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Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland

January 2021

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Happy New Year!  

2021 is Here and Hope is on the Horizon


Hope comes in the form of vaccines and renewed health efforts in 2021.


Kudos to Dr. Ted Chaconas, Chief Medical Officer BCH Oakland, and everyone working on vaccine distribution. This is a tremendous effort. For more information on specifics go to: UCSF COVID-19 Vaccine Information Hub.


Here is a great article from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/three-ways-of-looking-at-children-and-the-coronavirus


Ok we all know the worst of 2020. I want to share with you my “all things pediatric, COVID-19 and health equity” BEST OF 2020 list:


Best Podcast:

Conversations with Dr. Bauchner

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/conversations-with-dr-bauchner


Best Pediatric Columnist:

Perri Klass, the check up

https://www.perriklass.com/the-checkup-ny-times-column


Best news coverage:

SF COVID Tracker

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/coronavirus-map/

             

Best public broadcast on health equity:

Dayna Long and Nadine Burke-Harris on the PBS Newshour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/childhood-trauma-impacts-millions-of-americans-and-its-having-devastating-consequences


Best pipeline career programs pivoting to online:


Summer Student Remote Learning:

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/transitioning-to-remote-learning/


and


CHAMPS

Community Health & Adolescent Mentoring Program for Success


Best Instagram

https://instagram.com/chopedsres


Best website for data checkers:


Alameda County COVID-19 Data

https://covid-19.acgov.org/data


Oh and can I plug my amazing team for our website launch?

https://bchdean.ucsf.edu/


Best YouTube video:

CBS Boston: Boston Medical Center gets vaccine featuring dance to Lizzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEeY3Vrj3m8


Favorite Twitter feed:

I have never taken to it


Best community effort:

UCSF Collaboration to Advise on Re-Opening Education Safely

https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/cares


Best take out:

Thank you to all the local businesses and frontline workers that have supported us at BCH Oakland.


My nominations for persons of the year:


Among the new administration and Tony Fauci there is all of you. Thanks for your tremendous accomplishments and just holding it all together for the last year. As my Welsh aunt used to say: "Let’s see this thing through!"


Kelley



Kelley and Dele Kammen - Moderna dose #1

ANNOUNCEMENTS

2020 Bertram Lubin Quality Award Recipient:

Dayna Long, MD

Congratulations to Dayna Long, MD!


Alameda Alliance for Health Bertram Lubin Quality Award

 

Dr. Bertram Lubin was a Bay Area pediatrician who was known throughout the health care community as a great “humanitarian, ardent supporter of children’s health and advocate for children with sickle cell disease.” In his 50 years of advancing health and wellbeing for children and adults. Dr. Lubin work as a physician, hospital leader researcher and philanthropist. Dr. Lubin was committed to improving health disparities and outcomes for people in the most vulnerable communities. Every aspect of his professional life was a tireless dedication to health and healing. In his honor, Alameda Alliance for Health has created the annual “Bertram Lubin Quality Award”, to recognize a pediatric provider partner who, much like Dr. Lubin, is committed to the delivery of ever-improving value to patients and stakeholders, contributing to improved health care quality and organizational sustainability.



Call for Applications:

Assistant Director, JMP Clinical Skills

2021 Founders Day Chancellor Awards

From

Paul Jenny, Senior Vice Chancellor

Finance and Administration


 

Dear UCSF Community,

 

We are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2021 Founders Day Chancellor Awards are being accepted through February 17.

 

These Chancellor Awards recognize and celebrate our colleagues for their extraordinary contributions to the university, as well as to the larger local and global community. The eligibility requirements, award criteria, nomination form, and a list of prior recipients are available online and nominations are being accepted in support of deserving individuals for the following awards: 

 

Chancellor Award for Exceptional University Management

This award recognizes extraordinary individuals for their professional performance and managerial service to the university beyond the scope of their individual functions at UCSF, serving as a model for future generations of UCSF managers and supervisors.

 

Chancellor Award for Exceptional University Service

This award recognizes individuals for their extraordinary professional commitment and individual contribution to university service and citizenship that goes beyond the scope of their individual functions at UCSF, serving as a model for future generations of UCSF staff.

