[domweek] DOM Week, June 5-9, 2023

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]


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DOM Week
June 2, 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>)



Faculty news
2023 Faculty Promotions
Congratulations to the following Department of Medicine faculty whose promotions are effective July 1, 2023:

To associate professor:
Katherine Bennett, Pavan Bhatraju, Chloe Bryson-Cahn, Sirisak Chanprasert, Neal Chatterjee, Lucas Donovan, Kleber Fertrin, Jordan Gauthier, Anna Halpern, Rachel Issaka, Ann Jennerich, Sylvia LaCourse, Shin Lin, Ryan Lynch, Viswam Nair, Kathleen Ramos, Javeed Shah, Olusegun Soge, Moritz Stolla, Arthi Thirumalai, Paul Valdmanis, Shaveta Vinayak, Vo Phuong, Pandora Wander, David Zhen

To professor:
Scott Biggins, Richard Cheng, Lisa Chew, Helen Chu, Paul Cornia, Julia Dombrowski, David Hawkins, Sioban Keel, Somnath Mookherjee, Steven Pergam, Michi Shinohara, Jennifer Specht, Savitha Subramanian

To research professor:
Kayode Ojo

Tenure granted:
Rajnish Mehrotra

To clinical assistant professor (salaried): Sheida Aalami, Joseph Adler, Samantha Alspach, Emily Bardolph, Terry Chen, Anita Chopra, Alexandra Collis, Aynsley Duncan, Bijan Ghassemieh, Andrew Graustein, Erin Ham, Yi Huang, Jonathan Keller, Thomas Keller, Eve Lake, Ylinne Lynch, Nandita Mani, Eric Mar, Patrick McAdams, Vikram Padmanabhan, Duncan Reid, Ahana Roy, Isabela Sales, Mala Sanchez, Meghna Shah,
Rahul Sharma, Julie Silverman, Scott Stroup, Bich-Chieu Tran, Brittany Trudeau, Kathleen Volkman, Mengru Wang

To clinical associate professor (salaried):
James Araujo, Kendra Bergstrom, Jacob Berman, Tiffany Chen, Andrew Cheng, Taryn Chlebowski, Iris De Castro, Mayumi Endo, Divya Gollapudi, Mahri Haider, Lianne Hirano, Deborah Huang, Adam Jayne-Jensen, Carolyn Keller, Farah Khan, Gina Kim, Ania (Anna) Lang, J. Michael Lauinger, Robert Monger, Lisa (Alexandra) Morrison, Maya Narayanan, Sarah Sanghavi, Kathryn Schlenker, Meredith Sheedy, Anand Singla,
Chris Vanderwarker, Kate Weaver

To clinical professor (salaried):
Victoria Fang, Jeremy Kampp, Lisa Maier, Ahmad Bilal Malik, Elina Minami, Alec Moorman, Grady Paden, Michael Shannon, Nancy Simon, Chaitra Ujjani
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IDSA honors George Counts
[image026.jpg]The Infectious Diseases Society of American (IDSA) Foundation has named the George W. Counts, MD, FIDSA, Executive Conference room in honor of one of the country’s leading physicians, researchers, teachers, mentors and leaders. Dr. Counts came to the University of Washington as a fellow and later was Director of Infectious Diseases at Harborview. He was the first Black professor in the Department of Medicine. The conference space will honor Dr. Counts and his substantial accomplishments advancing the care of patients, especially those of color, as well as mentoring many infectious diseases physicians in their early career who were underrepresented.
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[image027.jpg]Lifesaving ideas
Dr. Leonard Cobb’s innovative ideas, collaboration and focus on improvement created two of the most important lifesaving initiatives of our time: Medic One and teaching community members how to do CPR. He died Feb. 14 at the age of 96, but his legacy – a model for emergency care everywhere – continues to touch lives from coast to coast.

He is profiled in the June issue of University of Washington Magazine<https://bit.ly/3MBIKhU>.
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[image028.jpg]Dr. Jon Keller, clinical instructor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has been selected to participate in the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) Physician Leadership Course. This course is a leadership boot camp for physicians to help develop core leadership competencies, expand leadership skills, and become more effective leaders within their local clinical care settings.

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Robb MacLellan steps down as Cardiology Division Head
[image029.jpg]Dr. W. Robb MacLellan became the fifth division head of Cardiology on November 1, 2011. Under his leadership, the division has seen significant and comprehensive growth. He became director of the Regional Heart Center and rebranded it as the Heart Institute as a draw for patients across the country, and new programs were established, including the Center for Cardiovascular Innovation and Global Cardiovascular Health Program. On July 1, 2022, MacLellan accepted the new position of executive vice chair in the Department of Medicine. He is officially stepping down as Cardiology Division Head on June 16 and Dr. Jordan Prutkin will be interim division head.

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Education news
2023 DURM Scholarship Recipients
[image030.jpg]Congratulations to the 2023 DURM Scholars, Alex Bang and Iesha Ticknor. The DURM Visiting Medical Student Rotation Scholarship provides funding for URM (underrepresented in medicine) students to experience the outstanding training programs at the University of Washington.

Learn more on the Dermatology website<https://bit.ly/4380WqA>.


Clinical news
GI advocates block prior authorization for lifesaving procedures
[image031.jpg]Gastroenterology advocates voiced strong opposition to a policy by United Healthcare (UHC) that would have required prior authorization for colonoscopies and endoscopies. “UHC’s new prior authorization requirements target critical GI services that help physicians catch and diagnose life-threatening diseases like colorectal cancer earlier, giving patients a better chance of survival, as well as procedures that are necessary to monitor disease progression in patients,” Department Chair Dr. Barbara Jung wrote in an op-ed on May 26. Jung is the president of the American Gastroenterological Society (AGA).

As a result of the push back by the AGA and other GI societies, the UHC ultimately changed course and implemented an advance notification process, instead of prior authorization, for non-screening and non-emergent GI procedures. The advance notification process went into effect on June 1, and GI organizations are continuing the fight.

“UnitedHealthcare’s slap-dash approach to rolling out a policy that will ultimately control patient access to critical, often life-saving, medical procedures flies in the face of common sense and responsible medical practice,” said Jung. “It also indicates that UHC does not currently have data that shows any significant overutilization of critical endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures that would ostensibly justify this program or prior authorization.”
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Heart guidance for American Indian, Alaska Native women
[image032.jpg]The American Heart Association (AHA) has published guidance<https://bit.ly/3N6ypMw> for clinicians who provide maternal care to members of the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities. The AHA paper offers recommendations to clinicians about how to counsel American Indian and Alaska Native women to lead heart-healthy lives — framed in context of the unique constellation of risk factors that confront these communities in pregnancy and in life.

“There are measurable health disparities in cardiovascular disease prevalence and outcomes in American Indian and Alaska Native women,” said Dr. Jason Deen, associate professor (Cardiology) and co-author of the guidelines. “These all are centered around the social determinants of health, which for this population are mainly a result of systemic racism.”

Read the full story from UW Medicine Newsroom<https://bit.ly/42iJEG3>.


Recent publications
Dr. Rahul Banerjee, assistant professor (Medical Oncology) is co-author of “Where the Sidewalk Ends: Parenting as a trainee during COVID-19<https://bit.ly/3qem6oi>” in Cancer Investigation.

Dr. Karin Bornfeldt, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is senior author of “Inflammasomes and Atherosclerosis: a Mixed Picture<https://bit.ly/43DQIhA>” in Circulation Research.

Drs. Shireesha Dhanireddy, Bijan Ghassemieh, David Horne, Elizabeth Kracen, Masahiro Narita, and Christopher Spitters  are co-authors of “Implementation of BPaL in the United States: Experience using a novel all-oral treatment regimen for treatment of rifampin-resistant or rifampin-intolerant TB disease<https://bit.ly/3qqP9F5>” in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Dr. George Ioannou, professor (Gastroenterology) is senior author of “Adverse outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection with delta and omicron variants in vaccinated versus unvaccinated US veterans: retrospective cohort study<https://bit.ly/3ONeMKB>” in BMJ. DOM co-authors are Ann O’Hare and Edward Boyko.

