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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: Equity Academic Scholar Award</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><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">We are currently accepting nominations for the Equity Academic Scholar Award. Nomination deadline:

<b>April 1</b>.<b> </b>The </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/4gC3Pq7"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Equity Academic Scholar Award</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">

 assists highly qualified and meritorious trainees at the rank of senior fellow/acting instructor and/or acting assistant professor in their transition to the roles of clinician-scholar, physician-scientist, research-scientist, and principal investigator (PI)

 as newly appointed assistant professors<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"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Election to American Society of Clinical Investigation

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</v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1029" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Petter Bjornstad, Helen Chu, Andrew Stergachis" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:.05pt;width:115.7pt;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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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width="154" height="67" style="width:1.6041in;height:.6979in" src="cid:image002.jpg@01DC9780.5FE3E090" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Petter Bjornstad, Helen Chu, Andrew Stergachis" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_5"><![endif]><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Congratulations

 to the newly elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Dr. <b>Petter Bjornstad</b>, professor (Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition), Dr. <b>Helen Chu</b>, professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Dr. <b>Andrew Stergachis</b>,

 associate professor (Medical Genetics).<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">Election to the ASCI is a milestone in the physician-scientist career path. The society is an honor society of physician-scientists,

 who translate findings in the laboratory to the advancement of clinical practice. They will be inducted at the annual meeting in April.<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">February is Black History Month<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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 is Black History Month, celebrating the achievements, influences and legacies of Black Americans.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Learn more about the story behind Black History Month at the Office of Healthcare Equity’s

</span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3NWVG6n" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">observance page</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">

 and find more Black History Month resources available from </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/3NNF80J"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Vitals</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"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Gender Equity Awards and Grand Rounds<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">There’s still time to nominate a colleague for the

</span></span></span><a href="https://medicine.uw.edu/diversity/gender-equity/awards"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39275B;mso-ligatures:none">Barbara Jung

 Gender Equity Champion Awards</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk192750892"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">,

 recognizing and celebrating individuals who are supporting the success of women/gender minorities in medicine through mentorship, leadership, advocacy, teaching and/or research. Nominations are due

<b>Feb. 20</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Julie Silver
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" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_3"><![endif]><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Please

 save the date for our Gender Equity Grand Rounds on <b>April 3 </b>(via zoom). We are delighted to welcome Dr. Julie Silver as our presenter. Dr. Silver serves as senior associate dean for faculty experience and success at Wake Forest University School of

 Medicine. She previously founded and directed Harvard’s CME‑accredited course, “Career Advancement and Leadership for Women in Healthcare,” which has trained thousands of physicians and healthcare leaders across the U.S. and around the world.<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">Clinical 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">Patient story: UW Medicine’s first altruistic living kidney donor<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width="80" height="82" style="width:.8333in;height:.8541in" src="cid:image008.jpg@01DC9780.5FE3E090" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Icon of kidneys being held by 2 sets of clasped hands" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"><![endif]><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk199516542"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Linda

 Herbert, a Walla Walla ICU nurse, followed a powerful impulse to donate a kidney to a stranger and became UW Medicine’s first non-directed living donor in 2001.<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">Originally intending to donate anonymously, Linda eventually formed a profound bond with the recipient of her kidney and her family.

 24 years later, Linda is still in good health and reflects on how offering her healthy kidney to someone in need became a gift that changed two lives at once.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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