DEM Weekly Snapshot

Weekly Snapshot

Week of April 11, 2022 | Edited by: Meredith Lew Tan

DEM TB Testing

TB Testing is required annually for all UCSF staff and faculty at ZSFG as a ZSFG Occupational Health Services policy, regardless of your clinical activity. If you spend any time on the ZSFG campus, you will be required to complete the annual TB screening.

SFDPH will be conducting the screening, but test information will be collected and sent to UCSF on your behalf. If you know are known to test positive, you are still required to come in and complete the test questionnaire.

Dates: Monday, April 25, 2022 (first visit) and April 27, 2022 (return visit)

Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: Building 3, Room 501

Update on Building 3 Guests and Vendors Access

At the start of the pandemic, ZSFG locked the perimeter doors of nearly all buildings on campus including Building 3. As onsite activities continue to increase, including meetings, we have requested the lobby door for Building 3 be unlocked during regular business hours so that vendors and guests could enter the building and use the 1^st floor phone to call the Division for elevator access.

We received notice that perimeter doors will not be unlocked moving forward because of the increased campus security benefits.

Logistically, the DEM admin team is unable to view and remotely open the lobby door. Therefore, when you have a vendor or guest coming onsite, please utilize the following workflow:

Give your direct contact number to your vendor or guest.
Tell Meredith when you are expecting a vendor or guest, so she has a heads-up in case the person makes it through the lobby door and calls up for elevator access. Meredith will continue answer the elevator phone for access.
When your vendor or guests arrive, they should contact you directly so that you can go down to bring them into the building and up the elevator.

Thank you for your understanding as we navigate this permanent security measure.

Announcements

DOM Call for Artists in the Department

The ZSFG Dept of Medicine is seeking to reveal the power and healing of art in all its forms. They are planning an upcoming ZSFG DOM newsletter to highlight artists in the department. The issue will focus on faculty, staff, and learners engaged in the creation of art that connects to our community. Genres we hope to represent include visual art, music, theatre, dance, photo/video, literary, and decorative. Please use this link to nominate yourself or your colleagues.

BSL2* and Bathrooms to be cleaned - April 14

BSL2* anteroom and all bathroom floors being cleaned on April 14^th from 5:00pm – 11:00pm.

UCSF Non-Employee Guest Policy

Non-UCSF guests (individuals that are not UCSF faculty, staff and learners including vendor staff) must be fully vaccinated to attend or support an in-person meeting or event. Non-UCSF guests/attendees require visitor approval before arriving on campus. Event planners should obtain such approval at least one week prior to the event date.

Non-employee guests may continue to attend UCSF events—on or off site—for the following purposes:

To preserve the safety of a patient or research subject; or
To preserve the results of a research activity (e.g., research monitoring or equipment repair); or
To permit interview and related, limited activities involving final candidates for UCSF positions; or
To meet a graduation requirement for students/trainees;
Participate in a UCSF-approved meeting, event, or activity

Either the guest or the UCSF host can apply for approval by going completing the Pandemic Guest Approval to Enter Campus Form. This applies to all campus indoor and outdoor meetings at UCSF campus facilities and UCSF-sponsored off-site events.

UCSF International Travel Update

International UCSF-sponsored travel requires approval for UCSF-sponsored work or study. Domestic UCSF-sponsored travel requires no approval.

For faculty, staff, post-docs, residents, and fellows

The new approval form must be signed and attached to your reimbursement request via MyExpense.
Approval now comes from the Department Chair who can delegate the approval authority from chair/director to vice chair, division chief and/or CAO. A record must kept of the delegation approval.
Travel criteria have changed (trip doesn’t need to be determined as essential) and now relate to staffing issues. If 3 or more staff from same dept. are to travel together please consider the impact on the dept. if all or some of the travelers were affected by COVID, or impacted by travel delays.

Two-step COVID-19 testing is required following international travel.

WINGS Staff Development Grant Program

The School of Medicine is committed to employee career growth and development and to supporting educational activities for our staff. If you are a staff employee in the School of Medicine, you are eligible to apply for a grant to support the cost of a course or other educational opportunity.

The next application deadline for the WINGS Staff Development Grant Program is May 6, 2022. Applications will cover classes starting on May 15, 2022, running through and including August 31, 2022. Grant amounts range between $200-$400, depending on the number of applications received for the grant cycle.

WINGS Program Description

Online Application

UCSF COVID-19 Policy Updates

On April 1, UCSF will be removing the masking requirements for the campus – it will remain in place for clinical/hospital settings. However, since we are based at ZSFG, our actions must align with SFDPH policies. Masks must still be worn when onsite at ZSFG.

Staffing Updates

Departures

None

Arrivals

Divya Nalluri, Temporary Lab Assistant, DEM Admin

Current Openings

Translational Research Faculty - DEM
Postdoc - Feeney Lab
Professional Researcher- Feeney Lab
CRC - Henrich Lab
SRA II - Hunt Lab
Specialist (Flow Cytometry) - Hunt Lab
SRA I/II - Rajan Lab
Postdoc - Rutishauser Lab
SRA I - Vasquez Lab
Postdoc - Henrich Lab (coming soon)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resource

Disability Justice: An Audit Tool

“Disability Justice: An Audit Tool” is aimed at helping Black, Indigenous and POC-led organizations (that are not primarily focused around disability) examine where they’re at in practicing disability justice, and where they want to learn and grow. It includes questions for self-assessment, links to access tools, organizational stories and more.

Click here to learn more about this piece written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and envisioned by Stacey Park Milbern and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.