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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">DOM Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">April 4, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">News, information, and events of interest from the Department of Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">(if you have items for DOM Week, please email
<a href="mailto:amyf@uw.edu"><span style="color:#39275B">amyf@uw.edu</span></a>) <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk194418087"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">DOM artificial intelligence symposium follow-up<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width="101" height="67" style="width:1.052in;height:.6979in" src="cid:image003.jpg@01DBA57A.42BA2450" align="left" hspace="12" alt="A series of bright blue lights meant to represent artificial intelligence. " v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"><![endif]><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"></span><a name="_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Earlier
this year we partnered with Microsoft to present an </span></span></a><a href="https://bit.ly/4j6w7uQ"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">artificial
intelligence symposium</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
to educate the department about generative AI tools and how we could use these tools to support our goals in clinical care, research, and education. A summary of the symposium, as well as several of the presenter slide decks are currently
</span></span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3DZxtb1"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">available on our intranet</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">AI projects</span></u></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">:
We’ve also developed a survey to gauge interest in AI and collect project ideas. Our aim is to identify shared areas of interest where potential collaborations could be explored with Microsoft. If you are interested in participating in further AI interest
groups or have project suggestions, please </span></span></span><a href="https://forms.office.com/r/TwwhxULX2q"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">complete
this survey</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Online AI training</span></u></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">:
Microsoft has offered to host an on-line training session for DOM employees to learn to create useful AI prompts on
<b>April 14</b>, 12-1:30. If you are interested, please </span></span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3YfVjWH"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">register</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
for this training session. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194418087"></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk194417409"></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Faculty news<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Filippo Milano receives inaugural Endowed Chair in Cord Blood Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1033" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Photograph of Fred Hutch's Dr. Filippo Milano, wearing a blue branded sweater" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:2pt;width:44.45pt;height:50.4pt;z-index:251662336;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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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width="59" height="67" style="width:.6145in;height:.6979in" src="cid:image005.jpg@01DBA57A.42BA2450" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Photograph of Fred Hutch's Dr. Filippo Milano, wearing a blue branded sweater" v:shapes="_x0000_s1033"><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.
<b>Filippo Milano</b>, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) and director of the Fred Hutch Cord Blood Program, was just awarded an Endowed Chair in Cord Blood Research by an anonymous donor. Unrestricted funding will help grow Fred Hutch’s Cord Blood
Transplant Program so that ‘every patient has a donor.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Bone or stem cell transplants require a genetically compatible donor, a daunting task for those with mixed ethnic heritage due to a lower number of available matches on national
donor registries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">“Cord blood transplants are perfect for patients who don’t have a conventional donor — a matched sibling or a relative,” said Milano, who now serves as the director of the <a href="https://www.fredhutch.org/en/research/divisions/clinical-research-division/research/cord-blood-program.html" target="_self"><span style="color:#39275B">Fred
Hutch Cord Blood Transplant Program</span></a>. “We use stem cells from the umbilical cord, which is considered medical waste once a child is born. These stem cells are naïve — they haven’t yet adapted in response to their environment — so we don’t need to
match them as we do with other transplants. Cord blood definitely expands the pool of donors for our patients.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Read the full story from
<a href="https://bit.ly/42ruW2t"><span style="color:#39275B">Hutch News</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Clinical news<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Harborview Mobile Health Outreach program<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The Harborview Mobile Health Outreach (MHO) program, a partnership between Harborview and UW Health Sciences, is supported by volunteer students from various health sciences disciplines, as well
as volunteer physicians, DNPs, and other interprofessional preceptors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">This program offers outreach, engagement, and free acute medical care and referral services to residents of two tiny house villages in Seattle.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The program extends its gratitude to all preceptors and would like to give special recognition to the following who volunteered for more than five outreaches in 2024: Drs.
Russell Berg and Liz Snapinn (General Internal Medicine) and Laura Polito, Mariana Frias Garcia, and Martin Cahn (Dept. of Family Medicine).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Learn more in their newly released
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D-KJRB3O1a9xMpaIQKiAcDvmUwc2g_BV/view?usp=sharing">
<span style="color:#39275B">2024 Annual Report</span></a>. If you are interested in volunteering with the MHO Program, please reach out to
<a href="mailto:yallen@uw.edu"><span style="color:#39275B">Yana Allen</span></a>,
<a href="mailto:aynsleyd@uw.edu"><span style="color:#39275B">Aynsley Duncan</span></a> or
<a href="mailto:jorose@uw.edu"><span style="color:#39275B">Jocelyn James</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Research news<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Andy Hill CARE Fund Implementation and Outcomes Research Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_s1031" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Heather Greenlee" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:.15pt;width:45.95pt;height:50.4pt;z-index:251663360;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>Heather Greenlee</b>, associate professor (Hematology and Oncology) and Amanda Fretts (Dept. of Epidemiology) have received an Andy Hill CARE Fund Implementation and Outcomes Research Award for their project: “Partnering with Washington State Tribal Communities
to Develop Culturally-Tailored Nutrition Resources and Reduce Cancer Health Disparities.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">These grants support innovative investigators to translate promising research and scientific discoveries into the development of tools, devices, technologies, therapeutics,
or interventions that have the potential to address care across the cancer continuum that will ultimately advance cancer care, lessen the burden of cancer, and improve health outcomes.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Hartwell Innovation Fund award<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1030" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Jennifer Huang" style='position:absolute;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:2.6pt;width:43.1pt;height:50.4pt;z-index:251664384;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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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width="57" height="67" style="width:.5937in;height:.6979in" src="cid:image011.jpg@01DBA57A.42BA2450" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Jennifer Huang" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_5"><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.
