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Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland
September 2021
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Busy September!
There is still a lot going on. There is a surge. There are fires. There are storms. Rest and recuperate and check out the new resilience room announced below and by all means plan relaxation into your daily schedules as we celebrate quietly this Labor Day weekend.
Vaccine policy: By now you have heard we are offering additional mRNA vaccine doses for patients and employees with impaired immune systems. Please see BCH Oakland specific announcements, as well as the policy announcement from President Matthew Cook from 8/17/2021 for more information on CDPH mandated vaccination requirements for our campus. We await updates from various agencies as we plan to offer and roll out third doses for our hardworking faculty and staff later this month. As yet this is not available.
A lot of effort has gone into developing our vaccine program and our testing program. Kudos to our FQHC who were recognized with three HRSA quality leader awards, two of which are expressly for COVID-19 testing and community COVID-19 vaccine campaign. Unvaccinated visitors to inpatients will need testing as well and at present, we are recommending outside vendors including such as Test the People, conveniently located in our MLK/CHORI parking area, or any of the Alameda County Community Testing sites for COVID-19.
American Academy of Pediatrics has noted that last week alone there were 203,962 cases in children nationwide reported for the week ending 8/26/2021. Thankfully children make up a small percentage of hospitalizations. Nevertheless, we as a health system are challenged with the need for pediatric hospitalization, increased testing, and vaccination during this pediatric surge. Thanks to all faculty that have advised the school districts during this important time.
Proud to announce Celeste Allen, MD as Director of Graduate Medical Education and April Zaat, MD as Director of Undergraduate Medical Education. I know they will do a great job in addition to all their other duties.
On the grants integration front our BCH Oakland CGA, payroll, Dean’s office, and the DOP have collaborated to clarify and simplify the Oakland Payroll Action Form process for sponsored projects. This work will make it easier for cross-bay grants works. Thanks to the team!
As most of you have heard, following Ted Chaconas’ retirement, I have moved into a split role that includes interim Chief Medical Officer at BCH Oakland. In this realm, I will exercise my commitment to quality and safety and work directly with the medical directors on this campus fulfilling the clinical mission. I will also work more closely with President Matthew Cook and senior leadership to represent the physicians. I continue to lead an incredible team in the BCH Oakland Dean’s Office and remain dedicated to clinical faculty, education, research, and advocacy. I remain available to you to meet on mentorship, faculty development, and physician wellbeing. As such, please do reach out to myself and my assistant Tracy Cummings for the Dean’s Office: tracy.cummings@ucsf.edu. Medical directors and those needing to meet with me at the CMO’s office should reach out and note that Jerry Boatwright will continue to provide CMO administrative assistance: jerry.johnson@ucsf.edu.
Respectfully,
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Hannah Chesser, MD
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Endocrinology
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Congratulations to Kelley Meade, MD!
Kelley Meade, MD, Associate Dean of Academic and Clinical Affairs for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, has agreed to serve as interim chief medical officer (CMO) for BCH Oakland. More info
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Congratulations to Dr. Mai Ngo!
Dr. Ngo has been appointed as the Medical Director of Pediatric Rehabilitation at BCH Oakland!
More info
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Corrections from August Issue | |
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Alexander "Anders" Newman, MD
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Associate Fellowship Program Director
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David S. Panek, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Dr. Panek will be working in SF/Oak.
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Updated UCSF Event Policy | |
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Updated August 12, 2021
Guidance on Hosting Meetings and Events
UCSF Temporarily Halts Non-essential Indoor Events
In response to the recent rise of the highly contagious Delta variant, UCSF is reinstating restrictions on indoor events. This policy will be re-evaluated in mid-September. Here are the changes, which are effective immediately:
- Non-essential indoor events and meetings are temporarily not allowed through Sept. 30, 2021
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The 40th Annual Summer Student Research Symposium | |
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40th Bertram Lubin Summer Student Research Program Symposium
On Friday, August 6th, the BCH-Oakland Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) celebrated its 40th year of continuous programming with a small, masked celebration on the MLK campus. Since its founding in 1981 by Dr. Bertram Lubin, the SSRP has had one focus – to increase diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math).
