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 of Medicine </span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></span><a href="mailto:amyf@uw.edu"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">amyf@uw.edu</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 Christina Surawicz</b>, professor emeritus (Gastroenterology) has been selected to receive the 2022 Masters of the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) Award. The Masters of the WGO (MWGO) Award is the highest honor WGO can bestow and is granted only

 to those individuals who have provided outstanding dedication to the mission of the WGO and achieved distinction in scholarly research, teaching, service to WGO and the community at large.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fellowship match<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please join us in congratulating this year’s residents, current chief residents, former graduates,

 and our divisions on another successful fellowship match!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Current and chief residents who matched into fellowships:<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></p>

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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        

</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Seifu Abera, Cardiology, UW<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        

</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Priyanka Anand, CDC EIS<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        

</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Khalida Arif, Cardiology, USC<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        

</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mahlet Assefa, Nephrology, UW<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Brianna Balansay, Cardiology, UW<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 2021, the Mount Baker Foundation (MBF) made a $1M pledge ($100,000 annually for 10 years) to the Kidney Research Institute to increase diversity in nephrology research and the workforce by supporting candidates in the early-stage of their career, when securing

funding is particularly difficult. Drs. Christine Limonte and Justin Bullock (Nephrology) are the first UW fellows to be recipients of support from the Mount Baker Foundation gift.

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 University of Washington was awarded a 5-year competitive renewal by the NIH/NINDS as one of 13 clinical hubs for the Strategies to Innovate EmeRgENcy Care (SIREN) Clinical Trials Network. SIREN is charged with performing prehospital and in-hospital clinical

 trials in cardiovascular, neurologic and traumatic emergency care. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 hypothermia after cardiac arrest), and BOOST3 (evaluating interventions in traumatic brain injury). Principal investigators are Drs.

<b>Peter Kudenchuk</b>, professor (Cardiology) and <b>Nick Johnson</b>, associate professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and emergency medicine. The grant awards ~ $16 million across sites for infrastructure support over the next

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 Awards and Stroum Graduate Fellowship Awards. These funding opportunities are meant to promote the development of new and innovative research projects directed at basic, clinical and translational aspects of diabetes. Letters of intent and reviewer nomination

 forms are due by <b>Jan. 11</b>, 2023 and the deadline for full applications is <b>

Feb. 24, 2023. For more details, please visit their <span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><a href="https://bit.ly/3XJybxV"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">website<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.

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 CRC) is accepting applications for Developmental Research Project (DRP) Awards. These developmental awards provide funding to support career development and research activities which will ultimately help early-career investigators compete for future R- and

 K- awards. Applications are due on <b>Dec. 14</b>. For more information and to apply, please visit the

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 Liao</b>, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) and associate chair, hosted a

</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3OIcsTb"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;background:white">Health

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 with Dora Hughes, the Chief Medical Officer of the CMS Innovation Center, the national leader in setting new payment and delivery policy and models in the US. Drs. Liao and Hughes discussed how payment models can be designed to promote health equity rather

 than entrench or worsen inequity. Hosted by Dr. Liao, </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3UghcAo"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;background:white">Health

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 a series of discussions aimed at understanding how payment and other systems factors affect equity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<b>Janis Abkowitz</b>, professor and head (Hematology) is senior author of “</span></a></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk114234236"></span></span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3XIrL2j"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk114234236"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">How

 we diagnose and treat acute graft-versus-host disease after solid organ transplantation</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk114234236"></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk99118098"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk114234236"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">”

 in <i>Blood</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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