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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Call for nominations: 2026 Awards of Excellence<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_13"><![endif]><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">For

 more than five decades, the UW Awards of Excellence have honored faculty, staff, students and alumni whose accomplishments are an outstanding reflection of our University’s core values and mission of public service. These exceptional individuals enrich and

 diversify our community through their innovation, collaboration, dedication and passion for creating positive impact. Please consider nominating a colleague for one of these awards. Nominations are currently open for all

<a href="https://bit.ly/3RDWz3B"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Awards of Excellence<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><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">William J. Bremner Endowed Mentorship Awards<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">Nominations are currently open for the William J. Bremner Endowed Mentorship Awards, to honor faculty members for their contribution

 to the scientific, educational, and patient care missions of the Department of Medicine through exemplary sustained and high impact mentorship. Two awards are given annually to recognize excellence in mentorship. Faculty in all promotion tracks at the rank

 of associate professor and above are eligible to be nominated. Nominations are due

Nov. 10. For more information, please <a href="https://medicine.uw.edu/about/awards/dom-awards/bremner"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">visit our 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">Education news<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Violet Zuvela Primary Care IM Scholarship Awards<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 to <b>Adri Abou-bakr</b>, <b>Veda Gadiraju</b>, <b>Gabriella Girolami</b>, and <b>

Hareen Sheerha, the 2025 recipients of the Violet Zuvela Primary Care IM Scholarship award.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">These awards was created in 2017 by the generosity of the late Violet Zuvela, who was a patient of Dr. Douglas Paauw, former director

 of Medicine Student Programs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">The Zuvela Fund serves as a deeply meaningful tribute to Violet, while at the same time, provides a scholarship in the amount of $1500

 for students with a career interest in primary care internal medicine whose work exemplifies the value of patient-centered care.<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">Faculty news<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_11" o:spid="_x0000_s1033" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Katherine Bennett" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:.15pt;width:39.9pt;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>Katherine Bennett</b>, associate professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) was elected by the medical staff at Harborview Medical Center to serve a three-year team as the medical staff member-at-large to the HMC Medical Executive Board. In her second

 year of this term, she will serve as medical staff president-elect and in the third year as medical staff president.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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AI-generated content may be incorrect." v:shapes="Picture_x0020_21"><![endif]><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Dr.

<b>Jose Garcia</b>, professor (Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine) has been elected as the President of the Cancer Cachexia Society for a 2-year term (2026-2028). The Cancer Cachexia Society is a community of basic scientists, translational researchers, clinician-investigators,

 health care providers, industry partners, advocates, and patients who work together to increase knowledge, research, education, awareness, and treatment of cachexia.<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>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Nominate Employees for Native American Heritage Month Feature<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 is asking for nominations of employees to be featured during Native American Heritage Month (November). UW Medicine’s Cultural Observances and Implementation Subcommittee partners with Vitals to create content celebrating cultural observances, including feature

 articles that give employees from the culture being celebrated a chance to share their perspectives and experiences. Employees may self-nominate or nominate a colleague. Do you know someone they should feature? If so (and

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Blood Sugar Sensing on Maintenance Dialysis<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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<b>Ian de Boer</b>, professor (Nephrology) is PI on an R01 from the NIDDK to study state-of-the-art continuous glucose monitoring on dialysis patients to better understand blood glucose patterns. This project is a five-year competitive renewal from the National

 Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) that will extend the original BLOSSOM (BLOod Sugar Sensing On Maintenance dialysis) study.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<b>Linzee Mabrey</b>, acting instructor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) has been awarded an unrestricted grant from the American Thoracic Society, designed to support early-career investigators researching topics in pulmonary, critical care, and

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 include Dr. Pavan Bhatraju (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and Dr. Leila Zelnick (Nephrology).

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Washington Research Foundation awards $1M to improve health outcomes<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 Washington Research Foundation (WRF) has awarded $1 million to Fred Hutch Cancer Center to continue its support of the organizations’ collaboration to accelerate the development of technologies with significant potential to improve patient health. WRF has

 now provided a total of $3.5 million in grants to the collaboration, which was established in 2021.

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