[domweek] DOM Week, July 4-8, 2022

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]


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DOM Week
July 1, 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

[image029.png]Dr. Rachel Issaka, assistant professor (Gastroenterology) has received the 2022 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award from the American College of Gastroenterology(AGC). This award recognizes an ACG Member whose work in the areas of clinical practice, research, teaching and/or leadership has demonstrated an emerging or sustained commitment to the values of diversity, health equity and inclusion.

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Dr. Christina Surawicz, professor emeritus (Gastroenterology) has received a 2022 Distinguished Mentorship and Teaching Award from the American College of Gastroenterology (AGC). The Distinguished Mentorship and Teaching Award is awarded in recognition of meaningful and sustained contributions to trainees/colleagues in gastroenterology.


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Dr. Suzanne Watnick, professor (Nephrology) is a recipient of the Distinguished Leader Award from the American Society of Nephrology (ASN). This award recognizes leadership in any number of areas of medicine, including clinical, educational, research, or administrative efforts, and honors sustained achievements in leadership and advancing ASN's mission to lead the fight against kidney disease by educating health professionals, sharing new knowledge, advancing research, and advocating the highest quality of care for patients.


Education news
[image032.jpg]Dr. Lianne Hirano, clinical assistant professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is the new Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, replacing Dr. Wayne McCormick. Dr. Hirano has been serving as the Associate Program Director of this multi-disciplinary training program, and has already transformed the training program with new, innovative didactics and rotations.

The Fellowship attracts well over 100 applicants every year for six positions. Applicants come from multiple specialties, and the graduates have gone on to remarkable accomplishments in the Pacific Northwest and beyond under Dr. Hirano’s mentorship.
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[image033.jpg]Dr. Duncan Hussey, R3, has received the 2022 Harborview Housestaff Achievement Award for Clinical Ability and Humanitarian Concern. This award is bestowed by Harborview faculty to a graduating resident (selected from all the residency programs) who has demonstrated excellence in patient care and exceptional humanism in line with the Harborview mission.

Drs. Cooper Kersey and Hasib Yousufzai from our IM residency program were also nominated.


Staff news
[image034.jpg]Staff Spotlight: Chrissie Younie
Our latest staff spotlight is on Chrissie Younie, Department of Medicine Human Resources Manager.

Read her story on our news site<https://bit.ly/3NrpBhc>.



Faculty news
[image035.jpg]New Executive Vice Chair
Dr. W. Robb MacLellan, professor and head (Cardiology) has accepted the newly created position of Department of Medicine Executive Vice Chair, effective July 1, 2022. Dr. MacLellan has been the Robert A. Bruce Professor of Medicine and Cardiology Division Head since November 1, 2011. He also serves as director of the UW Medicine Heart Institute.

The Executive Vice Chair will be primarily responsible for clinical strategy, optimizing clinical activity, and delivery of care. In this role, he will lead the department in decision-making on clinical priorities and long-term strategies, establish and foster strong relationships with the hospitals and UW Medicine clinical leadership, and evaluate internal approaches to optimize clinical productivity and finances.

We will be launching a national search for a new Cardiology Division Head in the Fall, and Robb has graciously agreed to stay on as division head until we fill that position. In addition, he will remain the head of the UW Medicine Heart Institute until a replacement is identified.

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DOM Mentorship Committee: Call for new members
The Department of Medicine is extending a call for new members to join our Mentorship Committee. The Department of Medicine Mentorship Committee’s mission is to improve the quality and consistency of mentorship in the Department of Medicine and to educate all faculty about the value and conduct of mentorship. The committee leads initiatives to improve the quality of mentoring relationships. They also select the recipients of the annual William J. Bremner Endowed Mentorship awards. Please indicate your interest<https://forms.office.com/r/GcMXFp0WB3> by July 22. If you have any questions, please reach out to Nisha Bansal<mailto:nbansal at uw.edu>, chair of the Mentorship Committee.


Clinical news
Expanding Care Services for Gender-Diverse Patients
[image036.jpg]Since 2018, the Transgender and Gender Non-Binary (TGNB) Health Program has been providing gender-affirming care to UW Medicine patients. The program offers a complete spectrum of gender-affirming care. Primary care, medication management, hormone replacement therapy, reproductive and sexual healthcare, and mental health care are core services, along with psychological evaluations that insurers require to cover surgery. The TGNB team is working to expand access to their services and offer more training opportunities for faculty, students, residents and fellows.

“We know there is a growing need for gender-affirming surgeries and other types of care among the gender-diverse community here in Washington and throughout the country, and an excitement among local community members that they can access these types of care at UW Medicine,” says Dr. Corinne Heinen, clinical professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases), clinical director for the TGNB program, and director of the UW School of Medicine’s LGBTQ Health Pathway. “We are proud to expand our services and program to meet their needs and to help advance healthcare equity among gender-diverse people.”

Read more from The Huddle<https://bit.ly/3a38bJS>.


