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December 29, 2023
2023 Year in review
The top stories and readership stats for Department of Medicine news in 2023.
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2023 News by the numbers
![News in review 53.5K mednews pageviews – 197% increase from last year 32K users – 310% increase from last year Awards – 49 – 17% Clinical – 51 – 18% Diversity – 34 – 12% Education – 52 – 18% Research – 102 – 35% 288 Staff – 20 In the news – 20](/sites/default/files/inline-images/2023%20news%20stats.png)
Global reach
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Top stories
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Most viewed from UW Medicine Newsroom
Our faculty are featured in four of the top 10 most-viewed stories from UW Medicine Newsroom.
- Inflammation is culprit behind long COVID, study suggests (Dr. William Banks)
- Expert: Science won’t resolve debates about trans athletes (Dr. Bradley Anawalt)
- In historic procedure, donor liver protects heart transplant (Drs. Shin Lin, and Daniel Fishbein)
- Researchers identify most common symptoms of long COVID (Dr. Helen Chu)
Most viewed Hutch News stories
Department of Medicine faculty were featured in 3 of the top 5 most-read articles from Hutch news in 2023:
- Dr. Sara Hurvitz joins Fred Hutch, University of Washington
- Going long: Viruses linger with lasting impact (Drs. Rachel Bender Ignacio, Jim Boonyaratanakornkit, Steven Pergam)
- Dead to me? Insights into a tumor’s necrotic core (Dr. Kevin Cheung)
Popular Huddle stories of 2023
We are featured in 3 of the top 10 stories from The Huddle in 2023:
- Get to know our Chief Residents and Fellows (Dr. Omeed Alipour)
- Volunteer-Led Virtual Bedside Concert Program Thrives (Matthew Smith)
- Celebrating (But Not Touching) Black Women’s Hair (Dr. Bessie Young)