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  July, 2016 

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 Advancement News

Jon Drezner will receivea $5,000 gift fromMedtronic to establishYoung Athlete HeartScreening ClinicScholarships at the UWMedicine Center forSports Cardiology.  

The ability toofferscholarships tostudentathletes

without the financialresources will ensure theiraccess to necessary careand help improve theoverall health of this vitalpopulation.

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 DFM in the News

UW, Gonzaga welcomelargest med-student class

Message from the ChairWelcome to the Summer 2016Newsletter! As you can see,there is a lot going on in theDepartment. We continue togrow, we now have a total of91 faculty, 74 staff, 25residents and 3 fellowsworking in the Department.The recruitment process forthe new Chair continues, with

five candidates invited for interviews over the comingcouple of months.

This is the time of year when we say fond farewells tograduates from our Family Medicine Residency programand MEDEX PA program, many of whom will be stayingin the Pacific Northwest. Our 30th WWAMI FacultyDevelopment Fellowship class also graduated, adding tothe over 300 faculty who have completed this fellowship.The 1st year medical students finished the first year of thenew medical school curriculum, which seems to havegone very well. And next month, 60 new medicalstudents will start at the expanded UW-GonzagaUniversity site (co-located with our Spokane MEDEXprogram). Recognitions of our educators have includedawards to Dr Raye Maestas as AAFP Educator of theYear, and Dr Amanda Kost named as STFM MedicalJournalism Fellow.

Faculty and staff are involved in a wide range of outreachand service activities check out these highlights: theMEDEX Tacoma faculty providing a free monthly footclinic to the homeless and underserved in Tacoma, JenCarrol from the MEDEX program serving as medicalstaff to the USA Diving Team, Dr Jon Drezner and theSports Medicine Section’s work on screening studentathletes for cardiac risks, the Family Medicine InterestGroup winning 3rd place nationally in its outreach totobacco cessation, and Dr Abigail Halperin’s award forher longstanding work on tobacco cessation.

PCI Lab talks Innovationin Primary Care

Jon Drezner discusseslack of protection forathletes

Dr. Allison Cole discusses"extracting electronichealth record data in apractice-based researchnetwork" with ITHS

 Hails & Farewells

Arati Dahal,PhD, was hired on June 1,2016 to be a researchscientist for the Center forHealth Workforce Studies.Dr. Dahal is a healtheconomist with prioreconomic evaluationexperience at TruvenHealth Analytics and UWDepartment of HealthServices.

Benjamin Stubbs, MPH,was also hired on June 1,2016 to be a researchscientist for the Center forHealth WorkforceStudies. Mr. Stubbs is anepidemiologist trainedthrough the UW School ofPublic Health, and joinedus from the Public HealthSeattle and King County,Emergency MedicalServices Division.

Carolin Spice was hiredon April 19, 2016, as thenew Manager of ClinicalProgram Analysis &Evaluation to provideimproved support toclinical operations andresidency section researchand process improvementinitiatives. She splits hertime between the residency

her longstanding work on tobacco cessation.Research and scholarly activities continue to beprominent across the Department, at the last count nearly50 publications already in 2016! Dr Davis Patterson wasawarded a major new grant from HRSA to strengthenrural primary care education and workforce, and DrCyndy Snynder has been awarded a K award fromAHRQ to understand racial biases among healthcareproviders and promote culturally relevant health careservices for families of color. Our Primary CareInnovation Lab was launched recently, and is bringingtogether primary care clinicians and researchers, withtech companies and entrepreneurs it is already generatinga lot of interest.

Finally, with the weather improving (kind of), I hope thatyou all find some time over the summer to enjoy sometime with family and friends! Meanwhile, please keep usupdated with any news or events!

With best wishes!

Matthew ThompsonHelen D. Cohen endowed ProfessorInterim Chair, Department of Family MedicineDepartment HighlightsBuilding Trust Between The Homeless & The MedicalCommunity

For three years the MEDEX Northwest Tacoma site haspartnered with Urban Grace Church to offer a freemonthly foot clinic to the underserved and homeless inthe downtown Tacoma community. Read more here.Amanda Kost, MD, Named 2016 STFM MedicalJournalism Fellow

Amanda Kost, MD, has been selected for the 2016 STFMFellowship in Medical Journalism. Her fellowship startsin June and goes until May 2017. “I hope to learn the ins and outs of the editorial process,”said Dr Kost, explaining what she looks forward to

and departmentadministration offices.

