[domweek] DOM Week, July 11-15, 2022

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
July 8, 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>)




Clinical news

SHE Clinic provides essential healthcare for underserved women

[cid:image004.jpg at 01D892B2.3604AE20]Women’s healthcare now, more than ever, is an essential right and must be protected. This is especially true for women who are already underserved by the medical system.



For women experiencing homelessness and female-identified sex workers in particular, barriers to accessing healthcare services include both structural and process factors (e.g., travel costs, office hours, social stigma) and individual social and clinical factors (e.g., drug use, mental stability, lack of trust and fear in the traditional healthcare system).



To reduce these barriers, Dr. Shireesha Dhanireddy, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) partnered with Aurora Commons and Harborview Medical Center to create the SHE Clinic (Safe, Healthy, Empowered), a community-based resource for unhoused women and female identified, street based sex workers along Seattle’s North Aurora Avenue.



Read more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3bNxW1l>.



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Support programs to advance the quality, safety and equity of care

The COVID-19 pandemic, financial crises, and overdue calls to enhance the equity of all we do have created unprecedented professional and personal strains. As we partner to overcome these challenges, it is vital that we undertake activities directed at improving the quality, safety, value, and equity of our work.



The UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety<https://patientsafety.uw.edu/> offers several educational opportunities for your faculty, trainees and staff in this critical area and supports improvement projects.



Two programs are continuing from prior years (Certificate Program in Patient Safety and Quality<https://patientsafety.uw.edu/certificate-program>, QI Scholars Program<https://patientsafety.uw.edu/scholarship/qi-scholars-program>) and two programs are new for this year (QI Accelerator Program<https://patientsafety.uw.edu/education/qi-project-accelerator>, GME Quality and Safety Foundations Program<https://patientsafety.uw.edu/education/graduate-medical-education>).




Research news

Care for patients who decline dialysis

[cid:image006.jpg at 01D892B2.3604AE20]Dr. Susan Wong, associate professor (Nephrology) is leading a study that asks kidney specialists across the United States about their experiences caring for patients who are seeking a different path, and whether palliative care is offered instead of dialysis. “We don’t have a systemized way to track patients who choose against dialysis,’ she says “so we have no way of evaluating whether we do a good job taking care of these patients after they make that choice.” In past research, Wong found that for about 1 in 7 VA patients eligible for dialysis, a decision is made not to pursue it. This suggests that the general population of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with that conservative mindset is sizable.



Wong launched her survey of clinicians through the National Kidney Foundation and has heard back from more than 160 providers so far. She hopes the anecdotal findings will shed light on the extent to which conservative care is offered alongside dialysis and might hint at different ranges of care offered by practitioners across care settings. She hopes to report findings in the fall.



Read the full story from UW Medicine Newsroom<https://bit.ly/3P42ueh>.



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Transforming cancer research

[cid:image008.jpg at 01D892B2.3604AE20]Drs. E. Gabriela Chiorean, Philip Greenberg, Petros Grivas (Medical Oncology) and Mary-Claire King (Medical Genetics) are included on the list of eight doctors who continue to make Seattle a hotbed of cancer research and treatment in the face of overwhelming odds, in “They’re Here To Save Your Life<https://bit.ly/3uzEes6>” from Seattle Magazine.



Chiorean leads clinical trials to discover new therapies to treat pancreatic, colorectal and other gastrointestinal cancers. She has identified new chemotherapies, immunotherapies and targeted drugs to treat those cancers.



Greenberg is an internationally recognized cancer immunotherapy expert who understands that medical research is meaningless until it’s made available to those who need it. He works with companies to translate lab discoveries into therapies.



Grivas is heavily involved in the advanced research of evolving treatments for several cancer types. He most recently was lead researcher on the Javelin Bladder 100 trial that resulted in FDA approval of a new treatment therapy for a type of bladder cancer.



