Investigator Profile: Kenneth W. Gow, MD, FACS, FAAP
Kenneth W. Gow, MD, FACS, FAAP
Professor, Division of Pediatric Surgery
- Pediatric Surgical Oncology – prospective and retrospective studies to improve pediatric surgical oncology care with a goal of improving cure and minimizing side effects.
- Public Health – identifying and addressing social determinant of health that affect children and their access to quality pediatric surgery care.
- Central Venous Catheters —study the flow in central venous catheters; the history of central venous catheters to improve design.
- Children’s Oncology Group Renal Tumors Group
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Alberto Aliseda, PhD, Associate Professor, UW Department of Mechanical Engineering
Royalty Research Fund, 2011 – 2012
Flow Dynamics of Central Venous Catheters: Improving Pediatric Hemodialysis
PI: Alberto Aliseda
Role: Key Personnel
(Current total publication 140)
- Gow KW,Saad D, Koontz C, Wulkan ML. Minimally Invasive Thoracoscopic Ultrasound (MITUS) to Guide Resection of Pulmonary Nodule(s). J Pediatr Surg, 43(12): 2315-2322, 2008. PMID: 19040964
- Gow KW, Rapkin LB, Olson TS, Durham MM, Wyly B, Shehata BM. Sentinel lymph node mapping in the pediatric population. J Pediatr Surg 43(12): 2193-2198, 2008. PMID: 19040933
- Gow KW, Heard ML, Heiss KF, Katzenstein HM, Wulkan ML, Fortenberry JD. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in children with malignancy. Crit Care Med, 37(4): 1308-1316, 2009. PMID: 19242331
- Gow KW. Visual Learning: Harnessing Images to Educate Residents Optimally (HIERO). J Surg Ed, 66(6): 392-394, 2009. PMID: 20142141
- Gow KW, Lao OB, Leong T, Fortenberry JD. Extracorporeal Life Support for Adults with Malignancy and Respiratory or Cardiac Failure: The Extracorporeal Life Support Experience. Am J Surg 199(5): 669-675, 2010. PMID: 20466114
- Gow KW, Ehrlich PF, Barnhart D, Hamilton T, Kandel J, Chen M, Ferrer F, Price M, Mullen E, Rosen N, Khanna G, Grundy P, Dome J. Primary Nephrectomy and Intra-operative Tumor Spill: Report from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Renal Tumor Committee. J Pediatr Surg, 48(1): 34-38, 2013.PMID: 23331790
- Gow KW. Self-evaluation: How well do surgery residents judge performance on a rotation? Am J Surg, 205(5): 557-562, 2013. PMID: 23499389
- McAteer J, Huaco JA, Gow KW. Predictors of survival in pediatric adrenocortical carcinoma: a Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program study. J Pediatr Surg, 48(5): 1025-1031, 2013. PMID: 23701777
- Gow KW, Drake T, Aarabi S, Waldhausen JHT. The ACGME Case Log: General Surgery Resident Experience in Pediatric General Surgery. J Pediatr Surg, 48(8): 1643-1649, 2013. PMID: 23932601
- Drake T, Horvath K, Goldin A, Gow KW. The ACGME Case Log: Chief Resident Experience over Two Decades of Surgical Residency Training. JAMA Surg, 148(9): 841-847, 2013. PMID: 23864049
- McGah PM, Gow KW, Aliseda A. Leakage of Central Venous Catheter Locking Fluid by Hemodynamic Transport. ASAIO Journal, 60(4): 443-451, 2014. PMID: 24830801
- Barbour MC, McGah PM, Ng Chin H, Clark A, Gow KW, Aliseda A. Convective Leakage Makes Heparin Locking of Central Venous Catheters Ineffective Within Seconds: Experimental Measurements in a Model Superior Vena Cava. ASAIO Journal, 61(6): 701-709, 2015. PMID: 26418203
- Drake T, Aarabi S, Garland BT, Huntington CR, McAteer JP, Richards MK, Zern NK, Gow KW. ACGME Surgery Resident Operative Logs: The Last Quarter Century. Ann Surg, 265(5):923-9, 2017. PMID: 28398961
- Gow KW, Tapper D, Hickman RO. Between the Lines: The 50th Anniversary of Long-Term Central Venous Catheters. Am J Surg, 213(5): 837-48, 2017. PMID: 28364951
- Richards MK, Goldin AB, Beierle EA, Doski JJ, Goldfarb M, Langer M, Nuchtern JG, Vasudevan S, Gow KW, Javid S. Breast Malignancies in Children: Presentation, Management, and Survival. Ann Surg Oncol, 24(6): 1482-91, 2017. PMID: 28058544
- Barbour MC, Gow KW, Alseda A. Convectively-Dominated Heparin Leakage from Multiple Catheter Designs: An In-Vitro Experimental Study. ASAIO J, 64(5):e94-e104, 2018 PMID: 29561271
- Barbour MC, Gow KW, Alseda A. Convectively-Dominated Heparin Leakage from Multiple Catheter Designs: An In-Vitro Experimental Study. ASAIO J, 64(5):e94-e104, 2018. PMID: 29561271
- Tessler RA, Dellinger M, Richards MK, Goldin AB, Beierle EA, Doski JJ, Goldfarb M, Langer M, Nuchtern JG, Raval MV, Vasudevan S, Gow KW. Pediatric Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A National Cancer Data Base Review. J Pediatr Surg, 54(5): 1029-1034, 2019. PMID: 30824240
- McEvoy CS, Ross-Li D, Norris EA, Ricca RL, Gow KW. From Far and Wide: Geographic Distance to Pediatric Surgical Care across Canada. J Pediatr Surg, 55(5):908-912, 2020. PMID: 32063366.
- Gow KW. When it comes to surgical devices, what is really broken? Invited commentary on “Revealing the scope of surgical device malfunctions: Analysis of the “hidden” Food and Drug Administration Device Database. Am J Surg. 221(5):1119-1120, 2021. PMID: 33858659.