 

Chancellor Award for Public Service

This award recognizes outstanding individuals for their local or global community contributions and service involvement beyond the scope of their individual’s functions at UCSF, serving as a model for future UCSF faculty, staff, students, and trainees.

 

Please submit nominations electronically to Suya Colorado-Caldwell in support of those you would like to recognize for Exceptional University Service or for Exceptional University Management or to Edward Samayoa in support of those you would like to recognize for Public Service. Do not hesitate to contact either Suya or Edward for additional information or assistance.

Call for Applications: 2021 Mentor Training Program

Dated December 14, 2020

From Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil, FACP

and Mandana Khalili, MD                                                                      


Application deadline is March 1, 2021


The 2021 Mentor Training Program is now open for enrollment

 

Applications are now being accepted for the CTSI Mentor Training Program (MTP), a comprehensive, online program designed to train faculty to be effective mentors. The MTP creates an integrated environment for mentors and mentors-in-training, encouraging creative and innovative networking, discussing a range of mentoring challenges and a myriad of solutions, developing a toolbox of strategies, and using discussions and collective experiences to build a community of mentoring excellence.  In addition to research faculty, many residency and fellowship directors and others who run training programs have found the MTP to be very useful. All are encouraged to apply.

 

The course consists of six core modules taught through web-based meetings that provide an overview of core mentoring competencies. We address the learning objectives, through readings (required and suggested), short lectures and videos, as well as self-directed exercises and case studies. 

 

The next MTP course will be offered in Spring 2021. Application deadline is March 1, 2021. Apply here!

 

Seminar topics include:

  • Mentorship from the Beginning
  • Mentorship Models and Mentor Selection
  • Aligning Goals and Expectations
  • Communicating Effectively with Mentees
  • Dealing with Mentoring Challenges
  • Mentoring Across Differences

 

The course starts April 14 and ends June 9. Participants are required to attend 4 virtual sessions via Zoom, all Wednesdays from 3 to 5pm: April 14, April 28, May 12, and June 9. For more information please contact Daniel Gonzalez at daniel.gonzalez@ucsf.edu.

 

Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil, FACP

Professor of Medicine and Chief, DGIM

Associate Vice Provost, Faculty Mentoring

Director, UCSF-CTSI Comprehensive Mentoring Program

 

Mandana Khalili, MD                                                                      

Professor of Medicine at UCSF and 

Chief of Clinical Hepatology

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Co-Director, UCSF-CTSI Comprehensive Mentoring Program

 

POPULATION HEALTH and HEALTH EQUITY

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Effects of Childhood trauma


This segment was featured on PBS News Hour on December 14, 2020


Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and its consequences can be devastating: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/childhood-trauma-impacts-millions-of-americans-and-its-having-devastating-consequences


Or, via YouTube: https://youtu.be/MhLxxqivp5c



2021 Advocacy Training Grants - Call for Applications

Now Open!

Are you a resident or faculty interested in strengthening your advocacy skills? Apply for an Advocacy Training Grant!

 

The AAP Community Pediatrics Training Initiative will support 4 pediatric faculty-resident pairs to attend the 2021 AAP Advocacy Conference - formerly named the Legislative Conference - on April 11-13, 2021.


View the guidelines and preview the application. Apply here.

 

Applications are due Wednesday, February 10, 2021 by Midnight ET.

 



DIVERSITY, EQUITY and INCLUSION at UCSF BCH

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From Marsha J. Treadwell, PhD

DEI Co-Chair BCH Oakland

Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine

Jordan Fund Endowed Chair, Department of Hematology/Oncology

The focus of the BCH Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Initiative is to dismantle systemic racism within BCH by taking action to insure that policies, institutional practices, cultural representations and other norms no longer reinforce and perpetuate racial group inequity for Blacks, Indigenous and People of Color. Patients and families and other groups in the workforce, including LGBTQ+ are negatively impacted within the current problematic climate. For more information, please feel free to reach out to me, our program manager Henry Ocampo, or visit our website https://diversitybch.ucsf.edu/.

