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 …
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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. Amy Liepert’s Health Policy Advocacy Results in Resolution Win
Dr. Liepert (third from right) and Department of Surgery colleagues Drs. Elise Lawson (second from right) and Girma Tefera (right) at a day of surgical policy advocacy in Washington DC. Update: On March 20th, the …
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 …
NIH R01 Grant awarded to Jack Jiang, MD
Jack Jiang, MD, has been awarded a five-year NIH R01 grant for his project, “Optimization And Therapeutic Translation of Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract Techniques,” through the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Dr. Jiang …
Surgery Research Image Contest Winners
With active clinical and basic science research programs, there’s always something cool under the scope in our Department. Check out the winners of our annual Surgery Research Image Contest to get a glimpse into some …
2017 Successful Year for Transplant Patients at UW Health
Surgeon Dixon Kaufman, MD 2017 was a successful year for the UW Transplant Program, led by Dixon Kaufman, MD, PhD. Clinical highlights include: Pancreas transplant program, led by Jon Odorico, MD, was again the largest …