The Right Tool for the Job

Althea Dotzour

For a procedure in the UW’s Microsurgery and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Emily Zona MDx’26 goes eyeball-to-eyeball with Weifeng Zeng, the director of microsurgery education for the UW’s School of Medicine and Public Health. Their surgical microscope is used for both scientific research and surgical training, enabling highly precise procedures such as kidney and liver transplantation, limb transplantation, and nerve and artery repair. Talk about a cool tool.

Published in the Fall 2025 issue