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Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland

December 2021

Wishing You the Best this Coming Year!

Season's Greetings

from the BCH Oakland Dean's office

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome

Welcome new fellow, Carmen Mora!


Dr. Maria “Carmen” Mora attended the Texas A&M HSC-College of Medicine where she earned her MD.  Carmen spent four years at Tufts University School of Medicine-Baystate Medical Center as a general surgery resident and surgery research fellow. She then completed her general surgery residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate. She moved to the University of Tennessee Memphis to serve as a surgical critical care fellow and is board-certified in this subspecialty. Before moving to San Francisco for pediatric surgery training, Carmen completed two fellowship years at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Pediatric Surgery Minimally Invasive Surgery and Research. Carmen comes to BCHSF/BCH Oakland highly accomplished. In addition to being board-certified in general surgery and critical care, Carmen won numerous awards including the Trauma Resident of the Year-Top Knife Award.  Carmen spent the month of October 2021 as a fellow in the Intensive Care Nursery at BCHSF as part of her pediatric surgery training. 



Congratulations!

From Dr. Raphael Hirsch,

Pediatric Department Chair and BCH Physician-in-Chief  

 

 

Dear colleagues,

 

I would like to congratulate Dr. Mark Walters and the team at UCSF Oakland on being awarded $17 million to find a cure for sickle cell disease.

 

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland will use the award, the largest grant in its history, to launch a four-year clinical trial. The study, which plans to enroll its first patient later this year, will use CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology on patients’ own blood stem cells to correct the mutated gene that causes sickle cell disease.

 

Sickle cell disease is a debilitating disorder which affects approximately 100,000 Americans and millions worldwide, with a disproportionate effect on the Black community. Dr Mark Walters is the Jordan Family Director of Blood and Marrow Transplantation at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and is principal investigator of this trial and gene editing project.

 

This therapy has the potential to transform sickle cell disease care by producing an accessible, curative treatment that is safer than the current therapy of stem cell transplant from a healthy bone marrow donor,’ said Dr Mark Walters.


The goal of this form of genome-editing therapy is to correct the mutation in enough stem cells so the resulting blood in circulation has corrected red blood cells,’ he added. ‘Based on our experience with bone marrow transplants, we predict that correcting 20% of the genes should be sufficient to out-compete the native sickle cells and have a strong clinical benefit.’


Benioff Oakland researchers received two grants of $8.4 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and $8.6 million from the NIH Cure Sickle Cell Initiative, supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

The trial is a collaboration with UC Berkeley and UCLA. Researchers plan to recruit up to six adults with the disease in Oakland and Los Angeles. If the treatment is found effective, three children between the ages of 12 to 17 will be recruited for the trial.

 

I want to congratulate Mark Walters and his colleagues on this exceptional award. The work this grant will fund has the potential to transform the quality of life for children with sickle cell disease.

 

Sincerely,

 

Raphael Hirsch, MD

Chair, Department of Pediatrics

UCSF School of Medicine

Physician-in-Chief, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals

WH & Marie Wattis Distinguished Professor 



BCH Oakland Pager Update

Dear BCH Oakland Colleagues:


We are upgrading all currently issued pagers in order to support our security standards and patient privacy compliance. If you have a BCH Oakland pager, please come to one of the locations and times outlined below between Dec 7 – 10, 2021 to receive your new and upgraded SPOK pager. If you are unable to make the specified dates, the PBX Communications Team will make every effort to accommodate you (via appointment) in a reasonable period of time.

The new SPOK Pager features:

* Encrypted messaging that is HIPAA-compliant to enable teams to safely send PHI

* Optional four-button pin to unlock pager

* Administrative remote data wipe if pager is lost or stolen

* Ability to use SPOK pager number with a smartphone mobile app without pager device


Employees MUST EXCHANGE PAGER during this schedule:

Note:

  • New SPOK pagers will have 510 area codes. We investigated the option of obtaining some 415 area codes but were unable to do so.
  • In order to support you in a smooth transition, existing pagers and existing numbers will continue to work for approximately 30 days after you have received your new SPOK pager. After the 30 day period, please be prepared to return your old pager.
  • Be sure to notify any critical contacts that your pager number has changed.  We will continue to keep the AMCOM console and PBX updated in real time.
  • If you do not currently have a pager you do not need to get one at this time.

