Topic: Management of Confusing Results & Outpatient Precourse Chair

Day & Time: Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 10:00am – 11:00am

Topic: Women’s Health
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 11:45am – 12:30pm

Dr. Caitlin J. Allen graduated from University of Washington Medical School in 2013. Attended University of Wisconsin Primary Care Track in Madison, Wisconsin. Returned to Washington state to be close to family and enjoy the Inland Pacific Northwest in Spokane Washington. After working in outpatient/primary care internal medicine and college faculty at University of Washington Spokane, joined the Internal Medicine Residency Spokane as a full time faculty in 2020. Created and initiated Spokane’s first primary care track also one of the very few community based tracks on the West Coast. Enjoys seeing patients and teaching Women’s Health (Menopause Society Certification in 2023), Population health, and complex primary care to residents and students.

Topic: Dermatology Pearls for Primary Care
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 3:00pm – 3:45pm

Kendra Bergstrom, M.D., is a board-certified dermatologist at UW Medical Center’s Roosevelt Dermatology Clinic. Dr. Bergstrom has been named one of Seattle Magazine’s Top Doctors.

Dr. Bergstrom feels that as the largest organ in our body our skin is a huge part of how we interact with the world. As a result, skin disease can have a huge impact on our day-to-day life.

Dr. Bergstrom earned her M.D. at Stanford University. She is an author of “100 Questions and Answers about Psoriasis” and “Your Questions, Expert Answers about Hidradenitis Suppurativa,” available in several languages both in print and online.

Dr. Bergstrom has clinical expertise in skin cancer detection, psoriasis, acne, skin cancer removal, cosmetic dermatology and many other corrective and aesthetic procedures and treatments.

Topic: Interface of Acute Care and Critical Care
Day & Time: Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:00pm

Inpatient Precourse Chair

Topic: Infectious Disease Updates
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 9:15am – 10:00am

Dr. Chloe Bryson-Cahn is an infectious diseases physician. She received her medical degree at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and went on to do her internal medicine and chief residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is Los Angeles, California. She did fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Washington and subsequently joined faculty at UW Medicine in 2018. Currently Dr. Bryson-Cahn does clinical infectious diseases work at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA where she serves also as the Medical Director for Antimicrobial Stewardship, Associate Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control as well as the Co-Medical Director of the UW Center for Stewardship in Medicine. Her work focuses on teaching rational antimicrobial prescribing and empowering stewardship and infection prevention work in both academic and rural/critical access hospitals.

Topic: Long Covid & Refugee Healthcare Clinic
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 10:45am – 11:30am & 1:45m – 2:45pm

Dr. Chopra is an Internist and faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a lead physicianat the University of Washington Long Covid Clinic. She is Co-I for the AHRQ Long Covid grant for UW Medicine and Chairs the ACP Long Covid Interest Group. She is Co-Chair of the Wa ACP primary care and International Medical Graduate councils. Dr. Chopra is the Medical Director of Northwest Health and Wellness.

Topic: Palliative Care Updates Inpatient
Day & Time: Thursday, Nov 7, 2024 | 9:00am – 10:00am

Topic: Narrative Medicine Workshop
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am

Dr. Gary Forbes – I’m a primary care physician who has worked in a small rural community for 25 years. A colleague encouraged me to become a narrative medicine facilitator before I had much notion of the subject. I have found great joy in learning how to better hear and appreciate the experiences of patients and colleagues, and create a welcoming space to share these stories.

Topic: Advocacy Updates
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am

Dr. Stephanie Fosback completed her general internal medicine training at the University of Washington in June 2009 and joined Palouse Medical/Pullman Regional Hospital shortly afterward. She loves practicing in Pullman where she can care for this wonderful patient population in a comprehensive and complete way. Dr. Fosback is also proud to be a part of behavioral health integrative care working with Dr. Leslie Robison PhD to help patients live better. She and Dr. Robison initiated this practice together in 2015 and are proud of the positive impact it has had on patient care.

Since completing residency in 2009, Stephanie has been dedicated to teaching medical students through the University of Washington. She is proud to be a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.

