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Local Medical Breakthroughs that Save Lives and Speed Recovery

Local Medical Breakthroughs that Save Lives and Speed Recovery

From incredible eye-socket brain surgery...to life-changing treatment for a very common malady...loc

 Brain surgery via the eye socketAs both Harborview Medical Center’s chief of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery and a University of Washington professor of head and neck surgery, Dr. Kris Moe blends some rather unique skills. That combination of training got him thinking about a new way to operate on patients with some types of…

Ocean Acidification: Global Warming's Doppelgänger

Ocean Acidification: Global Warming’s Doppelgänger

Studies show Puget Sound is particularly susceptible to damaging changes in ocean pH.

At the warm, brine-scented Northwest Fisheries Science Laboratory (NFSL) in Montlake, soft-spoken biologist Paul McElhany and a team of scientists immerse geoduck larvae in a multitude of saltwater baths. The water, trucked in from Elliott Bay and another fisheries lab in Mukilteo, starts as the usual toe-numbing Puget Sound soup. Then the scientists—amid the beeping,…

How We Conducted Our Top Doctors Survey

For the first time, Seattle magazine’s Top Doctors list results from a collaboration with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a highly regarded health care research and information company that works with magazines across the country to produce similar top doctors features. Castle Connolly also is the publisher of several resource books on physicians, including America’s Top…

Top Docs ’11: Maternal & Fetal Medicine

MATERNAL & FETAL MEDICINE Thomas J. Benedetti, M.D., Maternal and Infant Care Clinic, 1959 NE Pacific St., 206.598.4070, University of Washington Medical Center, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital; University of Washington, 1973; prematurity prevention, fetal macrosomia Brigit Brock, M.D., Swedish Perinatal Medicine, 1229 Madison St., Suite 750, 206.386.2101, Swedish Medical Center, Valley Medical Center; University of…

Top Docs ’11: Hand Surgery

HAND SURGERY Sarah D. Beshlian, M.D., The Sports Medicine Clinic, 10330 Meridian Ave. N, Suite 300, 206.368.6100, Northwest Hospital and Medical Center; Northwestern University, 1986; arthritis, arthroscopic surgery, carpal tunnel syndrome, fractures John Buckmiller, M.D., Virginia Mason Seattle Main Clinic, Lindeman Pavilion, 1201 Terry Ave., 206.223.7530, Virginia Mason Medical Center; University of Rochester, 1980; arthritis,…

Top Docs ’11: Geriatric Medicine

GERIATRIC MEDICINE Itamar B. Abrass, M.D.*, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Ave., 206.744.8845, University of Washington Medical Center; University of Califoria, San Francisco, 1966; geriatric endocrinology, endocrine disorders, diabetes Soo Borson, M.D., Outpatient Psychiatry and Memory Disorders Clinic, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 306, 206.598.7792, University of Washington Medical Center; Stanford University, 1969; Alzheimer’s disease,…

Top Docs ’11: Gastroenterology

Disorders of the digestive system

GASTROENTEROLOGY John J. Brandabur, M.D., Swedish Gastroenterology, 1221 Madison St., Suite 1220, 206.215.4250, Swedish Medical Center; University of Cincinnati, 1984; pancreatic/biliary endoscopy (ERCP), inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatic and biliary disease Fred M. Drennan, M.D., Virginia Mason Seattle Main Clinic, Buck Pavilion, 1100 Ninth Ave., 206.223.2319, Virginia Mason Medical Center; Yale University, 1982; inflammatory bowel disease,…

Top Docs ’11: Family Medicine

FAMILY MEDICINE Laura-Mae Baldwin, M.D., Family Medical Center, 4245 Roosevelt Way NE, 206.598.4055, University of Washington Medical Center; University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1980; women’s health Paul E. Buehrens, M.D., Lakeshore Clinic, 12710 Totem Lake Blvd. NE, Kirkland, 425.821.4040, Evergreen Hospital Medical Center; Case Western Reserve University, 1978; preventive medicine, diabetes Jonathan Drezner,…

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