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DIVERSITY,
EQUITY,
AND INCLUSION
In addition to the rich resources available from the Office of Healthcare Equity (OHCE) website, this page highlights events, teaching tools, and School of Medicine initiatives promoting equity and justice at UW School of Medicine and UW Medicine.
DIVERSITY,
EQUITY,
AND INCLUSION
RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
MISSION FORWARD: ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS
Mission Forward is a new initiative to address capacity and staffing constraints, restore long-term financial stability and chart our future path to ensure UW Medicine can continue providing high-quality, equitable patient care to meet the needs of our community. Read answers to frequently asked questions about this initiative.
JAY SHENDURE RECEIVES INVENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD / 2022
Jay Shendure, MD, PhD, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, professor of Genome Sciences in the UW School of Medicine, director of the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing and scientific director of the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, was awarded the UW Medicine Inventor of the Year 2022 award.
UW MEDICINE RECOGNIZED FOR WEBMD ELITE AWARD / 2022
UW Medicine was recognized among 27 health systems for the 2022 WebMD Choice Awards. These awards are given to health systems that patients and physicians preferred 2 to 1 over local competitors in at least one specialty area. Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (now Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) and UW Medicine received three awards.
COVID-19 UPDATES
Please visit the UW Medicine Huddle website for daily updates about the UW Medicine COVID-19 response and other communications including mask policies, vaccination information, and inpatient and community data. Updates will be provided at the UW Medicine Huddle page in addition to the CDC and King County Public Health websites.
