Dr. Gabor Maté, the renowned author on addictions, last week told more than 100 UW health-sciences students that the educational framework they are being taught is woefully inadequate because it...
For a group of UW students looking to improve lives in a desert slum in Peru, creating green space has been a daunting challenge.
But the rewards have been great: Flowers and vegetables are now...
Wayne Katon, vice chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a pioneer in collaborative mental health care, died March 1 from lymphoma. He was 64.
“Wayne was truly a great human being, a mensch...
Dr. Kathryn E. Barnard, UW School of Nursing professor emeritus and eponymous founder of the school’s Barnard Center on Infant Mental Health and Development, died June 27. She was 77.
Barnard was an...
John Meehan, a pioneer in pediatric robotic surgery, is used to speaking at medical conferences. But when he traveled to Russia in August for a meeting of pediatric surgeons, he was thrust into an...
Dr. Bonnie W. Ramsey, a leader in cystic fibrosis clinical care and research, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine. Ramsey is a UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s...
Few people have made a greater impact doing something "not in the national interest" than pioneering heart-disease researcher Chuck Murry.
Murry saw the path to research during a basic science...
More than 50 children and 10 parents received free dental care at the University of Washington Center for Pediatric Dentistry on Feb. 27 in an event marking the end of Children’s Dental Health...
Sitting at the patient triage station on the floor of Seattle's KeyArena, dentist Mike Buehler questioned the patient, an Asian woman, with the help of her Mandarin interpreter.
“When she chews, does...
A smile can be a work of art. So it’s not surprising that orthodontists in training can use their skills and materials to devise other beautiful creations.
Dr. Lauren Todoki, a resident in the School...