Welcome to the 2024-25 UW Department of Family Medicine Grand Rounds!

This series will be an opportunity for community engagement across the DFM and UWPC clinical and academic partners.
Family Medicine Grand Rounds is held regularly on the second Wednesday of each month at 12:00-1:00 PM.
Grand Rounds will be held in-person with an online option.
Our in-person location: Northgate Classroom 331 NE Thornton Place, Seattle, 98125
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Upcoming Grand Rounds

May 14th, 2025

Patient-Centered Note Writing: The What, Why, and How

Angad Singh, MD
Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer, UW Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education
Core Faculty, Clinical Informatics Fellowship

Dr. Angad Singh is a practicing Family Medicine physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in the Departments of Family Medicine and Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education. He serves as Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer for Ambulatory Care & Health Equity for UW Medicine. His expertise includes implementation science, reproductive health care access, digital health tools, and data-driven health equity. Dr. Singh is trained in the practice of full-spectrum care and, in 2023, led the design and implementation of Washington state’s first fully virtual abortion access program. Dr. Singh is the recipient of the 2024 David B. Thorud Leadership Award, the highest leadership honor awarded annually to one faculty member at the University of Washington.

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Livingston Martin, MD
Clinical Informatics Fellow | Family Medicine Physician
University of Washington

Dr. Livingston Martin is a board-certified Family Medicine physician and Clinical Informatics fellow at the University of Washington, where he is pursuing a Master of Science in Clinical Informatics and Patient-Centered Technologies. His work focuses on optimizing EHRs, leveraging artificial intelligence to improve clinical workflows, and advancing patient-centered documentation. As part of his master’s research, he has explored how biased or stigmatizing language in clinical notes can affect patient trust and equity, emphasizing strategies to foster more inclusive, respectful, and humanizing communication in medical documentation.

June 11th, 2025

Climate Medicine in Washington

Bhargavi Chekuri, MD
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Director of Climate & Health Science Policy Fellowship
Director of Diploma in Climate Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Bhargavi (Bhar) Chekuri (she/her) is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado, specializing in graduate and continuing medical education. She directs both the Climate & Health Science Policy Fellowship and the Diploma in Climate Medicine at CU. Her interests include the intersection of primary care, community medicine, and climate change, with a focus on systems medicine and health and gender equity. Dr. Chekuri contributed as a technical contributor to the 5th National Climate Assessment and co-chairs the Planetary Health Collaborative at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Before focusing on climate medicine, she trained at the New Hampshire Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency and attended medical school in Australia

July 9th, 2025

The pre-travel encounter and battling misinformation in the age of social media

Christopher Sanford, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Associate Professor, Emeritus, Depts. of Family Medicine, Global Health
University of Washington

Dr. Christopher Sanford is a family medicine physician who has practiced at the University of Washington since 2000. His published books include The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual, 5th Edition (Elsevier, 2016) with co-editors Drs. Elaine Jong and Paul Pottinger, and a layman’s guide to travel health, Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide (University of Washington Press, 2018). He is the founding director of the University of Washington Dept. of Family Medicine Global Health Fellowship, which accepted its first fellow in 2012. He is Chair of a biennial CME course, Update, Travel Medicine & Global Health. He is co-host of the Germ and Worm Travel Health Podcast, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and his website, doctortravel.com.

April 9th, 2025

Value Based Care

Michael Myint, MD MBA FACP FIDSA Chief Population Health Officer UW Medicine

Dr. Michael Myint is an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist who takes a multi-stakeholder approach to improve clinical value for the individual patient and the populations served by UW Medicine. His focus is in how complex healthcare delivery systems can integrate meaningful, mission-aligned programs into market-relevant success in blended payment models. His work is informed by extensive experience in informatics, quality, patient safety, high-reliability, lean, and value-based care leadership across multiple organizations. His love remains patient care and he serves as an attending in the infectious disease clinic at Harborview.

March 12th, 2025

The role of primary care in the evolving opioid crisis

Claire Simon, MD Clinician Researcher, UW DFM

Claire Simon (she/her) is a clinician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine. Her research focuses on improving outcomes for primary care patients with substance use disorders as well as community partnered research methods.  She completed family medicine residency and addiction medicine fellowship at University of Washington/Harborview. She has worked with the Harborview Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) Program since 2015 and currently practices primary care and provides substance use consultation at Harborview Family Medicine Clinic. 

