Welcome to the 2026-27 Family Medicine Grand Rounds Series!

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

**There will be no November presentation in observance of Veteran’s Day**

Elsie Piper

December 9th, 2026

Note: This will be a double session with two presentations

Rare, but Critical: Maintaining Readiness for High-Acuity, Low-Frequency Events in Rural Health Systems


Elsie Piper, MD, Family Medicine Resident

Elsie Piper, MD, is a third-year family medicine resident in the University of Washington’s Chelan Rural Training Track. An Alaska resident and graduate of the Alaska WWAMI program, she plans to return to rural Alaska to practice broad-spectrum family medicine following residency. Her clinical interests include rural and remote medicine, emergency care, obstetrics, and the delivery of comprehensive medical care in resource-limited settings. Her current research focuses on emergency obstetric preparedness in rural hospitals without routine labor and delivery services, with an emphasis on maintaining readiness for high-acuity, low-frequency emergencies. She is particularly interested in developing sustainable approaches to strengthening rural health systems through clinical education, regional collaboration, and health policy.

From Clinic to the Light Rail Station:
How the Cities We Live in Shape our Health


Megan Kerstein, MD UW Family Medicine PGY-3

Megan Kerstein is a third year Family Medicine resident physician with roots in Chicago before moving between the east and west coast multiple times for education and working in clinical research prior to medical school. She spent time living in Seattle prior to medical school and is thrilled to be back for residency at the University of Washington. Megan’s clinical interests include inpatient medicine, geriatrics, global health, and queer and gender-affirming care. She is a lifelong public transit user and has done public transit advocacy work, and she wishes to highlight how much our built environments and public transit systems can impact health. Outside of medicine, Megan enjoys running on the Burke Gilman Trail, cross country skiing around the Cascades, cycling around Lake Washington, trivia and improv nights with friends, and spending time with her two adorable cats Atlas and Sierra.

Bret Benally Thompson, MD

January 13th, 2027

Closing the Gap: Addressing Disparities in Native American/Alaska Native Palliative Care


Bret Benally Thompson, MD

Dr. Benally Thompson (White Earth Nation) is an inpatient palliative medicine specialist in the Division of Hematology, Medical Oncology, and Palliative Care in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the Director of Indigenous Health and Cultural Guidance for the Native American Center of Health in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Benally Thompson is a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Association of American Indian Physicians, the Council of Elders for the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and is a past Board Member and Chair for the American Indian Cancer Foundation and previously the National Clinical Lead for Palliative Care for the Indian Health Service. In 2024, he was named Physician of the Year by the Association of American Indian Physicians for his exceptional clinical skills, compassionate patient care, and commitment to advancing healthcare for American Indian/Alaska Native populations. He completed his MD at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in Duluth, his family medicine residency and his fellowship in palliative care in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Maegan Ashworth Dirac, MD, PhD

October 14th, 2026

Three decades of change in maternal, infant and child health and healthcare


Maegan Ashworth Dirac, MD PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine
Department of Health Metrics Sciences, Department of Family Medicine

Team Lead for Reproductive, Genitourinary and Digestive Disease Estimation
Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation
Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries & Risk Factors Study

Dr. Dirac completed her Medical Doctor and Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology degrees at the University of Washington prior to training as a Family Physician at the Swedish First Hill Family Medicine Residency. Since then, she has devoted her research effort to quantifying levels and trends of disease mortality, morbidity, and determinants as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries & Risk Factors (GBD) Study. In her role on the GBD, Dr. Dirac leads a team of epidemiologists, clinicians and data scientists, synthesizing the world’s available data, to provide the best available evidence about what causes health loss in populations and what uncertainty exists in the evidence, in order to guide policy-making and investment in research.

