[domweek] DOM Week, June 6-10, 2022

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]


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DOM Week
June 3, 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
Evans Awards
[image027.jpg]Congratulations to the 2022 Evans Award recipients: student MaKenna Stavins and residents Roxanne Hicks and Mackenzie Holmberg. This award is presented every year to one (or more) graduating medical student and 2nd year resident. The Evans award recognizes the special qualities of warmth, understanding, compassion and concern for the needs of others as exemplified by and expressed throughout the life of Dr. Robert S. Evans, who served as Chief of Medicine for many years at the Seattle VA Medical Center.
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Outstanding Student Awards
[image028.jpg]Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Department of Medicine Outstanding Student Awards, Kiera Bulluck and Sangeetha Thevuthasan. Awardees exemplify the Department of Medicine values of providing outstanding patient care, modeling compassion to patients, family and friends, and demonstrate highly professional interactions with attendings, residents, fellows, hospital staff and fellow students.


DEI news
[image029.jpg]Celebrating Pride
June is Pride Month and we invite you to join us in celebrating LGBTQ+ people and culture. We have included a list of upcoming events, department initiatives and resources on our news site<https://bit.ly/3GI49Tn>. If you would like to be more involved in our efforts, please consider joining our LGBTQ+ Council<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=W9229i_wGkSZoBYqxQYL0p2HkuEli4dCqQ9YvIFPVQNUMklGWVpRSTlER01GSVFRT1VOQUQxTDA0Vi4u>. Applications are currently being accepted until June 8.


Education news
[image030.jpg]Drs. Priyanka Anand and Hao Tong were winners at the Washington Chapter American College of Physicians Spring Scientific Scholarship Day. Dr. Anand won the Oral Abstract Resident Presentation: “Online Patient Portal Use Among Marginalized Groups at a Safety Net Hospital” and Dr. Tong was Top Poster Winner: “Care for Patients Receiving Comfort Measures Only: Experiences of Bedside Nurses.”

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[image031.jpg]Drs. Osayd Assad and Andrea Diaz will join the leadership team of the Network of Underrepresented Residents and Fellows (NURF) for the 2022-23 academic year. Dr. Diaz will be the Community Outreach Chair and Dr. Assad will be the Social Media Chair. “I am so appreciative of their leadership and of all they will be doing to help support their colleagues around the institution,” said Program Director Dr. Ken Steinberg.
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[image032.jpg]Dr. Margaret Isaac, associate professor (General Internal Medicine), was chosen by the 2022 UWSOM graduating class to be the speaker at the Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Physician's Oath Ceremony held this past Saturday at Benaroya Hall. This was the second time in 5 years that Dr. Isaac addressed a UW graduating class; she was also the speaker at the 2018 ceremony.


Staff news
New assistant director of operations
[image033.jpg]The department welcomes Emily Lamont as our new assistant director of operations, effective June 16. This position is designed as a float position to support a number of areas of operations, including business continuity through vacancies (for divisions and the central department team) as well as leadership and support for initiatives that arise from the operationalization of the department strategic plan. Emily has been at UW since 2000. She began her career as a research coordinator, moved to grants and center management, and most recently serves as a department administrator in the School of Nursing. She brings with her rich HR, academic HR, operational, fiscal, and compliance management.


Faculty news
UW Medicine Well-Being Survey
You should have received an email from Anne Browning | Well-Being & Support with your individualized link to the UW Medicine Well-Being survey. Thank you so much to everyone who has already completed the survey. The data we receive at the end of the summer from this survey will help us develop an action plan to improve well-being for people in our department.

Most people are completing the survey in 5-10 minutes. If you have trouble locating your individual survey link in your email, search for #2022UWWellbeingsurvey.

Your responses will be completely confidential – UW Medicine leaders will not get any identifying information about you (all identifying information will be handled by our third-party vendor). More information and FAQs.<https://bit.ly/3mb1ic0>


Research news
[image034.jpg]Dr. Elizabeth Phelan, professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) has received funding from the IMPACT Collaborative Pilot Grant Program for the study “Deprescribing to Reduce Injurious Falls among Older Adults with Dementia<https://bit.ly/3lZSrJY>.” The objective is to adapt an evidence-based, health-system-embedded, patient-centered deprescribing intervention called STOP-FALLS, which focuses on reducing use of CNS-active medications among older adults living with dementia, and conduct a pilot study for an embedded pragmatic clinical trial with older people living with dementia, their care partner(s), and their primary care providers.
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Dr. Pandora (Luke) Wander, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) has received a grant from the Seattle VA’s seed grant program for “Long-term impacts of SARS-COV-2 on diabetes outcomes.”