 

Online registration for the BCH Black Caucus Oakland:

 

Updated info on the DEI website.

 

Questions? Email Abdur Shemsu at abdur.shemsu@ucsf.edu

BLACK HISTORY MONTH - FEBRUARY


If you are interested in volunteering to help organize Black History Month in February, please contact Henry.Ocampo@ucsf.edu, Stephanie.Brown@ucsf.edu, or Abdur.Shemsu@ucsf.edu. Thank you.

DEI STEERING COMMITTEE


The DEI Council is launching a quarterly Steering Committee meeting. The purpose of the Steering Committee is to review DEI best practices across the BCH enterprise, review the BCH DEI Action Plan rollouts, ensure communication and alignment of department-specific DEI initiatives with the DEI Action Plan, maximize our limited resources and to keep one another informed and engaged. We invite departments to share where you are with DEI thinking and what your departmental plans are to advance DEI.


Please contact Henry.Ocampo@ucsf.edu for more information.



DEI Trainings


DEI Foundational Training


UCSF Office of Diversity and Outreach is developing a 45-minute online Foundational Diversity Training. This training will be mandatory for all UCSF and BCH staff. The training will be available on the LSM system for UCSF staff around January 20 and soon after on Healthstream for BCH OAK staff.


Core competencies include:


  1. UCSF Chancellor’s Pillar of Equity and Inclusion, and UCSF PRIDE values
  2. US history of racism, with reference to UCSF and the formation of the Black Caucus
  3. Legal requirements (Title VII and Title IX)
  4. UC policies: non-discrimination and bullying
  5. Definitions of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Cultural Humility, Unconscious Bias, Micro-aggressions, Gender Inclusion
  6. Examples of never events
  7. Examples of how to create an affirming and inclusive climate
  8. Resources - additional trainings, references, roadmaps. UCSF will provide the different channels of opportunities for our community members to further their learning and engagement in diversity and inclusion.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Training


Now offered virtually in 2 sessions!


See the upcoming DEI Champion Training Schedule HERE

Microaggressions:

Examining the Teaching and Learning Environment


Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 9 am – 12 pm


This workshop is part of the Teach for UCSF Certificate Program.


https://calendar.ucsf.edu/event/microaggressions_examining_the_teaching_and_learning_environment_3638#.X8p0AWhKiM8



UCSF Cultural Groups and Resources

UCSF Multicultural

Resource Center


UCSF BCH

Heritage Month Celebrations


UCSF LGBT

Resources

Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance (APASA)


BCH Black Caucus

Oakland


Chicanx Latinx Campus Assocation (CLCA)

The Black Caucus

at UCSF

 

UCSF Committee on Disability Inclusion 

 

UCSF LGBTQ

Committee


UCSF Office of

Diversity Outreach


UCSF PRIDE Values

UCSF’s PRIDE Values and how they can be enacted through our daily lives are:

 

P - Professionalism: To be competent, accountable, reliable and responsible, interacting positively and collaboratively with all colleagues, students, patients, visitors and business partners.

 

R - Respect: To treat all others as you wish to be treated, being courteous and kind, acting with utmost consideration of others.

 

I - Integrity: To be honest, trustworthy and ethical, always doing the right thing, without compromising the truth, and being fair and sincere.

 

D - Diversity: To appreciate and celebrate differences in others, creating an environment of equity and inclusion with opportunities for everyone to reach their potential.

 

E - Excellence: To be dedicated, motivated, innovative and confident, giving your best every day, encouraging and supporting others to excel in everything they do.



  

Download a copy of the PRIDE Values



RESOURCES

Essential Workers Searching for Child Care

Link to our December newsletter for info.



Wellness

Coronavirus.ucsf.edu

 

If you have not had a chance to check it out, UCSF has great emotional health and wellness resources.


Useful Wellness and Mental Health Apps: https://psychiatry.ucsf.edu/coronavirus/apps



Teach for UCSF Certificate in Clinical Teaching

Originally From:

Victoria Ruddick

Faculty Development Manager

Center for Faculty Educators, School of Medicine


Dear East Bay Faculty Development Consortium Members,


The annual weekend Accelerated Path to the Teach for UCSF Certificate in Clinical Teaching, which includes three workshops via Zoom video-conference on Saturday, March 20th, 8am-5pm, is now posted for registration. There will be a small fee per workshop to cover expenses associated with offering a weekend event. CME credit is available for certain health professions.


