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 Seattle Met’s Top Doctors, Physician Assistants and Nurses <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Chosen by their peers as the best health care professionals in the region,

</span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/4n0NRcw"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Seattle Met’s annual list</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">

 features doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and more in over 90 specialties.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Congratulations to 40+ people from the Department of Medicine on

</span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/4nnN5pB"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">this year's list</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Outstanding Educator Award<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1034" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Brad Anawalt" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:5.7pt;width:36.35pt;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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 Endocrine Society announced the 12 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious

</span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/4piwe9D"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">2026 Laureate Awards</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">,

 the top honors in the field. Congratulations to Dr. <b>Bradley Anawalt</b>, professor (General Internal Medicine) who is the recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award, recognizing exceptional achievement as an educator in the discipline of endocrinology

 and metabolism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Established in 1944, the Society’s Laureate Awards recognize the highest achievements in the endocrinology field, including groundbreaking

 research and innovations in clinical care. The Endocrine Society will present the awards to the winners at ENDO 2026, the Society’s annual meeting in June 2026.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">DEIB news<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>

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 and Latinx Heritage Month<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">We celebrate

</span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3IkAFA3"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Hispanic American Heritage Month</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">

 each year from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15. This year’s theme is “Collective Heritage: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Present.”

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">UW Medicine’s Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month Flag Raising will take place on

<b>Sept. 15</b> at noon on all hospital campuses. Join the Latino Medical Student Association and the Network of Underrepresented Residents and Fellows to celebrate National Latino Physician Day on

Oct. 1, 6-8pm, Health Sciences Education Building room 101. All are welcome.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Women in Medicine & Science faculty leadership workshop<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 the date! The UW Medicine Women in Medicine & Science (WIMS) Committee has announced the 2025-26 Women Faculty Leadership Workshop series. The first one, “Own Your Voice: From Core Values to Confident Communication” will be held on

<b>Oct. 15</b>, 4-5pm and will be co-led by Dr. <b>Abby Hussein</b>, clinical assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases). For more information and to register, please visit the

<a href="https://bit.ly/3aHoGbp"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">WIMS website<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Research news<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><a name="_Hlk205966947"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Archaic gene variant may have aided adaptation to Americas

<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></span></p>

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 group of anthropologists and geneticists have been exploring the population distribution and the structure of the Denisovan

MUC19 gene variant in people. The variant was originally detected in DNA from bone fossils of humanlike Denisovans, who vanished from the Earth tens of thousands of years ago. Their fossils have been discovered in a Siberian cave and sites in Asia.

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<i>MUC19</i> variant occurs with greater frequency among people who have regions of their genome inherited from ancient Indigenous Americans. For example, 1 in 3 people of Mexican ancestry are likely to have a copy. In contrast, only 1 in 100 people of Asian

 ancestry are estimated to have the variant. The research findings and an analysis of their possible implications were reported Aug. 21 in

<a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0882" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk205966947"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Science<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk205966947"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk205966947"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">.

 Dr. <b>Paul Valdmanis</b>, associate professor (Medical Genetics) is co-author. <o:p>

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<b>Joshua Hill</b>, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) received a 5-year K24 Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for his grant entitled “Infection

 prevention strategies after CAR-T cell therapy.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 research in preventing infections in patients receiving chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapies. The proposed studies will evaluate best approaches for the use of antibody infusions and vaccination to reduce infections after CAR-T cell therapy and

 improve patient outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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 Crothers</b>, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and VA Puget Sound Health Care System Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, has been awarded a 5-year $4.2 million R01 grant by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

 to support the OPTIMIZE Lung-HIV program, a multicenter initiative at the Veterans Health Administration designed to improve lung health and reduce pneumonia-related illness among people with HIV. Dr.

<b>Ken Kunisaki</b>, director of Clinical and Translational Research at the Boise VA, is also a principal investigator.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<b>Helen Jack</b>, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) has received an R01 funded by NIDA for her project “Optimizing Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in Prisons: Strategies for Diagnosis and Shared Decision-Making.” This five-year $3.4 million grant

 will focus on improving opioid use disorder care in Washington State prisons, focusing on the early steps in opioid use disorder care.

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 cancer patients will soon be able to enroll in a Phase 2 clinical trial of a therapeutic breast cancer vaccine because of a $500,000 grant from the Cancer Vaccine Coalition.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The inaugural grant funds the expansion of the UW’s clinical trial of WOKVAC, an advanced therapeutic vaccine for breast cancer. The

 trial will assess the vaccine's potential to help prevent cancer recurrence and to transform patient outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">“Cancer vaccines are real and at a tipping point,” said Dr.

<b>Nora Disis</b>, professor (Hematology and Oncology) and director of the </span>

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 “This financial support puts us closer to a future where we can activate our own immune systems to fight cancer.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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 approaches for optimizing TB<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>