Rural Surgery Training Program

UW PROGRESS - Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana

[…] Associate Professor VA Puget Sound Health Care System UW Department of Surgery and UW Program for Global and Rural Surgery (UW PROGRESS) are thrilled to announce a new rural surgery training program in partnership with Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana: the Billings-UW Rural Surgery Track. Rural America encompasses 72% of the nation’s land mass […]

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Research Resident Past Projects 2013-2015

[…] including the American Surgical Association annual meeting in 2014. Additionally, Dr. Simianu’s work as part of a decision science collaborative at the University of Washington has tested new tools to measure behavior change and risk thresholds in healthcare providers, and was featured at the Surgical Outcomes Club annual meeting in 2014 and at the […]

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Spotlight on Past Trainees

[…] 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 Northwest Liver Research Program (NLRP) VA Research SORCE WISH Resident Research Current Trainees Past Trainees 2021-2023 2020-2022 2019-2021 2018-2020 […]

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Dr. Maziar Khorsandi Publishes Handbook for Treating Complex Patients with Heart Failure and End Stage Lung Disease

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[…] approached the final stretch of my specialty training in cardiothoracic surgery a few years ago, I felt that there was a paucity of a quick reference manual for my subspecialty field of interest, heart and lung transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. Most reference guides were large, cumbersome, and already outdated by the time they […]

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Vascular Research Program at the VA Puget Sound

[…] of subjects at risk at each interval. Our research program is focused on the following goals: Understanding how inflammation and genetics influence the vascular healing response. Developing new therapies to improve the success and longevity of vascular surgical interventions. Our body’s inflammatory reactions, as well as our genetic makeup, profoundly influence our healing response […]

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CODA Trial Collaborative Approved for $2 Million in Funding to Speed Use of Research Results to Improve Health Care Decision Making

Combined portrait photos of Drs. Giana Davidson and David Flum

[…] Institute   Dr. Giana Davidson Dr. David Flum A University of Washington team, co-led by Project Leads Dr. Giana Davidson and Dr. David Flum, has been approved for a $2 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to disseminate and implement research findings from the Comparison of Outcomes of Antibiotic Drugs […]

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Dr. Scott Brakenridge published in JAMA Network Open

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Dr. Scott Brakenridge Dr. Scott Brakenridge, Associate Professor, Trauma Burn & Critical Care, published “Evaluation of a Multivalent Transcriptomic Metric for Diagnosing Surgical Sepsis and Estimating Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients” in JAMA Network Open. This research shows a single genomic blood test can accurately diagnose sepsis and predict 30-day mortality in critically ill […]

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Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship

[…] Current CV Three (3) letters of recommendation, one of which must be from your Plastic Surgery Program Director Copies of two (2) most recent Plastic Surgery In-Service Exam scores by Letter of Certification A recent photograph   Timeline Application deadline: August 31st of each year for the following academic year Interviews: Interviews are held […]

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Antibiotics for appendicitis: Study findings finalized

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[…] antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) trial and an updated treatment guideline for appendicitis from the American College of Surgeons. The CODA study findings are reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine. “In the first three months after taking antibiotics for the condition, nearly 7 in 10 patients in the antibiotic group avoided an […]

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[…] a multimodal analgesia initiative. The C V APP fellowship program was created out of an identif ied need to provide additional subspecialt y training to strong NP/PA new graduates with the goal of increasing the pool of qualif ied applicants to join our teams. Most graduates of the program have successfully gone on to […]

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