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The wealth of diversity was represented in abundance with this summers’ matriculating class of 39 high school and undergraduate students pursuing careers in biomedical research and other health care fields. The 2021 Interns presented their research in a virtual conference, and later in front of UCSF faculty and staff while we listened to live music and reflected on the successes of 4 decades of alumni. These SSRP interns represent the creativity and hope for the future in biomedical research. Please find more information about their innovative research at our website: summerstudents.ucsf.edu
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Annual Medical Staff Meeting and Awards Presentation September 12, 2021 | 5:00 PM | |
3rd Annual Advocating for Children Together Workshop Series (ACT) 2021 | |
50th Annual Monterey Conference 2021 | |
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We are ready to accept registrations for our 50th Monterey Conference,
November 5-7, 2021
Please take a moment to read the changes we've made to our program.
We are excited to announce that...
- Attendees can choose 2 of 3 Breakout Sessions;
- We will also collect evaluations electronically for CME/CEU credit;
- We will offer an online quiz for APB MOC Part 2 Points for 2022 and best of all
We look forward to seeing everyone at the Embassy Suites in person, in Monterey, in November! Please review the attached brochure and visit the websites below to register for the conference AND to reserve your room at the Embassy Suites TODAY:
Conference: https://bit.ly/50monterey2021
Embassy Suites: https://bit.ly/EmbassySuites2021
A printed copy of the brochure will be sent by USPS this month.
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Faculty Development Day 2021 | |
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Faculty Development Day 2021
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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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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2nd Annual NorCal Symposium on Climate, Health, and Equity - September 24, 2021 | |
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NorCal Symposium on Climate, Health, and Equity
September 24, 2021 | 12-6 PM
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Join UCSF, UC Davis, and Stanford for the 2nd annual NorCal Symposium for Climate, Health, and Equity. The event is for health professionals and students concerned about the climate crisis and invested in climate justice. Children's health will be covered.
Registration Open Now
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Free UCSF Education Skills Workshops!
Now open for registration
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From Victoria Ruddick
Faculty Development Manager
Center for Faculty Educators, School of Medicine
Dear clinical faculty,
These free UCSF Education Skills workshops are open for registration. All workshops are live on Zoom for the time being. Hurry before they fill up!
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Finding Clarity: Establishing Goals and Expectations for Learners
10:00am - 12:00pm Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Educational Strategies to Promote Clinical Reasoning
3:00pm - 5:00pm Thursday, February 17, 2022
Using SOAP for Learner Professionalism
4:00pm - 6:00pm Monday, February 28, 2022
Writing Effective Narrative Evaluations
10:00am - 12:00pm Monday, March 21, 2022
Fundamental Skills in the Art of Effective Feedback - 2 hr
4:00pm - 6:00pm Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Using SOAP for Learner Professionalism
9:00am - 11:00am Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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These workshops are part of the Teach for UCSF Certificate in Clinical Teaching. Read more and enroll now: https://tiny.ucsf.edu/TeachforUCSF
MORE TO COME SOON! Keep an eye out at http://tinyurl.com/T4UCSFclin, center section!
Thanks for your interest in education skills faculty development.
Cheers,
Victoria
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POPULATION HEALTH and HEALTH EQUITY | |
Center of Excellence for Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing | |
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The Center of Excellence for Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing is a cross-bay entity based at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco and serves as the infrastructure for collective action to address the health of children in immigrant families.
To learn more visit: The Center of Excellence for Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing.