Promotions

Congrats to the followingfaculty on their recentpromotions!

Dr. JudyPauwels toProfessor

 

 

Dr. DianeTimberlaketo ClinicalProfessor

 

 

Dr. JackieRaetz toAssociateProfessor

 On the Calendar

44th Annual Advances inFamily Medicine andPrimary Care CMECourseSeptember 12-16, 2016UW Health SciencesCenter

Sports Medicine GrandRounds4th Wednesdays of EachMonthHusky Football TeamRoom, Hec EdmunsonPavillion7:15 AM 8:45 AM

Family Medicine GrandRoundsFirst Wednesday of every

learning during her yearlongfellowship. “I’ve been on theauthor side and on the reviewerside, but really want to see whatgoes on behind the scenes tocurate and create each issue ofFamily Medicine.” Read more. 

MEDEX PA Provider To USA Diving Team

Jen Carrol PA-C, part-time didactic faculty at MEDEX,served as medical staff to USA Diving Team atFINA/NVC meet. Read the full story here.

 Bike Everywhere Month!

Congrats to everyone who took the Bike Everywherechallenge in May! Pictured above are members of ourRoosevelt Commons Team, "Your Pace or Mine":(L to R)Amy Clark, Sandra Raynor, Mariah Kindle, MelindaSiegel, Cynthia Coulthard, Robin Ferry.Awards & Recognition

month12:00 - 1:00pmNorthgate Classroom331 NE Thornton Place,Seattle, 98125

Publications &PresentationsView a listing of our mostrecent publications &presentations here 

     

 

 

Raye Maestas Awarded WAFP Educator of the YearAward

Raye Maestas is thepreeminent educator ofeducators. She has beendirecting and teachingstudents since 1986, risingfrom clinical instructor tofull professor. Rayeoccupies severalimportant and prominentleadership roles in theUniversity of WashingtonDepartment of Family

Medicine, including Head of the Denali College, AssociateChair of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course forfirst year medical students, Co-Director of the PrimaryCare Practicum, and she was recently named as AssistantDean of Student Affairs at UWSOM. Her leadership hasbeen particularly instrumental in the launch of thecurriculum renewal. Her extensive work with the curriculardesign and development of the colleges program hasconnected UWSOM with similar mentoring programsnationwide. Her work in the Clinical I course includesdevelopment of student self-paced and digital distancelearning. Her most recently published researchencompasses development of preceptor bedside teachingworking with early learners. She has presented on thistopic as part of the WRITE regional curriculum and is asought-after presenter, both on the national and regionallevels. Read more here.

Cyndy Snyder receives AHRQ's Patient-CenteredOutcomes Research (PCOR) Institutional Award (K12)

This project focuses onexploring the racializedexperiences of multiracialindividuals and families in thehealthcare setting and theextent to which thoseexperiences impact patientsatisfaction outcomes, health-seeking behaviors, andpatients’ provider preference.

This study aims to further understand racialmicroaggressions and racial biases among healthcareproviders and promote the provision of culturally relevantand responsive healthcare services for individuals andfamilies of color, particularly the growing population ofmultiracial individuals and families.

 

UW takes third place in FMIG Tar Wars

The FMIG at the University of Washington School ofMedicine gave more Tar Wars presentations and reachedmore students -- 480 -- than it had in any previous year. Fourth-year medical student Brianne Rowan told AAFPNews that the school's Tar Wars program is unique becauseit works with City Year AmeriCorps members to contactlow-income schools so the program reaches the studentswho need this anti-tobacco message the most. Read more.

