[domweek] DOM Week, October 17-21, 2022

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
October 14, 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>)


UW Medicine emergency alert system
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Awards
[cid:image002.jpg at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]ANIO Academic Excellence Award
Dr. Nisha Bansal, professor (Nephrology) is the 2022 recipient of the American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO) Academic Excellence award. This award recognizes individuals of Indian origin who have made substantial academic contributions to nephrology and have sustained achievements in the areas of research and education.

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Gilliland Award
[cid:image006.jpg at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]Dr. Başak Çoruh, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is the 2022 recipient of the Bruce C. Gilliland Award for Excellence in Teaching of Residents and Fellows.

Named for the late Dr. Bruce Gilliland - who was known for his skills and compassion as a clinician, his many contributions to the field of rheumatology, his service as an administrator in the School of Medicine, and his dedication to teaching residents and fellows - this award is given to a faculty member who is actively engaged in clinical and didactic training or in the implementation of a graduate medical education curriculum.
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Call for nominations: Awards of Excellence
Nominations are now open for the Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning Award, Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, Distinguished Teaching Awards, Distinguished Teaching Award for Teams (new), Excellence in Teaching Award and Outstanding Public Service Award. For more information, please visit the UW awards website<https://bit.ly/3CRuKwV>.


Faculty news
Faculty spotlight: Rudy Rodriguez
[cid:image008.jpg at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]The VA recently profiled Dr. Rudy Rodriguez in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Dr. Rodriguez is the Director of Hospital and Specialty Medicine at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System and a professor in the Division of Nephrology.

Learn more about him on our news site<https://bit.ly/3Th9ups>.

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Dr. Susan Wong, associate professor (Nephrology) has been inducted into the American Journal of Kidney Diseases Reviewer Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes reviewers who have distinguished themselves by consistently providing insightful, detailed, and valuable input to our authors and our editorial team.


Staff news
[cid:image012.jpg at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]Staff spotlight: Rebekah Zaharia
Our latest staff spotlight is on Rebekah Zaharia, academic HR manager in the Division of General Internal Medicine.

Learn more about her on our news site<https://bit.ly/3rOmIhW>.


Clinical news
Equitable Diabetes Care for Latinx Patients
[cid:image014.jpg at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]Hispanic and Latinx people are at higher risk for diabetes and complications from it. In 2020, the Latinx Diabetes Clinic opened at UW Medicine's South Lake Union campus to serve the growing number of people who identify as Hispanic, Latino/a or Latinx who have diabetes or prediabetes. The clinic, directed by Dr. Lorena Alarcon-Casas Wright, clinical associate professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) also serves as a center of excellence for diabetes research and education for medical students and trainees on providing culturally competent care.

Healthcare can be a daunting experience for any patient, and for Latinx patients who face a language barrier and cultural differences, it can be even more challenging. The clinic team seeks to make care accessible, address healthcare disparities, outreach to the community, and educate medical students and trainees.

Read the full story in The Huddle<https://bit.ly/3VqoiEr>.


Education news
Spotlight on resident research: Explainable Machine Learning Analysis of Right Heart Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
[cid:image016.png at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) are used to support blood flow in people with advanced heart failure. They improve quality of life and survival and are used in some cases as a bridge to cardiac transplantation. However, many LVAD recipients experience undesired adverse events, including acute right heart failure (RHF).

To improve the understanding of underpinnings and optimal management of post-LVAD right heart failure, Dr. Arjun Bahl, R3, and colleagues examined over 19,000 individuals who had LVAD placement between 2008 and 2017 from the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS) database.

Learn more on the residency website<https://uwmedres.uw.edu/resident-life/research/spotlight/bahl>.


Research news
Collaborative hemophilia A study
[cid:image018.jpg at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]Hemophilia A is a rare genetic bleeding disorder that affects approximately one in 5,000 live male births. It is caused by a missing or abnormal clotting protein, factor VIII, so the disease is also known as factor VIII deficiency. The most common treatment is factor VIII replacement. While this approach helps a person with hemophilia A to clot, the infusion also can trigger harmful immune responses called inhibitors.

