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About the Lecture Series
Health care is complex and dynamic. As a result, we are continuously searching for new ways to serve the needs of our students and patients in our region. Through a balance of tradition and innovation, and a commitment to improvement, we remain at the forefront of health and medical education. The Next Generation Medicine lecture series is an extension of this promise and was founded by the Health Partnership in 2017. The event is managed by the Next Generation Medicine Committee, a group of communications and events directors and managers, faculty and staff from UWSOM, GU and UW. The Committee handles all logistics for the lectures. Several of our healthcare partners in Spokane sponsor the lectures and have visibility at the events including Inland Northwest Behavioral Health, MultiCare, Providence Health Care, the Spokane County Medical Society, and the Spokane Regional Health District. As information about the next lecture is developed it will be added to this page.
Past Lectures and Webinars
View recordings of Next Generation Medicine events.
2025
Jun 24, 2025
Researchers and care providers are struggling to learn how to treat people who have used substances never intended for human consumption.
We're in the "era of synthetics," says Caleb Banta-Green, Ph.D., UW acting professor in psychiatry and behavioral health, and drug epidemiologist. He and Spokane provider Amy Burns, M.D., of Providence Psychiatry will discuss data, intervention, medication, and how the community can help.
2024
October 17, 2024
Nora Disis, MD, a physician-scientist at the UW School of Medicine, was the featured speaker for the Fall 2024 Next Generation Medicine lecture series in Spokane, WA. During her presentation, Dr. Disis shared the latest in her research to develop a breast cancer vaccine that teaches the body’s immune system to recognize and destroy breast cancer cells. Having dedicated her career to learning how the body fights cancer and to developing a breast cancer vaccine, Dr. Disis is confident that such vaccines will become a standard treatment for cancer within the next decade.
2023
Winter 2023 — Webinar
Diabetes Types 1 and 2: What You Need to Know
Irl B. Hirsch, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Diabetes Treatment and Teaching Chair, UW School of Medicine
Panelist: Dr. Carol Weisham, Endocrinologist
2022
Fall 2022 — Live Lecture
The Fentanyl Crisis: How to Keep Loved Ones Safe
Caleb Banta-Green, Ph.D., Acting Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences at the UW School of Medicine, Affiliate Professor at the UW School of Public Health
Panelists: Dr. Amy Burns, Psychiatry at Providence Sacred Heart, Misty Challinor, Director, Treatment Services, Spokane Regional Health District, and Dr. Caleb Holzer, Providence Chewelah Family Medicine Clinic, and Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Chewelah
Spring 2022 — Webinar
Kids and Concussions & Fall Prevention and Traumatic Brain Injury in Older Adults
Monica Vavilala, M.D., Director for the Harborview Injury Prevention Research Center (HIPRC), Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics
Kushang Patel, Ph.D., MPH, HIPRC Research Core Director, Research Associate Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Adjunct Professor in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
2021
Summer 2021 — Webinar
Stressed & Depressed: The Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health
Paula Nurius, Ph.D., Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Megan Kennedy, Director, UW Resilience Lab
Panelist: Dr. Amy Burns, Associate Program Director for the Psychiatry Residency program at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital in Spokane
Spring 2021 — Webinar
COVID-19 Vaccines & Variants: What You Need to Know to Help End the Pandemic
Vin Gupta, M.D., Affiliate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation
Winter 2021 — Webinar
Making Sense of the COVID-19 Vaccine
Deborah Fuller, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology, UW School of Medicine
Panelists: Dr. Gretchen LaSalle, Family Physician at MultiCare in Spokane and vaccine proponent, and Dr. Dan Getz, Chief Medical Officer for Providence Health Care in Spokane
2020
Fall 2020 — Webinar
COVID-19: Is There an End in Sight?
John Lynch, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, UW School of Medicine, and Head of the UW Medicine COVID-19 Response Team
Panelists: Christa Arguinchona, RN, Program Manager and Coordinator for the Providence Special Pathogens Unit in Spokane, and Dr. Bob Lutz, Health Officer for the Spokane Regional Health District
Spring 2020 — Webinar
Well-Being and Resilience During COVID-19
Ann Browning, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Well-Being, UW School of Medicine, and Founding Director, UW Resilience Lab
2019
Spring 2019 — Live Lecture
The Invisible Wounds of War
Christine Mac Donald, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
Fall 2019 — Live Lecture
Climate Change & Your Health
Kristie Ebi, Ph.D., Professor, Global Health, and Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
2018
Spring 2018 — Live Lecture
The Opioid Epidemic
David Tauben, M.D., Clinical Professor in the Dept. of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and Chief of Pain Medicine at the UW
Fall 2018 — Live Lecture
Dogs and the Science of Human Aging
Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology
2017
Fall 2017 — Live Lecture
Vaccines to End Cancer
Nora Disis, M.D., Associate Dean, Translational Health Science, Professor of Medicine
