2025 Year in Review
2025 News by the Numbers
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Top Mednews Stories
Here are the top ten most viewed news stories from the Department of Medicine News site:
1. In memoriam: James Kirkpatrick
January 3, 2025
Remembering Dr. James Kirkpatrick, internationally-recognized expert in diagnostic echocardiography.
2. David Koelle receives grant to support herpes simplex virus vaccine development
June 16, 2025
The Washington Research Foundation grant will support the continued development of a novel messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutic vaccine aimed at improving treatment options for patients with genital herpes.
3. Department of Medicine AI Symposium
January 6, 2025
In collaboration with partners at Microsoft, the department hosted an artificial intelligence symposium on Feb. 4, 2025.
March 9, 2025
Remembering Dr. King Holmes, the “father” of the field of academic sexually transmitted infection research, epidemiology, prevention, and care.
July 25, 2025
Remembering Dr. Stephen Njau, second year medicine resident and a dedicated and compassionate asset to the residency program and department.
6. Over 250 million people worldwide unaware they have diabetes
April 14, 2025
New estimates from the IDF Diabetes Atlas highlight the growing diabetes threat, with nearly one in nine adults now living with the condition.
September 19, 2025
Remembering Dr. Thomas Martin, renowned Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine physician and DOM faculty member since 1980.
January 29, 2025
Spotlighting language-inclusive care and the many programs and resources dedicated to caring for patients in their native or preferred language.
9. 2025 Top Doctors, Physician Assistants and Nurses
September 12, 2025
Annual recognition of physicians selected for Seattle Met’s list of the best health care professionals in the region.
April 14, 2025
Introducing our new chief residents for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Top hutch News stories
Department of Medicine faculty were featured in 3 of the top 5 most read articles in 2025 from Fred Hutch News:
- Multiple myeloma is treatable, not curable. Is that set to change?
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Two lifetimes’ worth of bone marrow transplant breakthroughs
Most viewed publications
The top-ten most viewed publications from our weekly newsletter:
Failing Safely: Autonomy and Identity Formation in Medical Training. ATS Scholar.
Lead author: David Rink. Senior author: Tyler Albert. Co-author: Gabrielle Berger.
Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure and Severity of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Data from the Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Prospective Outcomes (IPF-PRO) Registry. Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Lead author: Coralynn Sack. Co-authors: Joel Kaufman, Ganesh Raghu.
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: A high index of clinical suspicion is key for early diagnosis and successful treatment. Respirology.
Lead author: Bridget Collins. Senior author: Ganesh Raghu.
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National Telehealth Contingency Staffing Program and Primary Care Quality in the VHA. JAMA Network Open.
Senior author: Ashok Reddy. Co-author: Karin Nelson.
Initial Analysis of Internal Medicine Intern UME to GME Individualized Learning Plan Content. Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Co-author: John Choe.
Electronic Health Record Time Allocation Among Primary Care Clinicians at the Veterans Health Administration Using Virtual Observations. Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Lead author: Stefanie Deeds. Senior author: Karin Nelson. Co-authors: Scott Hagan, Ashok Reddy
Molecular Phenotyping of Sepsis and Differential Response to Fluid Resuscitation. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Lead author: Elizabeth Kiernan. Senior author: Pavan Bhatraju. Co-authors: Leila Zelnick, Ayesha Khader, Taylor Coston, Zoie Bailey, Sarah Speckmaier, Jordan Lo, Neha Sathe, Bryan Kestenbaum, Nicholas Johnson.
Doxycycline to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections in the USA: final results from the DoxyPEP multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial and open-label extension. The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Senior author: Connie Celum. Co-authors: Julia Dombrowski, Chase Cannon, Robert Suchland, Olusegun Soge.
Prostate Cancer: A Review. JAMA.
Lead author: Ruben Raychaudhuri. Senior author: R. Bruce Montgomery.
Lead author: Nauzley Abedini. Co-authors: Erin Kross, Ruth Engelberg, Gigi Garzio