[domweek] DOM Week, October 14-18, 2024

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DOM Week
October 11, 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
Minority Mentoring Award
[Jan Abkowitz]Congratulations to Dr. Janis Abkowitz, professor (Hematology and Oncology), the 2024 recipient of the Committee on Minority Faculty Advancement (CMFA) Minority Faculty Mentoring Award. She was honored for her work to advance the careers and personal development of those underrepresented in medicine and science.

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Call for nominations
Distinguished Staff Awards
Nominations are currently being accepted for the UW Distinguished Staff Awards<https://bit.ly/3s2FpyI>, the University’s highest staff honor. Faculty, staff and students may nominate individual staff or teams primarily composed of staff members who exemplify excellence. Nominations due Dec. 13.

Thorud Leadership Awards
Please consider recognizing our leaders by nominating them for the David B. Thorud Leadership Award<https://bit.ly/30WssJh>. Open to current UW faculty, academic appointees and staff. Nominations due Dec. 13.

William J. Bremner Endowed Mentorship Awards
Nominations are open for the William J. Bremner Endowed Mentorship Awards<https://medicine.uw.edu/about/awards/dom-awards/bremner/>, honoring faculty for their contributions to the scientific, educational, and patient care missions of the Department of Medicine through exemplary sustained and high impact mentorship. Nominations due Nov. 8.


DEI news
UW Staff DEI Council
[Sean Greenlee]A new, campus-wide UW Staff DEI Council has been co-convened by Assistant Vice President of Labor Relations Banks Evans, Assistant Vice President of Professional and Organizational Development Ujima Sands, and University Diversity Officer & Vice President for Minority Affairs & Diversity Rickey Hall. The new Staff DEI Council will provide dedicated meetings for valuable staff-focused feedback on DEI initiatives.

Sean Greenlee, DEI program manager for the Department of Medicine, has been selected as the UW Medicine representative on this council.

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Nominate a colleague to be featured during Native American Heritage Month
[cid:image007.png at 01DB1BF7.DA9791C0]The Huddle<https://huddle.uwmedicine.org/> is asking for nominations of employees to be featured during Native American Heritage Month (November). UW Medicine’s Cultural Observances and Implementation Subcommittee<https://bit.ly/3Qzo0rp> (COIS) partners with The Huddle to create content celebrating cultural observances, including feature articles that give employees from the culture being celebrated a chance to share their perspectives and experiences. Employees may self-nominate or nominate a colleague. Do you know someone they should feature? Please send their name and contact info (with their permission) to the Huddle Editorial team<mailto:thehuddle at uw.edu> by Oct. 15.


Education news
[cid:image009.png at 01DB1BF7.DA9791C0]Housestaff Quality and Safety Committee Ambassadors Program
Congratulations to the DOM trainees who were accepted into the inaugural Housestaff Quality and Safety Committee (HQSC) Ambassadors program.

This program is intended to provide opportunities for aspiring healthcare leaders to learn more about hospital systems, immerse themselves in executive decision-making and collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders to implement meaningful change in our institution. As part of the program, trainees will attend monthly HQSC meetings and join an existing QI project at one of the hospitals in our system.


  *   Pranusha Atuluru, R2 (Internal Medicine)
  *   Brianna Balansay, fellow (Cardiology)
  *   Lauren Mathews, fellow (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)
  *   Andrew Pattock, fellow (Cardiology)
  *   Matthew Stampfl, fellow (Critical Care Medicine)
  *   Caleb Walters, R2 (Internal Medicine)


Clinical news
Latinx Diabetic Kidney Disease Clinic
[Christine Limonte]Dr. Christine Limonte, assistant professor (Nephrology) is heading the new Latinx Diabetic Kidney Disease Clinic at Harborview Medical Center to serve patients of all stages of chronic kidney disease.

The clinic seeks to improve equity in diabetic kidney disease care for the Seattle-area Latinx community. Diabetes affects over 16 million Americans and about 1 in 3 adults with diabetes has kidney disease. Latinx people are at higher risk for developing diabetes and prediabetes plus complications from the disease, such as kidney failure, limb amputations and vision loss.

Many factors contribute to this disparity such as social determinates of health and barriers to access including transportation and language barriers.

The Latinx DKD Clinic aims to break down these barriers through targeted outreach and culturally informed care practices. By providing services in Spanish and partnering with programs like the Latinx Diabetes Clinic, the clinic ensures that patients receive care that respects their cultural background and addresses their unique needs.


Research news
Alcohol withdrawal during hospitalizations
[Tessa Steel]A new study published in JAMA Network Open<https://bit.ly/4ewBMaJ> found alcohol withdrawal hospitalizations are at least as common as hospitalizations for other chronic health conditions in younger and middle-aged adults. Approximately 2% of adult hospitalizations within the cohort involved alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS), with substantial variation by age, sex, race, and outpatient alcohol screening scores. For men and younger adults, incidence was higher: AWS accounted for 9-11% of hospitalizations in men ages 30-49 years.

“The study describes the impressive incidence of alcohol withdrawal during hospitalizations, which is especially common in men and younger adults,” said Dr. Tessa Steel, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and lead author of the study. “In patients younger than 60 years, alcohol withdrawal was as common or more common than complications of other chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes, hypertension) that receive greater medical attention,” she said.

