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Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland
March 2023
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Appreciation
This week we are celebrating International Women’s Week. Please see the calendar of events. I want to officially appreciate all women clinicians, trainees, supporting staff, and allies of all genders: We appreciate you! Please pick up treats as a small appreciation for all you do in the BCH Oakland Medical Staff Lounge on Wednesday. See also the calendar of events. The last week of March we will be celebrating all our doctors with more treats and events. A special announcement will be sent with event info.
Our hospital was founded initially in 1914 by two strong women: Bertha Wright and Mabel Weed. In 1971, UCSF created the Committee on the Status of Women. We stand here today in 2023 because of the tremendous advocacy efforts by women who led the way. We lost a great woman leader recently. Please see the announcement of the passing of Dr. Barbara Staggers below.
We just celebrated Resident Appreciation Week last week. Please check out this appreciation video.
Comings and goings: Please look to your departmental communications team for those messages, but if there is anything you would like us to elevate for the BCH Oakland community, we would be happy to disseminate it. Items can be submitted by emailing bchdeansofcoakland@ucsf.edu.
Be well,
Kelley
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Barbara Staggers, MD, MPH, FAAP
March 6, 1954 - February 19, 2023
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It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the news that Dr. Barbara Staggers has passed away. Dr. Staggers’ legacy at BCH Oakland and in the community is one of inspired leadership and compassion in her dedication to adolescent health. As a trailblazing adolescent medicine physician, she served as the Director of Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland. In this role she launched the Teen Clinic, The Chappell-Hayes Health Center at McClymond’s High School and the Youth Uprising/ Castlemont Health Center next to Castlemont High School, and the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center Medical Clinic. Read More
Please contact Michelle Ednacot for details on plans and events to celebrate Dr. Stagger's life.
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UCSF Celebrates International Women's Day | |
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Learning Environment Champion Certificate Program and
Teaching Scholars Program
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Dear All,
We are excited to announce the launch of a new initiative in our department: the Learning Environment Champion certificate program! Martha Elster developed this program for faculty to become champions of inclusive learning environments while developing skills as educators and leaders in all the places we work and interact with learners.
Join us for a highly interactive, virtual faculty development program through which you can not only connect with and learn from others but also build your CV and earn CME and MOC Part 4 credit. More information and sign-up here: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/PedsLEChampion
Also, for those of you interested in dedicating the academic portion of your career to education, the UCSF center for faculty educators now accepts applications for the Teaching Scholars Program. This is a great, year-long program that requires a half-day commitment, details below. Many people in our department have completed this program (listed here) and I am sure all of them would be willing to talk about their experience. I am also happy to answer any questions and help people prepare their applications, it is a competitive program.
Sandrijn van Schaik, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Education,
Education Director of UCSF’s Simulation Center,
inaugural Baum Family Presidential Chair for Experiential Learning
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Virtual Schwartz Center Rounds
Wednesday, March 8th at 12:00 - 1:00 PM
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Virtual Schwartz Center Rounds
Everything everywhere all at once!
The experience of caring for social needs at BCH Oakland
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 12:00 - 1:00 PM
What? A multidisciplinary conversation about acknowledging and fostering humanity & compassion in all aspects of our work
Who? All hospital employees in every department are invited
Where? Zoom Meeting ID 925 1482 2565, Password 647599 or click this link
When? Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 12–1pm (virtual meeting room will be open at 11:50 and the program will start promptly at 12pm). Please plan to join us for the entire hour.
Our esteemed panelists for this session are:
Fran Merriweather LCSW (High Risk Infant Clinic Coordinator)
Javay Ross MD (BCH Oakland Pediatric Residency Associate Program Director)
Seher Siddiqee BCC, MA, GCIC (Lead Chaplain)
Dana Wiltsek LCSW (ED/PICU Social Worker)
Recognizing the need to support the emotional needs of our caregivers, employees and providers, UCSF BCH Oakland has become a member of The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare. More information available at www.theschwartzcenter.org and bchowellness.ucsf.edu.