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February 12th, 2025

Transforming primary care practice through research: approaches from the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network

Sebastian Tong, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Sebastian Tong is a practicing family physician and addiction medicine specialist. He is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Washington where he also serves as the Associate Director of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho region Practice and Research Network. He conducts research in practice-based research, substance use, loneliness, and chronic pain, and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is one of the National Academy of Medicine’s 2023-2025 James C. Puffer/American Board of Family Medicine Fellows. He completed medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and finished his residency training in family medicine at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center.

Allison Cole

Allison Cole, MD, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine

Allison Cole is a family physician and researcher at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She earned her MD in 2002 at the University of Iowa and completed residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2005. She was an NRSA fellow at the University of Washington and earned an MPH in Health Services in 2012. She is Director of the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network and studies implementation of evidence-based programs in primary care settings. Her research programs focus on cancer control and screening interventions and rural health equity.

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January 8th, 2025

AI and Medicine

Daniel McDuff
Staff Research Scientist and Manager, Google
Affiliate Faculty University of Washington

Daniel McDuff is a Staff Research Scientist and Manager at Google and Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington. Daniel completed his PhD at the MIT Media Lab in 2014 and has a B.A. and Masters from Cambridge University. Daniel has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers on AI and machine learning, human-computer interaction, medicine and biomedical engineering. Daniel’s work has been reported in many publications including The Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC News, New Scientist, Scientific American and Forbes.

Dr Matthew Thompson,
Professor UW Department of Family Medicine & Clinical Research Scientist Google

Matthew is a Family Physician and Professor of Family Medicine at the UW Department of Family Medicine. He has spent his career in the US and UK combining clinical practice with research in a number of high priority topics in primary care. He also has a strong interest in identifying new technologies that could enhance primary care. Over the last 2 years he has been working at Google in Seattle where he is responsible for a number of clinical research studies in the US and overseas. Part of his work at Google involves exploring the use of Generative AI in health care.

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December 11th, 2024
Honoring American Indigenous Wisdom in Reproductive Justice

Jenny Tiskus, MD, University of Washington Family Medicine Resident PGY-3, Little Shell Chippewa of Montana and Métis

Dr. Jenny Tiskus is a Family Medicine Resident at the University of Washington. Jenny is a proud Little Shell Chippewa and Métis person who grew up on the beautiful Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation in Montana. Jenny went to college and medical school at Stanford University. Jenny’s professional interests include care and access for Indigenous Relatives, palliative medicine, reproductive justice, addiction medicine, trauma informed care, and participating in fat liberation in clinical spaces.

 

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November 13th, 2024
Individualizing Obesity Care: Tools and Strategies for Primary care

Laura Montour MD, FAAFP, Dipl. ABOM Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Laura Montour, MD, is a Mohawk woman from the Six Nations Indian Reserve in Ontario Canada.  She is a dual-board certified family physician in Canada and the USA and she is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.  Dr. Montour is a certified diplomat of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and she is the Co-Director for the University of Washington Center for Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery.   She is Seattle Met top doctor for Obesity medicine in 2024.  Growing up on the Six Nations Indian reserve, Dr. Montour has witnessed first-hand the impacts of Obesity and Diabetes, and it is these experiences that have led Dr. Montour to dedicate her career to the prevention and treatment of the disease of Obesity and its comorbidities.  

 

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October 9th, 2024 
The Health of Primary Care in the United States and locally 

Yalda Jabbarpour MD Director, Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care. Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine Georgetown School of Medicine

Yalda Jabbarpour is a family physician in Washington, DC and Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies. She graduated from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2008 and completed her residency at the Georgetown University/Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Upon graduation she worked as a family physician for Scripps Health Medical Group in San Diego, California. She returned to Washington, DC in 2015 to serve as the Robert L Phillips Health Policy Fellow at the Robert Graham Center where she later served as Medical Director overseeing the Larry A Green scholars program and the Robert L Phillips fellowship program. Currently Dr. Jabbarpour serves as Director of the center where she oversees a research team dedicated to creating and curating the evidence to support family medicine and primary care.

 

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September 11th, 2024
Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Eric J. Chow, MD, MS, MPH, FIDSA, FACP, FAAP

Eric J. Chow is the Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization for Public Health – Seattle & King County and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. He is board certified in internal medicine, pediatrics and adult infectious diseases and trained as a medical epidemiologist through the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service program. While at the CDC, he worked within the Influenza Division and led several COVID-19 investigations during the early days of the pandemic. He supported Public Health – Seattle & King County’s investigation of the long-term care facility COVID-19 outbreak and helped characterize the initial cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in the United States in 2020. He is an author in over 50 peer reviewed publications and his research interests are focused on community respiratory virus epidemiology, extra-pulmonary manifestations of respiratory viruses and emerging infectious diseases.

