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 to Dr. <b>Eric Morrell</b>, assistant professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine), who is the 2024 recipient of the Fialkow Award.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Fialkow Scholar Award honors the late UW Dean of Medicine and Chair of Medicine Dr. Philip

 Fialkow and his wife, the late Helen Fialkow, and recognizes the outstanding achievements of junior faculty in medicine in research, teaching, clinical work, and academic citizenship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Morrell co-directs the University of Washington’s Lung Transplant Biorepository, serves on

 the Early Career Group at the <i>American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology</i>, and is a site PI for several multi-center observational and interventional studies in lung transplant, ARDS, and COVID-19.  <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><a href="https://mednews.uw.edu/news/2024-fialkow/morrell"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">Dr.

Morrell<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Call for nominations: Minority Faculty Mentoring Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nominations are now open for the Committee on Minority Faculty Advancement

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 our region. This is an annual award highlighting the mentoring achievements of senior faculty. Nominees need not be a member of an underrepresented group. This award is supported by the Office of the Dean, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of Healthcare

 Equity (OHCE), and the Committee on Minority Faculty Advancement (CMFA).<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 to Dr. <b>Mary (Nora) Disis</b>, professor (Hematology and Oncology) who has been selected as the 2024 UW Medicine Inventor of the Year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 improve healthcare through the translation of research from the bench, with industry partnerships, to products or processes with major impacts on health.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 to Dr. <b>Mark Wiley</b>, research fellow (Gastroenterology) who is the 2024 recipient of the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, sponsored by the UW </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Office

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 mentor for special recognition. This year, Dr. Wiley was one of the selected mentors to be honored from 465 nominations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 decade of progressively fewer heart failure deaths in the United States reversed course in 2012. By 2021, heart-failure deaths had rebounded so sharply that they eclipsed the volume of those deaths seen in 1999. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. <b>April Stempien-Otero</b>, associate professor (Cardiology) expressed dismay at the data, </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2817830?utm_campaign=articlePDF&utm_medium=articlePDFlink&utm_source=articlePDF&utm_content="><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B">recently

 reported in JAMA Cardiology.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><u><span style="color:#39275B"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163228170"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk35011064"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“We’d made great progress, and it is really because of these medications we had for heart failure

 that were revolutionary,” she said. “This uptick … is really surprising and worrisome.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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