Learn more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3zS1303>.
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Mpox vaccine highly protective among people with HIV
[Rachel Bender Ignacio]After the mpox virus reemerged globally in 2022, people with HIV were identified as facing disproportionately higher risk and more severe consequences of infection.

Doctors and public health specialists urged members of that population to pursue getting a smallpox vaccine thought to be effective against mpox, though little efficacy data existed for that use. That changed this week. Research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases<https://bit.ly/4844TzH> indicates that vaccination against mpox is highly protective among people with HIV.

“In our cohort, we saw 84% protection overall after one or more vaccines, which means vaccination averted almost nine out of 10 cases that would have occurred,” said Dr. Rachel Bender Ignacio, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and senior author. “Although getting mpox after receiving both doses does occur rarely, we observed no such cases. That means that getting both recommended doses is highly protective.”

Read the full story from UW Medicine Newsroom<https://bit.ly/485ZS9H>.

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[David Koelle]Dr. David Koelle, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) has been awarded a $5,571,430 contract from the NIH titled “Protective T cell epitopes and immune receptors for sexually transmitted infections.” This contract will study T cell epitopes in sexually transmitted infection (STI) pathogens: herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2, Treponema pallidum (Tp, syphilis), and Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct).

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[cid:image019.jpg at 01DB1BF7.DA9791C0]Dr. Jennifer Ross, assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is leading a new five-year study titled, “Integrating HIV prevention with household TB contact evaluation” funded by the National Institutes of Health. The award will support an implementation trial offering HIV self-testing and PrEP among households affected by TB in Uganda.


Recent publications
Dr. Christina Baik, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) is co-author of “A Multicenter Open-Label Randomized Phase II Study of Osimertinib With and Without Ramucirumab in Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor-Naïve EGFR-Mutant Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (RAMOSE trial)<https://bit.ly/3Y2c4Ut>” in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Drs. Chase Cannon, assistant professor, and Connie Celum, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of “Impact of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections on the gut microbiome and antimicrobial resistome<https://go.nature.com/3BO9RV6>” in Nature Medicine.

Dr. Carrie Ho, fellow, is lead author and Dr. Ajay Gopal, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is senior author of “A phase 2 study of frontline pembrolizumab in follicular lymphoma<https://bit.ly/3zJfGCV>” in eJHaem. DOM co-authors are Ryan Lynch, Christina Poh, Mazyar Shadman, and Stephen Smith.

Dr. Andrew Luks, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is lead author of “All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter<https://bit.ly/3U3qJh2>” in Circulation.

Dr. Shubhabrata Mukherjee, research associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is co-author of “GWAS of multiple neuropathology endophenotypes identifies new risk loci and provides insights into the genetic risk of dementia<https://go.nature.com/4ey6Oiq>” in Nature Genetics.

Dr. Claire Quinlan, R1, is lead author of “Differences in COVID-19 Outpatient Antiviral Treatment Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years by Age Group — National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, United States, April 2022–September 2023<https://bit.ly/3Ye5rQo>” in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.


In the news
Dr. Christopher Damman, clinical associate professor (Gastroenterology) is quoted in “Are colon cleanses necessary? Experts weigh in on potential risks.<https://bit.ly/3NgcUrF>” in USA Today.

Dr. Mary (Nora) Disis, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is quoted in “Can We Prevent Cancer With a Shot?<https://on.wsj.com/3BD4fNv>” in the Wall Street Journal.


Events of interest
Indigenous People’s Day
Seattle’s 10th Anniversary of Indigenous People’s Day<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.duwamishtribe.org/events/2024/10/14/indigenous-peoples-day__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!lmCDV3b5FmvCo8-KwKHxMQAHbjVUrp3M53TlOFaYKc_V2EKoX_u8ezmpN7A7GptgFb58rEl2x820ijyeP5h9AkiNwpzt$> is Oct. 14. For information on the  citywide celebration, please visit the Duwamish Tribe website<https://bit.ly/3XVqiXe>.

DEI Lecture Series
In our next DEI Lecture Series, “A Conversation with the Equal Justice Initiative's Health Clinic Team,” members of the Equal Justice Initiative’s Health Clinic Team will share their experiences, challenges, and successes in providing healthcare services to underserved communities. Oct. 16, 2pm. Please register for this event<https://bit.ly/3zDPLw3>.

Medicine Grand Rounds
Dr. G.R. Scott Budinger (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) will present the Butler Lecture, “Age-related failure of lung repair after pneumonia drives persistent inflammation” at Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, Oct. 18, 12-1pm, via zoom<https://washington.zoom.us/j/812197730>.


Weekly Calendar, October 14-18, 2024
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
What’s in a Name? Authentic Connections in Medical Education
Dr. Brad Sharpe (UCSF) will present “What’s in a Name? Authentic Connections in Medical Education” at CLIME Grand Rounds on Oct. 24, 12-1pm, UW Health Sciences Library, Pacific Room T229. Please register for this event<https://bit.ly/3z2ACEz>.


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Amy Fields, Editor
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