Monthly Newsletter | July 2024

Allison Bond and Omid Shah received Annual Internal Grant Program awards!

Allison Bond

Omid Shah

Project Mentor: Catherine Lau

Project Title: Building a Hospital-Based Learning System to Foster Infection Prevention Among Hospitalists

Description: This project will entail taking a multi-pronged approach to develop and implement interventions that target hospitalists and nurses on predominantly medicine floors/units to decrease CAUTI rates, while measuring the project’s effects on CAUTI rates via a DHM True North metric. I aim to redesign and optimize clinicians' workflow using CAUTI prevention as a test case that offers the opportunity to build a structure of infection prevention that will act as a scaffold for future prevention of other types of HAIs.

Project Mentor: Armond Esmaili

Project Title: Establishing a Preoperative Medical Optimization Clinic

Description: In collaboration with the UCSF Neurosurgery, we will be establishing a Preoperative Medical Optimization (PreMO) clinic for complex Neuro-spine patients. UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine is uniquely placed given its experience and expertise in perioperative medical management to provide this service. The first of this 2-year project will focus on building the PreMO clinic and establishing content for training of faculty in preoperative medical optimization. The second year will focus on expanding the established model to other specialties.

DHM CME Courses in Hawaii June 17-21

DHM held its sixth "Point of Care Ultrasound for the Hospitalist" CME course on June 17-18 in Hawaii. Faculty for the course included current and recent-past DHM Faculty: Trevor Jensen, Matt Yocum, and James Anstey — plus many from our partner institution Queens Hospital in Honolulu.

DHM held its third annual "Hospital Medicine – Evidence to Practice" CME course on June 19-21, which was organized by Brad Sharpe and featured lecturers from DHM and from Queens Hospital in Honolulu. Presenters for the course included Brad Sharpe, Brad Monash, Margaret Fang, Lekshmi Santhosh, Peter Barish, and Allison Bond.

More pictures available here.

Meet DHM

Get to know our division by reading our faculty and staff interviews!

Congratulations to Ashish Gandhi, Megan Humphrey, and Jackie Vajta Gomez, who graduated from the UCSF Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship in June 2024!

We also want to welcome our new hospitalist fellows for FY25: Laila Fozouni, Hadi Roudsari, and Mary Welter! More information on the fellowship available here.

Manisha Israni-Jiang is the inaugural Cross-Bay Medical Director of Capacity and Throughput for Benioff Children's Hospitals.

Allison Bond, Aline Zorian, and Lev Malevanchik were chosen by the internal medicine residents as Residency Advising & Development (RAD) Advisors of the Year.

Xinran (Leo) Liu was recently selected to be a Co-Director for the upcoming "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course within the Training in Clinical Research program (TICR) program.

Andy Lai served on an American College of Radiology (ACR) task force that co-authored new ACR Appropriateness Criteria for "Workup of Pleural Effusion or Pleural Disease."

Armond Esmaili and Brandon Scott were selected to serve on the Quality, Safety, and Experience and Strategy Committees of the UCSF Health Leadership Council.

DHM Social Activities

 SMMC Happy Hour at Barrel Head Brewhouse on June 12.

More pictures available here.

Physician-Nurse Communication QI Initiative 

We want to share some of the specific recognitions we have received directly from our nursing colleagues about our hospitalists' communication with bedside nurses. These quotes were anonymously submitted as free response comments by various nurses on 14L, 14M, and 15L through our ongoing RN communication survey.

"The nurses greatly appreciate every physician trying their best to always communicate with their bedside RN their patient's plan of care for the day as this greatly impact patients' care and safety, and Goldman Med Hospitalist are rocking it! Thank you! I hope we continue to spread this culture to other teams as well."

– 15L RN

"I want to give a shout out to Dr. Prashant Patel, who was amazing to work with! Great communication and very responsive to my messages. I truly felt like we were working together to get this patient the care she needed. I appreciate how he frequently checked in and kept me in the loop."

 – 14L RN

"Dr. Armond Esmaili, Dr. Rashmi Manjunath, and Dr. Archna Eniasivam reached out to me via Voalte text on the plan for the day. I appreciate the early update on the plan of care as this helped me to also plan out my day and anticipate the needs for my patients. All 3 of them continued to communicate to me throughout the day and were very responsive."

– 15L RN

"Dr. Erin Yao-Cohen was very attentive and called me to discuss the patient early in the morning. It is always good to work with her."

 – 14M RN

"Dr. Charles Chu and Dr. Shubhra Gupta were responsive to pages and providing updates on plan of care."

 – 15L RN

"Dr. Esther Hsiang communicated extremely effectively and ensured I was aware of bedside rounding time. Additionally, she reached out early with the plan and communicated changes to me as they occurred."

 – 14M RN

"Dr. Brad Sharpe is excellent."

– 15L RN

Thank you for your continued engagement in efforts to improve physician-nurse communication! 

– Sarah Flynn and Esther Hsiang, Improving Physician-Nurse Communication QI Initiative Champions