[domweek] November 25-29, 2024

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DOM Week
November 22, 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>)


Awards
UWMC Chief of Medicine Service Awards
[cid:image033.jpg at 01DB3CF7.2EAF2320]Congratulations to the 2024 recipients of the UWMC Chief of Medicine Service Awards recipients: Dr. Deborah Greenberg, clinical professor (General Internal Medicine) received the outpatient award and Drs. Carolyn Keller, clinical associate professor (General Internal Medicine) and Adam Templeton, clinical associate professor (Gastroenterology) received the inpatient awards.

These awards were established in 2012 to recognize Department of Medicine faculty members who have contributed significantly to the clinical and scholarly missions of the University of Washington Medical Center.

The awards recognize outpatient and inpatient-based clinicians who have made outstanding contributions in direct clinical care, innovations in quality improvement and health delivery, consistently exhibit excellence in clinical teaching, and produce high quality scholarly works related to patient care.

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Washington Chapter ACP awards
Congratulations to the following DOM members who received awards at the recent American College of Physicians (ACP) Washington state chapter meeting:
[cid:image034.jpg at 01DB3CF7.2EAF2320]Washington Chapter Laureate Award: Anita Chopra, clinical assistant professor (General Internal Medicine).

Kemi Nakabayashi Chapter Service Award: Kim O’Connor, clinical professor (General Internal Medicine).

Clinician-Educator of the Year: Daniel Yang, clinical associate professor (WWAMI Spokane).


Faculty news
[cid:image035.jpg at 01DB3CF7.2EAF2320]Dr. Dace Trence, professor emeritus (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), has been named President-Elect of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE). She starts her term in 2025. Founded in 1991, the AACE is a global, inclusive community of more than 5,700 endocrine-focused clinical members, and over 28,000 health care professionals.


Staff news
Farewell to Darcie Somera
[cid:image036.jpg at 01DB3CF7.2EAF2320]Darcie Somera, administrator in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will be leaving the Department of Medicine on Dec. 31, after six years of dedicated service.

She has accepted the position of Enterprise Operations Manager with the UW Enterprise Business Solutions Team. Her talents in operations and financial management will serve her well in this new role, where she will assist in streamlining UW processes with Workday systems.

We are deeply grateful for Darcie’s leadership and commitment to the department over the years, and we wish her continued success in her new role.

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Staff Professional Development Scholarship Program
[cid:image011.png at 01DB3CF6.A5782F20]There’s still time to apply for a Department of Medicine’s Staff Scholarship Award. These awards promote staff professional development by helping pay for the cost of classes, conferences, meetings, and workshops that further one’s career and benefits the work of the department and division. Applications due Nov. 30.

Learn more on our website<https://bit.ly/3x2DLCD>.


Education news
[cid:image037.jpg at 01DB3CF7.2EAF2320]Drs. Molly Billings, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and John Scott, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are investigators on a project called “Long COVID and Fatiguing Illness Recovery Program” that was recently awarded an Excellence in Public Health Practice award from the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the CDC. The project was honored “for excellence in medical education supporting equitable access to quality care for patients with post-acute infection syndromes.”


Research news
Highly Cited Researchers 2024
Congratulations to those who have been selected as Highly Cited Researchers<https://bit.ly/3QYBkYq> from the Web of Science Group. Their work has been identified as being among the most valuable and significant in the field. Very few researchers earn this distinction - writing the greatest number of reports, officially designated by Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as Highly Cited Papers. In addition, these reports rank among the top 1% most cited works for their subject field and year of publication in the Web of Science, earning them the mark of exceptional impact.

[cid:image038.jpg at 01DB3CF7.2EAF2320]2024 DOM Highly Cited Researchers: William Banks, professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine); Helen Chu, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases); David Maloney, professor emeritus (Hematology and Oncology); and Stanley Riddell, professor (Hematology and Oncology).


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Laying the groundwork for a new cancer-preventive vaccine
[Composite photo of Drs. Andrew McGuire, Jim Boonyaratanakornkit and Warren Phipps]Behind one fifth of cancer cases around the world lurks a pathogen. The connective-tissue cancer Kaposi sarcoma even gave its name to the herpesvirus that causes it: Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or KSHV. Though uncommon in the U.S., KS is a problem in regions where HIV still exacts a major public health toll.

“KS is among the most common cancers among people with HIV, and is a leading cancer in several African countries,” said Fred Hutch KS specialist Dr. Warren Phipps, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases).

To rectify gaps in treatment and prevention, Phipps and Fred Hutch colleagues Jim Boonyaratanakornkit, assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Andrew McGuire have teamed up to lay the groundwork for a KSHV vaccine. An effective KSHV vaccine would revolutionize how providers approach KSHV-related diseases, Phipps said.

