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Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland
August 2022
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Looking Ahead
Thanks to Dr. Lela Bachrach for forwarding this perspective update about health worker burnout from Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, from August 18, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine. It is on our minds and will be the topic of two long-awaited BCH Oakland & SF all-faculty meetings. The first will occur Sept 1 and the second tentatively on October 27. Both will be recorded. The goal of the first meeting is to galvanize our collective thoughts about our clinical work environment, review the data and suggest 1 or 2 high-impact intervention(s) in concert with UCSF Health Leaders. The follow-up meeting will include department chairs and SOM leaders to discuss shared implementation. We look forward to seeing you virtually.
The good news is that we just hit the low tier for COVID transmission in Alameda County. However, we now have Monkeypox. Our vaccination effort has been very targeted to date but we are working on a plan with county partners and our infectious disease experts to get the vaccine to at-risk populations. County treatment and prevention resources can be found in this advisory. Please take appropriate infection control precautions including PPE.
Streamlining communications is of critical importance. We all use several ways to communicate with each other. There is certainly a quality imperative that we reduce variability in this regard. As of August 1, 2022, all provider, nursing, and clinical support roles are now on Voalte. Please take this time to familiarize yourself with the Voalte Me app and appropriately sign into (and out of) your role. We are setting the deadline for September 1, 2022, to use this system for cross-disciplinary communications within the hospital. SPOK mobile paging is indeed functional as well. Once we are all reliably on Voalte messages from SPOK can forward these messages as alerts through Voalte and eventually Voalte can serve as a pager replacement. Thanks for your partnership as we adopt this critical tool.
Let's see this through!
Kelley
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Don't Miss it...
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The BCH Oakland & SF All-Faculty Meeting
Thursday, September 1, 2022 | 5:00 - 6:00 PM (Part 1)
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | 5:00 - 6:00 PM (Part 2)
More info
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Contact Tracy Cummings with any questions.
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Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to introduce Sarah Cairo, MD, MPH to the BCH community. She will be joining BCH as a Pediatric General Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery. She will be doing her clinical work at both BCHSF and BCHOak. Read More
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From Sandrijn van Schaik, MD PhD
Pediatric Critical Care Specialist
Fellowship Program Director for the Sub-Specialty Training Program in Pediatric Critical Care at UCSF
Dear All,
I am so pleased to announce that nine of our faculty will be inducted into the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators this fall, a record number for our department! Please join me in congratulating the following people with this well-deserved honor!
Celeste Allen, MD, Carmen Cobb, MD, Eddie Cruz-Romero, MD, MPH, Mansi Desai, MD,
Valerie Gribben, MD, Efrat Lelkes, MD, Laura H. Rubinos, MD, Dina Wallin, MD,
April Zaat, MD
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From Art D'Harlingue, MD
Director of Neonatology
BCH Oakland
The BCH Oakland ECLS Center has been awarded the ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support – Gold Level!
Our ECMO program at BCH-Oakland started in 1988. We recently put our 400th patient on ECMO. The program received the ELSO (Extracorporeal Life Support Organization) award of excellence 3 years ago at the Gold level. We had to reapply this year for the award, and we learned that we were successful once again at the Gold level for the ELSO Award of Excellence. We owe much of this success to the great work of our ECMO co-directors, Dr. Leslie Lusk and Dr. Brendan Gallagher, to our ECMO Nurse Coordinator Carolyn Lund, to all the great ECMO nurses and physicians, and to the support from all the NICU and PICU staff!
The Award Presentation Ceremony will be part of the 33rd Annual ELSO Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts in September.
More Info
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Congratulations Dr. Natalie Cvijanovich!
Dr. Cvijanovich's SCCM Congress presentation, “Corticosteroids in Sepsis: Why, Who, and How Much?” has been selected for the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) Best of SCCM Congress. More Info.
Society of Critical Care Medicine | SCCM
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Congratulations to Dr. Jyothi Marbin and Dr. Ann Petru for being part of the Hella Feminist exhibit at the Oakland Art Museum!
The exhibit will be here until January 2023. More info
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Innovations Funding for Education Grant and
The Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education (PIPE) Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant
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Innovations Funding for Education 2023
Call for Proposals
Concept Proposals Due: September 12th
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The Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant
Concept Proposals Due: November 2nd
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Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Blog | |
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UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Consultation Services
CTSI’s mission is to facilitate clinical and translational research to improve patient and community health. We do this by providing infrastructure, services and training to enable research to be conducted more efficiently, effectively and in new ways.
