Eric

LaMotte

MD

biography

Dr. LaMotte is a board-certified internist working as a hospital-based physician at UWMC – Montlake, with the title of clinical assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He feels privileged to work with hospitalized patients, who are often experiencing a critical and stressful event in their lives and facing important decisions about their medical care. He is a medical educator with an interest in both undergraduate and graduate medical education. Teaching interests include diagnostic reasoning and the use of technology in education.

Outside of the hospital, Dr. LaMotte enjoys powerlifting, sailing, and reading.

Education & Training

• MD, University of California, San Francisco, CA (2013)
• Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2013–2016)

Honors

• UW Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine Stern Teaching Award (2019)
• ACP Doctors' Dilemma National Team Competition, 3rd Place (2015)
• Phi Beta Kappa (2009)
• George H. Acheson and Grass Foundation Prize in Neuroscience (2009)

publication highlights

• Lessing JN, LaMotte ED, Moshiri AS, Mark NM. Perifollicular hemorrhage with corkscrew hair due to scurvy. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 2015;91;1082 7019–20.
• Ikuta K, Roychoudhury P, Xie H, Mcclurkan CL, Walkiewicz M, Makhsous N, Huang ML, Beru Y, Alam M, Shepherd A, LaMotte ED, Patel K, Morris A, Coruh B, Yu L, Bhattacharya R, Cheng R, Walter RB, Limaye AP, Lockwood CM, Holland SM, Rakita RM, Koelle DM, Greninger AL. Trillions and Trillions: Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Hepatitis in an Immunocompetent Adult. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Nov 5;6(11).