 

If you have questions, please contact Bryan Plett: bryan.plett@ucsf.edu

Updated UCSF Event Policy

Updated December 7, 2021


Guidance on Hosting Meetings and Events


Please note that guidance on events is rapidly changing. Refer to coronavirus.ucsf.edu for the most up-to-date info. Please contact Amanda.Lucas@ucsf.edu at BCH Oakland with questions.

 

UCSF adheres to the San Francisco Department of Public Health COVID-19 health requirements, and, in some instances, our requirements are more stringent given our unique role as an academic, medical, and research enterprise. Our top priority is to ensure the safety of the UCSF community and our patients. Any event plan is conditional on current health orders.

More Info

Staff Appreciation Breakfasts

Staff Appreciation


Staff Appreciation is a series of events that bring our UCSF community together and celebrates our great people.

 

It’s a time to thank you for your hard work and invite all onsite and telework employees to attend a breakfast. These events provide members of University leadership with an opportunity to convey their gratitude in person.

 

  • Mission Bay: William and Susan Oberndorf Auditorium, Dec. 3, 6:30 – 10:30 a.m.
  • Mount Zion: Mount Zion Café, Dec. 9, 7 – 9 a.m.
  • Parnassus: Moffitt Café, Dec. 10, 6:30 – 10:30 a.m.
  • Mission Center: Conference Room 126, Dec. 13, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.
  • BCH Oakland: Friendly Café, Dec. 15, 6:30 – 9:30 a.m.
  • UCSF Health: For events held at UCSF Health locations, view this flyer.

Booster Clinics

UCSF Urges Booster Shots for Everyone Over 18


Due to the emergence of the Omicron variant in San Francisco, UCSF strongly urges those over age 18 to get booster shots, which are widely available through vaccination clinics, health care providers, Safeway stores, and neighborhood pharmacies. Californians can visit the My Turn website or call (833) 422-4255 to make an appointment or find a nearby vaccine clinic.

 

If you get a booster shot at a location outside UCSF, please upload a copy of that record to the Occupational Health Services Portal (UCSF MyAccess required) or email a copy to VaccineResponsibleOffice@ucsf.edu.

ONGOING EMPLOYEE VACCINE CLINICS

 

Moderna Vaccines:

Thursdays

7:00 AM to 3:30 PM

Outpatient Center basement on our Oakland campus 

 

Pfizer Vaccines: 

Wednesdays 

7:00 AM to 3:30 PM 

Outpatient Center basement on our Oakland campus 

In-Person a No-Go, So Residency Program Told it's Story on Instagram

Read the article on the American Medical Association website: https://www.ama-assn.org/education/improve-gme/person-no-go-so-residency-program-told-its-story-instagram

Free UCSF Education Skills Workshops!

Open for registration

From Victoria Ruddick

Faculty Development Manager

Center for Faculty Educators, School of Medicine


Dear clinical faculty,


These free UCSF Education Skills workshops are open for registration. All workshops are live on Zoom for the time being. Hurry before they fill up!

Upcoming Events


Fundamental Skills in the Art of Effective Feedback - 4hr

Finding Clarity: Establishing Goals and Expectations for Learners

Writing Effective Narrative Evaluations

These workshops are part of the Teach for UCSF Certificate in Clinical Teaching. Read more and enroll now: https://tiny.ucsf.edu/TeachforUCSF 

 

MORE TO COME SOON! Keep an eye out at http://tinyurl.com/T4UCSFclin, center section! 

 

Thanks for your interest in education skills faculty development.