Stephanie Fosback has been repeatedly recognized for her dedication to her patients and for teaching medical students throughout her career. In medical school, she was awarded the Steven L. Rudnick Award in recognition of the support she provided her peers and graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. During her residency at the University of Washington, her dedication to her patients earned her the Tina Juul-Dam Primary Care Award in 2009. In recognition for her excellence in teaching she was recognized with the WWAMI Distinguished Teacher Award in 2013. In 2015 she received the Washington State ACP Golden Apple Teaching Award. In 2017 she was awarded the Washington Chapter ACP Internist of the Year Award, as well as the Richard M Tucker WWAMI Faculty Excellence in Teaching Lifetime Award. She was the youngest person ever to receive this distinguished award from the University of Washington having received four separate teaching awards prior to this. In 2019 she was awarded the “Pullman Regional Hospital Physician Excellence Award”.

Topic: Inpatient Precourse Chair –  Complex Home Care & Refugee Healthcare Clinic
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am & 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Topic: Refugee Healthcare Clinic
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Mehr Grewal is the Founder and Director of Worth A Shot, a youth-led organization focused on Global Health and bridging healthcare disparities through improving access, increasing healthcare literacy and community engagement.

Topic: Health at Every Size
Day & Time: Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 9:00am – 10:00am

Topic: Rufugee Healthcare Clinic
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Dr. Matt Hansen serves at the Program Director for the Washington State University, Internal Medicine residency program. His interests include rural GME, caring for underserved populations, health equity and medical outreach.

Topic: Annual Meeting Chair, Rufugee Healthcare Clinic
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Dr. Douglas Hayes is an Internal Medicine hospitalist with a love of teaching medical students and residents. He is part of the core faculty for Skagit Regional Health Internal Medicine Residency in Mount Vernon, WA and a clinical assistant professor for Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences in Yakima, WA. He is bilingual in Spanish and has a passion for working with rural and underserved populations as well as enjoys advocacy work to improve care and access for diverse populations.

Topic: Narrative Medicine Workshop
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am

Dr. Carrie A Horwitch is a board certified internal medicine physician. Dr Horwitch graduated from University of Arizona, College of Medicine. She completed her Master of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley. She has worked as an outpatient primary care physician for over 30 years She has presented on multiple different topics such as HIV care, , medical ethics and professionalism, team based care, medical improve and laughter. She is the current Vice-President of WSMA Foundation and is a member of the board of trustees for WSMA. She is the President-elect of the Washington State Public Health Association. She is a certified laughter leader through the World Laughter Tour since 2007 and has led several workshops nationally and internationally on the health benefits of laughter and use of medical improve to improve communication and team-building. She is the author of: Death of My Uterus and Other Humorous Events. Her business is The Laugh Doctor LLC.

Topic: Writing Patient-Centered Notes in a Time of Open Health Records
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Dr. Sara Jackson is a primary care general internist at Harborview Medical Center, and Associate Medical Director of the Ambulatory Clinics at Harborview. She was involved in the original OpenNotes study at UW/Harborview in 2010 and is co-editor with Dr. Chris Wong of a book about how to write patient centered notes.

Topic: Cardiology Updates
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 8:45am – 9:30am

Dr. Kavita Betkerur Khaira, MD is a health care provider primarily located in Seattle, WA. She has 10 years of experience. Her specialties include Other Specialty, Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine.

Topic: Opioid Updates
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 11:00am – 11:45am

Jared Klein, MD, MPH, is medical director of Pioneer Square Clinic and the Downtown Programs at Harborview and an attending physician in the Adult Medicine Clinic. He is an Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine at UW School of Medicine. Dr. Klein enjoys working with patients to help them understand and improve their health. His role is to guide patients through the complexities of the healthcare system. Dr. Klein’s clinical and research interests include treatment of substance use disorders, care of persons experiencing homelessness, management of chronic diseases and disease prevention.

Topic: Fellowship Workshop & Drug Updates
Day & Time: Saturday, Nov 9, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am & 3:45pm – 4:30pm

Christopher Knight, MD, FACP, is a board certified physician and a UW professor of General Internal Medicine. He is associate clerkship director for UW Internal Medicine students and associate program director for Internal Medicine residents. He is listed in The Best Doctors of America and is a Seattle Metropolitan magazine Best Doctor.
Dr. Knight values shared decision-making with well-informed patients. His goal is to help patients make complex medical decisions by framing the decision in simple terms and looking at it through the lens of their values and priorities.
Dr. Knight earned his M.D. at the UW. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, and Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine.

