[domweek] DOM Week, January 22-26, 2024

[Department of Medicine weekly newsletter]

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DOM Week
January 19, 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>)


DEI news
DEI Lecture Series: The ongoing impact of COVID in minoritized communities
[Hope King, PhD, MSPH]Save the date for our next DEI lecture<https://bit.ly/3SctxH4> on March 11, 3pm. Dr. Hope King, senior epidemiologist for the CDC's Minority HIV/AIDS Research Initiative will present "The ongoing impact of COVID in minoritized communities."

Registration information coming soon.


Education news
Asylum Evaluation Student Clinic
[cid:image021.png at 01DA4AE9.0F2EED60]The Asylum Evaluation Student Clinic is a student-run, faculty-supervised initiative through the UW School of Medicine that provides free, safe, trauma-sensitive forensic evaluations for asylum seekers in Washington state.

Department of Medicine faculty involved in the project are Dr. Alexandra Molnar, clinical associate professor (General Internal Medicine), who serves as the clinic's faculty advisor and an evaluating physician, and Dr. Margaret Isaac, associate professor (General Internal Medicine), a volunteer evaluating physician.

"The students have worked incredibly hard to bring together an amazing service for asylum-seekers in our region," Molnar said. "At every juncture they have thought creatively and thoroughly about what asylum-seekers need and how we can serve them best. I continue to be in awe of the outstanding work that the students bring to this very vulnerable population."

Learn more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3SctxH4>.


Research news
App to detect tuberculosis
[cid:image022.jpg at 01DA4AE9.0F2EED60]UW researchers and engineers are trying to develop a smartphone app that can tell the difference between tuberculosis (TB) and other respiratory diseases. Their findings were published Jan. 3 in Science Advances<https://bit.ly/3vFKr9k>.

Researchers collected over 33,000 coughs from 149 patients with TB and from 46 patients who had other respiratory illnesses. They then fed audio of the coughs, collected through various microphones, into a machine-learning model called TBscreen, which the researchers had developed. They found that the app and a smartphone mic predicted which coughs signified active TB at a better rate than more expensive microphones.

In creating the machine-learning model, researchers used only involuntary coughs, which are quite different from prompted ones, noted Dr. David Horne, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and senior author of the paper. They found that the smartphone recording had an 82% accuracy rate of predicting TB. "This would be a rapid way of screening who might have TB," said Dr. Thomas Hawn, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases), and co-author of the paper.

Read the full story from UW Medicine Newsroom<https://bit.ly/4aXa45v>.

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[cid:image023.jpg at 01DA4AE9.0F2EED60]Dr. Pavan Bhatraju, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Western Association of Physicians (WAP) and the Western Society of Clinical Investigation (WSCI) Outstanding Investigator Award.

The Outstanding Investigator Award is one of the most prestigious awards given by these societies, and is presented in recognition of Dr. Bhatraju's outstanding scientific contributions to academic medicine.


Recent publications
Dr. Nauzley Abedini, assistant professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is co-lead author of "Goals-of-Care Conversations After Stroke Survival<https://bit.ly/48xqW1d>" in Stroke. DOM co-authors are Ruth Engelberg and Erin Kross. Dr. Abedini is also co-author of "Neuropalliative Care for Stroke Providers<https://bit.ly/4aXQgPu>" in Stroke.

Dr. Bradley Anawalt, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Breaking News - Testosterone Treatment and Fractures in Older Men<https://bit.ly/3vItBGU>" in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. David Au, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of "Nurse and Social Worker Palliative Telecare Team and Quality of Life in Patients With COPD, Heart Failure, or Interstitial Lung Disease: The ADAPT Randomized Clinical Trial<https://bit.ly/47GweGt>" in JAMA. DOM co-authors are Elizabeth Parsons, Grady Paden and Andrew Cheng.

Drs. Heidi Crane, professor, Mari Kitahata, professor, and H. Nina Kim, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of "The forecasted prevalence of comorbidities and multimorbidity in people with HIV in the United States through the year 2030: A modeling study<https://bit.ly/423UroO>" in PLOS Medicine.

