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Month: April 2018

Welcoming our new Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Posted on April 23, 2018

We are delighted to welcome Malcolm McAvoy DeCamp, Jr., MD, as our new Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. DeCamp assumes this role on May 1st. Dr. DeCamp comes from Northwestern University’s Feinberg …

Posted in NewsTagged cardiothoracic

Dr. Gibson featured in Wisconsin State Journal

Posted on April 20, 2018

Photo by Steve Apps, WI State Journal Dr. Angela Gibson’s burn research and clinical care was recently featured in the Wisconsin State Journal. They told Dr. Gibson’s amazing story of her path from a burn …

Posted in Honors and Awards, News

Dr. Greenberg awarded grants for Surgical Collaborative of WI

Posted on April 17, 2018

Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH, has been awarded a 2-year, $200,000 Opportunity Grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Education and Research Committee for her project, “Improving Access to High Quality Surgical Care in Wisconsin Communities.” The funds …

Posted in Honors and Awards, News, Research, WiSORTagged WiSOR

Text to Teach: Improving Patient Experience at AFCH

Posted on April 17, 2018

In 2016, Brianna Schumacher, APNP, was awarded a UW Health Innovation Grant for her project “Text to Teach.” Tonsillectomy patients at the American Family Children’s Hospital will receive a series of automated pre- and post-operative …

Posted in Clinical, News

Helping hearts beat in innovative trial

Posted on April 17, 2018

Image of the HeartMate 3 system provided courtesy of St. Jude Medical, Inc Update: As of October 19th, the HeartMate 3 LVAD trial, which our Department is participating in, has been approved by the FDA …

Posted in News, ResearchTagged cardiothoracic, clinical

Dr. Neuman receives 2018 Clinical Investigator Award

Posted on April 10, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Heather Neuman, recipient of the Society of Surgical Oncology’s 2018 Clinical Investigator Award. This 2-year, $100,000 award will support her study, “Understanding Socioeconomic Disparities in the Receipt of Post-Mastectomy Breast Reconstruction.” Two awards …

Posted in Honors and Awards, Research, WiSORTagged WiSOR

Hartwell Foundation awards two UW Madison Investigators

Posted on April 3, 2018

The Hartwell Foundation officially announced the recipients of the 2017 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards, which will provide support for three years. Twelve individuals representing ten institutions received recognition as Hartwell Investigators. This year, two …

Posted in Honors and Awards, News, ResearchTagged transplant

Dr. Kaufman awarded year-long pilot grant

Posted on April 3, 2018

Dixon Kaufman, MD, PhD, and co-investigator Igor Slukvin, MD, PhD, from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, were awarded a one-year pilot grant from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research for their …

Posted in Honors and Awards, News, ResearchTagged transplant

Department simulation training work honored at national conference

Posted on April 2, 2018

In addition to providing excellent patient care and moving surgery forward in our lab, Department members are hard at work educating the next generation of surgeons, including through innovative clinical simulation techniques. Their efforts were …

Posted in Education, NewsTagged simulation

Celebrating the anniversary of Dr. Susan Pitt’s women in surgery photo challenge

Posted on April 2, 2018

One year ago, The New Yorker magazine cover featured the work of illustrator Malika Favre’s image of 4 female surgeons looking down at a patient in the operating room on its cover. Assistant Professor of …

Posted in News
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