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Michael Lenaeus new program director for research and scholarship
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Dr. Michael Lenaeus, assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) will be associate program director for research and scholarship for the UW Seattle Internal Medicine Residency Program, effective July 1, 2024.
Lenaeus is a physician in the hospital medicine group at UW Medical Center - Montlake, and was an inpatient chief resident at Montlake in 2013-14.
He is an outstanding teacher and clinician who also has a PhD and does basic science research in cardiology and cardiovascular pharmacology.
His research is on voltage-gated sodium channels in the heart. The primary focus is on the determination of the molecular basis of action for Class I anti-arrhythmic drugs, which are sodium channel blockers used to treat arrhythmias in both acute and chronic settings.