Presenters

	Norman Beauchamp, Jr., M.D., M.H.S. Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine Dr. Norman Beauchamp, Jr. joined the UW faculty in 2002. He received his M.D. degree from Michigan State University and completed his radiology and neuroradiology training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also holds a master's degree in health science from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Prior to assuming the role of Chairman of Radiology at the University of Washington, he served as Vice Chairman and Interim Chairman of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Beauchamp's research has been in the diagnosis and treatment of acute stroke. Beauchamp is a leader in efforts to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to diagnose strokes and other conditions more quickly and accurately. He has also overseen multicenter epidemiological imaging studies that have identified new predictors of stroke risk. His research is helping to increase the number of people that are candidates for stroke treatments. Beauchamp has garnered numerous awards and has received NIH and American Roentgen Ray Society grants. He has received several outstanding faculty teaching awards, for which fellows and residents nominated him.
	Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology, University of Washington Burke received a Ph.D. in genetics and an M.D. from the University of Washington. She also completed postgraduate training in medical genetics at the UW. She has served on the NIH Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing, and is a currently member of a National Research Council committee addressing the predictive use of toxicogenomics technologies. Burke is a faculty member in the Public Health Genetics Program and in the Medical Genetics Training Program. In 1994, she became the founding director of Women's Health Care Center at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt and served in that role until 1999. She has also previously served as associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Burke's research addresses the social, ethical and policy implications of genetic information, and includes work related to the development of practice standards, public and professional education, and the clinical integration of genetic testing. She is the Principal Investigator of a Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research entitled "Genomic Health Care and the Medically Underserved," recently funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute.
	Dermot Fitzgibbon, M.B. Associate Professor, Anesthesiology Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Washington Fitzgibbon is an attending anesthesiologist and pain specialist at the University of Washington Medical Center and at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. His focus is management of postoperative pain and cancer pain. He earned his M.B. at the University College Cork, School of Medicine in Ireland, completed his anesthesia training in Ireland and Seattle and then completed a fellowship in Clinical Pain Management at the University of Washington Pain.
	Thomas Gallagher, M.D. Assistant Professor, Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington Thomas Gallagher, M.D., is a general internist who is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Medical History & Ethics at the University of Washington. Dr. Gallagher received his medical degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, completed his residency in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, and completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of California San Francisco. Dr. Gallagher has a long-standing research interest in the ethical and communication dimensions of conflicts of interest, research ethics, and disclosure of medical errors and adverse events. His work in error disclosure recently received the 2004 Best Published Research Paper of the Year award from the Society of General Internal Medicine. He is supported by career development awards from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars in Bioethics program. Among his other responsibilities, Dr. Gallagher serves as Chair, Membership Committee, Society of General Internal Medicine. He is an active member of many professional organizations, including the American College of Physicians, American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Society of General Internal Medicine, and the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.
	Benjamin E. Greer, M.D. Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology Director, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Washington Greer earned an M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center. He is director of gynecologic oncology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA). Greer coordinates a team of specialists to provide care to women with gynecologic cancers. His work has included groundbreaking research, authoring textbook chapters, editing two books, caring for patients, mentoring younger physicians and participating on innumerable boards and committees. His research with colleague Dr. Wui-Jin Koh, UW professor of radiation oncology, changed the way radiation therapy is given to women with gynecologic cancers. Greer is one of the authors of a recent study that compared two different chemotherapy combinations in women with advanced ovarian cancer. The study found that the combination of Taxol and carboplatin was as effective in treating ovarian cancer as the standard combination of Taxol and cisplatin, while being less toxic and having fewer side effects--less nausea, less kidney damage, less numbness and tingling in the hands and feet.
	Joseph Gruss, M.B., B.CHIR. Marlys C. Larson Professor and Endowed Chair, Pediatric Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Washington Professor of Surgery and Chief, Plastic Surgery Division, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Gruss received his M.B. from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed a traveling fellowship in Great Britain and Europe in head and neck and craniofacial surgery and a fellowship at Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, in oncological and head and neck surgery. He has been at the University of Washington since 1991. His research interests include maxillofacial trauma, complex skin tumors, rigid internal fixation of facial skeleton, melanoma, mandibular reconstruction, head and neck reconstruction, pediatric and adult craniomaxillofacial surgery, tissue expander devices, pediatric plastic surgery, and cleft lip and palate surgery.
	Lee Hartwell, Ph.D. President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; UW Professor of Genome Sciences Hartwell received a 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of regulators in the division of yeast cells and their importance in cancer development. Hartwell has been a University of Washington faculty member since 1968. In 1996, he joined the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and became its president and director in 1997. His other honors include the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Gairdner Foundation International Award, and the Alfred P. Sloan Award in Cancer Research. Hartwell earned a B.S. at the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences.
