October 2021

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Dear PIPE Community, It has been quite a year with many challenges and a few bright spots. The coming of Fall always makes me reflective and brings me renewed energy for the upcoming school year. As I reflect on 2020-2021, I am proud of our program accomplishments despite the challenges. Our team was able to quickly pivot and move our entire curriculum involving 1200 students and 100 facilitators into the online environment and shifted our interprofessional standardized patient exercise traditionally held in the Kanbar Simulation Center to a telehealth simulation. Although there were bumps and hiccups along the way, with the help of our administrative team, competently led by Louise Hendrickson, and our dedicated faculty, we were able to successfully ensure that students met interprofessional learning objectives. Many thanks to all who played a role in this teamwork!

Looking ahead, we will continue our efforts to expand interprofessional learning in clinical settings to provide learners with opportunities to develop and apply their collaboration skills in the context of patient care. We will also work to integrate content on health equity into our core curriculum. We would love to have you join us at our upcoming PIPE Virtual Open House on Wednesday, November 3 from 3 – 4:30 p.m. to celebrate our accomplishments and discuss future directions and priorities for the program. If you are interested in attending, please contact Lorraine Hart. Lastly, I want to introduce Lorraine Hart and Jamison Maeda as our new PIPE program administrators. They will be taking over the day-to-day support of the PIPE program, with Louise in a supervisory role.

Lorraine comes to us from UCSF's Department of Medicine and brings her expertise in HR and Program management to her new role here. Her background includes work at Stanford and in the non-profit sector along with studies in science at Columbia, Northwestern, and Purdue, as well as research at the University of Chicago. In her free time, Lorraine has wide-ranging interests from the San Francisco Botanic Garden to basketball and has been featured the last two years in the Zuckerberg Heart Grant Garden Poetry Installation.

Jamison joined UCSF in 2014 as a Controller’s Office solution center analyst, where he completed multiple business process improvement projects. Soon after, he began his role as an administrative analyst for several Controller’s Office executives. In 2018, Jamison moved to the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery where he was the executive analyst for the chief of Surgery and several other transplant surgeons. Jamison has also served on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Department of Surgery. Jamison spends much of his free time exploring the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Sonoma County. I am excited about the upcoming year and the opportunities that it brings to expand interprofessional education and collaboration. With gratitude, Maria Wamsley

PIPE's New Dental Lead: Jennifer Perkins, MD, DDS

Jennifer Perkins, DDS, MD, is the Executive Director of Clinical Education for the School of Dentistry predoctoral program and an associate professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. "I'm looking forward to helping our students feel more integrated into PIPE and increase their perception of how they can contribute and learn, while understanding the place that PIPE has in their broader education," said Perkins. She is also interested in onboarding full-time faculty to help meaningfully incorporate SOD into PIPE and support more SOD engagement with colleagues at other schools. more

Interprofessional Humanistic Teaching Fellowship Recipients

Funded by the Kern Institute Collaboratories to Transform Medical Education, the year-long fellowship focuses on humanistic approaches to interprofessional care, education, and leadership. This year's cohort is led by Kara Myers, RN, CNM and Calvin Chou, MD. The cohort members: Michelle Buchholz, BSN, MSN, FNP, Family Health Care Nursing Ana Casal, DDS, Dentistry Alexander Dien, PT, DPT, NCS, Physical Therapy and Neurologic Clinical Specialist Luc Fecteau, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS, Physical Therapy Stephanie Hsia, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacy Janice Kim, California Department of Public Health Amanda Ling, NP, RN, MS, Community Health System EJ Gann, PT, DPT, NCS, Physical Therapy and Neurologic Clinical Specialist Jennifer Mandal, MD, Medicine, Division of Rheumatology Laura Perry, MD, Medicine, Division of Geriatrics Maya Raman, MD, Pediatrics Crystal Zhou, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacy

Excellence in IP Teaching Award Recipients

Congratulations to our 2021 Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award recipients! Nominated by their peers, awardees are recognized for their skill in creating an environment that supports interprofessional education and opportunities for learners from different professions – to learn with, from and about each other – to advance patient care. Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH, Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Kimberlee Honda. FNP, director of ZSFG's Pediatric Asthma Clinic James P. Howard, MD, PhD, Pediatrics Barbie Klein, PhD, Anatomy Roseanne Krauter, BSN, MSN, FNP, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Jennifer Mandal, MD, Medicine, Division of Rheumatology Christine Mayor, RN, MSN, PNP, Family Health Care Nursing Jonathon Pascual, RN, Critical Care Nursing Julie Shih, Clinical Pharmacy, specializing in Pediatrics Karen Raju, BDS, MPH, DPH, Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences Mike Reid, MD, Medicine, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacy Matt Tierney, MS, NP, FAAN, Psychiatric Nursing Dina Wallin, MD, Emergency Medicine Sharon Williams, MD, Pediatrics

PIPE Students at CLARION Competition

This past spring, pharmacy student Eline Kocharyan and dental student Roya Rad represented the UCSF team at the national CLARION case competition. The case was how to provide immediate solutions and assistance for a family of survivors after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. They tackled the challenge at federal, state, and local levels with a root-cause analysis. "We wanted to bring something innovative, as we are from UCSF and the Bay Area," said Rad. The two developed a multidisciplinary, triage-based solution. more

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