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UW Medicine 2009 Mini-Medical School: Presenters
Larry Robinson
UW Medicine Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs; Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, UW School of Medicine |
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As vice dean for clinical affairs, Dr. Larry Robinson is responsible for UW Medicine risk management, a number of multi-departmental clinical programs and steering committees, several new clinical initiatives, and other duties.
Dr. Robinson has been at the University of Washington since 1989. He was department chair for rehabilitation medicine from 2000 to 2006. He has been the principal investigator for a National Institutes of Health-funded study of the management of pain after amputation and the effectiveness of pre-amputation analgesia to prevent phantom limb pain.
Dr. Robinson earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Brandeis University and his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. The UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is consistently ranked among the finest in the country. In 2004, U.S. News & World Report ranked the department No. 2 nationally for rehabilitation care and it was ranked No. 1 in the nation for NIH research funding |
Joann G. Elmore, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, General Internal Medicine, UW School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology, UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Head, General Internal Medicine, Harborview Medical Center |
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Dr. Joann Elmore is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, adjunct professor of epidemiology at the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and section head of General Internal Medicine at Harborview Medical Center.
Dr. Elmore earned her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed residency training in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, with advanced training in epidemiology from the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
Dr. Elmore’s clinical and scientific interests include variability in accuracy of cancer screening and diagnostic testing, and the evaluation of new technologies. She has co-authored a textbook on epidemiology, biostatistics, and preventive medicine. In addition, Dr. Elmore enjoys seeing patients as a primary care internist and teaching clinical medicine to students and residents. |
Hugh M. Foy, M.D.
Professor, Surgery, UW School of Medicine
Director, Surgical Specialties Clinic, Harborview Medical Center
Head, Wind River College, UW School of Medicine
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Dr. Hugh Foy is a professor of surgery and director of Harborview Medical Center Surgical Specialties Clinic, where he practices general and trauma surgery and surgical critical care. He is a faculty member in the UW School of Medicine Colleges system and heads the Wind River College.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Nebraska and completed his residency at the University of Washington, where he also completed a fellowship in Burn Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at Harborview.
Dr. Foy’s clinical interests include trauma, surgical infections, gastrointestinal surgery and the management and reconstruction of the intestinal tract, complex wounds and abdominal wall hernias. His research focuses on trauma and critical care, complex wound management, and surgical and medical education.
His help and support of UW medical students as a mentor and teacher has resulted in his receipt of the Margaret Anderson Award and selection as speaker for the graduating class commencement and entering third-year students’ clinical transition ceremony. |
Matthew Keifer, M.D. M.P.H.
Professor, Internal Medicine, UW School of Medicine
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, UW School of Public Health
Adjunct Professor, Global Health
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Dr. Matt Keifer is a professor of medicine and environmental and occupational sciences in the UW Schools of Medicine and Public Health and Community Medicine. He is an internist and occupational medical specialist and practices and teaches at Harborview Medical Center (HMC.) He earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois and his master’s of public health degree from the University of Washington.
Dr. Keifer is the Prevention and Intervention Core Leader of the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. His work with the center has included a skin disease prevention program for farm workers and orchard owners, prevention of ladder injuries among orchard works, and survey of data sources in the region. He established and conducts a monthly occupational medicine clinic at the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic in Toppenish, Washington, under the auspices of the Chemically Related Illness Center of Excellence headquartered at Harborview.
Dr. Keifer came to the University of Washington in 1992 after serving for two years in Nicaragua as a consulting epidemiologist for the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health with support from the CARE International Safe Use Pesticide Program. He research interests include issues related to environmental justice in the United States and occupational and environmental health issues in Asia and Latin America |
Christopher H. Allan, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics, UW School of Medicine
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Surgery, UW School of Medicine
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Dr. Christopher Allan is an assistant professor in the Hand and Microsurgery, Department of Orthopaedics and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington. He is a member of the research committee and the resident recruitment committee in the Department of Orthopaedics. In 2004,
Dr. Allan was awarded an AAOS/OREF Clinician Scientist Traveling Fellowship to pursue further work in stem cell biology and tissue engineering. Dr. Allan has made presentations at more than 20 national meetings and is principal investigator in two active research projects. He has more than 15 peer-reviewed articles and six book chapters published or accepted.
