Overview
Darren Pollock is a Colorectal Surgeon in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Pollock is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pilonidal Sinus Disease. His top areas of expertise are Hemorrhoids, Familial Colorectal Cancer, Levator Syndrome, Hernia Surgery, and Ileostomy. Dr. Pollock is currently accepting new patients.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 3 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
Proliance Surgeons
Helen Kim, MD, is certified by the American College of Surgeons. She has a special interest in breast surgery, robotic surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. She is a trained and certified console surgeon on da Vinci® Single-Site™, the da Vinci® Surgical System, and EndoWrist®. She practices abdominal wall hernia repair and open, laparoscopic, and robot-assisted techniques for complex and recurrent hernias. She also performs gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscopic and open colectomy, cholecystectomy, appendectomy, anti-reflux surgery, and laparoscopic intra-abdominal scar release surgery.Dr. Kim treats high risk, benign, and malignant breast conditions through initial evaluation of high breast cancer risk patients, management and treatment of breast pain, nipple discharge, breast masses and image-detected lesions, as well as surgical management of breast cancer, which includes breast-conserving lumpectomy, skin-sparing and nipple-sparing mastectomy, and sentinel lymph node biopsy. She also coordinates breast reconstruction at the time of mastectomy.During her sabbatical year in 2010, she performed surgeries at Kijabe, Kenya as a short-term medical missionary for one month, travelled to France and Italy, and took oil-painting classes. In and out of the operating room, Dr. Kim places emphasis on meticulous surgical techniques and offers the most advanced minimally invasive approaches wherever applicable, while caring for the patient as a whole in the context of their other medical conditions. Dr. Kim is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pilonidal Sinus Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Hernia, Umbilical Hernia, Pilonidal Sinus Disease, Gallbladder Disease, and Hernia Surgery.
Franciscan Medical Group
Shalini Kanneganti is a Colorectal Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Kanneganti is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pilonidal Sinus Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Familial Colorectal Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Lynch Syndrome, Bladder Reconstruction, and Colostomy. Dr. Kanneganti is currently accepting new patients.
Valley Medical Group-Renton
Phillip Dean is a Colorectal Surgeon in Renton, Washington. Dr. Dean is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pilonidal Sinus Disease. His top areas of expertise are Familial Colorectal Cancer, Hemorrhoids, Colorectal Cancer, Bladder Reconstruction, and Hernia Surgery. Dr. Dean is currently accepting new patients.
Areas of Expertise
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Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
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- Colorectal CancerDr. Pollock isAdvanced. Learn about Colorectal Cancer.
- Familial Colorectal CancerDr. Pollock isAdvanced. Learn about Familial Colorectal Cancer.
- HemorrhoidsDr. Pollock isAdvanced. Learn about Hemorrhoids.
- Levator SyndromeDr. Pollock isAdvanced. Learn about Levator Syndrome.
- Rectal ProlapseDr. Pollock isAdvanced. Learn about Rectal Prolapse.
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- Anal CancerDr. Pollock isExperienced. Learn about Anal Cancer.
- Anal FissureDr. Pollock isExperienced. Learn about Anal Fissure.
- Bladder ReconstructionDr. Pollock isExperienced. Learn about Bladder Reconstruction.
- Bowel IncontinenceDr. Pollock isExperienced. Learn about Bowel Incontinence.
- Crohn's DiseaseDr. Pollock isExperienced. Learn about Crohn's Disease.
- EncopresisDr. Pollock isExperienced. Learn about Encopresis.