The American Family Children’s Hospital Cleft Lip and Palate/Craniofacial Anomalies Clinic has been re-credentialed as an approved site by the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. This credentialing process recognizes the high quality of care available at …
Year: 2017
The current state of bariatric surgery
By Luke Funk, MD Dr. Luke Funk, Director of MIS Research in the Division of Minimally Invasive, Foregut and Bariatric Surgery, gives an update on the current state of batriatric surgery. Learn more about obesity management …
Diagnosis and Treatment Options for Gastroparesis
By Amber Shada, MD Gastroparesis, which translates to “weak stomach,” is a condition where the stomach does not work properly. The stomach’s primary function is to move food through the upper digestive tract with strong contractions. …
Pancreas Transplantation for Type 2 Diabetes
By Jon S Odorico, MD Increasingly, patients with forms of diabetes other than Type I diabetes (T1D) are being offered pancreas transplantation and the results are excellent and nearly equivalent to the results in patients with …
Optimal Care of Patients with Rectal Cancer
Written by Elise Lawson, MD, MSHS Management of rectal cancer advanced significantly in the past two decades, resulting in decreased rates of cancer recurrence and improved survival. Advances include better imaging modalities for tumor localization and staging, …
Submit your abstract for the Upper Airway Microbiome Science Course
We are now accepting abstracts for the 2018 Upper Airway Microbiome conference, hosted by the Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. The overarching goal of this conference is to advance and integrate our fund of …
Rebecca Minter Named Surgery Chair
Dr. Rebecca Minter will become the next chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Minter comes to Wisconsin from the University of Texas Southwestern, where …
Dr. Heather Neuman awarded NIH R01 grant
Heather Neuman, MD, MS has been awarded a $1.2 million, 5-year NIH R01 grant through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for her project titled “Increasing Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Patients’ Engagement in Breast Cancer …
The Role of Sialendoscopy in Managing Obstruction of Major Salivary Glands
By Greg Hartig, MD Sialendoscopy has emerged as an effective and minimally invasive treatment for management of salivary stones and strictures of the parotid and submandibular salivary glands. Although initial efforts to remove salivary stones …
Improvements in Tracheostomy Care for Pediatric Patients
By Dr. Tony Kille Three years ago, the otolaryngology service noticed some problems with the immediate postoperative cares of pediatric patients undergoing tracheostomy. This came to light after several patients were noted to have problematic skin …