Synopsis Spring 2022 Liver Transplant Program

[…] Bambha , Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, and Winnie Hu , ARNP. Since August 2020, 28 adult- to-adult LDLTs have been performed, including the region’s first LDLT for metastatic colorectal cancer , and UW Medicine is now one of only six centers nationwide to have performed more than two LDLT procedures monthly in 2022. […]

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2022 Surgical Ethics Conference Registration Flyer-English

[…] conflicts that arise in everyday clinical surgical practice, and highlight situations which can be better approached and solved with a surgical ethics view Employ skills in decision-making for clinical cases that present ethical problems Identify fundamental concepts and principles for the understanding of ethical issues in clinical care Discuss and utilize a Surgical Ethics […]

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2022 Surgical Ethics Conference Registration Flyer-English

[…] conflicts that arise in everyday clinical surgical practice, and highlight situations which can be better approached and solved with a surgical ethics view Employ skills in decision-making for clinical cases that present ethical problems Identify fundamental concepts and principles for the understanding of ethical issues in clinical care Discuss and utilize a Surgical Ethics […]

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Annual Surgery Education Fund

[…] Fund Home » About » Greetings UW Surgery Alumni » Annual Surgery Education Fund Welcome Our Story Alfred A. Strauss, MD, FACS Strauss Lecture Chronology Our Surgeons New Faculty Emeritus Faculty Awards & Honors Faculty Residents & Fellows Alumni Harkins Society Events Harkins History Annual Surgery Education Fund Distinguished Alumnus Award Schilling Lecture & […]

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Dr. Venu Pillarisetty and the UW Tumor Immune Microenvironment (TIME) Lab published in Gut

Portrait photo of Dr. Venu Pillarisetty

[…] human tumor slice culture model. They found that IL-10 blockade activated antitumor immunity, which resulted in almost two-fold greater cancer cell death. This finding has exciting potential for future systemic therapies for patients with microsatellite stable colorectal cancer liver metastases, which have thus far not responded to immunotherapy.   Published Wednesday, July 27, 2022 […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Spring 2020 – Chair’s Column

[…] Resi- dents have volunteered to work in the ICUs and EDs and have provided an important foundation of support, enabling our health care system to meet the new clinical chal- lenges of COVID–19 patients. Likewise our faculty have supported each other, making accommodations for colleagues at higher risk of coronavirus infection, shifting from elective […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Winter 2018/2019 – ACS Highlights

[…] Chief, Division of Trauma, Burn & Critical Care Surgery, as president of the ACS. At the convocation, Dr. Maier provided a thoughtful and inspiring address to the new fellows of the College along with their families and the Officers, Regents, and Governors of the College. We are very proud that he has been selected […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Summer/Fall 2018 – Surgery News

[…] but a few. Patch and his wife Lissa, came to Seattle in 1977 at the recom – mendation of his fellow chief resident, for what the lifelong New Englanders thought would be a short adventure to the Pacific Northwest. A product of the Harvard system (Harvard MD ’70, Beth Israel ’77) he brought his […]

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DOS_RR_Full_2005

[…] in preventing, diagnosing, or curing disease and, thus, directly helping people improve their lives. This is frequently referred to as translational research — the clinical application of new knowledge. Certainly there is no specific line separating basic science research from translational research as, by its very nature, basic science research eventually provides the foundation […]

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