Events Calendar
Grand Rounds
November 12
"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetic Kidney Disease"
Bessie Young, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington School of Medicine
DOM faculty awarded ARRA, LSDF funds
Department of Medicine investigators have received over $38 million in grants from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. More than 70 DOM projects have been funded so far. A total of $10.4 billion in NIH funds will be distributed by September 2010, with $8.2 billion directed to extramural scientific research.
The Washington State Life Sciences Discovery Fund has awarded a project grant of $202,759 to André M. Lieber of Medical Genetics; a $791,767 project grant to Daniel Martin, Hematology; and a commercialization grant of $150,000 to Philip Fleckman of Dermatology.
Department faculty honors
Anthony L. Back, Medical Oncology, has received the Lynn Payer Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Literature on the Theory, Practice and Teaching of Effective Healthcare Communication and Related Skills from the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare. Caroline S. Rhoads, General Internal Medicine, has received the Bruce C. Gilliland Award for Excellence in Teaching of Residents and Fellows. Arno Motulsky, Medical Genetics, has received the Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award from the American Society of Human Genetics. Linda Pinsky, General Internal Medicine, and colleagues won two Communicator Awards of Excellence for documentary videos on pharmaceutical marketing produced under Washington’s Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant Program.
DOM News
Goldstein honored by AAMC
Erika A. Goldstein, professor of medicine and founding director of the School of Medicine Colleges, has received a 2009 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
New leadership
James H. Caldwell, Jr., will become Acting Head of the Division of Cardiology on December 1, when current Division Head Richard L. Page assumes the chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Eliza L. Sutton, General Internal Medicine, is the new Medical Director of the Women's Health Care Center at UWMC-Roosevelt, succeeding Mary Laya. Raghu “Rags” Durvasula, Nephrology, has been appointed Associate Medical Director for Inpatient Care at the UW Medical Center.
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