2024 Outstanding Staff Awards

The Department of Medicine Outstanding Staff Award aims to recognize and celebrate exceptional staff members who are dedicated to supporting our organization’s mission of teaching, healing, discovery, and diversity and upholding core values.

Congratulations to the 2024 recipients of this award:

Mackenzie Keyse

Mackenzie Keyse is a communications specialist in the Department of Medicine.

She is an integral member of the Department of Medicine communications/web team that handles news for the department, provides centralized web services, and manages our public facing communication channels, as well as the department’s intranet.

In addition to writing feature news articles and faculty and staff spotlights for the department, she is the lead content manager for our division websites, developing the voice for the department's online presence. She helped create our department and division intranets, and manages our social media accounts.

She also produces and edits dynamic pieces of content for the department, including video and visual assets, creating over 200 visual assets for websites, display monitors, and social media annually.  

Through her work with the department’s DEI and LGBTQ+ Councils, she helps to promote our mission of diversity. She is an exceptional communicator and strategic planner who goes above and beyond to offer innovative and creative solutions.

Emily Lamont

Emily Lamont is an assistant director of operations for the Department of Medicine.

Her role is designed as a float position to support a number of areas of operations, including business continuity through vacancies (for divisions and the central department team) as well as leadership and support for initiatives that arise from the operationalization of the department strategic plan.

Since joining the Department in 2022, Emily has been the float division administrator in both Rheumatology and Nephrology, and she stepped in to backfill an unexpected Unit Readiness Lead role prior to the Workday Finance rollout and has continued to have a significant post-conversion leadership role, providing ongoing education and implementation tips and strategies.

She displays a passion for teamwork and collaboration, leading with the goal of leveraging different strengths among team members to best complete the critical, often behind-the-scenes, work that supports our overall mission. 

Mary Webb

Mary Webb is a research study coordinator in the Division of General Internal Medicine.

She is an invaluable member of the clinical research team at the Brain, Body, and Appetite Research Collaborative (BBARC), where she directs recruitment efforts across multiple large studies and is the team’s regulatory and IRB specialist.

Through these roles, Mary expertly balances the needs of the studies with regulatory guidelines, team constraints and needs, and inclusion of both research volunteers and study staff, all while maintaining the utmost professionalism, willingness to problem solve, and a balanced energy.

Mary consistently illustrates examples of how to communicate around sensitive topics when interacting and working with our research volunteers. She is the first point of contact with potential research participants, and works to improve the recruitment methods to be inclusive of all potential research volunteers. This is done through specific language changes, sensitivities to participant backgrounds or circumstances, and ensuring the study provides equitable resources for participants.

She exemplifies teamwork and collaboration. She interacts with multiple entities across UW and manages to engender a sense of teamwork amongst all these entities so that the team effectively works together across physical and institutional distances to achieve the goals of their studies.

Award nominees

We had 9 nominees for the Outstanding Staff awards this year.