UW Family Medicine Department Fair & Scholarship Forum

Thank you for attending on April 8th, 2026! 

17th Annual Department Fair & Scholarship Forum

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What is the Department Fair & Scholarship Forum? 

The fair was started in 2009 by our then Chief Resident, Dr. Kavitha Chunchu, as a way to showcase the research and scholarly work of the Family Medicine residents and medical students.  It has evolved into a Department-wide, yearly celebration of Family Medicine scholarly pursuits and activities, and a forum to showcase accomplishments and recognition of our team’s hard work and talents. 

2026 agenda

11:30 – 12:00pm

Join for catered lunch in HUB Lyceum (room 160) **Session A poster set up**

12:00 – 1:00pm

Grand Rounds Lyceum & on Zoom

Sebastian Tong, MD, MPH, Associate Professor DFM, and Allison Cole, MD, MPH, Professor DFM

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

1:00 – 1:15pm

Opening remarks from Bianca Frogner, PhD, Interim Department Chair

1:15 – 2:00pm

Poster session A (see below)

**Last 5 mins transition to concurrent presentations

2:00- 2:10pm

Concurrent Oral Presentations begin in Room 145 & Lyceum 

PRESENTATION – Universal Design for Learning for an Inclusive Learning Environment in Higher Education: Perceptions of Physician Assistant (PA) Students in Multi-Institutional PA  ProgramsAmee Naidu PhD, MMS, PA-C

Room 145 

PRESENTATION – Using self-identified need for contraception (SINC) in wellness visits to improve identification of family planning needs. Heami Yi, MD, Ying Zhang, MD, Madie  Gore, MD

Lyceum 

** 5 min transition

2:15 – 2:25pm

PRESENTATION – Decentralized OMT Training: Remote Training of Faculty in WWAMI. Michelle Chadek, MS, Russell Maier, MD, Nikole Shepherdson, DO

Room 145 

PRESENTATION – Identifying Gaps and Priorities in Family Medicine Research to  Advance Maternal Health. Betelehem Tessema, MPHc, Grace Guenther, MPA, Daanya  Siddiqui, MPHc, Amanda Weidner, MPH, Emily Godfrey, MD, & Kris Pui Kwan Ma, PhD  

Lyceum

** 5 min transition

2:30 – 2:40pm

PRESENTATION – A nurse care management model in primary care to serve rural-dwelling people with chronic pain: results from a pilot trial. Brennan Keiser, MSW; Karina  Cortez, BS, Kelly Reeves, RN; Jin Wang, PhD; Elise Hoffman, MPH; Christine O’Neill, BS;  Andrew Humbert, PhD; Dennis Ang, MD; Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD; Basia Belza, PhD; Hazel Tapp, PhD; Kari A. Stephens, PhD; Kushang Patel, PhD; Sebastian Tong 

Room 145 

PRESENTATION – Socioeconomic Disadvantage And Survival After Exercise-related  Sudden Cardiac Arrest In Youth Athletes At Community Events. Nicole L. Leonard, MD;  Muriel Lavallee, MD, MPA; Chelsea L. Martin, PT, DPT, SCS; Barbara P. Goettsch, MSW;  Kristen L. Kucera, PHD, MSPH, LAT, ATC; Bradley J. Petek, MD; Jonathan A. Drezner, MD  

Lyceum 

** 5 min transition

2:45 – 2:55pm

PRESENTATION – Results of the CORC study: A Randomized Trial of Patient Navigation to Support Colonoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening. Gina A. Keppel, MPH, Brooke  Ike, MPH, Brian Leroux, PhD, Allison M. Cole, MD, MPH  

Room 145

PRESENTATION – Advancing Equitable Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Implementation  and Evaluation of an Epic-Based PREVENT Cardiovascular Risk Calculator in Family Medicine. Sonia Abraham DO, Jing Zhang MS, Rohith Palli MD PhD, Angad Singh MD, Samira Farah MD, Rachel Geyer MPH, Nikki Gentile MD PhD

Lyceum

** 20 min break & transition – trainees set up posters

3:15 – 4:05pm

Poster session B (see below)

4:05 – 4:15pm

PRESENTATION – 2026 Best Abstract Award winner
Comparing Physicians’ Access to Behavioral Health Resource in Rural and Urban Practices. Holly A. Andrilla, MS; Natalia Oster PhD; Xiaochu Hu, PhD; Rosha McCoy, MD; Nailah Russell, BS; Michael Dill MA; Bianca Frogner PhD 

4:15 – 4:25pm

PRESENTATION – 2025 DFM Ignite Resident Research Award
TRANS-CEND: Transgender-Centered Focus Group Perspectives on Advance Care  Planning. Theo J. Eldore, MD; Rachel E. Geyer, MPH; Nova Rivera, MSW, MPH, LICSW; Sarah  Seager, MPH (c); Jalen Smith, MEd, MSW(c); Jackie Raetz, MD; Nikki L. Gentile, MD, PhD  

