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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">American Diabetes Association Awards<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<b>Steven Kahn</b>, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is the 2025 recipient of the

<a name="_Hlk192578137">American Diabetes Association Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement</a>. This international award recognizes significant long-term contributions to the understanding, treatment, or prevention of diabetes. Dr. Kahn started his career

 in science with an interest in diabetes four decades ago. He has led a large diabetes research program at the VAPSHCS, including a robust laboratory and clinical research group focused on pancreatic beta cell function for more than 30 years.

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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award, which recognizes a distinguished health professional who has made outstanding educational efforts

 in the field of diabetes. Alison has worked in the field of diabetes nutrition therapy for over 30 years, with a focus on increasing nutrition and diabetes education services for people with diabetes in primary care.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192578116"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Distinguished Service Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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<b>Christopher Knight</b>, professor (General Internal Medicine) is the 2025 recipient of the Edithe J. Levit Distinguished Service Award from the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), in recognition of his enduring commitment and contributions to the

 organization and assessment in medical education.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192578116"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Established in 1983, the Distinguished Service Award is named in honor of former NBME president Edithe J. Levit. Dr.

 Levit made history as the first woman president of a national medical association when she assumed leadership of NBME in 1977. Her enduring legacy continues to influence the medical education assessment community today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192578116"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Gene Peterson Excellence in Quality Improvement Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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to Dr. Anders Chen, associate professor (General Internal Medicine), who received the 2024 Gene Peterson Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement on behalf of the UW Housestaff Quality and Safety Committee.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">This award is given annually to a faculty member who demonstrates commitment to resident learning in the areas of quality improvement and patient safety. Dr.

 Chen has developed quality improvement and patient safety curricula for the UW Internal Medicine Residency Program and has mentored dozens of residents in quality improvement work at the Seattle VA Hospital and at Harborview Medical Center.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_9" o:spid="_x0000_s1031" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Lorena Wright" style='position:absolute;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-top:4.2pt;width:46.9pt;height:57.6pt;z-index:251661312;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page'>

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<b>Lorena Alarcon-Casas Wright</b>, professor of clinical practice (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition) is the 2025 recipient of the

<a name="_Hlk192578152">American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Outstanding Service Award for the Promotion of Endocrine Health to the Underserved. <o:p></o:p></a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">This national award is presented to a healthcare professional who has made outstanding contributions in vision, leadership, innovation, commitment, and action

 to endocrine healthcare through either service to underserved communities or clinical or academic work to address healthcare disparities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr. Wright was recognized for her efforts to found and lead the Latinx Clinic at the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, her commitment to mentoring underrepresented

 students, and her outreach efforts to engage underserved communities in healthcare and expanding health knowledge in diabetes prevention and treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">LBGTQ+ Council spotlight: Jesse Levin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<b>Jesse Levin</b>, clinical associate professor (General Internal Medicine) is a strong advocate for LGBTQ+ equity in education, clinical care and the medical workforce. He has been a member of the Department of Medicine LGBTQ+ Council since 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The power of mentorship<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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 is <a href="https://huddle.uwmedicine.org/womens-history-month/"><span style="color:#39275B">Women’s History Month</span></a>. This year’s national theme is “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations.” This theme celebrates the collective

 strength, equality and influence of women who have dedicated their lives to education, mentorship and leadership, shaping the minds and futures of all generations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://bit.ly/3FAdC2h"><span style="color:#39275B">The Huddle</a> asked UW Medicine women, including Drs.

<b>Melissa (Moe) Hagman</b>, clinical professor (General Internal Medicine) and <b>

Paula Cox-North, APP (Gastroenterology) about their journey into healthcare, the mentors in their lives and how they serve as mentors to others.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk192750892"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Save the date: Women Faculty Day<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The theme for Women Faculty Day this year is “Advocacy, Allyship, & Action: Building a Future for Women in Medicine

& Science” and will feature UW Provost Dr. Tricia Serio as the Keynote Speaker.

<b>May 13</b>, 9am-3:30pm, UW Center for Urban Horticulture Center. Please </span>

<a href="https://bit.ly/3Dr2vs7"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">register for this event<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Faculty spotlight: Radhika Narla<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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 latest faculty spotlight is on Dr. <b>Radhika Narla</b>, associate professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), associate program director for subspecialty medicine for our Internal Medicine Residency Program, and member of the DOM Gender Equity Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">In memoriam: King Holmes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<b>King Holmes</b>, the founding Chair of the Department of Global Health and a long-standing leader in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, died on Sunday, March 9. He was universally acknowledged as the “father” of the field of academic sexually

 transmitted infection research, epidemiology, prevention, and care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Teaching Club<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Faculty educators and hospitalists from the Division of General Internal Medicine have created a Teaching Club focused on the unique needs of the inpatient

 environment. Dr. <b>Alexandra (Randi) Morrison</b>, clinical associate professor (General Internal Medicine), first conceived the idea in 2020, which evolved into an ongoing opportunity for both new and experienced Harborview hospitalist faculty to engage

 in discussions about medical education. In 2023, the scope of Teaching Club was broadened to include hospitalist groups from the University of Washington Medical Center-Montlake and the VA hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The overall feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. “There is an immense amount of experience and collective wisdom in our group, and Teaching Club is one

 way to access and harness that,” says Morrison.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Teaching Club is led by five faculty educators and hospitalists who work at our three main sites (Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical

