Monthly Newsletter | July 2022
News
Congratulations to Ashraf Abugroun who was selected as a John A. Watson Scholar and recipient of the Dean's Diversity Fund.
Mauricio Jalife Bucay
Assistant Clinical Professor
Brad Sharpe was awarded the 2022 Harry Hollander Award for Clinical Reasoning Teaching.
Andy Lai was awarded the 2022 Floyd C. Rector Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Trevor Jensen is the new Director for the Procedures Service.
Lena Loo has been promoted to Administrative Officer 3 as Rosemary Yau’s former position.
Akshay Ravi presented a poster at the 2022 AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference about a new approach to clinical informatics education to improve diversity and inclusion in informatics.
Archna Eniasivam has been selected as an inaugural UCSF Health Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Physician Clinical Lead.
DHM CME Courses in Hawaii:
June 20-June 24, 2022
The Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for the Hospitalist Workshop, chaired by Trevor Jensen, was a hands-on experience to learn the techniques of bedside ultrasound. This course was held at The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, June 20-21, 2022.
The Hospital Medicine: Evidence to Practice Course, chaired by Brad Sharpe, covered the clinical issues most relevant to hospitalists and other clinicians who care for inpatients and highlighted recent advances and current controversies. This course was held at The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, June 22-24, 2022.
Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine
"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody’s going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that That knowledge will help set you free."

~Assata Shakur
To learn more about local true history and true heroes, consider this book, "Black Against Empire: the History and Politics of the Black Panther Party" by Joshua Bloom. An excerpt from this book referencing Assata Shakur is below:
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Publications
Stephanie Rogers, James Harrison, and colleagues have published a landscape assessment of Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Units. This study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, identifies existing ACE units in the United States and describes variations in implementation.
Akshay Ravi was a coauthor on a new study accepted by the Journal of Neurosurgery which evaluated a machine learning model to predict risk of recurrence for WHO Grade I Meningiomas after complete resection.
Ashraf Abugroun was coauthor on a study in Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine that sought to determine whether newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation predicted cardiovascular events and death after myocardial infarction in a large nationwide cohort of patients. The study showed that AF is a significant predictor of mortality, acute myocardial infarction, and stroke. Neither age, race nor sex modified the effects of AF on these outcomes.
Ashraf Abugroun was coauthor a study in Diabetes Epidemiology and Management that sought to investigate the impact of hydroxychloroquine on the risk of diabetes mellitus in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. The study provides further evidence for the antidiabetic effect of hydroxychloroquine in a lupus cohort.
Margaret Fang, Priya Prasad, and colleagues were coauthors on a study published in Thrombosis Research. They surveyed 2230 people taking anticoagulants for venous thromboembolism and found that although treatment satisfaction may be higher with DOACs, there is no difference in health-related quality of life between DOAC and warfarin users. 
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