Research and Innovation

Dr. Louis J. Kim, Vice-Chair and Chief of Neurological Surgery at Harborview Medical Center was featured in a KOMO news story about a stroke patient, Sue McNeely, who underwent life-saving angioplasty after suffering a stroke while driving.

VICIS, a company cofounded by Neurological Surgery Associate Professor Samuel Browd, has won the Puget Sound Business Journal award for it's football helmet, the Zero1. The helmet is multi-layered and designed to absorb some of the force of an impact. Read more at the Puget Sound Business Journal.

On February 14th, Officer Mike McClaurghy returned home after a miraculous recovery from a gun shot wound to the head. Neurological Surgery Professor and Chair Richard Ellenbogen, who oversaw Officer McClaurghy's treatment, was interviewed for the komonews.com story.