Lunch and Learn: Family Med Style (Mon. 11/10/25) – UW Department of Family Medicine

Have lunch, connect with other students, and meet a variety of family docs at Lunch and Learn: Family Med Style in celebration of Primary Care Month 2025! This event is intended to give you a casual setting to ask all your questions about residency, career, and more! See below for details on the physicians in attendance (folks will be added as they confirm their attendance).

Who’s invited?

– All UW School of Medicine students regardless of year or specialty interests. Please RSVP here by Thursday, November 6: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/pqfdg

– Family medicine physicians (both attendings and residents)

Event details:
Date: Monday, November 10, 2025
Time: Noon – 1:20pm
Place: SOCC 301

Lunch will include vegan and gluten-free options.

This event is hosted by the Family Medicine Interest Group. We thank our generous financial sponsor, the Washington Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP).

Physicians in attendance:

Robin Christian, MD

UW Primary Care Mountlake Terrace
Mountlake Terrace, WA

Robin (he/him) is a family medicine primary care provider. His other jobs include the multidisciplinary wound care clinic and teaching medical students. His clinical interests include LGBTQ+ care, gender affirming care, reproductive justice, procedures, and mental health. He identifies as a gay trans man, a Seattle transplant, and he took a non-traditional path to medicine with 10 years off between high school and college.

Rachel Ellenbogen, MD

UW Primary Care Ravenna
Seattle, WA

Dr. Rachel Ellenbogen (she/her) is from Seattle and happy to be back in town practicing outpatient primary care. After Family Medicine residency, she completed a non-ACGME fellowship in Academic Family Medicine. She has a special interest in medical education; within the FM department she helps with advising.

Samira Farah, MD

Harborview Family Medicine Clinic
Seattle, WA

Dr. Farah (she/her) sees patients at the Family Medicine clinic at Harborview. She is also the Director of the UW Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) and Co-Director of the Underserved Pathway. Dr. Farah was born in Somalia but grew up in Washington. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Washington and graduated medical school from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Valley Family Medicine Residency Program.

Misbah Keen, MD

UW Primary Care Northgate
Seattle, WA

Dr. Misbah Keen (he/him) practiced full spectrum (outpatient, inpatient, and OB) family medicine at Columbia Basin Health Association in Othello, Washington for the first five years of his career. He has been at UW as a medical educator and clinician for the past 18 years. He currently directs the third-year Family Medicine Clerkship.

Tess Moore, MD, FAAFP

Greenlake Primary Care
Seattle, WA

Dr. Tess Moore (she/her) owns Greenlake Primary Care and has been in private practice for 5 years. Prior to that she was in community health for 10 years. She provides direct primary care (alternate payment model) and medical care for eating disorders.

Pam Pentin, MD

UW Primary Care Northgate
Seattle, WA

Pam Pentin, MD (she/her) is a family physician and Associate Professor at the UWSOM in Seattle. She is a graduate of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and completed her residency at the University of Vermont where she served as chief resident. She is board certified in both family medicine and addiction medicine. She practices full spectrum care including adult and pediatric medicine, procedures and OB/GYN care at the UW Medicine Primary Care clinic at Northgate and at UW Medical Center. Dr. Pentin’s field of scholarship is the intersection between addiction and pain management. She directs the family medicine sub-internships across WWAMI and leads the MS3 family medicine core clerkship at the UW Family Medicine Residency.

Tomoko Sairenji, MD, MS

UW Primary Care Northgate
Seattle, WA

Dr. Sairenji (she/her) is the interim Director of Medical Student Education, the Director of the Family Medicine Career Advising Program, and a College Head and faculty member at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Originally from Japan, she graduated from Okayama University Medical School, completed a junior residency in Fukuoka, and later trained in Family Medicine at UPMC Shadyside in Pittsburgh, PA, where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Sairenji is passionate about medical education and enjoys supporting students in their interest in Family Medicine; through advising, she feels meaning in helping individuals discover a career that brings them joy and a sense of purpose, and she believes that all experiences as a human can make you a better family physician.

Grace Shih, MD, MAS

UW Primary Care Northgate
Seattle, WA

Dr. Grace Shih (she/her) is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She is Director of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) Family Medicine Residency Network, Co-Director of the UW Reproductive Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) Fellowship, and Co-Director of Vasectomy Services at Planned Parenthood Greater Northwest. She has an outpatient clinical practice at UWPC Northgate Clinic, where she provides full spectrum care and runs the Reproductive Health clinic. Her particular areas of clinical interest include family planning and contraception (IUD/implant, medication and aspiration abortion, uterine aspiration for miscarriage management, vasectomy), reproductive health (in/fertility counseling, colposcopy), transgender care, women’s health, and adolescent medicine.

Sebastian Tong, MD, MPH

Harborview Family Medicine Clinic
Seattle, WA

Sebastian Tong (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at University of Washington, a practicing family physician and addiction medicine specialist and a clinician scientist. His research focuses on improving care for loneliness, chronic pain and substance use.

Jonathan Wells, MD

Seattle Roots Community Health
Seattle, WA

Jonathan (he/him) grew up in eastern North Carolina with a curiosity for learning, puzzles, and people — he went on to receive his undergraduate major in Cultural Anthropology. It took a couple application cycles to get into medical school, but from there he traveled to the Pacific Northwest where he trained at Swedish Cherry Hill FM Residency and found a fit in the complexity and variety of folks served in the community health centers. After graduating from residency in 2014, he has worked in FQHCs while also maintaining broader scope of practice continuing to provide inpatient medicine and non-surgical obstetrics alongside FM residents. Along the way he has been involved in WAFP leadership as well as FQHC leadership and currently works at Seattle Roots Community Health as a float physician and Epic Physician Builder/trainer.