[domweek] DOM Week, February 20-24, 2023

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
February 17, 2023
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
[cid:image003.jpg at 01D919C9.C39F53E0]Dr. Fred Appelbaum, professor (Medical Oncology) is the 2023 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual who has made continuing contributions to the field of blood and marrow transplantation, either in basic biology or clinical application.

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[cid:image031.jpg at 01D942F1.27226F60]Dr. Erin Kross, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has been chosen to receive the inaugural J. Randall Curtis Humanism Award by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Awards Committee. The ATS J. Randall Curtis Humanism Award recognizes and celebrates individuals whose work reflects the ideals espoused by Dr. Curtis throughout his career of compassion, humanism, and mentorship. Individuals selected for the award reflect these values in daily practice and to continuously strive to be exemplars of humanism in healthcare.

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[cid:image032.jpg at 01D942F1.27226F60]Dr. Trish Kritek, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) won the Reeves Prize for Presentation Excellence at the 2023 International Hypoxia Symposia in Lake Louise for her talk "Hypoxemia in the COVID ICU - Mechanisms and Reflections."




Faculty news
In memoriam: Leonard Cobb
[cid:image033.jpg at 01D942F1.27226F60]Dr. Leonard Cobb, 96, a co-founder of the Seattle Medic One paramedic program, died Feb. 14, 2023. He was a luminary in the field of pre-hospital care of people with cardiac disease.

In the 1960s, Dr. Cobb was chief of cardiology at Harborview Medical Center when he took note of work being done in Europe to increase the survival of cardiac patients outside of hospitals. Dr. Cobb began talks with Seattle Fire Department Chief Gordon Vickery about whether firefighters could learn essential clinical skills and apply them on the job to save people who were experiencing life-threatening cardiac events.

This collaboration led to the creation of the Seattle Fire Department's Medic One Unit in 1970, one of the nation's first paramedic programs to provide physician-level assistance to people outside of the hospital.

Read more about him on our news site<http://bit.ly/3lM3dqF>.
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[cid:image034.jpg at 01D942F1.27226F60]Faculty spotlight: Somnath Mookherjee
Dr. Somnath Mookherjee, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is an internal medicine physician at UWMC and an active clinician-educator.

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

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[cid:image035.jpg at 01D942F1.27226F60]Dr. Sheila Lukehart, professor emeritus (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology. Fellows are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Lukehart is among the top 65 fellows who are elected into the Academy this year.



Education news
[cid:image036.jpg at 01D942F1.27226F60]Dr. Fionnuala Cormack, clinical associate professor (Nephrology) will serve as the Associate Program Director for the Nephrology Fellowship Program, effective July 1, 2023.

She brings tremendous strengths and experience to this role. She has served as the Director of the UW dialysis program, leads the Nephrology efforts at UW Stone Center, and is the Section Head of UWMC's NW Campus. She is a gifted educator, and the fellows recognized her with the Teacher of the Year award for the 2019 - 2020 academic year.


Research news
How blood cancer research might help organ transplant patients
[cid:image037.jpg at 01D942F1.27226F60]About one in ten people in the U.S. awaiting a kidney transplant will have an especially hard time finding a compatible donor. Dr. Joshua Hill, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and colleagues are working to zero in on a type of antibody producing cell that may be keeping donated organs out of reach for thousands of patients needing new kidneys, hearts, lungs or other vital organs.

Read more from Hutch News<http://bit.ly/3YWPmfk>.

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Survey focus: long COVID impact on Latino communities
[cid:image038.jpg at 01D942F1.27226F60]The University of Washington's Latino Center for Health has launched a study to better understand the extent and impact of long COVID on the state's Latino communities.

"Since the onset of the pandemic, Latino communities in Washington state have had higher rates of COVID-19 infection than the general population, higher rates of hospitalization, and higher rates of mortality on an age-adjusted basis," said Dr. Leo Morales, professor (General Internal Medicine) and co-director of the Latino Center for Health. "Yet we are not seeing many people from Latino communities showing up in our long-COVID clinics."

Read more from UW Medicine Newsroom<http://bit.ly/3kb5gnF>.

Clinical news
Fred Hutch blood and marrow transplant program recognized nationally for patient survival outcomes
[cid:image039.png at 01D942F1.27226F60]The Fred Hutch Blood and Marrow Transplant Program has been recognized in an annual data report from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) as exceeding expectations for one-year survival rates in patients who have received allogenic transplants of blood-forming stem cells from healthy donors. Of the 175 transplant centers and 25,385 patients included in the analysis, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center's program is one of the 11 (6.3%) to receive the exceeding expectations designation.

