uw medicine
March 1, 2005
Donation for science
The philanthropy of Genome Sciences and Biology Professor Benjamin D. Hall and his wife, Margaret A. Hall, ’84, is creating future support for graduate students in biology and genome sciences at the UW.
June 1, 2004
$35 million settlement
The University of Washington will pay $35 million to settle a lawsuit charging massive billing fraud in Medicare, Medicaid and other government health plans at three hospitals and local physicians clinics.
June 1, 2003
Top ranked
The University of Washington is No. 1 among primary care medical schools, and No. 1 among nursing schools in the new U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.
March 1, 2003
Prize catch
A leader of the Human Genome Project joins the UW to help unlock further secrets to the code of life.
September 1, 2002
Genome chief
One of the world’s most notable genome scientists, Robert H. Waterston, will become chair of the new Department of Genome Sciences at the UW School of Medicine.
June 1, 2002
Med School tops list
The University of Washington has the top primary-care medical school in the nation, according to the 2002 U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.
Fatal inheritance
After losing her mother and brother to pancreatic cancer, Sheri Mayer faced the difficult choice of having her pancreas removed or trying to beat the odds.
December 1, 2001
Nobel Laureate
UW Genetics Professor Lee Hartwell won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology for his basic research on cell division.
Sound solution
UW scientists, with the aid of some bird brains, may have found an answer to hearing loss: bringing dead cells back to life.
Appendix misfires
In nearly one of four appendectomies performed in women of childbearing age, the removed appendix is actually not infected, according to a UW study.
June 1, 2001
41 in the top 10
The University of Washington is No. 1 among primary-care medical schools and nursing schools in the U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.
June 1, 1999
Generations of giving
Three generations of the Alvord family are donating $3 million to create two new endowed chairs at the UW School of Medicine
March 1, 1999
Fore fathers
The UW golf course was doomed the day the University decided to build the School of Medicine.
September 1, 1997
George Aagaard, 1913-1997
George N. Aagaard served as the second dean of the University of Washington medical school during its formative years.
June 1, 1997
At research center, patients take on risk for the sake of a cure
From bone marrow transplants to cancer vaccines, patients in the Clinical Research Center opt for experiments that could save lives, maybe even their own.
December 1, 1996
Pausing the pain
UW doctors turn to drugs, hypnosis and even virtual reality to ease patients’ suffering.
Medical School dean, wife and guides killed in Nepal
The Fialkows had been vacationing in Nepal on a trek with six guides to visit the 800-year-old Tse Gomba Buddhist monastery.
June 1, 1994
Calling the shots
William Foege, a 1961 graduate of the UW School of Medicine, has been named the 1994 UW Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus.
Top-10 programs
Four UW graduate programs are in the top 10 in their respective fields, according to a U.S. News and World Report survey published March 21.
Lasting impression
Dr. William Foege, took his first steps on the path to global eradication of smallpox when he attended the UW medical school in the late 1950s.