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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Division Spotlight: General Internal Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 part of our 75th Anniversary, we are spotlighting each of our divisions over the course of the year, in the order they were established.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Division of General Internal Medicine was established in 1985 with Dr. Thomas Inui as the first division head.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<b>Crystal Brown</b>, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has been selected to join the 2024 cohort of the JAMA Editorial Fellowship Program. The fellowship provides mentorship and opportunities to learn about editorial decision-making

 and enhance scientific communication skills. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<b>Rotonya Carr</b>, associate professor and head (Gastroenterology) has been elected Councilor of the Governing Board of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) effective January 2024. She will serve a three-year term as Councilor,

 become President-Elect, followed by President of AASLD in January 2028.  <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">New Medical Genetics and Rheumatology Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 are pleased to announce that <b>Jessica Belcher</b> will be our new administrator in the Divisions of Medical Genetics and Rheumatology, effective Jan. 22. Jessica comes to us with over 15 years of experience in higher education, including human resources,

 finance and budgeting, and research administration. Since 2019, she has been the business affairs director in the Division for Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">She has a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy & analysis and master’s degree in public health from Bowling Green State University

 in Ohio. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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 are introducing a new way to recognize the outstanding work of our staff members in the department –

</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span><a href="https://uwnetid.sharepoint.com/sites/dom_intranet/SitePages/Staff-recognition.aspx"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">Staff

 Shout Outs</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">. Shout outs are a way to celebrate staff contributions, applaud their teamwork

 or customer service skills, or just say thanks for their hard work. Those you recognize will receive an email notifying them of the shout out, and we will feature the program in DOM Week throughout the year.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1 in 3 U.S. adults has prediabetes, many unknowingly<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 in three U.S. adults has prediabetes, according to the CDC. In raw numbers, that’s about 98 million people.<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">Most don’t know that they have elevated blood sugars, which makes the situation more alarming, said Dr.

Subbulaxmi Trikudanathan, clinical associate professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) and medical director for the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“Prediabetes is very silent,” she said. “There can be subtle signs, but often you don't have any symptoms. And it can develop at any age,

 so screening is important.”</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064">

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<b>Barbara Jung</b> is PI on a new grant from the Department of Defense for her project “Mechanisms of Activin Signaling in Acute Pancreatitis” to test the hypothesis that activin A signaling is an early and targetable component of morbidity/mortality-inducing

 inflammatory response in severe acute pancreatitis (AP).<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">Drs.

<b>Michael Boeckh</b>, professor, and <b>Joshua Schiffer</b>, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) are co-authors of “</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3RcJHQb"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">High-frequency

 home self-collection of capillary blood correlates IFI27 expression kinetics with SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance</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 the Journal of Clinical Investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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