Faculty Friday: Nick Johnson
In March, Dr. Nick Johnson (above left), a physician in the Emergency Department, Medical Intensive Care Unit and Neurocritical Care Service at Harborview Medical Center, contributed an article to Prevention describing What Life Is Like Inside a Seattle Emergency Department During COVID-19. We caught up with Dr. Johnson to learn what he and colleagues have [...]
Spotlight: COVID Student Service Corps
At the University of Washington School of Medicine, student service learning never stops—even during a global pandemic. Under “normal” circumstances, more than 500 medical students regularly staff some 50 healthcare projects that serve thousands across Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. These clinical projects—which encompass advocacy, health education, and mentorship—form the primary pillars of community engagement [...]
Recognize Nurses at UW for Nurses Month!
When, on April 29, Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued a proclamation recognizing May as Nurses Month in Washington, he added to a growing worldwide chorus of recognition and praise for nurses and the critical role they play in our healthcare system and in combating COVID-19. “Every nurse everywhere should take enormous pride in our profession. [...]
Faculty Friday: Seth Cohen
When Dr. Seth Cohen calls UW Medicine’s fight against COVID-19 a “team sport,” he does so with a world champion’s conviction. A gold medalist with the US National Team at the 1999 Ultimate Frisbee World Championships while in college, Cohen now serves as Medical Director for Infection Prevention at UWMC-Northwest as well as chief of [...]
Spotlight: Together UW
Back in March, Dr. Seth Cohen, the medical director of Infection Prevention & Employee Health and clinic chief of Infectious Disease & Travel Medicine at UWMC Northwest, approached the UW School of Medicine with an idea: to create a project to highlight the phenomenal work done by the UW Medicine family in the face of [...]
Meditations for Moving by Danny Arguetty
The next time you go out in nature—whether that’s a walk in the woods or a wheel around your neighborhood—listen to any one of the following five “on-the-move” meditations by Danny Arguetty, manager of the Mindfulness Program at UW Recreation, to access and explore the capacity for calm, centeredness, and reflection we all carry within. [...]
Faculty Friday: Jane Lee
“A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions,” wrote social activist Dorothy Day. For Jane Lee, an assistant professor at the UW School of Social Work, words never rang more true. Born in Los Angeles after her parents had emigrated from South Korea, Lee took naturally to life in the [...]
Donate Blood in the Seattle Area
Even in the best of times, the need for donated blood is constant. Now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, is an especially vital time to step up to help the American Red Cross provide lifesaving blood. Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Bloodworks Northwest are putting out the call for people who [...]
Faculty Friday: Mira Green
“The dead do tell tales at Vesuvius.” So read the cover text of the May 1984 edition of National Geographic that captured Mira Green’s imagination and set the trajectory for her own life’s story. Green, who is a full time lecturer at the University of Washington, recalls thumbing through the issue and its depictions of [...]
UW Poetry Café: Poet Spotlight
Last week, we put out the call for your favorite poems and original compositions—part of our virtual Poetry Café in honor of National Poetry Month in April. Check out our various poem prompts here. From re-writing UW’s college yell to setting down a few lines about a favorite place that inspires you, we guarantee there’s [...]
Socks as comedic coping strategy during COVID-19
“Desperate times call for high fashion.” That’s the tagline atop @covidsocks, an Instagram page run by Katie Hammond, a nurse at Harborview Medical Center. The account features pictures of colorful, often zany socks worn by nursing staff across UW Medicine as well as photo submissions from medical professionals across the country who Hammond knows from [...]
Join our virtual Poetry Café for Poetry Month
In this time of uncertainty and great concern, we can rely on poems to offer wisdom, uplifting ideas, and language that prompts reflection that can help us slow down and center mentally, emotionally, spiritually. Since launching in April 1996, National Poetry Month has given people an annual occasion to celebrate the importance of poets and [...]