Thank you!
We are so grateful to all who attended the 16th Annual DFM Department Fair & Scholarship Forum on April 9th, 2025! It was wonderful to gather together in person to share cutting edge scholarly work. A complete list of presented oral and poster presentations are available here, along with event photos.
Pictured L to R: Kris Pui Kwan Ma, Angella Kim; Amanda Weidner (co-chair), Kevin McCawley; Amanda Weidner, Katherine Wainwright; Nikki Gentile (co-chair), Theo Eldore.
Congratulations to these Department Fair & Scholarship Forum 2025 Award Winners:
Best abstract: The Journey to Diagnosis: Understanding the Experience of Older Vietnamese Immigrants Seeking Care for Cognitive Impairments in Primary Care. Angella Kim, MPHc; Kim Lundgreen; Asmeret Tesfalem, MSN; Maria Prado, MPH; Azelea Sayavong; Jackie Raetz, MD; Annette Fitzpatrick, PhD; Kari Stephens, PhD; Kris Pui Kwan Ma, PhD
Best oral presentation (people’s choice): Expanding Access to, and Quality of, Primary Care with Generative AI. Kevin McCawley, MD, MBA; Noah Hoffman, MD, PhD; Angad Singh, MD; Nikki Gentile, MD, PhD
Best poster presentation (people’s choice): Incidence of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Death in National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletes: A 9-year Surveillance Study. Katherine Wainwright, MD; Brad Petek, MD; Maxey Cherel; Randi Delong, MPH; Kristen Kucera, PhD; Bridget Whelan, MPH; Jonathan Drezner, MD; Kimberly Harmon, MD
Ongoing Research Award for Top Resident Project: A Community-Based Approach to Improving Advance Care Planning in the Transgender Community. Theo Eldore, MD; Jackie Raetz, MD; Nova Rivera, MSW, MPH, LICSW; Nikki Gentile, MD, PhD
The award was presented to Dr. Smith by Dr. Josh Fischer, UWFM Residency Director (pictured left), and Dr. Paul James, Department Chair.
Congratulations to Dr. EJ Smith, winner of the Entering Class of 1978 Resident Innovation Award
We also took advantage of this in-person gathering to publicly announce that Dr. EJ Smith is the winner of the Entering Class of 1978 Resident Innovation Award. This gift, donated by Andy Ury and Steve Tarnoff, seeks to recognize outstanding Family Medicine innovation in the past year by a resident in the Department of Family Medicine. The gift comes with a monetary award of $5000.
Dr. EJ Smith is a mission-driven resident physician who has committed herself to supporting communities impacted by homelessness, abuse, and trauma. She is published in this area in the Washington Family Physician journal and was awarded 1st place at the International Summit on Trauma, Violence, and Abuse and Trauma Across the Lifespan in San Diego, CA for a poster presentation also emphasizing this area of need. Her next project is looking at our very own education curriculum in the residency. She has recognized the need for more service-oriented work by starting the early development of a street medicine curriculum. Through this innovation she will be emphasizing our program’s responsiveness to a diverse patient population with socioeconomic need, which is a requirement of the ACGME. She will also be creating opportunities for faculty and others joining our department, which may aid in recruitment of diverse individuals. Dr. EJ Smith has already shown her potential for being a leader in family medicine and through innovation, she will undoubtedly lift our specialty to new heights.