[domweek] DOM Week, December 16-20, 2024

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DOM Week
December 13, 2024
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>)



A transformative leader
[cid:image026.jpg at 01DB4D79.7AE23BF0]Dr. Barbara Jung joined the University of Washington Department of Medicine as its sixth chair on Sept. 1, 2019. She has broken barriers in her career many times, and this was no exception. She is our first female chair, and the first external hire since the department's first chair, Dr. Robert Williams. In 2023, she also became the 118th President of the American Gastroenterology Association and the organization's 4th woman leader. At UC San Diego, she will be their first female dean.

Under her leadership the department has grown significantly with a focus on leading in innovative research, clinical care and education, investing in our employees, elevating our teaching mission, and nurturing a supportive, collaborative, and accountable culture where equity, diversity, inclusion and integrity are at the center.

Read about her achievements on our news site<https://bit.ly/4gqoq0b>.


Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
[cid:image027.jpg at 01DB4D79.7AE23BF0]Dr. Mary (Nora) Disis, professor (Hematology and Oncology) has received the Puget Sound Business Journal's 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award in Healthcare<https://bit.ly/4g5rwa8> for her work on breast cancer vaccines. She is also featured on the cover of the latest issue.

The health care leadership awards honor the exceptional leaders shaping the health care landscape and recognize the innovative and influential thinkers whose leadership has made a lasting impact on our community.

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William J. Bremner Endowed Mentorship Awards
[cid:image028.jpg at 01DB4D79.7AE23BF0]Congratulations to the 2024 William J. Bremner Endowed Mentorship Award<https://bit.ly/3Ih4Jdz> recipients, Drs. Kari Nelson, professor (General Internal Medicine) and Dr. Mark Wurfel, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine).

Recognizing that mentorship is critical to success across all phases of faculty's careers in academic medicine, these awards honor faculty members for their contributions to the scientific, educational, and patient care missions of the department through exemplary sustained and high impact mentorship.

The endowment was created and the name changed in 2018 to commemorate and express appreciation to Dr. William Bremner for his legendary wisdom, vision, coaching and sponsorship that fostered countless trainees and faculty in pursuing their passion and in reaching their ultimate potential.

Learn more about the DOM Mentorship Program<https://bit.ly/3ICADl1>.

DEIB news
DEIB Community Gathering
All are welcome to attend an in-person Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) community gathering event on Dec. 17, 4:30-6:30pm at Métier Brewing Co<https://metierbrewing.com/locations/cherry-street/>.
Please RSVP for this event<https://bit.ly/4eIZjo0>.

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Nominate colleagues for Black History Month feature
[cid:image029.jpg at 01DB4D79.7AE23BF0]The Cultural Observances Implementation Subcommittee partners with The Huddle to celebrate cultural observances. This includes a feature article in which employees share their perspectives and experiences. Please help them identify employees to be featured in the February 2025 article by submitting nominations. Employees may also self-nominate. Only nominate employees who have shared their cultural identity with you, and please make it clear that their participation is voluntary. To nominate a colleague, email their name, role and email address (with their permission) by Dec. 31 to The Huddle<mailto:thehuddle at uw.edu>.


Research news
Save the Dates: Research mentor training program
Drs. Nisha Bansal, professor (Nephrology) and assistant chair for clinical research, and W. Conrad Liles, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and vice chair for research, have been working with Drs. Jesse Markman and Heidi Combs (Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) to offer a Department of Medicine longitudinal mentor training program as an alternative to the Center for Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) program offered via the UW School of Medicine.

This interactive, multi-session mentor training course is designed to develop skills essential to mentoring has been specifically designed to apply to both research mentorship and mentoring in the clinical and educational arenas in academic medicine. It meets all of the new education requirements from the NIH.

The course meets once a month from Jan. 31-June 27, 2025.

Learn more about this course and register on our website<https://bit.ly/3ZBPKBO>.

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Socioeconomic status and access to bone marrow transplants
[cid:image030.jpg at 01DB4D79.7AE23BF0]Patients with acute myeloid leukemia who have lower education and income are less likely to receive an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant for acute myeloid, however, if they can access the treatment, are equally likely to benefit from transplant as patients with more education and higher income, according to a new study from Fred Hutch Cancer Center presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology.

"This study was born out of our clinical observations that if we could get a low socioeconomic patient over the transplant access barrier, their survival outcomes were equivalent to individuals with higher socioeconomic status," said lead author Dr. Natalie Wuliji, acting instructor (Hematology and Oncology), who presented the study at ASH. "With this analysis confirming our initial theory, we can now take steps toward solving the challenge of transplant access." Senior author is Dr. Mohamed Sorror, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology).

Read the full story from Hutch News<https://bit.ly/3D6UMyK>.

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[cid:image031.jpg at 01DB4D79.7AE23BF0]Dr. Anne Manicone, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine) received a Pilot Project Award, "Identifying Novel Compounds to Polarize Macrophages toward Reparative States," from the parent P30 Grant, "Cystic Fibrosis Translational Research in the Post-CFTR Modulator Era," funded by NIH/NIDDK. This 2-year award will provide $264,000 towards developing new strategies to target chronic inflammation seen in people with Cystic Fibrosis.


Recent publications
Dr. Andrew Cowan, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) is co-author of "Daratumumab or Active Monitoring for High-Risk Smoldering Multiple Myeloma<https://bit.ly/4goYWjO>" in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Ian de Boer, professor (Nephrology) is co-author of "The Global Kidney Patient Trials Network and the CAPTIVATE Platform Clinical Trial Design: A Trial Protocol<https://bit.ly/3OTlwWg>" in JAMA Network Open.

Dr. Irl Hirsch, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is lead author of "A Randomized Trial Comparing Inhaled Insulin Plus Basal Insulin Versus Usual Care in Adults With Type 1 Diabetes<https://bit.ly/4gxS2c5>" in Diabetes Care and "The impact of the US election on diabetes<https://bit.ly/4iA3yWk>" in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

Dr. Joel Kaufman, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Air pollution is associated with increased risk of venous thromboembolism: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis<https://bit.ly/49BHFS9>" in Blood.

Dr. Ganesh Raghu, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is co-author of "Precision Cut Lung Slices: Emerging Tools for Preclinical and Translational Lung Research. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report<https://bit.ly/4fchFhu>" in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.

Dr. Mazyar Shadman, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) is lead author of "Zanubrutinib Versus Bendamustine and Rituximab in Patients With Treatment-Naïve Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma: Median 5-Year Follow-Up of SEQUOIA<https://bit.ly/4gcziPz>" in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Drs. Nona Sotoodehnia, professor (Cardiology) and Bruce Psaty, professor (General Internal Medicine) are co-authors of "Assessment of Inflammatory Biomarkers and Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults<https://bit.ly/3VWHRpR>" in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Judith Tsui, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Buprenorphine Injection Among Rural Persons Who Inject Drugs<https://bit.ly/4iw7B5W>" in JAMA Network Open. DOM co-authors are Elenore Bhatraju, Rob Fredericksen, and Joseph Delaney.


In the news
Dr. Anthony Back, professor (Hematology and Oncology) talked to KUOW in "How psilocybin helped clinicians with Covid despair,<https://bit.ly/3OMeO4e>" and is quoted in "UW Study: Psilocybin Offers Hope For Frontline Healthcare Workers Battling Burnout<https://bit.ly/49COSSa>" in the Seattle Medium.

Dr. Helen Chu, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "Patty Murray, at UW Medicine, sounds alarm on RFK Jr. and vaccines<https://bit.ly/3VACWut>" in the Seattle Times.



Weekly Calendar, December 16-20, 2024
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.



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


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