[domweek] DOM Week, January 20-24, 2025

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DOM Week
January 17, 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>)


Awards
Distinguished Staff Award nominations
Congratulations to the nominees from the Department of Medicine for the 2024/25 UW Distinguished Staff Awards - individuals and teams that exemplify UW staff excellence:

Individual nominations

  *   Kjell Hansen, research coordinator (Hematology and Oncology)
  *   Mackenzie Keyse, communications specialist (DOM Central Staff)
  *   Emily Lamont, assistant director of operations (DOM Central Staff)
  *   Ignacio Sunkel, program operations analyst (Gastroenterology)
  *   Mary Webb, research coordinator (General Internal Medicine)

Team nominations
CORE Works-in-Progress

  *   Kris Blow, grants and contracts manager (General Internal Medicine)

  *   Melissa Cox (VPR CORE)
  *   Stephanie McConnel (Computer Science)
  *   Chelsea Musick (Education)
  *   Laurie Stephan (VPR ORC)
  *   Jennifer Carrillo (Neurobiology and Biophysics)


A reception for the nominees will be held on Feb. 26, 2-4pm, HUB Ballroom.

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Martin Luther King, Jr Community Service Award
[Dr. Ade Nuga]Congratulations to Dr. Adewunmi Nuga, clinical instructor (General Internal Medicine), a 2025 recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr Community Service Award. Dr. Nuga champions EDI efforts and challenges our primary care clinics to embrace diversity and inclusion. Under her co-leadership, the clinics have implemented inclusive spaces and practices.
This award honors individuals or groups who exemplify Martin Luther King, Jr.'s principles through creating an environment and community where individuals can empower themselves; a commitment to addressing community needs, particularly communities of color and low income; development, support and implementation of programs to improve the human condition; and protecting and empowering all individuals.

Learn more on our news site<https://bit.ly/3DXS13j>.

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Call for nominations: Scholar Awards
We are currently accepting nominations for the Chair of Medicine, Equity Academic, and Fialkow Scholar Awards. Nomination deadline for all awards: April 1, 2025.


  *   The Chair of Medicine Scholar Award<https://bit.ly/3GIkuq1> provides support (primarily PI salary support) for promising senior fellow/acting instructors to be appointed as physician-scientists at the rank of assistant professor.

  *   The Equity Academic Scholar Award<https://bit.ly/4gC3Pq7> assists highly qualified and meritorious trainees at the rank of senior fellow/acting instructor and/or acting assistant professor in their transition to the roles of clinician-scholar, physician-scientist, research-scientist, and principal investigator (PI) as newly appointed assistant professors.


  *   The Fialkow Scholar Award<https://bit.ly/3FCdzNW> recognizes and supports a junior faculty member (assistant or research assistant professor), with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine, who shows outstanding promise as a scholar.


Faculty news
[Medium shot of a person smiling  Description automatically generated]Dr. Fuki Hisama, professor (Medical Genetics) gave a presentation at the Paramount Theatre last week for their Beyond the Curtain Series which features local experts who speak about themes related to the current show. She was invited to educate the audience about progeria, an ultrarare rare genetic condition that causes rapid premature aging in children. The Tony-award winning Broadway musical comedy Kimberly Akimbo<https://bit.ly/4gSjRwu> is the story of a teenage girl with progeria, her family and friends.



Research news
Clinical Research Intensive Summer Program
Applications are now being accepted<https://bit.ly/4j4qc9z> for the Clinical Research Intensive Summer Program<https://bit.ly/3uyOHHr> (CRISP), a 3-week, full-time, intensive in-person experience designed to help jumpstart your clinical research career. The mornings are devoted to epidemiology and biostatistics. Afternoon electives include quality improvement, clinical trials, R programming and using the electronic medical record for research. Additional activities include enrichment lectures, small group meetings with senior investigators to discuss your projects, and social activities to get to know your fellow students. In 2025, the course will take place on the Fred Hutch campus in Seattle from July 7-25, 2025. For additional information, please register for one of the two information sessions on Jan. 24<https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdOmurDwqHtIsXNVQ_JaFnHiQyRhfurK_#/registration> or Feb. 6<https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtceGvqjouGNY1mzn0ftHJ4EzUr5dJSP_6#/registration>.