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Jed McGiffin

September 9th, 2026

If AI Can Write the Note, Who Does the Thinking?
The Cognitive Evolution of Generative AI and the Future of Clinical Expertise

Jed McGiffin, PhD
Assistant Professor | UW Medicine
Visiting Faculty Researcher | Google Health

Jed McGiffin, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center, where he specializes in rehabilitation psychology research and clinical care with acute inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation populations. Dr. McGiffin is also Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Health, where his work has focused on the adaptation of psychometric tools from human cognitive assessment to evaluate artificial intelligence models, in addition to the application of large sensor foundation models to predict mental health outcomes from wearable data. Across his academic and industry collaborations, his research focuses on how methods from psychological science and measurement can bridge the gap between human behavior and the development and utility of emerging AI systems. Dr. McGiffin received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University under the mentorship of Dr. George Bonanno, with a focus on advanced statistical modeling approaches to better understand resilience, recovery, and positive adjustment following health-related life events. He completed his clinical psychology residency and a two-year research fellowship at Rusk Rehabilitation, NYU Langone Health.

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Alex Taylor

July 8th, 2026

Pediatric ADHD Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care

Alex Taylor, MD

Alex Taylor, MD, is a primary care pediatrician at the University of Washington Primary Care Clinic in Shoreline where he has a broad pediatric practice. He is passionate about high quality family-centered care for patients with ADHD and helping them to succeed academically and socially.

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Ying Zhang, MD MPH FAAFP
Ying Zhang, MD MPH FAAFP

June 10th, 2026

Innovations in Family Medicine Abortion Care: Education and Implementation in Diverse Primary Care Settings


Ying Zhang, MD MPH FAAFP (she/her)

Ying Zhang, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington. She is a co-lead for the Won’t Go Back Initiative: Building Access to Abortion in Primary Care and ECHO program. Dr. Zhang is a broad spectrum family physician with a special interest in family planning and is co-director for the Reproductive Healthcare and Advocacy Fellowship at the University of Washington. She is enthusiastic about expanding access to sexual and reproductive health services and training, including abortion care, in the primary care setting and advocating for reproductive justice and trauma-informed approaches to care.

Anna Fiastro
Anna Fiastro PhD MPH MEM

Anna Fiastro, PhD MPH MEM

Anna Fiastro is a Research Scientist in the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine and a co-lead for the Won’t Go Back Initiative: Building Access to Abortion in Primary Care and ECHO program. She is a public health professional and researcher focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, exploring opportunities to expand access to abortion care through the implementation of new technologies, provider practices, and health policies.

Debra Stulberg
Debra Stulberg, MD, MAPP

Debra Stulberg, MD, MAPP

Debra Stulberg is Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on reproductive health service delivery in the United States. This includes studies on incorporating reproductive health in primary care, addressing racial and socioeconomic disparities in pregnancy outcomes, and understanding how institutional policies affect care delivery. She directs the Reproductive Health Outcomes and Disparities (RHOADs) Research Group, a multi-disciplinary and multi-organization lab focused on improving reproductive care and outcomes in the United States and reducing disparities. She co-founded and co-directs the ExPAND Mifepristone learning collaborative, which supports primary care clinics in establishing medical management of early pregnancy loss and abortion care. Dr. Stulberg provides patient care at Friend Health, a federally qualified health center on Chicago’s south side.

Rory Tito
Rory Tito MPH

Rory Tito, MPH


Rory Tito is the Manager of Training and Education at the Reproductive Health Access Project, where she has designed and led initiatives to support the integration of abortion and early pregnancy loss care into primary care settings. She provides coaching, training, and support to clinicians and healthcare organizations nationwide and assists with keeping RHAP’s resource hub of patient education materials and clinical tools up to date, evidence-based and patient-centered. She is a family planning training consultant for Boston’s Title X Network and previously managed the Reproductive Health department at a Federally Qualified Health Center. With a background in public health, she believes in using a health equity framework to address public health challenges on a systems-level.

Latona Giwa BSN RN IBCLC
Latona Giwa BSN RN IBCLC

Latona Giwa BSN RN IBCLC, Executive Director of Repro TLC


Latona Giwa (she/they) is a Full-Spectrum Doula, Registered Nurse, Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and reproductive justice advocate. Latona co-founded Birthmark Doula Collective and the New Orleans Breastfeeding Center, Louisiana’s first freestanding breastfeeding clinic. In 2023, she became the Executive Director of Repro TLC (formerly known as Midwest Access Project), which fills gaps nationwide in comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare provider training, education, and movement building. Latona has elevated Louisiana Black birth worker and parent advocacy to channel regional and national media and policy action on the Black maternal mortality crisis. Her reproductive justice impact has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, CBS’s 60 Minutes, and Yes! Magazine.

