2023 Year in review

2023 News by the numbers

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Top stories

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In memoriam: Jared Randall Curtis

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Alaska IM Residency Program Accredited

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2023 Top Doctors

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Sara Hurvitz to lead newly united Division of Hematology and Oncology

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Seattle Met's Top Doctors, Physician Assistants and Nurses

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Reena Mehra new head of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

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UnBIASED patient-provider interactions

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Santiago Neme new UWMC Medical Director

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40 Under 40: Andrew Stergachis

 

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New Center for Indigenous Health to address American Indian and Alaska Native health inequities

Biggest stories from X

Most viewed from UW Medicine Newsroom

Our faculty are featured in four of the top 10 most-viewed stories from UW Medicine Newsroom.

1. Inflammation is culprit behind long COVID, study suggests  (Dr. William Banks)
2. Expert: Science won’t resolve debates about trans athletes (Dr. Bradley Anawalt)
3. In historic procedure, donor liver protects heart transplant (Drs. Shin Lin, and Daniel Fishbein)
4. 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:

1. Dr. Sara Hurvitz joins Fred Hutch, University of Washington
2. Going long: Viruses linger with lasting impact (Drs. Rachel Bender Ignacio, Jim Boonyaratanakornkit, Steven Pergam)
3. 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:

1. Get to know our Chief Residents and Fellows (Dr. Omeed Alipour)
2. Volunteer-Led Virtual Bedside Concert Program Thrives (Matthew Smith)
3. Celebrating (But Not Touching) Black Women’s Hair (Dr. Bessie Young)