 

QUALITY & SAFETY

From Deborah Franzon, MD

Director of Quality for Critical Care

Medical Director Pediatric ICU


Quality Corner Updates:

FY22 Quality Updates (as of 11/30/21):


  • It has been 264 days since our last serious safety event at Oakland Children’s Hospital
  • In Q1 (July-Sept) BCH Oakland experienced 12 patient harm events, 25% fewer compared to Q1 last year.
  • Our goal is to see a 5% reduction in patient harm events this year compared to last year.
  • Harm events include (inpatient and outpatient areas): falls, adverse drug events, surgical site infection, pressure injury, catheter associated UTI, central line associated bloodstream infection, C. difficile infection, unplanned extubation, privacy breach, serious safety event, code outside the ICU.
  • Despite high acuity and daily staffing challenges, the Q&S team is inspired by the amazing work done by frontline providers and staff each day to keep our patients safe.
  • Looking forward to ongoing partnerships and more great work in 2022!


Read More

POPULATION HEALTH and HEALTH EQUITY

Population Health and Health Equity Website

Population Health and Health Equity is launching a new website

More Info

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 at henry.ocampo@ucsf.edu, or visit our website https://diversitybch.ucsf.edu/.

 

Updated info on the DEI website.

 

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



Brave Space Coaching Sessions

This 2-hour coaching session will provide BCH managers with guidance on how to facilitate Brave Space Conversations within your department and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism across our organization. 


These are the last coaching sessions for the year!!

  • Wednesday, November 17 at 10 am - 12 pm 
  • Tuesday, December 7 at 11 am - 1 pm 


To register, please contact Henry.Ocampo@ucsf.edu directly. Click HERE for more info



DEI Trainings

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Training


Now offered virtually in 2 sessions!


See the upcoming sessions and register HERE



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

COVID-19 & Vaccine Updates

UCSF COVID-19 Resources


Vaccine Information Hub


Updates from Josh Adler,

Chief Clinical Officer UCSF Health


UCSF Responds to Surge in COVID-19 Cases

Among Employees, Learners


Wellness

UCSF Wellness Resources Hub


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


Coronavirus.ucsf.edu


Emotional Well-Being in 2021 Webinar Series

CARES

UCSF Collaborative to Advise on Re-opening Education Safely (CARES)

EDUCATION

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Oakland

Oakland Grand Rounds Calendar


Did you miss Grand Rounds? Visit http://vimeo.com/album/2238536 and use password CHRCO to view recorded Grand Rounds presentations.


Grand Rounds is by Zoom only. 8-9 am

Contact cristina.fernandez@ucsf.edu for log-in information 



Pediatric Grand Rounds

San Francisco

Speaker Disclosures/

SF Pediatric 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

The Frontiers in Child Health Research Seminar Series

2nd and 4th Mondays, 12-1 pm, via Zoom 

December 13th Speaker:

E. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD


Zoom meeting information:

 

Meeting ID: 947 2495 1189

Password: 723935

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

https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/94724951189?pwd=TXZRMFpZcjFsZG5EZHI4Y0h6VXhFdz09

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Dial by your location

       +1 669 219 2599 US (San Jose)

       +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

       +1 213 338 8477 US (Los Angeles)

Link to previous recordings

 

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



Stad Center of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine Global Lecture Series

UPCOMING CONFERENCES:


  • 12th Pediatric Pain Master Class (Virtual). UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine San Francisco, December 4-9, 2021. (Additional info attached) Registration LINK


  • 13th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain (ISPP) - Virtual. Auckland, New Zealand. March 24-27, 2022 http://www.ispp2022.nz


  • 23rd "Become an EPEC-Pediatrics-Trainer” Conference plus Professional Development Workshop. Face-to-face & Virtual Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care [EPEC]. UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine. San Francisco, July 13-16, 2022 EPEC.Pediatrics@ucsf.edu

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


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


You must register in advance for each lecture.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining this webinar.



