Dr. Muhammed Murtaza, Associate Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, was awarded a 2025 Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award. This award will provide Dr. Murtaza with flexible research funding over the next three years. …
Lab Student Recognized at 2025 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Award Ceremony
UW–Madison hosted the annual Chancellor’s Undergraduate Award Ceremony on April 28. This ceremony serves as an opportunity to celebrate the extraordinarily talented undergraduates for their academic excellence, public service, and undergraduate research. Brooke Miller, an …
DOS Faculty and Residents attend SNMA AMEC 2025
The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC) took place in St. Louis from April 16-25, 2025. This year’s theme was “Higher: Surpassing, Optimizing, Advancing and Reimagining our Purpose.” This theme invited …
Incoming Rural General Surgery Resident First to Graduate from Accelerated UW Med School Program
Dr. Sharon Weber Awarded the Medical Alumni Citation – Distinguished Alumni Award
Dr. Sharon Weber, Professor and Chair of the Division of Surgical Oncology, was awarded the Medical Alumni Citation – Distinguished Alumni Award by the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association (WMAA) at the WMAA Awards Banquet on …
OHNS Faculty Member Awarded Prestigious NIH Career Development Award
Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Assistant Professor Ruth Davis, MD, was recently awarded a 5-year, $711,000 career development award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. NIH career development awards provide …
Dr. Hee Soo Jung Elected to the American Board of Surgery Council
Dr. Hee Soo Jung, Associate Professor in the Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery, was recently elected to the American Board of Surgery (ABS) Council. His six-year term will begin on July 1, …
DOS Faculty and Residents Take Part in Health Disparities Conference
The AHANA-MAPS Pre-Health Society, a UW–Madison student organization for African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American students, hosted its 13th annual Healthcare Disparities Conference on April 12, 2025. The theme of this conference was “Health Equity …
Brown Lab Awarded Grant to Study Potential New Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes
The lab of Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Matthew E. Brown, PhD, is hyper-focused on creating hypoimmune stem cells – cells that can evade recognition and destruction by the human immune system. Why? Because stem …
Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: March 2025
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 …