Programming made possible by a generous donation from
The Braddock Family Foundation
After Rounds, please complete an evaluation by clicking here or scanning:
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The Schwartz Center Rounds Committee
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2023 School of Medicine Leadership Retreat | |
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Dear School of Medicine Community,
As Dean, one of my primary goals has been to create and sustain purpose-driven careers for the faculty and staff who are integral to our current and future success at UCSF.
To attract and retain top talent that consider a career at UCSF highly desirable, we must evolve and address the outdated systems that impede progress. While we embrace change, we will preserve UCSF's unique values to ensure that our discovery, educational, and clinical care missions excel in meeting current and future challenges.
At the 2023 School of Medicine Leadership Retreat in February, we heard from speakers who helped inform a discussion on transforming academic medicine and research careers to be purpose-driven.
As outcomes from this year’s Leadership Retreat,
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We created a Retreat Report that distills key takeaways and provides ideas for our desired future state, which we will use to shape our 2024-2029 School of Medicine Strategic Plan.
- The Dean's Office will charge committees with identifying changes to systems and structures that will ensure faculty, staff, and learners thrive at UCSF.
I will continue to provide opportunities for input and proactively support all of our people, so that they feel committed and connected to UCSF's mission and are empowered to succeed and advance at the School of Medicine.
Sincerely,
Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD
Dean, UCSF School of Medicine
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Dear School of Medicine Community,
The annual Lloyd "Holly" Smith, Jr. Award, now in its 23rd year, recognizes exceptional service to the School of Medicine. It is the school's most prestigious award and comes with a $5,000 prize.
The Holly Smith Award provides an opportunity to celebrate our colleagues who embody the qualities and contributions exemplified by Holly Smith, MD, professor emeritus and former associate dean, who passed away in June 2018. These include: dedication to the School of Medicine, variety in roles played, commitment to sustaining UCSF's position as a world-class institution, and accomplishing all of the above with humor and grace.
Holly was a luminary in the fields of medical education and research. Many of UCSF’s greatest successes were realized as a direct result of his innovative ideas and unwavering devotion to leading by example.
We are seeking nominations that reflect the great diversity of people at UCSF and encourage you to think of candidates at every level of the organization. There will be up to four awards: one for faculty and one for staff with 5-15 years of service; and one for faculty and one for staff with more than 15 years of service.
Read more about the award and please consider nominating a colleague. Nominations are due by March 24, 2023.
The School of Medicine thrives because our people support each other, our students, and our patients, as we strive for collective excellence. Thank you for helping us to recognize the outstanding work of our staff and faculty, who make the UCSF School of Medicine a great place to work, learn, teach, and discover.
Sincerely,
Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD
Dean, School of Medicine
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Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Blog | |
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UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Community Engagement
The Community Engagement Program aims to improve health equity by building systems to bridge academic research and community practice. The program provides community partners and UCSF researchers the training, resources, and tools necessary to conduct community-engaged science that improves the public’s health. Dr. Keven Grumbach is the Director of the Community Engagement Program for the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He served as Chair of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine from 2003 to 2022. He is a Founding Director of the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care and Director of the Community Engagement.
SFBayCRN - San Francisco Bay Area Collaborative Research Network (SFBayCRN) is a practice-based research network (PBRN) designed to encourage, facilitate and lead mutually beneficial practice-based research partnerships between UCSF researchers and community-based primary health care organizations, practices and clinicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. We provide consultation, linkage, training, and pilot funding.
Resources & Services - Training services include sessions on research and evaluation literacy for community agencies, community-based participatory research and full courses on Implementation Science. The program’s Resource Manuals and Quick-Start Guides to Community-Engaged Research for academic and community partners provides a useful framework.
Partnerships - Foster strong relationships for research collaboration between community health providers, policy makers and academic researchers.
Consultations – Services are available for researchers and community partners on community-engaged research methods, study design, partnership strategies, dissemination, evaluation goals, or advisory board development.
For information, please reach out to: Marquette.goochnelson@ucsf.edu (CTSI) or Dayna.long@ucsf.edu (Dayna Long, MD, FAAP, Faculty Liaison, CTSI) as we will be happy to provide further information regarding CTSI and BCH Oakland.
