Congratulations to Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, who was recently awarded two 1-year grants through the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Community-Academic Partnerships (ICTR-CAP) 2015 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Program. The first award, in …
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Hrissanthi Ikonomidou, MD, PhD, and Diane Puccetti, MD, Awarded ICTR Basic & Clinical Pilot Award
Congratulations to Co-PIs Hrissanthi Ikonomidou, MD, PhD (Neurology), and Diane Puccetti, MD, who were awarded a Basic and Clinical Pilot award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) for their proposal entitled …
Darin Wiesner, PhD, Awarded Hartwell Foundation Fellowship
Darin Wiesner, PhD, postdoctoral student in the lab of Bruce Klein, MD, was recently awarded a Hartwell Foundation Fellowship in the amount of $100,000. This two-year award will allow him to study the early recognition …
Kirsten Schultz Invited to Stanford University’s Medicine X Conference
Because of her patient experience advocacy work, Kirsten Shultz has been invited to attend Stanford University’s Medicine X conference, Sept. 25-27, 2015. The conference brings together multiple stakeholders in health care – insurance, physicians, clinical …
Mario Otto, MD, PhD, Receives Hyundai Scholar Hope Grant
Hyundai Hope on Wheels has awarded a $250,000 Hyundai Scholar Hope Grant to Mario Otto, MD, PhD, in support of his research on childhood cancer. As the newest Hyundai scholar, Dr. Otto will use the …
The Value of Family-Centered Rounds
Department of Pediatrics Associate Professor Elizabeth Cox, MD, MPH, spoke to 300 community members about the importance of family-centered rounds at “Partnering with Patients in Health Care,” the most recent UW School of Medicine and …
Resident Alum Receives NASPGHAN Research Award
Valentina Shakhnovich, MD, a 2011 Department of Pediatrics residency graduate, received the 2015 Young Faculty Clinical Investigator Research Award from the North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN). Dr. Shakhnovich is a …
Diane Puccetti, MD, and Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Among Newsweek’s Top Cancer Docs
Diane Puccetti, MD, and Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, were among 15 UW Carbone Cancer physicians named to Newsweek’s “Top Cancer Doctors 2015” list. The lists are whittled down from more than 100,000 nominations by a …
SUGAR Solution
When Department of Pediatrics Chief Resident Halie Anderson, MD, traveled to Ethiopia last year for a global health rotation, she encountered the challenges of caring for patients in a developing country: unfamiliar diseases, limited physical …
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Awarded St. Baldrick’s Research Grant
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, who was awarded a Research Grant from St. Baldrick’s Foundation in the amount of $105,773. In this 1-year project, entitled “Finding the Target of Beneficial Pre-existing Anti-Therapeutic Antibodies,” investigators …