Department Announcements
Meet Our Newest UW Neurological Surgery Residents!
Thanks to the diligent, thoughtful work our faculty, residents, and staff have done to help attract the best and brightest residents to our department, for yet another year, we have matched our top candidates.
Endowed Chair for Jeff Ojemann, MD
Dr. Jeff Ojemann has been appointed the inaugural holder of the George A.
New Title for Andrew Ko, MD
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Ko who is now Chief of Neurological Surgery and Neurosurgery Medical Director at University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC). Dr. Ko earned his BA in philosophy from Dartmouth College in 2000 and his MD from the University of Illinois in 2005.
This unit is in the process of filing an H-1B petition for an Acting Instructor.
This unit is in the process of filing an H-1B petition for an Acting Instructor. UW must provide notice to U.S. workers of each H-1B sponsorship, either by posting a notice regarding the Labor Condition Application in two physical locations at the workplace(s), or by providing notification electronically to all employees in the same occupation.
Louis J. Kim Elected to ABNS Board of Directors
Congratulations to Dr. Louis J. Kim who as of June 1, 2025 will be a member of the ABNS Board of Directors. His exceptional expertise, leadership, and dedication to advancing the field of neurosurgery will help further the mission of the ABNS.
EMBOLISE Study Featured in NEJM
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Levitt and his EMBOLISE co-authors whose multicenter study "Adjunctive Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization for Subdural Hematoma” was published in the November 21st issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Milestone Celebration
Dr. Ellenbogen, Dr. Sekhar and the team recently celebrated the UW Medicine Transcranial Doppler (TCD) lab’s 25th year of accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission.
Addressing Alzheimer’s in American Indian communities
Dr. Dedra Buchwald will lead a team which will train doctors and nurses on how to detect early signs of Alzheimer's in American Indian patients thanks to an $11.3 million contract from the Indian Health Service
Dr. John Loeser, Professor Emeritus, receives USASP Lifetime achievement Award
The US Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) presented their 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr.