[domweek] DOM Week, March 27-31, 2023

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
March 24, 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
Call for nominations: Minority Faculty Mentoring Award
Nominations are now open for the UW School of Medicine 2023 Minority Faculty Mentoring Award. This award recognizes the need for excellence in mentoring of underrepresented faculty groups to achieve diversity and inclusion, key elements that can unleash creativity and innovation so that we can meet the health care needs of our region.

This is an annual award highlighting the mentoring achievements of senior faculty. Nominees need not be a member of an underrepresented group. This award is supported through the Office of the Dean, Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of Healthcare Equity and the Committee on Minority Faculty Advancement.

Visit our website<https://bit.ly/40vIoyP> for more information. Nominations are due April 17.


EDI news
Meet the new members of the Gender Equity Council
Welcome to the new members who have joined our Gender Equity Council in 2023:


  *   Jocelyn James, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine)
  *   Leah Marcotte, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine)
  *   Lisa Perdue, administrative assistant (Gastroenterology)
  *   Namrata Singh, assistant professor (Rheumatology)
  *   Elizabeth Vig, associate professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine)

Sean Greenlee and Dr. David Horne have also joined as ex-officio members. More information about the council and a full list of members may be found on our website<https://bit.ly/40cvpC1>.

[cid:image003.jpg at 01D95E69.E4D1C4F0]We also welcome Dr. Nisha Bansal, professor (Nephrology) as our incoming co-chair, effective July 2023 (working with Kelsey Griffin who has been co-chair since 2022). Dr. Bansal joined the council last year and was a gender equity ambassador<https://bit.ly/3l88dpH> before that.

A special thanks to those moving on from the council, including Dr. Michelle Erickson, who chaired our Retention and Career Advancement subcommittee in 2022, Michelle Lynch, who was instrumental in developing the GEC's LIFT initiative and was on the Gender Equity Awards review committee, Steph Timm<https://mednews.uw.edu/news/staff/timm>, who was an inaugural co-chair, and Dr. Katherine Wysham<https://mednews.uw.edu/news/faculty-spotlight-katherine-wysham>, who chaired our Retention and Career Advancement subcommittee in 2021.
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Last but not least, we thank inaugural co-chair Dr. Susan Merel<https://mednews.uw.edu/news/faculty-spotlight-susan-merel> for her leadership over the past two years. This council has been extremely productive and Dr. Merel has been instrumental in the progress we have made. Dr. Merel will continue as co-chair through July and will be staying on as an ex-officio member of the council.


Staff news
New Cardiology Administrator
[cid:image007.jpg at 01D95E69.E4D1C4F0]The department welcomes Brian Washburn as our new administrator in the Division of Cardiology, effective May 1, 2023. Brian comes to the UW with many years of progressive healthcare management and consulting experience in both academic and rural medical centers, and a comprehensive knowledge of healthcare delivery, operations, and financial management practices. For the last two years he been the Executive Director of Operations at Humboldt General Hospital in Winnemucca, Nevada.

He has an MHA from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently working towards a Doctor of Healthcare Administration from the University of Mississippi Medical Center (expected May 2023).

Alyssa Williamson will continue to serve as cardiology administrator through the upcoming weeks and support Brian in his transition into this role. Following this transition period, Alyssa is remaining on in her departmental role as senior director of clinical programs.

Please join us in welcoming Brian to the department and thanking Alyssa for her outstanding work as cardiology administrator.


Faculty news
40 under 40
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Liao, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) and associate chair for health systems, and Dr. Andrew Stergachis, assistant [cid:image009.jpg at 01D95E69.E4D1C4F0] professor (Medical Genetics) who have been selected by the Puget Sound Business Journal as two of its 40 under 40 most important and influential young leaders in the Puget Sound region. They will be profiled in the April issue of the journal and honored at a special reception event.
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Faculty spotlight: Nisha Bansal
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Our latest faculty spotlight is on Dr. Nisha Bansal, professor (Nephrology) and incoming co-chair of the DOM Gender Equity Council.

Learn more about her on our news site<https://bit.ly/3TJH88N>.

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In memoriam: Philip Fleckman
[cid:image011.jpg at 01D95E69.E4D1C4F0]Dr. Philip Fleckman, professor (Dermatology) passed away on March 19 after a courageous fight against mycosis fungoides (cutaneous T-cell lymphoma). He was 77. He was a pioneer in the treatment of nail disease, autoimmune blistering diseases, and ichthyoses (inherited scaling skin diseases), and PI of the National Registry for Ichthyosis and Related Disorders, an NIH-sponsored research registry for individuals with disorders of keratinization.

An icon and backbone of UW Dermatology for 40 years, Dr. Fleckman's warm, gentlemanly approach to teaching helped generations of young dermatologists reach their potential. His abilities and research advances impacted the study and practice of dermatology around the world and improved the lives of countless patients.

Read more about him on the Dermatology website<https://bit.ly/3naWpTY>.


