2021_3_24 Pregnancy Policy – Faculty

[…] to operate until delivery. 2. Clinic : In general, women faculty are comfortable seeing clinic patients until late in their pregnancy. A gradual slow down, especially of new patients, between the 36 and 40th weeks of pregnancy is recommended, with individual decisions left to the discretion of the surgeon and her OB. Post -operative […]

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Dr. Giana Davidson and Research Team Awarded the Donaghue Foundationā€™s Greater Value Portfolio Grant

Dr. Giana Davidson

[…] Pharmacy Integrated Transitions (PIT) R01 Randomized Trial. While the PIT program aims to improve coordination between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) by decreasing medicationā€“related problems, this new funding will incorporate the narrative voice of Spanish speaking patients and focus on the transition failures that drive disparate outcomes. Dr. Davidson says, ā€œI am incredibly […]

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UW Medicine milestone: 1,000 lung-transplant recipients

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UW Medicine | Newsroom | August 7, 2019 UW Medical Center is the 11th U.S. hospital to achieve that volume, and the only such provider in the Pacific Northwest. Ā  Dr. Michael Mulligan, Professor & Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Section Chief, Thoracic Surgery UW Medicineā€™s lung-transplant team, the only such providers in the […]

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Esophageal Research Fellowship

[…] the main databases used for research studies during the fellowship. Ā  Training Sites UW Medical Center-Montlake As the No. 1 hospital in Seattle and Washington State (U.S. News & World Report), UW Medical Center ā€“ Montlake is one of the nationā€™s foremost tertiary referral academic health centers. Utilizing our over 500 beds and 5,000 […]

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[…] as many women in the field at the time. I did a couple Subā€”Iā€™s back to back, doing the surgery Subā€”I first, and thatā€™s when I k new surgery was for me. SS: What are your personal thoughts on being selected as a 2020 Top Doc in Seattle Magazine?” KC: It’s flattering because itā€™s […]

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Welcome Dr. Steven Lee

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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 Childrenā€™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 wellā€“acquainted with our […]

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[…] 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 patientā€“reported and patientā€“generated health data. Funding from the Patientā€“Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and Agency for […]

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Mother Donates a Piece of Her Liver to Save Her Baby

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 babyā€™s stomach during an ultrasound. ā€œIt was heartbreaking,ā€ said Alva. After she was born, doctors diagnosed baby Olivia with biliary…

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Treatment target pinpointed for liver cancer in young adults

Dr. Raymond Yeung

UW Medicine | Newsroom | July 3, 2019 Diseased liver sample from a fibrolamellar carcinoma patient shows tumor cells (pink) in the center surrounded by the fibrotic tissue (streaked with green) characteristic of FLC Mitchell H. Omar Dr. Raymond Yeung New findings show how a genetically aberrant, fused protein promotes a rare form of […]

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