Monthly Newsletter | September 2022

Nancy Choi and Carmen Cobb-Walch are new members of The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators. The Academy is a community of dedicated educators who work together to strengthen their own teaching and to promote excellence in teaching across UCSF. Academy members are recognized as highly accomplished educators and are often consulted by colleagues and departmental leaders on questions of educational import. Due to the rigor of the selection process, Academy membership is known to be a sign of outstanding performance by the committees that oversee UCSF's merit and promotion process.

Emily Insetta, Shradha Kulkarni, and Shubhra Gupta were awarded the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators annual peer-nominated Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2022 (Academic Year 2021-2022). 

Julia Adler-Milstein was featured in an article about the complexities on finding your immunization records and offers potential solutions to these issues.

Ben Rosner presented at the UC Tech 2022 Conference on August 16, 2022, about the Moore Foundation funded work that Ben, Julia Adler-Milstein, Andy Auerbach, Glenn Rosenbluth, and 16 colleagues from across the country are doing to catalog and build a publicly facing repository of diagnostic performance feedback tools that health systems can use to help improve diagnostic recalibration.

Divisional Lead for Diversity in Recruitment and Hiring: Accepting Applications

We are accepting applications for a divisional lead for diversity in recruitment and hiring, who will work closely with Sarah Alba-Nguyen (as the Director of GME Diversity and Residency Diversity Committee Chair), Cat Lau (faculty lead for recruitment and hiring), and Lena Loo (staff lead for recruitment and hiring). 

Applications involve submitting a CV and statement of interest to Lena Loo, deadline September 14, 2022.

In this month's Pearl we will highlight Labor Day with this conversation between Ibram X. Kendi and Robin D. G. Kelley: "Beyond Capitalism: A Multiracial Labor Movement."

Dr. Kelley is professor of history at UCLA, who studies social movements, and said:

"Race and gender and citizenship status determines wages, it determines employment opportunities, it determines the kind of labor you do. Whether it's skilled, unskilled and unprotected, unpaid, paid — All of this is shaped by value, racial value."

And in health care, we see the downstream impact of this as measured by inequities in outcomes, experience and access. A largely employer-based health care system, lack of a single-payor universal health care system, lack of universal sick-paid leave, especially relevant during the COVID pandemic.

Listen to or read this conversation between Dr. Kendi and Dr. Kelley to learn more.

Tim Judson and coauthors recently published a study in JMIR Human Factors, which evaluated user experience and user-reported alternatives to use of a COVID-19 symptom checker.

Smitha Ganeshan, Michelle Mourad, and Tim Judson were coauthors on a new study recently accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, which evaluated disparities in use of online self-scheduling for imaging studies.