News from the Associate Dean's Office

Message from the Associate Dean - BCH Oakland

February 2022

February is Black History Month

African Americans have been a central part of Oakland throughout most of its history, contributing to its rise from mid-nineteenth century fledgling railroad town to the major West Coast port city, thriving tech hub, and trendy tourist attraction it is today. In 1869, thirteen years after its incorporation as a town, Oakland became the western terminus for the Transcontinental Railroad, a development that led to the steady arrival of African Americans.[1]

There was a second migration between 1940 and 1970 which brought Black thought, sports and cultural leaders including:

Maya Angelou, poet
Bill Russell, NBA Player for Celtics, attended McClymond’s High School where we now host a school-based clinic.
Ryan Coogler, director of Fruitvale Station and Marvel's "Black Panther”
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party

Our hospital has been an anchor institution in the heart of North Oakland.

In a book called "The Hospital Women Built for Children" published in 1967 by Lederer, Street & Zeus Co., our hospital’s black history was captured in these images of the little hero awards for children treated and the occasional visitor:

Fast forward to present day, our investigators at BCH Oakland are nearing a cure for Sickle Cell Disease and addressing discrimination in our screening for adversity. We still have so much DEI-AR work to do and yet we can pause this month to praise these accomplishments.

It is also the Year of the Tiger, according to the lunar calendar. The tiger symbolizes courage and bravery. We have all been brave this year. We have shown our resiliency.

Some of our BCH family are moving on to retirement. I want to publicly thank Mina Davenport for her years of service as the BCH Oakland librarian. With her help, we are making a transition plan that will streamline and improve services working with UCSF Library.

I would be remiss to not mention the pandemic. Stay tuned for exciting developments in the roll out of vaccines for children. Thank you all for your tremendous contribution during this poignant time in the history of health.

Let's see this through,

Kelley

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[1] https://oaklandherenow.com/blackoakland

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome Suresh Gunasekaran

President & CEO, UCSF Health

Dear Colleagues,

As one of the country’s leading academic health systems, UCSF has made a commitment to Advancing Health Worldwide. Fulfilling this commitment requires that we tackle and solve today’s most challenging problems in biomedical science and healthcare.

Our clinical programs have grown – both within UCSF Health facilities and at affiliated sites throughout Northern California. In addition, we continue to improve our delivery of clinical care. However, we never want to lose our identity as an academic health system deeply committed to training the next generation of clinicians and supporting innovative research.

Despite the many challenges facing academic health systems nationwide, UCSF is as strong as ever and the clinical and academic excellence of our organization is a great source a pride. Our academic health system is a success in large part because we can recruit the best and brightest leadership, faculty, staff, and learners from around the world. They set standards for and provide the highest quality patient care, train the next generation of healthcare professionals, conduct cutting edge biomedical research, and guide health policy throughout the world. The recruitment of Suresh Gunasekaran to serve as the next president and chief executive officer to lead UCSF’s clinical enterprise is no exception.

Congratulations Julie Saba!

Mark C. Walters, MD

Jordan Family Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program/BCH-Oak

Interim Chief, Hematology, Pediatrics/Hematology

Congratulations to Julie Saba, MD, PhD for her successful DISC2 CIRM grant award - $1.463M to develop AAV gene therapy for sphingosine phosphate lyase insufficiency syndrome.

Stem Cell Agency Board Approves Two Early-Stage Research Programs Targeting Cartilage Damage

UCSF Mid-Career Development Program for Research Faculty - Deadline February 7th

Dear colleagues:

We are pleased to announce the second call for applications for the UCSF Mid-Career Development Program for Research Faculty. This unique program is intended to promote workforce equity at UCSF.

Given the lack of women and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty who focus on research and are at Associate or Full rank at UCSF and nationally, the main goal of this program is to provide career mentorship and sponsorship to research faculty who are women or historically marginalized.

During this review cycle, we will select up to three faculty members for this two-year award. Selection criteria, application components and timeline, and program components are outlined below. All candidates who meet these criteria are encouraged to apply. We strongly encourage URM women research faculty to apply.

Please email Claudine Catledge (claudine.catledge@ucsf.edu) with any questions or for more details.

Sincerely,

Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD

Dean, School of Medicine

Application & Info

Annual Lloyd "Holly" Smith, Jr. Award

Nominations due by March 18, 2022

Dear School of Medicine Community,

The annual Lloyd "Holly" Smith, Jr. Award, now in its 22nd year, recognizes exceptional service to the School of Medicine. It is the school's most prestigious award and comes with a $5,000 prize.

