surgery program utilizes five University of Washington-affiliated hospitals. The hospitals include the UW Medical Center-Montlake, UW Medical Center-Northwest, Harborview Medical Center, the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, and Seattle Children’s Hospital. There are also rotation experiences at community hospitals and in private-practice plastic surgery office settings.
Interdisciplinary training and collaboration are hallmarks of training at University of Washington (UW). The University of Washington Burn Center is located at Harborview Medical Center and is involved in the residency program. The Division also participates in the Unified Hand Service. There are multidisciplinary care experiences in craniofacial surgery at Seattle Children’s Hospital and breast reconstruction at the UW Medical Center among others.
Program Leadership
Assistant Professor
Program Director
retting@uw.edu
Associate Professor
Assistant Program Director
Site Director, University of Washington Medical Center
scolohan@uw.edu
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Training Sites
Learn in a variety of different healthcare settings across the Seattle region.
Harborview Medical Center
As the only designated Level I adult and pediatric trauma and regional burn center in the state of Washington, Harborview serves as the regional trauma and burn referral center for Alaska, Montana and Idaho and the disaster preparedness and disaster control hospital for Seattle and King County.
Harborview Medical Center cares for a large diversity of patients from all cultures and walks of life in addition to serving uninsured or underinsured patients.
Plastic surgery clinical experiences at Harborview Medical Center include maxillofacial trauma, hand trauma, burns, injuries to the lower extremities and the trunk, and complex microsurgical reconstruction.
UW Medical Center-Montlake
As the No. 1 hospital in Seattle and Washington State (U.S. News & World Report), UW Medical Center-Montlake is one of the world's foremost tertiary referral academic health centers, delivering exceptional, multidisciplinary care to a vast array of patients who come to us from across the globe.
From first of their kind, life-saving surgical procedures to routine adult, maternal and newborn medicine, we're training the next generation of medical professionals. By using the latest advances in medical technology and patient- and family-centered care, we're building a better future for our community.
Plastic surgeons at the UW Medical Center are involved in oncologic reconstruction, breast reconstruction, general plastic surgical reconstruction, and aesthetic surgery.
UW Medical Center-Northwest
UW Medical Center-Northwest is a full-service medical center based in North Seattle, offering emergency and inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and therapeutic care. The hospital offers personalized, quality care on a beautiful, easy-to-access, 44-acre campus.
UW Medical Center - Northwest is a community-based , non-profit hospital with 281 beds, 2,000-plus employees and a world-class medical staff that provides innovative, technologically advanced, patient-centered care.
At UW Medical Center-Northwest, plastic surgeons provide care for hand pathologies, perform breast and abdominal wall reconstruction, gender affirming surgery, and care for other reconstructive surgical problems.
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
The Fred Hutch Cancer Center is listed as one of the top 10 cancer centers in the U.S. (U.S. News and World Report). It is the No. 1 cancer hospital in the Pacific Northwest and Washington state's only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer center. The Fred Hutch Cancer Center research provides world-class cutting-edge approaches to cancer treatment and prevention. Multi-disciplinary care combines powerful science with devoted collaboration, where boundary-pushing discovery happens—compassionate care and science working together.
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle Children’s Hospital is a tertiary and quaternary academic referral which serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.
Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research and
The Plastic Surgery Service at Seattle Children's Hospital provides care for congenital anomalies of the head and neck and all other aspects of pediatric plastic surgery.
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Since 1923, VA Puget Sound Health Care System has distinguished itself as a leader in teaching, research and patient care while earning prestigious recognition as part of the largest health care network in the country. It serves the health care needs of more than 112,000 Veterans living in 14 counties around the Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest.
With a reputation for excellence, innovation and extraordinary care of our nation’s heroes, the VA Puget Sound is a university level VA and a regional referral site for VA's northwest region, VA Puget Sound Health Care System provides care for Veteran populations encompassing Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Oregon.
The plastic surgery practice at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System includes most aspects of plastic surgery except pediatric and acute trauma.
Valley Medical Center
Founded as a public district hospital in 1947, Valley Medical Center is a 321-bed, acute care community hospital. As the oldest and largest public hospital district system in Washington State, Valley Medical Center serves more than 600,000 residents in Southeast King County.
Rotations
Currently, the plastic surgery residents rotate on the various plastic surgery rotations starting as interns. They gain exposure to a wide variety of other surgical services and critical care on rotations such as orthopedics, burn, acute care general surgery, vascular surgery, trauma ICU up until the R3 year. The experiences they gain on other services help to make the plastic surgery residents well-rounded surgeons. Starting as R4s, the residents only rotate through plastic surgery services. They are on service at the major hospitals as well as several local private practices.
Conferences
The residents attend weekly plastic surgery didactic conferences on Wednesdays, even while on off-service rotations. Additionally, each hospital site conducts site-specific weekly lectures. The conferences include attending speakers, resident presentations, small case groups, in-service question review. The Didactic Conference Planning Committee, which is composed of a group of residents and Dr. Shannon Colohan review and edit the curriculum annually to ensure all necessary topics are covered and scheduled appropriately, as well as incorporate resident feedback.
