Dr. David Byrd Named Interim SCCA Medical Director

Dr. David Byrd

[…] leader and an instrumental force helping SCCA grow to be one of the top 10 cancer centers in the United States. We wish him well in his new role at City of Hope and owe him enormous appreciation for all he has done for our cancer programs at UW Medicine and SCCA. While SCCA […]

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Esophageal Research Fellowship

[…] 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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[…] as many women in the field at the time. I did a couple Sub—I’s back to back, doing the surgery Sub—I first, and that’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 it’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 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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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 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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The Good Luck Rituals of Medical Experts

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[…] run through my head.” Jorge Reyes, MD, chief of transplant surgery “At the time of liver transplant in the OR, and as we are sewing in the new liver graft, I prepare the anesthesia team for the moment of completion of the vascular connections and removing the clamps which would allow for the patient’s […]

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Saving Grace

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[…] years of breathing problems, a patient sings her gratitude loud and clear.   On a recent Sunday at church, Marilyn Gibbs-Wightman stood up to sing. She k new she’d need some help — just a few months before, she’d had 15 blood clots removed from her lungs, and her voice was not fully recovered. […]

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Vascular Research Program at the VA Puget Sound

    Vascular Research Program at the VA Puget Sound Home » Vascular Research Program at the VA Puget Sound Research Introduction Schilling Lectureship Research Investigators Labs & Centers Bulger Research Group CBATL CBATL Investigators Predictive Analytic Models CBATL Relevant Publications Craniofacial Image Analysis Laboratory (CranIAL) Center for Videoendoscopic Surgery (CVES) CREST HIPRC Mulligan Lab…

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[…] 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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