Updated UCSF Event Policy

Guidance on Hosting Meetings and Events

Please note that guidance on events is rapidly changing. Refer to coronavirus.ucsf.edu for the most up-to-date info. Please contact Amanda.Lucas@ucsf.edu at BCH Oakland with questions.

UCSF adheres to the San Francisco Department of Public Health COVID-19 health requirements, and, in some instances, our requirements are more stringent given our unique role as an academic, medical, and research enterprise. Our top priority is to ensure the safety of the UCSF community and our patients. Any event plan is conditional on current health orders.

More Info

2022 Founders Day Chancellor Awards

Dear UCSF Community,

We are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2022 Founders Day Chancellor Awards will be accepted from January 3 – February 16.

The Founders Day Chancellor Awards recognize and celebrate our colleagues for their extraordinary contributions to the university, as well as to the larger local and global community. The eligibility requirements, award criteria, nomination form, and a list of prior recipients are available online. Nominations are being accepted for the following awards...Read More

Mandatory COVID-19 Policies Requiring Action

Dear UCSF Community,

There are several actions you must take to meet new mandatory COVID-19 policies issued by UCSF/UC and the California Department of Public Health. This is the latest of several updates you have received, in a sign of how quickly circumstances are changing around the Omicron and Delta variants.

Daily Health Screener Guide

Expanded Testing at BCH Oakland

Dear BCH Community,

The health of our patients, staff and community remains our top priority. We continue to use masking, physical distancing, health screening, vaccination and testing requirements, and other measures to maintain a safe environment at all UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals facilities.

In support of this priority, we are expanding our onsite testing services at BCH Oakland to help ensure that testing is available and accessible for our BCH community, in partnership with CitiHealth. Read More

Free UCSF Education Skills Workshops!

Open for registration

Teach for UCSF Certificate Program

Upcoming Workshops

Clinical Teaching
1:00pm - 5:00pm Thursday, February 17, 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
Is it Hot in Here? Learning Climate in Medical Education
3:00pm - 5:00pm Thursday, March 10, 2022

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!

With Sadness...

Dear BCH Oakland Colleagues,

It is with great sadness that we share news of the recent passing of former Children’s Hospital Oakland Chief Operations Officer Harold Williams, who died on Friday, December 31, 2021, in McDonough, Georgia. He was 77.

Harold served as COO and Executive Vice President for our Oakland hospital from 1984 until 1999. He will be remembered for his tremendous contribution to our hospital and for his unwavering service to our community’s children.

A full obituary is available here.

Please join us in sharing our condolences with Harold’s family members, friends, and former colleagues. May we all honor his legacy through our ongoing commitment to the patients and families we are privileged to serve.

Thank you,

BCH Leadership

POPULATION HEALTH and HEALTH EQUITY

Population Health and Health Equity

has a new website!

Check out

Tools for work in health equity

The Cure for Child Homelessness: Affordable housing

The Nation.

Here is an article by Christine Ma, MD

that was featured in The Nation. (Jan 31, 2022 issue)

Funding Opportunity

Legislative Notice:

Listos California Community Resilience Grants Program

Link to Cal OES News

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION, and

ANTI-RACISM at UCSF BCH

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

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

February is Black History Month!

Check out the beautiful and informative Black History Month webpage created by the BCH's DEI Council, featuring:

Black History Month Fact Sheet
List of UCSF Black History Month Events
Health and Wellness featuring 3 medical students addressing racial disparities in medicine
Celebration of Black/African American women
African American and Anti-Racism books
Mind the Gap: A handbook of clinical signs in Black and Brown skin. Download for free HERE .
And many more resources!!

Virtual Backgrounds for Black History Month can be downloaded HERE

BCH DEI/AR COUNCIL UPDATES

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

DEI Trainings

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Training

Now offered virtually in 2 sessions!

See the upcoming sessions and register HERE

UCSF Cultural Groups and Resources

UCSF Multicultural

Resource Center

UCSF BCH

Heritage Month Celebrations

UCSF LGBT

Resources

Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance (APASA)

BCH Black Caucus

Oakland

Chicanx Latinx Campus Assocation (CLCA)

The Black Caucus

at UCSF

UCSF Committee on Disability Inclusion

UCSF PRIDE Values

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

RESOURCES

COVID-19 & Vaccine Updates

UCSF COVID-19 Resources

Vaccine Information Hub

Updates from Josh Adler,

Chief Clinical Officer UCSF Health

UCSF Responds to Surge in COVID-19 Cases

Among Employees, Learners

Wellness

UCSF Wellness Resources Hub

Useful Wellness and Mental Health Apps: https://psychiatry.ucsf.edu/coronavirus/apps

Coronavirus.ucsf.edu

Emotional Well-Being

CARES

UCSF Collaborative to Advise on Re-opening Education Safely (CARES)

EDUCATION

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Oakland

Oakland Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds is every Tuesday 8:00-9:00 AM via Zoom only.