	Hunter Hoffman, Ph.D. Research Engineer, Human Interface Technology Lab (HIT), University of Washington Hunter Hoffman received a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology (human memory and attention) at the University of Washington and did postdoctoral research on social influences on memory. In 1993 Hoffman returned to Seattle, and began virtual reality research at the UW Human Interface Technology Laboratory, one of the largest virtual reality (VR) research laboratories in the world. In 1996, Hoffman and David Patterson, Ph.D., professor of rehabilitation medicine and staff psychologist at the University of Washington Burn Center, co-originated the new technique of using immersive VR for pain control.
	Thomas "Mac" Hooton, M.D. Professor, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine Hooton is the medical director of the Harborview Medical Center AIDS Clinic (Madison Clinic), chair of the University of Washington Pharmacy and Therapeutics subcommittee on Infectious Diseases, and chair of the Harborview Infection Control Committee. He earned his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School-Dallas. Hooton's research interests and activities include clinical studies of pathogenesis and treatment of urinary tract infections in women, clinical studies of antimicrobial resistance and methods to reduce antimicrobial usage, and HIV medication compliance.
	Frank Isik, M.D. Professor of Surgery, Plastic Surgery Division, School of Medicine, University of Washington Isik earned his M.D. at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at Boston University School of Medicine and a residency at the University of Washington Department of Surgery Division of Plastic Surgery. He was also a fellow in cardiovascular research at the University of Washington. His clinical interests include post-oncologic reconstruction, including skin, breast and head and neck cancers. Isik's research interests have been in wound healing and the role of circulating hematopoietic and mesenchymal cells in cutaneous wound repair. The bone marrow provides a rich source of cells that participate in normal wound repair mechanisms in the skin. His research interests also include wound healing and the role of Wnt genes in cutaneous wound repair. Wnts are a class of morphogens that have been extensively studied in development and carcinogenesis; these genes can have profound effects on inducing regeneration of epithelial elements during wound repair.
	John Kemner, Ph.D. Assistant Director, WWAMI Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infections Diseases Research, UW Genome Scienes Kemner received his Ph.D. in microbiology from Michigan State University and did his postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington. As assistant director of one of eight regional centers established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he is involved in developing tools necessary to protect the public from potential agents of bioterrorism and from emerging natural biological threats. Kemner has numerous on-going projects in the Department of Genome Sciences, UW School of Medicine.
	Alan Kent, Ph.D. Director of Counseling Services, UW School of Medicine Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Kent received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Rochester in 1976 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from DePaul University in 1983. He is a diplomate in clinical psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is the director of the UW's medical student counseling service and a clinical psychologist with experience working in medical centers with a diversified patient population. His particular focus is on depression, stress management, anxiety, and relationship problems, using cognitive-behavioral and solution-oriented techniques. Kent's current research interests include the integration of mental health services in primary care settings and the psychological issues prevalent in medical students.
	Ann Marie Kimball, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.M. Professor, Epidemiology and Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington Director, APEC Asia Pacific Emerging Infections Network Adjunct Professor, Medicine, School of Medicine Dr. Kimball is an attending physician at the International Clinic at Harborview Medical Center. She earned both an M.D. and an M.P.H. at the University of Washington. Kimball's research interests are in emerging infections and global epidemic, prevention, surveillance, investigation and control of infectious diseases. In 2000 she was named as a New Century Scholar for Fulbright, and in 2004 she received a Guggenheim Foundation scholar award for her work. She has worked extensively in the areas of trade policy and disease control, and telecommunications and disease surveillance and alert systems. Formerly Dr. Kimball served as Regional Advisor for HIV/AIDS with the World Health Organization (WHO). She has also served as Director of the Washington State HIV/AIDS/STD Program with the state Department of Health, and as Chair of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors in the United States.
	Terry Mengert, M.D. Professor, UW School of Medicine, UW Medical Center Emergency Department Mengert is a professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine. He is a faculty member in the UW School of Medicine Colleges system and heads - Snake River College. He earned his B.A., B.S. and M.D. degrees at the University of Washington. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at University of Washington affiliated hospitals. He is board certified in both internal medicine and emergency medicine. Mengert is noted for his innovative ways of preparing medical students to evaluate and treat urgent and emergent health conditions. He has received numerous awards for his teaching including the University of Washington 1998 Distinguished Teaching Award. He was named a role model by fourth-year medical students, and received the Paul B. Beeson award from the internal medicine residents for outstanding clinical teaching. He has also received three "Golden Apple" awards from students in the Medex Northwest Physician Assistant Training Program.
