Children's Hospital Appoints New Surgeon-in-Chief
December 31, 2002
Seattle, Wash. – Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center recently named Robert S. Sawin, M.D., as surgeon-in-chief and director of the Department of Surgery.
Seattle, Wash. – Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center recently named Robert S. Sawin, M.D., as surgeon-in-chief and director of the Department of Surgery. Dr. Sawin has also been appointed vice chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Dr. Sawin received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, completed his residency in general surgery at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston and was clinical fellow in surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Sawin came to Children’s in Seattle in 1987. He has served as associate director of the Surgery Infant Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, chief of the Division of General and Thoracic Surgery and, more recently, the interim director of the Department of Surgery.
His clinical and research interests are surgical oncology, tumor growth factor research, inflammatory bowel disease and extra corporeal membrane oxygenation.
About Seattle Children's Hospital
Consistently ranked as one of the best children’s hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report, Children’s serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical referral center for the largest landmass of any children’s hospital in the country (Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho). For more than 100 years, Children’s has been delivering superior patient care and advancing new treatments through pediatric research. Children’s serves as the primary teaching, clinical and research site for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The hospital works in partnership with Seattle Children’s Research Institute and Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation. For more information, visit http://www.seattlechildrens.org.