Dr. Nicholas Johnson, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is co-author of “Changing Severity and Epidemiology of Adults Hospitalized With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States After Introduction of COVID-19 Vaccines, March 2021-August 2022<https://bit.ly/3OMaHq3>” in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Christian Lood, associate professor (Rheumatology) is senior author of “Mitochondrial N-formyl methionine peptides contribute to exaggerated neutrophil activation in patients with COVID-19<https://bit.ly/43uhed2>” in Virulence. DOM co-authors are Sharon Sahi, Ian Stanaway, Mark Wurfel, Eric Morrell, W. Conrad Liles, and Pavan Bhatraju.

Dr. Adelaide McClintock, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of “Teaching reproductive justice<https://bit.ly/3MNFmkf>” in the Clinical Teacher, and lead author of “Psychological safety in medical education: A scoping review and synthesis of the literature<https://bit.ly/45Bq4Ye>” in Medical Teacher. DOM co-author is Kevin Blau.

Dr. Kristen Patton, professor (Cardiology) is vice-chair and co-author of “2023 HRS/APHRS/LAHRS guideline on cardiac physiologic pacing for the avoidance and mitigation of heart failure<https://bit.ly/45zMCIW>” in Heart Rhythm.

Dr. Armin Rashidi, associate professor (Medical Oncology) is lead author of “Randomized Double-Blind Phase II Trial of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Versus Placebo in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and AML<https://bit.ly/3IPFLRQ>” in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Dr. John Scott, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is co-author of “Hepatitis C Guidance 2023 Update: AASLD-IDSA Recommendations for Testing, Managing, and Treating Hepatitis C Virus Infection<https://bit.ly/3IRHQwH>” in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Dr. June Spector, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of “Wildfire Smoke Monitoring for Agricultural Safety and Health in Rural Washington<https://bit.ly/42xUKal>” in the Journal of Agromedicine.


In the news
Dr. Bradley Anawalt, professor (General Internal Medicine) is quoted in “‘Spermageddon’: What you need to know about falling sperm counts and the male fertility crisis<https://bit.ly/43b3DHL>” in EuroNews.

Dr. Jessica Bender, clinical assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is quoted in “New Study Identifies the Top 12 Symptoms of Long COVID<https://bit.ly/43E9Z29>” in Everyday Health.

Dr. Daniel Cabrera, clinical associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of “Everyone Deserves to Belong<https://bit.ly/43XImBB>” in The Hospitalist.

Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in “Science finally figured out how to make effective RSV vaccines. Will seniors care?<https://bit.ly/42eUFrS>” in STAT.

Department Chair Dr. Barbara Jung is featured in “Dr. Barbara H. Jung Becomes AGA President, Paving Way for Women in Gastroenterology<https://bit.ly/3MOXYA3>” in Mirage.

Dr. Joshua Liao, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is quoted in “Public Health Emergency ends — So does Medicaid automatic re-enrollment<https://bit.ly/3MHxqkl>” in Northwest Asian Weekly.

Drs. Anna Morenz, clinical researcher,  and Joshua Liao, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) are co-authors of “Improving Quality And Equity Through Neighborhood-Level Measures Of Social Need<https://bit.ly/3OPcf2z>” in Health Affairs Forefront.

Dr. Gregory Roth, associate professor (Cardiology) is quoted in “Cardiovascular Disease Is Primed to Kill More Older Adults<https://bit.ly/43mVvnS>” in Fifty Plus Life.


Weekly Calendar, June 5-9, 2023
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
Travel Medicine and Global Health
This hybrid conference is targeted to non-specialist physicians and other health professionals with an interest in travel medicine and global health. Travel medicine topics will include immunizations, malaria prophylaxis, traveler’s diarrhea, and other topics salient to caring for those who travel to low-income nations. Global health topics will include medical professionals volunteering overseas, and working in complex humanitarian emergencies. June 22-23. For more information and to register, visit the UW CME website<https://bit.ly/3qotflP>.

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Amy Fields, Editor
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