[domweek] DOM Week, May 2-6, 2022

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
April 29, 2022
News, information, and events of interest from the Department of Medicine <http://bit.ly/1TemKEY>

(If you have items for DOM week, please email amyf at uw.edu<mailto:amyf at uw.edu>)



Awards
[cid:image002.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]Dr. J. Randall Curtis, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is the 2022 recipient of the American Thoracic Society's Outstanding Clinician Award. This award is presented to an individual who has made substantial contributions in the clinical care of patients with lung disease on a local or national level. Awardees are recognized by patients and families as caring and dedicated healthcare providers and by their peers as having made substantial contributions to the clinical care of patients with respiratory disease.

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[cid:image004.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]Dr. Effie Petersdorf, professor (Medical Oncology) has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an eminent scientist or physician who has made continuing contributions to the BMT and cellular therapy fields through the advancement of knowledge via basic or clinical science.

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Gender Equity Awards - deadline extended
[image005.png at 01D82FE8]We have extended the nomination deadline for the inaugural Department of Medicine Gender Equity Awards to June 3. In particular, we are soliciting staff nominations.

Four awards will be presented: One faculty or trainee and one staff award in two categories: Mentorship and Trailblazer.

The Mentorship Awards honor those who have encouraged and supported women and gender minorities in their academic and professional endeavors. The Trailblazer Awards honors those who have blazed a trail for women and gender minorities, served as a catalyst for change that enhances the success of women and gender minorities, and/or who have made noteworthy contributions to the department, school or larger community.

Please visit our website<https://bit.ly/3semEZN> for more information.


Education news
Doug Paauw stepping down as Medicine Student Programs Director
[cid:image008.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]Dr. Douglas Paauw, professor (General Internal Medicine) is stepping down from his role as Director of Medicine Student Programs on June 30, 2022.

Paauw is a graduate of our UW Internal Medicine Residency Program (1988) and was Chief Medical Resident at Harborview Medical Center. He was appointed to the faculty at UW as an assistant professor in 1990, and has been the director for student teaching for the Department of Medicine since 1992.

Read more about Dr. Paauw on our news site<https://bit.ly/3EQ1N3U>.

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Senior Scholarship Day
The IM Residency Program invites you to join in celebrating our graduating seniors' impressive scholarship. Senior Scholarship Day will be on June 9 from 9-11am via zoom<https://uw-phi.zoom.us/j/506864111>. They are highlighting scholarship from 31 graduating seniors this year and the event will feature invited oral presentations followed by moderated virtual poster discussions. Audience members will vote on awards for presentation style, innovation, and impact.


Faculty news
[cid:image010.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]As UW Medicine continues to grow its population health work, Dr. Jacob Berman, clinical assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) will be taking on the new role of Associate Medical Director for Population Health Integration for UW Medicine. In this role, Dr. Berman will help lead UW Medicine's work on expanding and strengthening population health efforts beyond the core UW Medicine primary care network, with initial focus on collaboration across specialty clinics, hospital services, and clinical departments.

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[cid:image012.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]Dr. Barak Gaster, professor (General Internal Medicine) was appointed to the national Leadership Committee for the CDC's Healthy Brain Initiative<https://www.cdc.gov/aging/healthybrain/index.htm>, to develop the fourth edition of the Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) Road Map series. Informed by experts and stakeholders, the HBI Road Map offers actions public health agencies and their partners can use to promote cognitive health, address cognitive impairment, and help meet the needs of caregivers. This effort has spurred considerable creative activity at the state and local level, resulting in unprecedented public health action.

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[cid:image014.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]Faculty spotlight: Joshua Liao
Our latest faculty spotlight is on Dr. Joshua Liao, professor (General Internal Medicine) and associate chair for health systems.

Read more about him on our news site<https://bit.ly/3rN4NbL>.

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[cid:image016.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]In the latest Thrivecast, "How to give feedback<https://bit.ly/3qQS1rs>," Dr. Addie McClintock, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) provides guidance on how to ensure a safe space to provide feedback, emphasizing learning and teamwork as primary goals. Hosted by Dr. Trish Kritek, Thrivecast provides tips to help clinicians, educators, and researchers thrive professionally in their careers, covering topics from time management and organization to leadership and self-advocacy.

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[cid:image018.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]Dr. Brenda Sandmaier, professor (Medical Oncology), is the new president of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT). ASTCT is an international professional membership association of more than 3,000 physicians, investigators and other health care professionals from more than 45 countries. Their mission is dedicated to improving the application and success of blood and marrow transplantation and related cellular therapies. Read more about her work from Hutch News<https://bit.ly/36OlMDg>.


