[domweek] DOM Week, December 5-9, 2022

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
December 2, 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:image003.jpg at 01D90667.D73FEFB0]Dr. Christina Surawicz, professor emeritus (Gastroenterology) has been selected to receive the 2022 Masters of the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) Award. The Masters of the WGO (MWGO) Award is the highest honor WGO can bestow and is granted only to those individuals who have provided outstanding dedication to the mission of the WGO and achieved distinction in scholarly research, teaching, service to WGO and the community at large.


Education news
Fellowship match
Please join us in congratulating this year's residents, current chief residents, former graduates, and our divisions on another successful fellowship match!

Current and chief residents who matched into fellowships:

*         Seifu Abera, Cardiology, UW
*         Priyanka Anand, CDC EIS
*         Khalida Arif, Cardiology, USC
*         Mahlet Assefa, Nephrology, UW
*         Brianna Balansay, Cardiology, UW
*         Caitlin Camfield, Adolescent Medicine, UW
*         Adam Cheng, Hematology-Oncology, UW
*         Jocelyn Cooper, Allergy/Immunology, UW
*         Rebecca Ellis, Palliative Medicine, U Pittsburgh
*         Natalia Filipek, Gastroenterology, UW
*         John Goodman, Pulmonary Critical Care, UW
*         Megan Griffin, Nephrology, UW
*         Sarah Gunby, Gastroenterology, UW
*         Marina Hanna, Gastroenterology, UW
*         Ruth Howe, Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins
*         Molly Kelly, Pulmonary Critical Care, UCSF
*         Christian Klein, Cardiology, U Utah
*         Daniel Lim, Cardiology, UW
*         Terrence Liu, GIM, U Michigan (Nat'l Clin. Scholars Program)
*         Oyinkansola Osobamiro, Cardiology, U Michigan
*         Roshan Panchanathan, Gastroenterology, UW
*         Gabby Paras, Hematology-Oncology, UW
*         Talicia Savage, Hematology-Oncology, U Utah
*         Sylvia Stellmacher, Pulmonary Critical Care, UCSF
*         Hao Tong, Pulmonary Critical Care, U Penn
*         J. Alex Torres, Gastroenterology, U Colorado
*         Karly Silva Williams, Hematology-Oncology, UW
*         James Wykowski, Pulmonary Critical Care, U Colorado

Recent graduates who matched into fellowships:

*         Aleks Abrahamowicz ('22), Cardiology, U Utah
*         Mallette Asmuth ('21), Cardiology, U Colorado
*         Annie Cravero ('22), Gastroenterology, UW
*         Lauren Mathews ('20), Pulmonary Critical Care, UW
*         Lorena Panaite ('21), Hematology-Oncology, OHSU
*         Brandon Peplinksi ('21), Pulmonary Critical Care, UCLA
*         Kyle Sears ('19), Addiction Medicine, OHSU
*         Alison Uyeda ('22), Pulmonary Critical Care, UW
*         Jesse Wackerbarth ('21), Pulmonary Critical Care, U Utah
*         Andrew Wilmington ('22), Hematology-Oncology, Rush


Research news
Promoting health equity in the kidney research workforce
[cid:image005.jpg at 01D90667.D73FEFB0]In 2021, the Mount Baker Foundation (MBF) made a $1M pledge ($100,000 annually for 10 years) to the Kidney Research Institute to increase diversity in nephrology research and the workforce by supporting candidates in the early-stage of their career, when securing funding is particularly difficult. Drs. Christine Limonte and Justin Bullock (Nephrology) are the first UW fellows to be recipients of support from the Mount Baker Foundation gift.

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Strategies to innovate emergency care
[cid:image007.jpg at 01D90667.D73FEFB0]The University of Washington was awarded a 5-year competitive renewal by the NIH/NINDS as one of 13 clinical hubs for the Strategies to Innovate EmeRgENcy Care (SIREN) Clinical Trials Network. SIREN is charged with performing prehospital and in-hospital clinical trials in cardiovascular, neurologic and traumatic emergency care.

Continuing trials over the past 5 years at UW include ICECAP (evaluating the duration of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest), and BOOST3 (evaluating interventions in traumatic brain injury). Principal investigators are Drs. Peter Kudenchuk, professor (Cardiology) and Nick Johnson, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and emergency medicine. The grant awards ~ $16 million across sites for infrastructure support over the next 5 years.

Learn more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3GXX6rE>.

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Call for applications
The Diabetes Research Center (DRC) is soliciting applications for the 2023 Pilot & Feasibility Awards and Stroum Graduate Fellowship Awards. These funding opportunities are meant to promote the development of new and innovative research projects directed at basic, clinical and translational aspects of diabetes. Letters of intent and reviewer nomination forms are due by Jan. 11, 2023 and the deadline for full applications is Feb. 24, 2023. For more details, please visit their website<https://bit.ly/3XJybxV>.

The University of Washington Sexually Transmitted Infections Cooperative Research Center (STI CRC) is accepting applications for Developmental Research Project (DRP) Awards. These developmental awards provide funding to support career development and research activities which will ultimately help early-career investigators compete for future R- and K- awards. Applications are due on Dec. 14. For more information and to apply, please visit the STI CRC website<https://bit.ly/3B9tfXB>.


Clinical news
Designing payment models to promote health equity
[cid:image009.jpg at 01D90667.D73FEFB0]Dr. Joshua Liao, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) and associate chair, hosted a Health Equity Conversation<https://bit.ly/3OIcsTb> with Dora Hughes, the Chief Medical Officer of the CMS Innovation Center, the national leader in setting new payment and delivery policy and models in the US. Drs. Liao and Hughes discussed how payment models can be designed to promote health equity rather than entrench or worsen inequity. Hosted by Dr. Liao, Health Equity Conversations <https://bit.ly/3UghcAo> is a series of discussions aimed at understanding how payment and other systems factors affect equity.