Topic: Focusing on ADHD in Primary Care
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 3:00pm – 3:50pm

Dr. Markman received his Doctor of Medicine and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Michigan. He completed his psychiatry residency training at the University of Washington in 2013.

Dr. Markman is an associate professor at the University of Washington and served as an associate training director for the Psychiatry Residency Training Program for six years. He currently serves as the associate dean for Veteran Affairs for the UW School of Medicine. His areas of educational research, interest, and expertise are in educational teaching skills, leadership development, and mentoring in medical training.

Dr. Markman enjoys home improvement projects, reading, and losing at cards. He and his husband have an ongoing endeavor trying to get their moderately behaved dog to become a well-behaved dog.

Outpatient Precourse Chair

Mathini Mohanachandran, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician with special medical interest in preventive medicine and diabetes management

Outpatient Precourse Chair

Dr. Autumn Moser, MD is an Internist in Everett, WA and has 24 years experience. They graduated from Case Western Reserve University. They currently practice at Practice and are affiliated with Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Their office is not accepting new patients. Dr. Moser is board certified in Internal Medicine and accepts multiple insurance plans.

Topic: Conference Chair – Obesity Update
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am

Dr. Munshi’s practice covers all areas of internal medicine including preventive care, chronic disease management, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, metabolic syndrome and obesity.

Dr. Munshi enjoys travelling, listening to music, reading, hiking and spending time with her family.

Topic: Neurology Updates
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 11:30am – 12:15pm

Natalia Murinova, M.D., M.H.A., is a board certified physician, director of the UW Medicine Headache Center and a UW associate professor of Neurology. She also sees patients at the Headache Clinic at UWMC-Roosevelt and the Neurology Clinic at Eastside Specialty Center. She has been listed in The Best Doctors in Seattle.

Dr. Murinova strives to create active partnerships with her patients to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Dr. Murinova earned her M.D. from the University of Comenius, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) and her M.H.A. at the UW. She is board certified in both Neurology and Headache Medicine. Her clinical research interests include headache treatment, headache prevention, complementary medicine and patient self-management. Her research interests include new headache treatments, treatment outcomes and information technology in headache medicine.

Topic: The Business Side of Inpatient Medicine
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am 

Topic: Osteoporosis
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 8:28am – 9:15am

Dr. Radhika Narla is an Associate Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Clinician Scholar at University of Washington (UW). She practices at the Veterans Administration (VA) in Seattle assessing Veterans for bone loss and risk factors for falls across Puget Sound and serves as the Co-Director of their Hospital and Specialty Medicine Osteoporosis Clinic. Her focus area is osteoporosis in men, sex steroids and bone as well as effective treatment and monitoring of skeletal health. In addition, she is an educator, serving as one of the Associate Program Directors of the UW Internal Medicine Residency Program, helping support subspecialty medicine experiences for trainees.

Topic: Writing Patient-Centered Notes in a Time of Open Health Records
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9th, 2024 | 1:45PM – 2:45PM

Kim O’Connor, M.D., is a board certified physician at the General Internal Medicine Clinic at UWMC-Roosevelt and a UW associate professor of General Internal Medicine and Oncology.

Dr. O’Connor provides comprehensive primary care to a diverse adult patient population. She believes that effective communication between physicians and their patients is essential to providing quality medical care. Successful interactions require active listening, empathy and negotiation.

Dr. O’Connor earned her M.D. at the UW. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on primary care topics including but not limited to: dermatologic issues, female sexual dysfunction, osteoporosis, communication skills and fatigue. Additional interests include women’s health, mental health issues, medical education and wellness.

Topic: How to Become Better at Diagnosis
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 4:20pm – 5:22pm

Dr. Paauw graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed a Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Washington and one year as Chief Resident at Harborview Medical Center. He has been on the faculty at the University of Washington Medical School since 1989. He is currently a Professor of Medicine and Rathmann Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Patient-centered Clinical Education. Dr. Paauw is a primary care internist who served as Medicine clerkship director for the medicine clerkship for the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington from 1991-2022. He cares for patients in general internal medicine clinic, as well as HIV clinic and in the extrapulmonary sarcoidosis clinic he founded. He received the AAMC/AOA Distinguished Teacher award in 2001. He was elected Master of the American College of Physicians in 2008, and in 2015 received the ACP Centennial Legacy award for Washington Chapter ACP, and in 2020 the Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award from ACP.

