Faculty News

The Shikany Endowment in Spokane recently recognized exceptional medical educators with its Teaching Excellence Award.  Here’s some background on the award:  After “retiring” after practicing primary care in Spokane, Sam Shikany, M.D., was hired by Providence SHMC as the employee health doctor.  In this role, he deferred his salary, which over years became the corpus for the Shikany Foundation.  Core to Dr. Shikany’s vision...

The WRITE – Excellence in Teaching honor, awarded by the UWSOM Office of Rural Programs, recognizes WWAMI preceptors with a track record of excellence in teaching medical students as well as service as a leader in the community. Nominations were collected from WRITE students across WWAMI. A selection committee then reviewed all nominations based on five criteria: commitment to student success, effective teaching methods,...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has announced its 2023 Award recipients, recognizing the strength, innovation, and commitment to the graduate medical education (GME) community these recipients have displayed. Meet one of one of 10 recipients of the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award: Richard G. Ellenbogen, M.D., FACS,  Professor and Theodore S. Roberts Endowed Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the...

Benjamin Danielson, M.D., has been selected to serve on the Casey Family Programs Board of Directors. Dr. Danielson is a pediatrician and clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Danielson will help the foundation as it works to Build Communities of Hope and achieve the organization’s mission to provide and improve – and ultimately prevent the need for...

Two University of Wyoming WWAMI Medical Education Program faculty members recently were recognized for their dedication to student learning. Dana Govaerts, M.D., left, a clinical assistant professor, and Emily Schmitt, Ph.D., Wyoming WWAMI research coordinator and an assistant professor in the UW Division of Kinesiology and Health, were honored by the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Govaerts received three WWAMI Pro Awards during the...

Yakima pediatrician Peter Asante, M.D. has been honored with the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Community Pediatrics “Local Hero” award, just one of five pediatricians in the nation to earn this recognition.

Tara Davidson, M.D., a 2019 graduate of UWSOM, has received the Outstanding Achievement Award for the Internal Medicine Training Program of the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education. The award is presented to four of the 52 members of the graduating internal medicine class each year and is based on clinical competency, professionalism, scholarly activity and contributions to the residency program. The clinic specifically asked...

You may receive a message in your email with a subject line “Your email access has been blocked.” Actually, what it means is that email is no longer being delivered to that particular email app because of changes to approved authentication methods for UW Office 365. This affects apps/programs like Apple Mail and built-in email apps on mobile devices. It does not affect access...

The distribution lists for the medical student listservs have been updated. Students are required to be on the list that corresponds to their class.  Auxiliary list membership is optional. If you do not feel like you are not seeing messages you should be seeing, or you want to be added to a particular listserv, please email medlistserv@uw.edu.If you’re not seeing emails, check your “Other” and “Junk” folders....

Lynda Freeman, D.H.Sc., M.B.A, is one of 50 people named by the Idaho Business Review as a 2022 Women of the Year honoree. Freeman is a clinical associate professor and academic skills specialist and is the first Black female, full-time faculty member at Idaho WWAMI.  “I strive to impact students, organizations, and the community with compassion and excellence,” Freeman said in a story posted on...