	David R. Patterson, Ph.D. Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine Head of Psychology, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine; Director, Harborview Medical Center, Rehabilitation Psychology Consult Service; Staff Psychologist, University of Washington Burn Center, Harborview Medical Center Patterson earned his undergraduate degree at Emory University and his Ph.D. at Florida State University. He completed an internship at the University of Southern California, a fellowship in rehabilitation psychology at Emory University, and a medical psychology residency at the Oregon Health Sciences Center. He had dual diplomate status in rehabilitation psychology and psychological hypnosis. Patterson has over 100 publications on topics such as the control of acute pain, hypnosis, virtual reality and psychological outcome after burn injury and other forms of trauma. He has been the principal investigator on NIH grants that have funded his research since 1989, as well as several other funding sources. He has also been the director of the Rehabilitation Postdoctoral fellowship program since the late 1980s and has been funded by the Department of Education for this.
	Dorothy Patton, Ph.D. Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Adjunct Professor, Biological Structure and Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Washington Patton earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in biological structure. Research activities in Dorothy Patton's laboratory include studies on the pathogenesis, treatment and prevention of chlamydial infections. Chlamydia is the most prevalent sexually transmitted disease in the U.S. and can lead to complications including pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy and infertility in women. Studies in Dr. Patton's laboratory have characterized the irreversible damage to the fallopian tubes caused by the host's immune response to chlamydial infection. Current studies are designed to identify which factors of the immune response are primarily responsible for this damage, as well as those which offer the greatest protection against the scarring and fibrosis. If these factors can be defined, cytokine directed therapy could be developed as an alternative, or supplement to current treatment regimens. Recent studies, producing evidence of chlamydial persistence and treatment failures following current CDC recommended therapies, have led to a number of projects assessing effects of combination therapy, as well as testing new drugs as they become available. Past and future studies also assess vaccine candidates as they become available. Additional ongoing projects focus on the prevention of chlamydial infection by the use of topical Microbicides. Test agents are assessed for effects on the vaginal flora, changes to the vaginal and cervical epithelial tissues and efficacy in preventing chlamydial infection. The development of a microbicidal gel which women could use intravaginally would provide a much needed female-controlled means of STD prevention. All studies in the research program are aimed at improving women's reproductive health care, and ultimately eradicating chlamydial infection.
	Lawrence Robinson, M.D. Professor and Chair, Rehabilitation Medicine, UW School of Medicine Dr. Robinson has been at the University of Washington since 1989 and has been department chair since 2000. He has been involved in pain research as principal investigator for a National Institute of Health-funded study of the management of pain after amputation and the effectiveness of pre-amputation analgesia to prevent phantom limb pain. Robinson earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Brandeis University, his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine, and completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. The UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is consistently ranked among the finest in the country. In 2004, U.S. News & World Report ranked the department #2 nationally for rehabilitation care and ranked #1 in the nation for NIH research funding.
	Mika Sinanan, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Sinanan received an M.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed his residency in general surgery at the University of Washington. In 1990, Dr. Sinanan recognized the potential for laparoscopic surgery within general surgery and developed the first laparoscopic procedures used at UWMC. He began a carefully organized program, collaborating actively with other members of the division and the larger UWMC community to teach laparoscopic skills. He spearheaded the development of the earliest accreditation documents for laparoscopic procedures at the medical center. Sinanan has developed an educational and training program for residents teaching advanced videoendoscopic techniques. He has coordinated a series of practical courses in advanced videoendoscopic skills for practicing surgeons, implementing training procedures and materials, and established a benchmark and resident credentialing programs. Sinanan has worked actively to develop an explicit didactic program for UW residents. His current efforts include the creation of a multi-disciplinary surgical simulation program and the development of a Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Training Protocol.
	Nicholas Vedder, M.D. Professor of Surgery and Chief of Plastic Surgery Joint Professor, Orthopaedics, School of Medicine, University of Washington Vedder is known for his expertise in hand surgery and in reconstructive microsurgery. His clinical interests also include general plastic and reconstructive surgery. He sees patients at the Harborview Medical Center (HMC) Burn/Plastic Surgery Clinic, the HMC Hand Surgery Clinic and the Bone and Joint Center at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt. Vedder completed his medical degree at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He first came to the UW as a general surgery resident, followed by a trauma research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He was a plastic surgery resident at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital before returning to the UW for a one-year fellowship in hand surgery in the Department of Orthopaedics. He joined the faculty in 1990. Vedder is a research pioneer in the area of new approaches to the treatment of ischemic diseases that impact reconstructive surgery, as well as burns, shock, heart attack, and stroke. He is an expert in the use of Hirudo medicinalis (medicinal leeches) in saving body parts and healing wounds.