August 19, 2004
Health Sciences News Briefs
Heart Walk
UW Medicine’s Regional Heart Center is a primary sponsor of the Heart Walk, organized by the American Heart Association and set for Saturday, Oct. 9, at Quest Field, the Seahawks stadium. Participants can join UW Medicine teams or start teams of their own as team captains. The goal this year is to have 1,000 walkers on 100 teams supporting UW Medicine. Walkers from other UW units are welcome to join in. For more information or team captain materials, contact Julie Furlong at 206-598-8826 or jafb@u.washington.edu
Elected to AHA Board
Kathleen Sellick, executive director of UW Medical Center, has been elected to the American Hospital Association’s Board of Trustees for a three-year term beginning in January. She joins the board as chair of the AHA’s Regional Policy Board 9, and is the first woman elected to an AHA regional chair position. She has been a delegate to the Section for Metropolitan Hospitals.
NIH business grants
The Washington Technology Center is hosting a workshop for technology companies to explore funding available through two programs at the National Institutes of Health: the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer program. Several officials from NIH will make presentations. The all-day workshop is Thursday, Oct. 7, at the Seattle Hilton. The cost is $125 for registration before Sept. 10. For more information, see the Web site at http://www.watechcenter.org
Former resident’s book
Former UW medical resident Dr. Emily Transue’s book, On Call: A Doctor’s Days and Nights in Residency, is out this month from St. Martin’s Press. Transue will read from the book and sign copies at 7 p.m., Monday, Aug. 23, at the U District University Book Store. The book is a collection of Transue’s writings from her three years of residency. An excerpt appears in this month’s issue of Self magazine. Transue received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University and her medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School. She completed her residency in July 2000. She is now an internal medicine physician at the Polyclinic in Seattle.
Send-off rally
A send-off rally for a team of 13 bicyclists heading for Cape Canaveral, Fla., to draw attention to the importance of donating blood, bone marrow and organs will be held at 9 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 25, at the “giraffe” entrance to Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center. Locally, the event is organized by the Puget Sound Blood Center. All are welcome to attend and cheer the riders as they depart.
Fitness and cancer
In Cancer Fitness: Exercise Programs for Patients and Survivors (Fireside Book by Simon & Schuster), Dr. Anna L. Schwartz, UW associate professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems, makes a convincing argument for boosting activity levels once a cancer diagnosis has been made. The book, with a foreword by cyclist Lance Armstrong, is based on Schwartz’ research and work with clinical patients, as well as her personal experience as a survivor of non-Hodgkins lymphoma early in her professional career.
Faculty contribute to book
Several UW faculty members affiliated with the International Health Program in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine are authors of essays included in the volume Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health, published by South End Press of Cambridge, Mass. For more on the book, see the site at http://www.southendpress.org/books/
