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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">DOM Week

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September 22, 2023</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>

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</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span><a href="http://bit.ly/1TemKEY"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">Department of Medicine

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Creative Invention Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>

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Mary (Nora) Disis, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is the 2024 recipient of the Creative Invention Award by the American Chemical Society (ACS). She is being recognized for her work in developing vaccines for the prevention and treatment of cancers.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Disis is also presenting “What if…vaccines could

end cancer?” on Nov. 9, at 1pm. as part of a three-part series focused on groundbreaking UW research. She will discuss using the immune system to destroy cancer, and how vaccines can effectively kill it.

</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"></span></span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3PriSa3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">Register

here<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">DEI news<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Healthcare Equity Peer Trainers<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">In 2019, the </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"></span></span></span><a href="https://equity.uwmedicine.org/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;background:white">Office

 of Healthcare Equity</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;background:white"> </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">(OHCE)

 began providing antiracism training, with the goal of reaching every member of the UW Medicine community.</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586">

</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To supplement and work alongside subject matter experts,

 in 2021, OHCE developed a “train-the-trainer” program to produce a group of skilled EDI peer trainers available to deliver training across our diverse system. Certified EDI peer trainers are indispensable members of OHCE’s training team, and include the following

 members from the Department of Medicine: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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Rosemary Adamson, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine), providing training on bias and microaggressions; and Dr.

<b>Masaoki Kawasumi</b>, assistant professor (Dermatology), providing training on social determinants of health and health disparities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Read the full story in

</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"></span></span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3LABcw7"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003443"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk145003586"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">The

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 educational leaders in the School of Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>

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<b>Addie McClintock</b>, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is the new director of the Teaching Scholars Program. The CLIME Teaching Scholars Program is a 10 month professional development program for educators in the health professions who have

 a passion for teaching and a desire to become academic leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>

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<b>Somnath Mookherjee</b>, professor (General Internal Medicine) is the new director of the Center for Learning and Innovation in Medicine Education (CLIME). The mission of CLIME is to create a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community that works together

 to optimize teaching skills, foster educator career development, and support educational scholarship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></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">Expanding access to care for people with long COVID<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 UW Medicine Post COVID team was awarded one of 9 grants from the Agency from Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to improve access to care for underserved people with long COVID. This project is the culmination of several years of development of a multidisciplinary

 team to care for people with long COVID and a testament to the power of working together across specialties to harness collective expertise to tackle a challenging problem. 

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<b>Jessica Bender</b>, clinical assistant professor, <b>Anita Chopra</b>,<b> </b>

clinical assistant professor,<b> </b>and<b> Leo Morales</b>, professor (General Internal Medicine), along with faculty from Rehab Medicine, Family Medicine and Neurology. Learn more on our

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<b>David Au</b>, professor, and <b>Lucas Donovan</b>, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) have been awarded a $680,568 supplemental contract from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study the patient and caregiver

 cost burdens of interventions to improve care quality for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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 to proactively improve COPD care quality across five VA sites. </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Learn more on our

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<b>Ellen Schur</b>, professor (General Internal Medicine), Marian Neuhouser (Epidemiology), and

<b>Jenny Tong</b>, associate professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) have received $3M over 4 years from the NIDDK for their project “Physiological changes underlying the weight loss plateau in humans” to study involuntary weight-loss plateaus in

 study participants who are undergoing behavioral weight loss interventions. Learn more on our

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 differences in frailty and mortality in Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">

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<b>Sayuli Bhide</b>, R3, received funding from the Rheumatology Research Foundation Resident Research Preceptorship to study “Sex differences in frailty and mortality in Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis.” She will be working on this proposal with Drs. Katie

 Wysham (Rheumatology) and Joshua Baker (UPenn).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<b>Rob Fredericksen</b>, research assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and

<b>Andrew Hahn</b>, clinical assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) were awarded a new 5-year NIDA-funded RO1 <span style="color:#333333">“Understanding Health Inequities at the Intersection of the HIV and substance use epidemics across racial/ethnic

 and other underserved populations.” UW co-investigators include Mari Kitahata, Chris Delaney, Geetanjali Chander, William Lober, Lydia Drumright, Bridget Whitney, and Robin Nance. Learn more on our

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Drs.

<b>Tara Babu</b>, assistant professor, and <b>Anna Wald</b>, professor and head (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of “</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3PwpvHQ"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">Comparison

 of bivalent and monovalent SARS-CoV-2 variant vaccines: the phase 2 randomized open-label COVAIL trial</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">”

 in Nature Medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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 research consultant, and Dr. <b>William Grady</b>, professor (Gastroenterology) are co-authors of “</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3taBK5q"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">AI-triaged

 3D pathology to improve detection of esophageal neoplasia while reducing pathologist workloads</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">”

 in Modern Pathology. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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