Dr. Thomas Gallagher, professor (General Internal Medicine) is lead author of "Responding to Medical Errors - Implementing the Modern Ethical Paradigm<https://bit.ly/3RYZCBS>" in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Petros Grivas, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is co-author of "Characterizing the Genomic Landscape of the Micropapillary Subtype of Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder Harboring Activating Extracellular Mutations of ERBB2<https://bit.ly/4b4TSza>" in Modern Pathology.

Dr. Joshua Hill, associate professor, is lead author, and Dr. Michael Boeckh, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of "HHV-6B detection and host gene expression implicate HHV-6B as pulmonary pathogen after hematopoietic cell transplant<https://go.nature.com/3vF9lGb>" in Nature Communications. DOM co-authors are Lisa Vande Vusse, Guang-Shing Cheng, Geoffrey Hill, and Sina Gharib.

Dr. Rajnish Mehrotra, professor and head (Nephrology) is lead author of "Effectiveness of Existing Insomnia Therapies for Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Randomized Clinical Trial<https://bit.ly/3vzWTHI>" in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Marco Mielcarek, is senior author of "Differential Association Between Blood Glucose Levels and Non-Relapse Mortality after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Based on Presence or Absence of Pre-Existing Diabetes<https://bit.ly/3Ob0faB>" in Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. DOM co-authors are Michael Boeckh, Masumi Ueda Oshima, Jing Chao and Irl Hirsch.

Dr. Anna Wald, professor and head (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of "Prior Herpes Simplex Virus Infection and the Risk of Herpes Zoster<https://bit.ly/423XUUs>" in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. DOM co-authors are Kristine Lan and David Koelle.


In the news
Dr. Helen Chu, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "'Emergency' or Not, Covid Is Still Killing People. Here's What Doctors Advise to Stay Safe<https://bit.ly/3RXmT76>." in KFF Health News.

Dr. Christopher Damman, clinical associate professor (Gastroenterology) wrote "Your body already has a built-in weight loss system that works like Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro - food and your gut microbiome<https://bit.ly/3SkvYZf>" in The Conversation and is quoted in "Gut Check: 5 Gut Health TikTok Trends to Question or Avoid<https://bit.ly/47C9G9O>" in Everyday Health.

Dr. Kleber Fertrin, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) is quoted in "FDA approves gene editing technology to treat sickle cell disease<https://bit.ly/3vEl6g1>" from KING 5 News.

Dr. William Grady, professor (Gastroenterology) is quoted in "Early-Onset Cancers Are on the Rise: Why It's Happening and What We Can Do<https://bit.ly/47ExLMY>" in Cancer Therapy Advisor.

Dr. Sara Gunby, fellow (Gastroenterology) is referenced in "Smoking and Drinking Up the Risk for Diverticulitis<https://wb.md/48WSexO>" in Medscape.

Dr. Vishesh Kapur, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is quoted in "No more 'spring forward' if new bill passes Wash. State Legislature<https://bit.ly/3u02rL4>" in My Northwest.

Dr. Chris Longenecker, associate professor (Cardiology) is quoted in "How doctors are using AI to diagnose a hidden heart condition in kids<https://wapo.st/3O7kEwS>" from the Washington Post.

Dr. Elizabeth Phelan, professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) is quoted in "Bones and pipes are breaking across the Northwest with the cold, and now the warm up<https://bit.ly/3tReJFE>" in NW News Network.


Events of interest
Gender Equity Lunch Series: Advocacy
[image003.png at 01DA3FF1]On Wednesday, Jan. 24, 12-1pm, our panel of moderators will discuss non-linear career paths, focusing on advocacy work.

Led by guest moderators, the Gender Equity Lunch Series<https://medicine.uw.edu/diversity/gender-equity/lunch> focuses on topics related to gender equity and leadership development. This series is open to all members of all genders in the Department of Medicine. Please register<https://forms.office.com/r/c9E6YgrLHT> for this series. Join via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/91780152673> (Meeting ID: 917 8015 2673). The zoom link is also posted on our intranet.<https://uwnetid.sharepoint.com/sites/dom_intranet/SitePages/Gender-Equity-Lunch-Series.aspx>


Weekly Calendar, January 22-26, 2024
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
Long-COVID Symposium
Dr. Helen Chu, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is hosting and moderating a symposium on long-COVID on Feb. 1, 4-5pm, Foege South Auditorium with a reception to follow. Please register for this event<https://bit.ly/48OoR0H> by 5pm Jan. 24.





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