The collaborators secured a five-year, $3.84 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to characterize the immune response to KSHV infection. These insights will inform design of an immune system-stimulating vaccine and could aid scientists working to develop other therapeutics.

Read the full story from Hutch News<https://bit.ly/3Oj0e3L>.

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Greenwall Foundation Making a Difference Grants
[cid:image040.jpg at 01DB3CF7.2EAF2320]Congratulations to Drs. Crystal Brown, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and Thomas Gallagher, professor (General Internal Medicine) and associate chair, who have received funding from the Greenwall Foundation.

Dr. Brown’s project is “Restorative Processes for Medical Racism: Fostering Accountability and Relational Repair.” She will assess how restorative justice practices should be implemented in healthcare settings in response to medical racism to inform normative analyses of whether and how broader implementation in healthcare should be considered.

Dr. Gallagher’s project is “Communication and Resolution Programs: Tackling the Critical Unanswered Ethical Questions.” He will assess implementation of Communication and Resolution Plans (CRP), a best practice for responding to medical harm events, and conduct a normative analysis to determine solutions to 7 ethics questions that are impairing CRPs.

The Greenwall Foundation’s bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas, supports research to help resolve important emerging or unanswered bioethics problems in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice.

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[cid:image041.jpg at 01DB3CF7.2EAF2320]Dr. Tessa Steel, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is PI on an innovation grant funded by the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions for her project, “Developing a hospital-based treatment engagement program for Alcohol Use Disorder.” The goal of this research is to more effectively use hospitalizations to bridge individuals to long-term, potentially lifesaving alcohol use disorder (AUD) care.


Recent publications
Drs. Nisha Bansal, professor, and Katherine Tuttle, clinical professor (Nephrology) are co-authors of “KDOQI US Commentary on the KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of CKD<https://bit.ly/40XRNm7>” in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Dr. Laura Evans, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is co-author of “National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel: Perspectives and Lessons Learned<https://bit.ly/4eJtr2P>” in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Andrew Hsieh, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) is co-author of “Increased translation driven by non-canonical EZH2 creates a synthetic vulnerability in enzalutamide-resistant prostate cancer<https://go.nature.com/3CC9VrA>” in Nature Communications.

Dr. Joel Kaufman, professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of “The Effect of Chronic Altitude Exposure on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Outcomes in the SPIROMICS Cohort: An Observational Cohort Study<https://bit.ly/40ZaJky>” in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Meghan Kiefer, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of “The Master Adaptive Clinician Educator: A Framework for Future Educational Leaders in Academic Medicine<https://bit.ly/49hWPMB>” in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Cooper Kersey, fellow, is lead author and Dr. Chris Longenecker, professor (Cardiology) is senior author of “Ischemic Evaluation in New‐Onset Methamphetamine‐Associated Heart Failure<https://bit.ly/41d406L>” in the Journal of the American Heart Association. DOM co-authors are Danelle Hidano and Joey Chiang.

Dr. Sylvia LaCourse, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is co-author of “Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment for Pregnant People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in South Africa: A Modeling Analysis of Clinical Benefits and Risks<https://bit.ly/4i38zGH>” in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Peter Nelson, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is co-author of “Small-molecule disruption of androgen receptor-dependent chromatin clusters<https://bit.ly/3OhvL6e>” in PNAS.

Dr. Cristina Rodriguez, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is co-author of “Radiotherapy with cetuximab or durvalumab for locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer in patients with a contraindication to cisplatin (NRG-HN004): an open-label, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised, phase 2/3 trial<https://bit.ly/3Z0e5RJ>” in The Lancet Oncology.

Dr. Xavier Sendaydiego, R3, is lead author and Dr. Namrata Singh, assistant professor (Rheumatology) is senior author of “Use of Biologic or Targeted Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs and Cancer Risk<https://bit.ly/4fDxjDx>” in JAMA Network Open.

Dr. David Watkins, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of “Halving premature death and improving quality of life at all ages: cross-country analyses of past trends and future directions<https://bit.ly/4fUtvh4>” in The Lancet.


In the news
Dr. Andrew Cowan, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) wrote “Bridging the Divide: Global Equity in CAR T-Cell Therapy<https://bit.ly/4fFFlMb>” in ASH Clinical News.

Dr. Ariana Stuart, R2, is quoted in “AI May Improve MASLD Diagnosis Rate<https://bit.ly/3Zf8CHW>” in Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News.


Events of interest
Quiet week: November 25-29
As we continue to rebuild resilience and focus on mental health, we would like to preserve department-wide quiet weeks throughout the year. During these weeks, we hope that individuals can limit non-essential meetings to recharge and reflect, as well as thoughtfully minimize emails. We realize that this will not be possible for everyone, but encourage all to take breaks when they are able.

Upcoming 2024 quiet week:

  *   December 23-27


Weekly Calendar, November 25-29, 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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