4:25 – 4:45pm

R3 PANEL – R3 QI Projects

  1. A Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Tobacco Use Documentation in Primary Care. Sanna Alas, MD, MPhil; Khanh Luong, MD, MPH
  2. Besiegers for Procedures: Increasing Outpatient Procedural Training in Residency. Aishwarya Iyer, MD, MPH; Natalie Cooney, MD; Robert Hall, MD
  3. Use of EHR Smartphrases to Support Lifestyle Counseling for Hyperlipidemia in Primary Care. EJ Smith, MD; Karime Bolivar, MD; Kevin McCawley, MD, MBA

4:45 – 5:00pm

Resident awards and closing remarks – incl Entering Class of 1978 award  

POSTER SESSION A (1:15-2:00PM, Lyceum room 160) 

A01 – The Osher Center’s Small Research Grants Program 
Dan Cherkin, PhD  

A02 – The Intersection of School-Based Health and Sports Medicine 
Audriana Mooth, DO; Cathleen Brown Crowell, PhD, ATC; Michael Fredericson, MD; Zachary K. Winkelmann, PhD, LAT, ATC, CHSE; Mayrena Isamar Hernandez, PhD, MPH, LAT, ATC; Michelle L. Weber Rawlins, PhD, ATC 

A03 – D1 Collegiate Athlete Perceptions of their Sport Uniforms by Gender 
Katherine Fahy, MD; Bridget M. Whelan, MPH; Yuka Tsukahara, MD, PhD; Katherine F. Wainwright, MD; Uniform Study Coalition*; Andrea Kussman, MD

A04 – Patient Characteristics and Short-term Outcomes from the ORCCA Study 
Laurel Thur, MS; Jonathan A. Drezner, MD; Nathaniel Moulson, MD, MHA; P. Nelson Hsieh, MD, PhD; Bradley, J. Petek, MD; Timothy W. Churchill, MD; Ryan Quinn, MD; Noah Lewis, MD; Stephanie A. Kliethermes, PhD; Katherine Wainwright, MD; Kimberly G. Harmon, MD; Aaron L. Baggish, MD  

A05 – Mental Health Status of the Initial 200 Athletes Enrolled in ORCCA 
Laurel Thur, MS; Katherine Wainwright, MD; Jonathan A. Drezner, MD; Nathaniel Moulson, MD, MHA; P. Nelson Hsieh, MD, PhD; Bradley, J. Petek, MD; Timothy W. Churchill, MD; Ryan Quinn, MD; Noah Lewis, MD; Stephanie A. Kliethermes, PhD; Aaron L. Baggish, MD; Kimberly G. Harmon, MD 

A06 – A Tackle, a Twist, and a Test of Stability: Case Study in a High-School Athlete 
J. Nicholas Wolfe, MD; Joshua Go, DO; Saboora Deen, MS, ATC, LAT, CSCS

A07 – Association between substance use and characteristics of participants on the NOSES Study: a full-scale multisite, randomized controlled trial 
Brianna Zhou, BA; Nicholas Franko, BS; Sebastian Tong, MD, MPH; Brennan Keiser, MSW; Monica Zigman Suchsland, PhD, MPH; and NOSES study teams at Georgetown University, MedStar Health Research Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of California Los Angeles, Penn State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison  

A08 – Family Medicine Obstetric Care Quality Improvement: Integrating Clinical Guidance into the Electronic Health Record 
Emory Williams, MD; Ivonne Beltran, MD 

A09 – Assessing Faculty Perspectives and Curricular Gaps in Lifestyle Medicine Education at the University of Washington School of Medicine 
Kayla Kenyon, MPHc; Grace Guenther, MPA; Reyna Houston, MPHc; Sarah Lill, MPHc; Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH 

A10 – Treatment of Obesity-related Diseases: Early Career Primary Care Physicians’ Experience with the Practice of Lifestyle Medicine 
Sarah Lill, PA-C, MPHc; Grace Guenther, MPA; Reyna Houston, MPHc; Kayla Kenyon MPHc; Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH 

A11 – Lifestyle Medicine Education at UWSOM: A Pathway to Improved Public Health, Prevention, and Equity
Reyna Houston, MPHc; Grace Guenther, MPA; Kayla Kenyon, MPHc; Sarah Lill, PA-C, MPHc; Emily M. Godfrey, MD, MPH 

A12 – Bridging the Gap in Long COVID Care: Advancing Clinician Knowledge Through Curriculum Development and Evaluation 
Rachel Geyer, MPH; Kristen M. O’Loughlin, PhD; Cassie Theobald, BS; Donovan Rivera, MSW, MPH, LICSW; Jessica Bender, MD, MPH; Anita Chopra, MD; Janna Friedly, MD, MPH; Nikki Gentile, MD, PhD 