Topic: Integrative Medicine for Chronic Medical Conditions
Day & Time: Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:00pm

Topic: John Vassall Annual Lecture for Justice & Equity in Medicine: Health Equity for Unhoused Patients
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Simha Reddy, MD is a clinical associate professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and serves as the medical director for VA Puget Sound’s Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team program, working to connect veterans suffering from homelessness to the care they need. He also serves on the Implementation Board of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority.

Topic: Updates in Hospital Medicine
Day & Time: Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 8:00am – 9:00am

Topic: Updates in Perioperative Medicine
Day & Time: Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 10:00am – 11:00am

Dr. Shen has been practicing perioperative medicine in the outpatient and inpatient settings since 2004, collaborating closely with surgeons, anesthesia and internists in the streamlined, high-value care of medically complex patients undergoing high-risk surgery.

Topic: Cannabis, Complex Home Care & Abstract Chair
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am ; Saturday, November 9th, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am

Topic: Fatty Liver Disease
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9th, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am

Topic: Beyond Metformin: How to Choose the Next Treatment for Diabetes
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 9:30AM – 10:15AM

Savitha Subramanian, MBBS is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition and the Medical Director of the UW Lipid Clinic. She trained in endocrinology at Washington University in St. Louis and a lipid research fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle WA. She has a special interest in caring for individuals with genetic lipid disorders, partial lipodystrophy and complex diabetes. She developed protocols for improved diabetes management and diabetes technology use in UW Medicine primary care and is an active contributor to the UW Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) program that enhances cardiometabolic health in under-served communities. Dr. Subramanian has served on the Lipid Management Guideline task force of The Endocrine Society and is a current member American Board of Internal Medicine’s Endocrinology Examination Approval Committee. She is involved in many teaching activities for trainees and clinicians in practice and chairs the Primary Care CME courses in Diabetes and Endocrinology for the University of Washington. She works closely with medical students, residents, Endocrine and Cardiology fellows to nurture future cardiometabolic specialists. In 2022, she received the UW CARES award in recognition of exemplary patient care.

Topic: Refugee Healthcare Clinic
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9th, 2024 | 1:45PM – 2:45PM

Dr. Elizabeth Westling is a primary care physician and a member of the outpatient core faculty at the Washington State University Internal Medicine Residency. As the site director for a collaborative partnership between the residency and Lahai Health, a free clinic serving uninsured and underinsured patients, Dr. Westling is committed to building community partnerships. Her focus is on creating meaningful clinical experiences for residents that not only meet critical healthcare needs in the Everett area but also emphasize the responsibility of physicians in promoting health equity within their community.

Topic: Continuous Glucose Monitoring Workshop
Day & Time: Saturday, November 9th, 2024 | 1:45PM – 2:45PM

Carol H. Wysham, MD, FACP, FACE is a clinical endocrinologist at Multicare/Rockwood Clinic and Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine in Spokane, Washington. Dr. Wysham chaired the Professional Practice Committee of the American Diabetes Association in 2011-2012 and served as co-chair and Chair of the Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society from 2014 – 2016. She has more than 50 publications and over 30 years of clinical research experience, including site principal investigator on the SWITCH, ACCORD, TECOS, EMPA-REG, LEADER, EXCEL and CANVAS Trials. Dr. Wysham is on the Council of the Endocrine Society, is a member of the American Diabetes Association and a Fellow of both the American College of Endocrinology and the American College of Physicians.

Topic: Sports Medicine Workshop
Day & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024 | 7:15am – 8:15am 

My goal as a sports medicine physician is to help individuals return safely and quickly to the activities they love. Patients desire and deserve respectful and effective communication, doctor availability and clinical excellence. Dr. Yen was selected by Seattle Magazine as a Top Doctor in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022.

Topic: PSA Screening
Day & Time: Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 8:00am – 9:00am