Surgery Synopsis – Summer/Fall 2020 – Chief Resident Graduation Dinner

[…] Prelimary (R1) RESIDENT ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD Presented to General Surger y residents who scored in the 85th percentile or greater from across the nation on the ABSITE exam in 2020. Presented by Dr. Karen Hor vath, Professor and Director, Residency Program in General Surger y Awardees—Drs. Oluwatobi Afolayan (Chief ), Catherine Beni (Research), Kyle […]

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2023 DoS Education Seminar Agenda

[…] PM Selection Committee and All -Faculty Roles in Recruitment Chadwick Allen, PhD Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement 2:45 -2:55 PM Break 2:55 -3:40 PM Implementation of New Recruitment Practices and Residency and Fellowship Level Colette Inaba, MD Caitlin Smith, MD Patrick Javid, MD Faculty, Department of Surgery 3:40 – 4:00 PM Opening the […]

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[…] welcome home to Dr. Valerie W. Rusch, Vice Chair of Clinical Research for t h e Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, where she also holds the Miner Family Chair in Intrathoracic Cancers. Dr. Rusch completed her general and cardiothoracic surgery residen – cies here at UW […]

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Department of Surgery Cardiothoracic Division 31st Annual Visiting Professor Symposium Abstract Book

[…] with a significant change in concentration. Results: Post-surgical radiographic infarct occurred in 15 patients (75%), with a median volume of 108mm 3. Two of the patients had new focal neurologic deficits. Linear regression of the targeted Olink proteomic data identified 11 proteins that were significantly correlated with infarct. PCA using these proteins yielded two […]

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[…] the ECLS program at Harborview, as well as the Central Region Trauma Quality Improvement Committee. Nationally, he will be working with the American Burn Association to develop new quality improvement dashboards for the Burn Quality Improve- ment Program. Active in the Washington State Trauma System, he serves on the State of Washington Trauma and […]

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[…] INSIDE THIS ISSUE 1 Chairman’s Message 3 Surgical Ethics 5 64th Annual Strauss Lecture & Harkins Symposium 7 American College of Surgeons’ 2017 Clinical Congress 8 Surgery News 10 2017 New Faculty 11 Department of Surgery— In The Media 12 Researcher Profile: Danielle Lavallee, PharmD, PhD 13 #GettingToKnowDOS— Dr. Martin Montenovo 15 Honors, Awards […]

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surgsynopsis_sumfall_2018_inthemedia

[…] Transformer Podcast D r. Sam Mandell , Assistant Professor, Division of Trauma, Burn & Critical Care Surgery “When did scald burns become a prank?” — UW Medicine Newsroom Drs. Carlos Pellegrini , UW Medicine Chief Medical Off icer, Venu Pillarisetty , Associate Professor, Division of General Surgery, and Heidi Gray, Associate Professor, Department of […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Winter 2018/2019 – Honors and Awards

[…] Seattle Times | January 9, 2019 Opioid deaths are preventable — don’t NIMBY treatment centers D r. Venu Pillarisetty, Associate Professor, Division of General Surgery UW Medicine Newsroom | December 18, 2018 Scheduled for surgery? Time to hit the trail! KOMO Radio Preparing for surgery with exercise can impact outcomes Dr. Douglas Wood , […]

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[…] residenc y, Dr. Yang plans to pursue a fellowship in surgical oncology or endocrine surger y. 2021-23 Surgery Research Residents We are proud to present this year’s new research residents. Research is a key component of the UW Department of Surgery’s residency programs and these residents have each “paused” their clinical training in order […]

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