
Contacts & Staff
Our team manages media relations for UW Medicine, including the University of Washington School of Medicine.
We respond to journalists’ requests for interviews with topic experts and spokespersons, background information, fact-checking, patient-condition reports, records requests, filming access, official statements and disaster communications.
We handle media requests for all UW Medicine entities: the UW School of Medicine and its research centers and education programs, Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center (Montlake and Northwest campuses), Airlift Northwest, UW Medicine Primary Care and UW Physicians.
- Reach us via email: mediarelations@uw.edu.
- See our Practices & Policies page for embargo information and guidance on referring to our faculty members.
- X: @uwmnewsroom | Bluesky: @uwmnewsroom.bsky.social
- If you are a patient calling with a clinical question, please visit uwmedicine.org or call the UW Medicine Contact Center at 206-520-5000.
- The UW News Office manages media relations for other schools and institutes at the University of Washington. Reach them at 206-543-2580.
Staff

Susan Gregg, Media Relations director
Email:sghanson@uw.eduPhone:206-616-6730Beats:crisis communications, UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, emergency medicine, neurosurgery, pediatrics, orthopedics and sports medicine, psychiatry, trauma and burns, Airlift Northwest

Position to be filled
Email:mediarelations@uw.eduBeats:Anesthesiology and pain medicine, family medicine, rehabilitation medicine, biomedical informatics, global health

Brian Donohue
Email:bdonohue@uw.eduPhone:206-457-9182Beats:bioethics, cardiology, dermatology, hematology, nephrology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, radiation oncology, radiology, transplantation, Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute

Leila Gray
Email:leilag@uw.eduPhone:206-685-0381Beats:biological structure, biochemistry, environmental & occupational health, genomics, immunology, protein design, lab medicine & pathology, genetics, infectious diseases, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology & biophysics, precision medicine

Vishva Nalamalapu
Email:vnala@uw.eduBeats:gastrointestinal medicine, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine
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Tim Griffis
Email:tgriffis@uw.eduPhone:206-616-0703