 

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July 10th, 2024
What Are the Essentials of Medically Competent LGBTQ+ Care?

Dr. Corinne Heinen

Corinne S. Heinen M.D. is a board-certified family medicine physician who sees patients at the UW Neighborhood Belltown Clinic. Dr. Heinen’s clinical interests include people of all ages. She has additional expertise in LGBTQ care, HIV medicine and women’s health. She leads the Trans Health Ally group of primary care providers in UW Medicine. Dr. Heinen sees and appreciates each patient as an individual and considers it a privilege to be able to serve them. She believes in providing excellent care that is respectful and compassionate.

 

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June 12th, 2024
Advocacy, Health Policy and Equity Followed by in-person extended session Q+A

Dr. Renee Crichlow

Dr. Renee Crichlow has over 20 years of full spectrum family medicine experience. She has practiced in underserved environments, both urban and rural her entire career. Dr. Crichlow received further health policy training through Department of Health and Human Services primary care health policy fellowship. She is the inaugural holder of the Mac Baird endowed Chair for advocacy and policy. She the founder of a mentorship and workforce development organization called The Ladder.

 

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May 8th, 2024
Wellness and Burnout Prevention

Dr. Anne Browning

Anne Browning, PhD is the Associate Dean for Well-Being at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Throughout the COVID19 pandemic, Anne has supported the well-being of our healthcare team members and their families through a holistic approach to crisis response. As the founding Director of the UW Resilience Lab, Anne is leveraging resilience and compassion training to help develop healthy coping mechanism in our community in response to the increase stressors we all are facing.

 

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April 10th, 2024
Improving access and delivery of care for people with long COVID

Nikki Gentile, MD, PhD

Nikki is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and is the Primary Care Medical Director of the Post-COVID Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic at the University of Washington. She is a practicing family physician and Long COVID specialist. Nikki’s research centers around investigating long COVID-related pain and potential treatments; including a clinical trial to explore acupuncture treatment for Long COVID with the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She is a site co-investigator for the CDC-funded INSPIRE Registry, a multi-center, longitudinal cohort examining predictors of long-term consequences of COVID-19, and co-leads an AHRQ U18 grant to improve care access for underserved patients with Long COVID. She is a sought-after speaker at national forums and was recognized by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) as a Long COVID frontline clinical expert, recently participating on the panel to assist in re-defining Long COVID.

Janna L. Friedly, MD, MPH

Dr. Friedly is a board-certified physiatrist, clinician scientist Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Friedly received her undergraduate degree in 1994 from Stanford University and her medical degree from Oregon Health Sciences University in 2001. She completed her residency training in Physical Medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Washington in 2005. Following residency, she completed her RMSTP K12 fellowship focusing on health services research related to low back pain. She also received her Master of Public Health from George Washington University in 2020. Her research career has focused on conducting patient centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research related to chronic pain conditions and disability. She has received funding from the NIH, DOD, AHRQ, and CDC for a wide range of research studies including research related to back pain, limb loss and most recently long COVID. She also has served as the editor in chief of the PM&R, the official journal of the American Academy of PM&R since 2019. She currently is the Vice Chair of the Washington State Health Technology Committee, which evaluates evidence for diagnostic tests and treatments to make coverage decisions for the state of Washington. She has an extensive record of grant writing, peer review and editorial experience, grant review experience and mentorship. In April, 2020, she shifted her clinical practice from limb loss rehabilitation to found and direct the UW Medicine Post COVID Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic, the only multidisciplinary long COVID clinic in the state of Washington outside of the VA system. She currently serves as the executive director of UW Medicine’s Post-COVID Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic.

 

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March 13th, 2024
Integrative Medicine Modalities in Primary Care 

Debra Bell

Debra Bell, MD

Dr. Bell is a board certified family physician and has over 35 years of experience in integrative medicine. As an integrative medicine family physician, Dr. Bell sees people of all ages for most health concerns and has a particular interest in women’s health. She considers nutrition, lifestyle changes and mental and spiritual health as the foundation to well being. She has expertise in herbal medicine and the use of vitamins, and supplements, nutrition, mind-body medicine, health and spirituality and bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.

 

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Dementia in Primary Care, Research and Tools for Primary Care
February 14th, 2024

Dr. Jackie Raetz

Dr. Raetz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She teaches UW Family Medicine residents and sees primary care patients at the Harborview Family Medicine clinic. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator of the CDC project which provides funding for Cognition in Primary Care. She is an associate program director at the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency. As a geriatrics-trained family physician she has been teaching residents, fellows, and medical students how to care for older patients for over 15 years. In addition to her outpatient Family Medicine clinical practice at Harborview, she provides nursing home care through Harborview Post-Acute Care Services and inpatient palliative care at UW Medical Center.