A13 – Chosen Family in Family Medicine: Ethical Engagement with Transgender Communities in Advance Care Planning Research 
Sarah Seager, MPHc; Theo Eldore, MD; Nova Rivera, MSW, MPH, LICSW; Rachel E. Geyer, MPH; Jalen Smith, MEd, MSWc; Nikki L. Gentile, MD, PhD; Genya Shimkin, MPH 

A14 – Traveling Out-of-State for First Trimester Abortion: Experiences and Perspectives of US Patients After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Supreme Court Decision 
Amanda Debuo Der, MSc; Samantha N. Fredman; Lucrecia Mena-Meléndez, PhD, MA; Elissa M. Brown, MPH; Wendy Norman, MD, MHSc, FCFP; Emily M. Godfrey, MD, MPH; Sarah B. Munro, PhD, MA; Anna E. Fiastro, PhD, MPH, MEM  

POSTER SESSION B (3:15-4:00PM, Lyceum Room 160) 
  
B01 – Hepatitis C care delivery practices among buprenorphine prescribers and non-prescribers: results from a survey of Washington state primary care providers 
Jocelyn R. James, MD; Amelia M. Mohabir; Claire B. Simon, MD; Allison Cole, MD, MPH; Emalie Huriaux; Jon Stockton; Julien Rouvere; Judith I. Tsui, MD, MPH
 
B02 – Social Drivers of Health and Survival Outcomes from Exercise-related Sudden Cardiac Arrest in U.S. Middle and High School Athletes 
Muriel Lavallee, MD, MPA; Nicole L. Leonard, MD; Chelsea L. Martin, PT, DPT, SCS; Barbara P. Goettsch, MSW; Kristen L. Kucera, PHD, MSPH, LAT, ATC; Bradley J. Petek, MD; Jonathan A. Drezner, MD
 
B03 – Incorporating Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Training into Family Medicine Residency 
Muriel Lavallee, MD, MPA; Khanh Luong, MD, MPH; Lauren Paladino, DO 
 
B04 – Facilitating Advance Care Planning in Primary Care: The 3-Step Tool Intervention 
Aishwarya Iyer, MD, MPH; Rachel Geyer, MPH; Jing Zhang, MS; Jackie Raetz, MD; Nikki Gentile, MD, PhD 

B05 – Development and Evaluation of a Primary Care Sports Medicine Interest Group for Medical Students 
Blake Hopkin, MD; Nicole Gentile, MD, PhD  

B06 – Learning to Lead Shared Medical Appointments: A Resident-Centered Educational Pilot 
Akash Sharma, DO; Emily Godfrey, MD

B07 – Oregon: Providers Needed 
William Tate Atkinson, MD; Paula Kett, PhD, MPH; Janessa Graves, PhD, MPH 
 
B08 – Creating and Evaluating an Obstetric Emergency Simulation Curriculum for Hospitals in U.S. Maternity Care Deserts 
Elsie Piper, MD; Tobe Harberd, MD; Rachel Geyer, MPH; Nikki Gentile, MD, PhD 
 
B09 – Evaluating the Relationship of Unhealthy Alcohol Use and Immune Activation in Kenyan Women Engaged in Sex Work 
Daniel Tolstrup, MD; Susan Graham, MD, MPH, PhD 
 
B10 – Maternal Access to Medical AI (MAMA): Evaluating an AI Tool for Between-Visit Perinatal Guidance 
Kevin McCawley, MD; Rachel Geyer, MPH; Jing Zhang, MS; Andrew Humbert, PhD; Noah Hoffman, MD, PhD; Nikki Gentile, MD, PhD  

B11 – Payment for telehealth and clinic-based medication abortion services among Texans in July – November 2024 
Anna Fiastro, PhD, MPH, MEM; Erin Thayer, MPH; Sara Manns, MA; Emily M. Godfrey, MD, MPH 
 
B12 – Legitimacy, Legality, and Privacy: U.S. patient awareness and perceptions of remote medication abortion options and factors influencing their decision to travel out-of-state for clinic-based care among those leaving states restricting abortion provision 
Anna Fiastro, PhD, MPH, MEM; Elissa Brown, MPH; Lucrecia Mena-Melendez, PhD, MA; Victoria Kvitek, MPH; Mary Stoa, BA; Wendy Norman, MD, MHSc; Sarah Munro, PhD, MA; Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH 

B13 – Inside the Applicant Experience: Lessons from 2025 Intern Survey 
Molly Ormsby, MA; Tomoko Sairenji, MD, MS; Amanda Weidner, MPH; Dave Evans, MD; Grace Shih, MAS, MD  
 
B14 – Strengths-Based Strategic Planning: SOARing into the FMRN 2026-2028 Strategic Plan 
Amanda Weidner, MPH on behalf of the FMRN team  

B15 – Evaluation of Pupillometry as a Diagnostic Tool for Concussion in NCAA Football Athletes 
Bridget M. Whelan, MPH; Katherine Fahy, MD; Yuka Tsukahara, MD; PhD, Kimberly G. Harmon, MD