Our faculty, residents, fellows, scientists and staff engage in remarkable research that yields numerous impactful publications. We’re highlighting a few of these publications each month to showcase the diversity of research in our department. The …
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Winners of the 2022 Surgery Science Image Contest
Get a glimpse into some of the fascinating and impactful research we’re working on in the Department of Surgery! Check out the winners and all submissions for our 2022 Surgery Science Image Contest, held in …
Four Surgery Faculty Awarded UW Health Physician Excellence Awards
On Tuesday, November 30, four Wisconsin Surgery faculty received UW Health Physician Excellence Awards at a ceremony at the Edgewater hotel. The UW Health Physician Excellence Awards is an annual ceremony featuring individuals nominated by …
UW Health Leads Nation in 2020 Kidney Exchanges
The UW Health Transplant Center performed 64 paired kidney exchanges in 2020, the most in the nation. This accomplishment, achieved despite several COVID-19-related shutdowns, contributed to a record-breaking year for UW Health during which 548 …
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 …
Odorico Lab receives two new grants
The Odorico Lab, led by Jon Odorico, MD, recently received two new grants. The UW Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education is supporting “Probing the human pancreas and islet matrisome for matrixstem …
Winners of the 2020 Department Science Image Contest
Check out the winners and all submissions for our Surgery Science Image Contest, held annually as part of our Research Summit. Winner: “Normothermic Perfusion of a Donor Heart” Kaelin Grant, CCRC, Research Program Manager, with the help …
Welcome Dr. Talal Al-Qaoud to the Division of Transplantation!
Join us in welcoming Talal AI-Qaoud, MD, MSc, to our faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Transplantation, with a 10% appointment with the Department of Urology. His practice will focus on kidney …
Will Burlingham awarded grant for immunosuppression research
Congratulations to Will Burlingham, PhD, who received an NIH R21 grant for his project, “Exosome-mediated Tolerance in Combined Kidney and Stem Cell Transplantation.” This research will study whether renal transplant patients make tolerogenic virus-sized particles (known …
Pancreas Transplant program recognized for its success
Congratulations to the UW Health Pancreas Transplant program on being ranked #1 in the nation by Interlink, a national transplant network. The ranking uses data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients to identify the …