Recent publications
Dr. Janis Abkowitz, professor and head (Hematology) is senior author of "How we diagnose and treat acute graft-versus-host disease after solid organ transplantation<https://bit.ly/3XIrL2j>" in Blood.

Dr. Rahul Banerjee, assistant professor, is lead author, and Dr. Andrew Cowan, associate professor (Medical Oncology) is senior author of "Innovation in BCMA CAR-T therapy: Building beyond the Model T<https://bit.ly/3B4vnBP>" in Frontiers in Oncology. DOM co-author is Sarah Lee.

Dr. Crystal Brown, assistant professor, is lead author, and Dr. Ruth Engelberg, research professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of "Palliative Care Perspectives of Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension<https://bit.ly/3GTkLJS>" in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. DOM co-authors are Jill Steiner, Ylinne Lynch, Peter Leary, and J. Randall Curtis.

Dr. Geetanjali Chander, professor and head (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "A Qualitative Study of Perspectives of Older Adults on Deintensifying Diabetes Medications<https://bit.ly/3ViNOe3>" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Ermias Diro, clinical assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of "Hidden sources of bias in diagnostic studies: the example of visceral leishmaniasis in east Africa<https://bit.ly/3gGEIJ8>" in Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Nicholas Franko, research coordinator, Jennifer Logue, program operations specialist, Dr. Wesley Van Voorhis, professor, and Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of "SARS-CoV-2 spike conformation determines plasma neutralizing activity elicited by a wide panel of human vaccines<https://bit.ly/3OP6Vde>" in Science Immunology. Learn more in "Data offers COVID vaccine ideas with better variant resilience<https://bit.ly/3AWBg44>" from UW Medicine Newsroom.

Dr. Benjamin Freedman, associate professor (Nephrology) is co-author of "Cyclin G1 induces maladaptive proximal tubule cell dedifferentiation and renal fibrosis through CDK5 activation<https://bit.ly/3EYk8fD>" in JCI.

Dr. Jason Goldman, clinical assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is co-author of "Association of Remdesivir Treatment With Mortality Among Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19 in the United States<https://bit.ly/3B1OwVg>" in JAMA Network Open.

Dr. Solomon Graf, associate professor, is lead author and Dr. Ajay Gopal, professor (Medical Oncology) is senior author of "Crisis Communication in the age of Social Media: Lesson from SARS, Influenza, Ebola and COVID-19<https://bit.ly/3GQEDgz>" in Blood Advances. DOM co-authors are Ryan Lynch, Chaitra Ujjani, Heather Rasmussen, Andrew Cowan, Stephen Smith, Mazyar Shadman, Edus Warren, and Edward Libby.

Dr. James Mullins, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of "Genomic changes in Kaposi Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus and their clinical correlates<https://bit.ly/3ivLiCX>" in PLOS Pathogens. DOM co-author is Warren Phipps.

Dr. Graham Nichol, professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of "Association of Initial SARS-CoV-2 Test Positivity With Patient-Reported Well-being 3 Months After a Symptomatic Illness<https://bit.ly/3XMXVtn>" in JAMA Network Open.

Dr. Scott Ramsey, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Place of Death Among Medicaid and Commercially Insured Patients With Cancer in Washington State<https://bit.ly/3GORdgt>" in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. DOM co-author is Veena Shankaran.

Dr. Lisa Strate, professor (Gastroenterology) is lead author of "Tips for the Medical Management of Diverticulitis<https://bit.ly/3EWR3kE>" in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

Dr. Michi Shinohara, professor (Dermatology) is senior author of "To identify and fund catalytic, transformative initiatives that result in sustainable change<https://bit.ly/3FkUkLU>" in BMC Medical Education. DOM co-author is Katherine DeNiro.

Dr. Christina Surawicz, professor emeritus (Gastroenterology) is senior author of "Burnout Among US Gastroenterologists and Fellows: Identifying Contributing Factors and Offering Solutions in Training<https://bit.ly/3u90doY>" in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology.

Dr. Paul Valdmanis, assistant professor (Medical Genetics) is senior author of "Aberrant splicing of PSEN2, but not PSEN1, in individuals with sporadic Alzheimer's disease<https://bit.ly/3AVbLjM>" in Brain. DOM co-authors are Thomas Bird and Suman Jayadev.


In the news
Dr. Shailender Bhatia, professor (Medical Oncology) is quoted in "Merck could keep its patent edge by shifting Keytruda cancer drug to a simple shot<https://reut.rs/3EVE8zf>" from Reuters.

Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "The Pandemic Broke the Flu ... Again<https://bit.ly/3ENwwie>" in The Atlantic.

Dr. Larry Corey, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) talked to News Medical in "Miracles Start in the Lab: the quest to find a vaccine to cure AIDS<https://bit.ly/3gQ4ISo>."

Dr. Eric Larson, clinical professor (General Internal Medicine) is quoted in "Aging Expert Reveals How Retirees Can Live A Healthy, Happier Life<https://bit.ly/3OTmT6g>" in Forbes.

Dr. Paul Pottinger, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "Here's How Often You *Really* Need to Clean Your Bathroom<https://bit.ly/3UmWrDn>" in Self.


Weekly Calendar, December 5-9, 2022
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
Current concepts in medication therapy
This CME conference will highlight innovation in drug therapies, review new indications for old medications, and discuss medication side effects and drug interactions. Speakers include DOM faculty from Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, General Internal Medicine, Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, and Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Dec. 12-13. For more information and to register, please visit the CME website<https://bit.ly/3ER130l>.


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