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 …
Working up patients with thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal conditions
When a patient presents with a thyroid, parathyroid, or adrenal condition, it can be challenging to know when and how a case needs to be treated surgically, especially if you don’t have endocrine surgery resources …
The Outpatient Management of Hirschsprung’s Disease
The Pediatric Surgery team at the American Family Children’s Hospital Hirschsprung’s is a congenital disease often diagnosed within the first week of life. Though diagnosis can be quite clear, individual follow-up and care is a …
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 …
Studying Communication and Swallowing Disorders in the Ciucci Lab
The research program of Michelle R. Ciucci, PhD., CCC-SLP is dedicated to understanding how aging and neurodegenerative disease contribute to communication and swallowing disorders. Specifically, Parkinson disease has a complex pathology that causes early-onset voice …
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 …
Updates in Varicose Vein Treatment
A patient before (left) and after (right) varicose vein treatment. By Richard L. Feinberg, MD, FACS Varicose veins can range from tiny, thread-like red or blue “spider veins” to large bulging veins exceeding 1 cm …