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The Role of Family Medicine in Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in the United States
January 10th, 2024

Dr. Emily Godfrey
 

Emily M. Godfrey, MD MPH is a Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington. She is a practicing family physician, with a clinical focus on women’s healthcare and a Research Section faculty member. Emily has developed a robust research portfolio around women’s health issues with funding from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), Society of Family Planning (SFP), industry and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is the co-founder of a nationally recognized patient-engaged research organization: Cystic Fibrosis Reproductive and Sexual Health Collaborative (CFReSHC.org). She is the author of more than 250 publications, scholarly works and conference presentations, covering comprehensive reproductive health, including groundbreaking early abortion services in primary care. She is one of the nation’s leading experts in family planning and primary care and has spoken considerably about her research with the media, including Time Magazine, NBC news and the Washington Post.

 

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Let’s Have a QiQi: Quality Improvement in Queer (Health) Initiatives 
December 13th, 2023
 
Dr. Colbey Ricklefs

Colbey Ricklefs, MD, MPH (he/him) is a family physician and recent alum of the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency Program where he based at Harborview. He is currently a clinical fellow in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He is interested in helping patients of all ages live their truest and queerest lives, including providing gender-affirming care and pre-exposure prophylaxis to HIV.

Dr. Nicolle Siegart

Dr. Siegart is a third year resident at the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency. They have clinical interests in transgender healthcare, political advocacy, and chronic illness management. They have completed curriculum development projects on transgender healthcare and were awarded the Emerging Leadership Institute Best Project Award for their work in this realm.

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Misbah Keen
Dr. Misbah Keen MD, MBI, MPH, Executive Vice Chair of Family Medicine
November 8th, 2023
Invest Like Family Physicians Care for Their Patients: The Power of Range

Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH, joined the University of Washington in 2007 after practicing full-spectrum family medicine for five years in Othello, WA. As the Executive Vice Chair of Family Medicine, Dr. Keen’s primary responsibilities are academic leadership, especially expanding the department’s clinical enterprise, medical student, and PA education. Dr. Keen has been an investor for over 25 years and serves as the Vice-Chair and a Fiduciary of the University of Washington Physicians-Children’s University Medical Group (UWP-CUMG) Retirement and Benefits Committee. The committee takes a proactive role in ensuring that UWP-CUMG provides diversified and cost-effective investment products. In his free time, Dr. Keen enjoys traveling, especially visiting our great National Parks, and his goal is to have visited (at least one overnight stay) all 50 states by 2025. He is a so-so golfer but intends to explore why so-so golfers make better physicians.

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Benjamin Danielson MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine
October 11th, 2023
 
Moving Forward On The Equity Journey

Dr Danielson was the medical director for a community pediatric clinic for two decades. He continues to promote the well-being of young people by trying to catalyze efforts to end youth incarceration. Dr Danielson works with entities at the community, local, state and national level to promote equity. He has benefitted from co-conspiring with brilliant youth and an abundance of compassionate people and he realizes he is often the least useful member of the circles he joins. He has been married to the love of his life for 17 years who, for some reason, agreed to marry him.

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Bianca K. Frogner, PhD, Professor and Director of Center for Health Workforce Studies, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
September 13th 2023

Health Workforce Challenges in the Post-COVID Era

Bianca Kiyoe Frogner, PhD is a health economist and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Director of the UW Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) in the School of Medicine at University of Washington (UW). She is an appointed member of Washington state’s Health Care Cost Transparency Board. Dr. Frogner gave testimony to the Worker and Family Support Subcommittee of the US House Ways and Means Committee and served on an Institute of Medicine Consensus Study Committee on Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health. Dr. Frogner’s has produced over 150 publications including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports. She has delivered over 250 scholarly presentations and has appeared in media outlets including CNN, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Vox, and Politico.

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Timothy Hoff, PhD Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Health Policy Northeastern University Visiting Associate Fellow and Associate Scholar, University of Oxford
August 9th 2023

The Why and How of Creating a Sustainable Family Medicine Career

Timothy Hoff, Ph.D. is Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Health Policy in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Green-Templeton College, and an Associate Scholar at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. His most recent book is Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink, published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2022). Previous books on the primary care system include Practice Under Pressure (2010) and Next in Line (2017). Before going into academia, Dr. Hoff worked for a decade in primary care practice administration and as a health care consultant.

Read Dr. Hoff’s article: How to Help Primary Care Physicians Craft Sustainable Careers

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