Since the pandemic started, faculty from the UW Pediatrics Emergency Medicine division have had few opportunities to get together outside of work. Many personal and professional milestones occurred over those years that faculty could not gather and acknowledge.
The division used the annual Faculty Recognition Funds allocated from UW Pediatrics and had a group dinner at a downtown restaurant last Thursday evening.
The celebration dinner had a great turnout, with almost all the division's faculty present (and many partners) except those who were kindly working in the emergency department at the time. Colleagues provided great feedback about how restorative it was to spend time outside the hospital and catch up with one another.