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September News and Awards

Professor Mayumi Willgerodt was selected as the recipient for the SNOW School Nurse Advocate of the Year award! This award publicly recognizes a community member who coordinates and advocates for quality school nursing services and health programs. Mayumi has been a vital school nurse advocate committed to improving the overall health and educational success of WA students.

 

Three CIPCT faculty to be inducted as Fellows of the American College of Medical Informatics

Congratulations to: Bill Lober-Professor BNHI, Andrea Hartzler, Professor-BIME SOM; also co-director of CIPCT program, and Meliha Yetisgen, Professor BIME, SOM

Dr. Eeeseung Byun and colleagues, Drs. Hilaire Thompson, Bill Lober, Teresa Ward, Michael Levitt, Kenneth Pike, and Kathryn Lee, have received funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for an R56 study tilted “Technology-based Sleep Self-Management Intervention for Adults with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.”

SoN Advancement’s own Sydney Horen recently competed as a contestant on Fox’s hit game show, The Floor, starring Rob Lowe. The first episode premiered last Wednesday, September 25th, and is available to watch on Hulu. Tune in this Wednesday see Sydney compete and represent the School of Nursing! Take a look at the show here!

 

 

ITHS Announces Winners of Pilot Funding to Accelerate Translational Science

Ayokunle Olanrewaju, PhD, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Washington, along with Jillian Pinteye and Sarah Iribarren.  Project Title: User-centric microfluidics for decentralized therapeutic drug monitoring. This project will design and develop a virtual study assistant prototype to assist research teams in the conduct of translational health science research. A large focus of our work is on increasing opportunities for underserved communities to engage in research by developing methods that research teams can use to involve these communities.

Kerryn Reding, PhD, MPH, RN, Associate Professor, University of Washington; Weichao Yuwen, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, University of Washington Tacoma; Maggie Ramirez, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Project Title: Promoting diversity and inclusion of research study participants through developing linguistically and culturally tailored virtual study assistants using generative artificial intelligence (AI) .

Josephine Ensign was quoted and her upcoming book mentioned in the Seattle Times.

The new cohort for the Premera Rural Nursing Health Initiative (RHNI) began their fellowship. These remarkable Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (ARNPs) are dedicated to advancing care in rural communities. Throughout their fellowship with the University of Washington School of Nursing, they’ll gain invaluable experience through clinical rotations in these areas, directly contributing to improved health outcomes. Check out the video here.