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John Scott
Crystal Wong

May 13th, 2026

Applied Digital Health: Increasing the Impact of Family Medicine


John Scott, MD, MSc, FIDSA
Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Chief Digital Health Officer, UW Medicine

Crystal Wong, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, UW Department of Family Medicine
Associate Chief Digital Health Officer, UW Medicine

John Scott, MD, MSc, FIDSA is a Professor of Medicine (Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Chief Digital Health Officer at UW Medicine. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology, attended Georgetown University School of Medicine cum laude, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Hospitals, and then obtained sub-specialty training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 2005. In 2009, he launched Washington State’s first Project ECHO program outside of New Mexico, expanding telehealth access for clinicians serving rural and underserved communities, and later received the Warren Reid Award (2015) and the Washington State Medical Association’s Grassroots Advocate Award (2020) for his leadership in telemedicine and policy advocacy. As Chief Digital Health Officer, he leads virtual care delivery and is developing a unified “Digital Front Door” to integrate UW Medicine’s digital tools into a streamlined, single sign-on platform.

Crystal Wong, MD is a Family Doctor and Associate Chief Digital Health Officer for UW Medicine. After receiving her MD from the University of Michigan, Dr Wong completed residency and a chief residency at the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine. After residency, she helped open the UW Primary Care Ravenna Clinic where she has practiced full spectrum Family Medicine since 2011. Dr Wong is passionate about providing high quality healthcare that is patient centered and innovative. She has held positions as Clinic Medical Director for UW Primary Care Ravenna and then Associate Medical Director for the Central Region at UW Primary Care prior to stepping into her role in the Digital Health Office.

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Alison Cole

April 8th, 2026

Leveraging Research to Improve Care in the WWAMI region Practice and Research Network


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

Allison Cole, MD, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine

Sebastian Tong is a practicing family physician and addiction medicine specialist. He is an Associate 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 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 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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March 11th, 2026

The Many Faces of Loneliness: Enhancing Social Prescribing in Primary Care


Brooke Ike, MPH, Lead Research Scientist, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine

Brennan Keiser, MSW, Lead Research Scientist, University of Washington Department of Family Medicine

Brooke Ike, MPH, is a Lead Research Scientist in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington where she has conducted practice-based public health research since 2005. Ms. Ike has expertise in qualitative and mixed methods, implementation science, and community-engaged research aimed at helping to improve primary care services, particularly in rural and underserved settings. Her work includes leading the community co-design and evaluation of patient navigation, practice facilitation, and social prescribing interventions, as well as examining the lived experiences of patients with chronic pain, cancer survivorship, and loneliness. She has served as a lead qualitative scientist on multiple NIH-funded studies, including pragmatic trials to increase colorectal cancer screening and to improve implementation of primary care interventions for cancer prevention, survivorship care, and chronic pain management. Her research emphasizes real-world implementation and translating patient, clinician, and staff perspectives into feasible, meaningful improvements in care content and delivery.

Brennan Keiser, MSW, is a Lead Research Scientist in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington, where they direct operations of the Primary Care Research Implementation and Engagement (PRIME) Lab. Their work focuses on developing and integrating behavioral health interventions into primary care, with particular attention to loneliness as a multidimensional determinant of health. Drawing on their training as a social worker, Brennan co-leads patient-centered intervention design that emphasizes relational safety and targeted skill-building. They are a co-investigator on multiple studies examining social prescribing, nurse care management, and cognitive behavioral therapy for populations including young adults, people with chronic pain, and cancer survivors. Rooted in implementation science, Brennan designs interventions that fit the constraints of primary care while preserving the human elements that make them effective and meaningful.

February 11th, 2026

Fasting: Approach to care and cultural humility

Samira Farah, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington

Samira Farah, MD, is a family physician who sees patients at Harborview Family Medicine Clinic. She is interested in providing healthcare for patients of all ages. She is the director of the Family Medicine Interest Group and the co-director of the Underserved Pathway. Dr. Farah graduated medical school from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Valley Family Medicine Residency Program.

