Surgery Synopsis – Winter 2018/2019 – Harkins Corner

By UW Surgery Admin | May 13, 2019

[…] and Multicultural Affairs and Professor of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Science in biomedical science from the City College of New York, his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, and a Master’s in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College. He is a […]

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Big Lungs, Huge Heart

By UW Surgery Admin | April 24, 2019

[…] that had further enlarged his lungs, however, the donor lungs would need to be extra-large — and donors with extra-large lungs are very rare. Waiting for a new set of lungs meant preparing for life to change at any moment. Little continued to coach, but he couldn’t drive the team to away games, in […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Summer/Fall 2018 – Honors and Awards

By UW Surgery Admin | October 2, 2018

SURGERY SYNOPSIS • SUMMER/FALL 2018 • PAGE 28 Faculty D r. Sara Javid , Associate Professor, Division of General Surgery, was named new associate editor for the Journal of the National Com – prehensive Cancer Network (JNCCN) . Dr. Javid is a breast surgeon and health services researcher whose research areas of interest include […]

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SORCE Activities

By Michael Hilleary | January 25, 2017

[…] Data Analysis Qualitative Research Survey Data Collection Working At SORCE >> SORCE trains the next generation of health services researchers: Gastrointestinal Surgical Outcomes Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, allowing for mentored outcomes research projects and advanced health services research training for post-doctoral fellows. Regular SORCE Research Methods and Project Development meetings, providing informal forums for discussing […]

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UW has big role in Seattle’s safe-storage firearms measure

By UW Surgery Admin | July 13, 2018

[…] 21, 2018, news conference about safe gun storage. / Photo credit: KUOW Radio Studies from Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, School of Public Health cited in new legislation. The Seattle City Council passed legislation Monday requiring gun owners to lock up their guns or face fines up to $10,000 – a policy significantly informed by […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Spring 2018 – Diversity

By UW Surgery Admin | May 29, 2018

[…] Paul Ramsey created the UW School of Medicine Diversity Strategic Planning Ad Hoc Commit – tee and appointed Dr. Carlos Pellegrini as its Chair to develop a new strategic plan for diversity programs in the U W School of Medi – cine (U WSOM) . The group conducted a broad institutional assessment and comparison […]

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Dr. Ronald Maier Presidential Address at American Surgical Association 138th Annual Meeting

By UW Surgery Admin | April 30, 2018

[…] or improve areas where we fall short. Surgeons have traditionally treated all patients equally and respectfully. However, in contrast to the many areas where surgery has blazed new trails, surgery has been slow to ensure equity, and embrace diversity whether, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other individual metrics within surgery. It is time […]

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By UW Surgery Admin | January 8, 2018

[…] cal Medical Ethics. Some years later I was invited to sit on the ACS Committee on Ethics, and when the ACS decided to update and publish a new textbook on Surgical Ethics, I was honored to be appointed as one of the Editor–in–Chiefs. This book was released just this October during the last ACS […]

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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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