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Bessie A.
Young

MD, MPH, FACP, FASN

she/her

Faculty

Pinned

Academic

Professor of Medicine

Professional

Vice Dean, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Office of Health Care Equity, UW Medicine

Medical Director, Office of Health Care Equity, UW Medicine

Director, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Center for Transformational Research

National Responsibilities

Dean's Standing Committee on Minority Faculty Affairs
2011-present

NIH-NIDDK Network of Minority Research Investigators (NMRI) Oversight Committee
2004-present

Editorial Board, Current Diabetes Reviews
2004-present

Editorial Board, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Editorial Board, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Paul Beeson Award, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
2023

Seattle Top Docs, Seattle Met Magazine
2017

Dialysis Advisory Group, American Society of Nephrology
2010-2013

UW Office of Multicultural Affairs, Charlie Garcia Service Award
2007

Women of Color, Excellence in Science
2006

National Association of Minority Medical Educators (NAMME) Award
2005

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Community Action Award
2004

Robert Wood Johnson Harold Amos Faculty Development Fellowship
2002-2006

American Diabetes Association Career Development Award
2001-2006

Community Service Award, University of Washington School of Medicine
2000

Masters in Public Health, Epidemiology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
2001

General Internal Medicine Fellow, HSRD
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Seattle, WA
2001

Nephrology Fellowship
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
1994

Chief Medical Resident
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
1990

Medicine Residency
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
1990

Medical School
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
1987

Home hemodialysis: New technologies, survival, cardiac arrest, and quality of life
Racial and ethnic differences: Dialysis outcomes, diabetes, CKD
Diabetic nephropathy: Racial and ethnic differences in access to care, quality of care, progression of care, progression/survival, and other outcomes
Glomerulonephritis: Mechanisms, outcomes, predictors of progression