Seattle Surgeon Ronald V. Maier, MD, FACS, Installed as New President of the American College of Surgeons

By UW Surgery Admin | October 22, 2018
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[…] rugby and soccer. Dr. Maier and Lauren are avid travelers and are looking forward to representing the College in the coming year both nationally and internationally. Other new ACS Officers installed during the Convocation were First Vice-President Mark C. Weissler, MD, FACS, and Second Vice-President-Elect Philip R. Caropreso, MD, FACS. Dr. Weissler is an […]

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Toward New Paradigms in Global Burn Care

By UW Surgery Admin | December 19, 2022
UW PROGRESS Toward New Paradigms in Global Burn Care

[…] of burn resuscitation in austere settings, these projects are promoting collaborative relationships with UW Department of Surgery and UW Medicine Regional Burn Center with HIPRC, long-time and new international research partners, Ghana Health Service, and Walter Reed/AFRIMS Research Unit in Nepal (WARUN). These projects also support resident and fellow research and development of future […]

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Esophageal Research Fellowship

By Exporter | March 27, 2017

[…] the main databases used for research studies during the fellowship.   Training Sites 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 nation’s foremost tertiary referral academic health centers. Utilizing our over 500 beds and 5,000 […]

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Welcome Dr. Steven Lee

By UW Surgery Admin | February 15, 2023
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Dr. Steven Lee The Department of Surgery welcomes Dr. Steven Lee as our new Chief of the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery at Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) and UW Department of Surgery in February 2023. Dr. Lee completed his general surgery training at University of California, Davis, and is well–acquainted with our […]

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By UW Surgery Admin | January 8, 2018

[…] that we build community and infrastructure for collab – orating with patients and healthcare stakeholders to advance PCOR, as well as methods for transforming healthcare through leveraging new streams of data that come directly from patients, such as patient–reported and patient–generated health data. Funding from the Patient–Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and Agency for […]

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Mother Donates a Piece of Her Liver to Save Her Baby

By UW Surgery Admin | October 21, 2016

Published in Seattle Children’s Hospital’s On the Pulse by Kathryn Mueller Patricia Alva knew, even before her baby girl was born, that something was wrong. When she was pregnant, doctors detected a cyst on the baby’s stomach during an ultrasound. “It was heartbreaking,” said Alva. After she was born, doctors diagnosed baby Olivia with biliary…

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By UW Surgery Admin | June 7, 2019

SURGERY SYNOPSIS • SPRING 2019 • PAGE 21 W hen Dr. Venu Pillarisetty joined the UW Department of Surgery as a new Surgical Oncologist in 2009, he was among a small group of “true believers” in the potential of immunotherapy for cancer. His goal was to learn more about the body’s immune response to […]

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