Dr. Allan earned his medical degree. from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois. Following his orthopaedic training at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, he completed a Hand and Microvascular Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Allan’s research interests include wound repair and regeneration, tissue engineering, and application of these fields to extremity injuries. He was just awarded a two-year research subcontract as part of a mulitcenter Phase II – United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) working with researchers at Tulane, University of California-Irvine and other facilities as part of their Restorative Injury Repair program. |
Russell Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D.
Boyd K. Bucey Professor and Chair, Ophthalmology, UW School of Medicine
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Dr. Russell Van Gelder is the Boyd K. Bucey professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology. He came to the University of Washington on Jan. 1, 2008 from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was the Bernard Becker professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. He earned a doctorate degree in neurosciences and a medical degree from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
Dr. Van Gelder practices at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington Eye Center. He participates in the UW Neurobiology & Behavior graduate program, where his laboratory focuses on two major research interests. On a basic research level, they study non-visual photoreception -- how the eye can sense light without seeing. His laboratory combines molecular genetics, physiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry to characterize these processes. He also is interested in conferring photosensitivity to non-photoreceptive cells in the retina as a means for restoring vision-like function to certain forms of blindness. On a translational research level, his laboratory is interested in pathogen detection and discovery in ocular inflammatory disease.
Dr. Van Gelder has won several awards including Teacher of the Year, 2006, and Best Doctors in America, 2005, while he was at Washington University Medical School. He has published many peer reviewed journal articles, books, chapters and letters |
Tueng T. Shen, MD, PhD
Lions Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, UW School of Medicine |
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Dr. Tuen T. Shen is the director of the Refractive Surgery Center at the University of Washington Medical Center. She was named the first Lions Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Washington in 2003. She specializes in refractive surgery, medical and surgical management of corneal disorders, and cataract surgeries.
Dr. Shen has extensive training and experience in cornea and refractive surgery. Her clinical expertise includes advanced techniques for refractive surgeries (LASIK, PRK, LASEK and other surgical correction for refractive purposes, such as in post transplantation), cataract surgeries, corneal transplantation surgeries, anterior segment reconstruction, and management of corneal and external diseases.
Dr. Shen earned her medical at Harvard Medical School and her doctorate degree in medical engineering and chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her clinical training in ophthalmology includes residency at Harvard's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and a fellowship in cornea and refractive surgery at the Moran Eye Center of the University of Utah.
Dr. Shen and Babak Parviz shared the first Emerging Inventor of the Year Award in 2008 as they teamed to develop an active contact lens that can wirelessly communicate important information about the health of the eye and the whole patient. The lens under development will be equipped with a wireless transmitter and powered by a combination of radio frequency and solar cells to collect data for the clinician or researcher. |
Leonard D. Hudson, M.D.
Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UW School of Medicine |
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Dr. Leonard Hudson is a professor of medicine and former head of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (1985 to 2002) and endowed chair in Pulmonary Disease Research at the University of Washington. He is based at Harborview Medical Center.
Dr. Hudson is a graduate of the UW School of Medicine. He completed his pulmonary critical care medical fellowship at the University of Colorado Medical Center, where he was a faculty member for two years. In 1973, he returned to the University of Washington.
At Harborview, he has served as medical director of the Medical ICU, the Pulmonary Function Laboratory, and the Respiratory Therapy Department. He also was associate physician-in-chief of medicine for 15 years. He developed the pulmonary fellowship training program at the UW and mentored many trainees. His research interest is clinical investigation of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
He is past president of the American Thoracic Society, past chair of the Pulmonary Subspecialty Board and the Critical Care Medical Subspecialty Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine. In 1998, he received the UW Distinguished Alumnus Award, and in 2008 he received the Mission of Caring Award from Harborview Medical Center. His primary hobby is creating ceramic art and pottery. |
Renato G. Martins, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor, Oncology, UW School of Medicine
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Dr. Renato Martins is an associate professor in the division of Oncology at the UW School of Medicine. His specialty is lung, head and neck cancers, and he practices at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, where he is medical director of thoracic and head and neck oncology.
After completing medical school at Federal University of Rio de Janiero in Brazil, Dr. Martins came to the United States for further training. He completed a fellowship in hematology/oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School while earning a master's degree in public health at Harvard in 1998.
