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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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

Health Workforce Challenges in the Post-COVID Era

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

The Why and How of Creating a Sustainable Family Medicine Career