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Because of your caring generosity, we’re making important advances to:

💛 Discover cures and better treatments for the diseases and conditions that affect human health

💛 Expand exceptional care for everyone in our community, regardless of income or ZIP code

💛 Train the future medical leaders our region needs

As our gift of thanks to you, read on to see what books our healthcare providers think you’ll love.

Book recommendations
from the experts

 

Cover for Together by Vivek H. Murthy

💛Together by Vivek Murthy

Recommended by:
Anne Browning, PhD
Associate Dean for Well-Being, UW School of Medicine
Founding Director, UW Resilience Lab
Affiliate Assistant Professor, UW College of Education
Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Global Brain Health Institute, UCSF

 

Cover for Can You Help Me? by Thomas Bird, MD

💛Can You Help Me?: Inside the Turbulent World of Huntington Disease by Thomas D. Bird, MD

Recommended by:
Bay Leslie-Mazwi, MD
Professor and Chair of Neurology
Warren and Jermaine Magnuson Endowed Chair in Medicine for Neurosciences
Co-Director Neurosciences Institute

Dr. Leslie-Mazwi writes, “Tom Bird is the father of Neurogenetics in the United States, and the man who started the first Neurogenetics Clinic in America here at the University of Washington. This was the book he wrote about the experience, and he presented it to me as an inscribed gift on my first day on the job as Chair. The book is a vivid reminder about the impact of these conditions on patients and families, the effort of many researchers and providers to get answers, and the promise we are ever closer to realizing of providing cures for them.”

 

Cover for The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

💛The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Recommended by:
Michael Shwartz, MD
Co-Director, UW Medicine Diabetes Institute
Robert H. Williams Endowed Chair in Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Dr. Schwartz writes, “This is a beautifully written, multi-generational epic that passionately conveys what it means to be human — and to make a life-long commitment to caring for others.”

 

Cover for So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

💛So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Recommended by:
The Office of Healthcare Equity (OHCE)

 

Cover of Englishtened Aging by Eric B. Larson, MD, and Joan DeClaire

💛Enlightened Aging: Building Resilience for a Long, Active Life by Eric B. Larson, MD, and Joan DeClaire

Recommended by:
The Office of Healthcare Equity (OHCE)

 

Cover of Enough: Because we can stop cervical cancer by Linda Eckert

💛Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer by Linda Eckert, MD

Dr. Eckert is a professor in the Women’s Health Division of the UW Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the gynecology director of the Harborview Sexual Assault Center and an adjunct professor in the Department of Global Health.

More Recommendations

💛 Check out a full list of recommendations from the OHCE

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