"These survival data are particularly notable because they include patients treated during the COVID-19 pandemic," said Dr. Marco Mielcarek, professor (Medical Oncology) and medical director of adult blood and marrow transplantation at Fred Hutch. "I am grateful for the commitment of our multidisciplinary teams and the resilience of our program for contributing to these encouraging patient outcomes, especially during an unusually challenging time for both our patients and health care teams."

Read more from Hutch News<http://bit.ly/3xxQOJs>.


Recent publications
Dr. Michelle Erickson, research assistant professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is lead author of "Blood-brain barrier penetration of non-replicating SARS-CoV-2 and S1 variants of concern induce neuroinflammation which is accentuated in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease<https://bit.ly/4144NEe>" in Brain, Behavior and Immunity. DOM co-authors are Drs. Aric Logsdon, Elizabeth Rhea and William Banks.

Dr. Gail Jarvik, professor and head (Medical Genetics) is co-author of "Facing our History - Building an Equitable Future Initiation<https://bit.ly/3YFmloN>", a report for the American Society of Human Genetics.

Dr. Chang Li, research assistant professor is lead author and Drs. André Lieber, professor (Medical Genetics) and Hans-Peter Kiem, professor (Medical Oncology) are o-senior authors of "Stable expression of an HIV decoy receptor after in vivo HSC transduction in mice and NHPs: Safety and efficacy in protection from SHIV<http://bit.ly/3Z46Syt>" in Molecular Therapy. DOM co-authors are Drs. Anna Anderson, Hongjie Wang, Sucheol Gil, Jiho Kim and Lishuan Huang.

Dr. Ryan Murphy, acting instructor is lead author and Drs. Teal Hallstand, professor and Sina Gharib, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) are co-senior authors of "Rhinovirus infection of the airway epithelium enhances mast cell immune responses via epithelial-derived interferons<http://bit.ly/3S7i0bg>" in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. DOM co-authors include Drs. Matthew Altman and William Altemeier.

Glenda Roberts, director of external relations and patient engagement (Nephrology) is a co-author of "Kidney Transplant Practice in Pandemic Times: Lessons Learned for the Future<http://bit.ly/3YU2Msq>" in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Dr. Alison Roxby, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of "Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya Demonstrate Rapid STI Incidence Following First Sex: Data From a Longitudinal Cohort<http://bit.ly/3SaIKI7>" in Journal of Adolescent Health. Dom co-authors are Stacy Selke and Dr. Anna Wald.

Dr. Mazyar Shadman, associate professor (Medical Oncology) is author of "Allogenic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation after CAR-T Failure: When Your Old Friend Comes to Rescue<http://bit.ly/3Ke0Uqv>" in Transplantation and Cellular Therapy.

Dr. Eugene Yang, clinical professor (Cardiology) is co-author of "Feasibility and measurement stability of smartwatch-based cuffless blood pressure monitoring: A real-world prospective observational study<https://bit.ly/415YjVt>" in Nature.


In the news
Dr. John Amory, professor (General Internal Medicine) was quoted in "Give Him a Birth Control Pill for Valentine's Day<http://bit.ly/3Ej2pjo>" from Washington Post.

Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) was quoted in "As bird flu spreads to minks, sea lions and other mammals, scientists are on alert for dangerous mutations<http://bit.ly/3YWnRm6>" from NBC News.

Dr. Luke Wander, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) was quoted in "Risk of developing diabetes after Covid-19 continued in Omicron period, study says<http://bit.ly/3Z0yynH>" from CNN.



Events of interest
Medicine Grand Rounds
Dr. Barbara Jung will present "The State of the Department" at Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, March 10, 2023,12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/812197730>.



Weekly Calendar, February 20-24, 2023
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey
UW Medicine has launched an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey<https://depts.washington.edu/hcequity/edisurvey/> to identify baseline measures of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion across UW Medicine and provide actionable data to help prioritize areas for work at the entity and departmental levels. All UW Medicine faculty, staff, and trainees are invited and encouraged to participate in the survey which will take about 10-15 minutes to complete. The survey will be open from Jan. 17 - Feb. 28, 2023. Please participate in this survey to help make us a more equitable and anti-racist institution.

Seattle Sounders March 18
The Department of Medicine is proud to sponsor a Seattle Sounders match on Saturday, March 18, at 1pm at Lumen Field in downtown Seattle. Please use this link<http://bit.ly/3IdSVXI> to purchase tickets for yourself and friends and family on a first come, first served basis. Food vouchers will be provided to each participating employee prior to the date of the match.

Eli Estey symposium on the pathogenesis and therapy of AML
A scientific symposium honoring Dr. Eli Estey's many contributions to leukemia research and care will be held at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on May 19, 2023 from 9am to 5:30pm with state-of-the-art talks by esteemed AML colleagues. For more information and to register, please visit the Hematology website<https://hematology.uw.edu/news/aml-pathogenesis-and-therapy-scientific-symposium-honor-dr-eli-estey>.

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