Department Announcements

Fun was had by all at the 4th Annual Department of Neurological Surgery Ski Day organized by resident Guil Barros.

Congratulations to Dr. Pan (and Dr.

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.

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.

UW Medicine’s Harborview Medical Center has been designated as the first and only Clinical Center in the Pacific Northwest by the 

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.

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

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Dr. Andrew Ko and Dr.

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.