8:00am-10:00am     Educational Strategies to Promote Clinical Reasoning

10:15am-2:45pm     Teaching and Assessing in Competency-Based Education (includes 1/2 hour break)

3:00pm-5:00pm       Fundamental Skills in the Art of Effective Feedback

 

Spots are likely to fill up fast! Please distribute this link to your faculty who teach UCSF learners. REGISTER: https://meded.ucsf.libcal.com/event/7124668


Thanks!


Victoria


Victoria Ruddick

Faculty Development Manager

Center for Faculty Educators, School of Medicine


More information on the Teach for UCSF Certificate Program



Frontline Workers Counseling Project

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As workers on the frontline, you’re dealing with a lot right now. And we know it’s not easy. But help is at hand. Free, confidential mental health counseling is available to you right away through The Frontline Workers Counseling Project, a group of over 400 licensed mental health professionals here in the Bay Area who have reached out to help. 

 

If you’re ready, please visit fwcp.org/bayarea to learn more and sign up to be connected to a trained mental health professional. It’s free and 100% confidential.



You can also view and share a video we’ve created to spread the word: https://youtu.be/IGh2AAzKiK8

 

You can find additional materials in these Google files.

Insiders' Toolkit
Allies' Toolkit

EDUCATION

CARES

 

UCSF Collaborative to Advise on Re-opening Education Safely (CARES) | Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources

 

In case you missed it, you can get more info and watch the recordings at: https://coronavirus.ucsf.edu/cares


Pediatric Grand Rounds

Oakland

Grand Rounds

Tuesday, December 11th 8:00am

 




“Bilirubin Update: A Review of the Literature and of the Northern CA Neonatal Consortium Phototherapy Guidelines”

Presented by: April Zaat, MD, Pediatrician

Residents: Clarissa Camarillo, MD, Emily Iwalani Pak, MD, Maya Raman, MD

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland


Objectives:

1. Recognize the limitations of the current AAP phototherapy guidelines.

2. Examine data regarding potential risks of phototherapy.

3. Use a literature-based approach to examine the Northern CA Neonatology Consortium phototherapy guidelines.


Link to Zoom Information



Pediatric Grand Rounds

San Francisco

Speaker Disclosures/

Grand Rounds Schedule


Evaluation


 For the full 2020 – 2021 Pediatrics Grand Rounds schedule please visit the Wiki page: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/PedsGRWiki

 

Pediatric Grand Rounds takes place every Thursday from 12-1 PM,

currently as webinar only. 

 

For questions contact: Cherise.Masunaga@ucsf.edu


Frontiers in Child Health Research Seminar Series

Seminars will be held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays, 12-1 pm, via zoom

(see below)


Zoom info:

 

Meeting ID: 962 5521 7044

Password: 181899

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One Click Join from a PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android device:

https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/96255217044?pwd=RzJJT1JhM21RdmZUeXo2cEJXZUdYQT09

Link to previous recordings

 

For more info, please email Eve.Wiston-Charbonneau@ucsf.edu



Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine Global Lecture Series 

1st Thursday of every month 3:00-4:00pm


You can access the 2021 schedule HERE


To receive a Zoom invitation for this virtual lecture series, please contact EPEC.Pediatrics@UCSF.edu


Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine

RESEARCH

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dario Boffelli Named Interim Faculty Director of UCSF GCF

Dario Boffelli, Ph.D, has been named interim faculty director of the UCSF Genomics Core Facility (GCF), effective November 1. Boffelli has a longstanding interest in developing methods for comparative genomic and epigenomic analysis. His current work focuses on single-cell analysis to study the biology of stem cells and on the application of whole-genome sequencing in the diagnosis of children with severe genetic disorders. Boffelli's first undertaking will be to meet with the various core users and identify areas where we can expand and improve our sequencing services for the UCSF community. If you are a current or prospective user of the core and have feedback, please reach out to him.



