Our Department is establishing junior faculty exchange visiting professor programs with several other academic programs across the country. Our goal is to foster research collaborations and networking, and to raise awareness of the research efforts …
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Learn about Dr. Kristin Long’s global surgery work in Kenya
Learn about the global surgery work of Dr. Kristin Long in the below videos. The first video, produced by, features her surgical capacity building work in Kenya. The second is Dr. Long’s November 2018 Grand …
Surgery student researchers win Shapiro Awards
Medical student surgery summer research assistants Stephen Chen and Nadeem Bandealy were both awarded Shapiro Excellence in Student Research Awards at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Annual Medical Student Research Forum on …
Dr. Maria Bates joins Department Faculty
On October 1, we officially welcomed Maria Bates, MD, to our faculty as Assistant Professor. Dr. Bates trained in our endocrine surgery fellowship program, which she completed this summer. Dr. Bates completed her general surgery …
Dr. Kristin Long receives Association for Academic Surgery West African College of Surgeons Award
Dr. Kristin Long (left) and endocrine fellow Dr. Allie McDow on a trip last year to Kenya. Congratulations to Kristin Long, MD, who was chosen as the recipient of the 2018 Association for Academic Surgery …
Dr. Michael Bentz and Dr. Alexandra McDow elected for AOA class of 2018
Congratulations to Michael Bentz, MD, and endocrine surgery fellow Alexandra McDow, MD, who were elected to the medical honors society Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) by the UW SMPH student AOA class of 2018. This …
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 …
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 …
Endocrine surgery faculty and fellows travel to Kenya in global health service trip
Dr. Long and Dr. McDow in locally appropriate scrub caps Members of the endocrine surgery division recently traveled to Kenya on a global health service trip. Faculty member Dr. Kristin Long and fellows Dr. Maria …
Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors
Insulinoma Insulinomas are the most common type of NET. They occur more commonly in females in the fifth or sixth decade. These tumors secrete insulin or less commonly proinsulin which lead to the clinical syndrome of …