Tom McNalley, Alicia Heilman, Karen Sun & Stefan Friedrichsdorf

Stad Center of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals



RESEARCH

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BCH-Oakland Summer Student Research Program

BCH-Oakland Summer Student Research Program

Accepting Applicants for Summer 2022

 

The BCH-Oakland Summer Student Research Program is a structured, one-on-one mentored research training experience designed to stimulate interest in the health sciences for under-represented students within a supportive environment.  The highly competitive program has been offered continuously for 40 years. We are currently accepting applications for this coming summer which will run for 9 weeks from June 6 to August 5, 2022. Student applications are available now on our website

 

If you are interested in working with these inspirational youth, we are always looking for clinician scientists to mentor students in the completion of a research project. In return for your time, the program provides mentor training workshops, financial support for research supplies, and a small honorarium. If you would like to know more about the program or how you can get involved in mentorship, please visit our website: summerstudents.ucsf.edu or contact our Co-Director, Ellen Fung at: ellen.fung@ucsf.edu.


Congratulations!

From Mark C. Walters, MD

Jordan Family Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program/BCH-Oak

Interim Chief, Hematology, Pediatrics/Hematology


Congratulations to Jim Feusner as senior author on an AAML1331 manuscript published in JAMA Oncology! Read it here


The National Cancer Institute has supported a media release related to this trial. Here are a few articles thus far:


https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/treatment-helps-children-apl-avoid-chemotherapy

https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/leukemia/95596

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211111/Drug-combination-highly-effective-in-children-with-standard-and-high-risk-acute-promyelocytic-leukemia.aspx

 

We also received a NGA for the sickle cell project in CRISPR gene editing


Congratulations! The Cure Sickle Cell application to NHLBI and CIRM for CLIN2SCD-11722 "Transplantation of CRISPR-CAS9 Corrected Hematopoietic Stem Cells (CRISPR_SCD001) in Patients with Severe Sickle Cell Disease" has been approved by both funders in the amount of $8,389,407 to the University of California, San Francisco by CIRM and in the amount of $8,608,261 by NHLBI. NHLBI funding will be a combination of previously awarded funds and new funding that will be added as the trial milestones are met.


New UCSF Profiles Feature

UCSF Profiles now has a new feature to indicate (self-identity as) 'physician-scientist.' This 'Physician-Scientist' checkbox can help to better track, improve, and advance academic life for all physician-scientist faculty and trainees across departments and institutes/organized research units at UCSF. 

 

If you are a physician-scientist, we encourage you to log into your Profile and update your record.

 

For instructions, please click on the button below.

Read more here

IRB Updates

New! Introducing the New HRPP Website

 

The HRPP website has a new look! The new site is designed to adhere to UCSF branding identity standards, meet the highest standards for web accessibility, and look great on all types of devices and browsers. See it here

 

What has changed

  • Visual layout, images, and colors
  • Information is organized differently than it was on the previous site. Please review the attached navigation guide for instructions on how to find information on the new site.

 

What has not changed

 

If you have bookmarked pages or documents from our previous site: Some links were slightly altered during the migration to the new layout. If you use an old bookmark and it does not bring you to the intended page, it means that the link has changed. In such cases, please locate the page/document on our website and update the bookmark with the new link.

 

As always, you can submit feedback using the “Website Feedback” button located in the lower right corner of our site. We appreciate you notifying us of broken links, missing information, and other feedback that can help us improve your experience.

CRC Training Courses

Register | CRC Training Course Dates through January 2022

Strengthen clinical research operations skills in training courses such as CRC Bootcamp, Pre & Post Award Tasks, Data Management, and more! In-person and eLearning courses developed with CRCs in mind, but all UCSF study team members welcome. All courses through January 2022 are now open for registration and are free of charge.



From the UCSF Research Development Office

UCSF Research

Development Office

Special Strategic Projects SSP

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UCSF Initiative for

Digital Transformation in Computational Biology

and Health Data Science


More Info

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Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dean’s Office

UCSF School of Medicine

 

510-428-3726

 

Mailing Address:

747 52nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609


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