A team of Wisconsin Department of Surgery plastic surgery residents and students from the Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has published a study on racial disparities in postoperative outcomes in a recent special issue …
2021 Match: Announcing Our New Residents!
The Wisconsin Department of Surgery is excited to announce the selection of our 2021 matched residents. We’re pleased to welcome these gifted future surgeons to our residency programs! General Surgery Residency >> Academic Track Melanie …
New Research on Detecting Cancer in Urine
A study published last week in Science Translational Medicine and led by Muhammed Murtaza, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology at Wisconsin Surgery, shows that it may be possible to detect …
Enhancing Women Cancer Survivors’ Quality of Life
A program created by two UW Health advanced practice providers to help women manage sexual side effects from cancer treatment is featured in the latest issue of the Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology. …
University Hospital Set Transplant Record in 2020
Despite the challenges of a global pandemic, our transplant teams were able to provide a record 548 people with a new lease on life last year. That total includes a record 315 kidney transplants. Read …
Welcome Dr. Meeghan Lautner to the Division of Surgical Oncology!
The Department of Surgery is pleased to welcome Dr. Meeghan Lautner as Associate Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Lautner’s clinical practice will be based primarily at University Hospital, where she will participate …
Dr. Hau Le Recognized as “Rising Star”
In a virtual ceremony on December 7, pediatric surgical oncologist Dr. Hau Le received the UW Health Rising Star Clinical Practice Award for 2020. Dr. Le’s accomplishment is part of the annual Physician Excellence Awards, …
Welcome Jeffrey Du Bois, MD, to a New Faculty Position as Clinical Professor in the Division of Pediatric Surgery!
The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that as of November 1, 2020, Dr. Jeffrey Du Bois holds the position of Clinical Professor (CT) in the Division of Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Du Bois, who …
Department of Surgery Advanced Practice Providers Honored
Congratulations to our department’s Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) who were nominated for the 2020 UW Health APP Excellence Awards, and to Amanda Meyer, PA-C, who won the Excellence in Leadership Award! Seven of this year’s …
Dr. Amy Fiedler’s Presidential Leadership Scholars Project Highlighted
In January 2020, cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler got the exciting news that she’d been selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar. She started the program taking two of several planned trips to presidential centers to learn …