A Monthly Digest of Noteworthy Activities and Achievements

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a valuable tool for measuring employee satisfaction. Prior NPS surveys have led to significant improvements in faculty workspaces, leave policies, salary equity reviews, training programs, and much more. Read about the most recent NPS here.

Honors and News

Julia Adler-Milstein was named one of the Most Influential Women in Business by the San Francisco Business Times.

Vipul Jain was named chief of Medicine at UCSF Fresno.

Pictured left to right are the recipients of SOM medical education awards: Brieze Bell (Maxine Papadakis Award for Faculty Professionalism and Respect), Mitchell Luu (Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching for Volunteer Clinical Professors), and Binh An Phan (Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching in a Classroom Setting).

Other Honors and News

Donald Abrams was honored by the Osher Center for Integrative Health, which established a new Donald Abrams Lectureship in Integrative Oncology.

Calvin Chou co-edited Remediation in Medical Education: A Mid-Course Correction.

Karly Murphy received the Irene Perstein Award from the UCSF School of Medicine and the Mount Zion Health Fund.

Matt Springer received a Spark Award from the UC Berkeley Bakar Faculty Fellows program.

The UCSF Care at Home team, led by Rebecca Conant, Michael Harper, and Josette Rivera, received a PRIDE Experience Award from UCSF Health.

DOM in the News

Peter Chin-Hong was quoted by the NY Times about the safety of getting the Covid and flu shots at the same time. He also spoke about Covid strategies with CNN and NBC News.

Monica Gandhi was quoted in the Washington Post and Mercury News regarding the timing of Covid, flu, and RSV vaccines. Slate also reviewed her new book, Endemic: A Post-Pandemic Playbook.

Sheiphali Gandhi spoke to KCBS Radio about her research into popular countertop stone slabs that are resulting in increased cases of silicosis, predominantly in young Latino men.

Cheyenne Garcia wrote an op-ed for Newsweek advocating for an end to generational homelessness.

A. Jay Holmgren was featured on KFF News discussing billing for patient messaging and on the AMA Steps Forward podcast talking about using EHR metadata to study patient inbox management.

Sarah Kim was quoted by the SF Standard explaining why weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy have increased in popularity.

Suneil Koliwad spoke to KCBS Radio commenting on a new study linking rising obesity rates over the last 20 years to increasing prevalence of heart disease.

Margot Kushel was quoted by the LA Times reacting to a proposed California law to address homelessness and illicit drug use.

Carlin Long spoke to Health explaining the pros and cons of taking low-dose aspirin to prevent a stroke or heart attack.

Tiana Moore spoke to US News & World Report about the difficulties low-income and unhoused groups experience in obtaining the newest Covid booster.

Michael Peluso and Timothy Henrich were quoted by NPR detailing new research findings on long Covid.

Rebecca Sudore spoke to the Atlantic regarding how to improve equity in end-of-life care.

Diana Thiara was quoted by the AP describing the difficulty in trying to obtain the weight loss drug Wegovy.

Geoff Tison was featured in the SF Chronicle about his work to develop computer algorithms to detect three heart conditions that affect around 75 million people worldwide.

Bob Wachter was interviewed by NPR and the SF Chronicle on the current state of Covid. He and his wife, journalist and author Katie Hafner, were interviewed at the Commonwealth Club regarding their work advancing public understanding of science and health care through various media.

Brandon Yan wrote an op-ed in the SF Chronicle proposing better ways of measuring the effectiveness of city-funded substance use treatment programs.

Next Acts: A Workshop and Panel Discussion for Faculty in Later Career

You are invited to an upcoming panel discussion tailored for senior faculty who are navigating the next steps in their professional journeys. Whether you’re contemplating retirement, exploring alternative career paths, or seeking to re-envision your successful career at UCSF, these events are designed to provide valuable guidance. Register here by October 16.

Recent Grants of Note

Jennifer Lai and team: a grant of $7M over 5 years from the National Institute on Aging for a project entitled, “The spectrum of cognitive impairment including Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias after liver transplantation.”

Elaine Ku, Chi-yuan Hsu, and team: a U2C grant of $4.2M over 5 years and a linked TL1 grant of $6.3M over 5 years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for projects entitled, “Learners to LeAders in benign urology, benign nephrology, and non-cancer hematology – NRSA,” and “NRSA training core.”

Gideon St. Helen and team: a grant of $3.6M over 5 years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a project entitled, “Understanding the clinical pharmacology of marijuana-tobacco co-administration.”

Recent Publications of Note

Fang MC, Reynolds K, Fan D, Prasad PA, Sung SH, Portugal C, Garcia E, Go AS. Clinical outcomes of direct oral anticoagulants vs warfarin for extended treatment of venous thromboembolism. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Aug 1;6(8):e2328033. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.28033.
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Ge J, Fontil V, Ackerman S, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC. Clinical decision support and electronic interventions to improve care quality in chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Hepatology. 2023 Aug 23. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1097/HEP.0000000000000583.
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Growdon ME, Smith AK. The maelstrom of medications-optimization of prescribing during the course of dementia. JAMA Intern Med. 2023 Aug 21. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.3584.
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Hanna GJ, Ahn MJ, Muzaffar J, Keam B, Bowles DW, Wong DJ, Ho AL, Kim SB, Worden F, Yun T, Meng X, Van Tornout JM, Conlan MG, Kang H. A phase 2 trial of rivoceranib, an oral vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 inhibitor, for recurrent or metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Aug 29:CCR-23-1030. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-23-1030.
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Harrison KL, Boyd N, Ritchie CS. Toward gerineuropalliative care for patients with dementia. N Engl J Med. 2023 Aug 31;389(9):775-778. Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2301347.
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Kizer JR, Patel S, Ganz P, Newman AB, Bhasin S, Lee SJ, Cawthon PM, LeBrasseur N, Shah SJ, Psaty BM, Tracy RP, Cummings SR. Circulating growth differentiation factors 11 and 8, their antagonists follistatin and follistatin-like-3, and risk of heart failure in elders. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2023 Aug 25:glad206. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glad206. >> PubMed Citation

Marcus GM. Coffee's effects on cardiac arrhythmias, physical activity, sleep and serum glucose: Insights from the coffee and real-time atrial and ventricular ectopy trial. Clin Transl Med. 2023 Aug;13(8):e1348. doi: 10.1002/ctm2.1348. >> PubMed Citation

Sakumoto M. Virtual first emergency medicine visits: The future of convenient and efficient emergency care. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Aug 3;25:e47637. doi: 10.2196/47637. >> PubMed Citation

Sauceda JA, Lisha NE, Ludwig-Barron N, Salazar J, Dilworth SE, Johnson MO, Christopoulos KA, Koester KA, Moore RD, Mayer KH, Fredericksen RJ, Mugavero MJ, Neilands TB. The brief Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) index: A rapid 3-item scale to measure engagement in HIV care. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Aug 14;77(3):425-427. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad200. >> PubMed Citation

Wagner JA. Learning to fly. JAMA. 2023 Sep 5;330(9):809-810. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.14906. >> PubMed Citation

See all 57 DOM-authored publications from last month.

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