Research news
Kidney Research Institute leadership changes
Dr. Ian de Boer, professor (Nephrology) will be the new director of the Kidney Research Institute (KRI) effective May 2, 2022.

[cid:image020.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]The Kidney Research Institute was established in 2008 as a collaboration between UW Medicine and the Northwest Kidney Centers with the mission to conduct research that can improve the lives of people with kidney disease. Dr. de Boer is a highly acclaimed researcher recognized worldwide for his expertise in diabetic kidney disease and vitamin D metabolism. He has been the associate director of the KRI since 2016.

He takes the helm from inaugural director Dr. Jonathan Himmelfarb, who led the KRI for 14 years, overseeing the efforts of the KRI investigators to build collaborations across the various schools within the University of Washington and nationwide, procure nearly $200 million in aggregate extra-mural funding, enroll over 8000 participants in registry and/or clinical studies of kidney diseases, and generate over 1500 research publications.

Read more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3ELtomx>.

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[cid:image022.jpg at 01D85BE7.2A5EAB90]Drs. Luke Wander, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) and Sakeneh Zraika, research associate professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) have received an R01 for nearly 2 million for their project "Circulating miRNAs as predictive biomarkers of beta cell treatment response: The Restoring Insulin Secretion Study." The goal is to identify miRNAs that are related to preservation or improvement in beta-cell function in prediabetes or early type 2 diabetes in youth and adults.


Recent publications
Drs. Connie Celum, professor, and Jared Baeten, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of "Characterizing HIV-preventive, plasma tenofovir concentrations. A pooled participant-level data analysis from HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) clinical trials<https://bit.ly/3MDNz8I>" in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Dr. J. Randall Curtis, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of "Stress-Related Disorders of Family Members of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit With COVID-19<https://bit.ly/3kpgUb3>" in JAMA Internal Medicine. DOM co-authors are Priscilla Armstrong, Ruth Engelberg, Joanna Heywood, Tijana Milinic, and James Wykowski.

Dr. Jason Dominitz, professor (Gastroenterology) is co-author of "Diagnosis and Management of Cancer Risk in the Gastrointestinal Hamartomatous Polyposis Syndromes: Recommendations From the US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer<https://bit.ly/39bXiVl>" in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

Dr. Jason Goldman, clinical assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is co-author of "Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 Differ by Age for Hospitalized Adults<https://go.nature.com/38B4Rov>" in Scientific Reports.

Dr. Benjamin Lidgard, acting instructor, is lead author, and Dr. Bryan Kestenbaum, professor (Nephrology) is senior author of "Association of Proximal Tubular Secretory Clearance with Long-Term Decline in Cognitive Function<https://bit.ly/3MBjAyd>" in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. DOM co-authors are Nisha Bansal, Leila Zelnick and Andrew Hoofnagle.

Dr. Rayan Najjar, fellow, is lead author and Dr. Namrata Singh, assistant professor (Rheumatology) is senior author of "Predictors of Thirty-Day Hospital Readmissions in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the US: A Nationwide Study<https://bit.ly/3EKqzSM>" in Arthritis Care and Research. DOM co-author is Grant Hughes.

Dr. Ganesh Raghu, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is co-senior author of "Soluble ECM promotes organotypic formation in lung alveolar model<https://bit.ly/3OJelhT>" in Biomaterials, and co-author of "Phase 2B Study of Inhaled RVT-1601 for Chronic Cough in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Study (SCENIC Trial)<https://bit.ly/3F7he7N>" in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Raghava Reddy, research scientist, is co-lead author, and Dr. Benjamin Freedman, associate professor (Nephrology) is senior author of "Modelling ciliopathy phenotypes in human tissues derived from pluripotent stem cells with genetically ablated cilia<https://go.nature.com/3KoDhrN>" in Nature Biomedical Engineering. DOM co-authors are Christine Tran and Hongxia Fu. Read more in "Cilia-free stem cells offer new path to study rare diseases<https://bit.ly/3vp4l5X>" from UW Medicine Newsroom.

Dr. Adrienne Shapiro, acting assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. Rachel Bender Ignacio, assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of "Time to knock monoclonal antibodies off the platform for patients hospitalised with COVID-19<https://bit.ly/3OMHGYH>" in Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Lucas Zarling, R2, is lead author, and Roland Walter, professor (Hematology) is senior author of "Utility of the Treatment-Related Mortality (TRM) score to predict outcomes of adults with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation<https://go.nature.com/3vbi3t0>" in Leukemia. DOM co-authors are Brenda Sandmaier, Filippo Milano, H. Joachim Deeg, Frederick Appelbaum, and Rainer Storb.


