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, …
Honors and Awards
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 …
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 …
Wisconsin Surgery Faculty Receives Nearly $1 Million Grant from NIH
Julia Berian, MD, MS, assistant professor in the Division of Colorectal Surgery, recently won a five-year, $952,000 career development award from the National Institute of Aging in the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Berian’s research …
University of Wisconsin Surgery Instructors Win Teaching Awards
Dawn Elfenbein, MD, MPH, and James Barrett, MD, both recently received significant awards for excellence in teaching. Dr. Elfenbein, an Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrine Surgery, was honored with a Dean’s Teaching Award, …
Department Celebrates Annual Research Summit
Earlier this year, the University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery hosted its 14th annual research summit on campus. This year’s theme was Research Summit 2023: Adventures in Research, and featured keynote speaker Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, …
Wisconsin Surgery Faculty Awarded $2.7 Million Research Grant
Nathan Welham, PhD, professor in the Division of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, was recently awarded a five-year, $2.7 million research grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The grant is a …