Dedra Buchwald came to the UW as a pioneer in chronic fatigue research. Her passion for cross-cultural work soon led her to explore Native American health issues. Today she directs the Center for...
Gary Goldbaum was motivated to pursue healthcare as a career when he learned that his father, as a young man, had been hospitalized for more than a year with tuberculosis.
Today Goldbaum, a UW...
Dr. Stu Farber, a founder of UW Medicine's palliative care service who helped patients and their families prepare for life’s end, died Friday at age 67. He had battled acute myelogenous leukemia....
Since 1999, Dr. Jeffrey Duchin has managed the Public Health Seattle & King County's response to communicable disease and immunization for.
Duchin is a UW professor of medicine and adjunct...
The past decade has been a tumultuous story for Eric Seitz. Homeless and addicted to heroin, he found himself at Harborview Medical Center with a disease that nearly killed him. The experience also...
The sky is mostly gray, but the mood in the alley feels festive. Opposite smelly, giant trash dumpsters are three men, who sit serenely, wearing barber’s capes while their hair is combed and buzzed...
UW Medicine nurse Mary Larson provides care for people at Harborview Medical Center's Pioneer Square Clinic. Many patients there have experienced homelessness.
Outside of work, Larson's artistry...
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Dr. Barak Gaster, an internist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, had spent three years working with specialists in geriatrics, neurology, palliative care and psychiatry to come up...