UW News

July 20, 2006

Health Sciences News Briefs

Cultural proficiency center gets director


Amen Tsegai has been named project director for the Center for Cultural Proficiency in Medical Education, a new National Institutes of Health-funded initiative to increase cultural competency training of medical students, residents and faculty. The new program operates within the School of Medicine’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the UW site will also be a coordinating center for the national program. Tsegai has worked in the Office of Multicultural Affairs for the past four years.


Rossow claims Young Investigator Award


Charles “Rick” Rossow, senior fellow in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, has won the 2006 Young Investigator Award from the North American Section of the International Society for Heart Research.

The award recognizes outstanding research in the field of cardiovascular science. Rossow works in the lab of Luis Fernando Santana, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics.

He studies the signaling pathways that regulate the function of voltage-gated sodium ion channels in heart muscle cells.