[domweek] DOM Week, November 11-15, 2024

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DOM Week
November 8, 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>)


Well-being resources
The Department of Medicine is here to support our members. We have compiled a comprehensive resource guide<https://bit.ly/3Z6wEFb> to support the well-being of our community.


Education news
Fellow Spotlight: Mahlet Assefa
[cid:image003.jpg at 01DB31F6.AE7E24E0]A new NPR series, "Throw It Back," explores how the objects we love as kids shape our worldview as adults. The series begins with the story of Dr. Mahlet Assefa, fellow (Nephrology) and her cotton dress.

Assefa lived in Northern Ethiopia until she was 9 years old, when her family moved to the U.S. Her mom had made her a traditional Ethiopian dress (habesha kemis) for her first birthday which she loved. When she was an adult and about to attend medical school, her mom gave her this dress, which she brought with her across the water, across the country, and kept with her for all these years.

"Wow, this dress is sort of a physical embodiment of the ways in which I've been loved and I am loved," said Assefa. "There are a lot of different ways in which the world has tried and continues to try to define me. And I think what the dress sort of allows me to do is to say, actually, no, I get to sort of anchor myself in all the beautiful things that made me. I could really go anywhere, and I could really do anything and then still come home and be loved and be cared for."

Listen to her story on NPR<https://n.pr/3UFG5bL>.

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New associate program director, Boise Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
[cid:image005.jpg at 01DB31F6.AE7E24E0]Dr. Nari Hsiu has been named the new associate program director for the UW Boise Addiction Medicine Fellowship, effective November 1, 2024. She is the program's first associate program director.

A graduate of the UW Boise Psychiatry Residency in the advanced clinician track and the UW Boise Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Hsiu specializes in addiction medicine at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center and is also the director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the UW Boise Psychiatry Residency. She is passionate about working with individuals struggling with mental illness and addiction as well as health humanities.

The UW Boise Addiction Medicine program<https://uwboiseaddiction.uw.edu/> is a one-year program that strives to provide a unique and collaborative approach to education in the diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders through a variety of inpatient, outpatient, and residential treatment programs that will prepare trainees to provide an evidence-based and multi-disciplinary approach to the field of Addiction Medicine.

Program faculty include physicians from internal medicine, family medicine and psychiatry.


Faculty news
[cid:image007.jpg at 01DB31F6.AE7E24E0]Dr. Mohamed Sorror, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) will present the keynote address, "Looking Back, Looking Forward: Strategies for Collaborative Study and Reduction of Toxicities" at the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy International Conference on Toxicities of Transplantation and Cellular Therapies.


Clinical news
Breast Sexual Health Clinic
[cid:image009.jpg at 01DB31F6.AE7E24E0]The Breast Sexual Health Clinic at Fred Hutch Cancer Center opened earlier this year to support patients with sexual health and intimacy during and after breast cancer treatment. "I've always loved working with breast cancer patients," said Kelly Nelson, teaching associate (Hematology and Oncology), who leads the clinic. "As the years went on, I found myself increasingly drawn to opportunities for helping our patients find enjoyment in life, even while undergoing treatment. This clinic is a great way to do that."

Read the full story from Hutch News<https://bit.ly/4hGLuJN>.


Research news
Breast Cancer Research Foundation grants
[cid:image011.jpg at 01DB31F6.AE7E24E0]Dr. Nancy Davidson, professor and head (Hematology and Oncology) received funding for a new research project aimed at expanding the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors to treat breast cancers.

Dr. Mary (Nora) Disis, professor (Hematology and Oncology) received funding to continue her work on ADVac, an adipose directed vaccine to address the role of obesity in promoting breast cancer.

Dr. Mary-Claire King, professor (Medical Genetics) received funding to adapt rapidly evolving genomic technology to sequence large swaths of DNA in single very long strands, rather than thousands of short bits, and to explore dysregulation of gene expression as a basis for inherited breast cancer.

Dr. Hannah Linden, professor (Hematology and Oncology) will continue investigating whether a PET/CT progesterone tracer known as FFNP (short for 21 [18F] fluorofuranylnorprogesterone) can better predict response to endocrine therapy coupled with the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib, or Verzenio.

