This upcoming school year, we are welcoming several new faculty members to the University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery. Learn more about them below. Chey Collura, MD, joins us as an Assistant Professor in the …
OHNS Researchers Receive $3.8 Million Grant from National Institute on Aging
Nadine Connor, PhD, and Michelle Ciucci, PhD, both professors in the Division of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery who have joint appointments in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, were recently awarded a five-year, $3.8 …
Surgery and Family Medicine Faculty to Collaborate on Research to Prevent Opioid Misuse
Researchers in the UW Department of Surgery and the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health received a three-year, $600,000 research grant to test an opioid misuse intervention in surgical patients. Ben Zarzaur, MD, …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: May, June, and July 2023
Wisconsin Department of Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting several of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see selections from …
Voils Lab Awarded NIH Diversity Supplement Award
Corrine Voils, PhD, professor and Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Health Services Research in the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Director of the Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program, was recently awarded a one-year, $92,000 diversity …
OHNS Researchers Receive $2.7 Million to Study Stem Cells in the Vocal Folds
Vlasta Lungova, PhD, scientist III in the Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Susan Thibeault, PhD, professor and Diane M. Bless Endowed Chair in Otolaryngology, were awarded a five-year, $2.7 million research grant this …
Wisconsin Surgery Faculty Receives Additional Federal Funding for Burn Injury Study
In June 2022, Angela Gibson, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery, received a grant from the federal National Institute of General Medical Sciences to test new methods …
Welcoming Our New Fellows
Welcome to our new fellows who are joining us for their surgical training. Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship>> Kevin Carlson Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship >> Ekaterina Fedorova Ashley Krepline Cardiothoracic Surgery …
Wisconsin Faculty Awarded Pilot Grant to Study Type 2 Diabetes Therapies
David Harris, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, recently received a one-year pilot grant from Washington University’s Diabetes Research Center to explore potential treatments for Type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes …
Wisconsin Surgery Faculty Awarded Grant from UW-Madison Entrepreneurial Organization
Congratulations to Hau Le, MD, FACS, FAAP, in the Division of Pediatric Surgery, who recently received a one-year, $20,000 Robert Draper Technology Innovation Fund award from UW’s Discovery to Product (D2P). Dr. Le’s project will …