Currently, both risk factors for immune complications and the mechanisms that drive them are not completely understood. These unknowns are the focus of a National Institutes of Health-funded research effort based at the University of Washington School of Medicine.  A new initiative called Hemophilia A Analytical Cohort Research Program (HARP) will be led by Dr. Jill Johnsen, associate professor (Hematology) and researcher at Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.

Johnsen and research colleagues will trace the roots of risk for immune complications, starting from the time in the womb. The investigators plan to follow fifty pairs of mothers who have the gene change that leads to factor VIII deficiency and their babies who have severe hemophilia A.

Read the full story from UW Medicine Newsroom<https://bit.ly/3COQzNr>.
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Effects of elevated systolic blood pressure on ischemic heart disease
[cid:image020.jpg at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]A standardized approach for quantifying the strength of evidence that supports associations between risk factors and given health outcomes is presented as part of a package of papers published this week in Nature Medicine. The findings are presented in an easy-to-understand star rating system showing the strength of evidence for each link. The new star rating system aims to help people make personal health decisions, inform health policy, and guide future research.

Dr. Gregory Roth, associate professor (Cardiology) is senior author on the burden of proof study describing the significant harmful effect of high systolic blood pressure on the risk of ischemic heart disease<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01974-1>. A systolic blood pressure of between 107.5 and 165 mmHg, for example, was found to raise a person's risk by an average of 101.36% (equal to a five-star rating).

Learn more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3CyN51w>.


Recent publications
Drs. Pavan Bhatraju, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine), and W. Conrad Liles, professor and associate chair, are co-senior authors of "Machine learning-based derivation and external validation of a tool to predict death and development of organ failure in hospitalized patients with COVID-19<https://go.nature.com/3ywWPqu>" in Scientific Reports. Drs. Bhatraju and Liles are also co-authors of "Deep learning models for COVID-19 chest x-ray classification: Preventing shortcut learning using feature disentanglement<https://bit.ly/3RLSAy9>" in PLOS One.

Dr. Kelley Branch, professor (Cardiology) is co-author of "2022 Use of Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography for Patients Presenting with Acute Chest Pain to the Emergency Department: An Expert Consensus Document<https://www.journalofcardiovascularct.com/article/S1934-5925(22)00278-7/fulltext#%20>" In Journal of Cardiovascular CT and lead author of "Fractal Analysis in Myocardial Computed Tomography Perfusion: All That One Cannot See<Fractal%20Analysis%20in%20Myocardial%20Computed%20Tomography%20Perfusion:%20All%20That%20One%20Cannot%20See>" in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is co-author of "Estimated Global Proportions of Individuals With Persistent Fatigue, Cognitive, and Respiratory Symptom Clusters Following Symptomatic COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021<https://bit.ly/3fZ86cT>" in JAMA.

Dr. Jason Dominitz, professor (Gastroenterology) is lead author of "Understanding the Results of a Randomized Trial of Screening Colonoscopy<https://bit.ly/3eiOTCs>" in the New England Journal of Medicine. He is also quoted about this in "A colonoscopy study has some wondering if they should have the procedure. What you should know<https://cnn.it/3EwYFM0>" in CNN Health.

Dr. Bishoy Hanna, fellow, is lead author, and Dr. Nazem Akoum, professor (Cardiology) is senior author of "Demystifying electrophysiology<https://bit.ly/3rPubx3>" in Heart.

Dr. George Ioannou, professor (Gastroenterology) is lead author of "Effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Against Infection, Hospitalization, and Death: A Target Trial Emulation in the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant Era<https://bit.ly/3CR2HgS>" in the Annals of Internal Medicine. DOM co-authors are Ann O'Hare and Edward Boyko.

Dr. Gary Lyman, professor (Medical Oncology) is senior author of "Mitigating acute chemotherapy-associated adverse events in patients with cancer<https://go.nature.com/3MpzWel>" in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology.