Roger A. Rosenblatt Community Service Award

Each year the Academy presents acommunity service award to amember of the King CountyAcademy of Family Physician thatbest exemplifies service to thecommunity over and above theirnormal duties as a familyphysician. In 2015, the award wasnamed after the late Roger A.Rosenblatt, Professor and Vice-Chair of Family Medicine at theUniversity of Washington School

of Medicine and a truly outstanding family physician andcommunity member.This year, the outstanding physician and award winner is:Abigail Halperin M.D, M.P.H. Congratulations! Readmore.

Congratulations to our 2016 UW Family MedicineResidency Program Award Recipients! Read the full listof accomplishments and awards here.

 

 

Congrats to William R. Phillipsfor receiving an HonorableMention in this year's STFMPoetry and Prose Contest for hispoem, "Final Touches"!

 Section Updates

WWAMI Network

In May we graduated our 30th class of FacultyDevelopment Fellows. Since 1987 over 300 faculty fromWWAMI residency programs have committed to our yearlong Fellowship program to gain resources, experiencesand guidance for successful careers as full-time teachers infamily medicine.

In collaboration with Madigan Army Medical Center, theNetwork started a new teleconference faculty developmentcohort series. The Spring Faculty Development Conferenceon May 11-12 launched the series and will be followed upby monthly teleconference sessions and an in-personconference in November.

Two of our Network Program Directors, Justin Glass, MDand Brandon Mickelson, DO graduated from the NationalInstitute for Program Director Development (NIPDD). TheNetwork also had two Gold Award winners from AFMRDfor Program Director Achievement, Roxanne Fahrerwald,MD and David Ruiz, MD.

Palliative Care

Celeste Richardson was our first MEDEX student on ourUWMC PC service in June/July 2016. She graduates inAugust 2016. We hope to have more MEDEX students aslearners on our service in the future.

The inaugural UWMC PC/Ethics Grand Rounds will beJuly 13. Dr Melissa Bender, Dr Lu Marchand, Dr DeniseDudzinski, Chair of Ethics, and Gino Gianola, MEDEXfaculty, will lead the case based discussion on palliativesedation.

Dr Melissa Bender has spearheaded efforts at UWMC forcreation of an updated and educationally useful comfortcare order set, a new palliative care PCA order set, and ourfirst palliative sedation policy. These efforts will increase

the safety and effectiveness of palliative care at UWMCand HMC. Go live is hoped in the summer/fall of 2016

Research

UW DFM has been awarded a five-year $3.7 million“Academic Units for Primary Care Training Enhancement”cooperative agreement with HRSA’s Bureau of HealthWorkforce to fund the collaborative for Rural Primary careResearch, Education, and Practice (Rural PREP). Led byProject Director Davis Patterson, PhD, UW researchassistant professor of Family Medicine, and AssociateDirector Randy Longenecker, MD, collaborators includethe UW Department of Psychiatry and BehavioralSciences, the WWAMI Area Health Education Center, andthe Ohio University Heritage College of OsteopathicMedicine’s Department of Family Medicine and its Officeof Rural and Underserved Programs, as well as otherpartners. Rural PREP’s goals are to (1) conduct research onrural health professions education and foster researchconducted by others—students, residents, faculty, andclinicians; (2) disseminate best practices and evidence tostrengthen the primary care workforce in rural places; and(3) develop and engage with communities of practice andresearch to improve rural primary care education andservice delivery.

The Society of Family Planning Research Fund hasselected Dr. Emily Godfrey’s Interdisciplinary Innovationproposal “Building a National Contraceptive Registry forMultiple Complex Medical Conditions: Improvingcontraceptive care for women through engagement” forfunding. This project will lay groundwork for developing aproof-of-concept contraceptive registry with patients andadvocacy organizations as stewards and establish a CysticFibrosis Research Advisory Panel (CF-RAP).

UW CHWS

Bianca Frogner and Sue Skillman authored and presented areport on career pathways into middle-skilled jobs for theNational Academy of Sciences.

Sue Skillman is leading a project called, “WashingtonHealth Workforce Sentinel Network,” funded through theparent grant, Healthier Washington,which is one of theCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) StateInnovation Models (SIM).

WWAMI RHRC

Holly Andrilla was invited to present on rural ORT accessat WHO meeting (Vienna, June 2016) and contribute todeveloping a model for treatment of opioid use disorder inrural places.

 

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