[domweek] DOM Week, January 6-10, 2025

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DOM Week
January 3, 2025
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>)


More 2024 highlights
Department of Medicine faculty were included in six of the ten most-viewed UW Medicine Newsroom stories in 2024:

  1.  Two Harborview patients test positive for Candida auris <https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/two-harborview-patients-test-positive-for-candida-auris-> (Eric Chow)
  2.  Psilocybin therapy helps clinicians process COVID despair <https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/psilocybin-therapy-helps-clinicians-process-covid-despair> (Anthony Back)
  3.  Emergency medicine legend Dr. Michael Copass passes away <https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/emergency-medicine-legend-dr-michael-copass-passes-away>
  4.  New drug offers hope to patients with severe liver disease <https://newsroom.uw.edu/blog/nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-resmetirom> (Rotonya Carr)
  5.  Study finds immune imprinting response to COVID <https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/study-finds-immune-imprinting-response-to-covid> (Helen Chu)
  6.  Nearly all syphilis strains in U.S. resistant to azithromycin<https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/nearly-all-syphilis-strains-in-us-resistant-to-azithromycin> (Tara Reid, Chase Cannon, Olusegun Soge, Matthew Golden, Lorenzo Giacani)
More 2024 highlights are posted to our news site<https://bit.ly/3ZQVdoG>.

Awards
Barbara Jung Gender Equity Champion Awards
[image005.png at 01DB47F6]There is still time to nominate a colleague<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=W9229i_wGkSZoBYqxQYL0kziYS8KsPlJp974AFRYu_hUNUFWUEVGUkRLMklaRzFYNzlKOUo2QzNVMy4u> for the Barbara Jung Gender Equity Champion Awards, recognizing and celebrating individuals who are advancing women/gender minorities in medicine through mentorship, leadership, advocacy, teaching and/or research.

Nominations are due Jan. 10, 2025.

Learn more on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/diversity/gender-equity/awards>.

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Richard M. Tucker WWAMI Excellence in Teaching Awards
[image004.png]Since 1998, the Department of Medicine has selected physicians to receive the WWAMI Excellence in Teaching Award, from nominations submitted by students, residents and faculty in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. In 2009 the award was renamed to honor the late Dr. Richard Tucker, who was the Wenatchee site coordinator and served as an infectious disease specialist and director for quality and education at the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center.

The department is pleased to announce the 2024 recipients of the Richard M. Tucker WWAMI Excellence in Teaching Awards, recognizing true enthusiasm and dedication in providing outstanding teaching and service to medical students.

2024 recipients:
Juli Anne Ackerman (Wyoming)
Michael Caldwell (Montana)
Nate Cook (Montana)
Daryl Ficklin (Idaho)
Matthew Strohmeyer (Alaska)


Faculty news
In memoriam: James Kirkpatrick
[A person in a white lab coat  Description automatically generated]Dr. James Kirkpatrick, professor (Cardiology) passed away unexpectedly on Jan 1. He was 54.

As one of the few cardiologists in the country with specific training in medical ethics, his academic interests involved ethical issues particularly in patients with cardiac assist devices, the uses of echocardiography in the developing world, and the education and practice of cardiac palliative care.

He served as section chief of cardiac imaging and director of the echocardiography laboratory at the UW Medical Center. Under his leadership, the Echo lab has become one of the largest programs in the region, performing over 12,000 studies per year.

A prolific and well-funded investigator with over 200 publications, he was a nationally and internationally recognized expert in diagnostic echocardiography (particularly heart failure and mechanical assist devices), the use of echocardiography in developing world nations, and cardiac palliative care, with an emphasis on patients with heart failure and cardiac devices. He was serving as the chair of the American Society of Echocardiography Foundation.

He is survived by his wife and three children. Details regarding a memorial service will be forthcoming.

Learn more about him on our news site<https://bit.ly/4h148L3>.

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[Medium shot of a person wearing a white coat  Description automatically generated]Dr. Kelley Branch, professor (Cardiology) has been selected as the Vice Chair and future Chair of the American College of Cardiology Rick Nishimura, MD, MACC and Patrick T. O’Gara, MD, MACC Emerging Faculty Leadership Academy<https://bit.ly/41VX4LA>. The Academy provides experiential learning of educational and presentation skills for selected early career faculty educators to support their candidacy for future ACC educational and leadership opportunities.



Education news
Violet Zuvela Primary Care IM Scholarship Award
[A person in a black suit  Description automatically generated]Congratulations to Courtney Ibabao, the 2024 recipient of the Violet Zuvela Primary Care IM Scholarship award. The Violet Zuvela Primary Care IM Scholarship award was created in 2017 by the generosity of the late Violet Zuvela, who was a patient of Dr. Douglas Paauw, former director of Medicine Student Programs.

The Zuvela Fund serves as a deeply meaningful tribute to Violet, while at the same time, provides a scholarship in the amount of $1500 for students with a career interest in primary care internal medicine whose work exemplifies the value of patient-centered care.

Research news
[A person in a blue suit smiling  Description automatically generated]Dr. James Floyd, professor (General Internal Medicine), is MPI of a $3 million R01 awarded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute entitled “Proteomic profiling to identify mechanisms of susceptibility and resilience to cardiac dysfunction in Black Americans.”



Recent publications
Dr. Kelley Branch, professor (Cardiology) is a co-author of “The risk of death according to left ventricular ejection fraction and right ventricular dilatation in 17 321 adults with heart failure from 40 high-, middle- and low-income countries - A Global Congestive Heart Failure (G-CHF) study<https://bit.ly/3BQ7aCT>” in the European Journal of Heart Failure.

Dr. Jason Goldman, clinical assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Disease) wrote the editorial: “Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus Inflammatory Cytokine Syndrome (KICS) – A Severe Complication of an Overlooked Donor-Derived Infection<https://bit.ly/4gZ0MYO>” in the American Journal of Transplantation.

Dr. Christine Limonte, assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. Ian de Boer, professor (Nephrology) is senior author of “Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease<https://bit.ly/4gVa1JJ>” in JAMA.

Dr. A. Vincent Raikhel, assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. Jeffrey Redinger, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of “Comment on “Applying a Competency-Based Medical Education Framework to Development of Residents’ Feedback Skills<https://bit.ly/40iZItF>” in Academic Psychiatry.


In the news
Dr. Rahul Banerjee, assistant professor (Hematology and Oncology) wrote “What the Oncology Field Can Learn From Jimmy Carter<https://bit.ly/4fHc0QR>” in Oncology Data Advisor.

Dr. Rotonya Carr, associate professor and head (Gastroenterology) is quoted in “6 Healthy Reasons to Try Dry January<https://bit.ly/4iUpkEh>” in Oprah Daily and “Gastroenterologist explains benefits of Dry January<https://bit.ly/4iX5F6H>” from UW Medicine Newsroom.


Weekly Calendar, January 6-10, 2025
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
UW Medicine 2050 Sustainability Visioning Session
All employees are invited to participate in a UW Medicine 2050 sustainability visioning session, a critical first step in developing the new UW Sustainability Action Plan<https://bit.ly/3Phlfwl> (SAP). The outcomes of this session will be used to guide UW Medicine’s goals, strategies and actions for the next 25 years. They are seeking a broad range of expertise and perspectives to ensure the sustainability visioning framework for 2050 is comprehensive and inclusive. If interested, please join the UW Medicine Visioning Session on Jan. 14, 2-4pm, via zoom. Registration required<https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrdO2grjgiH9yUmhX79zsDtg_q71LUVdMI#/registration>.

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


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