Monthly Newsletter | April 2024

Two DHM Faculty Recognized for Prestigious UCSF Awards!

Andy Lai was selected as a member of the Council of Master Clinicians.

"Andy is the 'doctor's doctor'" — the person in our group who receives the most unsolicited letters of gratitude from patients, the one who our interprofessional colleagues think of as representing the best of hospital medicine, and the one that we would send our loved ones to for care."

Lauren Linett received an Exceptional Physician Award.

"Dr. Linett exemplifies every one of the UCSF PRIDE values and stands out amongst her many outstanding leaders and peers as an individual who has made an enormous difference at UCSF through her character, integrity, and excellence. Her efforts over the past 2 years in particular helped demonstrate the value of UCSF to St. Mary's Medical Center and paved the way for UCSF Health to successfully move ahead with the proposed acquisition of St. Mary's Medical Center."

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Two DHM faculty were awarded 2024 Innovations in Medical Education Funding from the Academy of Medical Educators.

Avromi Kanal for developing a curriculum to support self-directed learning through case tracking for internal medicine residents.

Carmen Cobb-Walch for a project on better integrating with low and middle income countries to help inform global health curriculum. 

Leo Liu recently gave grand rounds at BCHO on "How does ChatGPT work, and what does it mean for medicine."

Leo was also a panelist on Santa Cruz community TV/Public Libraries, discussing "Revolutionizing Health: Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Health."

Tim Judson was appointed chief clinical and innovation officer for Canopy Health.

Charumathi Raghu Subramanian and Raman Khanna were coauthors on a commentary in JAMA Network Open, regarding enhancing health care communications with the help of Large Language Models.

Tim Judson was lead author on a perspective piece recently published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine titled "Hospitalists outside the hospital: Preparing for new settings of care delivery."

Smitha Ganeshan and Michelle Mourad were co-authors on a new study recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research which evaluated the implementation of an EHR-based automated self-rescheduling tool to improve patient access.

Anne Ritchie and colleagues published a New Wave article in Medical Teacher showcasing the UCSF Residency Well-being Elective and highlighting the importance of resident-led work to support well-being endeavors.

Sachin Shah (formerly of DHM), Margaret Fang, and colleagues published a paper in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes describing how anticoagulant benefits in atrial fibrillation are overestimated when life-expectancy is low.

Logan Pierce, James Harrison, and Saj Patel published a description of a novel method of calculating length of stay (LOS) that is provider‐based, instead of patient‐based. This LOS calculation is used in the DHM Individual Provider Dashboard.

Nicole Curatola, Priya Prasad, Brieze Bell, Margaret Fang, and Akshar Rambachan were coauthors of a manuscript published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine on their retrospective study examining equitable administration of opioids at end-of-life for patients with limited English proficiency.

Rosemary Yau

"I just want to add my two cents about Rosemary Yau since we are in performance eval time — she is such a fabulous supervisor and I feel so lucky to be supervised by her! I see how many things she's involved in at work, and yet she always shows up fully present with me in our check-ins and she makes herself available if I need anything at work or if I'm stumped by a work issue — she really is always there to support me."

- Martha Ockenfels-Martinez