In the news
Dr. John Amory, professor and interim head (General Internal Medicine) is quoted in "Tucker Carlson Has a Cure for Declining Virility<https://nyti.ms/3rGQLsj>" in the New York Times.

Dr. Bradley Anawalt, professor (General Internal Medicine) and vice chair, is quoted in "What You Need to Know Before You Take Testosterone<https://bit.ly/3K9nkVW>" in Esquire.

Dr. Christopher Damman, clinical associate professor (Gastroenterology) is quoted in "What to Feed Your Microbes<https://bit.ly/3OERrs3>" in Discover.

Drs. Shireesha Dhanireddy, professor, is quoted in "'Sweetheart Deal:' Inside sex work and addiction on Seattle's Aurora Avenue<https://bit.ly/3EROAYl>" from KUOW.

Dr. Matthew Golden, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "The CDC needs the public's help to reverse the upward trend in STIs<https://bit.ly/3Ow14sX>" in Popular Science.

Drs. Rupali Jain, clinical associate professor, and Shireesha Dhanireddy, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) talked to KIRO News in "Administration expands availability of COVID antiviral pill<https://bit.ly/3Lq1S0D>."

Dr. Farah Khan, clinical assistant professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is quoted in "The link between diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis<https://bit.ly/3vP0Nsm>" in Health Central.

Dr. Eugene Yang, clinical professor (Cardiology) is quoted in "U.S. Task Force Rejects Daily Aspirin for Heart Health in People Over 60<https://bit.ly/3kgiqMm>" in Health Day.



Events of interest
Medicine Grand Rounds
Dr. Herman Alfred Taylor, Jr. (Morehouse School of Medicine) will present the Murray Lecture in Cardiology "How Race Frustrates Precision Medicine (and What to Do About it)" at Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, May 6, 2022,12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/812197730>.

Public Health Policy for Pandemic Preparedness
Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is giving the 2022 Wolfle Memorial Lecture in Science & Policy "Public Health Policy for Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons from the Seattle Flu Study" on May 3, 5-7pm, Parrington Hall and via zoom. Registration required<https://bit.ly/3JWLymc>.


Weekly Calendar, May 2-6, 2022
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
Core Competency Series
The next DOM Core Competency Series is "A Day in the Life: A Medical Student, Resident, and Fellow Perspective," presented by Katie Hawkins (4th-Year Medical Student), Dr. Linda Liu (Harborview Inpatient Chief Medical Resident) and Dr. Busola Oluwole (Hematology-Oncology Fellow). May 11, 12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/96620350832?pwd=eXlxMGR3cEhhZU1Sc1pNdnhCODltdz09> (Meeting ID: 966 2035 0832, Passcode: 393414)


Women Faculty Leadership Series
Sponsored by the Dean's Standing Committee on Women in Medicine and Science, this four-part series is designed to empower UW School of Medicine women faculty with tools to thrive in their careers.


  *   Negotiations: Advocating for Self and Others. May 11, 12-1pm
  *   Not Imposter Syndrome. June 14, 9-10am
  *   Difficult Conversations. September 20, 4-5pm
  *   How to Build and Lead Diverse Teams - Strategy. January 12, 2023, 9-10am

For more information and to register, please visit the SOM faculty website<https://bit.ly/3aHoGbp>.


Pacific NW Sepsis Conference
Registration is now open<https://bit.ly/3M9540q> for the 10th Annual Pacific Northwest Sepsis Conference on June 6-7, with both an in-person and virtual attendance option. Speakers include local, national, and international sepsis experts. They will explore sepsis in different populations and healthcare settings both adult & pediatric and examine the updated Surviving Sepsis International Guidelines of care and the science behind these evidence-based recommendations. Additional sessions include why equity matters in sepsis care, the global burden of sepsis, phenotypes in sepsis, post-sepsis syndrome, case studies in sepsis, and resiliency for healthcare providers.


2022 PNW Palliative Care Conference
Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence is pleased to invite you to the 2022 PNW Palliative Care Conference: "Lifting Voices & Building Bridges: Working Towards an Inclusive Future for Palliative Care." June 13, 8am-4pm. More information and to register<https://cpcce.uw.edu/news/annual-conference/2022-agenda-register>.


Trauma Stewardship Institute Workshop
UW Medicine and the School of Medicine are partnering with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and the Trauma Stewardship Institute to address the accumulative toll of the pandemic on UW Medicine healthcare staff and providers through a 2-hour system-wide workshop. Recordings will be posted online for those unable to attend live.
June 21, 4-6pm. Register here<http://discover.uw.edu/MTMxLUFRTy0yMjUAAAGC9mKmnJwnjMoaLOcXVeLaMwTs3bay1GilR5I0B4eODjVFNAEcwrD-sP5C91458N2AIB827n0=>.

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