The Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Washington has a thriving and extensive network of highly rewarding affiliations and relationships with health care providers throughout the Northwest. It operates under the auspices of the Department of Medicine in the University of Washington School of Medicine, which is affiliated with several excellent teaching hospitals, each with their own unique character and strengths. The teaching hospitals are the University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, the VA Puget Sound Health Care System (Seattle and the American Lake), Pacific Medical Centers, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. The breadth and depth of these teaching hospitals, with their outstanding faculty members, offer an unparalleled training ground for highly qualified and motivated young physicians, not only from Washington state, but from all over the country and around the world.

Each teaching hospital over the last decade has seen progressive growth, catering to the highest standards of patient care and teaching. There have been major expansions and changes in the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Pacific Medical Centers. Harborview Medical Center has seen substantial extensions of its patient care facility and the building of a new research and training facility, and has ongoing plans for further improvement. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center continues to experience a unique, dynamic evolution. Not only has the research enterprise been strengthened and expanded, but the creation of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance has offered patients with cancers a multi-disciplinary, state-of-the-art facility staffed by experienced and highly recognized personnel. The University of Washington Medical Center launched the Surgery Pavilion in October 2003 which now houses our state-of-the-art clinic, the Digestive Disease Center. These resources allow the Division of Gastroenterology to practice the most up-to-date, multi-disciplinary appraoch to the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders. Gastroneterologists, hepatologists, surgeons, radiologists, and pathologists all operate as a team to address the challenges presented by digestive diseases. Learn more about our patient care and teaching programs.