Drs. Christopher Li and Anne McTiernan (Epidemiology) also received BCRF grants.

Read the full story from Hutch News<https://bit.ly/4f87XgW>.

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London-Seattle collaboration to find new therapies for prostate cancer
[cid:image013.jpg at 01DB31F6.AE7E24E0]Advanced prostate cancer, which has spread beyond the prostate to other parts of the body, remains notoriously elusive and resourceful when it's attacked, resisting surgery and drugs that interrupt a vital hormonal supply chain that tumors need to grow.

When treatments block the flow of testosterone, the cancer inevitably finds molecular workarounds that re-establish the supply chain, triggering more runaway tumor growth that hastens death. Therapies have mostly targeted the beginning and middle of the supply chain with initial success for patients. However, resistance is inevitable within the most lethal forms of the disease.

But researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and the Institute of Cancer Research in London just received a $1 million grant from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to focus on the last links of the supply chain, a process called mRNA translation.

The Seattle arm of the project will be led by Dr. Andrew Hsieh, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology).

Read the full story from Hutch News<https://bit.ly/4foG1Fm>.


Recent publications
Dr. Julia Dombrowski, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is lead author of "Evidence-Informed Provision of Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for Prevention of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections<https://bit.ly/3YUek1z>" in Clinical Infectious Diseases. DOM co-authors are Chase Cannon and Connie Celum.

Drs. Joseph Joo, clinical instructor, Joshua Liao, affiliate associate professor (General Internal Medicine) and Jonathan Staloff (Family Medicine) wrote "Reshaping Health Systems<https://bit.ly/3YtJSKs>" published by Wolters Kluwer.

Dr. Shubhabrata Mukherjee, research associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of "Pervasive biases in proxy genome-wide association studies based on parental history of Alzheimer's disease<https://go.nature.com/3NZNT4C>" in Nature Genetics.

Dr. Yue-Harn Ng, clinical associate professor (Nephrology) is co-author of "Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation is Associated with Worse Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients<https://bit.ly/4hF2D6A>" in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Dr. Ashok Reddy, associate professor, is lead author and Dr. Karin Nelson, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Behaviorally Informed Text Message Nudges to Schedule COVID-19 Vaccinations: A Randomized Controlled Trial<https://bit.ly/3AzFku1>" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. DOM co-authors are Anders Chen, Stephanie Deeds, and Joshua Liao. Dr. Reddy is also lead author of "Impact of Home Telehealth Expansion on High-Cost Utilization Among Veterans Health Administration Patients with Diabetes<https://bit.ly/4feKdaV>" in JGIM. DOM co-author is Karin Nelson.

Dr. Rashmi Sharma, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of "A Comparison of Palliative Care Delivery between Ethnically Chinese and Non-Chinese Canadians in the Last Year of Life<https://bit.ly/3O1bGRD>" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Andrew White, professor (General Internal Medicine) is lead author of "Ensuring Safe Practice by Late Career Physicians: Institutional Policies and Implementation Experiences<https://bit.ly/4facQ9l>" in the Annals of Internal Medicine. DOM co-author is Thomas Gallagher.

Drs. Leila Zelnick, research associate professor, and Ian de Boer, professor (Nephrology) are co-authors of "Impaired Incretin Homeostasis in Nondiabetic Moderate-to-Severe CKD<https://bit.ly/3YZinJ9>" in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.


In the news
Dr. Rachel Bender Ignacio, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "Cost of Mpox Shot Deters Americans at Risk, Critics Say<https://nyti.ms/48AsxUS>" in the New York Times.

Dr. Helen Chu, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "State reports huge increase in whooping cough cases<https://bit.ly/3YXZG9K>" in the Seattle Times.

Dr. Vid Yogeswaran, acting instructor (Cardiology) is quoted in "New Research Highlights AFib Risk Factors In Black Communities<https://bit.ly/3Z6ohJL>" in the Seattle Medium.


Events of interest
Medicine Grand Rounds
Dr. Eric Morrell, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) will present the Fialkow Scholar Award Lecture at Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, Nov. 15, 12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/812197730>.


Weekly Calendar, November 11-15, 2024
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.




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