Dr. Martins then returned to Brazil, where he was chief of medical oncology at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute in Rio de Janiero until he accepted his present positions at SCCA and the University of Washington in 2004. |
Larry Kessler, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Health Services, UW School of Public Health |
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Dr. Larry Kessler is the newly appointed chair of the department of Health Services in the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Prior to coming to the UW, Dr. Kessler served as director of the Office of Science and Technology at the Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and was director of the Office of Surveillance and Biometrics in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Prior to joining the FDA, he served at the National Cancer Institute, first as chief of the Applied Research Branch and then chief of the Operations Research Section.
Dr. Kessler was a visiting scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 2001-02. His research concentrated on applications of quantitative methods and health services research to problems in surveillance and public health. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as numerous book chapters and government reports. Dr. Kessler received his doctorate degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
Bruce M. Psaty, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, General Internal Medicine, UW School of Medicine
Professor, Epidemiology and Health Services, UW School of Public Health
Affiliate Investigator, Clinical Nutrition Research Unit
Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound |
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Dr. Bruce Psaty is a professor of medicine, epidemiology and health services at the University of Washington. He is a practicing general internist at Harborview Medical Center and co-directs the UW Cardiovascular Health Research Unit. He earned his medical degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., and his master’s degree in public health from the University of Washington.
Dr. Psaty is a valued resource in the field of drug safety. He continues to expose the flawed studies of drug companies that gained FDA approval for Vioxx and other pharmaceuticals. Alerting the public and the government to the hidden risks associated with major prescription drugs, his research has saved many lives. His current research interests are myocardial infarction and stroke, hypertension, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacogenetics and epidemiologic methods.
Dr. Psaty volunteers on numerous national and international medical committees, serves on panels and editorial boards for more than 20 medical journals, and worked as a consultant on drug safety for U.S. Senate committees on finance and health. |
Benjamin W. Starnes, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Professor, Surgery, UW School of Medicine
Chief, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University of Washington |
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Dr. Benjamin Starnes is associate professor and chief in the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle. He attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and then obtained his general surgical training in the U.S. military at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He completed his vascular surgery fellowship at Walter Reed and the Cleveland Clinic. Prior to accepting his position at the UW, Dr. Starnes spent 15 years in the U.S. Army and served three combat tours, one in Kosovo and two in Iraq.
His clinical interests include acute aortic syndromes, ruptured aortic aneurysms, aortic aneurysmal disease, aortic dissections, extracranial cerebrovascular disease, vascular trauma and limb salvage. Dr. Starnes is recognized nationally and internationally for his work in vascular trauma and aortic pathology, most notably the management of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. |
Laligam N. Sekhar, M.D.
William Joseph Leedom and Bennett Bigelow & Leedom Professor,
Vice Chairman, Neurological Surgery, UW School of Medicine
Director, Cerebrovascular Surgery
Co-Director, Skull Base Surgery
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Dr. Laligam Sekhar is professor and vice chairman of Neurological Surgery specializing in cerebrovascular surgery and skull base surgery.
He is an accomplished academician, researcher, and surgeon and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, 100 book chapters, and four books. His state-of-the-art work has taken the field of neurosurgery into new territory. Dr. Sekhar holds a patent for an aneurysm-detecting device, has pioneered numerous brain surgery techniques, and has developed new operations to treat complex tumors and aneurysms of the brain. Along with colleagues, he created the field of cranial base surgery for tumors and other pathologies.
Dr. Sekhar is currently the president of The World Federation Skull Base Societies. He obtained his M.B.B.S. in Medicine from Madras University, Madras, India. He then came to the United States to pursue training in neurology and neurosurgery, where he trained at Cook County Hospital in Chicago the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Prior to coming to the University of Washington in 2005, Dr. Sekhar was professor and vice chairman at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in Manhasset, New York. He also was clinical professor and chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery and executive director of the George Washington Neurological Institute at George Washington University in in Washington, D.C., and assistant professor in the department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.
Widely regarded as one of the top neurosurgeons in the world, Dr. Sekhar specializes in the treatment of complex neurosurgical disorders at Harborview Medical Center, particularly: cerebrovascular disorders -- aneurysms, arterovenous malformations; cerebral revascularization -- for intractable ischemia; skull base tumors -acoustic neuromas, meningiomas, chordomas; complex brain tumors -- deep seated or difficult; microvascular compression disorders - trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, disabling vertigo; draniocervical junction and cervical problems.
His current research interests include genetics of skull base tumors and aneurysm patients, neural regeneration -- application in stroke and brain stem and optic nerve injuries, technological innovations in neurosurgery, and spirituality and healing in neurosurgical patients. |
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