Monthly Newsletter | December 2021
News
Ari Hoffman, Director of the St. Mary’s Medical Service, will be transitioning from his role as a full-time faculty member at the end of December to become Chief Clinical Officer at Collective Health. Ari has been our inaugural leader of the St. Mary’s Medical Service since its inception in 2018, and in the planning stages before then. He helped make this service an integrated part of the DHM, and has been an extraordinary leader and advocate for the service and the faculty throughout these past few years. The division is thankful to Ari for his years of service!
Colin Hubbard
Senior Statistical Analyst
Andy Auerbach joined the AHRQ National Advisory Council as one of its seven new members.
Michelle Cai received a WINGS Grant for the November 2021 cycle for the course: Leadership: Environmental Systems (MHA 202).
Congratulations to Sujatha Sankaran, Sri Shamasunder, and Stephanie Rogers who won the 2021 BMJ Awards, which recognizes extraordinary and innovative work of health care professionals across the country!
James Harrison and Nynikka Palmer are co-principal investigators of a PCORI Eugene Washington Engagement Award. This program of work with partners from the UCSF CTSI and three Californian community-based health delivery organizations will create infrastructure and processes that catalyze health equity-focused COVID-19-related research in community settings where diverse and medical underserved patients receive care.
Ben Rosner, Andy Auerbach, Julia Adler-Milstein, and Glenn Rosenbluth received a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop a publicly available catalog of resources that quantify diagnostic performance and feed performance information back to clinicians.
Andy Auerbach and Ben Rosner received a grant from the FDA's Centers of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation to develop a "Digital Variome" that establishes a taxonomy of digital health tools, common metrics across which they can be assessed based on real-world performance, and the data sources from which digital health tools can be measured. 
Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine
As we start winding down 2021 and thinking about growth and goals for the new year, we wanted all of our division members to be aware of some educational activities related to DEI that may be of interest:

Differences Matter DEI Champion training — for anyone looking to learn foundational lessons in implicit bias, privilege/power, and microaggressions.
Teach for UCSF Teaching for Equity and Inclusion Series — for educators looking to learn and practice skills related to equity and inclusivity in the learning environment.
Equity and Justice in Education (EJE) — for anyone seeking support and guidance in educational scholarship surrounding DEI.

For feedback, or to share pearls in the next DHM newsletter, please email Sneha.Daya@ucsf.edu

Have a happy and healthy new year!
Publications
James Harrison, Andy Auerbach, and Tiffany Lee are coauthors of an environmental scan of inpatient visitor policies during COVID-19. This work was developed and implemented in partnership with the HOMERuN Patient & Family Advisory Council.
Tim Judson, Michelle Mourad, and Bob Wachter published an Innovation Report in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. In it, they describe the experience and challenges of building Targeted Automatic e-Consult (TACo) programs at UCSF.
Ben Rosner and Julia Adler-Milstein were coauthors, with Joe Kvedar, on a study in JAMIA Open showing the significant increase in adoption of patient-generated health data (PGHD) nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like telemedicine, PGHD have struggled to gain adoption, but the study suggests that with the lack of in-person vital signs for telemedicine encounters, providers have been increasingly interested in adoption of PGHD as surrogates.
Saj Patel, Logan Pierce, Maggie Jones, Andy Lai, Michelle Cai, Brad Sharpe, and James Harrison published an Innovation Report in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety on the design and development of the DHM Dashboard.
Colin Hubbard was a coauthor on a new study published in Breast Cancer which examined the association between physical health-related quality of life, physical functioning, and risk of contralateral breast cancer among older women.
Elizabeth Dzeng mentored Griffin Collins, a recently graduated UCSF pediatric hematology and oncology fellow, on a qualitative study published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer on the perceptions of specialty palliative care and its role in pediatric stem cell transplant.
Sachin Shah and Margaret Fang coauthored a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine showing that social support meaningfully reduces nursing home use after a health crisis like a cancer diagnosis or hospitalization. The article was referenced and Sachin was quoted in a Washington Post article on whether new monitoring technology can help keep seniors living independently in their own homes.
Owen Huang coauthored a case report published in the Journal of Medical Case Reports about a patient who presented with a markedly low Hb level of 1.4. To the authors' knowledge, this is the lowest recorded hemoglobin in a hemodynamically stable patient not requiring cardiac or supplemental oxygen support. The etiology was attributed to a long history of menometrorrhagia, and the patient's stable presentation was due to impressive, years-long compensation. 
More Publications from DHM
The DHM Quality Post
Rosemary Yau
"Rosemary is the powerhouse behind recruitment season and has been invaluable in creating and tweaking our interview and hiring process this year. So much gratitude for all of her help and wisdom as we grow this amazing division!"

- Sneha Daya and Cat Lau
Shiecca Madzima
"I must shout out my truly exceptional attending, Dr. Shiecca Madzima. Dr. Madzima opened our time on the wards speaking about how she wanted to create a psychologically safe space, how she wanted to address microaggressions and provide great clinical care. Over our time together Dr. Madzima dropped amazing on the fly teaching pearls, led our team through a very challenging call cycle, and because of her our team was always laughing. I felt very safe to be myself, as did I think all of our team members. I feel very lucky that I got to learn from and work with Dr. Madzima."

- Raphaela Lipinsky Degette