[domweek] DOM Week, July 18-22, 2022

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
July 15, 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
Inaugural Gender Equity Awards
Established in 2021, the Department of Medicine Gender Equity Awards recognize and celebrate individuals who are dedicated to supporting the success of women and gender minorities. Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of the inaugural awards:

Mentorship Award
[cid:image003.jpg at 01D8986D.09B195C0]Dr. Michi Shinohara, associate professor (Dermatology) is the inaugural recipient of the Gender Equity Mentorship Award. Dr. Shinohara has been a transformative force within the Division of Dermatology and a champion for equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts. She has carved a path for future generations of leaders and become a strong role model for young women and residents and fellows of color who seldom see themselves represented in the disproportionately white, male-dominated field of dermatology. Over the past five years she has advised over 18 mentees, prioritizing women, those who identify as an underrepresented medical students interested in dermatology, and those interested in health disparities.

Trailblazer Awards
[cid:image005.jpg at 01D8986D.09B195C0]Dr. Stephanie Page, professor and head (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is an inaugural recipient of the Gender Equity Trailblazer Award. Dr. Page is an advocate for a more equitable world for women and minorities, both within the medical system and more broadly in society. Her innovative, egalitarian mind is reflected in her own line of research dedicated to developing the first form of hormonal contraception for men. A pioneer in this field, her work could lead to the prevention of millions of unplanned pregnancies, promising not only an enormous public health impact but also newfound gender equity in family planning.



[cid:image007.jpg at 01D8986D.09B195C0]Internal Medicine Residency Program Staff
The Department of Medicine IM Residency Program staff are inaugural recipients of the Gender Equity Trailblazer Award.

This team* (Andréa Campbell, Kelli Corning, Gevelle Cullen, Keli Lock, Brian Valentine) has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to promoting a culture of inclusion – within that core value is a commitment to increasing equity for women and gender minorities in our department – and they have been trailblazers in recruitment, policies and practices, leadership diversity and communications.

*Whitney Harper is also a member of this team but is ineligible to receive the award due to her role on the DOM Gender Equity Council.

Read more about our inaugural award recipients on our news site<https://bit.ly/3bWCp1M>.


Education news
Health Equity and Anti-Racism curriculum
[cid:image009.jpg at 01D8986D.09B195C0]Recent graduates of the UW internal medicine residency, Drs. Ryan Abe, Lynsey Bernfeld, Anna Morenz, and Hasib Yousufzai, have received a $20,000 grant from leading internal medicine organizations to build a longitudinal Health Equity and Anti-Racism (HEAR) curriculum within the internal medicine residency and thus help develop a more trustworthy health care system.

The mission of HEAR is to ensure that the UW Internal Medicine Residency Program teaches comprehensively about health disparities and racism while also empowering trainees to advocate and organize for power and social justice, alongside community organizations.

Read more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3ICUbDu>.
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Save the date: Research Fellows Orientation Course
Everything you need to know to survive & thrive in academics! Please join us for the annual Department of Medicine Workshop: “Surviving and Thriving During the Research Years”, a course covering skills necessary for academic success, such as grant writing, teaching & oral presentations, job negotiations, appointments & promotions, and breakout sessions on opportunities in industry or the public health & policy sector. The course is designed for fellows navigating their research path and is open to fellows and early-stage faculty from all departments. There is no charge to attend this virtual course. Aug. 29, 8:30am-3pm. For more details and to register, please visit our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/education/fellows/research-fellows-orientation-course>.


Research news
[cid:image011.jpg at 01D8986D.09B195C0]Dr. Anders Chen, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) will be leading a 1-year project funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Health Equity to study “gender disparities in cardiovascular risk reduction in veterans with diabetes.” Co-investigators include Sheida Aalami, Lauren Beste, Stefanie Deeds, Ashok Reddy, Joyce Wipf and Chenwei Wu (General Internal Medicine) and Kavita Khaira (Cardiology). The team aims to identify reasons for disparities in appropriate statin prescribing for female veterans with diabetes, and to improve appropriate counselling, prescribing, and non-pharmacologic methods of cardiovascular risk reduction at VA Puget Sound. Read more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3RuHXRr>.
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[cid:image013.jpg at 01D8986D.09B195C0]Dr. Rena Patel, assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) has received a $3.3M R01 award from NIMH/NIH. “A tale of two pandemics: Understanding racial and ethnic disparities from the collision of HIV and COVID-19 in the U.S.” leverages the country’s first national electronic health records repository (National COVID Cohort Collaborative, or N3C<https://bit.ly/3PpWewO>) for research in HIV, COVID, and social determinants of health centered on health equity. Co-investigators include Drs. Jennifer Ross (Allergy and Infectious Diseases, UW), Jessica Islam (Moffit Cancer Center), Elaine Hill (Univ. of Rochester), Sandra Safo (Univ. of Minnesota), Jing Sun (Johns Hopkins University), and Bohdan Nosyck (Simon Fraser University, Canada).
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[cid:image015.jpg at 01D8986D.09B195C0]Dr. Teal Hallstrand, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) was awarded a competitive renewal of his NIH NIAID K24 grant “Immunopathology of Indirect Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Asthma.” This award provides protected time for mentoring and support for translational studies of asthma.