Resource Allocation Program (RAP)

Resource Allocation Program (RAP)

Cycle opens January 25, deadline is March 1 at 2 p.m. 

Information on the intramural funding opportunities for the Spring 2021 cycle.



Research Density Guidance

Research Density Guidance from Lindsey Criswell, MD, MPH, DSc, Vice Chancellor of Research


As announced on December 18, the current densities (effective December 24, 2020, and now extended until January 19, 2021) are:

 

  1. Laboratory research density at 25%. LARC operations will continue unabated, and there is no need to reduce animal census.
  2. Clinical research that is not essential to the health of the participant (termed Category 3 research) at 12.5%. It is strongly recommended that research-only on-site visits (i.e., conducted without a concomitant clinical visit) be postponed. COVID-19 clinical research and clinical research determined to be essential to the health and/or well-being of the participant can continue without density restriction.


The Office of Research has developed a document that summarizes density guidelines for UCSF research activities and requirements for quarantining and/or testing under the UCSF quarantine order and travel policy. It is designed to provide quick guidance for different categories of research and personnel, and does not replace the full guidelines and policies implemented by UCSF and the Office of Research.



New! Information Sheet and Consent Form Addendums for COVID-19 Screening and Testing Procedures 

UCSF Human Research Protection Program 


New! Information Sheet and Consent Form Addendums for COVID-19 Screening and Testing Procedures 

 

The HRPP has created the following documents for research participants attending onsite study visits during the COVID-19 public health emergency: 


  1. COVID-19 Screening Information Sheet 
  2. COVID-19 Testing Assent/Consent Form Addendum: Adults, Adolescents (13+), and Parents of Minors 
  3. COVID-19 Testing Assent Form Addendum: Children Aged 7-12 

 These forms are specifically designed for research participants who undergo COVID-19 screening and/or testing for the sole purpose of adhering to the UCSF Guidance for Onsite Clinical Research Activities, which requires that research participants be screened for COVID-19 prior to onsite visits and must be tested if their visit involves aerosolizing procedures. Use these forms only when the results of the screening and/or testing are unrelated to the study and will not be used as study data. 

 

The language from these forms can also be adapted and added to consent forms for studies in which these screening and testing procedures are being done for study purposes, i.e., the results of the screening and/or testing will be used as study data. 

 

Visit COVID-19 Screening and Testing Forms to access these forms and to read guidance about: 

  • When to use the forms 
  • Who should receive the forms 
  • When signatures are needed 
  • When IRB submission is needed 
  • Alternatives to using the forms 

 

Summer Student Research Program (SSRP)

From: Roi Jennings

Program Coordinator

Summer Student Research Program


The Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) formerly known as CHORI SSRP continues in the struggle for diversity, equity, and inclusion of students from underserved backgrounds interested in STEM. This past summer we pivoted from in-person training to providing a completely virtual program. We were able to do this while still supporting our students financially and providing a mentoring experience that allowed our students to conduct research albeit outside of a lab or clinic. These bright, exceptionally motivated high school and undergraduate students spent their summer exploring basic science and clinical research questions with practicing scientists who hold appointments at BCH-Oakland, UCSF and UC Berkeley. 

 

SSRP held its 39th Annual Research Symposium on Friday, August 7th. Our digital Symposium Book highlights the research performed by our 30 high school and undergraduate interns. They presented research findings in a half day symposium held via zoom- and posted on YouTube. We hope you will enjoy a glimpse into their experience and what they were able to accomplish in just 8 short weeks. 

 

For a more in depth look at how we created the first all-virtual SSRP, you can see a recent interview with us HERE.

 

Applications for Summer 2021 went online, November 1st and the deadline for submission of applications is in early February 2021. Details can be found on our website HERE.   


If you have any questions regarding our program, how faculty can participate as mentors or how students can apply, we can be reached via e-mail at: ssrp@ucsf.edu 

 


Roi Jennings

Program Coordinator | Summer Student Research Program

Student Services & Visiting Scientist Coordinator | CHORI

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland

Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute

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