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 …
Honors and Awards
Dr. Kaufman awarded year-long pilot grant
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 …
Dr. Michael Bentz and Dr. Alexandria McDow elected for AOA class of 2018
Congratulations to Michael Bentz, MD, and endocrine surgery fellow Alexandria McDow, MD, who were elected to the medical honors society Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) by the UW SMPH student AOA class of 2018. This …
Dr. Nilto De Oliveira promoted to Professor
Nilto De Oliveira, MD, has been promoted to Professor (CHS), effective July 1, 2018. Dr. De Oliveira performs all our aortic valve-sparing root replacement procedures and intervalvular fibrous body reconstructions for endocarditis. Since 2006, he …
Dr. David Upton promoted to Clinical Associate Professor
David Upton, MD, has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2018. He is the Chair of Otolaryngology at Meriter, and the Director of the Otolaryngology Residency program at 1 S. Park, where he …
Department Ranks 9th in Country in NIH Funding
Dr. Bo Liu advises research staff in her NIH-funded lab. The Department of Surgery ranked #9 in total amount of National Institutes of Health funding for surgery departments in 2017 according to the Blue Ridge …
Dr. David Foley promoted to Professor
Congratulations to David Foley, MD, who was promoted to the rank of Professor (CHS), effective July 1, 2018. The unanimous vote of the promotions committee reflects Dr. Foley’s outstanding service as a researcher and a …
Dr. Corrine Voils Named Director of ICTR KL2 Scholar Program
Corrine Voils, PhD, was selected as Director of the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research KL2 Scholar program, along with fellow Director Manish Shah, MD, PhD, of the Department of Emergency Medicine. The KL2 Scholar …
Dr. Rebecca Sippel’s 2018 AAS Presidential Address
Dr. Rebecca Sippel, Associate Professor and Chief of our Endocrine Surgery Division, recently gave a moving Presidential Address at the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS). As one audience member put it, “Absolutely blown away by address …
Newly Appointed Leaders for Association for Academic Surgery
Congratulations to Luke Funk, MD, MPH, and Susan Pitt, MD, MPHS, who were recently appointed to leadership positions in the Association for Academic Surgery. Dr. Funk will be the Publications Committee Co-Chair, will serve on the …