Wash. Court of Appeals published opinion — 845926.pdf

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2 Referring to Dr. Kris Moe, the Department chief at HMC at the time.

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a presentation at our fall faculty meeting . . . and talked about the different
elements of what we were concerned about.
....
I asked to present in the morning, but it was pushed to late in the day. I
wanted Mark Whipple to present the work because I knew it would be
“safe” coming from his mouth rather than mine. He was out of town that
day. I did not feel safe at the time, and when discussed further with Dr.
Futran during the November 14, 2018 meeting, his response made it clear
that I had offended him and others.

That same month, in front of faculty, Dr. Litvack told the head of the academic

promotions committee that the promotion criteria was opaque and created opportunities

for bias and discrimination thus disadvantaging female physicians and other

underrepresented groups in the profession.

In October 2018, ESC Manager Rekha Matken e-mailed the ESC supervisor,

Kevin Kiemele, and Dr. Eugene Yang, the ESC medical director, about Dr. Litvack:

I think that things between her and the [medical assistants] are improving .
. . she wants to see sinus patients, which is part of general ENT but
sounds like the way it was presented to [the patient service specialist] is
that it should be a number one priority . . . [Dr. Litvack] should get all the
sinus patients first and then others.

Kiemele responded that while Dr. Litvack had input, “for her, it is first come first served

from that list . . . while [Dr. Ian Humphrey]’s practice is intentionally focused on rhinology

and sinus surgery, [Dr. Litvack]’s is focused on general ENT problems.” Dr. Yang