Surgery Synopsis | Summer 2025

Cover page to the 2025 Surgery Synopsis summer issue

Welcome to the summer issue of Surgery Synopsis. We typically showcase our education programs in t h i s issue. In the Spring 2025 issue we described the program’s match results. In this issue, we focus on who these trainees are, and we honor and celebrate our graduating residents and fellows.

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Surgery Synopsis | Spring 2025

2025 Surgery Synopsis Spring Cover Page

Welcome to our Spring 2025 Issue of Surgery Synopsis. I am always grateful for the first signs of spring in the Pacific Northwest. It’s been a rather chilly spring, but nonetheless, flowers are blooming, showing renewal and promise. This issue we acknowledge and are grateful for all the members of this Department and their steadfast…

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Surgery Synopsis | Winter 2025

2025 Surgery Synopsis Winter Cover Page

Welcome to the Winter 2025 issue of Surgery Synopsis. Several months back, we planned for this issue to focus on collaboration. Collaboration, I believe, is the bedrock of good healthcare, good research, and good medical education.  But how does collaboration in healthcare and in our department manifest? I believe collaboration starts with observing a need,…

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Surgery Synopsis | Fall 2024

UW Department of Surgery 2024 Surgery Synopsis Fall Edition

The 2024 Fall Issue of Surgery Synopsis focuses on philanthropic giving and what it means to the Department of Surgery. We have been so very fortunate over the course of our history to have numbers of individuals who support our mission with their philanthropy. We are profoundly grateful and appreciative of those gifts. The stories…

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Surgery Synopsis | Summer 2024

UW Department of Surgery 2024 Surgery Synopsis Summer Edition

This annual “education issue” of Surgery Synopsis is where we celebrate and marvel at our residents, both coming and going. It’s the end of a residency year with graduation and these amazing surgeons are headed off to jobs and fellowships around the country. And at the other end of the training curve, we welcome the…

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Surgery Synopsis | Spring 2024

Surgery Synopsis 2024 Spring Issue Cover

Welcome to our 2024 spring edition of Surgery Synopsis. In our winter 2023 issue of Surgery Synopsis, as the world was emerging from COVID remote work restrictions, we focused on “What Community Means to You,” asking a cross-section of our department members to describe community. The answers varied, but the theme was clear: community meant…

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Surgery Synopsis | Winter 2024

Surgery Synopsis 2024 Winter Issue Cover

This issue of Surgery Synopsis will focus on the research mission of the Department of Surgery. Research is a critical pillar of our department’s threefold mission (Clinical CareEducation-Research) and boldly leans into the future. The innovative treatments and concepts that surgeons across the world will be using tomorrow are being developed right now in labs,…

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Surgery Synopsis | Summer 2023

Surgery Synopsis 2023 Summer Issue Cover

This issue of Surgery Synopsis is our education issue, in which we celebrate our residents and fellows who have completed their training and we welcome our new trainees. We’re always happy to see our graduates begin their careers, knowing they have been well-trained. But we’re sad as well. We worked side by side for years…

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Surgery Synopsis | Spring 2023

Welcome to our 2023 spring edition of Surgery Synopsis. The Department of Surgery has a tripartite mission: Patient Care, Research and Education. Each of these areas is an essential part of academic surgery and critical to fulfilling our mission to “provide compassionate and high-quality patient care, train future generations of surgical leaders and conduct research…

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