University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery

The University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery is an academic department in Madison, WI, located at 600 Highland Ave. It provides patient care, surgical education, and research for pediatric and adult patients across ten divisions, including acute care and regional general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, colorectal surgery, endocrine surgery, minimally invasive surgery, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, surgical oncology, transplant surgery, and vascular surgery. The department holds a 4.00 rating based on 5 reviews. The department employs more than 130 full-time faculty and nearly 200 additional staff. Its surgeons perform almost 20,000 operations per year. It trains more than 130 residents and fellows each year through three residencies and eight surgical specialty fellowship programs. Faculty members, such as Daniel Harris, MD, PhD, and David Blitzer, MD, MBE, divide their time between clinical care, education, and research. The department highlights monthly publications on topics including stem cell-based therapies for heart failure and kidney transplant outcomes. Educational opportunities include the UW Health Clinical Simulation Program, which provides learning for students, faculty, staff, and the community, as well as online surgery Grand Rounds offered from September through May. The GlovesOn initiative educates regional surgeons on techniques available at UW Health. The Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Student Scholarship Program supports qualified fourth-year medical students from underrepresented backgrounds. The department also offers free CE credit with self-assessment for its online Grand Rounds. The department is recognized for its positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it. It operates as a leading surgical program in the nation, excelling in patient care, surgical education, and surgical research.

The department sits on Highland Ave in Madison, WI, about a tenth of a mile from the Ebling Library and within a quarter mile of UW Health University Hospital and Nielsen Tennis Stadium.

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