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[cid:image017.jpg at 01D8986D.09B195C0]Dr. Sakeneh Zraika, research associate professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), has received an R01 for $1.5m for her project “Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Glucose Homeostasis.” The goal is to interrogate previously unrecognized mechanisms of action for angiotensin(1-2) that impact glycemic control, and could be exploited in the pursuit of new drugs that target several abnormalities in type 2 diabetes.


Faculty news
Dr. David Tauben, clinical professor emeritus (General Internal Medicine) was an invited expert presenter and panelist for the National Academy of Medicine’s action collaborative: Improving Telehealth and Virtual Care for Pain Management and Opioid/<https://bit.ly/3RuATEt>
Substance Use Disorder<https://bit.ly/3RuATEt>. Throughout the COVID-19 public health emergency, telehealth and virtual care emerged as potentially paradigm-shifting tools for both pain management and substance use disorder care, impacting patient access, care delivery, and quality of care for the millions of Americans affected by these related, but disparate, health conditions.
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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. Catherine Butler, acting assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. Ann O’Hare, professor (Nephrology) is senior author of “Differences Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the Unmet Existential and Supportive Care Needs of People Receiving Dialysis<https://bit.ly/3o4WOV6>” in JAMA Internal Medicine. DOM co-authors are Rashmi Sharma, Gwen Bernacki, Jasleen Ghuman, and J. Randall Curtis.

Whitney Harper, program specialist (IM residency) is co-author of “Emerging from the Pandemic: AAIM Recommendations for Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship Interview Standards<https://bit.ly/3RtBZAn>” in the American Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Nicole Kim, acting instructor, is lead author and Dr. Rachel Issaka, associate professor (Gastroenterology) is senior author of “How safety-net health systems can advance equity in gastroenterology and hepatology<https://bit.ly/3IyMQoK>” in the Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology.

Drs. Song Li, assistant professor, and Claudius Mahr, clinical professor (Cardiology) are co-authors of “Criteria for Defining Stages of Cardiogenic Shock Severity<https://bit.ly/3bWtXj4>” in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Lorena Panaite, clinical assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. Mazyar Shadman, associate professor (Medical Oncology) is senior author of “Predictors of cytopenias after treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel in patients with large B-cell lymphoma<https://bit.ly/3cku4Fy>” in Leukemia & Lymphoma. DOM co-authors are Erin Mullane, Victor Chow, Ryan Lynch Chaitra Ujjani, Stephen Smith, Ajay Gopal, Christina Poh, Cameron Turtle, David Maloney, Brian Till and Jordan Gauthier.

Dr. Mazyar Shadman, associate professor (Medical Oncology) is co-author of “Allogeneic transplant following CAR T-cell therapy for large B-cell lymphoma<https://bit.ly/3O9VH1d>” in Haematologica, “Zanubrutinib versus bendamustine and rituximab in untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SEQUOIA): a randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial<https://bit.ly/3aFzydx>” in Lancet Oncology, and “Relevance of Bone Marrow Biopsies for Response Assessment in US National Cancer Institute National Clinical Trials Network Follicular Lymphoma Clinical Trials<https://bit.ly/3ciwu7B>” in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.


In the news
Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in “The BA.5 Wave Is What COVID Normal Looks Like<https://bit.ly/3RxEsd9>” in The Atlantic.

Dr. Kate Markey, assistant professor (Medical Oncology) wrote “Gut bacteria nurture the immune system – for cancer patients, a diverse microbiome can protect against dangerous treatment complications<https://bit.ly/3IC7Wm6>” for The Conversation.

Dr. Scott McClelland, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in “Novavax COVID vaccine studied in UW Medicine clinical trial<https://bit.ly/3uMNtVS>” from UW Medicine Newsroom.

Drs. Stephanie Page, professor and head (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) and John Amory, professor (General Internal Medicine) wrote “Is Society Finally Ready for Male Birth Control?<https://nyti.ms/3OVIj1Q>” in the New York Times.

Dr. Veena Shankaran, professor (Medical Oncology) is quoted in “She was already battling cancer. Then she had to fight the bill collectors<https://n.pr/3OTbnah>” from NPR.



Weekly Calendar, July 18-22, 2022
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.

Coming up
SOM Faculty Events
The School of Medicine is offering a series of upcoming events, ranging from promotion workshops, educator development sessions (through CLIME), well-being and resilience sessions, and leadership development. Visit their events calendar<https://bit.ly/2T5OrfX> for more information.


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Amy Fields, Editor
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