[domweek] DOM Week, May 15-19, 2023

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
May 12, 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
Gender Equity Awards
Established in 2021, the Department of Medicine Gender Equity Awards<https://medicine.uw.edu/diversity/gender-equity/awards> recognize and celebrate individuals who are dedicated to supporting the success of women and gender minorities. Congratulations to the 2023 recipients:

Mentorship Awards
Monica Fawthrop, administrator (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine); Erin Kross, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine); and Judith Tsui, professor (General Internal Medicine).

Trailblazer Award
Lex Powers, genetic counselor (Medical Genetics).

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Learn more about them on our news site<https://bit.ly/3NPaTo1>.

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[cid:image037.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]Dr. Shailender Bhatia, professor (Medical Oncology) has received a 2023 Distinguished Faculty Award from the Binaytara Foundation. The Binaytara Foundation's mission is to minimize cancer disparities and to improve access to cancer care for all. The distinguished faculty award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated long-standing excellence in teaching and improving access to education for health care providers.


EDI news
[cid:image038.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]EDItorial: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
The EDItorial is a monthly Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Awareness Newsletter created by our IM residency program staff. Each month they highlight different marginalized groups with opportunities to engage, support, and participate on international, national, and local levels. The May newsletter highlights Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

Read the EDItorial on the IM residency website<https://bit.ly/42FM7eg>.

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Year Up interns
[cid:image039.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]The Department of Medicine is thrilled to introduce our new Year Up<https://www.yearup.org/> interns - Emily Ly and Sovanny Seng. Year Up is a job training program, tuition free, that helps students with skills based training and internships. 80 percent of Year Up alumni are employed and/or enrolled in college within 4 months of graduation. Emily is in the business track at Year Up and will be primarily working with Cardiology, but will also help with EDI projects for the department. Sovanny is in the software development track and will be working on a variety of EDI projects for the department.

Learn more about them on our news site<https://bit.ly/42k3rWi>.


Faculty news
Faculty spotlight: Elizabeth Vig
[cid:image040.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]Our latest faculty spotlight is on Dr. Elizabeth (Lisa) Vig, associate professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine). For over 20 years, she has cared for patients at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System where she attends on the palliative care, hospice, and geriatrics services. She is also an experienced educator and researcher, working on numerous projects focusing on geriatric and palliative medicine care as well as medical ethics.

Learn more about her on our news site<https://bit.ly/44prS6d>.

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[cid:image041.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]Dr. Katherine Bennett, assistant professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) has been elected Chair of the Fellowship Director's Group for the American Geriatrics Society/Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs. She will serve a three-year term, chair the Fellowship Director's Preconference and represent the fellowship program director's at society board meetings.

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[cid:image042.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]Dr. Matthew Rivara, associate professor (Nephrology) has accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer for Northwest Kidney Centers, effective September 1. For the last nine years, Rivara has been a part of the Northwest Kidney Centers medical staff, and has been medical director for the Broadway Kidney Center since September 2020. He also served as medical director for Elliot Bay Kidney Center.


Staff news
Staff spotlight: Lori Joubert
[cid:image043.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]Our latest staff spotlight is on Lori Joubert, program coordinator for the Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiovascular Imaging programs at the UW Medicine Heart Institute.

Learn more about her on our news site<https://bit.ly/42tqJZU>.


Education news
[cid:image044.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]AΩA Pharos Poetry Award
Congratulations to medical student Dana Arenz who received first place in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Pharos Poetry award for "Home to Alaska." The winning poems will be published in the 2023 Summer edition of The Pharos<https://bit.ly/42gqYaB>.

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IM Residency annual Senior Scholarship Day
Please join us in celebrating the graduating IM residents' scholarship presentation on June 8, 9-11am, Harborview's R&T Building. The day will feature oral and poster presentations from 28 graduating residents. "We are overjoyed to return to an in-person opportunity to share and learn from our residency-scholars," said Dr. Lisa Vande Vusse, associate program director for research and scholarship.


Research news
First-in-the-world heart procedure
Cardiologists at the UW Medicine Heart Institute recently performed a first-in-the-world procedure, detaching and retrieving a clip device from a patient's mitral valve and [cid:image045.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00] placing a replacement biologic valve - all through a catheter. Previously this sequence of tasks had been performed only via open surgery.

A catheter-placed mitral valve, currently being tested in a national clinical trial, was authorized through an FDA compassionate use exemption. "We're just trying to emulate surgery for people who can't have surgery," said Dr. James McCabe, professor (Cardiology) who led the procedure.

Read the full story from UW Medicine Newsroom<https://bit.ly/3pEVE7a>.
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Scientists join NIH study of genomic variation among cells
[cid:image046.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]Researchers at the UW School of Medicine and Seattle Children's Research Institute have been awarded a $12.5 million from NIH to study variations in the genomes of normal cells that accumulate as we grow, develop and age.

The UW effort will be led by Dr. Andrew Stergachis, assistant professor (Medical Genetics),  Dr. Jimmy Bennett (Seattle Children's Research Institute), and Evan Eichler (Genome Sciences). The grant is part of a $140-million, five-year effort led by NIH to characterize the differences between the genomes of somatic cells.

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


Recent publications
Dr. Kelley Branch, professor (Cardiology) is lead author of "Diagnostic yield, safety, and outcomes of head-to-pelvis sudden death CT imaging in post arrest care: The CT FIRST cohort study<https://bit.ly/3NVW8zQ>" in Resuscitation. DOM co-authors are Peter Kudenchuk, Jeff Probstfield, David Carlbom, and Nicholas Johnson.

