Department Announcements
Jeff Ojemann Passes the ASPN Torch/Gong
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Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Ojemann who concluded his tenure as President of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ASPN) with a great talk at last week’s annual meeting which was held in Puerto Rico. Dr.
Seattle startup co-founded by Dr. Sam Browd aims to change surgery using AI, computer vision and augmented reality
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Proprio’s Paradigm system captures high-definition images of the operating field from above and fuses them with images of pre-operative three-dimensional scans. The system relies on advances in light field imaging, computer vision, machine learning, robotics and augmented reality.
Harborview Medical Center Named Cerebral Cavernous Malformations Clinical Center
With Damar Hamlin in mind, every high school should have an athletic trainer
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Dr. Samuel Browd, Professor of Neurological Surgery, and Director of the UW Sports Institute co-authored an article advocating for quality athletic training services and well-trained team physicians at high schools to protect student athletes.
Levitt/Fillingham mentee awarded Mary Gates Research Scholarship
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Congratulations to Neethi Belur who has been awarded a prestigious Mary Gates Research Scholarship in the amount of $5,000 for her work in the SANS lab using computational fluid dynamics under the mentorship of Mike Levitt and Patrick Fillingham. Mary Gates Research Scholarships are competitive
Brain-computer interfaces could change the world—but at what cost?
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Dr. Andrew Ko and Dr.
New blood test can detect ‘toxic’ protein years before Alzheimer’s symptoms emerge, study shows
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Dr. Andrew Ko is part of a research team that has developed a test to measure levels of amyloid beta oligomers in blood samples. Oligomers are amyloid beta proteins that misfold and clump together potentially developing into Alzheimer’s.