Spooky season is upon us, which means individuals and teams at UW Medical Center traded in their scalpels for pumpkin scrapers and entered the annual pumpkin carving contest.
Scroll to see photos of this year’s jack-o’-lanterns — from festive to frightening — plus the contest winners.
Created by: Anna Maria Marchionne
Campus and Department: Harborview, Anesthesiology
Title: Blake portrait
Created by: Ana M Rivera
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, Environmental Services
Title: This is a live tree in a cemetery with a bat on top of a tombstone
Created by: Priyanka Ghosh
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Social Work
Title: In honor of my dog, Lily, and her lion puff tail
Created by: Sandra Woolf
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Administration
Title: Pumpkin Spice Victim
Created by: Sally Farmer, Emily Schlabra and Katie Steinke
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, 4NE Complex Surgical
Title: Rapid Randy is our pumpkin patient that demonstrates all the hallmarks of a 4NE patient. He has a chest tube, NG tube, trach, colostomy, craniotomy staples, and is on telemetry monitoring. He is on the verge of needing a Rapid Response!
Created by: Eileen Xiyan Wang
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, 2E
Title: Snoopy & Woodstock
Created by: Addie Brandenberger, MD, Rachel Budker, MD, Lindsay Cheu, MD, Seine Chiang, MD, Celeste Colegrove, MD, Brie Farley, MD, Andrea Rincon, MD, Dany Rincon, Software Engineer/Spouse, Duke Rincon the doodle, and Joyce Wang, MD
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Title: Mourgul, our spooktacular fetal alien, with an eerie category 3 tracing on electronic fetal monitoring, courtesy of the Ob-Gyn residency
Created by: Anna Chute, Alicia Lopez and Jamie Peterson
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, 4SE
Title: Pumpkins sheath sure it bleeding and they lost circulation to their leg
Created by: Sarah Thompson and Cassandra King
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Ambulatory Float Pool
Title: This poor pumpkin has a nasty virus. Thankfully UWMC employs a float department to help with coverage. Stay healthy this Winter!
Created by: Maria Marin and Ivan Soto
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Pain Clinic
Title: Kin, Pump, MD, performing Ultrasound-Guided Trigger PointInjection
Created by: Elizabeth Gomez
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, SCU
Title: Scary Smile
Created by: Kisha Oliver, Yazmin Leguizamo, Kristi Schroman, Angie Thomson, Erika Collins, Tsering Choedon, Penny Brooks and Paul Scanlon
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, Resource Team
Title: Boo Dub
Created by: Allison Sundet, Dr. Ryan and her family
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, University Reproductive Care
Title: Colorfully painted pumpkin
Created by: Jenna Yuen and Mariah Doty Evening Shift Laboratory Scientists
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, Laboratory
Title: Pumpkin Pie Massacre. You Must first catch the pumpkins, cage them, then bake them for your pie. The pumpkins are scared of their fate, Seeing their baked and blended brothermen.
Created by: Cynnie Foss, Julie Hong and Yeidy Cano
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Volunteer Services
Title: “We’re Baaaaack! We provide the extra hands!” Due to COVID-19, our program has been suspended but we recently opened our applications for the first time since then. We cannot wait to “provide the extra hands” that the hospital needs as we once did before!
Created by: Brian Patrick O’Brien, Hanna Dinh Hsieh, Kirsten Davenport and Michelle Lin
Campus and Department: Shared Services, Digital Health Office
Title: Please welcome her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Pumpkin and her Royal Corgis!
Created by: Susan Adams, Lola Dack, Tiffany Payton and Kianna Aumiller
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, Food & Nutrition, Dietitians
Title: Patient J. Pumpkin (U10312022) was admitted on 10/3 with multiple stab wounds. Patient was intubated and started on enteral nutrition support. Extubated 10/17 and a nasogastric tube was placed for nutrition. Mr. Pumpkin is still experiencing poor PO intake, requiring continuous tube feeds of pumpkin Spice 1.2 at 75mL/hr to meet his nutrition needs. Tolerating well, no residuals. RD to continue to follow and adjust recommendations as needed.
Created by: All of 4S! Mek Wonegl, Julie Un, Raymond Norkus, Claire Warbis, Maithi Tran, Rebecca Nylin, Kim Yea and Arlene Conde
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, 4 South
Title: This is Spooker, the ghost that haunts the 4S Infusion/Special Procedures Unit! She is often the reason for a missed IV insertion or a shifting curtain with no one behind it. She haunts these halls after a fatal accident while working, but she still wants to care for her patients even in the afterlife!
Created by: Roxanne McCurry, Christina Peterson, Avie Ha and Jamella Broome
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, OPC/ Headache
Title: The Owl of Roosevelt
Created by: Louis Gallego & Digestive Health Center Team
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Digestive Health Center
Title: ‘My Strange Addiction’ – Foreign body retrieval. An upper endoscopy treasure hunt based on true events at the Digestive Health Center. These are items that have been retrieved endoscopically from the digestive tracts of various patients.
Created by: Kirsten R. Halloran
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center, Stadium Sports Medicine Center
Created by: Ana Pekic MA-C, Brandy Jenkins RN, Grace Winemiller
MA-C, Sandy Clark PSS, Skylar Tucker Health Services Manager
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, UWMC Breast Surgery Clinic
Title: Meet MERRIN! (if you know, you know) They spent years of ignoring recommendations for screening mammography after the age of 40 due to HORROR stories about implant ruptures from mammograms. At 44, they had a friend diagnosed with breast CANCER, so decided to have that mammogram, even though they noted no lumps or breast changes. Abnormalities were found, biopsies completed, and Merrin was diagnosed with breast cancer. Today, Merrin has just completed her mastectomy with Dr. Flanagan. The power flickered, but luckily, only her breast was taken. BEWARE!!! And get your screening mammograms annually.
Created by: Sarah Setouden
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Inpatient Pharmacy
Title: This pumpkin represents the importance of pharmacy counseling on medications.
Created by: Shannon Cain, Kayla Guay, Marissa Campos, Leanne Smith-Anderson and Brad Christopfel
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, Social Work & Care Coordination
Title: Our pumpkins are here to help and address the pesky barriers to discharge!
Created by: Seulki Philips
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Northwest, 2 East Nursing
Title: Pikachu
People’s choice winner
Created by: Colton Mobly, Brittany Chang, Bettina Clowry, Mike Uvelli and Melissa Peterson
Campus and Department: UW Medical Center – Montlake, Neurodiagnostics
Title: Once upon a time an inquisitive team of Neurodiagnostic technologists set out to learn how pumpkins become pie. After an exhaustive investigation, we uncovered the truth, a sinister pumpkin pie process. The evil pumpkin chef, Chef Pumpkiń, captures and enslaves his victims. Evil Chef Pumpkin then goes on to brutally butcher and cook his victims in a huge wood fire oven. Well anyway, enjoy your pumpkin pie!
