Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery postdoctoral fellows Anumitha Venkatraman, PhD, CCC-SLP, and Robert Brinton Fujiki, PhD, CCC-SLP, have each been awarded a research grant from the American Speech-Hearing-Language Foundation. Both are members of OHNS …
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Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: August 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 …
Wisconsin Surgery, Medicine, Biochemistry, and Radiology Researchers Receive Grant from UW Research Forward Initiative
A team of researchers from four different UW departments are collaborating on a new study to reduce the amount of scar tissue that forms on the heart following a heart attack. Funded by a two-year, …
Wisconsin Surgery Resident Receives Grant to Study Disparities in Patient Outcomes
Congratulations to Clayton Marcinak, MD, a fifth-year general surgery resident who earlier this year was awarded a grant from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research through their AHEAD (Advancing Health Equity and Diversity) …
General Surgery Resident Awarded NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Third-year general surgery resident Devashish Joshi, MD, was recently awarded a one-year, $75,000 fellowship from the National Cancer Institute under their Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA) program. The goal of …
Creating Immune System Tolerance for Transplanted Kidneys
Dixon Kaufman, MD, PhD, transplant surgeon and medical director of the UW Health Transplant Center, recently talked with Channel 3000 News in Madison, WI, about the new approach he and his team developed that could …
Wisconsin Surgery Faculty Receives Grant to Support Collaboration in Sub-Saharan Africa
This past April, Syed Nabeel Zafar, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, was awarded a 3-year, $120,000 grant from the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment to support work he is doing in …
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 …