Research news
[image037.jpg]The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has selected Drs. Michael Granda and Benjamin Lidgard (Nephrology) as 2022 Ben J. Lipps Research Fellows. Dr. Granda’s project is “Scintigraphic Tubular Assessment of Renal Transplant Secretion” and Dr. Lidgard’s project is “Medical Rate Versus Rhythm Control for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Dialysis Patients.”

The goal of the Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program is to fund fellows to conduct original, meritorious research projects. This program will foster, under the direction of a sponsor, the training of fellows who are highly motivated to make contributions to the understanding of kidney biology and disease.


Recent publications
Dr. Jared Baeten, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of “Population-level correlation between incidence of curable sexually transmitted infections and HIV-1 among African women participating in HIV-1 pre-exposure prophylaxis trials<https://bit.ly/3R1YhZV>” in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Michael Boeckh, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is co-author of “Structure, receptor recognition, and antigenicity of the human coronavirus CCoV-HuPn-2018 spike glycoprotein<https://bit.ly/3O00GlS>” in Cell.

Dr. Anders Chen, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is first author of “Society of General Internal Medicine Position Statement on Social Risk and Equity in Medicare’s Mandatory Value-Based Payment Programs<https://bit.ly/3uhlmOg>” in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Eric Chow, fellow, is lead author, and Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of “The Clinical and Genomic Epidemiology of Rhinovirus in Homeless Shelters-King County, Washington<https://bit.ly/3bGnKb1>” in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Lauren Feld, fellow (Gastroenterology) is senior author of “On the Importance of Safe Access to Reproductive Options for Adolescents and Women with Liver Disease<https://bit.ly/3Ow7Qy6>” in Gastroenterology.

Dr. Stanley Fields, professor (Medical Genetics) is senior author of “Mapping functional regions of essential bacterial proteins with dominant-negative protein fragments<https://bit.ly/3yt8h79>” in PNAS.

Nicholas Franko, Jennifer Logue, and Dr. Helen Chu (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of “The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant induces an antibody response largely focused on class 1 and 2 antibody epitopes<https://bit.ly/3AawtMS>” in PLOS Pathogens.

Dr. Whitney Kiker, fellow (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is lead author of “Prognosis Predictions by Families, Physicians, and Nurses of Patients with Severe Acute Brain Injury: Agreement and Accuracy<https://bit.ly/3nDmIiV>” in Neurocritical Care. DOM co-author is J. Randall Curtis.

Dr. Adelaide McClintock, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) wrote “15 Weeks and 4 Days<https://bit.ly/3bqUrZO>” in JAMA.

Dr. Juliana McElrath, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of “Analysis of the HVTN 702 Phase 2b-3 HIV-1 vaccine trial in South Africa assessing RV144 antibody and T-cell correlates of HIV-1 acquisition risk<https://bit.ly/3I24XTD>” in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Drs. Kayode Ojo and Wesley Van Voorhis (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of “Vaccine-Linked Chemotherapy Approach: Additive Effects of Combining the Listeria monocytogenes-Based Vaccine Lm3Dx_NcSAG1 With the Bumped Kinase Inhibitor BKI-1748 Against Neospora caninum Infection in Mice<https://bit.ly/3y5LBIM>” in Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

Dr. Gregory Roth, associate professor (Cardiology) is senior author of “Life Expectancy for White, Black, and Hispanic Race/Ethnicity in U.S. States: Trends and Disparities, 1990 to 2019<https://bit.ly/3OxfaKc>” in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Read more in “Life expectancy for Black Americans continues to lag that of whites, study finds<https://nbcnews.to/3OLvcQm>” from NBC News.


In the news
Drs. John Amory, professor (General Internal Medicine) and Stephanie Page, professor and head (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) are quoted in “What Happens When Men Take Hormonal Birth Control?<https://bit.ly/3bFOd8M>” in Esquire.

Dr. Nancy Davidson, professor and head (Medical Oncology) is featured in “Trials & Triumph: For Dr. Nancy Davidson, the fight against cancer is personal<https://bit.ly/3y6swpU>” in Seattle Magazine.

Dr. Stephanie Page, professor and head (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is quoted in “Male Birth Control Is At Our Fingertips. Will We Ever Grasp It?<https://bit.ly/3ujpmOt>” in Inverse.


Weekly Calendar, July 4-8, 2022
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
Updates in Hospital Medicine
The purpose of the course is to update the skills of inpatient providers with a focus on common problems in clinical care. DOM planning committee members and speakers include Drs. Nauzley Abedini, Tyler Albert, Claudio Bravo, Chloe Bryson-Cahn, Dan Cabrera, Neha Deshpande, Laura Evans, David Garcia, Susie Glass, Katherine Hicks, Ruchi Kapoor, Thomas Keller, Mehraneh Khalighi, Rashi Khanna, Christopher Kim, Tyler Lee, Nandita Mani, Grady Paden, Jeffrey Redinger, Meghna Shah, Edie Shen, Lindee Strizich, and Luis Tulloch-Palomino. July 21-22. For more information and to register, please visit the CME website.<https://bit.ly/3MyjK97>

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


  *   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>.



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