NOTE: Due to Zoom trespasses,

all attendees must register at EACH Grand Rounds attended.

Contact Cristina.Fernandez@ucsf.edu for log-in information

Please contact William Burrough, Chief Resident,

for Case Conference information: william.burrough@ucsf.edu

Did you miss Grand Rounds?

Visit http://vimeo.com/album/2238536 and use password CHRCO

to view recorded Grand Rounds presentations.

Pediatric Grand Rounds

San Francisco

Speaker Disclosures/

SF Pediatric Grand Rounds Schedule

Evaluation

For the full Pediatrics Grand Rounds schedule please visit the Wiki page: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/PedsGRWiki

Pediatric Grand Rounds takes place every Thursday from 12-1 PM,

currently as webinar only.

For questions contact: Cherise.Masunaga@ucsf.edu

Frontiers in Child Health Research Seminar Series

The Frontiers in Child Health Research Seminar Series

2^nd and 4^th Mondays, 12-1 pm, via Zoom

Monday, February 14^th

Patricia Lenhart-Pendergrass, MD, PhD

Section of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep

Department of Pediatrics

Talk title: Host-pathogen interactions in Mycobacterium avium infection in cystic fibrosis

Monday, February 28^th

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH

Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics

Chief of Pediatrics, ZSFG

UCSF Vice Dean for Academic Affairs

Talk title: Passion to profession: Health Disparities

Link to previous recordings

For more info, please contact: Eve.Wiston-Charbonneau@ucsf.edu

Stad Center of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine Global Lecture Series

UPCOMING CONFERENCES:

13th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain (ISPP) - Virtual. Auckland, New Zealand. March 24-27, 2022 http://www.ispp2022.nz

5th Maruzza International Congress on Pediatric Palliative Care. May 25-28, 2022 plus 23^rd "Become an EPEC-Pediatrics-Trainer” Conference. Rome, Italy. May 28-29, 2022 Registration Link

23rd "Become an EPEC-Pediatrics-Trainer” Conference plus Professional Development Workshop. Face-to-face & Virtual Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care [EPEC]. UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine. San Francisco, July 13-16, 2022 EPEC.Pediatrics@ucsf.edu

13th Annual Pediatric Pain Master Class (Face-to-face & Virtual). UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine. San Francisco, Dec 3-9, 2022 Pediatric.PMC@ucsf.edu

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

RESEARCH

ANNOUNCEMENTS

UCSF Physician-Scientist Career Development Program (PSCDP)

Town Hall-Style Meetings

Sanjeev Datar MD, PhD (Associate Director, Pediatrics), Alexandra Nelson MD, PhD (Director, Neurology), Cathy Smith MD (Associate Director, Medicine) will be holding several virtual town hall-style meetings to (1) introduce a new program to support laboratory-based UCSF physician-scientist trainees, the Physician-Scientist Career Development Program (PSCDP), (2) seek feedback on prioritizing different currently planned initiatives, and (3) seek input on major needs/desires of trainees in the target period (between completion of clinical training and full independence as tenure-track faculty member with her/his own lab).

Three dates/times will be offered. To register, please fill out this survey by February 8th.

· Tuesday, February 15th, 4pm-5pm

· Thursday, March 3rd, 6pm-7pm

· Monday, March 14th, 12pm-1pm

If you are unable to attend any of these town halls but would like to be added to the mailing list, click here. For questions or additional information, please contact PSCDP@ucsf.edu.

SOM Mid-Career Development Program for Research Faculty

Application deadline is February 7th

The UCSF School of Medicine is pleased to announce the second call for applications for the UCSF Mid-Career Development Program for Research Faculty. This program is intended to promote workforce equity at UCSF. The main goal of this program is to provide career mentorship and sponsorship for research faculty who are women or from historically marginalized groups. Up to three faculty members will be awarded for this two-year award.

Maria Chao, DrPH, MPA, Courtney Lyles, PhD, and Jae Sevelius, PhD, are current DOM cohort recipients in the program and would be happy to answer any application-related questions you may have.

Applications are due by February 7th, 2022. To read more on selection criteria, application details and the timeline, click on the button below. For questions or for additional information, please contact Claudine Catledge.