<b>Jennifer Huang</b>, fellow (Hematology and Oncology) has received the 2025 Hartwell Innovation Fund Swim Across America Pilot Award for her project “Characterization of the Biological Effects of BTK Inhibitors on in vivo CAR T-cell Function in Patients with
Mantle Cell Lymphoma Undergoing CAR T-Cell Therapy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr. Huang and co-mentors Drs. Jordan Gauthier and Mazyar Shadman will be looking at the impacts of BTK inhibitor exposure on CAR T-cell expansion and exhaustion and the serum
proteomic signature in patients with mantle cell lymphoma who were treated with CAR T-cell therapy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Kristina Crothers</b>, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is the recipient of the 2025 Assembly on Pulmonary Infections and Tuberculosis (PITB) Senior</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;mso-ligatures:none">‐</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">level
Peer Recognition Award from the American Thoracic Society. This annual award, selected by peers, is presented to a PITB member who has shown a strong commitment to PITB (and ATS), contributed significantly to advancing its mission, and demonstrated impactful
contributions in research, clinical care, teaching, or service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Taylor Coston</b>, fellow (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is the recipient of the 2025 Assembly on Pulmonary Infections and Tuberculosis (PITB) Rising Star Award from the American Thoracic Society. This award recognizes early junior faculty
with a trajectory of achievements in a scientific area of the PITB Assembly who demonstrate exemplary promise of future achievement. He will present his work at the Science and Innovation Center during the ATS International Conference next month.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Spotlight on resident scholarship: Ila Nimgaonkar<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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patients delay cancer treatment if infected with SARS-COv-2? In the latest resident scholarship spotlight, “Does SARS-CoV-2 Infection Require Delaying Cancer Treatment?” Dr.
<b>Ila Nimgaonkar</b>, R3, used retrospective data from Fred Hutch to compare patients whose cellular therapy was delayed due to prior SARS-CoV-2 infection versus those for whom it was not.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">She found that neither group experienced recrudescent SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 complications after undergoing cellular therapy. Most of the patients were vaccinated, and many
received treatment for their SARS-CoV-2 infection, either with monoclonal antibodies or Paxlovid. Her work suggests that in this setting, it is not necessary to delay cellular therapy for a mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Megan Mayer" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:.15pt;width:44pt;height:50.4pt;z-index:251660288;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>Megan Mayer</b>, fellow (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has been invited to serve as an apprentice on the American Thoracic Society Health Policy Committee. The Health Policy Committee serves as a resource for the staff of the ATS Government
Relations Office and advisor to the ATS Executive Committee and Board of Directors on issues of policy importance and priorities for ATS action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.
<b>Rotonya Carr</b>, associate professor and head (Gastroenterology) is senior author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/3FQKKTL"><span style="color:#39275B">Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and the gut microbiome: pathogenic insights and therapeutic
innovations</span></a>” in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. DOM co-author is Chrstopher Damman.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.
<b>Connie Celum</b>, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/4jButRp"><span style="color:#39275B">Doxycycline to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections in the USA: final results from the DoxyPEP multicentre,
open-label, randomised controlled trial and open-label extension</span></a>” in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. DOM co-authors are Julia Dombrowski, Chase Cannon, Robert Suchland, and Olusegun Soge.
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<b>Stephan Fihn</b>, professor (General Internal Medicine) is lead author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/4iTkhDD"><span style="color:#39275B">Veterans Affairs Research Under Threat</span></a>” in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.
<b>William Grady</b>, professor (Gastroenterology) is co-author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/4lk1G5u"><span style="color:#39275B">Gastric (Foveolar) Dysplasia in Barrett's Esophagus: A Clinical, Molecular and Long-Term Outcome Study</span></a>” in the American
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.
<b>Nicholas Johnson</b>, associate professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is co-author of “<a href="https://bit.ly/3XKzX3E"><span style="color:#39275B">Patient- and Community-Level Characteristics Associated With Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Vaccination</span></a>” in JAMA Network Open. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.
<b>Vishesh Kapur</b>, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is quoted in “<a href="https://bit.ly/3E63Jcq"><span style="color:#39275B">More Screen Time in Bed Can Lead to Insomnia</span></a>” in Everyday Health.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Quiet week: April 7-11
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individuals can limit non-essential meetings to recharge and reflect, as well as thoughtfully minimize emails. We realize that this will not be possible for everyone but encourage all to take breaks when they are able.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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