Dr. Mary (Nora) Disis, professor (Medical Oncology) is lead author of "A Phase I/II trial of HER-2/neu vaccine primed autologous T-cell infusions in patients with treatment refractory HER-2/neu overexpressing breast cancer<https://bit.ly/3pcBL7d>" in Clinical Cancer Research. DOM co-authors are Yushe Dang, Andrew Coveler, and Jennifer Childs.

Dr. Laura Evans, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of "Maintaining Your Certification in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine: The New ABIM Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment<https://bit.ly/3LN6hfw>" in Chest.

Matthew Hulverson, research scientist, Dr. Wes Van Voorhis, professor, and Kayode Ojo, research associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of "Photoswitchable Inhibitors to Optically Control Specific Kinase Activity<https://bit.ly/3O2StjN>" in ACS Chemical Biology.

Dr. Jocelyn James, assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. Judith Tsui, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Training Providers of People Who Use Drugs to Offer Hepatitis C Treatment: A Washington State Initiative<https://bit.ly/3pv31hg>" in Substance Abuse.

Dr. Namrata Singh, assistant professor (Rheumatology) is lead author of "Use of Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Supporting Shared Decision-Making Between Patients With Cancer and Clinicians<https://bit.ly/42wovch>" in ACR Open Rheumatology. DOM co-authors are Petros Grivas and Ann O'Hare.

Dr. Mitchell Vollger, fellow (Medical Genetics) is lead author of "Increased mutation and gene conversion within human segmental duplications<https://go.nature.com/42P4oG4>" and co-author of "A draft human pangenome reference<https://go.nature.com/42tZdLE>" in Nature. Learn more in "UW Medicine plays key role in NIH pangenome studies<https://bit.ly/3I5BbyG>" from UW Medicine Newsroom.


In the news
Dr. Fred Appelbaum, professor (Medical Oncology) has written the book "Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution<https://amzn.to/41dWftp>." Mayo Clinic Press, 2023. Read an excerpt, "The miracle cure: the world's first successful bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia<https://bit.ly/3B5PRd8>" from KevinMD.

Dr. Nisha Bansal, professor (Nephrology) is quoted in "Researchers may have discovered link between chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease<https://bit.ly/42o0Xq3>" in Medical News Today.

Dr. Kendra Bergstrom, clinical assistant professor (Dermatology) is quoted in "Which UV rays age the skin and which cause cancer: how to protect your skin from UV rays<https://bit.ly/3ptLlCJ>" from KOMO News.

Dr. Lianne Hirano, clinical assistant professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is quoted in "'A different animal': Doctors warn seniors about potency of cannabis products<https://bit.ly/3LVchCY>" from KOMO News.

Dr. Irl Hirsch, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is quoted in "Personalized approach emphasized in AACE consensus statement for treating type 2 diabetes<https://bit.ly/3B6ihnh>" in Healio Endocrinology.

Dr. Ana Weil, assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "Is It a Cold or RSV?<https://bit.ly/3BhUrF9>" in Everyday Health.


Events of interest
Medicine Grand Rounds
[cid:image047.jpg at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]The Department of Medicine Diversity Council is proud to sponsor the Grand Rounds lecture on May 19, 12-1pm. Dr. Deidra Crews will present: "Centering the Margins to Achieve Kidney Health Equity." Dr. Crews is a professor of medicine (Nephrology) and deputy director of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. She is also president-elect of the American Society of Nephrology.


Weekly Calendar, May 15-19, 2023
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
[cid:image048.png at 01D984ED.70D8EB00]Gender Equity Lunch Series: Shared mental model for family support
The next Gender Equity Lunch Series is on May 25, 12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/98549930603>. The Family Support Committee of the DOM Gender Equity Council is charged with identifying department needs and seeking solutions related to supporting employees with families.

In early 2022 they conducted five focus group interviews consisting of staff, faculty, and APPs to understand the barriers to supporting employees with families and to explore what an ideal model of support for DOM faculty, staff, and trainees with families might look like.

At the upcoming lunch series, they will discuss this study's results and continue a dialogue about how we might enhance the support of people with families within DOM.

Please RSVP<https://forms.office.com/r/WwEj3dDN3D>. If you have any suggestions for upcoming lunch series topics, please email Amy Fields<mailto:amyf at uw.edu>.
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George Stamatoyannopoulos Lecture
Dr. Betty Pace (August University) will present "Drug Repurposing Strategies for Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease" on June 2, 3:30pm, Foege Hall Auditorium and via zoom. To learn more and RSVP, please visit the Medical Genetics website<https://bit.ly/3M6HdBv>.

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Women Faculty Day
Women Faculty Day, June 5, 9am-4pm, Center for Urban Horticulture.
"Building Community for Women in Medicine & Science"
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Grace Farris, University of Texas at Austin

Women Faculty Day will focus on the experiences of and building community between women faculty in academic medicine but UW Medicine community members of all genders are welcome to join. Our annual Women Faculty Day is a time to celebrate the accomplishments of our School of Medicine faculty who identify as women or non-binary, as well as come together with colleagues of any gender to promote equity and inclusion in our work environments. This year's theme is "Building Community".

Register for this event.<https://bit.ly/3JcSXQc>


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Amy Fields, Editor
amyf at uw.edu<mailto:amyf at uw.edu>


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