 Center and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System):<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Career Development Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<b>Hongyang (Jo) Pi</b>, senior fellow (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) received the American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award, designed to support highly promising early career investigators to assure the applicant’s future success

 as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular disease research. Dr. Pi proposes to study the longitudinal proteomic dynamics in right heart failure in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Jennifer Brody</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">, research scientist,

<b>Joshua Bis</b>, research scientist, and Dr. <b>Bruce Psaty</b>, professor (General Internal Medicine) are co-authors of “<a href="https://go.nature.com/3DIF1P9"><span style="color:#39275B">Sequencing in over 50,000 cases identifies coding and structural

 variation underlying atrial fibrillation risk</span></a>” in Nature Genetics. <o:p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.

<b>William Kwok</b>, affiliate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/3FrxXXL"><span style="color:#39275B">Longitudinal single cell profiling of epitope specific memory CD4+ T cell responses to recombinant zoster

vaccine</a>” in Nature Communications. DOM co-authors are Emily Ford and David Koelle.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.

<b>Scott Lee</b>, associate professor (Gastroenterology) is lead author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/3DFQAqf"><span style="color:#39275B">Long-Term Safety of Mirikizumab in Patients With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis: An Integrated 2-Year

 Safety Analysis</span></a>” in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<b>Christopher Longenecker</b>, professor (Cardiology) is co-author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/43QE8P0"><span style="color:#39275B">Epidemiology of Coronary Atherosclerosis Among People Living With HIV in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study</span></a>” in the

 Annals of Internal Medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.

<b>Reena Mehra</b>, professor and head (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/3XDZoUk"><span style="color:#39275B">Polysomnographic Sleep Architectural Disruption Associated with Atrial Fibrillation Development</span></a>”

 in Sleep. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<b>Yue-Harn Ng</b>, clinical associate professor (Nephrology) is co-author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/4kOG5S9"><span style="color:#39275B">Kidney Transplant Fast Track and Likelihood of Waitlisting and Transplant: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial</span></a>”

 in JAMA Internal Medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr. Andrew Portuguese, assistant professor, is lead author and Dr.

<b>Jordan Gauthier</b>, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) is senior author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/43GHPqv"><span style="color:#39275B">Real-world comparison of lisocabtagene maraleucel and axicabtagene ciloleucel in large B-cell lymphoma: an

 inverse probability of treatment weighting analysis with 3-year follow up</span></a>” in Haematologica. DOM co-authors are Jennifer Huang, Emily Liang, Alexandre Hirayama, Erik Kimble, Lorenzo Iovino, Christina Poh, Ajay Gopal, Mazyar Shadman, Brian Till,

 Filippo Milano, Aude Chapuis, Folashade Otegbeye, Ryan Cassaday, and David Maloney.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Drs.

<b>Bruce Psaty</b>, professor (General Internal Medicine), <b>Nona Sotoodehnia</b>, professor (Cardiology) are co-authors of “<a href="https://go.nature.com/41PPUXm"><span style="color:#39275B">Meta-analysis of genome-wide associations and polygenic risk prediction

for atrial fibrillation in more than 180,000 cases</a>” in Nature Genetics.

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Ruben Raychaudhuri, assistant professor, is lead author and Dr. R. Bruce Montgomery, professor (Hematology) is senior author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/3R5Wd47"><span style="color:#39275B">Prostate Cancer: A Review</a>” in JAMA.

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<b>Natalie Wuliji</b>, acting instructor, is lead author and Dr. <b>Mohamed Sorror</b>, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) is senior author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/3DICsfZ"><span style="color:#39275B">Social Determinants of Health and Access

to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Acute Myeloid Leukemia</a>” in Blood. DOM co-authors are Jacob Applebaum, Mary-Elizabeth Percival, Brenda Sandmaier, Sephanie Lee, and Fred Appelbaum.

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Anthony Back, professor (Hematology and Oncology) is quoted in “<a href="https://bit.ly/4hB8YOU"><span style="color:#39275B">Psilocybin Benefits Clinicians Traumatized on Front Line of COVID-19 Pandemic</a>” in Psychiatric Times.

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<b>Helen Chu</b>, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is mentioned in “<a href="https://bit.ly/4ibi3iO"><span style="color:#39275B">Looking back on UW innovations after five years of COVID-19</span></a>” in UW Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Drs.

<b>Steven Pergam</b>, professor, <b>Catherine Liu</b>, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and

Nancy Davidson, professor (Hematology and Oncology) are quoted in “<a href="https://bit.ly/3DLBpfh"><span style="color:#39275B">With respiratory infections rampant, experts urge masking and vaccination</a>” from Hutch News.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Medicine Grand Rounds</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<b>Sara Hurvitz</b>, professor and head (Hematology and Oncology) will present “Charting New Waters: From Breast Oncologist to Division Head – Shaping the Future of Patient Care, Research, and Innovation in Hematology/Oncology” at Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday,

<b>March 21</b>, 12-1pm, <a href="https://washington.zoom.us/j/812197730"><span style="color:#39275B">via zoom</span></a>.

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