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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Call for nominations: 2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nominations for the 2024 UW School of Medicine Distinguished

</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span><a href="http://bit.ly/2Se83IV"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">Alumni Awards</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">

 are now open. Honor the colleagues and classmates who inspire you by </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3eVwPvg"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">nominating

 them</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> for one of four awards: the Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award, the Alumni Humanitarian

 Award, the Alumni Service Award and the Alumni Early Achievement Award. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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 save the date for our next Gender Equity Lunch Series on Friday, <b>Sept. 22</b>, 12-1pm,

<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><a href="https://washington.zoom.us/j/93184102731"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">via zoom<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.

 Our panel of moderators will provide mentorship and guidance on the promotion process for clinical faculty in the Department of Medicine, and talk about the new promotion criteria for full-time clinical faculty.

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 spotlight: Matthew Smith</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our latest faculty spotlight is on

Matthew Smith, a teaching associate in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine who started and leads the 3 Wishes Project at UWMC-Montlake.

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<b>Joshua Liao</b>, associate professor (General Internal Medicine) has accepted a position as the next Division Chief of General Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern. Dr. Liao has served in a number of roles at UW, including as the Associate Chair for Health

 Systems in the department. In that capacity, he has led efforts to foster connection among individuals and groups interested in health systems and innovation while building a nationally recognized policy unit that has become the formal evaluation partner of

 the Washington Health Care Authority, the largest purchaser of health care services in the state. These efforts, and the department's national reputation in health systems work, will continue to expand through collaborations between faculty assuming the helm

 at UW and Dr. Liao after he transitions into his new role this winter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Blood cancer experts receive endowed chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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<b>Roland Walter</b>, associate professor (Medical Oncology) was named the fourth recipient of the distinguished Jos� Carreras/E. Donnall Thomas Endowed Chair for Cancer Research. The chair was established in 2007 by the Seattle-based Friends of Jos� Carreras

 International Leukemia Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<b>Mazyar Shadman</b>, associate professor (Medical Oncology) is the recipient of the Innovators Network Endowed Chair. Established in 2019, this chair was created as a catalyst for leading-edge cancer research and supports an early-career scientist whose work

 includes evidence of patient benefit, creativity and novel approach to research, and collaborative use of data science and/or emerging technology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In historic procedure, donor liver protects heart transplant<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extremely high likelihood that her body would reject a donor heart transplanted alone. In doing so, they successfully tested the

 concept that a donor liver can confer robust immunoprotection on a subsequent heart transplant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The dual-organ recipient, Adriana Rodriguez, 31, of Bellingham, Washington, has recovered well since the Jan. 14, 2023, procedures, said

 Dr. <b>Shin Lin</b>, associate professor (Cardiology). He is the lead author of the paper describing the novel approach, newly published in the

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Neurons that track, regulate blood-sugar levels are found<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Understanding how this blood-sugar detection system works and how these neurocircuits operate would give researchers and doctors greater

 insights into how our brains regulate our blood sugar and, perhaps, how to target them therapeutically to treat metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity, according to the study authors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“We’ve known for a long time that many neurons can detect sugar locally within the brain,” said Dr.

<b>Michael Schwartz</b>, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) and co-director of the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute. “What is new, however, is the evidence that a subset of neurons located in the hypothalamus can sense and respond to sugar in

 the bloodstream itself, analogous to the cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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 Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) has spotlighted affiliate investigator Dr.

<b>Rozenn Lemaitre</b>, research professor (General Internal Medicine). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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