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Peyton Van Pevenage, MS3 The Title: Utilizing Metabolomics to Identify Potential Biomarkers and Perturbed Metabolic Pathways in Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review How it came to be: "This publication was the result of my III project that I took on during the summer between MS1 and MS2. My faculty mentor's lab focuses on studying cartilage and osteoarthritis, specifically through metabolomics, which is the study of metabolites in...

Ian Richey, MS2, Alaska The challenge: The opioid epidemic remains a complex and multi-faceted issue for residents of the Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Borough, Alaska. Many challenges exist as 107,000 residents are separated by over 25,000 square miles - which include three mountain ranges. Healthcare workers describe worsening rates of opioid misuse despite an increase in resources within the Mat-Su Borough. CDC data validates these concerns, showing...

Tristan Bohlman, MS2, Wyoming The challenge: Sundance is a rural town in Crook County, Wyoming. With only one county hospital over 2,865 square miles, many individuals are over 30 miles from the nearest hospital. The distance and time it takes to reach emergency care is an area of concern for many of the 7,584 people making up the county. After speaking with a number of...

Wyoming MS3 Taylor Kennedy briefly took the helm of the Wyoming Senate last week, above, but as you might expect, the legislature convened under its customary circumstances. Lawmakers applauded the visitors and selected Rob Monger, M.D. assistant clinical dean, Wyoming WWAMI, as official "Doc of the Day."  You can watch the brief ceremony during the Legislature's online record, available on YouTube here. Below, the group includes...

"It’s that commitment to serving the rural and underserved areas that make WWAMI so unique. There’s no other medical school like this in the country." ~ Tim Dellit, M.D., interim dean, UWSOM, interim CEO, UW Medicine The 50th anniversary of WWAMI was celebrated in Idaho earlier this week through the 2023 Idaho WWAMI Legislative Reception and 50th Anniversary Celebration. The event featured WWAMI students faculty and staff,...

At its January meeting, the ACGME gave Initial Accreditation to a new Internal Medicine residency program based in the Department of Medicine. This is the very first accredited rural residency training program in Internal Medicine in the country. Known as the University of Washington-Alaska Internal Medicine Rural Residency Program (UW AK IM RRP), the program’s mission is to provide an intensive Alaska-based, rural primary care-focused training experience in internal medicine. The...

Montana State University has awarded a Pure Gold honor to Kayla Ouert, Program Manager for the WWAMI Medical Education Program at MSU Bozeman (Gold is one of MSU's colors). People who nominated Ouert for the award, including Martin Teintze, Ph.D., Director of the program, wrote: "Kayla has been doing an extraordinary job as WWAMI Program Manager. She is incredibly efficient and talented. As the only staff...

A medical student who'd been badly hurt at age 16 in a car accident will be mentored this summer by the physician who helped to save her life. You can read about Chloe Koessl in her own words through a story in the Billings Gazette. Koessl is from Glasgow, Montana, a town of just under 5,000 people. After the accident, Koessl was rushed to the town's small...

The Seattle-based E-21 cohort presented the Medical Student Association Outstanding Staff Award to Leonora Clarke, UWSOM Service Learning Manager. Students spoke of her patience, expertise, commitment, and willingness to find creative solutions. MSA leaders said: "She attends regular activity meetings, reduces barriers for students, and always refocuses efforts on the community needs. Several other students noted her dedication both to students and to the communities we...

Megan Lewis, Ph.D., has recently joined the Spokane Foundations site teaching anatomy as a Lecturer for the Anatomy & Embryology Thread at UWSOM. She primarily teaches first- and second-year medical students in the WWAMI program, as well as dental students in the Regional Initiatives in Dental Education (RIDE) program. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and master's in Medical Science from the University of Calgary. Her research there...