Recent publications
Dr. Matthew Altman, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is co-author of "Host-microbe multiomic profiling identifies distinct COVID-19 immune dysregulation in solid organ transplant recipients<https://bit.ly/4hifYjZ>" in Nature Communications.

Dr. Lisa Chew, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Telehealth Modality Usage by US Physicians in 2022<https://bit.ly/40yfvVw>" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Drs. Neha Deshpande, clinical assistant professor, and Yilin Zhang, clinical assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) are co-authors of "Take Charge of Your Professional Network of Colleagues to Succeed in Academic Medicine<https://bit.ly/3DWshUX>" in Academic Medicine.

Dr. Jason Dominitz, professor (Gastroenterology) is co-author of "Can molecular cancer signals circulating in blood help us prevent cancer-related deaths?<https://bit.ly/4jgBojn>" in The Lancet.

Dr. Rajnish Mehrotra, professor and head (Nephrology) is co-author of "Pain Coping Skills Training for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: The HOPE Consortium Randomized Clinical Trial<https://bit.ly/42cpCAz>" in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Dr. Graham Nichol, professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Vasopressor or advanced airway first in cardiac arrest?<https://bit.ly/4jA8Cur>" in Resuscitation.

Dr. Susan Ott, clinical professor emeritus (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) wrote "Research That Could Broaden the Scope of Bone Density Screening<https://bit.ly/40zxlHv>" in JAMA Network Open.

Dr. David Rink, chief resident and acting instructor, is lead author and Dr. Tyler Albert, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of "Failing Safely: Autonomy and Identity Formation in Medical Training<https://bit.ly/40uYfQO>" in ATS Scholar. DOM co-author is Gaby Berger.

Dr. Eugene Yang, clinical professor (Cardiology) is senior author of "Association Between Sleep Duration and Cardiovascular Disease Among Asian Americans<https://bit.ly/426QstO>" in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Evan Yu, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is lead author of "Germline and Somatic Genomic Testing for Metastatic Prostate Cancer: ASCO Guideline<https://bit.ly/4gVDpjl>" in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. DOM co-author is Heather Cheng.

Correction from last week: Dr. Boglarka Gyurkocza, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) is lead author of "Randomized Phase III SIERRA Trial of 131I-Apamistamab Before Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Versus Conventional Care for Relapsed/Refractory AML<https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.23.02018>" in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.


In the news
Dr. David Cummings, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is quoted in "New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I.<https://nyti.ms/4anrqZu>" in the New York Times.

Dr. Joel Kaufman, professor (General Internal Medicine) is quoted in "Driving away from wildfires can be harrowing - here's what to do<https://wapo.st/3WnuO0K>" in the Washington Post.

Dr. Ana Weil, assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is quoted in "State health officials report flu-related ER visits 5 times higher than alert threshold<https://bit.ly/4ajhQ9U>" from KOMO News.



Weekly Calendar, January 20-24, 2025
Our events calendar is posted on our website<https://medicine.uw.edu/news/trumba-calendar>.


Coming up
LGBTQ+ Community Event
All are welcome to attend the LGBTQ+ Community Event on Jan. 30, 6-8pm, at Stoup Brewing<https://www.stoupbrewing.com/capitol-hill/> in Capitol Hill.

Artificial Intelligence Symposium
We are collaborating with partners at Microsoft to present an artificial intelligence symposium to educate the department about generative AI tools and how we could use these tools to support our goals in clinical care, research, and education. Presenters will leave time in each session for interactive discussions about current state and potential future collaborations. Feb. 4, 8am-5pm, Vista Café. Please RSVP<https://forms.office.com/r/05AVRkK3Cn> by Jan. 20. You are welcome to attend all or only a subset of the symposium. Learn more on our news site<https://bit.ly/4j6w7uQ>.

An Evidence Based Approach to Promote Equity for Women in Academic Medicine
The Gender Equity Council is proud to sponsor Medicine Grand Rounds<https://medicine.uw.edu/grand-rounds> on Friday, Feb. 7, 12-1pm, following National Women Physicians Day on Feb. 3. Dr. Reshma Jagsi will present "An Evidence Based Approach to Promote Equity for Women in Academic Medicine." Jagsi is the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Read more about her on our news site<https://bit.ly/3BSh4Ej>. Presentation of the Barbara Jung Gender Equity Champion Awards.




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