Congratulations to Michael Bentz, MD, and endocrine surgery fellow Alexandria McDow, MD, who were elected to the medical honors society Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) by the UW SMPH student AOA class of 2018. This …
Dr. Nilto De Oliveira promoted to Professor
Nilto De Oliveira, MD, has been promoted to Professor (CHS), effective July 1, 2018. Dr. De Oliveira performs all our aortic valve-sparing root replacement procedures and intervalvular fibrous body reconstructions for endocarditis. Since 2006, he …
Dr. David Upton promoted to Clinical Associate Professor
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 …
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 …
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 …