Recent publications
Drs. Pavan Bhatraju, Natalie Cobb, Neha Sathe, Kevin Duan, Matthew Thau, and Clifford Sung are co-authors of “Radiographic Findings and Association With Clinical Severity and Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19<https://bit.ly/3aeitqn>” in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

Dr. Chase Cannon, acting assistant professor, is lead author, and Dr. Connie Celum, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of “Sexually transmissible infection incidence in men who have sex with men using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Australia<https://bit.ly/3wWiJSs>” in Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Jennie Crews, clinical professor, is lead author and Dr. Nancy Davidson, professor and head (Medical Oncology) is senior author of “Systemic Therapy for Advanced Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update<https://bit.ly/3x5brff>” and co-authors of “Management of Advanced Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Breast Cancer and Brain Metastases: ASCO Guideline Update<https://bit.ly/395auMb>” in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Dr. Ermias Diro, R3, is lead author of “Adherence to chronic hepatitis B screening guidelines for persons from intermediate to high prevalence countries<https://bit.ly/3tgcBnj>” in the Journal of Community Health. DOM co-authors are Maria Corcorran, Ayushi Gupta, Kristine Lan and H. Nina Kim. This work was made possible with the support of the AID/DOM Research Collaboratory<https://sites.uw.edu/hyangkim/53-2/>.

Dr. Jason Dominitz, professor (Gastroenterology) is co-author of “Age-stratified prevalence and predictors of neoplasia among US adults undergoing screening colonoscopy in a national endoscopy registry<https://bit.ly/38HFZf9>” in Gastroenterology.

Dr. Ann Jennerich, assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. J. Randall Curtis, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of “Heterogeneity of treatment effect in a randomized trial of a communication intervention<https://bit.ly/3GOO921>” in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. DOM co-authors are Lois Downey and Ruth Engelberg.

Dr. Krishna Juluri, acting instructor, is lead author and Dr. Ryan Cassaday, associate professor (Hematology) is senior author of “Asparaginase in the Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Adults: Current Evidence and Place in Therapy<https://bit.ly/3M17Wfh>” in Blood and Lymphatic Cancer.

Dr. Kate Markey, assistant professor (Medical Oncology) is senior author of “MAIT and Vδ2 unconventional T cells are supported by a diverse intestinal microbiome and correlate with favorable patient outcome after allogeneic HCT<https://bit.ly/38GuEvG>” in Science Translational Medicine.

Dr. Eric Morrell, assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. Carmen Mikacenic, clinical associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of “Chemokines, Soluble PD-L1, and Immune Cell Hyporesponsiveness are Distinct Features of SARS-CoV-2 Critical Illness<https://bit.ly/3GVya2d>” in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. DOM co-authors are  Pavan Bhatraju, Neha Sathe, Linzee Mabrey, Sarah Holton, Ted Liu, Sharon Sahi, Carolyn Brager, Sana Sakr, Dawn Lum, Neall Koetje, Ashley Garay, Elizabeth Barnes, Laura Evans, Timothy Eoin West, and Mark Wurfel.

Dr. Adrienne Shapiro, acting assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is co-author of “Number needed to screen for TB in clinical, structural or occupational risk groups<https://bit.ly/3xeQIa4>” in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Dr. Katherine Tuttle, clinical professor (Nephrology) is lead author of “Moving from Evidence to Implementation of Breakthrough Therapies for Diabetic Kidney Disease<https://bit.ly/3aHmjsx>” in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. DOM co-author is Glenda Roberts.


In the news
Dr. Christopher Damman, clinical associate professor (Gastroenterology) is quoted in “Have Anxiety? Here’s What Your Gut Has to Do With It<https://bit.ly/3N8PS4i>” in Everyday Health.

Dr. Shireesha Dhanireddy, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in “Paxlovid? Evusheld? Discussing COVID therapeutics<https://bit.ly/3lZbnsr>” from UW Medicine Newsroom.

Dr. John Lynch, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) talked to KUOW in “Covid numbers are up as people head out<https://bit.ly/3m6J3o8>.”

Dr. Katherine Tuttle, clinical professor (Nephrology) is quoted in “Availability of new drugs result in U.S. Task Force’s consideration of routine kidney disease screening<https://bit.ly/3NfdNiy>” in LifeSci Voice.



Events of interest
Medicine Grand Rounds
Dr. Linda Liu, chief resident, will present “A Reckoning of our Values: Towards a Diverse & Inclusive Future in Academic Medicine” at Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, June 10, 2022,12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/812197730>.

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.


Weekly Calendar, June 6-10, 2022
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
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. Please register for this event<https://cpcce.uw.edu/news/annual-conference/2022-agenda-register>.

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.


  *   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>.

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=>.

Youth Global Health and Innovation Conference
This conference aims to gather high school and undergraduate students from around the world to initiate conversations about topics which significantly impact global health. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with global health professionals through a series of keynote speakers and activities. DOM faculty speakers include Drs. Eric Chow, Carey Farquhar, Douglas Paauw, and Leo Morales. This will be held virtually June 22-24, 2022. For more information, please visit the conference website<https://bit.ly/3MR9J8a>.


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