Monthly Newsletter | June 2024 | |
May 2024 marked the return of the annual DHM Faculty Retreat held on May 7 at the UCSF Aldea Center. The theme was "Finding Purpose in Hospital Medicine" — and was an opportunity to connect, foster community, and engage in discussions around key topic areas to support ourselves and the division. Thank you to all who attended! | |
Brandon Scott has been appointed as UCSF Health Value Improvement Medical Director. | |
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Teddy Peng is the Associate Director of the Cardiac Hospitalist Service. | | |
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Kristen Kipps successfully completed the Improvement and Leadership Development Program and is now officially recognized as a UCSF Health Lean Champion! | |
Solomon Joseph successfully completed the Improvement and Leadership Development Program and is now officially recognized as a UCSF Health Lean Champion! | |
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On behalf of DHM, Smitha Ganeshan coordinated a delivery of SusieCakes cupcakes for the 14M, 14L, and 15L nursing staff to thank them for being outstanding partners! | |
Jennifer Lee received the 2024 SPIRIT of DOM award: (Service, Professionalism, Inclusivity, Responsibility, Inspiration, and Teamwork in the Department of Medicine), recognition of staff who exemplify UCSF PRIDE Values and make the DOM and UCSF a better place to work. The Spirit of DOM Zoom ceremony will be on June 21 from 12:30-1pm. We hope everyone can sign on and support her. | |
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Congratulations to staff 2024 DOM Achievement Awardees! | |
Priya Prasad received an Early Career Investigator Pilot Grant from the UCSF RAP program for a study titled "Defining Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) Burden and Identifying Predictors of VT Burden among Hospitalized Patients." She will use a well-annotated dataset of continuous ECG data for ~5,600 intensive care unit patients to create various definitions of VT burden, something which is currently lacking in the literature. | |
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Jackeline Vajta received The Academy of Medical Educators Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, UCSF’s Education Showcase 2024. "You Don't Want to Traumatize Someone": A Qualitative Study Exploring Faculty Considerations Around Constructive Feedback to learners. | |
Lauren Linett is the New Senior Physician Executive for Network Integration at UCSF Health. | |
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Sharifa Brooks-Smith-Lowe and Julia Axelrod, research assistants on the Research in Ethics, Social Equity, and Transformation in Health (RESET Health) research team led by Liz Dzeng, presented two posters at the SFBayCRN/IMPACT Annual Meeting, Housing, Labor, and Health Care: Mapping the Future of Community-Engaged Research and Action. The projects presented were the Racism, Illness, and Standing for Equity (RISE) project and the Health Advocates Program. | The Research in Ethics, Social Equity, and Transformation in Health (RESET Health) research team led by Liz Dzeng, in collaboration with the Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project, were awarded funds through the UC Law/UCSF Consortium Health Justice series. They will host an event next spring entitled "Survival, Healing, and Performance: Formerly Incarcerated Voices on Health Justice Inside and Out." | |
Sharifa Brooks-Smith-Lowe did a podium talk at the Health Services Research Symposium presenting on preliminary results of the Racism, Illness, and Standing for Equity (RISE) project led by Liz Dzeng. This project seeks to understand how structural racism across the life course impacts perspectives of hospital based and serious illness care in older Black adults. | |
John Dzundza: "Educational Sessions for HBC Hospitalists": lunchtime monthly conferences on malignant hematology-related topics to promote community and support subspecialty education. | |
Kresh Zejnullahu: Tree planting volunteer event: supporting UCSF hospitalists to partners with a local nonprofit to plant trees in the urban environments around the UCSF campuses. | |
Aline Zorian: "Night Hospitalist Breakfast Series": quarterly breakfast events for night hospitalists to create a dedicated time and space to build relationships outside of clinical shifts. | |
Alon Unger: Each meeting would have a central topic and speaker with a Med-Peds faculty describing their career path, current work within the UC health system, and provide an opportunity for faculty development and networking. | |
We held a meet up on May 3 with Adrienne Green at the SF Campus for Jewish Living. Co-sponsored by the DHM Women's Council and the Community Building Committee, there was great attendance and a lot of fun and learning about leadership of a SNF. Attendees engaged in a robust Q&A with Adrienne, met many staff at the Jewish Home, and took a fascinating tour of this facility where we send many of our patients! | |
Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine | |
Volunteer Together as DHM with GLIDE
Over the past two years, DHM has been partnering with GLIDE's Center for Social Justice to brainstorm and pilot ways to improve health and equity for the communities we serve, as well as uplift wellness for our DHM and UCSF colleagues. One outcome of this partnership has been a discussion around volunteering at GLIDE as DHM. Please join us as we begin our community practice of serving lunch with GLIDE's Daily Free Meals Program with fellow DHM'ers! Volunteers assist with everything from serving food and bussing tables, to handing out silverware and condiments. There are still some slots left for each lunchtime shift in the Tenderloin, and each shift has a "Captain" ready and excited to volunteer with you! Family and friends are also welcome to join in and volunteer together ❤️
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Available volunteer slots
Thursday, June 13th 11:30am-1:30pm with Lunchtime Captain Rosemary
Wednesday, June 26th 11:30am-1:30pm with Lunchtime Captain Natalie
Email martha.occkenfels-martinez@ucsf.edu to sign up 🙂
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Allison Bond, Sandra Oreper, and Priya Prasad were coauthors on a recent study delineating relevant and actionable feedback metrics related to Hospital Medicine clinicians' antimicrobial prescribing. | |
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James Harrison is co-author of a study with colleagues from surgery and geriatrics that investigates postoperative prescribing disparities for gabapentinoids in older adults.The study found no significant prescribing variation of gabapentinoids in the postoperative period between racial or ethnic groups. | |
Himali Weerahandi is the senior author of a position paper from the Society of General Internal Medicine on incorporating anti-racist principles throughout the research lifecycle in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. | |
Sarah Flynn and colleagues recently published results from a retrospective chart review exploring primary care utilization, preventative screening, and control of metabolic syndrome in a cohort of liver transplant recipients in the Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. | |
More Publications from DHM | |
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"Rosemary Yau — Thank you for stepping in last minute to assist at the Holly Smith dinner yesterday! Your presence made everything run smoothly, and I deeply appreciate your willingness to help us. You are amazing!"
- Sam Santiago
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Dr. Scott, the nurses on 14L want to extend our gratitude for your communication and teamwork. You always take time to communicate the plan with nursing; both staff and patients see this. It is much appreciated. "He's a great doctor!"
- 14L nurses
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If you have content you would like to share for an upcoming newsletter, please reach out to Tiffany.Lee@ucsf.edu.
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