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POPULATION HEALTH and HEALTH EQUITY | |
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Easier and Cheaper Access to Data for Health Services and Population Health Research
The Population Health Data Initiative, which is a collaboration of the Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine Tech, Population Health and Health Equity program, Center for Healthcare Improvement and Medical Effectiveness (CHIME), and UCSF Library, has continued to enhance the data available to UCSF researchers for health services and population health research.
Their services provide low-cost access to many datasets, support for establishing data use agreements, data storage, and programming support.
If you are purchasing a dataset for your research, please email pophealth@ucsf.edu to explore an institutional license to make it available to all UCSF researchers.
Learn more
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The UCSF Changemaker Series, created by Professor of Medicine Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS, is a four-part video series that seeks to build the capacity of UCSF researchers to generate scientific evidence that is responsive to the needs of real-world decision-makers. Each 10-15 minute video highlights a UCSF researcher in conversation with an interdisciplinary panel of non-academic experts discussing how investigators at all stages of their careers can more meaningfully inform policies, systems, and structures in order to create social or policy change.
Read more
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DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION, and
ANTI-RACISM 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
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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
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UCSF is an institutional member of the National Center on Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD).
Follow these links for a full list of all NCFDD programs including additional Covid-19 Resources.
To gain access to these resources sign up for NCFDD membership by clicking here or contact Irené Merry –Coordinator for the Campus Council on Faculty Life.
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Foundations of DEI Trainings | |
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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
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COVID-19 & Vaccine Updates | |
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Pediatric Grand Rounds
Oakland
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Pediatric Grand Rounds
San Francisco
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Frontiers in Child Health Research Seminar Series | |
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The Frontiers in Child Health Research Seminar Series
Every 2nd and 4th Monday via Zoom only, from 12-1 PM
Presented by leading researchers from UCSF Department of Pediatrics, other departments at UCSF, and outside institutions, the Frontiers in Child Health Research seminars are meant to promote collaboration and stimulate new ideas. Zoom here.
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Stad Center of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine Global Lecture Series | |
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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
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
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Please see attached Flyer: 25th Become an "Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC)-Pediatrics Trainer" VIRTUAL Conference. San Francisco, May 22-24, 2023 plus optional EPEC – Pediatrics Virtual Professional Development Workshop. San Francisco, May 25, 2023. EPEC.Pediatrics@ucsf.edu
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14th Pediatric Pain Master Class. UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine. In-Person Conference. Grand Hyatt San Francisco, December 10-16, 2023. Pediatric.PMC@ucsf.edu
More information to come soon (Acute inpatient pain service plus chronic outpatient pain clinic plus inpatient chronic pain program. Plus, attendance of Pain Master Class & EPEC-Pediatrics Program and optional research project). If you are interested and want to be kept updated, please contact Karen.Sun@ucsf.edu and Stefan.Friedrichsdorf@ucsf.edu.
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PLEASE JOIN OUR CLINICAL TEAM IN OAKLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO
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Would you like to join our groovy growing team as a Pediatric Pain Physician? More Info: LINK
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In addition - we are seeking applications for the UCSF Medical Director Pediatric Pain
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We are in the process of inviting applications for a 1-year Pediatric Pain Fellowship open to pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists at the UCSF Division of Pediatric Pain, Palliative & Integrative Medicine . This would be open to physicians who have undertaken a residency in US/Canada and have (or are eligible for) a California Medical License. Training would include acute inpatient pain service plus chronic outpatient pain clinic plus inpatient chronic pain program. In addition attendance of Pain Master Class & EPEC-Pediatrics Program and optional research project.
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If you are interested in either of the opportunities and want to be kept updated, please contact Karen.Sun@ucsf.edu and Stefan.Friedrichsdorf@ucsf.edu
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From the UCSF Research Development Office | |
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Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dean’s Office
UCSF School of Medicine
Email: bchdeansofcoakland@ucsf.edu
Mailing Address:
747 52nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609
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