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January 14th, 2026

Evidence-Based Approach to Screening, Diagnosis, and Pharmacological Management of Bipolar Disorder in Primary Care Settings

Hsiang Huang, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Hsiang Huang, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Fulbright Scholar, currently directing the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship and the Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration Program at Cambridge Health Alliance (MA). Dr. Huang has dedicated 15 years to integrating mental health care into medical settings, influencing his clinical work, teaching, and research. He provides psychiatric consultations in primary care for underserved populations in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. From 2015 to 2019, he was a Master Trainer in Collaborative Care for the CMS-funded Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, contributing to the training of over 3,500 U.S. psychiatrists. Dr. Huang has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and founded Safineia Psychiatry, PLLC. 

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Dominic Tapia

December 10th, 2025

Beyond Efficiency: Reclaiming Family Medicine as a Soul-Aligned Practice

Dominic Tapia, MD (they/he)
Family Medicine Resident Physician, PGY2
DFM, University of Washington

Dominic Tapia is a family medicine resident physician with roots in rural Arizona and a decade spent in the Pacific Northwest. Before entering medicine, they worked for seven years in environmental public health, gaining a deep understanding of how environments shape well-being. Volunteering in hospice care taught them that living fully and caring deeply go hand in hand, guiding their current approach to patient care. Their clinical interests include chronic disease management, preventive medicine, mental health, substance use treatment, queer and gender-affirming care, perinatal care and hospice. Outside of medicine, Dominic enjoys art, sunshine, and spending time with loved ones and their dog, Obi. 

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November 12th, 2025

Primary Care Telehealth Utilization and Care Quality

Jonathan Staloff, MD, MSc, Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington

Dr. Staloff is a family medicine physician, health services researcher, and acting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Family Medicine. He is an affiliate investigator with the Primary Care Analytics Team at the Veterans Health Administration and practices primary care at Harborview Family Medicine Clinic. He also serves as the medical director of Population Health Value Management, supporting value-based care initiatives across UW Medicine. Dr. Staloff’s research focuses on primary care investment and telehealth in primary care, and is also co-author of Reshaping Health Systems: What Drives Health Care and How You Can Change It, a foundational textbook for health systems science education. He completed his fellowship in health systems research at the VA Puget Sound, his family medicine residency at UW, and his medical school and masters in population medicine at Brown University.

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October 8th, 2025

Critical Connections, Equity and Heart Disease: How did we get here and what’s the path forward?

Courtney Jordan Baechler, MD, MS
Preventive Cardiologist
Park Nicollet, Heart and Vascular Clinic, Health Partners

Dr. Courtney Jordan Baechler is cardiologist specializing in prevention at Park Nicollet Heart and Vascular Clinic, part of HealthPartners. She has a master’s in epidemiology and public health and is passionate about a healthy state of wellbeing — body, mind and spirit— for patients, families and communities. Previous roles include medical director for health equity and health promotion at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, assistant commissioner for the MN Department of Health and vice president for the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing. She is a national leader in holistic medicine, health disparities, and prevention. Leadership roles include co-chair for the 2035 MN Heart Disease Prevention and Stroke Committee, serving on the YMCA of the North General Board, and the CVS Health National Health Equity Board.

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September 10th, 2025

Evolving Strategies for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Richard Waters, MD, MSc
Medical Director,
Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)

Richard Waters, MD, MSc, is a family physician and addiction medicine physician in Seattle, Washington.  He works as medical director for the Downtown Emergency Service Center, where he sees patients for behavioral health needs and supports operations and program evolution.  He previously served as the addiction medicine lead clinician at Neighborcare Health and medical director for Neighborcare Health’s Housing & Street Outreach Programs..  He completed his residency and chief residency at the University of Washington / Harborview Medical Center and medical education from Duke University.  His clinical interests are in providing high-quality health care, with a focus on addiction medicine care, to individuals formerly or currently living homeless, guided by the principles of harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and a belief in the right of all persons to housing and health care.

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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.

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

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.

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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

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

Emily Godfrey
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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