Glenda V. Roberts, director of external relations and patient engagement, Kidney Research Institute (Nephrology), is co-author of "Patient Perspective on Xenotransplantation<https://bit.ly/3EDM21M>" in Kidney360.

Dr. Judith Tsui, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Acceptability, feasibility, and outcomes of a clinical pilot program for video observation of methadone take-home dosing during the COVID-19 pandemic<https://bit.ly/3Se1NzP>" in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. DOM co-author is James Darnton. Read more in "Video app eases methadone dose-confirmation burden<https://bit.ly/3yCQUR5>" from UW Medicine Newsroom.

Dr. Katherine Tuttle, clinical professor (Nephrology) is lead author of "Incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease among Adults with Diabetes, 2015-2020<https://bit.ly/3rPZ70k>" in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Pandora (Luke) Wander, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Cross-sectional Associations of Multiracial Identity with Self-Reported Asthma and Poor Health Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adults<https://bit.ly/3SYlH2C>" in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.


In the news
Dr. Anthony Back, professor (Medical Oncology) is quoted in "Can Psilocybin Challenge Our Pharmaceutical Dependence?<https://bit.ly/3gaWS52>" in Vogue.

Dr. Jessica Bender, clinical assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is quoted in "At the Front Lines of Long COVID, Local Clinics Prove Vital<https://wb.md/3EFPokL>" from WebMD.

Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "How to Boost Your Immune System During Cold and Flu Season<https://nyti.ms/3RXwXLD>" in the New York Times.

Dr. Seth Cohen, clinical associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "Please Just Get the Dang Updated COVID Booster Shot<https://bit.ly/3eqO5M2>" in GQ.

Dr. Shireesha Dhanireddy, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) talked to KUOW about "How to Make Covid Boosters Cool Again<https://bit.ly/3D0cTUu>."

Dr. Mary (Nora) Disis, professor (Medical Oncology) is quoted in "After Giving Up on Cancer Vaccines, Doctors Start to Find Hope<https://nyti.ms/3VfAeZn>" in the New York Times.

Dr. Christine Limonte, clinician researcher (Nephrology) wrote the blog post "Advancements in the understanding and treating of diabetic kidney disease<https://bit.ly/3Voa0E7>" for the American Kidney Fund.

Dr. Stephanie Page, professor and head (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is quoted in "Male contraception in a post-Roe world<https://bit.ly/3rRjp9C>" from AAMC News.

Dr. Andrew Stergachis, assistant professor (Medical Genetics) is quoted in "Can Start-Ups Significantly Lower the Cost of Gene Sequencing?<https://nyti.ms/3g71OIo>" in the New York Times.


Events of interest
Hispanic Heritage Month Event
The UW Network of Underrepresented Residents & Fellows (NURF), in collaboration with the Residency Diversity Committee (RDC), and Health Equity & Anti-Racism (HEAR) committee invite you to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with delicious food, community and salsa dancing. October 21, 6:30-8:30pm, South Campus Center. Please RSVP for this event<https://bit.ly/3CwBIpt>.

Medicine Grand Rounds
Dr. Marc Moss (University of Colorado School of Medicine) will present "The Growing Epidemic of Psychological Distress in Healthcare Professionals" at Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, October 21, 2022,12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/812197730>.


Weekly Calendar, October 17-21, 2022
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
Gender Equity Lunch Series: Gender and the Electronic Health Record workload
[cid:image021.jpg at 01D8DFEB.8345FBE0]Special guest moderator, Dr. Eve Rittenberg, Harvard Medical Center, will discuss gender and the EHR workload, and her article "Primary Care Physician Gender and Electronic Health Record Workload<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-021-07298-z>" published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Eve Rittenberg, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care internist at the Fish Center for Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her interests include women's health, trauma-informed care, and health equity. Nov. 8, 12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/93551236119> (meeting ID: 935 5123 6119). Please RSVP<https://forms.office.com/r/Hx5QT3HCxu>.


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