CTSI’s Consultation Service program provides comprehensive and integrated expert consultations for every stage of research. Consultations are available for study design and implementation, biostatistics and machine learning, data extraction, data management, and participant recruitment. Study recruitment consultations and services include the EHR Recruitment service, Social Media recruitment, and consultations on strategies for recruitment of underrepresented populations. Other consultations include APeX-enabled research, community-engaged research, digital health, natural language processing (NLP), population health and health services research, practice-based research design (SFbayCRN – SF Bay Clinical Research Network), regulatory knowledge and ethics, scientific writing, and more. Visit the consultation request page for further details and self-help resources prepared by experts, covering topics such as clinical study tools and tips and online sample size calculators.
For all UCSF investigators, the first hour of consultation per project is free and subsequent hours are billed at our current rates, as approved by the UCSF Budget Office. Some consultations, such as community-engaged research, are free for the entire period. More information on billing and recharge policies can be found on our website (consult.ucsf.edu).
Visit our website (consult.ucsf.edu) to request a consultation. Consultations are scheduled on a "first come, first served" basis, so submit your request early to ensure that you can meet project deadlines. Once you submit a request, you can expect to hear from your consultant in 2-5 business days to set up next steps and schedule the first meeting, which can usually be arranged within about 2 weeks.
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.
CTSI Team
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Dear School of Medicine Community,
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Jack Resneck, Jr, MD as Chair of the UCSF Department of Dermatology, effective September 15, 2022.
Dr. Resneck joined the faculty in 2003 after completing his medical school training, internship in internal medicine, residency in dermatology, and health policy fellowship all at UCSF. He most recently served as Professor and Vice Chair in the UCSF Department of Dermatology and holds a joint appointment as affiliated faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. After leading the dermatology residency program for several years and chairing UCSF’s Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy (CCEP), he became executive medical director for the dermatology clinics. More Info
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William Rhea Memorial Lectureship
Wednesday, August 31 | 6:30-8:30PM
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UCSF BCH 52nd Monterey Conference
Wednesday, November 4-6, 2022
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Faculty Development Day 2022
Wednesday, September 21 | 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Faculty Development Day 2022
Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Click here to register and to receive Zoom link(s)
WHO should participate?
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All faculty at any career stage are invited, but it is particularly relevant for new and early career faculty.
WHY attend?
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Enhance your career through plenary sessions and interactive workshops.
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Focus on faculty development, including advancement and promotion, and succeeding academically at UCSF – click here to view the detailed program for the day.
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Updated Clinical Provider Guidance for Monkeypox (MPX)
(As of August 19, 2022)
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Voalte for Clinical Communications at UCSF Health
(Updated 8/19/22)
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Now that inpatient staff (nurses, RTs, dietitians, SWs, therapists, etc.) are using Voalte, it is extremely important for all providers to be logged into Voalte and assign themselves to their appropriate role(s) (called “units” within the “Pediatric Provider BCH Oak building” in the Voalte directory). Failure to do so may lead to communication delays and patient safety issues.
More Info
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Dr. Kevan McCarten-Gibbs, MD will be stepping down as BCH-Oakland Section Chief after serving in the role for the past seven years. His last day in the role will be August 31, 2022.
The interim Emergency Medicine Section Chief will be, Al Johnson, MD, effective September 1, 2022.
Please join us in congratulating Kevan on his years as Section Chief and welcoming Al into this interim role.
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Dr. Renee Howard is stepping down as BCH-Oakland Section Chief. Nicole Kittler, MD will assume the role as Section Chief for Dermatology, effective September 1, 2022.
Please join us in congratulating Renee Howard, MD for her role as Section Chief and welcoming Nicole into this role.
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Updated UCSF Event Policy | |
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Guidance on Hosting Meetings and Events
For more information, see Guidance for Hosting Meetings and Events. Please contact Amanda.Lucas@ucsf.edu at BCH Oakland with questions.
Our top priority is to ensure the safety of the UCSF community and our patients. Any event plan is conditional on current health orders.
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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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Release of the UCSF Changemaker Series | |
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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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The DEI/AR Council is proud to present our second annual Action Plan for Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in FY2022. This strategic plan was created collaboratively by the BCH DEI/AR Council, Senior Leadership, Executive Leadership, and the Board of Directors. Moving forward, the work must continue to be collaborative since we know that the impacts of diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism occur at individual, institutional and systemic levels.
https://diversitybch.ucsf.edu/deiar-action-plan-2022
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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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UCSF Cultural Groups and Resources | |
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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
2nd and 4th Mondays, 12-1 pm, via Zoom
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Stad Center of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine Global Lecture Series | |
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
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13th Annual Pediatric Pain Master Class (Face-to-face & Virtual). San Francisco, Dec 3-9, 2022 Pediatric.PMC@ucsf.edu Early Bird (=reduced) registration available before Sept 4, 2022 Registration Link
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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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Avoid an Unnecessary Delay in Your IRB Review
When submitting a new study, be sure to use the recently updated (June 1) consent and assent form templates. New studies that do not use the current templates will be returned to the PI without review.
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2023 Western Medical Research Conference
Call for Abstracts - Deadline September 23, 2022
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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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