King’s research on the differences between humans and chimpanzees eventually led to the discovery of the BRCA1 gene that can cause breast, ovarian and prostate cancer. She was among the few at the time pursuing the connection between cancer and genetics.




Faculty news

Dr. David Dichek, professor (Cardiology) has started a 5-year term as senior associate editor of Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, one of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association journals.

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Dr. Steven Kahn, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) has been appointed incoming editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, the highest-ranked journal devoted to original diabetes-related research.

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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.







Recent publications

Dr. Ruth Deya, R1, is lead author, and Dr. Susan Graham, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of “Yield and Coverage of Active Case Finding Interventions for Tuberculosis Control: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis<https://bit.ly/3nK8P2a>” in Tuberculosis Research and Treatment. DOM co-authors are Linnet Masese and David Horne.



Dr. Kristine Doney, professor, is lead author and Dr. Hannah Linden, professor (Medical Oncology) is senior author of “Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in patients with a hematologic malignancy and a prior history of breast cancer<https://bit.ly/3amETpV>” in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.



Dr. William Hagopian, clinical professor (Metabolism Endocrinology and Nutrition) is senior author of “Two-age islet-autoantibody screening for childhood type 1 diabetes: a prospective cohort study<https://bit.ly/3Ih4IUR>” in Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.



Dr. Nicole Kim, acting instructor, is lead author and Dr. George Ioannou, professor (Gastroenterology) is senior author of “Hepatocellular carcinoma risk declines but remains high enough for screening in the first 7 years after HCV cure with DAAs in patients with cirrhosis or high FIB-4<https://bit.ly/3ImdGjG>” in Gastroenterology. DOM co-author is Philip Vutien.



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/3uuJUDu>” in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. DOM co-authors are Nisha Bansal, Leila Zelnick.



Dr. Jacob Mayfield, fellow, is lead author and Dr. Catherine Otto, professor (Cardiology) is senior author of “The Young and the Breathless<https://bit.ly/3OSnHaS>” in the New England Journal of Medicine. DOM co-authors are Danelle Hidano, Alexander Torres, and Mathilde Pioro.



Dr. J. Lee Nelson, professor (Rheumatology) is co-author of “Factors influencing maternal microchimerism throughout infancy and its impact on infant T cell immunity<https://bit.ly/3yPheIf>” in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.





In the news

Dr. Gabriela Chiorean, professor (Medical Oncology) is quoted in “‘Watershed moment’: Doctors finding new hope in treatments for deadly pancreatic cancer<https://yhoo.it/3NJziaQ>” from Yahoo News.



Dr. Timothy Dellit, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and interim dean is quoted in “Industry staff shortage a priority for UW Medicine's new interim CEO<https://bit.ly/3ARuU71>” in the Puget Sound Business Journal.



Dr. Julie Gralow, professor emeritus (Medical Oncology) wrote the guest editorial “Cancer care must remain in the hands of doctors and their patients<https://bit.ly/3PpCcTx>” in the Cancer Letter.



Dr. Wayne McCormick, professor and head (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is quoted in “CR’s Ultimate Heat Survival Guide<https://yhoo.it/3yQJslD>” from Yahoo News.



Dr. Stephanie Page, professor and head (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) talked to KUOW in “Are we nearing the end of the long road to hormonal birth control for men?<https://bit.ly/3Pd9wg2>”



Dr. Michi Shinohara, associate professor (Dermatology) is quoted in “Doing This Once a Month Can Slash Your Cancer Risk, Doctor Says<https://bit.ly/3yixrEd>” in Best Life.



Dr. Eugene Yang, clinical professor (Cardiology) is quoted in “‘Code Blue’ for the Dire CVD Health Status of Most US Adults<https://bit.ly/3nOe1Cl>” in TCTMD.





Weekly Calendar, July 11-15, 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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Amy Fields, Editor
amyf at uw.edu<mailto:amyf at uw.edu>





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