Dr. Ed Verrier Selected Puget Sound Business Journal Physician Educator of the Year

Dr. Ed Verrier

[…] of CT organizations to upgrade and revolutionize CT education in the United States. His leadership of this effort has transformed CT surgery training and has created a new generation of surgical educators with his “Educating the Educators” courses. Dr. Verrier has been honored with virtually every teaching award he could be eligible for, beginning […]

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Bariatric surgery for teens coming into mainstream

Portrait photo of Dr. Judy Y. Chen-Meekin

[…] Washington state’s only program recognized by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program. The effectiveness of bariatric surgery for teens is little-studied. One paper, published this spring in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed promising results. The researchers followed 161 teens (ages 13 to 19) and 396 adults who received bariatric surgery. Over five years, the teens […]

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Metabolic surgery may help those with Type 2 Diabetes

[…] Dr. Cummings’ and the World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes efforts, there are changes to those guidelines in many parts of the world. “The new diabetes surgery summit guidelines, which allow consideration of metabolic surgery for people with inadequately controlled diabetes and a BMI as low as 30 or down to […]

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Dr. Robert Sweet Receives Seattle Business Magazine’s Leader in Health Care Award

Dr. Robert Sweet

[…] Morales and Dr. Robert Sweet; pictured at the Seattle Business awards ceremony on Feb. 28. Credit: Susan Gregg Dr. Robert Sweet, Professor of Urology and Medical Director for the UW Medicine Kidney Stone Center at Northwest Hospital, Executive Director for the WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare (WISH) and the Center for Research in Education and Simulation […]

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Dr. Douglas Wood Receives 2019 STS Distinguished Service Award

[…] Boston. After spending a formative year as a surgical registrar at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, he was recruited to Seattle to lead a new section of general thoracic surgery at the University of Washington, where he is currently the Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery. […]

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Nahush Mokadam: Reflections of a heart transplant surgeon

[…] how we did 75 transplants last year, third most in the country. Up and down the list — surgeons and cardiologists, nurses and nurse practitioners, physician assistants, OR staff, social workers, financial counselors, hospital administration, coordinators, colleagues in other departments and divisions — everybody is pulling their weight and opening up the doors to new ideas. MORE

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