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Webinar Video from August 13th: Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Immigrant Families | |
DIVERSITY, EQUITY and INCLUSION 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 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 | |
NEW! The UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Resilience Council is happy to announce the grand opening of BCH Oakland’s RESET ROOM! | |
Thank you to those who donated with the BCH Oakland Dean's office to help make this a success!. More Info | |
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Originally from UCSF Communications
August 25, 2021
UCSF Cope Program Offers Emotional Support – NEW
The UCSF Cope Program, which was created during the COVID-19 crisis to provide emotional support for members of the UCSF community, continues to offer a variety of resources online. The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, part of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, continues to add content to its robust website with resources to support emotional well-being during this crisis. They include:
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A wide array of written content that may be helpful to maintain well-being, including free mental health apps
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Specific resources for employees caring for children and elderly loved ones
- Content that may be helpful for low-income and other groups during this crisis (e.g., free Wi-Fi services, food, childcare; multilingual resources)
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Webinars from internationally recognized experts on stress reduction
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Videos from experts on stress reduction strategies
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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
Please contact Eve.Wiston-Charbonneau@ucsf.edu for Zoom info.
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Special Guest at Frontiers in Child Health Research
September 27, 2021
Attend to learn the latest in discovery and innovation from Pediatrics researchers and faculty. The upcoming seminar "What Genetic Variation Can Teach Us, About Blood Production in Health and Disease" is presented by Vijay Sankaran, MD, a physician-scientist from Boston Children's Hospital.
Please contact Eve.Wiston-Charbonneau@ucsf.edu for Zoom info.
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Stad Center of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine Global Lecture Series | |
You can access the 2021 schedule HERE | |
Seminars are the 1st Thursday of every month 3:00-4:00 pm
To receive a Zoom invitation for this virtual lecture series, 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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Congratulations to Dr. Frans Kuypers!
The rapid spread of COVID-19 also greatly enhances the need for novel interventions and therapeutics. Dr. Frans Kuypers in the Division of Hematology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California in San Francisco, California (USA), and corresponding author for "Secretory phospholipase A2 in SARS-CoV-2 infection and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)" said, "A unique collaboration between Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Benioff Children's Hospital at Oakland enabled us to show that levels of secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2), a biomarker of inflammation, correlated with COVID-19 severity and acute multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) in children. These data align with earlier data in sickle cell disease and sepsis which showed that sPLA2 can be a harbinger of severe organ damage. Regular measurement of sPLA2 can provide an easy and useful biomarker to stratify risk and guide patient management for children with acute COVID-19 and MIS-C. This important proof-of-concept study provides new insights into inflammatory mechanisms involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection and may lead to novel therapies to modulate tissue damage in patients."
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Open: Fall 2021 Cycle Resource Allocation Program (RAP)
E-submission Deadline: Monday, September 27, 2021 @ 2pm/PT
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“Seeding Outstanding Research” at UCSF, the Resource Allocation Program (RAP), a campus-wide program that simultaneously coordinates multiple intramural research funding opportunities, is now accepting applications for the Fall 2021 Cycle.
E-submission deadline: Monday, September 27, 2021, 2 p.m. PT
Funding results: available by the end of December 2021. For details visit the RAP website.
Fall 2021 Highlights and Updates:
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CZ Biohub Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program
Application Deadline: October 1, 2021
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CZ Biohub Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program
Application Deadline: October 1, 2021
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a nonprofit medical research organization in San Francisco, is once again recruiting for the Physician-Scientist Fellowship Program designed to train the next generation of physician-scientists dedicated to advancing medical knowledge and discovery.
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Learn more about this multidisciplinary program by checking out the attached flyer and visiting https://www.czbiohub.org/psfp/. Applications are due October 1, 2021, and the program begins July 1, 2022.
If you have any questions, email physician-scientistfellowships@czbiohub.org.
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NIH Seminar and UCSF Initiatives | |
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SAVE THE DATE:
Fall 2021 NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration!
Monday, November 1 –
Thursday, November 4
Registration is FREE
If you’re new to working with the NIH grants process as an investigator or administrator, then mark your calendar for a unique opportunity to learn, share and meet virtually with NIH and HHS experts.
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Development Office
Special Strategic Projects SSP
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UCSF Initiative for
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Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Dean’s Office
UCSF School of Medicine
510-428-3726
Mailing Address:
747 52nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609
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