Clinical news
Department of Medicine Health Systems Collective: More Data Asset Offerings
Last year, the Department of Medicine announced the Health Systems Collective, an initiative aimed at supporting people & groups in DOM interested in improving health through systems of care. The Collective seeks to do so by providing a set of resources and services to DOM members including access to data assets that can be used to answer important care delivery and systems questions. We've recently added another dataset. To learn more, visit the Health Systems website<https://bit.ly/3GhXJfo>.


Research news
Spotlight on resident research: Understanding Checkpoint-Inhibitor Induced Immune-Related Hepatitis
[cid:image013.jpg at 01D95E69.E4D1C4F0]Aiming to better predict who is at greatest risk for checkpoint inhibitor-induced hepatitis, Dr. Erica Storm, R3, and colleagues conducted a retrospective case-control study of adults who newly received checkpoint inhibitor therapies for a variety of solid organ malignancies between 2016 and 2020 at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

Storm identified 97 cases of Grade 2-4 immune-related hepatitis. After adjusting for other factors that could contribute to risk of hepatitis, a liver cirrhosis was found to be associated with lower risk of immune-related hepatitis. In contrast, the presence of cancer metastases within the liver was associated with higher risk.

Learn more on the residency website<https://bit.ly/3YXAdKd>.


Recent publications
Dr. Daniel Fishbein, professor (Cardiology) is co-author of "Effectiveness of the Family Heart Talk Communication Tool in Improving Family Member Screening for Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Results of a Randomized Trial<https://bit.ly/40dE87o>" in Circulation.

Dr. Rajnish Mehrotra, professor and head (Nephrology) is co-author of "Medicare Advantage Enrollment Among Beneficiaries With End-Stage Renal Disease in the First Year of the 21st Century Cures Act<https://bit.ly/42Axt8H>" in JAMA.

Dr. Graham Nichol, professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of "Differential Effect of Targeted Temperature Management Between 32 °C and 36 °C Following Cardiac Arrest According to Initial Severity of Illness: Insights From Two International Data Sets<https://bit.ly/42qH5CL>" in Chest.

Emily Romeis, research scientist, is lead author, and Dr. Lorenzo Giacani, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of "Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum with an Artificially impaired TprK antigenic variation system is attenuated in the Rabbit model of syphilis<https://bit.ly/42y0XEg>" in PLOS Pathogens. DOM co-authors are  Barbara Molini and Lauren Tantalo.

Dr. Mazyar Shadman, associate professor (Medical Oncology) wrote "Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Review<https://bit.ly/3LCy4Rn>" in JAMA.


In the news
Dr. Shailender Bhatia, professor (Medical Oncology) is quoted in "FDA Approves New Merkel Cell Carcinoma Drug Zynyz<https://wb.md/40yz90u>" from Medscape.

Drs. Jessica Bender, clinical assistant professor, and Anita Chopra, clinical instructor (General Internal Medicine) are quoted in "Pfizer's Covid drug Paxlovid may reduce the risk of developing long Covid, study says<https://cnb.cx/42Il2Ie>" from CNBC.

Dr. Helen Chu, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "Sick With Something That Isn't COVID-19 or the Flu? Here's What It Might Be<https://bit.ly/3FyXxav>" in Time.

Samuel Smukowski, research assistant (Medical Genetics) is quoted in "MDA 2023: Expansion in WDR7 gene linked to increased ALS risk<https://bit.ly/3Zgou9Q>" in ALS News Today.

Dr. David Owens, associate professor (Cardiology) is quoted in "Inside Look at Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy<https://bit.ly/42wSBg1>" in Health Central.

Dr. Jenny Sun, clinical assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "Achoo! Sun, warmer temps, and allergies arriving in the NW<https://bit.ly/3JQcDL8>" from KUOW.


Weekly Calendar, March 27-31, 2023
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
Molecular Medicine & Mechanisms of Disease Seminar Series
This seminar series is open to all interested individuals. This year the topic will be "Challenges in Cancer Immunotherapy", with lectures by Drs. Aude Chapuis, Nora Disis, Tina Albertson, Stan Riddell, and Damian Green. Seminars will take place April 5-May 3 on Wednesdays at FHCC. For the complete schedule and more information please visit our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/education/m3d-phd-program#seminar-series>. Any questions, please contact Faith Wall<mailto:fwall at fredhutch.org>.

Faculty Development Series
All DOM faculty are invited to join the GIM Faculty Development seminar series, 1-2pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/96022648263>.

  *   April 7 - "Use peer feedback to improve your teaching" (Somnath Mookherjee)
  *   May 5 - "How to make an effective ask" (Lauge Sokol-Hessner)
  *   June 2 - "Using goals and values to find professional satisfaction" (Lauren Beste)

Clinical Cardiology Pearls for Primary Care
This course is tailored for a primary care audience and is intended to provide practical, up-to-date information on commonly encountered cardiovascular diseases. Recent guidelines for hypertension, cholesterol management, primary prevention of heart disease, and heart failure will be reviewed. April  28. To learn more and register for the event, please visit the CME website<https://bit.ly/3Z4m7XJ>.

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, 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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Amy Fields, Editor
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