Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD is fascinated by the many ethical issues surrounding organ transplantation and has dedicated her research lab to examining these issues within the complex realities of clinical …
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Surgery and Geriatric Medicine Team Up to Enhance Age-Friendly Surgical Care
In older adults having surgery, frailty is one of the strongest predictors for complications, longer hospital stays, high healthcare costs, and mortality. Screening can identify patients who are at risk, but screening alone won’t improve …
Postdoctoral Scientist in Surgery and Precision Medicine Receives Prestigious NIH K99 Career Development Award
Postdoctoral Scientist Haikun Zhang, PhD is determined to improve the accuracy and speed with which we diagnose sepsis in critical care settings. Sepsis is a life-threatening medical emergency that happens when the body has an …
Brown Lab Partnering with Multidisciplinary Team to Advance Stem Cell-based Therapies for Heart Failure
Heart failure – when the heart muscle cannot pump blood as well as it needs to – is often due to an irreversible loss of heart muscle cells. Stem cell-based therapies offer a promising way …
Dr. Dai Yamanouchi Receives Patent for Gel to Treat Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Dr. Dai Yamanouchi, professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery, recently received a patent for a shear-thinning gel that can be used in combination with a previously patented delivery device to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms …
General Surgery Resident Awarded Grant to Support Surgical Cancer Care Capacity-Building in Hawassa, Ethiopia
General surgery resident Kaleem Ahmed, MBBS, MSAI has a passion for global surgery and global oncology. Having grown up in Pakistan, he witnessed and experienced the challenges that healthcare systems in under-resourced countries face as …
Surgery and Radiology Team Up to Evaluate AI Chatbot for Patients with Adrenal Nodules
Each year, over five million patients in the United States have an adrenal nodule that is identified purely by chance during a CT scan or an MRI, and many of these nodules produce excess adrenal …
Surgery and OHNS Researchers Team Up to Develop Model to Study Human Immune Responses in Rats
Director of the UW Humanized Mouse Core and Division of Transplantation Assistant Professor Matthew E. Brown, PhD is an expert on developing and studying animal models that can replicate the human immune system. As a …
Dr. Ben Cher Appointed to the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery OPEN Editorial Board
Dr. Ben Cher, general surgery resident, was recently appointed to the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (JOGS) OPEN Editorial Board. The JOGS OPEN serves as an official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary …
Dr. Daniel Cho Receives Patent for Device to Aid Children with Craniosynostosis
Dr. Daniel Cho, assistant professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery, received a patent earlier this year for an implantable device that can monitor intracranial pressure (ICP). The device can be used for long-term monitoring …